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Inquirer Lists Penn State Football On WCAU-AM (1210) Every Saturday in 2021

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John1

In the Inquirer sports section every Saturday this season there is an article about that day's Penn State football game along with information that includes where the game will be on radio & tv. So far in 5 weeks it has listed radio as WCAU-AM (1210). This seems odd, considering it was 31 years since those call letters were used for 1210. (The last time I listened to 1210 was when it was WOGL Oldies 1210 by the way.) Then I noticed the author is sportswriter Joe JULIANO...Could this be another alias for the infamous JULIUS who pined the demise of WCAU for years on these radio boards? ;)
 
Dang WCAU has been associated with NBC since 1995-1996 timeframe when CBS had to divest WCAU-TV to get KYW-TV 3 as a result of the Group W deal.
 
John1 said:
In the Inquirer sports section every Saturday this season there is an article about that day's Penn State football game along with information that includes where the game will be on radio & tv. So far in 5 weeks it has listed radio as WCAU-AM (1210). This seems odd, considering it was 31 years since those call letters were used for 1210.
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That's a detail that a major newspaper's copy desk would catch once and never let it happen again. I suspect that the Inquirer no longer has an army of copy editors, or that its copy editors are at some "hub" in another city and are unfamiliar with the Philadelphia radio dial.

The Hartford Courant shifted its editing and layout functions to a Chicago "hub" some years ago. It was very noticeable one March morning, when I checked out the NCAA basketball tournament bracket and saw that several games had the notation that they were to be carried on WBBM!
 
Reminds me of the Delaware County Daily Times columnist who wrote back in 1994 (right after 1210 flipped from oldies WOGL to sports talker WGMP) (quoting approximately)...

"I still call it WCAU, and now it's no longer WOGL. Anyone seen Jeff Asch lately?" [The columnist's approximate words about Asch, not this poster's.]

By the way, LOL about March Madness, the Courant, and WBBM, CT!
 
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