Oldies are back in Duuuval

[TommyR]

WZNZ (AM 1600) is running the True Oldies Channel on nights and weekends. It's a whole new station called The Beach. Specifically...

6a-4p America's Radio News (with Florida News Network)
4-6p Miller on Sports
6p-6a True Oldies

Weekends, it appears to be all music, except for one NASCAR race I heard Saturday afternoon.

I'm really digging the music, even if one audio channel is currently being lost somewhere on stereo tracks. I trust that will be fixed ASAP, as it's quite noticeable.

 

[nfladxer]

WZNZ (AM 1600) is running the True Oldies Channel on nights and weekends. It's a whole new station called The Beach. Specifically...

6a-4p America's Radio News (with Florida News Network)
4-6p Miller on Sports
6p-6a True Oldies

Weekends, it appears to be all music, except for one NASCAR race I heard Saturday afternoon.

I'm really digging the music, even if one audio channel is currently being lost somewhere on stereo tracks. I trust that will be fixed ASAP, as it's quite noticeable.

This is fine if you live close to the AM 1600 transmitter near the intracoastal areas and at the Jax beaches. Their signal is quite limited, especially as you get further inland into the city, and anywhere west of the St. Johns. And as far as the AM 1600 nighttime signal, it's very low power, pretty much the beaches area only. It's a good step, but a city the size of Jacksonville deserves a 24/7 Oldies/Classic Hits format, and on FM in glorious stereo! The funny thing is, the Daytona area has a couple of nostalgia type music formats on AM, and they're a much smaller market. The audio on both of these AM stations actually sounds quite good, better than most of the Jax AM's. Ironically, they can be picked up quite well in the daytime at only one place in greater Jacksonville - at the beaches! (Because of the much better groundwave conductivity near the ocean)!

 

[N1WVQ]

So Jax is down to what? 25 religious stations? :

Good for 1600 for running oldies. Now if it can add C-QUAM stereo!

 

[nfladxer]

So Jax is down to what? 25 religious stations? :

Good for 1600 for running oldies. Now if it can add C-QUAM stereo!

LOL! Funny you commented on AM 1600 adding C-QUAM AM Stereo. Back in the '80's, after Y-103 (WIVY-FM) Morning Show host Jack Diamond left that station, (now Washington DC WRQX Morning Personality), he purchased AM 1600, and installed C-QUAM, and it sounded great! I remember listening on my Sony SRF-A100 which decoded all four AM stereo systems in use at the time. Sony designed this into that model because the AM stereo manufacturers had gotten into a lengthy legal battle to get official FCC approval. Eventually the FCC let the marketplace decide the winner, but, unfortunately, by the time C-QUAM emerged as the leader, most popular music formats had moved to FM, with more consistent FM Stereo coverage day and night. The result - the general public and the automakers had pretty much lost interest in AM Stereo!

 

[N1WVQ]

WOW! I wonder if they still have the exciter.

I didn't know about A.M. stereo until about 1993 when @ age 14 I read that the F.C.C. finally approved a system. I went to Flagler from 1997-2000 & by then the only C-QuAM was on WKLN/1170. It's a sad tale, the one of A.M. stereo. But I appreciate the background on 1600 being stereo!!! That was a fun read!

 

[TommyR]

WZNZ appears to have already dropped America's Radio News. Now it's True Oldies around the clock except for Miller on Sports, weekdays 4-6pm and something called Kelly's Cafe on Hump Day, Wednesdays at noon.