Mis-matched radio

[MarcB]

What are some radio combinations that didn't seem to go together, but did in some areas? Doesn't mean they worked. Here are some from Connecticut.

Uncensored Gangster Rap Music and Salem Radio Network news. - Around 1997 or 1998 Briarwood College in Southington, CT leased 2 hours a day, 5 days a week on WNTY AM 990 in Southington. The station normally ran an AC format and featured SRN News at the top of every hour. The kids from Briarwood's Broadcast class would play uncensored Gangster Rap Music from 12PM-2PM with the SRN News at 1PM and 2PM,

Howard Stern on a Classical Station. 106.9 The Rock WCCC-FM in Hartford was the affiliate of The Howard Stern show. At the time they were simulcast on WCCC AM 1290. Around 1999 or 2000 Marlin Broadcasting changed the format of WCCC 1290 to a simulcast of their Beethoven.Com Classical Service. The contract Marlin Broadcasting had with Infinity for Stern stated the show had to be on WCCC-FM and WCCC (AM), so for a couple years until Marlin signed a new contract with Infinity to air Stern it was Howard Stern in the morning, Classical Music All day long.

Don Imus on a Classical Station. Last year Marlin Broadcasting added Imus in the Morning to the line-up at AM 1290 Beethoven Radio. Imus in the Morning, Classical Music all day long.

Sports play-by-play on a Classical Station. AM 1290 Beethoven Radio at one time was the Hartford affiliate of the CT Sun WNBA basketball team, picking up the games from then flagship station News-Talk 102.3 WXLM out of Stonington. To this day AM 1290 Beethoven Radio has sports play by play from the 2 high schools in West Hartford. West Hartford being the COL of WCCC AM 1290.

 

[Bongwater]

KEZX-AM 1150 Seattle ran brokered evening programming amongst their Business News format in the early '90s. There was an evening program of gangsta rap in the middle of all this......

 

[kc1ih]

One of the weirdest mis-matches was in the mid-to-late 70’s on an easy-listening station in the Hudson Valley north of NYC. Their morning show was hosted by Joe O’Brien, who had formerly been a top-40 DJ in New York. He kept to his top-40 announcing style while playing easy-listening music, even using top-40 style jingles.

 

[LKellerIII]

One of the weirdest mis-matches was in the mid-to-late 70’s on an easy-listening station in the Hudson Valley north of NYC. Their morning show was hosted by Joe O’Brien, who had formerly been a top-40 DJ in New York. He kept to his top-40 announcing style while playing easy-listening music, even using top-40 style jingles.

In the early days of album rock FM radio - about 1967 - one of the first in Los Angeles was KMET 94.7, owned by Metromedia. The station was automated easy-listening music most of the day. A couple of veteran rock DJs were brought in to play album rock (what they used to call "underground" radio). Metromedia considered it a part-time experiment, so the rock format only ran...can't remember...4 or 6 hours a day at first, with elevator music the rest of the day.

Needless to say, the experiment was a success - and after awhile, the easy listening went away.

 

[Time Traveler]

Back to WCCC-FM again...Back in 1976/1977...during their early years as an AOR/Progressive Rocker...they continued to run Paul Harvey's commentaries....which sounded really weird on a chilled out 70s FM Rocker...

 

[Time Traveler]

1550-WNTN...a Boston area MOR daytimer that signed on in 1968...decided to experiment with Progressive Rock (as AOR was called in those days)...in 1970....Mornings were MOR...Afternoons were AOR...With in a few months...Rock won out....and the MOR went away...and WNTN had a nearly six year run as "Your AM Alternative"...

One of the weirdest mis-matches was in the mid-to-late 70’s on an easy-listening station in the Hudson Valley north of NYC. Their morning show was hosted by Joe O’Brien, who had formerly been a top-40 DJ in New York. He kept to his top-40 announcing style while playing easy-listening music, even using top-40 style jingles.

In the early days of album rock FM radio - about 1967 - one of the first in Los Angeles was KMET 94.7, owned by Metromedia. The station was automated easy-listening music most of the day. A couple of veteran rock DJs were brought in to play album rock (what they used to call "underground" radio). Metromedia considered it a part-time experiment, so the rock format only ran...can't remember...4 or 6 hours a day at first, with elevator music the rest of the day.

Needless to say, the experiment was a success - and after awhile, the easy listening went away.

 

[borderblaster]

WCOL-FM Columbus, Ohio in the early 70s: Brokered religion 6am-2pm, AOR/Progressive the rest of the time.

 

[Ultimajock]

Back to WCCC-FM again...Back in 1976/1977...during their early years as an AOR/Progressive Rocker...they continued to run Paul Harvey's commentaries....which sounded really weird on a chilled out 70s FM Rocker...

...somewhat similarly, for several years Harvey's Chicago outlet was Top 40 WCFL, a holdover from the days when WCFL was one of three different ABC affiliates in the Windy City, and long after WCFL had dropped all other ABC programming and took the Mutual affiliation away from WGN. Harvey's office at the time was at WLS, WCFL's main competition as a Top 40; WCFL first distinguished itself from WLS in that format by playing hits that WLS wouldn't, such as "Gloria" by Them or Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction." WLS was also where Harvey would tape his TV commentaries, long after ABC's WBKB/7 stopped running them and they had moved to Field's WFLD/32 (and, later, Harriscope and Essaness' WSNS/44); both WFLD and WCFL were located in the same building complex (Marina City) and occasionally shared personnel (Jim Bohannon did newscasts on WFLD at the same time he did the news on Fred Winston's WCFL morning show), but were not co-owned...