That didn't work out too well. Amway bought Mutual, then WCFL (for $12 million) in 1978, then discovered Mutual execs had no clue how to run a radio station instead of a network. It was sold five years later for $8 million, a $4 million loss. But the network did get Jim Bohannon in the deal.
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I've neglected to mention almost every small Ohio station carried Ed Johnson's Agri-Broadcasting Network. There was also SportsOhio and The Ohio News Network (but not the TV network of the same name).
Indiana had Harry Martin's Rural Radio Network and there was another farm network whose name escapes me.
Indiana had Harry Martin's Rural Radio Network and there was another farm network whose name escapes me.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I didn't move around as a kid (and have barely moved since; I live less than an hour from the hospital I was born in).
Oxnard-Ventura CA was my hometown market. It's the next market north of L.A.
Prior to the ABC 4-way split, the only station with a network affiliation was KVEN/1450 (Mutual). When they took the new ABC Entertainment Network, Mutual went first to 1590/KBBQ and then (when they switched to NBC, with co-owned KBBY/95.1 running The Source) to 104.7/KPMJ, which had briefly run the ABC FM network.
ABC Contemporary was on 1520/KACY and Information was on 1400/KAAP.
Mutual went missing after KPMJ had an ownership change, ABC/I similarly disappeared for the same reason, and ABC/C was tossed aside when 1520 went Spanish language. NBC stayed on 1590 until they, too, had a change in format. Mutual resurfaced on 1400 after a second change of ownership. ABC/E stayed on 1450 through their years as a news/talk station and then went away.
We never had a CBS affiliate because the network didn't want to share it (they owned 50,000 watt KNX in Los Angeles, which came in to Ventura like a local).
Oxnard-Ventura CA was my hometown market. It's the next market north of L.A.
Prior to the ABC 4-way split, the only station with a network affiliation was KVEN/1450 (Mutual). When they took the new ABC Entertainment Network, Mutual went first to 1590/KBBQ and then (when they switched to NBC, with co-owned KBBY/95.1 running The Source) to 104.7/KPMJ, which had briefly run the ABC FM network.
ABC Contemporary was on 1520/KACY and Information was on 1400/KAAP.
Mutual went missing after KPMJ had an ownership change, ABC/I similarly disappeared for the same reason, and ABC/C was tossed aside when 1520 went Spanish language. NBC stayed on 1590 until they, too, had a change in format. Mutual resurfaced on 1400 after a second change of ownership. ABC/E stayed on 1450 through their years as a news/talk station and then went away.
We never had a CBS affiliate because the network didn't want to share it (they owned 50,000 watt KNX in Los Angeles, which came in to Ventura like a local).
JeeperOne
Banned
Back in the days of Old Time Radio in Denver (Which was before I was born 
lol)....
KLZ 560 was CBS (Now a MAGA talker)
KIVOD 630 was ABC (Still is as KHOW who BTW spent time as a Mutual affiliate)
KOA 850 was NBC (It later became a CBS affiliate, now with Fox News)
KFEL 950 was Mutual (Later became KIMN & then became an ABC affiliate, now KKSE-AM (The AM side of KKSE 92.5))
Sometime in the 1960s, KOA-FM 103.5 (Later KOAQ, now KRFX) took over the CBS affiliation after KLZ dropped it in favor of local shows & music while NBC remained on 850 until KDEN 1340 signed on & took the NBC affiliation
KOA was also among the 50,000 blowtorches that carried the CBS Rado Mystery Theater throughout its run while KHOW was among the Mutual affiliates who carried The Larry King Show & later Coast To Coast With Art Bell as KIMN by then had long since dropped the network to become the Top 40 legend it became (Though it did carry ABC for national news on an AS NEEDED basis)
That['s the report from here
lol)....KLZ 560 was CBS (Now a MAGA talker)
KIVOD 630 was ABC (Still is as KHOW who BTW spent time as a Mutual affiliate)
KOA 850 was NBC (It later became a CBS affiliate, now with Fox News)
KFEL 950 was Mutual (Later became KIMN & then became an ABC affiliate, now KKSE-AM (The AM side of KKSE 92.5))
Sometime in the 1960s, KOA-FM 103.5 (Later KOAQ, now KRFX) took over the CBS affiliation after KLZ dropped it in favor of local shows & music while NBC remained on 850 until KDEN 1340 signed on & took the NBC affiliation
KOA was also among the 50,000 blowtorches that carried the CBS Rado Mystery Theater throughout its run while KHOW was among the Mutual affiliates who carried The Larry King Show & later Coast To Coast With Art Bell as KIMN by then had long since dropped the network to become the Top 40 legend it became (Though it did carry ABC for national news on an AS NEEDED basis)
