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Isn't CC supposed to be selling 101.7? When? What will happen to the Reds games? Will they move to 1080 again? Or could 1450 pick them up?
 
Which stations in Kentucky are on the Reds' Radio Network? Perhaps someone could provide the call-letters, frequencies, AM or FM, and the city or town.

I remember the two seaons that WHAS was on the Reds' Network: 1963 and 1971. They carried almost all of the games. The basic exceptions were on Derby Day or on UK football Saturdays.
 
Let me introduce you to Google. ;)

KENTUCKY
Columbia WAIN-AM 1270
Cynthiana WCYN-AM 1400
Grayson WUGO-FM 102.3
Lexington WXRA-AM 1580
London WFTG-AM 1400
Louisville WKRD-AM 790
Martin WMDJ-FM 100.1
Maysville WFTM-AM 1240
Paintsville WKYH-AM 600
Pikesville WLSI-AM 900
Somerset WSFC-AM 1240
 
I WISH someone would pick up Chicago Cubs baseball :)
 
greg.hahn said:
Let me introduce you to Google. ;)

KENTUCKY
Columbia WAIN-AM 1270
Cynthiana WCYN-AM 1400
Grayson WUGO-FM 102.3
Lexington WXRA-AM 1580 (Now airs Spanish as its format so im sure they dont carry red's games in English)
London WFTG-AM 1400
Louisville WKRD-AM 790 (they Carry the Louisville Bats now so im sure unless they air the reds on a delay they dont air the reds on WKRD-AM anymore. Last year the reds games were on WKRD-FM 101.7
Martin WMDJ-FM 100.1
Maysville WFTM-AM 1240
Paintsville WKYH-AM 600
Pikesville WLSI-AM 900
Somerset WSFC-AM 1240
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WOW!!! That Google thing is a cool place, it's got everything! Now if there was only a place on the tubes of the internets that had pictures of naked women. ;)

But seriously.......Is it me or is that affiliate list smaller than I remember?

As far as past affiliates you have to include 1300 in Lexington (WBLG) until the switch to country then the games were on WLAP-AM for many years. I'm surprised they are listed on 1580 since, besides being Spanish these days, their night power is 48 watts. You can hear them but WLW sorta has them beat in coverage around Lex. if skywave cancellation behaves.

I believe WAVE(G) had them for years prior to Louisville getting a minor league team. WSGS Hazard were a Reds affiliate for years. Here in Owensboro the Reds were on WOMI until the early 90's while the Cardinals were on WVJS until the late 80's.

As far as the Cubs, the closest to this neck of the woods is WBNL Boonville, IN. It was an AM daytimer/FM but is just an AM facility now.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
WOW!!! That Google thing is a cool place, it's got everything! Now if there was only a place on the tubes of the internets that had pictures of naked women. ;)

But seriously.......Is it me or is that affiliate list smaller than I remember?
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My client in Manchester Kentucky isn't listed. I know they carry the Reds, I hooked up the Starguide before last season. Maybe the Reds organization needs to check and update their information.
 
Since WLW started serving as the flagship station of the Reds Radio Network in 1969, the number of stations picking up the games has decreased. I know this topic deals with Kentucky, but close to Cincinnati, stations in Hamilton and Middletown, for example, stopped carrying the games. I feel much of that has to do with WLW's powerful signal. Those able to do so seemingly could tune to 700-AM for the broadcasts rather than to a nearby lower-power network affiliate some of whom did not carry certain games.

If you go back to 1962, when WKRC Radio in Cincinnati was the flagship station, the Reds had the largest network in the National League. There were even a sizeable number of stations when WCKY, and its 50,000-watt power, was the flagship station from 1964 through 1968.

I was particularly interested in seeing that WAIN in Columbia, Kentucky is on the Reds Network. I do wonder how many of the games they carry. I was in Columbia from 1962-1964 and remember having to get stations in: Lexington, Louisville and Cincinnati to hear the Reds. Back then, WAIN had only an AM outlet that signed-off at sundown. Now, I wonder if they use the FM for any of the games even though I understand that the AM stays on after dark. I e-mailed WAIN with those questions last fall, but never received a reply.
 
My reference was comparing the affiliate list from about twenty years ago. WLW has a monster signal but if you can sell it locally then you run the game. It just seems the list is shorter than I remember.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
My reference was comparing the affiliate list from about twenty years ago. WLW has a monster signal but if you can sell it locally then you run the game. It just seems the list is shorter than I remember.
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Yeah, that list only has 44 stations on it. I'm almost totally certain that back in the seventies the Reds Radio Network had over 200 stations. I want to say 270. The list was mammoth.(Spent many evenings and weekends running the board for the Reds games on WMPI in Scottsburg, and there wasn't much to do other than read the affiliate manual.)

But as Scott pointed out, it may be missing a few. And as Mike pointed out, it may have some extras. :D

Heck I give up.

