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Maybe Foreshadowing? Cumulus Reported to Be Dropping Sports in Louisville

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jetfli

Several Louisville news sources are reporting that Cumulus is dropping sports from an AM/FM simulcast there. Word is they'll go Christmas music, then oldies.

Supposedly, the FM station only pulled a point-six rating in the last period. Gee, that sure sounds familiar for something around here...
 
Cox blew up oldies WRKA a few months back to take on WAMZ...leaving rim-shot WAKY as
the only oldies outlet. Guess Cumulus thinks the 93.9 signal is a better choice for oldies...
as the signal in Jefferson County is much better than 103.5.
If they cheap out...perhaps they could take Shannon's format off the bird. Just guessing...
 
romer979fm said:
Cox blew up oldies WRKA a few months back to take on WAMZ...leaving rim-shot WAKY as
the only oldies outlet. Guess Cumulus thinks the 93.9 signal is a better choice for oldies...
as the signal in Jefferson County is much better than 103.5.

If they cheap out...perhaps they could take Shannon's format off the bird. Just guessing...
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But WAKY is a recent FM revival of a heritage AM in Louavuhl that was near and dear to the target market's hearts. Not that WRKA hadn't come to be, but I'd think a new oldies station would have an uphill battle for audiences on the south side, anyway.

For Nashville, True Oldies would be very good, and what I'd expect to hear if we were talking about a Citadel station... but what I'd rather be able to hear if I had the choice would be TKO's Classic Top 40. They've got Jim Zippo in the morning, Eric Chase afternoons, Marty (with the Party) Thompson at nights, and John "Records" Landecker with a '70s show on the weekends. Now that would be fun!
 
jetfli said:
romer979fm said:
Cox blew up oldies WRKA a few months back to take on WAMZ...leaving rim-shot WAKY as
the only oldies outlet. Guess Cumulus thinks the 93.9 signal is a better choice for oldies...
as the signal in Jefferson County is much better than 103.5.

If they cheap out...perhaps they could take Shannon's format off the bird. Just guessing...
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But WAKY is a recent FM revival of a heritage AM in Louavuhl that was near and dear to the target market's hearts. Not that WRKA hadn't come to be, but I'd think a new oldies station would have an uphill battle for audiences on the south side, anyway.

For Nashville, True Oldies would be very good, and what I'd expect to hear if we were talking about a Citadel station... but what I'd rather be able to hear if I had the choice would be TKO's Classic Top 40. They've got Jim Zippo in the morning, Eric Chase afternoons, Marty (with the Party) Thompson at nights, and John "Records" Landecker with a '70s show on the weekends. Now that would be fun!
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I listened to Scott Shannon's Satellite format for the first time on a station that was streaming that format. I was more impressed with what I heard, THAN what people on this board made it out to be. I had to hear it for myself to form an opinion. There were songs played that "typical oldies" stations of the late 80's, 90's and into the 2000's never played at all! It wasn't the "SOS" like the former "Oldies 96.3 or 97.1. There were titles that NEVER got airplay in this era.

I say hats off to Shannon for putting together a very good format for ABC to sell to affiliates. Now, I'm not interested in it for my station, as I plan to stick with "HOT AC" but perhaps it will come along somewhere in the Nashville Market. What some of you don't know is Scott Shannon is multi talented. Scott Shannon plays "Hot AC" on a morning show, WPLJ-FM, 95.5 in NYC and keeps up with the current AC artist.

So when you think of Scott Shannon, just don't think of him just playing Oldies and ready to be hauled to the nursing home, he still digs the new songs and artist too, and all of you over 57 should be ashamed of yourself for being narrrow minded about all the pop music recored over past 20 years. Scott Shannon isn't! He digs the old and the new. I think like Scott Shannon does on a personal level, as far as music goes.
 
Scott Baily, you might think about sending ole Scott (Shannon) a case of Arbor Mist this Christmas. (Said it --- Christ-mas)
I wonder if he drinks like you*** on a personal level, as far as Arbor Mist goes.... :p


*** you could substitute the 'you" with "us" as a Nashville board RI team, I guess? May SS will join us one day!
 
Tibbs2 said:
Scott Baily, you might think about sending ole Scott (Shannon) a case of Arbor Mist this Christmas. (Said it --- Christ-mas)
I wonder if he drinks like you*** on a personal level, as far as Arbor Mist goes.... :p


*** you could substitute the 'you" with "us" as a Nashville board RI team, I guess? May SS will join us one day!
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Well, I think we'll do better than Arbor Mist. We'll send Scott Shannon a BIG bottle of Martini & Rossi! Now that is some good stuff there! Don't worry, I'll keep it unlock and key so the Otis Campbells of the world won't find it, until Scott finds it under his Christmas Tree on Christmas Morning.

I think I'll call him and request my all time favorite rock song. It's still kicks butt today, "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers, 1966 - the live version. When that song came out I was 2 1/2 years old. My dad got me Johnny's album called....."and you want to dance", which had that cut on it. I wished I could find that album on cd, you dig!

I went to Jonnny River's website and it wasn't there, any clue where to buy it on CD, give me a shout!
 
belowtheline said:
Don't forget Charlie Tuna.....

Zippo, Tuna and Landecker, not bad, especially for barter!
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Oh, yes, I had forgotten reading that they had signed the Tuna.

I remember many, many moons ago when a lot of stations were carrying a syndicated Charlie Tuna weekend show. It was definitely "canned" (as in "on tape from the reel tape cannister" as opposed to "canned tuna"). However, they tried so hard to make it sound live and local and the local station failed so miserably as far as the trained ear was concerned. But we didn't care, it was the Tuna.

Last week, I spent a few days in another city and I was delighted to be able to find a station that carried this format 24/7. Wow, what memories it brought back. This is one group that is doing Classic Top 40 right. I believe one of the reasons that oldies stations lost some audience was because the stations didn't capture the fun and sound of stations from "back then". This format comes closest of any I've heard. Too bad they don't have one of the big syndicators behind them, to get them into more markets.
 
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