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Oldies

Max 99.1 WYMX Greenwood is oldies off satellite. You can probably pick up Star 92.3 WOHT out of Grenada as well through some of the middle Delta.

I know at one point the 1330 AM in Greenville was oldies (might've been the same ABC feed as WOHT) but it may have changed formats.

There's 1450/105.7 in Clarksdale, and 106.9/1290 Batesville, too.

The Delta is full of oldies if you're north of Yazoo City.
 
We need an oldies station in the Jackson area. Even if it were on AM. A classic country would also be nice. We used to have a "Real Country" affiliate but they switched to sports.
 
1330 in Greenville is classic country. WQJQ is technically an oldies station, though not one in the sense that we think of an oldies station. WYAB used to have wide variety of oldies music before they changed to talk.
 
Q-105 does play a few oldies, but lately most of the songs are from the 70's, that is mostly Soul, R&B and Disco. They seem to like Al Green etc. I would like to hear some straight pop/rock stuff from the 60's and 70's that isn't necesarrly urban or disco. Maybe some British envasion, rock and roll etc. that was hits back in the day on WJDX or WRBC. Most of the stuff they play on Q 105 sounds more like something you'd have heard on WOKJ, WJMI or WKXI. or Jammin Oldies. they need to mix it up. play something cool. Not the same old stuff, its getting old. Actually having someone talk between the records would be nice. Running on autopilot all the time is turning into a major snooze fest.
 
flytrap said:
Q-105 does play a few oldies, but lately most of the songs are from the 70's, that is mostly Soul, R&B and Disco. They seem to like Al Green etc. I would like to hear some straight pop/rock stuff from the 60's and 70's that isn't necesarrly urban or disco. Maybe some British envasion, rock and roll etc. that was hits back in the day on WJDX or WRBC. Most of the stuff they play on Q 105 sounds more like something you'd have heard on WOKJ, WJMI or WKXI. or Jammin Oldies. they need to mix it up. play something cool. Not the same old stuff, its getting old. Actually having someone talk between the records would be nice. Running on autopilot all the time is turning into a major snooze fest.
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You had to say you wanted something different. Well now they're something different. :p
 
You had to say you wanted something different. Well now they're something different. :p
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Well, all I can say, it was differnent for a few hours, but now its just repeating the same Christmas songs over and over. Well at least I haven't heard them play "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" so that should count for something.
 
Well, I enjoyed doing real oldies on The 62 JDX Jukebox 20=yrs ago but times have changed. Q105 does a good job BUT it's more the all time hits format now encompassing some 60's and 70's with 80's. CBS-FM in NYC does about the same thing BUT plays a better variety of 60's
 
I wish Jack FM was like the old Arrow 94. Arrow played a lot of the stuff from the 70's that I grew up with. When I was north of Jackson I used to really enjoy the Greenwood station that ran the arrow type format a couple of years ago. They always seemed to have a better handle on that format than Jack ever has.
 
pobryan said:
I wish Jack FM was like the old Arrow 94. Arrow played a lot of the stuff from the 70's that I grew up with. When I was north of Jackson I used to really enjoy the Greenwood station that ran the arrow type format a couple of years ago. They always seemed to have a better handle on that format than Jack ever has.
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That was also WYMX, who back then was "Bob FM".
 
pobryan said:
Yeah, I really liked Bob FM. Now they new how to execute the format! I can't understand why they changed it.
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No idea. Guess it didn't sell. One thing that I was always curious about was where Telesouth got the talent for the Bob incarnation. Unlike the jukebox nature of the Jacks of this world, there were occasional voices on the air. But they all sounded like high school students, very disinterested ones at that.

Did they have some deal with one of the local schools or MVSU?
 
didradio said:
Well, I enjoyed doing real oldies on The 62 JDX Jukebox 20=yrs ago but times have changed. Q105 does a good job BUT it's more the all time hits format now encompassing some 60's and 70's with 80's. CBS-FM in NYC does about the same thing BUT plays a better variety of 60's
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If you're who I think you are, you need to get back on the radio. I used to listen to the JDX jukebox religously back in the 80's. I still have an old JDX coffee mug that I got from a remote at the old Electronics and record store that was across from Metrocenter. I think it was Generations or something like that. Its Picadilly now.
 
Zack the Bob FM format came from Waitt which is now Dial Global.

The music was on HD and Waitt VT'd it remotely.
This is the same set up at on WQLJ in Oxford and I think Kicks 98 in Central MS.
 
Yeah, Kicks 98 does use that set up as well as, if I'm not mistaken, Breezy 101 in Kosciusko (coowened with Kicks 98) and Kix 92 over in Cleveland. Speaking just for Kicks 98, it's a decent setup for a small town station - actually sounds better than some of the bigger stations in my opinion.
 
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