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Is Power Talk 870 now country?
- Thread starter Pratte4Life
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I've been back in the Tri-Cities for Thanksgiving holiday and the first thing I did when I got off I-81 coming into Bristol was turn on 870...kinda like WGOC used to be but they are calling it "Top Gun Radio" instead of Top Gun Country. First song I heard them play was from years ago by Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper...the announcer called him Stone Cooper.
The sound like they are carrying live air talent and the guy I heard on middays Thanksgiving day and today rambled on a lot..basically about nothing. Don't know what they are doing in morning drive, but afternoons from 3 til 6, they are playing bluegrass with somebody named Cody Ray...at first I thought hey said Tony Ray, which is an old 70's name in radio from WKYE 1550 that became gospel WBCV and is now WIGN. They also have a "meteorologist" that sounds country as cornbread, and it makes me wonder if they're just calling him a meteorologist, or is he ACTUALLY one. If you remember a now deceased dj from BRistol years ago on WOPI then WBCV named Jimbo Widener....he would've actually been a genuine fir for this station. I'm assuming with the classic country in middays and bluegrass in afternoon drive, they might be doing gospel in morning drive.
They were not only saying AM 870, but they were also saying they were heard on 100.7 FM. I tried to pick them up, but was NOT hearing that same signal on 100.7 until this afternoon when I picked them up in the Blue Circle parking lot beside the Putt-Putt in Bristol, but when I pulled out onto Bluff City Highway, I got a completely different station overtake them...I found a little humor in that.
The sound like they are carrying live air talent and the guy I heard on middays Thanksgiving day and today rambled on a lot..basically about nothing. Don't know what they are doing in morning drive, but afternoons from 3 til 6, they are playing bluegrass with somebody named Cody Ray...at first I thought hey said Tony Ray, which is an old 70's name in radio from WKYE 1550 that became gospel WBCV and is now WIGN. They also have a "meteorologist" that sounds country as cornbread, and it makes me wonder if they're just calling him a meteorologist, or is he ACTUALLY one. If you remember a now deceased dj from BRistol years ago on WOPI then WBCV named Jimbo Widener....he would've actually been a genuine fir for this station. I'm assuming with the classic country in middays and bluegrass in afternoon drive, they might be doing gospel in morning drive.
They were not only saying AM 870, but they were also saying they were heard on 100.7 FM. I tried to pick them up, but was NOT hearing that same signal on 100.7 until this afternoon when I picked them up in the Blue Circle parking lot beside the Putt-Putt in Bristol, but when I pulled out onto Bluff City Highway, I got a completely different station overtake them...I found a little humor in that.
What they're doing probably makes a lot of sense. As for age of audience, the difference in talk programming and classic country is probably negligible.
I still think there is room for local talk that isn't being met. The hosts that are on the air have been on the air for so long that they aren't saying anything new or even exciting any more. You can set your watch by them.
I still think there is room for local talk that isn't being met. The hosts that are on the air have been on the air for so long that they aren't saying anything new or even exciting any more. You can set your watch by them.
Pratte4Life said:What they're doing probably makes a lot of sense. As for age of audience, the difference in talk programming and classic country is probably negligible.
I still think there is room for local talk that isn't being met. The hosts that are on the air have been on the air for so long that they aren't saying anything new or even exciting any more. You can set your watch by them.
Pratte,
What about Steve Hawkins talk show on Nininger's AM talk station...you heard it?
Haven't heard it.
Wasn't even aware there was an AM talk station like the one you mentioned, aside from "The Sports Fox."
Tell me more.
Wasn't even aware there was an AM talk station like the one you mentioned, aside from "The Sports Fox."
Tell me more.
Pratte4Life said:Haven't heard it.
Wasn't even aware there was an AM talk station like the one you mentioned, aside from "The Sports Fox."
Tell me more.
Pratte,
Actually, its my bad. Its on 92.7. Sorry about that.
Saw he was doing mornings. I guess Bill Bennett didn't do it for them.
All I know is that I wish Hawkins, or any news director, had been there when I was.
All I know is that I wish Hawkins, or any news director, had been there when I was.
S
Sammy Reed
Guest
With the "Top Gun" and the bluegrass, I gotta wonder:
Would the GM by any chance be Tim White?
Would the GM by any chance be Tim White?
Brian Scott said:Pratte4Life said:What they're doing probably makes a lot of sense. As for age of audience, the difference in talk programming and classic country is probably negligible.
I still think there is room for local talk that isn't being met. The hosts that are on the air have been on the air for so long that they aren't saying anything new or even exciting any more. You can set your watch by them.
Finally heard Hawkins on the air. Didn't think he did half bad. I thought his 6 a.m. topic of "If you could be a character on any TV show, what would it be?" was somewhat imaginative.
Is John Mongle and/or George Grant still doing news over there?
Pratte,
What about Steve Hawkins talk show on Nininger's AM talk station...you heard it?
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