Another anomaly is one that I pick up often at night - CHRB-1140 High River AB. It's evolved from country to full service to Christian programming with a little country. But what little country music they air is usually classics. It's the CCM playlist that amazes me...it's like listening to K-LOVE when they first started. Tons of old DC Talk, early Newsboys, Point of Grace, Avalon, Michael W. Smith, Kathy Troccoli - Christian music and artists that stations like Positive Life Radio, SOS, and K-LOVE won't dare to play nowadays. Also a lot of Canadian Christian artists and even some choirs (Maranatha, etc.)
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Radio stations that are "chestnuts"/anomalies
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Well...welcome me to the club. I play a little bit of everything myself. For those who have checked me out already, you may already know about that one. For those that haven't visit: wpjb.org or type wpjb-lp in the search engine on Live 365. My mix of music covers many different styles, singers, years and genres. I also play "Those Forgotten Classics", that many no longer are playing. And yes...I even play singers and songwriters that most radio stations won't even touch. I dance to the beat of my own drummer and that's how I intend to keep it for years to come.
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Another anomaly that I recently found...WWIS 1260 (translator 105.3) Black River Falls WI. They call themselves 'The Hill'. The music mix, supposedly adult contemporary, mixes that and a whole lot more. There are '60s MOR-type songs by Burl Ives and Andy Williams in the playlist, mixed with crossover country, yacht rock, and a wide playlist of adult contemporary classics from the '70s to the '10s. Heard Hall & Oates 'Don't Hold Back Your Love' today, Burl Ives 'Funny Way of Laughing', Diamond Rio 'One More Day' and a whole lot more. Plenty of local advertising, and Weatherology forecasts every 30 minutes. Serves a small town of 3,000 (BRF) and a county of just 21,000 in west central Wisconsin.
I wish WEVR River Falls was streaming - wonder what they sound like. Completely local too.
I wish WEVR River Falls was streaming - wonder what they sound like. Completely local too.
Here’s the link to their stream:
Very interesting.Here’s the link to their stream:
So far, I've heard something that sounded like Belinda Carlisle (don't know the song), Herman's Hermits (Silhouettes), Christopher Cross (Ride Like The Wind), and Tony Orlando & Dawn (Knock Three Times) mixed in with a bunch of newer sounding stuff I don't recognize. It reminds somewhat me of the mix I've developed for my Part 15 station, in that the variety is wide, and the segues from old to new and back are rather extreme (like, a 60 year difference in some cases).
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They and KMGK Glenwood are becoming some of my favorite stations to stream. Sure, it won't resonate with the average Joe listener who wants to hear The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, and a little Michael Jackson. But we should enjoy these 'chestnuts' of giant playlists before EMF/K-LOVE swoops in and gives them an offer they can't refuse to sell the station(s) off. It's inevitable given that the owners are getting into retirement age (and even older than that).
Last night KMGK had 'Woman in Chains', the duet with Tears for Fears and Oleta Adams (who used to live in Yakima), also 'Time Out of Mind' by Steely Dan and the usual TV themes at the bottom of the hour before the weather. A truly unique radio station. I believe I have heard at least 15 TV theme songs on that station, ranging from an extended cut of Seinfeld, to Sea Hunt, even The Newlywed Game...
Last night KMGK had 'Woman in Chains', the duet with Tears for Fears and Oleta Adams (who used to live in Yakima), also 'Time Out of Mind' by Steely Dan and the usual TV themes at the bottom of the hour before the weather. A truly unique radio station. I believe I have heard at least 15 TV theme songs on that station, ranging from an extended cut of Seinfeld, to Sea Hunt, even The Newlywed Game...
I've been listening to WEMP for awhile, and I like it. Along with KAHM and WHLC, it's the closest thing I've found to traditional easy listening that still broadcasts over the air (i.e. they're not Internet-only). WHLC has WAY too many ads, though. Like, an easy five minutes of them every two songs or so.
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IIRC in the 1990s somewhere north of Chicago there was an AM station that played a bunch of Polka. It was rumored that it was a large local billler. Is it still around?
Maybe "Joy 1340" WJOI in Milwaukee? Polka was never its main format -- it's been through everything from Classic Country to Heavy Metal -- but its brokered programming on weekends still includes Polka music.
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I'm glad someone mentioned 98.9 WEMP, because if no one else mentioned it I was going to.
WLEN 103.9 FM in Adrian, MI is my contribution to the list. Huge playlist of hits from the '80s to now during the week, from early '80s soft AC hits from the likes of Barry Manilow and Anne Murray to songs currently climbing the Hot AC charts. Local artists too, some so obscure even Shazam can't identify them. Fridays, however, are my favorite time to listen - "Friday Flashbacks" feature a big playlist of oldies from 1954-1989. Here's a playlist from a recent edition:
Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Beatles - Revolution
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him?
