FM stations that use/used "1/2" instead of ".5"

[954]

B One Oh Six Three

> There is, or used to be, a Maine station (Portland area?)
> that ID'd itself as "Q-ninety-seven-dot-nine". I dont
> recall the actual call letters.
>
> How many stations ID using "dot" rather than "point"...or
> even nothing at all?

North of the Palm Beaches, Old School R&B
station WJBW-FM (106.3) refers to itself
as "B One Oh Six Three" if I remember
correctly. (It's not so easy to pick up
at home, so I'm depending on memory.)

If they ever get an online feed, I
recommend their 7 to midnight show.
Puts the oldies stations to shame.

73s from 954

 

[John1]

Re: Philadelphia-On a somewhat related but completely different topic...

In Philadelphia WMMR was the first I remember just to use '93-3 WMMR' (no point, no rounding off) going back to the beginning of their progressive rock format in the late 1960's to the present day. Today two stations use no point and no 'W' - 92-5XTU and 102-9MGK. Unusual for today's digital era is WUSL at 98.9, still "Power 99" as it's been since 1982.


> There is, or used to be, a Maine station (Portland area?)
> that ID'd itself as "Q-ninety-seven-dot-nine". I dont
> recall the actual call letters.
>
> How many stations ID using "dot" rather than "point"...or
> even nothing at all?
>

 

[William_Yeager]

> Have any other stations ever used "1/2" instead of ".5" on
> the air, on printed material, or both?

The old WLAP-FM in Lexington, KY (CHR/Pop) was "Power 94 and 1/2". It is now Mix 94 point 5.
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[Banjomax]

Re: On a somewhat related but completely different topic...

> There is, or used to be, a Maine station (Portland area?)
> that ID'd itself as "Q-ninety-seven-dot-nine". I dont
> recall the actual call letters.
>
> How many stations ID using "dot" rather than "point"...or
> even nothing at all?
>
In this neck of the woods, there is/has been recently "Ninety-two-seven The Rock" (WKVT-FM Brattleboro VT) and "One-oh-three-seven" WKNE (Keene NH). I don't recall hearing a station in this area ever using "dot" in lieu of "point".

On yet another somewhat related but completely different topic...back when analog tuners were more common than they are today, many stations would round their frequency to the nearest whole number...96.7 would be 97, 103.7 would be 104, 104.9 would be 105, &c. I know this practice is still fairly common, especially with stations with frequencies ending in .1 and .9...e.g. Q106 (Claremont NH), Rock 102 (Springfield MA).

Peace,
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[DonM]

>
> I was thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of 1972 or
> 1973, which was around the same time as KLOS adopted the
> "95½" positioner.
>

Yes, WPLJ absolutely positively used "95 and a half" in the early 70s.

 

[osr]

Re: Philadelphia-On a somewhat related but completely different topic...

> In Philadelphia WMMR was the first I remember just to use
> '93-3 WMMR' (no point, no rounding off) going back to the
> beginning of their progressive rock format in the late
> 1960's to the present day. Today two stations use no point
> and no 'W' - 92-5XTU and 102-9MGK. Unusual for today's
> digital era is WUSL at 98.9, still "Power 99" as it's been
> since 1982.

93Q (92.9) has been the same way since it signed on in 1982. 104 KRBE and Majic 102 just began using the .1 on their stations within the last year, and recently, Oldies 107.5 here in Houston dropped the oldies moniker, and began to refer to themselves as both Houston's 107 KLDE and Houston's 107-5 KLDE.

On the AM dial, KLVI from Beaumont, Tx. still uses 56-KLVI.
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[TheTiger]

> > Have any other stations ever used "1/2" instead of ".5" on
>
> > the air, on printed material, or both?
>
> The old WLAP-FM in Lexington, KY (CHR/Pop) was "Power 94 and
> 1/2". It is now Mix 94 point 5.
>

Here in Wilkes-Barre, WKRZ-FM was "98 1/2" from its very beginnings in late 1980 until possibly sometime in '88. In 1988, they went to "98.5 KRZ-FM" and within a year later they become just plain "98.5 KRZ". According to the aircheck dated from 1985 as heard on the radio, they were calling themselves "All Hit Radio KRZ-FM".

