Did anyone else...

[roadrunner]

I went to the Cool Springs Mall area the other day and WKOM came in like a local
(and so did 104.3 ZYP). Up here in "Brentioch" (Brentwood/Antioch area) can't get
ZYP at all and WKOM sounds like it's 100 miles away.

 

[firepoint525]

Was coming back from Cool Springs area myself a couple of weeks ago, and WKOM came in just fine, until I crossed back into metro, right there in front of Forest Hills Baptist Church. How did their signal know to start breaking up as soon as I crossed the county line? ???

 

[Tibbs4]

Story is in them hills...

 

[jetfli]

I went to the Cool Springs Mall area the other day and WKOM came in like a local
(and so did 104.3 ZYP). Up here in "Brentioch" (Brentwood/Antioch area) can't get
ZYP at all and WKOM sounds like it's 100 miles away.

And driving straight up I-65 North from Franklin, it's as though they have 101.7 signal jammers built into the Old Hickory Blvd. overpass...

 

[NashvilleNative]

I listen to WKOM any time I go to Columbia or Pulaski and love the music (hate the nascar talk). It's a different oldies than 96.3 was...it's the new form of oldies with John Melencamp and 80's mixed in. I listened to it on my way home today on OHB from 40 in Hermitage to Old Hickory. Came in decent, but not quite preset worthy due to the signal (otherwise it would be listened to quite a bit).

Also, 100.5, WGNS translator in M-boro has had a noticeable signal increase. I live in Old Hickory and accidentally discovered them a few minutes ago and have it coming in loud and clear at the moment in the house. Apparently they went from 27 watts to 250.

 

[courier37027]

While we are on topic of oldies music, how about a petition to open a Chevy's night club?

 

[TheBigA]

http://www.chevys.com/franchising.aspx

 

[Tibbs4]

Heck, Big A ... you can get a free app for just going to that website. If raydio stations could do that when you scan in...

I wonder though, is Chevy's really attracting the "right" demo to stay open? ;D

 

[deltas69]

nashville had a chevys nightclub on murf road about 1978-1980..had a dj playing the same 300 songs..lol

 

[Tibbs4]

Is that version of Chevy's a different version of the Chevy's on the website? Kinda like Coyote in Colorado? The more radio changes, the more it doesn't.

Anybody think Delilah would do a live remote from Chevy's?

 

[jwk1979]

nashville had a chevys nightclub on murf road about 1978-1980..had a dj playing the same 300 songs..lol

Chevy's on Murfreesboro Road was around a lot longer than those two years. I moved here in 1986 and Chevy's was still in business then. In fact, Y-107 use to host the Friday afternoon party with Rhett Butler and occasionaly Coyote McCloud every Friday afternoon about 4:30 until 7:00 until Chevy's became Patrick's Fun Club a few years later. Then Rhett Butler and the Y-107 moved the party to Coyote over at the Music City Sheraton until Y-107 became the River, iirc.

Knoxville also had a Chevy's, using pretty much the same concept.

 

[courier37027]

I don't know when Chevy's changed to Patrick's Fun Club. I frequented Chevy's while in college (club was very short driving distance to apartment), so that was 1984-5. jwk is likely correct about 1986.

Demise of Patrick's was either a shooting or dumpster fire outside club one night. After that younger patrons hit 101st Airborne, older went to Dad's Place.

 

[Tibbs4]

Oddly, the demises of those bars almost seems to have a similar 96.3/97.1 Oldies format flip fiasco theme going.

 

[jwk1979]

Demise of Patrick's was either a shooting or dumpster fire outside club one night. After that younger patrons hit 101st Airborne, older went to Dad's Place.

I believe it was the killing outside the club that led to the demise of the club. I couldn't remember if it was a stabbing or a shooting that took place outside the club but I know several members of the victims family, though I never knew the victim. After that incident, Patrick's Fun Club went down fairly quickly.