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KSHN 99.9 in Liberty Texas is another small town full service station
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I would argue WBRF Galax, VA would also qualify for that distinction. As for whether it is full-service, all I really hear is classic country music and information about the music.The station is part of a classic AM/FM combo with sister country station WAKG 103.3 FM (http://www.wakg.com), the sole 100,000-watt FM signal not absorbed into one of the three radio markets surrounding Danville (Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, Raleigh-Durham and Roanoke-Lynchburg).
WSAT Salisbury NC has a local morning show with news and information, and high school sports, and church services on Sunday morning.
http://www.1280wsat.com
http://www.1280wsat.com
The original poster may want to clarify what they mean by full service as it is not a term that is universal.
For example, I consider full service stations to have a local news department and variety of programming elements that cater to the varied needs of the adult audience including high school sports. Full service leans to heavier does of news and information but could be fully automated, voice tracked or primarily carry syndicated programs.
Live and Local are sometimes traits of stations that are full service. I think a live and local station is simply that, offering no details on its programming. I've seen a couple of live and local stations that didn't have any local news, and in fact no news at all.
I think an ultimate full service station is live and local with an attitude of reflecting life in the community where music is the bridge that glues important hometown information segments together. Few of those survive.
One of the best I heard was KNDK in Langdon, ND. This tiny small market had skilled talent that created a great listen. In one hour in middays you got top of hour and bottom of the hour network news with local news added to the half hour network headlines. Full weather (think more like the weather guy on the local TV newscast) each half hour. In each half hour there might be a farm update or a short special interest feature (computers, fishing, health tip, etc.). Then the DJ added a couple of phone calls. In the first half hour, he talked to a tour guide at Graceland on what would have been Elvis' birthday. The tour guide was 20 years old and was questioned by him as how she became an Elvis fan as Elvis died before she had been born. As you might suspect, it was lighthearted and informative. The second half hour was an interview about the damage caused by a recent tornado in a small town and if that would affect the town's annual festival. I think he squeezed in about 4 to 6 songs and likely had 12 minutes of ads in the hour. I have to admit I felt like I lived there by listening to the station.
For example, I consider full service stations to have a local news department and variety of programming elements that cater to the varied needs of the adult audience including high school sports. Full service leans to heavier does of news and information but could be fully automated, voice tracked or primarily carry syndicated programs.
Live and Local are sometimes traits of stations that are full service. I think a live and local station is simply that, offering no details on its programming. I've seen a couple of live and local stations that didn't have any local news, and in fact no news at all.
I think an ultimate full service station is live and local with an attitude of reflecting life in the community where music is the bridge that glues important hometown information segments together. Few of those survive.
One of the best I heard was KNDK in Langdon, ND. This tiny small market had skilled talent that created a great listen. In one hour in middays you got top of hour and bottom of the hour network news with local news added to the half hour network headlines. Full weather (think more like the weather guy on the local TV newscast) each half hour. In each half hour there might be a farm update or a short special interest feature (computers, fishing, health tip, etc.). Then the DJ added a couple of phone calls. In the first half hour, he talked to a tour guide at Graceland on what would have been Elvis' birthday. The tour guide was 20 years old and was questioned by him as how she became an Elvis fan as Elvis died before she had been born. As you might suspect, it was lighthearted and informative. The second half hour was an interview about the damage caused by a recent tornado in a small town and if that would affect the town's annual festival. I think he squeezed in about 4 to 6 songs and likely had 12 minutes of ads in the hour. I have to admit I felt like I lived there by listening to the station.
WKLK-AM in Cloquet, MN uses automation (America's Best Music) for much of their programming, but still does an extensive amount of local production, including news every morning, a two-hour Wednesday morning "auction" show selling discount gift certificates from local merchants, live high-school sports, local round-table talk show with guests Saturday mornings, an obscure-oldies show Saturdays, country-gospel music and two local church services Sunday mornings, a polka party show Sunday afternoons, and old-time-radio dramas Sunday nights.
I forgot to mention they also do "community-calendar" features, and a couple times a week, a roundup of local obits! They used to do a locally-hosted big band show after the polka party Sunday afternoons, but the host of the show (who played his own collection) passed on and no one has replaced him.
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Here are a couple of AM stand alones in Eastern Pennsylvamia:
WBCB 1490 in Levittown, PA. 24 hours with all local programming. www.wbcb1490.com.
WGPA 1100 in Bethlehem, PA 250w class D daytimer. Mostly local except for 2 hours Dennis Miller Show, otherwise an eclectic oldies format. Sundays features an all-polka format with syndicated Jimmy Sturr Show and the rest of the day with local polka DJs. www.wgpasunny1100.com.
WBCB 1490 in Levittown, PA. 24 hours with all local programming. www.wbcb1490.com.
WGPA 1100 in Bethlehem, PA 250w class D daytimer. Mostly local except for 2 hours Dennis Miller Show, otherwise an eclectic oldies format. Sundays features an all-polka format with syndicated Jimmy Sturr Show and the rest of the day with local polka DJs. www.wgpasunny1100.com.
Here are a couple of AM stand alones in Eastern Pennsylvamia:
WBCB 1490 in Levittown, PA. 24 hours with all local programming. www.wbcb1490.com.
WGPA 1100 in Bethlehem, PA 250w class D daytimer. Mostly local except for 2 hours Dennis Miller Show, otherwise an eclectic oldies format. Sundays features an all-polka format with syndicated Jimmy Sturr Show and the rest of the day with local polka DJs. www.wgpasunny1100.com.
The soon to be gone Dennis Miller Show.
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Another AM stand alone serves Plattsburgh in New York's North Country. Terrestrially the signal gets into Northwestern Vermont and parts of Quebec south of Montreal. That's WIRY at AM 1340. Lots of music, local news and local high school sports.
www.wiry.com.
www.wiry.com.
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Another locally oriented station is WSNJ AM 1240 in South Jersey. Known as SNJ Today it's licensed for Bridgeton, NJ but studios are in Millville, NJ. At 1000 watts it plays largely music of the late 60s and 70s and billed as the Great American Songbook. Mornings is hosted by long time Philly veteran Andy Kortman and mid-days is Fred Sharkey and features Cumberland County news and weather. On air since 1937 it has a broadcast heritage. Around the turn of the 1950s Rock & Roll pioneer Bill Haley worked there as a country yodeler, Silver Yodelin' Bill Haley!
www.snjtoday.com.
www.snjtoday.com.
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