Tom Jones - Without Love (There Is Nothing)
Eric Carmen - Change of Heart (this was before his passing)
Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song
Honey Cone - Want Ads
Peter Cetera & Amy Grant - The Next Time I Fall
CCR - Hey Tonight
Skip & Flip - Cherry Pie
Temptations - The Way You Do the Things You Do
First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - Bad to Me
Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
Chic - Good Times
Johnny Mathis - Gina
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Adam Wade - Take Good Care of Her
Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard - Suddenly
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses
Ronnie Dove - Right or Wrong
Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
Bobby Rydell - The Cha-Cha-Cha
Frankie Avalon - Venus (the disco remake from 1976!)
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Irene Cara - Anyone Can See
America - Lonely People
Freddy Fender - Since I Met You Baby
Beatles & Billy Preston - Get Back
Edward Bear - You, Me and Mexico
Neil Diamond - Hello Again
Van Morrison - Moondance
Jerry Butler - He Will Break Your Heart
WLEN 103.9 FM in Adrian, MI is my contribution to the list. Huge playlist of hits from the '80s to now during the week, from early '80s soft AC hits from the likes of Barry Manilow and Anne Murray to songs currently climbing the Hot AC charts. Local artists too, some so obscure even Shazam can't identify them. Fridays, however, are my favorite time to listen - "Friday Flashbacks" feature a big playlist of oldies from 1954-1989. Here's a playlist from a recent edition:
Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Beatles - Revolution
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him?
Tom Jones - Without Love (There Is Nothing)
Eric Carmen - Change of Heart (this was before his passing)
Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song
Honey Cone - Want Ads
Peter Cetera & Amy Grant - The Next Time I Fall
CCR - Hey Tonight
Skip & Flip - Cherry Pie
Temptations - The Way You Do the Things You Do
First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - Bad to Me
Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
Chic - Good Times
Johnny Mathis - Gina
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Adam Wade - Take Good Care of Her
Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard - Suddenly
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses
Ronnie Dove - Right or Wrong
Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
Bobby Rydell - The Cha-Cha-Cha
Frankie Avalon - Venus (the disco remake from 1976!)
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Irene Cara - Anyone Can See
America - Lonely People
Freddy Fender - Since I Met You Baby
Beatles & Billy Preston - Get Back
Edward Bear - You, Me and Mexico
Neil Diamond - Hello Again
Van Morrison - Moondance
Jerry Butler - He Will Break Your Heart
It was WOPA in Chicago inner suburb Oak Park. It covered the very Polish areas of the time like Cicero.
Interestingly, we do have an all-polka radio station here in mid-Michigan, and it's a high-school station. 91.3 WOES "The Polka Palace" broadcasts from Ovid/Elsie (not far from Lansing, though their signal doesn't reach Lansing), and they do stream.
The station David mentions is I assume the later WPNA (and currently WEUR), not the regional-Mexican WOPA at 1200 AM in the early '90s that is now WRTO. The current WEUR has a lot of Polish language programming but I can't say how much if any of it is polka. I don't know Polish, but from the program listing on their website, a lot of it seems to be religious.
My late grandfather, who was of Croatian descent, loved polka music and used to stream WPNA often from his home north of Detroit.
My late grandfather, who was of Croatian descent, loved polka music and used to stream WPNA often from his home north of Detroit.
I am talking about the (former) Class IV WOPA on 1490 back in the 50'sa nd 60's.
There is a new SDR in Minneapolis now that enables us to hear the unique and one-of-a-kind sound of WEVR-AM River Falls WI. The AM reception is really good, and I listened to WEVR a little this morning, but there was heavy interference from KESJ St. Joseph MO at times. I heard plenty of local ads, "Stone Love" by The Commodores, "Only Love Remains" by Paul McCartney, some easy-listening song that I didn't recognize, "The One You Love" Glenn Frey, and more...it seems like the music mix is mostly 1970s and 1980s adult contemporary and even instrumentals. I haven't heard anything recent.
If only we could get the FM signal online, which I think is a simulcast.
If only we could get the FM signal online, which I think is a simulcast.
South Florida's Revolution 93.5 is a real gem. It's one of the few Dance radio stations. It is on 4 stations, sort of. Mainly W228BY translator for WMIA-hd2 in Miami/Fort Lauderdale. WZFL 93.5, Islemorada in the Keys. WBGF 93.5, Belle Glade providing very marginal coverage in northern Palm Beach County.
They have a lot of locally originated shows.
They have a lot of locally originated shows.
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