Personality and a wide variety of music plus local service. This from thier web site where they stream http://wsgi1100.com WSGI AM 1100 is a 1000 watt day timer featuring live DJs, who play Country, Classic Country, Classic Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm and Blues, and whatever our listeners request.We also do Swap 'n' Shop and local news and community calendar.Brad Carneal wakes up the county at 6:00 AM.Pete Pittman roars and carries on from 10 til 2.Steve Jarrell, the Daddy-O-on-the-Patio tears up the airwaves from 2:00 PM 'til 6:00 PM.
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mattthepm
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Also try WGNS AM 1450 in Murfreesboro. It runs about 60 percent satellite talk radio syndication (stuff like Neil Boortz, Clark Howard, Michael Savage, Paul Harvey's commentaries. . .), but the other 40 percent is local programming...news, weather, sports, local call in shows, etc. etc.And yes, they also do 'Swap 'N' Shop' (since 1947!).http://www.1450wgns.com (they also stream on the 'Net during local programming).They are locally owned and locally operated. A rarity these days, indeed.
WCMT out of martin does a great job with this... the AM and FM.... WCMT AM won the Crystal award for public service a year or so ago... it's good, local small market radio... they carry a "shop and swap" type show.... local news weather and sports ever hour... the FM is Lite Rock... and the AM carries Hannity, Rush, Ramsey, and the local morning show.... on the weekends the AM plays a variety of music and other programs... www.wcmt.com(check out Good times in the morning with Paul and Chris)but I prefer Conrad and Company... with Conrad and Jr. on eagle 104 the owner of wcmt also owns an oldies station, out of dresden and a country and a classic hits out of Union City...
that link is actually www.wcmt.com
WYTM 105.5 in Fayetteville is one of those little hometown stations. I've heard local high school events on their little 3kw daytime only signal from time to time. I'm not sure if they run any satellite programming or not. I see their van quite often up and down hwy 231/431 between Fayetteville and Hazel Green AL. It is really interesting to hear, one of the few remaining stations of it's kind
You can also check out WKSR-FM in Pulaski.....They have a well run local station.....As well as WDXE-FM in Lawrenceburg. Jackie and those guys do an excellent job as well. And you are right about WYTM in Fayetteville....still doing it the old fashioned way. I heard a morning long remote from June Dairy Days on the square last time I was in town. It was really fun to hear Joe Young still doing remotes...lol. Sort of makes me long for the good old days. I have worked for all three at one time or another. Fond memories.
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andrea1
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Bama, J-Rock was truly an incredible station (at times) to work at. Let me know if you ever find those tapes. We seemed to do o.k. pulling in listeners, it was just real hard getting the local funeral homes signed on as sponsors. I figured for sure they'd sign up for the Megadeath special ???.
Well, when you do bits like "The Jocelyn Elders School of Self Awareness" it's a bit hard to imagine funeral homes signing on as sponsors. But in all seriousness being able to simulcast on the Florence station was a big boost. Especially when you were able to play some local music from bands like Radio Tokyo and Witcher. Was a Hell of a lot of fun, of course until they pulled the plug....lol.
Chris Lash is doing wonders with WWON AM 930 in Waynesboro, after this heritage country station (formerly WTNR) had gone dark. He and his wife are hands-on owner-operators in every sense of the word. You get local news, good music, and personalities. They serve all of the county, instead of aspiring to serve a bigger market.
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Thanks Ken for the compliment! We work hard at it. We'll be changing our name and tweaking our format in a few weeks. Remaining country, and adding some tremendous new on air talent to compliment our local sound, as well as taking our newspaper to the next level as well. There's a name or two that Mr. Hawk will know!
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bub
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I beg your indulgence, but I'm bumping this back to the top. I tip my cap to stations like WSGI and people like Lash and KenHawk for keeping the faith in this regard.Tig1150 said:
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bub
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WCRK in Morristown sounds pretty good as well.
www.wcrk.com
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scottwmro
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Tig1150 said:
You may not know this, but Neil Peterson and his wife that own WSGI, also own WDBL-AM 1590 there in Springfield. It is fully automated news/talk, and is on 24/7 with 800 watts day and 30 watts at night. I may be wrong, but how Neal is able to afford to keep WSGI live with jocks is that the station is on a limited "daytime only" operating schedule, with NO NIGHTTIME, PSRA, nor PSSA. They have to protect WTAM in Cleveland. WDBL is an old Springfield station with loyal listeners. WSGI didn't sign on until the early 80's, and was on 1190 at 250 watts, then moved to 1100 at 1 KW daytime only. I think WDBL is doing well enough to help meet the payroll for WSGI to have live jocks.
If you understood the corporate world, a local owner that owns a single, small AM station can not fully staff it. It is economically impossible in 2007, unless you won the lottery and you've got money to burn. An AM/FM combo, I can see.
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bub
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That can apply to a lot of stations anywhere, both AM and FM. Also, different radio station owners have differing opinions on what constitutes a "full" staff. Some are old school traditionalists. In other cases, just having one live jock in the morning and putting it on the bird the rest of the day is a full staff. For others, having the whole station automated with just sales people on board is good enough.scottwmro said:
For all we know, WSGI may be one of those stations where the jock does a shift, then has to go out and sell. It may also be one of those places where, depending on the economy, you may have to have more sales people than ops personnel. In any event, props to Mr. and Mrs. Peterson for their efforts. I have picked up both WSGI and WDBL on the internet stream.
Sorry, Scott, for my long-windedness, but just my 2 cents, FWIW.
Has it cooled down there in Tennessee yet?
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We have three stations in our small group in Butler, Pennsylvania...two AM's (country and nostalgia) and an FM (adult CHR). We have a total of eight full-time on-air people including myself to handle on-air duties for all three. Six of them are here in the morning, and then its me and one other guy who handle the midday and afternoon grind. We use Simian's automation system on all three stations, and everything's done on-site locally.
However, much of our stuff is voice-tracked. Largely because our on-air people have other duties off the air. The woman who co-hosts the morning show on our FM is also our promotions director. Our news director also goes out and sells news sponsorships, the morning guy on one of our AM's does a talk show after the lunch hour, and I myself do afternoon news on the one AM station and I also voice-track the evening shift on our FM station. Our sports director moves between the three stations and does play-by-play, in addition to being our production director.
We also utilize our sales and office staff with better than average speaking skills to voice some production. Two of our four owners are here every day...one oversees on-air (and does a lot of on-air and engineering), and the other sales. Very hands-on.
AND WE MAKE MONEY!!!
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bub
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Scottwmro: Yes, WSGI signs on at 6A and signs off at 6P. I noticed both stations on their website...you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to get WDBL, including stream.scottwmro said:
The way 'SGI operates reminds me of one of the stations I used to work at...sign on at 6A, sign off at 8P.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about when I initially supported duopoly in the early 90's. Its intent was to change the limits to allow more companies the opportunities to buy more stations in their respective markets. The original rule was "no more than four". It got the job done...it allowed barely break-even stations to share staffs and finally become profitable while still being competitive. But that wasn't enough. It went from sensibility to outright greed.
Fortunately, there's still a lot of benevolent owners who have used duopoly as a tool to put new stations on the air or improve service to communities that have become too small to support a typical radio station's staff. I've seen a lot of owners out there who own two or three AM stations, some of them daytimers, that are within close proximity of one another, and they're offering both profitable and entertaining programming, proving that AM is still a viable medium.
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