Retro Dial: Richmond, April 1981

[TR1968]

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AM Stations
930 WHON Centerville (6am-midnight)
1490 WKBV Richmond (24 hrs, except Mon midnight-4am)
1550 WCTW New Castle (Mon-Sat 5:30am-11pm, Sun 7am-11pm)
1580 WCNB Connersville (sunrise-sunset)

FM Stations
91.5 WECI Earlham College/Richmond (6am-2am)
91.7 WGVO Greenville. OH (Mon-Fri 8am-4pm)
92.9 WJAI Eaton, OH (5:30am-midnight)
94.1 WRCR Rushville (5:30am-10:15pm)
96.1 WQLK Richmond (24/7)
97.7 WOXR Oxford, OH (6am-midnight)
98.3 WZZY Winchester (24 hrs, except Mon 2-5am)
100.3 WCNB Connersville (Mon-Sat 6am-10pm, Sun 7:40am-7:45pm)
101.3 WRIA Richmond (24 hrs, except Mon midnight-4am)
102.5 WMDH New Castle (Mon-Sat 5:30am-midnight, Sun 7am-midnight)
104.5 WDRK Greenville. OH (Mon-Sat 5:10am-2am, Sun 5:30am-midnight)

 

[Gregg.]

Interesting to see how many stations had Sunday overnight maintenance factored into their schedules. I thought by the 1980s, AM stations still needed a few hours a week to do transmitter maintenance. But FM stations didn't. I worked at an FM station in the 1980s that never scheduled weekly maintenance, although maybe the Chief Engineer did take the station off the air for an hour every month or two.

Unless those stations were off the air each week because they didn't want to pay a DJ to play music overnight on Sundays? Or maybe the newspaper didn't update its listings from the 1970s?

Only 96.1 WQLK is 24/7 every day. Some stations had transmitter maintenance early Mondays. And quite a few were off the air overnight seven days a week.

 

[Apollo7979]

from Palladium-Item via Newspapers.com
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* Covers stations originating in the circulation area

AM Stations
930 WHON Centerville (6am-midnight)
1490 WKBV Richmond (24 hrs, except Mon midnight-4am)
1550 WCTW New Castle (Mon-Sat 5:30am-11pm, Sun 7am-11pm)
1580 WCNB Connersville (sunrise-sunset)

FM Stations
91.5 WECI Earlham College/Richmond (6am-2am)
91.7 WGVO Greenville. OH (Mon-Fri 8am-4pm)
92.9 WJAI Eaton, OH (5:30am-midnight)
94.1 WRCR Rushville (5:30am-10:15pm)
96.1 WQLK Richmond (24/7)
97.7 WOXR Oxford, OH (6am-midnight)
98.3 WZZY Winchester (24 hrs, except Mon 2-5am)
100.3 WCNB Connersville (Mon-Sat 6am-10pm, Sun 7:40am-7:45pm)
101.3 WRIA Richmond (24 hrs, except Mon midnight-4am)
102.5 WMDH New Castle (Mon-Sat 5:30am-midnight, Sun 7am-midnight)
104.5 WDRK Greenville. OH (Mon-Sat 5:10am-2am, Sun 5:30am-midnight)

If I remember correctly, the formats at the time were as follows:

AM Stations
930 WHON Country
1490 WKBV MOR/News/Sports
1550 WCTW ?
1580 WCNB ? (Pretty sure that they were simulcasting WCNB 100.3, though.)

FM Stations
91.5 WECI Public radio
91.7 WGVO ?
92.9 WJAI Country “WJ93” (I don’t believe they had flipped to big band/standards just yet)
94.1 WRCR ?
96.1 WQLK Top 40/AOR “K-96” (This was a unique station. Adult rock with pop. They would gradually become less pop and more adult rock as the 80s progressed.)
97.7 WOXR Top 40 (adult by day, hotter at night. Would soon flip call letters to WOXY and take the “97X” name, but wouldn’t go full-fledged modern rock until 1983.)
98.3 WZZY ? (I think they were AC at this time.)
100.3 WCNB Country
101.3 WRIA AC (more along the lines of what would be considered Hot AC, though.) “FM 101”
102.5 WMDH Country
104.5 WDRK ? (I believe they may have been Country at this time.)