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Name This "Oldies" Station

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Jkf

OK - first of all name this regional "oldies" station. Second, what do you think about the "programming" or lack there of. Would you listen to see what might come next .... or would it be a total tune out due to the trainwrecks?
Here is a sample hour.

- Out Of Nothing At All / Air Supply
- Love Me / Elvis
- Take My Breath Away / Berlin
- Hungry Eyes / Eric Carmen
- Every Beat Of My Heart / Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Wonderland By Night / Bert Kaempfert
- Release Me / Little Esther Phillips
- Puppy Love / Paul Anka
- Let The Little Girl Dance / Billy Bland
- Just Like Jesse James / Cher
 
And another 10 song sample - less 80s in this one...

- Superstar / The Carpenters
- Pied Piper / Crispian St Peters
- Groovy Kind Of Love / Mindbenders
- Garden Party / Rick Nelson
- Bernadette / The Four Tops
- The Tracks Of My Tears / Johnny Rivers
- You Send Me / Sam Cooke
- Upside Down / Diana Ross
- Something's Burning / Kenny Rogers
- Still The One / Orleans
 
You got it ! Must still be playing the same TM CENTURY gold discs on shuffle. Weather forecast is for this afternoon, at 10pm. Same generic "All Oldies All The Time" liners, etc. News reports with stolen garden decorations from Backwoods Township. Yet, I keep listening. Waiting to see though if they still cut the transmitter off at midnight right in the middle of a song. And I do remember their all request format - wasn't it around 1992 or so? You would hear Nirvana into Vanilla Ice followed by The Eagles and then maybe something from the 1950s. Anyone know more on the history of this station or who owns it ?
 
I'd like to know if Commander Inbound is still doing mornings. (And, more importantly, if they ever hired a Commander
Outbound for afternoons.)

C.
 
Used to call these train wrecks Top 40 kinda like KQV. You could hear the Carpenters , the Stones, Roy Orbison, the Four Tops, and Marty Robbins back to back. Worked for me back then. ;D
 
Yep, Roger has always been the owner. I think the station popped up in 1991 or so. It is truly a mom & pop business. Since the longtime Somerset station (WVSC) is now a K-Love and the Central City station is a canned oldies format, they really are the only game locally where FM is concerned.

I worked here in sales for a week. (Sales, I discovered quickly, was not my forte.) There was a guy who used to call EVERY HOUR for "Angel" by Aerosmith. They finally limited him to once a shift.
 
What type of automation are they using? What type of studios do they have - very basic or decent for a mom and pop? The m&p I worked for in WV back in the 90s was a singlewide trailer next to the transmitter site.
 
A friend of mine was part-owner of the Grafton FM (then WQIT 100.9, now WDKL 95.9), and I helped him out with it
several times. Both the AM and FM in Grafton (separately owned at the time) were in trailers, the AM near the xmtr
site, the FM at a mobile home park.

C.
 
Jkf said:
What type of automation are they using? What type of studios do they have - very basic or decent for a mom and pop? The m&p I worked for in WV back in the 90s was a singlewide trailer next to the transmitter site.
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If I recall, the building is made of actual bricks, not a trailer. :) As for what the equipment itself is like, I haven't been there in years and have no idea if they've updated or not.
 
cingram said:
A friend of mine was part-owner of the Grafton FM (then WQIT 100.9, now WDKL 95.9), and I helped him out with it
several times. Both the AM and FM in Grafton (separately owned at the time) were in trailers, the AM near the xmtr
site, the FM at a mobile home park.

C.
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I've seen the one WV mansion for WTBZ. When I was in WV, 95.9 was one of the last remaining totally live/local FM stations during its broadcast day, before it switched over to some low budget Branson, MO 24/7 country format, and then was sold to K-Love. At one point, nearly every WW1/Dial Global, Jones, SMN/ABC network was on in the area. Often, some of these signals even duplicated the same programming.

Now, from what I was told, if you wanted to see a real primitive radio operation.... further south in Lost Creek, WV used to be a station that ran on natural gas and did NOT have indoor plumbing.
 
cingram said:
A friend of mine was part-owner of the Grafton FM (then WQIT 100.9, now WDKL 95.9), and I helped him out with it
several times. Both the AM and FM in Grafton (separately owned at the time) were in trailers, the AM near the xmtr
site, the FM at a mobile home park.

C.
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That friend didn't happen to be Bob Scharnhorst did it? I know he was involved in building it I didn't know he was part owner. We stopped by the 95.9 in Grafton a few years back and both the FM & AM were run out of a small trailer.
I remember him telling me that for a time he lived in the the trailer that housed the FM in the mobile home park.
 
xm41 said:
That friend didn't happen to be Bob Scharnhorst did it? I know he was involved in building it I didn't know he was part owner. We stopped by the 95.9 in Grafton a few years back and both the FM & AM were run out of a small trailer.
I remember him telling me that for a time he lived in the the trailer that housed the FM in the mobile home park.
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Bob was not a part-owner, but a mutual friend of ours was. The FM trailer was located at Jewell Mobile Acres just outside of
the city limits. Later, the station moved to a building in downtown Grafton, which is still there. I visited Grafton and had one
of my friends take some pictures about a year ago.

C.
 
I worked at WDCI from October 97 to June 99...It was in a trailer next to the transmitter site..It was originally put on the air about 1991 by Earl Stewart in Fairmont later bought by Coshocton(Ohio) Broadcasting in 1998..Withers(WDTV) bought it about 5 years ago and moved the studio to the TV site.

I worked at WOTR in Lost Creek in 1995 for one month..It was no longer natural gas but still no plumbing...Owner Bill Allman died in January 09..Station was bought by Steve Peters and moved to Weston.

I worked at WOBG from 89-95..First year 1990 was just 1400 AM..Got Salem 105.7 FM late in the year...Went Jones Satellite Oldies just as I left in 95...Studio were upstairs across from Weather Service....Old Beer Distributor was up the street just a little....At the time it was sort of run by requests...I was Music Director....It was somewhat of a trainwreck but not quite like WQZS as OBG was all live up until the Satellite switch.

I has always enjoyed listening to WQZS traveling I-68 East until Fredericksburg takes over 93.3...I even once had thoughts that it might be a fun place to work.
 
For those of you who refer to this kind of programming as "a train wreck", I would refer to it as "variety", something oldies radio doesn't believe in anymore. I would love to listen to a station with this type of format. Then I might not have to hear the same songs day in and day out like I do now from our former oldies, now "classic hits" station, 3WS, the home of "Piano Man" at least once a day.
 
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