 

[DidYouKnow]

WJBQ/WNSX/WXHT

> There is, or used to be, a Maine station (Portland area?)
> that ID'd itself as "Q-ninety-seven-dot-nine". I dont
> recall the actual call letters.
>
The call letters are WJBQ in Portland.
Someone told me that the new WNSX in Winter Harbor is calling themselves 97 dot 7.
There was a station licensed to York Center Maine that used to be WXHT 95dot3 The Heat.
When WJBQ was on 106.3 they called themselves 106 and a half for a while when Andy Carey was p.d.

 

[RobynWatts]

> In the late 80's and early 90's, WZPL/Indianapolis (99.5 FM)
> was a Mainstream CHR that referred to itself as '99 1/2
> WZPL' -- pronounced as "ninety-nine-and-a-half, WZPL". Any
> printed material (i.e. bumper stickers) actually said "1/2"
> instead of ".5".
>
> At some point in the 90's, I think they changed the "1/2" to
> ".5" on printed material, but they still said "and-a-half"
> on the air. These days, the station is Hot AC as "Z99.5",
> pronounced as "Z ninety-nine-point-five".
>
> Have any other stations ever used "1/2" instead of ".5" on
> the air, on printed material, or both?
>

Another station that was doing the same thing was the "original" WLOL in Minneapolis/St. Paul. From the time they've signed on (1981) to around late 89 they were known as "99 and a half-WLOL". After 1989 to the end of WLOL (February, 1991), they were "99.5 WLOL".

Robyn


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[JeeperOne]

Hi everyone:

> > I was thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of 1972 or
> > 1973, which was around the same time as KLOS adopted the
> > "95½" positioner.
> >
>
> Yes, WPLJ absolutely positively used "95 and a half" in the
> early 70s.

I think ReelRadio has an aircheck of it (Of course, back then it was known as WABC-FM and was known as an underground rocker).

I know I used to have a copy of the same aircheck on MP3 (Maybe I still do somewhere on CD).

Cheers

Pat
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[JeeperOne]

Re: B One Oh Six Three

Hi everyone:

> > There is, or used to be, a Maine station (Portland area?)
> > that ID'd itself as "Q-ninety-seven-dot-nine". I dont
> > recall the actual call letters.
> >
> > How many stations ID using "dot" rather than "point"...or
> > even nothing at all?
>
> North of the Palm Beaches, Old School R&B
> station WJBW-FM (106.3) refers to itself
> as "B One Oh Six Three" if I remember
> correctly. (It's not so easy to pick up
> at home, so I'm depending on memory.)

I think KKLI down Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs does this (or they did at one point at least).

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[KiDRaD]

> In the late 80's and early 90's, WZPL/Indianapolis (99.5 FM)
> was a Mainstream CHR that referred to itself as '99 1/2
> WZPL' -- pronounced as "ninety-nine-and-a-half, WZPL". Any
> printed material (i.e. bumper stickers) actually said "1/2"
> instead of ".5".
>
> At some point in the 90's, I think they changed the "1/2" to
> ".5" on printed material, but they still said "and-a-half"
> on the air. These days, the station is Hot AC as "Z99.5",
> pronounced as "Z ninety-nine-point-five".
>
> Have any other stations ever used "1/2" instead of ".5" on
> the air, on printed material, or both?
>

I remember from 1979-1984. In Orange, Texas.
KZOM They called themself. "ZOOM One-Oh-Four-and a half."

They flipped to KKMY in January 1984 and began pronouncing it as
"KKMY One-Oh-Four-Point Five."
Nowadays they go by, "Mix One-Oh-Four-Point-Five.

On a related note. I even heard a Houston station call themselves "dot" instead of "point." But that did not last. The station I am referring to is
"One-Oh-Six-Nine-The Point."

Of course there's "Rock-One-Oh-Three-Seven!"
K-I-O-L. La Porte-Houston!"
You could say they totally got rid of the "point", or "dot", in their ID.

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