Delilah Coming to Easy 99.1

[jlehmann]

I caught a promo on Easy 99.1 today saying that Delilah will begin airing on the station on December 15th. I guess it was only a matter of time that she returned to the area after getting dropped by WSNE a few months back. I guess this just brings them one more step closer to a regular AC station.

 

[freqlost]

This is a brutal show.
I attempted to listen to her during Christmas season once and only lasted about 5 minutes.
If you are not able to hear this station be happy, very happy.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

This is a brutal show.
I attempted to listen to her during Christmas season once and only lasted about 5 minutes.
If you are not able to hear this station be happy, very happy.

sorry to say, I agree. Back in the day when she first began this show (in the late 90s?) It was good back then, but now. As people were stating somewhere else on this site, her show might not be live, as a matter of fact, stations that run her show around here 95.7 Manchester, NH, 94.9 New Hampsire both stations run her show but not the same songs. The topic regarding this matter is in the Philadelphia room
Big mistake 99.1
Jj Austin show was good. She played some new and old songs that you don't normally hear on a regular AC station

 

[jlehmann]

sorry to say, I agree. Back in the day when she first began this show (in the late 90s?) It was good back then, but now. As people were stating somewhere else on this site, her show might not be live, as a matter of fact, stations that run her show around here 95.7 Manchester, NH, 94.9 New Hampsire both stations run her show but not the same songs. The topic regarding this matter is in the Philadelphia room
Big mistake 99.1
Jj Austin show was good. She played some new and old songs that you don't normally hear on a regular AC station

94.9 WHOM airs Tesh, not Delilah. She is on 98.7 in NH though, along with 95.7 WZID, 96.1 WSRS... It's definitely a shame that WPLM has decided to go this route.

The show is definitely not live. Someone told me once that when you call the show, you leave a message and she (or someone who works for the show) calls you back in a few days. I say for sure that this is what happens, since I've never called, but it would not surprise me.

 

[BearFur]

A friend of mine called her a number of years ago, and gave the story that he had just lost his fiancee as she was giving birth to their child, and the baby died too. He made it on air and was very convincing, he even started crying, and asked her to play a song for his late fiancee and baby. She did.

A little after that, a woman called up in tears and wanted to dedicate (I believe) Wind Beneath My Wings to "the man who lost his fiancee and baby"

He then felt bad he started the joke.

I know this really doesn't have anything to do with her coming back, but I figured I'd share

 

[Retro]

I really enjoyed her show back when she was local back in the early 90's. The show was top rated at the time too!

 

[TravisWMLN]

A friend of mine called her a number of years ago, and gave the story that he had just lost his fiancee as she was giving birth to their child, and the baby died too. He made it on air and was very convincing, he even started crying, and asked her to play a song for his late fiancee and baby. She did.

A little after that, a woman called up in tears and wanted to dedicate (I believe) Wind Beneath My Wings to "the man who lost his fiancee and baby"

He then felt bad he started the joke.

I know this really doesn't have anything to do with her coming back, but I figured I'd share

I don't know what's worse, the guy for doing the joke, you for sharing, or me for laughing out loud in front of my computer

 

[DJbobo]

I caught a promo on Easy 99.1 today saying that Delilah will begin airing on the station on December 15th. I guess it was only a matter of time that she returned to the area after getting dropped by WSNE a few months back. I guess this just brings them one more step closer to a regular AC station.

WPLM probably timed her sign-on with their weekend switch to their X-mas format and the X-mas format on her syndicated show.

Her show on WVBF in the early 90's was called The Quiet Storm, I think, and was getting really good ratings. Didn't Greater Media hire away to work at their Philly station so she wouldn't be competiting against Bedtime Magic on WMJX?
Early 90's had some serious lovefest/dedication night shows all over the dial - Magic, WVBF, WISH(The Wish Love Songs), Mix(Lights Out, Boston), Oldies(Backseat Music).

I think she may have popped up on WISH 99.5 when she first got syndicated in the mid 90's. WISH went Smooth Jazz a few months later and that was the end of that.

 

[Retro]

Now I thought when she ended up on WSSH that she was still broadcasting locally?

 

[jlehmann]

Her show on WVBF in the early 90's was called The Quiet Storm, I think, and was getting really good ratings. Didn't Greater Media hire away to work at their Philly station so she wouldn't be competiting against Bedtime Magic on WMJX?
Early 90's had some serious lovefest/dedication night shows all over the dial - Magic, WVBF, WISH(The Wish Love Songs), Mix(Lights Out, Boston), Oldies(Backseat Music).

I wonder if any airchecks of those shows, or even just those stations in general from that era exist anywhere? All I've got are the jingles from WSSH, including:

http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WSSHLoveSongs.mp3

 

[DJbobo]

Now I thought when she ended up on WSSH that she was still broadcasting locally?

