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just found this site and was wondering if the new oldies station that may or may not be coming to Indy is behind this?? Just a tease maybe?? Your thoughts.
 
well since the rumours of oldies coming to 107.9 most likely it could be for 107.9 unless were gonna have a quick flip like when the last time 107.9 was rumoured to be going country back when 97.1 ended up flipping to country within daysof 104.5 dumping the Oldies for Jack FM. 107.9 was rumoured then to be going to go for a slice of WFMS but WENS beat them to the punch of flipping to Country first leaving 107.9 high and dry
 
But rumor has it 'Hank' was born from a very last minute play where (then) Susquehanna snagged the Jack format for 104.5. ENS had been counting on this. In the end it worked out better for Hank, as once again 1079 spins the wheel. BTW - anyone remember the brief time in the 70's that 1079 was country (way before WTPI)?
 
I've got to get more active on this site instead of just being a voyeur. I checked out indyoldies.com. It is clean and certainly ready to sell. The stream sounds very good. Crisp and clean. They have jingles for the site and a familiar sounding voice talent. (I just can't place who it is) The playlist is more like True Oldies. I don't think you would hear much like this on the air anymore. Maybe this becomes an Internet "side channel" of 107.9.
 
This is pretty clearly not someone's hobby. No individual would have that many "advertisement" areas. But I'm pretty sure it isn't Entercom.

Wasn't "All Oldies All the Time" the slogan of WGLD?
And the first name that comes to mind regarding the VO guy: Jim Denny
 
Wouldn't be unreasonable to think this is the beta site for Entercom -
1. The web would provide a nice place to dry run the format for several weeks, before launching on air, for new staff to work out kinks and Scott R. to work up music
2. Entercom now has a Digital Sales Director on staff - one with extensive experience. She would likely want this site up asap to begin pre-selling it along with the other two stations
3. The fact that no one actually takes credit for the site, at the site. Other webcasters want you to know - they want the interaction - they don't generally operate anonymously.

OR,
as my Radio-Info posting buddy MikeStandards suggests, it could be an elaborate ruse to misdirect us all [by Entercom still].
:-*
 
Yes 107.9 was country for a while in the mid 70s. It was WIFE's FM playing "beautiful music" for years prior. It became CB 107.9 (or maybe CB 108). Reb Porter was the only on-air person. They took the beautiful music reel to reel automation tapes and replaced them with country. That didn't last long as the frequency went dark for years leaving only about 5 commercial FM's in Indy until the 80s when 107.9 returned as WTPI. Today there are 14 FMs targeting Indy.
 
There could be another station thinking about doing oldies, who bought WXLW 950?
WXLW has not shown up in the ratings lately. You never know about 107.9 they could do 70's and 80's and put 50's and 60's on there HD. I wonder if they could use a FM translator for HD? If so I would try to get WSHW's 107.5 translator and move it downtown Indpls.

I should check to see if there is a way to change WSCH to 99.5, WAOL to 99.3, WZPL to 99.3, that way maybe WSHW could do oldies. That would also help WHKO in Cincinnati.
 
Check with Steve Cannon - his name is listed on the links.
 
Many country stations use the name Wolf.

Would not surprize me if they went hot country or a rockn country since WFMS is the top station by a little margin, after they changed 93.9 to top 40, which could hurt WZPL. If 97.1 focus on classic country and 107.9 does hot country then WFMS would be in a squeeze between 2 stations. That might be rough on WFMS if that happens.
 
Has Been said:
Two things...

1) I could not find Cannon's name attached to anything. Where did you see it?
Click to expand...

When this post first appeared, the Calendar tab on the IndyOldies.com home page went to an empty page with /stevecannon1/ in the address directory. I'm sure others had to have seen that. An actual calendar appears now.

But when this does officially open up, STEVE CANNON will be involved. Not sure why his name would have appeared there otherwise.

Take it for what it's worth.
 
The stream does sound good. It undoubtedly isn't a hobby, and could be anything from a side web stream for one of the broadcast owners (CBS has tons of them, even "Class of" streams for each year) or a preview of a new format.
 
I would like to SirrusXM come out where you can get 1 or 2 stations of your choice for free and if you want more stations, you have to pay for the extra stations that way maybe they can do more damage to the local stations.
 
Beta? What would they be testing? You can't truly test a format on the net and expect exact results for your station. There's nothing to test.

This stream cost money and a broadcast group wouldn't just let it sit and play music without attaching it to who they were in some fashion. Most websites for radio are done by in house developers who would have the stations brand everywhere, within the stream and out of it. Times a wastin' too, they'd do it within minutes of the website going up. Has nothing to do with a brick and mortar radio station in my opinion.

Its kind of the new thing now to target your online station to appeal locally. Here is one example of that >> www.jerseysclassicrock.com

Not hard to get quality audio streaming from Live 365 if you have the cash for 128k streaming and a good automater to make things run smoothly.

They went all out for the jingle package. WKLR's play list. Probably a former programmer or jock behind it.

Now if you'll all excuse me, Richard Simmons is on TV and he claims he can peal a Banana with his butt checks.
 
Fascinating...somebody has put a lot of effort into this, but as Keith Kidd observes, it's sitting there un-attached to any local station. What we have here is a mystery...a mystery with superb audio quality no less.
 
It without question involves Steve Cannon. My guess is whatever station he is attached to right now is the station planning to run that format. Likely they are running Christmas music until first of the year - then going with the streaming format.
 
Steve Cannon is the PD of WJJK, so this is probably a Cumulus thing. Maybe they're going to put oldies on 104.5 HD2? No way they'd go BACK to oldies on 104.5 is there? Or they may be preparing a streaming-only oldies channel that they can promote on their other stations and make a few bucks selling it, if nobody else grabs the format.
 
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