That['s the report from here
JeeperOne
Banned
Why do I get the feeling that Ruth Lyons' 50-50 Club was a TV show on WLW-TV which was simply simulcast on radio?? I ask & wonder because NBC wasn't programming anything in the 1:30 PM timeslot due to its inability to compete against As The World Turns (Which of course was on then-CBS affiliate WCPO 9 in Cincinnati) & I kinda doubt NBC programmed the 1:00 PM timeslot either (Instead letting affiliates do what they choose with that timeslot as well)
And if you listen, WLW was in the middle of a music program when the on-air personality broke the news, They then alternated between the music program & breaking news developments before joining NBC for good at 2:00 PM with Peter Hackess anchoring that newscast
Actually, KHOW and KOA, both under the iHeart umbrella, are currently ABC affiliates. During most weekday hours, they run iHeart's own localized news service - 2 minutes at the top and bottom of the hour for KOA; slightly longer newscasts on KHOW. You may be thinking of the partnership those stations have withBack in the days of Old Time Radio in Denver (Which was before I was born
KLZ 560 was CBS (Now a MAGA talker)
KIVOD 630 was ABC (Still is as KHOW who BTW spent time as a Mutual affiliate)
KOA 850 was NBC (It later became a CBS affiliate, now with Fox News)
KFEL 950 was Mutual (Later became KIMN & then became an ABC affiliate, now KKSE-AM (The AM side of KKSE 92.5))
iHeart's KDFD ("Freedom") does carry Fox News, which is probably too left-wing for some KDFD listeners.
Charleston, SC has changed a lot from what I remember. 1250 WTMA (our major news talk) was NBC in the early 90s, but later went to CBS in the late 90s. Eventually in the 2000s they went to ABC. Whatever news network they felt was strongest at the time they went to. Now they’re back to ABC after running Cumulus’s service for however long it lasted.
WQSC 1340 had the ABCi affiliation, dating back to the end of its WOKE days. Then they went sports, and didn’t run network news. WSCC 730 took the ABC information affiliation and Paul Harvey when they flipped to news/talk in 1999. They ran CBS for a long time when they were oldies and when they had a talk format in the late 2000s and 2010s.
WEZL 103.5, the heritage country station had Mutual when that network still existed. WSCC 94.3 has been Fox as long as they’ve been on. They started as ABC before the Clear Channel Fox mandate around ‘05.
The AMs I’d get from other markets, WBMQ 630 Savannah (now off the air) was heritage CBS going back a couple decades. WOKV 690 was Fox, but before Fox started it was ABC and CBS before that.
WQSC 1340 had the ABCi affiliation, dating back to the end of its WOKE days. Then they went sports, and didn’t run network news. WSCC 730 took the ABC information affiliation and Paul Harvey when they flipped to news/talk in 1999. They ran CBS for a long time when they were oldies and when they had a talk format in the late 2000s and 2010s.
WEZL 103.5, the heritage country station had Mutual when that network still existed. WSCC 94.3 has been Fox as long as they’ve been on. They started as ABC before the Clear Channel Fox mandate around ‘05.
The AMs I’d get from other markets, WBMQ 630 Savannah (now off the air) was heritage CBS going back a couple decades. WOKV 690 was Fox, but before Fox started it was ABC and CBS before that.
Memphis in the 1970s
WREC— CBS carried the whole lineup including the great CBS Mystery Theater, usually at 10 pm
WMC— NBC even when they went country, they continued to carry NBC News hourly and the other short features.
WWEE-ABC Information.
The paper still listed KWAM as Mutual, but they were paid religion with some music in between preachers, white gospel before 2 pm and black gospel afterwards. I don’t remember ever hearing Mutual programs in the 1970s. By the end of the decade WREC aired Larry King and Mutual news at the bottom of the hour
I believe WLYX-FM carried some ABC FM news. They were a non commercial college station so not sure how what the financial part was as they couldn’t clear spots.
WREC— CBS carried the whole lineup including the great CBS Mystery Theater, usually at 10 pm
WMC— NBC even when they went country, they continued to carry NBC News hourly and the other short features.
WWEE-ABC Information.
The paper still listed KWAM as Mutual, but they were paid religion with some music in between preachers, white gospel before 2 pm and black gospel afterwards. I don’t remember ever hearing Mutual programs in the 1970s. By the end of the decade WREC aired Larry King and Mutual news at the bottom of the hour
I believe WLYX-FM carried some ABC FM news. They were a non commercial college station so not sure how what the financial part was as they couldn’t clear spots.