Yes, you're right . she was local on Wish but not for long. Oasis came on shortly thereafter.

 

[WMC2006]

Early 90's had some serious lovefest/dedication night shows all over the dial - Magic, WVBF, WISH(The Wish Love Songs), Mix(Lights Out, Boston), Oldies(Backseat Music).

Didn't Greg Daniels do Mix's version at one point many moons ago??

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

sorry to say, I agree. Back in the day when she first began this show (in the late 90s?) It was good back then, but now. As people were stating somewhere else on this site, her show might not be live, as a matter of fact, stations that run her show around here 95.7 Manchester, NH, 94.9 New Hampsire both stations run her show but not the same songs. The topic regarding this matter is in the Philadelphia room
Big mistake 99.1
Jj Austin show was good. She played some new and old songs that you don't normally hear on a regular AC station

94.9 WHOM airs Tesh, not Delilah. She is on 98.7 in NH though, along with 95.7 WZID, 96.1 WSRS... It's definitely a shame that WPLM has decided to go this route.

The show is definitely not live. Someone told me once that when you call the show, you leave a message and she (or someone who works for the show) calls you back in a few days. I say for sure that this is what happens, since I've never called, but it would not surprise me.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

sorry to say, I agree. Back in the day when she first began this show (in the late 90s?) It was good back then, but now. As people were stating somewhere else on this site, her show might not be live, as a matter of fact, stations that run her show around here 95.7 Manchester, NH, 94.9 New Hampsire both stations run her show but not the same songs. The topic regarding this matter is in the Philadelphia room
Big mistake 99.1
Jj Austin show was good. She played some new and old songs that you don't normally hear on a regular AC station

94.9 WHOM airs Tesh, not Delilah. She is on 98.7 in NH though, along with 95.7 WZID, 96.1 WSRS... It's definitely a shame that WPLM has decided to go this route.

The show is definitely not live. Someone told me once that when you call the show, you leave a message and she (or someone who works for the show) calls you back in a few days. I say for sure that this is what happens, since I've never called, but it would not surprise me.

My mistake on those stations

 

[DJbobo]

Early 90's had some serious lovefest/dedication night shows all over the dial - Magic, WVBF, WISH(The Wish Love Songs), Mix(Lights Out, Boston), Oldies(Backseat Music).

Didn't Greg Daniels do Mix's version at one point many moons ago??

I think it's Gregg, with 2 g's. Yes, he was two-timing in the afrnoons at 'XLO back then.

 

[WaterBeZip]

I am glad to see Delilah back in Boston. I was a big fan many years ago on “a quiet storm”… I have not heard her in many years but I will be sure to tune in again.
I notice Mike Roberts has been filling in on PLM for some time now on what will be Delilah’s time slot… Any truth to the rumor he got picked up by Magic? If so congrats to him I think he would make a great addition to their station.

 

[ssetta]

I really can't believe this. It's really sad. I loved that show, they played so many obscure AC songs that are rarely played. And she's already on in Boston; she's on WSRS.

 

[DrPicky]

Delilah did her local show on 105.7 WVBF from around summer 1991 until 1992, when she was hired by Greater Media's WMGK/Philadelphia (Magic 103). WVBF replaced her briefly with Sunny Joe White, then flipped to country. She lasted about a year in Philadelphia, but the station dropped AC and went to classic hits. Then she returned to Boston to do a live show on WSSH/Lowell (Wish 99.5). That ran until fall 1995 when WSSH dropped AC and became WOAZ (Smooth Jazz, The Oasis). That's when her syndicated show launched. Just for the record, Delilah never had "great ratings" in Boston. Note that both stations she was on - plus the one in Philly - dropped the format.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Her show on WVBF in the early 90's was called The Quiet Storm, I think, and was getting really good ratings.

You SURE about that? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but ISTR that name being attached to a progam on WUMB. Of course, both stations could have used the same name--probably not simultaneously, though.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Her show on WVBF in the early 90's was called The Quiet Storm, I think, and was getting really good ratings.

You SURE about that? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but ISTR that name being attached to a progam on WUMB. Of course, both stations could have used the same name--probably not simultaneously, though.

I think there were many romantic or mellow music shows in different areas that called themselves "Quiet Storm" in those days. I remember the WUMB show. I don't recall Delilah using "Quiet Storm", but I really wasn't much of a soft AC listener.

According to Wikipedia (which I know isn't always right), the first station to have a romantic adult R&B and "smooth" jazz show called "Quiet Storm" was in Washington, DC in the mid-'70s, and it was named for a 1975 Smokey Robinson song "A Quiet Storm". They also say that San Francisco adult urban station KBLX began the first full-time "Quiet Storm" format in the late '70s, which continues today.