VintageMac
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Way overcrowded with the same old repeated news all day and night (especially the DeShaun Watson coverage right at the top for too many days).
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Sad to say...I really think they'd like to give us more (Heaven help us).
The A.M. circus of several "Newscaster's" mostly horsing around with everything but news, should really be renamed *. The old WEWS Morning Exchange gave quicker headlines AND was more informative. In just two hours, versus eight's five and a half.
* - "Laugh along with Fox 8 in the Morning"???
I think I've mentioned it before, but "Fox 8 News at Ten" starts promptly at 10:02...First indication of commercial overkill churning into teasers and drawn out stories.
I can't help to think they'd love that 9 P.M. slot that WUAB vacated when the CW schedule took it over. (Possibly a 1 O'Clock {Club} type thing and a 3 P.M.er - Because because they wouldn't want WOIO's to be as lonely as it currently is.)
Lite Rock - 106.5 (WLTF)
KS 100 - (WKSW) actually 99.5
14K - (Actually 1420 WHK, right after its Country days...Some kind of 1950's & 60's music type thing.)
Plus, I can't help but forget the "North Coast Express" WNCX in it's breakaway from WGCL days....that never materialized.
{KS 100??? Now, my age is really showing}
WHK was "14K Solid Gold Rock and Roll", doing an oldies format which became essentially the template for WMJI.
Of course, 92.3 has had way more call letters than 106.5 over the years.
Which brings up the question: What station has had the most different set of call letters over the years?
Which brings up the question: What station has had the most different set of call letters over the years?
Prior to the 1980's, call letters were important because in the old Arbitron handwriten listener diaries ARB would only give credit if the entry included the station call letters. A nickname or slogan alone did not count, Eventually ARB allowed nicknames credit, hence the flood of Mixes, Hanks, Bobs, Alices, Jacks, etc. Modern electronic measuring makes all that irrelevant.
FCC deregulation, hiking the fees to change call signs and tossing objections to new call letters by competing stations into the civil courts did the rest. That's why stations seldom change call signs today.
FCC deregulation, hiking the fees to change call signs and tossing objections to new call letters by competing stations into the civil courts did the rest. That's why stations seldom change call signs today.
My guess would be 1260.
VintageMac
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I recall WKSW actually using the "Kiss" label then when I was just a kid. WDOK used to refer to itself as the "Sound of the Western Reserve" or something like that.
Unfortunately, local newscasts are seem as cheaper alternatives to syndicated programming. Plus, Fox 8 always seems to win a lot of their time slots. I'm surprised the station didn't launch a 24-hour local news subchannel.
WLTF went by 106 1/2 to get listeners to go past WMJI rather than sticking with Majic. Before the launch of WMJI, the leading AC was WZZP. Then Majic came in and took the crown.
The success of WMJI was what lead to WZZP changing to WLTF, which would soon launch into an intense battle with Majic throughout the rest of the '80s.
Ironically, WLTF would eventually ditch 106 1/2 for "The New Lite Rock 106.5" complete with a new logo. That lasted almost two years before the station went by "106.5 WLTF" until the switch to "Mix 106.5" and WMVX.
And that brought back memories of riding my bike as a young teen part-timer to WCUY at the corner of Cedar and Lee.
Newscasts are generally not cheaper but they sell more easily at a higher rate.
The average local direct buyer of TV actually watches local TV news, but few are viewers of most of the syndicated shows, whether daytime or early prime.
I'm guessing 1260. I believe these are all of them: WDOK, WIXY, WMGC, WBBG, WMJI-AM, WRDZ, WMIH, WWMK, WCCR.
92.3 appears to take the crown:.
Looking at Wikipedia they are, from its 1947 beginning, WSRS-FM, WJMO-FM, WCUY, WLYT, WRQC, WJMO-FM, WZJM, WXTM, WXRK, WKRI, WKRK.
At 6 we have 106.5, WABQ-FM, WXEN, WZZP, WLTF, WMVX, WHLK.
Lesser contenders at 5 each include 107.9, WNOB, WELW-FM, WDMT, WPHR, WENZ and 105.7, WTAM-FM, KYW-FM, WKYC-FM, WWWM, WMJI.
Looking at Wikipedia they are, from its 1947 beginning, WSRS-FM, WJMO-FM, WCUY, WLYT, WRQC, WJMO-FM, WZJM, WXTM, WXRK, WKRI, WKRK.
At 6 we have 106.5, WABQ-FM, WXEN, WZZP, WLTF, WMVX, WHLK.
Lesser contenders at 5 each include 107.9, WNOB, WELW-FM, WDMT, WPHR, WENZ and 105.7, WTAM-FM, KYW-FM, WKYC-FM, WWWM, WMJI.
Outside of the old-line AMs (WHK, WTAM, WHLO nee WJAY-WCLE and WJW) you have WBOE and WHKX in 1946 (when they were moved to the 88-108 spectrum) and WCUY moving from 95.3 to 92.3 in 1960.
I don't count the July 3, 2001, asset and format swaps as they were seven stations that merely changed owners, formats and call signs at once, the stations themselves didn't "move". What is now WCPN 104.9 signed on as WZLE in 1975, WFHM as WDGO in 1960, WHKW as WGAR in 1930, WAKS as WCUE-FM in 1958, WKNR as WLBV in 1927, etc.
VintageMac
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I found an old contest ad which mentioned the Kiss label for WKSW 100 (99.5) from 1977. I thought my memory might be incorrect but they did use the Kiss label back then:
What years were when Cleveland had a ton of Easy Listening stations?
There were quite a few easy listening stations on the FM dial in the Cleveland area from the 60s to the mid 80s - WDOK 102.1, WQAL 104.1, WDBN 94.9 (Medina), WBEA 107.3 (Elyria), WAEZ 97.5 (Akron). WKSW 99.5 was short-lived, lasting only from 1975-1980. WNOB 107.9 until the early 70s when it became WELW-FM and switched to a rock format. WKYC-FM 105.7 until the mid 70s when it became WWWM aka M-105 and switched to album-oriented rock. There are probably a few more I am forgetting.
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