I didn't know WQSC carried ABC/I even after it flipped from WOKE.
I think half the AMs in Charleston had a go at Paul Harvey at some point or another. I know WCSC 1390 had him for a while as well, along with ABC/E newscasts.
That is correct, both Ruth Lyons' and Bob Braun-hosted 50-50 Club was a TV show, originating at WLWT, Cincinnati, and simulcast on WLW radio. The simulcast lasted through the early 80s as I recall. The 50-50 Club was also seen on WLWD,Dayton; WLWC, Columbus, WLWI, Indianapolis and I think also Atlanta.
Cincinnati and WLWT was a hub for regional TV shows such as the Paul Dixon Show, Midwestern Hayride and several others. Phil Donahue also got his start on the network, but originating from WLWD, Dayton before he inked a deal to move it to Chicago for wider distribution.
Yes, after running a delayed 1pm NBC network newscast at 1:30, WLW started the Lil Abner Suite (or whatever) which was interruped by the first bulletins.A fun fact is that the Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund still exists.
WOKE was the long-standing CBS affiliate but even they switched networks several times. IIRC it was even on their building which was unrenovated for several years after they signed off and moved in 1994. I remember seeing it as a kid.
At least on this from 1981, they carried CBS and all the features that came with the network. Including long-form sports and mystery theater.
Lexington Ky in the 1960s/70s:
WVLK 590 CBS
WLAP 630 (and 94.5 FM) NBC
WBLG 1300 ABC/I
WAXU 1580 Mutual (COL Georgetown but was aimed at the Lexington market)
WLEX FM 98.1 ABC FM (ABC news at :15 and unusual as their sister TV station, WLEX 18 was an NBC affiliate) (now country powerhouse WBUL)
August 1971:
A three-way network swap between the Lexington AMs resulted in this:
WVLK 590 ABC/I (Now FOX radio)
WLAP 630 ( and 94.5 FM) CBS (now ABC with NBC features)
WBLG 1300 NBC (now WLXG ESPN radio)
WAXU and WLEX FM were not affected
Louisville in the 60s/70s:
WTMT 620 Mutual (now the home of the current WAKY AM)
WAKY 790 no affiliation for years (Later in the 70s, WAKY picked up ABC/I they carried Paul Harvey for years)
WHAS 840 CBS
WAVE 970 NBC
WKLO no affiliation
WINN 1240 ABC
WLOU 1350 no affiliation
Louisville 1984:
WTMT 620 not sure (Now WAKY with Fox news)
WAKY 790 Mutual ( during their oldies run)(now WKRD with Fox Sports radio)
WHAS 840 ABC/I ( In 1984, WHAS dropped their longtime affiliation with CBS, taking ABC away from WAKY, including Paul Harvey. Apparently during the morning and afternoon drive, WHAS chose to air their own award winning local newscasts at the TOH. CBS didn't like the pre-emptions and ABC was a little more forgiving.)(Now ABC)
WAVG 970 NBC (now Salem WGTK)
WCII 1080 CBS ( now WKJK Fox)
WINN 1240 Not sure
WLOU not sure
WVLK 590 CBS
WLAP 630 (and 94.5 FM) NBC
WBLG 1300 ABC/I
WAXU 1580 Mutual (COL Georgetown but was aimed at the Lexington market)
WLEX FM 98.1 ABC FM (ABC news at :15 and unusual as their sister TV station, WLEX 18 was an NBC affiliate) (now country powerhouse WBUL)
August 1971:
A three-way network swap between the Lexington AMs resulted in this:
WVLK 590 ABC/I (Now FOX radio)
WLAP 630 ( and 94.5 FM) CBS (now ABC with NBC features)
WBLG 1300 NBC (now WLXG ESPN radio)
WAXU and WLEX FM were not affected
Louisville in the 60s/70s:
WTMT 620 Mutual (now the home of the current WAKY AM)
WAKY 790 no affiliation for years (Later in the 70s, WAKY picked up ABC/I they carried Paul Harvey for years)
WHAS 840 CBS
WAVE 970 NBC
WKLO no affiliation
WINN 1240 ABC
WLOU 1350 no affiliation
Louisville 1984:
WTMT 620 not sure (Now WAKY with Fox news)
WAKY 790 Mutual ( during their oldies run)(now WKRD with Fox Sports radio)
WHAS 840 ABC/I ( In 1984, WHAS dropped their longtime affiliation with CBS, taking ABC away from WAKY, including Paul Harvey. Apparently during the morning and afternoon drive, WHAS chose to air their own award winning local newscasts at the TOH. CBS didn't like the pre-emptions and ABC was a little more forgiving.)(Now ABC)
WAVG 970 NBC (now Salem WGTK)
WCII 1080 CBS ( now WKJK Fox)
WINN 1240 Not sure
WLOU not sure
Through most of the 80s, I listened to WKRC a lot, especially if I was running service in NE Kentucky.
