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Station Picks YES 97 WYYS

Thanks Steve. I knew that somewhere around the time when the station moved to Pineview, there was a brief on-air stunt where WARQ "changed" over to Hip-Hop by playing a rap song. After psyching the audience, the new position statement "Real Rock" was reveled.

Incidently, your current station, WXRY-LP answered my other question! WXRY 93.5 was what I was looking for... D'OH!

Robyn
 
WXRY was our second choice. We really wanted WZLD. But that is on a Clear Channel "Wild" station.

Other choices included WCCI (which was the second choice for Clayton Radio behind WARQ).
 
I think WXRY was the best choice for calls. Honestly, I wish you guys could buy one of the LP stations (97.1) and turn it into the Yes format you guys stunted with. I was so excited turning on the radio and hearing that. Not to say the current format is bad, which it's not but it was fun to hear dance on the radio. take care
 
The YES was just a stunt. I have a killer, killer dance concept prototype that I have put together that is very, very exciting. It might end up as one of our subchannels.

Is there a 97.1 LPFM around? I bet we'll be waiting forever for another filing window. The current rules would allow GAB to own up to 10 stations, as long as the sites are 10km apart.
 
Steve,

Here's some info on the 97.1 LP

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=W246AS&service=FX

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=141241

This is one reason why I don't like the current rules on LPFM's. At least with WXRY, you are providing a "local community-oriented service". Sat-casters groups like Calvery Church are not.

UPDATE: While I was nosing around on the FCC website, I've noticed that Calvery Church had applied for a new translator on 96.3 licensed as well to Olympia (like they REALLY need another one).

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=141239

Robyn
 
Thanks Robyn.

The "Great Translator Invasion" is what they call it. All these Satellator religious translators are, IMHO, an abuse of the translator service.

If you don't know about this site, it has a great search tool: http://www.recnet.com
 
We have quite a few LP'ers here in Northern IL and they all sound like crap... There are HS LP'ers out there that put on a better product than some of the religious broadcasters... CC1
 
RobynWattsV2.0 said:
Steve, since you were there at the time, when did WARQ officially transition to Modern Rock? I know it was a gradual thing spread out over time.

Also do you happen to know what was WCEZ's format BEFORE Beautiful Music? Weren't they WIS-FM at one point?

Thanks,
Robyn
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They were WXRY before they were WCEZ, but they were beautiful music when they had those letters.
 
Another person who lurks here knows a lot about WXRY version 1 is Dave Macintosh. When I visited my old stomping ground WPUB he told me that he lurks, but did not post... Come on Dave now you can join us... Crazee Carroll
 
93.5 signed on as WXRY and played Schulke's syndicated (reel to reel) Beautiful Music format.

The calls transitioned to WCEZ sometime in the 1980's.

Ridgely Communications, I believe, was the company that comboed WCEZ and WVOC, although it might have been Cosmos. AM 56 would still have been WIS if Cosmos owned it. When Cosmos sold to Ridgely, it required Ridgely to change the WIS calls to something other than WIS. WVOC matched "The Voice of Columbia" slogan that WIS had been using. I've got an awesome framed copy of a poster that WIS 56 put out to promote their very short stint in AM Stereo.

In 1990, when Clayton Radio bought WCEZ/WVOC out of the Ridgely bankruptcy, it changed the WCEZ calls to WAAS for the gold/warm AC format.

The station was never WIS-FM. I don't think Cosmos ever owned an FM station. But I am not absolutely sure about that.
 
Actually there was a WIS-FM! I remember seeing an entry in an old Radio Year Book (1949) showing a WIS-FM at either 94 or 93 point something. Like a lot of companies, they turned in their license when they saw no future in it!
 
Thanks everyone for the additional information. I briefly worked with Jim Shea (sp?) at WSCQ 10 years ago and he had mention WIS-FM, but never mentioned the frequency and I was under the impression it was 93.5. The license was indeed turned in to the FCC as Al had mentioned.

Would the South Carolina Broadcasters Association be a good place to look up sign-on dates as well as call letter changes?
 
Robyn:

I don't know whether the SCBA would keep those sorts of records. The special anniversary magazine/book that they put out a couple years back had a run-down of every station, although the information was not very complete or accurate. It was more geared to who currently owns what and who is managing it.

If you can locate those old Radio Yearbooks... perhaps access them through the Library of Congress or college library, they are probably your best source.

The second would be the notoriously bug-filled CDBS at the FCC. www.fcc.gov/mb/audio

Not all the data in the CDBS is accurate... particularly the older data.

The FCC's license files will have all that information. Although it all may not be immediately accessible through the Commission reading room. They may have to bring some of the files back from Gettysburg or the National Archives.

The USC College of Mass Communication and Information Sciences used to maintain the SCBA Hall of Fame and collection at the McKissick Museum. It has since relocated to the Coliseum in piecemeal.

Another angle may be to contact a friendly engineer at a particular station and see if they still have the old files sitting around.
 
Took another gander at that 1949 yearbook...WIS-FM was on the air at 94.5!...and licensed to "Surety Life Insurance Co." at least according the 1949 edition of Radio Yearbook.
 
Possibly that many! Jim had told me a story where an announcer on WIS-FM asked anyone listening to their station to please call in. No one did!

Al, while you have you copy of the 1949 year book out, could you please do me a great BIG favor and look up the sign-on dates for WNOK, WCOS, & WKIX (I believe this is the 1320 AM frequency). Thank you.

Robyn
 
Robyn;
Here you go..from the 1949 Radio Yearbook. The sign-on years.

WNOK-1946 (in '49 their address was 941 Harden St. H. Moody McElveen Jr listed as PD!)

WCOS-1939 (in '49 their address listed as 1202 Main St.)

WKIX-1945 (in '49 address was 1127 Lady St... Mackie "Cactus" Quave worked there at one time---don't know when.)

in the words of art garfunkel..."that's all i know"

al timiter
 
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