"TalkRadio 850 WPTF" (WPTK) is no more, its shows either canceled or moved onto "NewsRadio 680 WPTF". Replacing the talk format is a standards-type format called "Just Right Radio". The format is also on FM 104.7 in both Raleigh (W284CP) and Youngsville (W284CD). The two translators are fed from WQDR's HD-2 channel (they simulcast WPTF on their HD-3). The music is pretty broad--similar to the brief return of AM 850 to WKIX "Channel 85" before the talk format or WCHL's "Hall of Fame" music from a decade and a half ago. Some of the music library is also common to classic hits sister station WKIX-FM "Kix 102.9".
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Sounds like a positive development. I never though having two stations called WPTF was a good idea anyway.
Assuming my local station got their problems fixed, I have never stopped having good music. I'm out of buttons on my radio but I'd like to try this again. It sounded good before.
Assuming my local station got their problems fixed, I have never stopped having good music. I'm out of buttons on my radio but I'd like to try this again. It sounded good before.
http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/on-the-beat-blog/article32930688.html
In a story about the format change in the Raleigh News and Observer, Don Curtis hinted at another possible format change--this one for comedy-formatted AM 570 WFNL. A bluegrass format is reportedly one of the possibilities.
In a story about the format change in the Raleigh News and Observer, Don Curtis hinted at another possible format change--this one for comedy-formatted AM 570 WFNL. A bluegrass format is reportedly one of the possibilities.
Well, they tried that already.
If I lived in the area I would want just regular classic country. I don't think anyone but WPAQ in Mount Airy and maybe a few other stations in the mountains could make bluegrass work.
If I lived in the area I would want just regular classic country. I don't think anyone but WPAQ in Mount Airy and maybe a few other stations in the mountains could make bluegrass work.
Actually, now that I've read the article I see the format wasn't a flop, but an experiment.
I have a serious interference problem, but when I arrived at my destination just after I remembered that I could listen (and heard nothing but buzzing on AM anywhere), I could listen just briefly. "Devil or Angel" is one of those songs it seems like only standards stations play these days. I saw no point in wasting gas or the battery so I just went inside.
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