And sorry about the Google comment. I can be an ass. ;)
 
greg.hahn said:
radiorob2.0 said:
My reference was comparing the affiliate list from about twenty years ago. WLW has a monster signal but if you can sell it locally then you run the game. It just seems the list is shorter than I remember.
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Yeah, that list only has 44 stations on it. I'm almost totally certain that back in the seventies the Reds Radio Network had over 200 stations. I want to say 270. The list was mammoth.(Spent many evenings and weekends running the board for the Reds games on WMPI in Scottsburg, and there wasn't much to do other than read the affiliate manual.)
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I only ran the Reds for one season but what I remember about baseball in general are the dead air false alarms. You walk away from a monitor for a moment for a bathroom break or whatever and come back to crowd noise, race to the control room only to hear "swing and a miss".
 
Based on that last post, here's a question to those who were on the board when their station was carrying Reds broadcasts. Did your station get a direct feed or pick it up from another station? If it was a direct feed, then during a break you would hear the crowd noise from wherever the game was coming from. If it was from another station, they you would hear the commercials and/or station I.D.'s from that station. In times that I did it, the station I was with picked up the game from a nearby FM station. If you missed a local break, you would hear that station coming over your station. I have heard that years earlier, each station received a direct feed from the stadium where the game was being played. Then, during a local break, there would be just crowd noise coming through.

Of course, during some breaks (usually at the end of an inning), each station was to stay with the feed and you carried a commercial from the network which was usually the main sponsor of the games. In those "olden days" it could be for: Burger Beer or Wiedemann Beer, etc.
 
I ran the Reds on three Kentucky stations between 1972 and 1979: WBGR (Paris), WKDJ (Winchester) and WBLG (Lexington). In all three cases we took a feed from a low-fi "broadcast loop" which was essentially straight from the WLW board. If you didn't cover up the local commercial and ID breaks with your own content, you would hear WLW's. On more than one occasion WLW legal IDs and spots aired on the station I was at. (I got better at running the games so this didn't happen as much in the latter half of the decade.)

The Reds Network had a rotating set of format sheets for games so local breaks weren't always during the same place during the game. For instance, a network spot could run at the bottom of the first inning on Tuesday but on Wednesday that same break would be a local one. The pre- and post-game shows were more consistent.

Loved those West Coast games, especially when they went into extra innings. We normally signed off at 11p or midnight, but I'd have to hang around to 2 or 3 am to run those Dodgers or Giants contest. What fun!
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Based on that last post, here's a question to those who were on the board when their station was carrying Reds broadcasts. Did your station get a direct feed or pick it up from another station? If it was a direct feed, then during a break you would hear the crowd noise from wherever the game was coming from. If it was from another station, they you would hear the commercials and/or station I.D.'s from that station. In times that I did it, the station I was with picked up the game from a nearby FM station. If you missed a local break, you would hear that station coming over your station. I have heard that years earlier, each station received a direct feed from the stadium where the game was being played. Then, during a local break, there would be just crowd noise coming through.

Of course, during some breaks (usually at the end of an inning), each station was to stay with the feed and you carried a commercial from the network which was usually the main sponsor of the games. In those "olden days" it could be for: Burger Beer or Wiedemann Beer, etc.
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At WMPI in the seventies we didn't have a loop. At first we got it directly over the air from WLW via a Hammarlund receiver that would be worth a mint today.

Later we took it off the air from an FM affiliate in Greensburg, IN. We were in mono until '75, but when we were running Reds baseball and we potted up the Greensburg station, their pilot would come through our board and light the stereo light on our listeners receivers! Bonus! :D

Network spots:

Stroh's
Jackson's Applejack (The Brew you Chew)

Wow.....I'm surprised I can't remember more.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
I only ran the Reds for one season but what I remember about baseball in general are the dead air false alarms. You walk away from a monitor for a moment for a bathroom break or whatever and come back to crowd noise, race to the control room only to hear "swing and a miss".
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I give you something worse. Try running a Georgia football game and just as you are in the middle of dropping some friends off at the pond you hear Larry Munson intone "...on the Georgia Bulldog radio network." Which was the cue to roll your local break! No way to finish in time to run the break so all you get is crowd noise for three minutes. 2:30 into the break you miss, the phone starts ringing and it's Big Jim, the station owner wanting to know why the break isn't running. In 1984, you can't blame it on the computer. Considering I am a major Georgia fan, there were also times I would be so into the game I'd forget to run the break when Munson tossed it and I'd catch myself sit there wondering why the doofus at the radio station isn't running the break....then I'd realize that I was the doofus and start the cart machine.

There was no better feeling than running a tight break and rejoining the network with a one beat pause before they started back. "....M&M Drugs on Commerce street in Hawkinsville" [beat] "Georgia's ball 2nd and 4 on Tennessee's 23 yard line....." There is a station around here, I think WHAS, that uses bumper music back into the network which sounds really stupid. If you run your break properly, you don't need bumper music.

I have run Georgia and Georgia Tech football and Braves baseball, Something about running football games I prefer over running baseball games, yet I like listening to baseball on the radio (AM radio) over listening to football.
 
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