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Hit Parade Radio & Lujack to debut next week

Need to hear "Smokin' in the Boys Room" or "School's Out" before this sounds like "full hit parade" radio.
At least something to acknowledge that not all hits were "pop' hits.
Leaving such songs out of a format is revisionist history, and if the intent is to avoid songs that rock too hard, it would be good to be upfront about such a policy.
 
get real, do you really think he's raking in huge bucks at a place like that?
 
Maybe JRL doesn't rake in huge bucks, but what a fine place to go to work, set off the road back by the woods, 2 miles from Lake Michigan.
JRL probably has a beautiful home on top of a sand dune, overlooking Lake Michigan with a view all the way over to Chicago.
 
Tom Wells said, "JRL probably has a beautiful home on top of a sand dune, overlooking Lake Michigan with a view all the way over to Chicago."

You don't really know that. Maybe he's living in the basement of his parent's home.
 
No, I don't know that, but if I had to pick to most beautiful place to live within 100 miles of Chicago, it would be within 5 or 10
miles of WIMS, in the dunes of southern Lake Michigan. You don't have to be wealthy to live in the area. The nicest homes in
Beverly Shores, Ogden Dunes or Dune Acres are pretty far up there, but average homes are also available.
I grew up about 20 miles away and spent as much time as I could in the dunes.
If the day comes that I ever get sick of Chicago, that's where I'm going.
I doubt John is phoning it in from Topeka, KS or Bucksnort, TN.
Prais, you're from the region, you should know it's not that far of a stretch that my speculation could be right.
And if MY parents home was in Beverly Shores, I'd have never moved out.
At 48 my parents are gone, and John's got to be 10 years older at least, so if his parents are in their 80's or older, and he can live at home with them while they're still around, and it's anywhere in the Dunes area, it's still a good deal.
The last time I visited WIMS was back in the early 90's. Heck, I guess I'd drive the 55 miles from Chicago to Mich City if I got a job there!
If one lived in the Loop ( central downtown Chicago) , they could leave a car parked at the dunes South Shore station , and take the train to within a few miles of WIMS.

To restate, then.... I bet if John had any skill or luck with hanging on to earlier profits, he might very well, if he liked, be living up on a sand dune overlooking Lake Michigan, in downtown Chicago, or have the best of both worlds.

Don't think for a minute that it's not a very desirable place to live. Probably has a honkin 70 mph cigarette boat in the harbor at Michigan City, and a big fishing cruiser out on Burns Ditch by Portage.
 
i Hope all those things are True about JRL, because he has alot of talent and he shouldn't be working in Michigan City, or auditioning in Fargo North Dakota, BUT he probably has to. alot of Experienced and Talented people have been thrown under the bus in this economy and my guess is he trying to survive like the rest of us. the sad fact IS, Talent & Experience means Nothing in radio anymore, or JRL would be working in Chicago not working in Michigan City Indiana.
 
I did a quick and dirty AM RF alignment on the 1972 Motorola AM/FM in the car here in Chicago, and then faintly heard
a shred (just able to copy) of WIMS 1420 with John Records Landecker around 10:15 or so.
1410 is nipping at it pretty good. But that's the car antenna.
I'll try again with the 1936 Philco and the 1925 tuned loop-loose coupler here in the house.
I think I'll look at Radio Locator, but I never remember WIMS making it much into here anyway.
That array, even before I look, must be designed to where I'm off the dead side.
 
Tom, Exactly WHERE are you in Chicago?

About 25 years ago on a cold Winter day, I could get WIMS, WAKE from Valpo, and WRIN from Rensselaer in my Olds in front of the house where I grew up, just a few blocks SE of Harlem and Addison, just days after we replaced wrin's ground system. (I was bragging to my brother-in-law - and I was quite shocked, myself).

PS I ALWAYS got the Valpo Tech am station there (a lower frequency - but calls forgotten). WRIN regularly came in (with alot of hash from WBEE), until just entering the northbound Dan Ryan from the Skyway.

WRIN had a wonderful Orban processor that a fabulous friend of mine from WIND, tuned. You should have heard the tambourine in , "Make Me Smile" by Chicago and the bass in "Forever in Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond.

I bet the ground systems of all 3 of those "big boys" have deteriorated ALOT since then and the ground noise has increased exponentially.
 
I'm near Foster and Kedzie. WNWI came in very well here, WAKE not quite so well, WIMS poorly, and
WLOI from La Porte only on the Collins 390 with the loop. ;)
I have a fair number of relatives in Rensselaer and I always prefer to leave town north out of town on 231, going past WRIN.
But in my experience, in hte past 10 years, WRIN is gone by Cline Avenue.

Amazingly, WNWI Valpo went silent for quite a number of months before they had Oak Lawn ready.
The FCC must have ordered Birach to put something on the air, and they put 10 watts or so in the tuning house in Valpo,
with a guy, and a computer and ran it that way for a few months so he didn't lose the license. I could hear that really well in Chicago for being 10 watts. I went down to look and found the college kid in the phasor hut.

I've got a few minutes now to go check on that Philco....
 
WIMS is almost listenable on the Big Philco with the tuned loop antenna, but not without straining to hear.
I'll bet it would be better over on the actual lakeshore. Things change very quickly as you get away from the lakeshore, and into
the dense brick and steel neighborhoods. I'm 3 miles west of the shore on the north side of Chicago,
and it's amazing how much WGTO's 910 signal drops off in those 3 miles.
 
WhoDat! said:
get real, do you really think he's raking in huge bucks at a place like that?
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No, I live about 15 miles south of Lake Michigan and I know the area. I said that sarcastically. However, for those who haven't listened to JRL, he loves doing his "Live and Local" show on WIMS. WIMS does stream its programing.
 
Prais said:
Tom Wells said, "JRL probably has a beautiful home on top of a sand dune, overlooking Lake Michigan with a view all the way over to Chicago."

You don't really know that. Maybe he's living in the basement of his parent's home.
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Well, IF he is living in his mom's house, it sits on 10 acres . . . not far from Lake Michigan. BTW, his dad passed away a few years ago.
 
KlunkLetter said:
WhoDat! said:
get real, do you really think he's raking in huge bucks at a place like that?
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No, I live about 15 miles south of Lake Michigan and I know the area. I said that sarcastically. However, for those who haven't listened to JRL, he loves doing his "Live and Local" show on WIMS. WIMS does stream its programing.
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JRL on his WIMS show: "I called him up the other day and asked him to tell me more about going back to his roots and doing small-town radio..." "I love it. I love it. Are you kidding?"

Read the full interview here http://chicagoradiospotlight.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-records-landecker.html
 
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