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ESPN 1250 Playing XMAS music?

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WEAE (1250) promoting a plan to jump from its ESPN Radio format to Christmas music on Tuesday morning according to Scott Fybush?
 
If that's true, that is very strange. ESPN has never done that before as I recall. I wonder if they are stuntting for a format change? I sure hope not. I can see Mark Madden complaining about it on his show today.
 
From looking at the website, it looks like this is just temporary until christmas is over. That's now 4 christmas stations and counting.
 
Nothing I love better than Mannheim Steamroller or the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in glorious mono.
 
in glorious mono

There's nothing like any sort of music in glorious AM radio mono, unless it's listening to old 78's on a wind-up Victrola.
 
Come on Realist, that's pushing it. Its my Christmas wish that after ESPN 1250 is done with the music that O'Brien and Garry, Don Berns, Johnny Williams and the WTAE Hit Parade return.

Cause their hasn't been a good Pittsburgh radio station since.

"I Love You Pittsburgh"
 
I used to remember that slogan- "I Love You Pittsburgh"- when the WEAE hosts were reaching for every crum they could possibly come up with to put Pittsburgh down.

I wondered how the station could "evolve" into something so negative after Adam Boles (is that how you would spell his name?) would refer to Pittsburgh as "The Friendly City" in all of his newscasts.
 
What? Bob Dearborn started the "I Love You Pittsburgh" line to end his show. Don Berns continued it when he took over afternoons on WTAE. The station even used it in a marketing plan. Perhaps it was before your time, but it was never used in anything negative on 1250 before going talk in 1987.
 
Come on Realist, that's pushing it.

Yeah, but only a little bit. It's an exaggeration to make a point, but only a slight exaggeration.

I'm old enough to remember music on AM radio, and back in the day, I didn't know any better. But it's 2006. Our ears have learned to tell the difference between scratchy, lo-fi, monaural AM and FM.

And I know that someday, HD AM will arrive, and then AM will sound as good as FM does know. But that's something for the future, not today.

Its my Christmas wish that after ESPN 1250 is done with the music that O'Brien and Garry, Don Berns, Johnny Williams and the WTAE Hit Parade return.

If that format does return, I think the majority of listeners would prefer to hear it return as a format switch on WLTJ, Star, or some other FM station lurking in the middle of the ratings pack. I really think the first station in town to take on 3WS head-to-head with an oldies format with better, more entertaining DJ's and a significantly larger playlist will eat 3WS's lunch. I won't be listening to it, but lots of people who like that music will.
 
No- Lash- read closely.

wEae- not wTae (or wCae).

My comment was on how a station that seemed to make Pittsburgh a happy place in the 1970s and 1980s- with tag lines like "I Love You Pittsburgh"- changed into its current identity as a station that is the island of disgruntled people.
 
Mark Madden said during his show today, ESPN radio is just going to play christmas music during the breaks for some kind of promotion.
 
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