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For those that remember 107 WANS, check this out.

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RobynWatts

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Hi,

I had recently traded e-mails with someone that is putting together a WANS tribute station on Live 365. Here is a sample that he has put together.

www.107wans.com

Eventually he is planning to build a full tribute site and needs help in documenting the station's history. I've gave him a rough timeline from 1980 (when they ditched the automation and went live) until 1991 when the station became WWMM. Does anyone have any additional info that they are willing to share?

Thanks,
Robyn<P ID="signature">______________
"I'm not exactly in the mood for Mozart and all that kinda goings on"...Information Society-"Peace and Love Incorporated"</P>
 
Thanks Robyn for the heads up on the new site... During my HS and College years after Kiss started going down the drain WANS was a good alternative and had the top 40 market all to itself once WCKN now WROQ went classic rock... Cant wait to see what the real site will look like... CC


> Hi,
>
> I had recently traded e-mails with someone that is putting
> together a WANS tribute station on Live 365. Here is a
> sample that he has put together.
>
> www.107wans.com
>
> Eventually he is planning to build a full tribute site and
> needs help in documenting the station's history. I've gave
> him a rough timeline from 1980 (when they ditched the
> automation and went live) until 1991 when the station became
> WWMM. Does anyone have any additional info that they are
> willing to share?
>
> Thanks,
> Robyn
>
 
I loved 107.3 WANS-FM!!!!!! The new website is great! I remember having all of these WANS stickers on my car over the years! I think that the owners of WANS AM 1280 (who also own current Anderson FM WRIX 103.1) should change the call letters of 103.1 to WANS! I hear that 1280 WANS is about to go all oldies. Talk 103.1 has very low ratings. I think the WANS call letters and an Oldies format could really help 103.1.
 
erm...why is there a picture of downtown Houston, TX on the WANS website?

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I agree that if they would re-name 103/1 to WANS and go oldies with the AM that wold be great because there is no real oldies station there and that station has not been the same since Matt Phillips passed away.
 
I agree!!!!!!!!!!!! We all need to each call the studios of WRIX-FM/WANS-AM and request the call letters on 103.1 be renamed to WANS-FM!!!!!!!! The current WRIX-FM "Talk 103" is a real mess! The ratings in the latest book were even lower that WAIM-AM 1230!!!!!!!! I really am shocked at this. WRIX is a shadow of its` former self and really misses Founder and owner Matt Phillips who paseed away in 1997. That guy named Pork Chop doing the Morning Show is a complete embaressment, in my opinion. If you will notice, some shakeups have occured lately at WRIX. The lady who co-hosted with Pork Chop on Wednesdays is gone. Also, that very, very obnoxious lawyer from Anderson-Nancy Jo Thompson who would totally take over the show on Friday Mornings is gone!!!!!!!! She was the worst on-air talent that I have ever heard. I hate to say that even her voice wanted to make me gag! Why a lawyer who practices in Anderson wanted to have a radio career, I don`t know. I think that it started with her daddy who was a lawyer in Anderson for many years. He did Friday Morning "Ask The Lawyer" segments on the Matt and Bev Show for many years. After he passed away in the mid 1990`s, his daughter planted herself at the station and by all accounts sees herself as the new "Bev"!!??! As far as WANS-AM 1280 goes, it has a great signal. It is programmed with ESPN Sports Talk with some local sports and does live games of Westside High School, USC, Coastal Carolina University and Anderson University at various times in various events. One of these stations really needs to adopt the Oldies format. The local area is DYING for it. It is hard to pick up WYAY TruE Oldies 106.7 out of Atlanta and WOLT-Oldies 103.3 has a very bad signal in this area. BRING BACK THE WANS CALL LETTERS TO THE FM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give Anderson and the upstate WANS-FM back with Good Times and Great Oldies!!!!!!!!
 
That definitely works for me. I lived in Anderson from March 1988-August 1995 and believe me, Matt and Bev was one of the most popular shows on radio there as well as WANS being one great Top 40 station as well and would love to see it bring back oldies to that area.
 
I agree! Please help convience them to change it to WANS!!!!!!!! Alot of people are calling and e-mailing the station. Can you please do this too? Thanks a million!
 
The WANS tribute site IS quite nostalgic with jingles, etc. That stuff is really cool.

Hello from someone who worked at WANS AM/FM from '73 until '89 and was heavily involved in programming for quite a while. ME. Jim Graham. And, if you want to hear programming closest to 1280 WANS and 107.3 WANS FM during a lot of that time, go to www.funradio.us. The presentation is similar and tight with music from the '60's to today. No commercials and a BIG avoidance of "liners". And, oh the stories I could tell.... now... where did I put my Prozac?....
 