I liked their music (AC and oldies) and personalities.
FM lost me as a " customer " in 1982 when MTV influenced FM rock and Top 40 radio, also it didn't hurt that WAKY had switched to this new format:Oldies.
So, I started listening to AM, again.
I seem to remember them running ABC/I and Paul Harvey but I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong.
Philadelphia:
CBS--WCAU and its successors from the inception of the network to fairly recent times. Became a CBS O&O in 1958.
NBC--KYW from its '30s move-in from Chicago (NBC Red) to 1965. Was an NBC O&O as WRCV 1956-65. When Westinghouse took the station all-news in September '65 NBC moved across the river to WCAM in Camden for a few months, then was picked up by WPEN. WPEN dropped NBC as part of their ill-fated frontal assault on WIP in 1969; at that time the only deal NBC could get was with classical daytimer/FM combo WFLN. That lasted all the way to the end of 1980 when the network moved to FM talker WWDB; after about a year and a half they were back on KYW, which just used the news actualities. The NBC NIS never had a clearance in Philly but was audible in parts of the market on WBUD Trenton and WILM Wilmington.
ABC/ABC Entertainment--The WFI-WLIT time share was a combo NBC Red-Blue affiliate at NBC's birth, then became just Blue when KYW moved in. They merged as WFIL a couple years later. WFIL stayed with Blue/ABC until some time after their Top 40 move in September 1966. By the spring of 1967 WKDN in Camden was advertising as an ABC affiliate; they took the Entertainment feed when the network split. changed call letters to WTMR in mid-'68 and yielded Entertainment to WPEN in October 1969. Not sure how long WPEN kept them; by the mid-'80s the Broadcasting Yearbook was listing WIP as an Entertainment station. Other Entertainment affiliates in the market in the '70s included WVCH in Chester and WIBF-FM Jenkintown.
ABC Information/Direction--WRCP-AM-FM picked up Information at a fairly early date, then ceded it to KYW in the mid-'70s. (After that, for a while WRCP was running Entertainment newscasts with PSAs in place of the network spots. No idea how that worked.) In mid-1981 KYW effectively swapped Information to WWDB in exchange for NBC and took an ABC Direction deal to keep the news cuts flowing. Since ABC news reports still show up on KYW, maybe they never gave that up.
ABC Contemporary--WHAT for a few years early on, then over to WIBG. In the mid-'80s Broadcasting showed WZGO (Z-106) as a Contemporary station.
ABC FM--WQAL had this in the beginning; when they became Schulke-formatted WWSH the network moved over to WIBF-FM in Jenkintown. As the network became more rock-oriented WIBF switched to Entertainment and WIOQ picked up FM in 1975ish. By the mid-'80s Broadcasting was listing WUSL (Power 99) as an FM affiliate.
Mutual--began with a secondary affiliation on WFIL, then moved to WIP from the mid-'40s to about 1960. After that it gets very scrambled; WPEN had a couple different stints with Mutual, at one point serving as their night affiliate while WJMJ/WRCP had the deal for daylight hours. Both Camden AMs, WCAM/WSSJ and WTMR, had Mutual at times. A deal with WWDB in the late '70s ended in bitterness when DB didn't want to carry Larry King. In the '80s Mutual news aired on short-lived daytime talker WDVT. Beyond the city limits but in the market, stations like WPAZ Pottstown and WEEZ Chester had Mutual at times.
CBS--WCAU and its successors from the inception of the network to fairly recent times. Became a CBS O&O in 1958.
NBC--KYW from its '30s move-in from Chicago (NBC Red) to 1965. Was an NBC O&O as WRCV 1956-65. When Westinghouse took the station all-news in September '65 NBC moved across the river to WCAM in Camden for a few months, then was picked up by WPEN. WPEN dropped NBC as part of their ill-fated frontal assault on WIP in 1969; at that time the only deal NBC could get was with classical daytimer/FM combo WFLN. That lasted all the way to the end of 1980 when the network moved to FM talker WWDB; after about a year and a half they were back on KYW, which just used the news actualities. The NBC NIS never had a clearance in Philly but was audible in parts of the market on WBUD Trenton and WILM Wilmington.
