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Q102!! WOW!!

I think it just proves how much backwards radio is, and instead of encouraging young people to take interest in the radio industry they just drive them away from it.

Its no wonder fewer and fewer people under 30yrs old look to get into radio business.
 
It's as if they've forgotten what it was like to be a young teenager enthused about radio and formats. Apparently only the elitists already in the biz are allowed to rumor and speculate.

On another note, to correct something I said earlier in this thread......

keys2 said:
I still remember back in about 1970 when there were rumors that MOR 1530 WCKY was going to switch to Top 40 and use its 50,000 watts to go up against WSAI. Instead, they went beautiful music...."The Music of Your Life." What a disappointment. But it was fun to speculate and anticipate.
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When WCKY went beautiful music in 1970 the slogan was "Music beautiful to turn to," not "The music of your life" which of course came along in the 80s as a nostalgia format. Brain cramp. Anyway, I was really disappointed to hear elevator music on 1530 when even the radio-TV reporter for the Enquirer at the time (Steve Hoffman??) was reporting a switch to Top 40. I still have the article tucked away in a box in the basement somewhere.
 
Wait, Beautiful Music was their sister station, WWEZ, (with Mike Davidson)when WLQA was EZ's competitor. WCKY was "Words and Music". Growing up and being forced to listen to WCKY (I hated it then but would love to hear it today) Wirt Cain, Bob Jones, Joe Lomas and others.

BTW...does anyone else have WLQA Christmas music reels???? :)
 
Toddy-0 said:
Wait, Beautiful Music was their sister station, WWEZ, (with Mike Davidson)when WLQA was EZ's competitor. WCKY was "Words and Music". Growing up and being forced to listen to WCKY (I hated it then but would love to hear it today) Wirt Cain, Bob Jones, Joe Lomas and others.
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I remember the "Words and Music" phase too. But they were in fact "Music beautiful to turn to" for at least a couple of years. WCKY picked up 92.5 WZIP-FM..... which had been paired with country WZIP-AM 1050.....and changed it to easy listening WWEZ. Not exactly sure when that happened. Early 70s I think. That may be when they abandoned the easy listening on the AM.
 
Like Keys, I too remember WCKY as using "Music, Beautiful to Turn To", when they made the switch, which I believe was in July of 1970. Dave Howe stayed with the station until moving over to WEBN in early 1971 to replace Denton Marr, Dick Cousins bailed out of the "beautiful music" format early when he jumped to WKRC in the early fall of 1970. Even when Nick Clooney joined WCKY in September or October of 1972, they were still using the phrase. Seems they probably used the phrase up until at least 1974, when Wirt Cain and Bob Jones joined the station
 
WCKY went talk around 1981. I think Dick Norman did afternoons at the time. I think they were all news in the mornings.
 
Yes, Don Herman and others doing the news. I think there was the merry-go-round of talk hosts, McMurray, Norman, Norman Mark, Marilyn Harris, etc. and then the addition of Rush at noon.
 
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