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How is WAMB doing?

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It's been over 3 years since my last trip to Nashville, but curious to find out how WAMB is doing since the shift from 1160 to 1200. Are they still doing Beautiful Music in the Night? Sponsored by Music City Plumbing and Heating or some answering service? It was such a hoot hearing the announcer go, "and now, a word from our sponsor."
 
bub said:
It's been over 3 years since my last trip to Nashville, but curious to find out how WAMB is doing since the shift from 1160 to 1200. Are they still doing Beautiful Music in the Night? Sponsored by Music City Plumbing and Heating or some answering service? It was such a hoot hearing the announcer go, "and now, a word from our sponsor."
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That station was insane! And probably still is if it's on the air. Everytime I tune in 1200, I get nothing. I would listen to them after midnight just to hear how awful they were. That commercial from "Music City Sewer" was beyond pathetic. That man with the deep accent saying "anything else would be uncivilized.." And those songs they'd play in the middle of the night....I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
 
WAMB is running daytime only - 50kw on 1200 kHz. Though their website (http://www.wamb.net) shows 900 kHz WKDA for sunset to sunrise, I am hearing the same Spanish programming on WKDA as I do during the day. I heard at one time that "Music in the Night" would be on 900 kHz, but I never heard it happen.

WAMB is still lingering in the ratings (#26 in the last update) even with the increase of advertiser shows during the day while the station that bought 1160 is nowhere to be seen.

On a side note - what a shameful waste of the great legendary call letters WKDA!!!!
 
I'm also surprised the hispanic programming is on 900 at night:
daytime the 900 transmitter is in Lebanon...at night, they switch to the Nashville location,
with a pretty decent signal downtown
 
The whole switch thing, of course came about because the owner could get $$$ for 1160 while they still held the 50k CP for 1200. I could have sworn at one time they were going to feature their nightime programming, not just on WKDA but on sister-owned WCOR or WANT, one or the other. But I never heard that happen either. I really doubt their audience listens to them at night anymore anyway -- I don't know though, if you judge their audience by a cross-section of the rather large attendance at their dances, they draw a wide age-range of folks.
 
They filed an application on 6/22 to add 120 watts nighttime using all 4 towers at the site. it's a cardiod pattern aimed NE to stay away from WOAI by the looks of it.
 
Ahhh.. For the simple days of 1160 day and the little help at 106.7 night, before it became a classed frequency...
 
Skipper, I remember those 106.7 nights for WAMB. Wasn't that around 1995? Anyway, I enjoyed WAMB on 98.7 (sans picket fence waves) until the sale to Bott.
 
I think after we tested a translator with no impact at 98.7 and due to 98.9 in Mt.Juliet coming on, we had to stop that idea... Then I think they did some 98.7 while his daughter had 98.9 in Mt.Juliet... I might be losing some of my details, due to time evolving... :)
 
skippertthomas said:
I think after we tested a translator with no impact at 98.7 and due to 98.9 in Mt.Juliet coming on, we had to stop that idea... Then I think they did some 98.7 while his daughter had 98.9 in Mt.Juliet... I might be losing some of my details, due to time evolving... :)
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Skipper,

I could be wrong about this theory, but I think Bill Barry got that 98.7 application, due to the fact that WANT 98.9 in Lebanon is owned by is daugher Susie, and being that Bill is the backbone of 98.9, he went to someone in the FM Branch of the commission and told them that WANT would accept the interference from the 98.7 translator. Bill has a lot of connections at the commission.

In very early years of Nashville FM (the 50's), as you recall, Bill Barry was really involved in FM allocations in this area. Recall WFMB (which is now WNRQ, The rock @ 105.9) when it signed on? I was told he had a "homemade"built automation system for it and was located at the Nickelson Stereo Building off West End. Bill & Cal Young was the two that put WSOK (1470) on the air in 1951, we know it today as WVOL. I think that WSOK's tower back in the 50's was home to the WFMB antenna. I would love to sit down with Bill and chat with him on this. I want to learn all that history before something happens to him. He's getting on up there, you know.
 
Last night around 6:30 p.m. I tuned them in in my car and I actually liked one of the songs I heard (I think it was "I Won't Dance" by Barbra Streisand. Just to clear up what I said before, it's only those songs they play/played at 3 in the morning that I didn't really like... I would love for there to be a big band/nostalgia station on FM.
 
As one who grew up listenining to big band sounds, I would like a station on the fM dial that played big band tunes. When I was growing most kids were listening to babbling top 40 DJs (no offense to the old top 40 DJs on here), but there I was listening to swing and sway with Sammy Kaye.
 
Re: 106.7

You will call me a liar, and I question my memory, but one night, driving down Ellington Parkway toward Nashville, I was using the Search button, and it stopped on 106.7 playing classic or active rock. And I mean it was coming in strong! This was when it was still simulcasting 1160.

I called the station, asked a very deep-voiced man whether that format would continue. He hesitated just a second, then, "No." End of conversation.
 
SwissVol said:
As one who grew up listenining to big band sounds, I would like a station on the fM dial that played big band tunes. When I was growing most kids were listening to babbling top 40 DJs (no offense to the old top 40 DJs on here), but there I was listening to swing and sway with Sammy Kaye.
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Bob Stitch still plays some of those old what I call "Hit Parade" songs from the Lennon Sisters, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford, etc. He's on middays when WAMB doesn't have a paid program on. I wonder what ever happen to Mike Robbins? He seemed to disappeared just before Bott took over 1160 to convert it to WCRT.
 
Are the studios still in the basement of the back of that apartment complex on Lebanon Pike in Donelson?

I paid a visit there in July 2003 and forgot who I met there (it wasn't Bill Barry), but I was able to get a bumper sticker from them. Makes me the only kid on my block with a WAMB sticker. Still have it, too. Was able to get a nickel tour of the place, including the reel-to-reel machines where they string up the Beautiful Music tapes. I recall they had record albums of that old syndicated show, "The Great Sounds" with Ray Otis still in the record racks even though that show was discontinued by Unistar around 1990...and this was in 2003.
 
Could have sworn I saw a sign on the side of an MTA bus recently advertising WAMB as "Sunny __?___"

Nock
 
Speaking of WAMB, I have often wondered about the "Don Kennedy Show" and the "Danny Winchell Show" that airs from 2 to 3 PM weekdays. I know that Don Kennedy is a syndicated show, but are the shows record recently or are they several years old? On a recent show, he was talking about the movie "Mary Poppins" being released almost 40 years ago. Since it came out in 1964, that would make it's release date 43 years ago, which leads me to believe that WAMB is airing the Don Kennedy Shows from 5 or 6 years ago.

As a far as Danny Winchell, is his show aired live from the studios on Friday afternoons or is it recorded earlier in the day or week for Friday afternoon airings?
 
jwk1979 said:
Speaking of WAMB, I have often wondered about the "Don Kennedy Show" and the "Danny Winchell Show" that airs from 2 to 3 PM weekdays. I know that Don Kennedy is a syndicated show, but are the shows record recently or are they several years old? On a recent show, he was talking about the movie "Mary Poppins" being released almost 40 years ago. Since it came out in 1964, that would make it's release date 43 years ago, which leads me to believe that WAMB is airing the Don Kennedy Shows from 5 or 6 years ago.
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As far as I know, the Don Kennedy Show was cancelled some time ago. He still does "Big Band Jump", his other syndicated show.

Does the syndicated "Bill Miller Show" still run at WAMB?
 
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