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Favorite Pennsylvania Radio Station
- Thread starter Firebird
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Any AM station that offers local news, local sports, and when you know something bad is happening in the town its licensed to, information on it is on the air within minutes. Examples are: WCCS Homer City, WBUT Butler, WISR Butler, WPXZ(FM) Punxsutawney, WMBS Uniontown, WPHB Philipsburg, WTRN Tyrone, and WCED DuBois.Firebird said:Got to get something started on this board. So what's your favorite radio station that's located in Pennsylvania, but not in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh?;D ??? 8)
It's not just the music you play that makes a station great...it's what you do in between.
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hellskitchen85
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WROZ-Lancaster (101 The Rose) They sound sooooooooooooooo goooooood!!!
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fred flintstone
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Firebird said:Got to get something started on this board. So what's your favorite radio station that's located in Pennsylvania, but not in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh?
As I've long suspected: People in the middle of PA don't think Philly or Pittsburgh are part of PA. As a result, Harrisburg takes our tax money, gives it to the people in the woods and mountains, and treats us like step-children.
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BulkEraser
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ErieDJGuy said:
Left the jock-end of the biz two years ago, having spent thirty behind the mic. I haven't heard a personality-rich station in quite some time. Is radio dead? I hope not, but the future isn't very bright.
:-\
Perhaps with Pittsburgh, but not so much with Philadelphia, because it's closer.fred flintstone said:
Woods, mountains, cities, suburbs. York/Harrisburg may soon be a Baltimore suburb.
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fred flintstone
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AgingXer said:
Ever notice that the Turnpike by-passes Philadelphia?
So did the main East-West line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Ever notice how much worse worse the roads are in Philadelphia than Central PA?
Almost all major cities have a beltway but around Philly is much of it a toll road.
Overseas shippers ship through Baltimore from York/Harrisburg because the roads that way are free and you have expressways all the way to the docks.
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iman
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Wow, this suprises me. I have never been impressed with them. And, it's hard to find out exactly how much "variety" they play as you can only get them for about 20 minutes in a car with their blazing 100 watts.
mimo said:
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Ferreri
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hellskitchen85 said:
Was in Lancaster for business last year and was impressed with The Rose. They are as good, if not better than anything here (Tampa_St. Petersburg)
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arehkopf
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kenhawk1160 said:
Gotta love the WPXZ reference...my first news gig. But I'll pitch my vote for Mega Rock and its predecessor, Magic 96 out of Brookville. I'm biased as it was my first full time radio job, but the mix of classic rock and contemporary stuff was out there long before there were formats like "Alice", "The River" and others. Yes, its mostly satellite now, but I'll leave my dial on Mega Rock when I'm travelling I-80 these days.
Bill "Aaron" Rehkopf
WPOC Baltimore
arehkopf said:
Bill...great to hear from you. I remember you vividly...you fed me a groundhog prediction back in 1992. You came on board right after Bob Curry died, but you didn't stay around in Punxy for very long.
I wasn't sure if you were aware, but you can find Mega Rock in two different places these days...100.5 and 105.5. They've expanded the latter to 25,000 watts, but the former is only 6,000 I believe.
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arehkopf
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Hi Ken:
Yeah, I try to make it up to Brookville about once a year to catch up with the Farley's, Kevin Heinrich and a few others who are still there. I've tested the dual frequencies from doggone near Holiday Valley in NY to Vandergrift in the south.
As for WPXZ, it was truly sad what happened to Bob. I remember his wife coming in to pick up a few things right after I started. Such a classy lady. But Dame Media picked me up after only about five months to go to WKSB in Williamsport.
I do miss the area, and I keep telling my wife what a great retirement place it could be...I don't know if she's bought on just yet.
Be well.
Yeah, I try to make it up to Brookville about once a year to catch up with the Farley's, Kevin Heinrich and a few others who are still there. I've tested the dual frequencies from doggone near Holiday Valley in NY to Vandergrift in the south.
As for WPXZ, it was truly sad what happened to Bob. I remember his wife coming in to pick up a few things right after I started. Such a classy lady. But Dame Media picked me up after only about five months to go to WKSB in Williamsport.
I do miss the area, and I keep telling my wife what a great retirement place it could be...I don't know if she's bought on just yet.
Be well.
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snoman
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WQWK Quick Rock 97.1 in State College. I haven't heard them lately, because I haven't been up that far North in PA in the last few years, but they used to play some outstanding rock and decent personalities for such a small market.
DVE in The 'Burgh gets my overall fave though.
DVE in The 'Burgh gets my overall fave though.
snoman said:
UNFORTUNATELY, many changes in the two you mention.
WQWK changed ownership, got rid of the old personalities, and switched frequencies, making it go to the bottom of the pile now.
CC bought DVE. The usual stuff there, same repetitious music day in day out with the small music rotation, but they have retained the personalities that have been there for years, except Scott Paulsen, who just left.
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Those RRRRs
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Great topic. As a Philly suburbanite, whenever I drove westbound on the turnpike, I used to look for Music Power 103 or 104, can't remember now.
I don't know in which town the station was located, but I remember the signal would start to come in around mile marker 90. During the 30 minutes at a time or so I was able to hear the station, they played a lot of great oldies. 50's and early 60's rock, doo wop, soul...very similar to when WSAI and WKBW played real oldies a couple years ago...but Music Power played a lot of great rare sides/ B sides too from what I heard during those drives.
I don't know in which town the station was located, but I remember the signal would start to come in around mile marker 90. During the 30 minutes at a time or so I was able to hear the station, they played a lot of great oldies. 50's and early 60's rock, doo wop, soul...very similar to when WSAI and WKBW played real oldies a couple years ago...but Music Power played a lot of great rare sides/ B sides too from what I heard during those drives.
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WTUX
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I'm afraid I have to go way back in time for my favorite non-Philly/Pittsburgh radio station.
WSBA/York in the mid-60's was a great personalty driven Top 40/MOR station. They published a weekly Top 40 survey sheet (us radio geeks collected those things). They tended more toward MOR during the mid-days, even in the summer, but they were Top 40 mornings and pm drive.
I also enjoyed WHYL in the late 60's, early 70's, when they were the first all oldies station I had ever heard.
WSBA/York in the mid-60's was a great personalty driven Top 40/MOR station. They published a weekly Top 40 survey sheet (us radio geeks collected those things). They tended more toward MOR during the mid-days, even in the summer, but they were Top 40 mornings and pm drive.
I also enjoyed WHYL in the late 60's, early 70's, when they were the first all oldies station I had ever heard.
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