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STANDARDS & B-MUSIC STATIONS: STATE BY STATE

WPTW is now talk, mostly Salem-type stuff. WPTW was an "AM Only/Westwood One Adult Standards" affiliate before the double-ownership change from WPTW, Inc. to Cox (who spun the AM off to the former owners of WUCO in Marysville while keeping the FM, now WHIO-FM).

A couple of Indiana stations I know about:
WCTW, 1550 NewCastle-Music of Your Life
WILO,1570, Frankfort, IN-I believe locally programmed.
 
MARYLAND-All Standards unless otherwise indicated:

Brunswick: WTRI 1520: Locally programmed and owned, wide music variety.
Thurmont: WTHU 1450: Satellite - Simulcasts with WMRE Charles Town, W. Va.
Hagerstown: WJEJ 1240 (Standards/EZ): Locally programmed and owned. Consistently highest ranking AM in market (overall ranking about 5th to 10th place).
WHAG 1410: Satellite-Music of Your Life (?)
Cumberland: WTBO 1450: Used to simulcast on WFRB 560, mornings and afternoons - don't know if this is still true.
WCMD 1230
Easton: WEMD 1460
 
Warner Robins GA has a standards format at Am 1350 and it's doing great.Savannah GA has just flipped to a standards format at Am 1400 they was gospel.Jacksonville Florida still has Wktz 90.9 and it can also be heard on jones.edu they play beautiful music.
 
Delaware has no standards or beautiful music stations. The U of Del station WVUD Newark, DE airs a couple hours of old music from 78rpms on Sunday night, I believe and a couple hours of Classical Music from 12noon to 2pm weekdays. WRTI from (Temple Univ) Philly operates a translator in Wilmington playing Classical Music 6am-6pm and Jazz from 6pm-6am.
 
Another MOYL station in Indiana is WMRI 860 AM in Marion (formerly WGOM).

Also the Fort Wayne area has WGL-AM/FM (1250/102.9), known as "The River." Formerly a WW1/Dial Global affiliate, they're now locally automated with a format that could be described as a mix of Mainstream AC, Oldies and what Dial Global now plays. A few surprises on their playlist: "Till You Love Me," by Reba McEntire (a late 1994/early 95 country hit that got very little, if any, pop play at the time), and "A Little More Love," by Olivia Newton-John, which kind of strikes me as a bit too hard-edged for a so-called "easy listening" station (also perhaps not quite to the "Let's Get Physical" extreme).
 
ChrisInMI said:
"A Little More Love," by Olivia Newton-John, which kind of strikes me as a bit too hard-edged for a so-called "easy listening" station (also perhaps not quite to the "Let's Get Physical" extreme).
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Funny how artists get classified as easy listening, yet you can't classify all their music that way carte blanche. Olivia's a great example. Another is ABBA... the only two songs which really "fit" the format are "Fernando" and "I Have A Dream." So what happens to all their other material? Oldies and AC stations don't play them.
 
Some of the 70s based classic hits stations play "Dancing Queen" and I've occasionally heard "SOS" or "The Name of the Game"
 
klutch00 said:
Brunswick: WTRI 1520: Locally programmed and owned, wide music variety.
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I just discovered that VegasRadio will be leaving 1520 khz but will continue online after the format change to Spanish on 1 October.
 
ChrisInMI said:
Update - looks like WMNI is back to the Dial Global format, according to yes.com.
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Update to the update: Yes, WMNI is Dial Global. I was out that way last week. WILE in Cambridge is, too (rare for FM). I heard Jeff Rollins & Chick Watkins. So maybe some local programming airs at other times.

It's interesting to note that WMNI's website actually has the correct airtimes for the Dial Global personalities. Jeff Rollins 6-11AM Eastern, Chick Watkins 11AM-3PM, etc (looks like updated photos, too). What has it been... 2 years or so since they all moved to an hour earlier? A lot of stations still show the old hours on their websites. What's even more amazing is the Dial Global corporate website still shows the old hours.

