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Has the wolf changed formats again?

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oldiesgirl

I have been listening to the online stream of The Wolf. This morning they were playing the new classic country format, but when I came home this evening they were back to gospel with Les Butler voiceovers. Is this a special Sunday show or have they flipped back to a gospel station? I notice they are going by Modern Gospel instead of Solid Gospel, which I'm a bit dubious about as I really can't get into a lot of the newer Southern gospel.

I was excited when I first walked in and heard what they were playing, and they've been playing some good songs, but some of them are just horrible, bland and blah like they were playing before they changed to the Wolf. The funny thing is that I used to go to church with Les Butler, and I have heard him play many times. I'm kinda shocked that he is programming some of the drek that I've heard on here. It seems like it alternates between Stamps Baxter-type songs, which I love and he plays a lot, and some new slow songs that sound like they were produced in someone's home studio. I haven't heard any Gaithers or Cathedrals or florida Boys or any of the classic quartets. They are now playing a song that my church choir sings, but I haven't heard anyone else do. Way to go brother Les.

That was weird. The weather report came on and it still had The Wolf ID's including a sponsorship by a winery, lol. If he's the program director, that sounds weird as he's independent Baptist and drinking alcohol is a definite no no.
 
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Well I feel really stupid now. At midnight tonight it went back to country and is now playing normally. It was just weird because I've heard other stations have religious programming on Sundays, but they still kept the same station iD.
 
I have tried to listen to 105.1 in the car in Nashville and the Brentwood area, but it is impossible. I honestly thought the signal would drastically improve once they cleaned up the old transmitter site and equipment, etc. Did the new owners do this or is it still running off the old equipment? (A new translator station just a few miles outside of Nashville is faint, but enough to distort The Wolf in Nashville proper.) Are they still trying to market and make it sound like a Nashville station? I know originally, I thought this frequency could pull more signal in to at least West Nashville. I had a bit of association with a potential buyer for the station, that did not work out. That would be considered a divine blessing for what the plan for that station would have been. The translator literally signed on a few weeks later and all indications were it was not going to be a factor to the Davidson County signal. So far, The Wolf signal is probably worse than it was back when the station was solid gospel in need of major technical repairs.

This has to be a quite a fight, even locally. Any thoughts on how the station is general sounding or doing?
 
Tibbs, I'm still getting a hispanic station on 105.1 whenever I am in Forest Hills. But I do indeed get the Waverly frequency out here in Pegram and in Kingston Springs. If I can remember to, I may give them a preset on the home stereo system here at the house.
 
oldiesgirl said:
Well I feel really stupid now. At midnight tonight it went back to country and is now playing normally. It was just weird because I've heard other stations have religious programming on Sundays, but they still kept the same station iD.
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I took a look at their website the other day, and they do indeed play gospel music on Sunday afternoons from 3:00 p.m. until 12:00 midnight.
 
Just a guess, but the ad for a winery may have accidentally run on Sunday at a time when they would run it other days of the week. 3 PM to midnight for gospel music if it isn't done earlier in the day does seem kind of odd though.

As for the modern gospel music, it may have been more modern Southern gospel or Christian country that tries to bridge between the SG and CCM audience. Some ultra traditionalists in the SG audience still consider it to be too contemporary. But considering that The Wolf is a country station during the rest of the week I think that it's a good idea.
 
I wouldn't consider myself a purist, but some of the stuff they were playing sounded basically like the same drek that comes out of Nashville. I like even CCM if it has substance, but this was just bland and blah. I loved Solid Gospel, but the Wolf's country programming blows their gospel so far out of the water that it is sad.
 
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