Hi, Jim it is great to hear from you. Jim, do you have any pictures of the old WANS sign that was on Clemson Boulevard that you can post or e-mail me? Do you have other WANS pictures? Are you still in radio? Do you have any contact with the present WANS 1280 AM out at Watson Village in Anderson? Would you like to hear the format changed to Oldies and the call letters on 103.1 changed to WANS-FM 103.1? I know that I sure would! I will go to fun radio and check it out!!!! I am going to e-mail the guy ant 107wans.com and send him asome pictures of Anderson and WANS to replace that one that he has on there of Houston, TX. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
 
I just commented on another thread that it'd be great if WRIX would simulcast and air Oldies. I would definately tune in and at least part of the upstate could have an oldies station. I will be contacting them.
 
My first full time position is radio was with WANS AM/FM in Anderson. It was in summertime 1971. I had just finished school in Atlanta and found a posting about a job opening at WANS. I stopped there on the way home to Winston-Salem and was interviewed by the station manager whose name was Carolyn Turner. She hired me and I began working just a few days later. I did afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. but soon got moved to mornings from 5:30 to 9 a.m. WANS was broadcasting with 5 kw. at 1280 and an FM simulcast at 100 kw. The towers (3 of them) were right there at the studios on the Clemson Highway, just a few miles south of I-85. The studio site, the last time I was in Anderson years ago, is now occupied by a Toys R Us store. Some of the other people there at the time; Ed Lively who did afternoons and served as the station engineer, Dale Keeney, who did mid-days, and a fellow who called himself the "Night Governor" who, of course, was on at night. The fellow who was the station janitor, Willis H. Crosby, did one hour of time on weekday afternoons from 6 to 7 p.m. I think he sold his own airtime, and he was a fixture in Anderson for a long time. Rocky Firth from Clemson worked on weekends and used the air name of Scott Shannon. Jim Brown and a lady named Shirley were in the sales department.
WANS had a little Datsun station wagon and it was assigned for me to drive for a time. It barely ran but it was great on gas! We had a top 40 format and it was lots of fun. One day in March of 1972 I got a call from a fellow who told me he was building a new station in North Myrtle Beach. I had worked for him one summer in school and I loved the beach, so I left WANS and went to the beach to help build WNMB.
If anyone is interested, I have good copies of WANS jingle packages like the 60s "Now Sound" and the early 70s PAMS series 40 and 43. Would be glad to send some mp3 files to whomever. I always fondly remember those early days of my radio career in Anderson. However, I was sad to learn of the death of my friend Ed Lively from what was reported as a traffic accident sometime back in the 80s. Bill Norman, WNMB, North Myrtle Beach.
 
If anyone has the email address for the station manager there at 103.1 and would not posting it, that would be great.
 
Bill said:
I left WANS and went to the beach to help build WNMB.
If anyone is interested, I have good copies of WANS jingle packages like the 60s "Now Sound" and the early 70s PAMS series 40 and 43. Would be glad to send some mp3 files to whomever. I always fondly remember those early days of my radio career in Anderson. However, I was sad to learn of the death of my friend Ed Lively from what was reported as a traffic accident sometime back in the 80s. Bill Norman, WNMB, North Myrtle Beach.
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Hey Bill, you were there when Dick Biondi was there, right? How about Benji Norton? Got any airchecks of Dick and, better yet, Benj?
 
Does anyone know whatever happened to Mike Benson? When I lived up there in the late 80's he was the morning mainstay until he was canned right before the station was re-named WWMM.lived up there in the late 80's and early 90's he was the mainstay in the mrornings and was canned right before they re=named the station to
Scott said:
Bill said:
I left WANS and went to the beach to help build WNMB.
If anyone is interested, I have good copies of WANS jingle packages like the 60s "Now Sound" and the early 70s PAMS series 40 and 43. Would be glad to send some mp3 files to whomever. I always fondly remember those early days of my radio career in Anderson. However, I was sad to learn of the death of my friend Ed Lively from what was reported as a traffic accident sometime back in the 80s. Bill Norman, WNMB, North Myrtle Beach.
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Hey Bill, you were there when Dick Biondi was there, right? How about Benji Norton? Got any airchecks of Dick and, better yet, Benj?
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Here is the e-mail address of the owner Gary Bryant of WRIX/WANS. He has it posted on the WRIX website and urges listeners to e-mail him with comments. It is [email protected]. If you want Oldies on WANS am and the fm to flip the call letters to WANS-Fm, e-mail him. They can put the talk format on am!
 
Here is the e-mail address for the owner and PD of WRIX/WANS. It is listed on the WRIX website for folks to make comments. It is [email protected]. If you want the format change and FM calls changed to WANS- 103.1 on FM, e-mail him. I sure did!
 
Scott, I have nothing from Benji, but I do have several recordings of Biondi. One of the best is the master tape of the demo of "Dick Biondi's Super Gold" which we produced in 1977.
 
Bill said:
Scott, I have nothing from Benji, but I do have several recordings of Biondi. One of the best is the master tape of the demo of "Dick Biondi's Super Gold" which we produced in 1977.
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...and how would an unassuming, old school, pancake, razor blade and bulk eraser DJ from WAY back in the day be able to snag a copy of that...old buddy, old pal-o-mine, good ole chum..huh?
 
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