Not that it matters, but does anyone know why they switched to an hour earlier? I would think scheduling would be better the old way with Jeff on from 7-Noon Eastern since a lot of affiliates do their own program in the morning. Now, when local goes off usually at 10, Jeff is on for only 1 hour. And if a west coast affiliate does its own morning show, he wouldn't be on at all, except in the wee hours of the morning.
 
Great news from Florida!

WSVU (Seaview AM 960) in Jupiter/North Palm Beach, FL not only broacasts online with the Dial Global format, but thier morning man is now none other than Gary Todd - who formerly did mornings for almost 20 years at heritage Fairbanks Broadcasting station WIBC in Indianapolis. He is back with "Gary's Place", complete with a great full service mix of music, news (including banter with his female newscaster), weather, sports, information interviews and clips from the "Golden Age of Radio". This is very similar to how he ran his WIBC broadcast. He brings a warmth to the show, along with involving his listeners in his daily pursuits WITHOUT having to resort to the crass comedy that is so much a part of "morning radio teams" these days. He does the show alone in the classic "morning man" sense and the show has intimacy since he is talking to YOU, the listener, not just to others in the studio.

The music selection ranges from the early 50's to the late 90's - all MOR/Easy Listening classics including some instrumentals near the top of the hour.

Best of all, it is streaming online at www.seaviewam960.com.

If you haven't guessed already, I was an avid listener to Gary here in Indy during his heyday.
 
Ivan Badget said:
Honolulu:
KRTR 650 AM - a mix of Soft AC and Oldies with an occasional instrumental, pretty much like WDUV 105.5 FM in Tampa.
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A little known 3rd for Cox in the KRTR-AM/WDUV vein is WSB-FM's HD-2 in Atlanta. Known simply as "98.5 HD-2". They don't stream so the only way to hear them is with an HD Radio....Worth buying one if you live in the Peachtree City.
 
While I'm not a fan of adult standards as a format, I was surprised no one mentioned this station:

Arkansas:

KBVA Bella Vista (106.5 MHz)

This station has been on since the early 1980's, and puts a solid 50 kW signal into northwest Arkansas. It's also local. Sadly, they do not stream, but for many years was available by TVRO satellite receivers (it may still be) on C band G6/06 5.58 5.76. Here is their website:

http://variety1065.com/
 
KBVA's playlist is (or at least used to be) featured on yes.com. It has a very interesting mix of music to say the least. I remember listening to this station "live" back in around 1996 or so when my family and I were in Branson, Missouri, for a reunion of my dad's side of the family (I had a selective receiver so I was able to tune away from Springfield's 106.7 to 106.46/106.48 to hear KBVA). Although I wasn't really into Standards yet then, I thought the station sounded really interesting, a lot like WJOI-FM in Detroit (the long-dead-and-buried B/EZ station I listened to as a child). I do remember it wasn't yet called "Variety 106.5" then.

Another update from Michigan: add another station to the list of Dial Global affiliates, and that would be WIKB 1230 AM in Iron River, in the Upper Peninsula. WIKB-AM/FM (the FM is 99.1) used to be an AM/FM simulcast "Solid Gold" Oldies outlet, then the stations got sold and the FM went AC as "The Breeze." The AM continued with the Oldies format for a time, but now according to their Website, they've switched to Dial Global. The owners, Heartland Communications, also use the Dial Global format on their AM in Ashland, Wisconsin (WATW 1400).

http://heartlandcomm.com/stations.aspx

The interesting thing is that the company lists all of its standards-formatted stations as having a "Music of Your Life" format, but WCCY 1400 Houghton is the only one that actually broadcasts the actual MOYL format from Jones (or did at last check). WATW and WIKB-AM are both Dial Global, and the last time I checked, WERL in Eagle River was ABC's Timeless Classics. I wonder if WCCY and WERL have been converted to Dial Global as well... anyone know?
 
klutch00 said:
Thurmont: WTHU 1450
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Just found out that this one will bite the dust soon. As I understand, it was sold to a religious outfit for $150K. WAKR Akron has also changed its format to oldies.
 
KBVA Bella Vista, AR is streaming according to their website. Haven't installed the plug-in yet.

-Mark
 
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