ABC/ABC Entertainment--The WFI-WLIT time share was a combo NBC Red-Blue affiliate at NBC's birth, then became just Blue when KYW moved in. They merged as WFIL a couple years later. WFIL stayed with Blue/ABC until some time after their Top 40 move in September 1966. By the spring of 1967 WKDN in Camden was advertising as an ABC affiliate; they took the Entertainment feed when the network split. changed call letters to WTMR in mid-'68 and yielded Entertainment to WPEN in October 1969. Not sure how long WPEN kept them; by the mid-'80s the Broadcasting Yearbook was listing WIP as an Entertainment station. Other Entertainment affiliates in the market in the '70s included WVCH in Chester and WIBF-FM Jenkintown.
ABC Information/Direction--WRCP-AM-FM picked up Information at a fairly early date, then ceded it to KYW in the mid-'70s. (After that, for a while WRCP was running Entertainment newscasts with PSAs in place of the network spots. No idea how that worked.) In mid-1981 KYW effectively swapped Information to WWDB in exchange for NBC and took an ABC Direction deal to keep the news cuts flowing. Since ABC news reports still show up on KYW, maybe they never gave that up.
ABC Contemporary--WHAT for a few years early on, then over to WIBG. In the mid-'80s Broadcasting showed WZGO (Z-106) as a Contemporary station.
ABC FM--WQAL had this in the beginning; when they became Schulke-formatted WWSH the network moved over to WIBF-FM in Jenkintown. As the network became more rock-oriented WIBF switched to Entertainment and WIOQ picked up FM in 1975ish. By the mid-'80s Broadcasting was listing WUSL (Power 99) as an FM affiliate.
Mutual--began with a secondary affiliation on WFIL, then moved to WIP from the mid-'40s to about 1960. After that it gets very scrambled; WPEN had a couple different stints with Mutual, at one point serving as their night affiliate while WJMJ/WRCP had the deal for daylight hours. Both Camden AMs, WCAM/WSSJ and WTMR, had Mutual at times. A deal with WWDB in the late '70s ended in bitterness when DB didn't want to carry Larry King. In the '80s Mutual news aired on short-lived daytime talker WDVT. Beyond the city limits but in the market, stations like WPAZ Pottstown and WEEZ Chester had Mutual at times.
Providence, RI, during the 1960s:
790 WEAN, CBS and The Yankee Network (latter based at the then WNAC, Boston; see below for more)
920 WJAR, NBC
550 WPAW -> WXTR, ABC
990 WLKW, Mutual
95.5 WBRU, ABC FM (starting in 1968)
The Yankee Network: a group of stations throughout New England which carried 10-15 minutes of news on-the-hour; flagship station was 680 WNAC, Boston, an RKO-General Station. In early 1967, WNAC discontinued The Yankee Network, in anticipation of a format and call letter change to 680 WRKO (AM), which would soon become one of Bill Drake's tightly-run music stations, much revered by boomers to this day. Alas, 680 WRKO reverted to being a talk station in 1981, and, after several ownership changes, is now "an iHeart Radio Station".
It gets worse.
Providence, RI in 2024:
790 WPRV, owned by Cumulus
920 WHJJ, owned by iHeart; carries Fox News
550 WSJW, owned by Relevant Radio
990 (deleted)
95.5 WLVO, owned by EMF; a K-Love station
790 WEAN, CBS and The Yankee Network (latter based at the then WNAC, Boston; see below for more)
920 WJAR, NBC
550 WPAW -> WXTR, ABC
990 WLKW, Mutual
95.5 WBRU, ABC FM (starting in 1968)
The Yankee Network: a group of stations throughout New England which carried 10-15 minutes of news on-the-hour; flagship station was 680 WNAC, Boston, an RKO-General Station. In early 1967, WNAC discontinued The Yankee Network, in anticipation of a format and call letter change to 680 WRKO (AM), which would soon become one of Bill Drake's tightly-run music stations, much revered by boomers to this day. Alas, 680 WRKO reverted to being a talk station in 1981, and, after several ownership changes, is now "an iHeart Radio Station".
It gets worse.
Providence, RI in 2024:
790 WPRV, owned by Cumulus
920 WHJJ, owned by iHeart; carries Fox News
550 WSJW, owned by Relevant Radio
990 (deleted)
95.5 WLVO, owned by EMF; a K-Love station
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