New Calls

IamDumbRadioGuy · Dec 2, 2006

I'm pretty sure I heard WJOX Northport, WSPZ Birmingham. Citadel is out of their minds. Are they going to hire someone to be on at night given the "new and improved" signal available to them. This just means we get to hear Herb Winches babble more, although not in stereo. Drive a heritage rock station into the ground in less than a year. Good work. At least it took Cox a little longer to do that with ZZK. I heard ZRR playing Counting Crows, so maybe they'll try to fill the void. Nothing like Skynrd to Train. Can't be all things to all people, even by default, not anymore. The lack of a talent pool is starting to show itself. BTW, congrats to Tommy Chuck on his promotion to the P.D. chair at 'FLZ.

Kent · Dec 2, 2006

Your ears were not deceiving you. A quick check of the FCC database shows WRAX became WJOX while WJOX became WSPZ yesterday. The WRAX calls are available. What I'm wondering is what this means for 690?

passtheword · Dec 2, 2006

Kent said:
Your ears were not deceiving you. A quick check of the FCC database shows WRAX became WJOX while WJOX became WSPZ yesterday. The WRAX calls are available. What I'm wondering is what this means for 690?

From the looks of the calls (WSPZ), 690 may continue programming sports. Ironically, the WSPZ calls used to be on AM 1150 in Tuscaloosa (which used to be sports also), and is now owned by Citadel.

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clichemoth · Dec 2, 2006

IamDumbRadioGuy said:
I'm pretty sure I heard WJOX Northport, WSPZ Birmingham. Citadel is out of their minds. Are they going to hire someone to be on at night given the "new and improved" signal available to them. This just means we get to hear Herb Winches babble more, although not in stereo. Drive a heritage rock station into the ground in less than a year. Good work. At least it took Cox a little longer to do that with ZZK. I heard ZRR playing Counting Crows, so maybe they'll try to fill the void. Nothing like Skynrd to Train. Can't be all things to all people, even by default, not anymore. The lack of a talent pool is starting to show itself. BTW, congrats to Tommy Chuck on his promotion to the P.D. chair at 'FLZ.

Skynyrd to Train? What about Stone Temple Pilots "Plush" to Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight"? That was an actual segue from Rock 99.5 yesterday. They're trying, at least.

And they changed the calls already? Looks like sports might be permanent. But why'd they do this now when Bama's season is over and NASCAR doesn't resume for another three months? 690's share drops like a rock this time of year. They should have done this in September to get it off to a good start.

Maybe the different calls for 690 indicate a different sports format...perhaps they'll just run straight ESPN off the bird. I'd be more likely to listen to that than I would the local stuff, that's for sure.

Nate Wesley · Dec 3, 2006

That's interesting about the WJOX calls moving to 100.5, and 690 getting WSPZ. I figured they'd go the WJOX/WJOX-FM route, or leave the WRAX calls as is.

Charles1 · Dec 7, 2006

I wonder if the choice of WSPZ as 690's new call letters give us a clue as to what's going to happen: "SP"---as in ESPN Radio 24/7.

clichemoth · Dec 8, 2006

Charles1 said:
I wonder if the choice of WSPZ as 690's new call letters give us a clue as to what's going to happen: "SP"---as in ESPN Radio 24/7.

They're the same calls Apex used for their standards station on 1150 in Tuscaloosa, so that's always a possibility as well. 1260 beat them to that format, though, so perhaps they will stand for ESPN,

passtheword · Dec 8, 2006

Charles1 said:
I wonder if the choice of WSPZ as 690's new call letters give us a clue as to what's going to happen: "SP"---as in ESPN Radio 24/7.

690 will probably stay sports. "SPZ" more than likely stands for "sports"

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