Fall Changes for Salisbury-Ocean City

[georgetown3ham]

Over at Clear Channel Don & Mike (Mike is quitting next spring from WJFK the station at the program comes from) move from 96 Rock (FM) to Sports talk 960 (AM). New 3-7 shift coming Monday to 96 Rock? Changes at Kiss 105.5, could they be returning to a simulcast of 921. Oldies? Bill Baker who did shifts on both Kiss and Major was let go last Friday (Sept. 7) and Kenny Love from engineering is filling on Magic. Over at Great Scott "Murph's" back on mornings at WZBH, Wooki is out of mornings at WOCQ (after 17 years). WRXS is off the air waiting for equipment to repeat 88.1 WYPR in Baltimore. WSDL (NPR Talk) at Salisbury University has bolstered their programming as they wait for WYPR's relay to sign on. Mancow, formerly on WRXS, WOSC is mow on WKHW (K-Rock 106.5) in Pocomoke City, which now runs Classic Rock. WQMR and WXMD carrying the Ravens. Over in in Cambridge, Shane Walker wakes you up and drives you to work on WAAI (Country) and brings you home 3-7 on the Heat 106.3 (Hot A/C), Shane's always been a hard worker. Where will Crazy Eddie from the now defunct X-106.9 going (maybe afternoon's on 96 Rock). WGMD still seems to be playing musical (talk show) chairs with afternoon's, who will get to set for awhile. And that's the latest edition of as the radio wheel turns on Delmarva. Oh, forgot WDSD in Dover back to 50kw on 94.7, while WRDX The River's been downgraded to 3kw on 92.9.

 

[georgetown3ham]

Bill Baker "The Rumpshaker" is back at OC-104. Reports are that he's already fixing some music issues.

 

[tomservo]

To clear up something in the rotating "hot topic" banner that is currently highlighting this story, Mike isn't quitting, as far as I know. Don is supposedly not going to renew their contract when it expires in 2008. I don't know if Mike and the others have decided to continue doing the show without Don or not.

I wonder if Big Freda can pick up 960 in OC?

 

[UncleBozzle]

It has sounded as if Froggy is making a few changes too of late. Some different sweepers and id's. A bit more older country coming into the mix as well. As always they just sound great. It's good to hear a station that is actually fun to listen to. Now why not just take 92.1 or 105.5 and make it "Classic Country"? Now that might be really fun.

 

[Ike]

A classic country station would be great, if it wouldn't play too much schmaltzy stuff from the '70s and '80s. But is WLBW doing so badly these days that it would switch? I've always thought/hoped that WAAI (100.9) , or WINX (94.3), might eventually switch to classic country, since both are hot country stations in the Cambridge-Easton-Federalsburg area, and that's one too many for that small area. Both reach Salisbury, where listeners can receive many more country stations.

A while back, I think WAAI added some classic country to its playlist, but I can't stand the modern stuff mixed in there. I want an all-classic station.

Also, WRXS is now repeating WYPR. Eh. How redundant. WSDL already covers that. I wish a good non-comm AAA like WTMD or WXPN had gotten ahold of WRXS instead. That would be something new and different around here. (Very much unlike WOCM. It was never very adventurous and is less so now. It barely counts as an AAA anymore. Most commercial AAAs are very dissimilar to non-comm AAAs anyway.)

I hear that a lot of WSDL's donations come from the town of Lewes. Does WRXS have a good signal in Lewes? I guess you can now get three NPR news-talkers in Lewes -- WSDL, WRXS, and WNJZ (NJN radio).

Damn, WSDL dropped Hearts of Space. Sigh. I liked that (whenever it wasn't too sappy). On the upside, they finally picked up This American Life. Maybe that's the one benefit of WYPR moving in to the area. WSDL didn't want to be outclassed.

 

[JimmyJames]

Speaking of AAA, how is the new 96.5 sounding? "album music source" i hear is the slogan.