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Favorite out-of-market station(s)

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johnbasalla

What are your favorite out of town stations that you listen to on a regular or semi-regular basis.

For me #1 is WRVA 1140AM (For "The Savage Nation" and to a lesser extent "The Sean Hannity Show")
#2 is AM740 "Zoomer Radio" (A Toronto blow-torch with their Oldies/Standards hybrid format)
They are also available on-line at am740.ca which re-directs to zoomerradio.ca.
One of my car radio pre-sets is set to this station which occasionally comes in fairly clearly.
 
I have been getting up on Sunday Mornings and listening to KOOO/101.9 from Lincoln, Nebraska via the Tune In Radio app on my phone. I catch American Top 40, the 70's at an earlier time than on WMJI.
 
740 is a cool station. They play some eclectic music at night...refershing stuff in a cookie cutter world.

Not much unique on the AM band at night anymore. The days of dx'ing at 6pm on a cold winters night are long gone with the memories of 66 WNNNNNNBC 77WABC, The BIG 8 CKLW, 89 WLS, Super CFL, 1360 WSAI & KB1520 ...but we all know that already!
 
I listen to 720-WGN Chicago most, followed by 660-WFAN New York, 670-WSCR Chicago, 650-WSM Nashville (on Opry night), 1210 WPHT Philadelphia, 1060 KYW Philadelphia and, on Saturday night, when they do radio dramas and comedies overnight, 1120 KMOX St Louis.
 
Actually, the CanCon rules help "Zoomer Radio" AM740 remain interesting. For example, the only song by Edward Bear you'll ever hear in the U.S. is the hit "Last Song". "Zoomer Radio" has played other songs by Edward Bear, and that's interesting listening.
 
Just looking at the posts so far, isn't it amazing that talk stations seem to dominate most people's favorites list?

I'll bet that wouldn't be the case 30+ years ago when music stations had real, live, locally-based humans on the radio relating to the local audience. You had many great personalities, a lot of average people, and some stinkers, too. But, at least they were truly live and local...not automated or network juke boxes. The folks at services like Pandorra have gotta just love music-radio's current philosophies: the fewer live, local individuals on the air the better.
 
Tim said:
Just looking at the posts so far, isn't it amazing that talk stations seem to dominate most people's favorites list?

I'll bet that wouldn't be the case 30+ years ago when music stations had real, live, locally-based humans on the radio relating to the local audience. You had many great personalities, a lot of average people, and some stinkers, too. But, at least they were truly live and local...not automated or network juke boxes. The folks at services like Pandorra have gotta just love music-radio's current philosophies: the fewer live, local individuals on the air the better.
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True, Tim. Some of the stations I listen to were once music stations, WFAN was WNBC, a music powerhouse. WPHT was WCAU and only talk overnight when Richard Hayes came in.
 
Every morning on the way to work at 5:30 am while driving to Streetsboro, I tune into the crystal clear WSM 650 AM from Nashville!
 
VoDood: Yes, I know. I hear the "Sean Hannity Morning Minute" during WEOL's morning show almost every day. However, they have him on live from 3-6pm, and I don't leave work until 5pm, so WRVA's 6-9pm slot works best for me. One of the curious things to me is that they air both Sean Hannity's show and Michael Savage's on "tape"-delay, when they could run Savage live from 6-9pm, and then run Hannity on delay at 9pm. Maybe they don't want to run Hannity at 9:00pm because that coincides with his Fox News TV talk show. Additionally, it seems that stations feel the more animated talk of people like Michael Savage and Mark Levin works better later at night.
 
johnbasalla said:
Actually, the CanCon rules help "Zoomer Radio" AM740 remain interesting. For example, the only song by Edward Bear you'll ever hear in the U.S. is the hit "Last Song". "Zoomer Radio" has played other songs by Edward Bear, and that's interesting listening.
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CFZM/740 (so named for owner, and Toronto TV pioneer Moses Znamier) is an interesting station, to say the least. It wouldn't fly in any American market for the most obvious of reasons. And the AM band is actually dying in much of Canada, which makes the fact the format is running on a clear-channel 50,000 facility even more interesting.

I personally like (and have mentioned it many times in other threads) "The River" Bell Media's AAA CIDR/93.9 Windsor. At 100,000 watts from the CKLW transmitter site, it along with CIMX/88.7, blasts into Lorain County even in low-tropo days. Plus CIDR actually executes the AAA format fairly well.
 
Nathan Obral said:
CFZM/740...wouldn't fly in any American market for the most obvious of reasons...
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Actually, it's done as well as a 2-share in the Buffalo book, even with all the can-con and Toronto traffic reports.

The only part that wouldn't fly is probably the salaries, especially on the morning show.
 
I didn't think the CIDR site was in Harrow ONT with CKLW.

CFZM is a favorite on Saturday nights with Brother Bill Gable's oldies show.

Online its WCBS-FM
 
Paul_Warren said:
Nathan Obral said:
CFZM/740...wouldn't fly in any American market for the most obvious of reasons...
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Actually, it's done as well as a 2-share in the Buffalo book, even with all the can-con and Toronto traffic reports.

The only part that wouldn't fly is probably the salaries, especially on the morning show.
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I meant that most American broadcasters don't want to try something like it simply because a format like that caters to what are unwanted or undesired demos. After you turn 50, you're basically not wanted.

If I'm not mistaken, CIZM has also done very well in Erie, PA after Citadel pulled the plug on the standards station over there. And WKHR/91.5 actually pulled very significant numbers on the Cleveland fall book - considering it's a purely volunteer-driver station owned by a local high school.
 
I love Denver's Jammin' 101.5. They play a great mix of 70's 80's and 90's pop/r&b/freestyle. They play lots of songs that haven't been played in years. I almost think a station like that would work in Cleveland and give ZAK a run for their money.
 
Nathan Obral said:
If I'm not mistaken, CIZM has also done very well in Erie, PA after Citadel pulled the plug on the standards station over there.
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CFZM is a pretty regular visitor to the lower end of Erie's book. About the "high" range you'd expect for a powerful, out of town AM.
 
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