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Stations That Sounded Bigger Then their Market Was

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CrazeeCarroll1

I got to thinking about stations that have come and gone and who still might be around who sounded bigger then the market the station broadcast from. Around 2001 Mix 94.7 in Sumter was born with a CHR sound that IMO was much better then NOK. The imaging was slick, quick, and right on the money. The music mix was much better then what NOK had on the air at the time. What are some of the stations you guys remember that fit the bill that either have come and gone or is still around. I have been quiet for a little while, but maybe now that I am slowly starting to have a normal life again I can post more often... CC1
 
I miss Mix 94.7 in it's CHR days! And I still don't know why they kicked out Power 99.3, which was a good station. The only Miller station I really like now is Bad Dog 94.7. Wish they'd try a CHR format again!
 
For me these are some of my faves... WORD 91 out of Spartanburg... Back in the 70's that little station sounded as big market as WLS did... Steve McCoy doing mornings was pretty darn good... WNOK and WZLD from Columbia both sounded bigger then Columbia radio. I could not go without also saying WPUB and WACA/WCAM which at one time were separate stations back in the day. WPUB had the sound of a big city station and to us in Kershaw County that was our WLS... CC1
 
From recent history, I have to give Mix 94.7/Sumter and Q94/Greenwood both their due. I'd just wished that they would had lasted longer than they did.

As far as past SC radio, here are my choices:

WHTK/Port Royal-Hilton Head-Savannah
WKZQ, WYAV, and WBPR/Myrtle Beach
WPDZ and WJMX/Florence

Robyn
 
I have to give credit to WIGL when they were on 106.7 in Orangeburg. They came in and changed formats when Country Music was still thought of as backwoods music. They covered this area with local events and news like never before and had a really good sound. They sounded much bigger than anything Orangeburg had heard locally before and covered the surrounding areas better than anyone had done before. They gained listeners all around Orangeburg and the surrounding areas that had never listened to Country Music before. When they jumped to their then new tower in Sandy Run and changed formats this left a huge void in the area like never before which allowed Betty Roper to shift 92.1 in Manning to 92.5 go to 100KW and become WHLZ 92.5 and fill that void for many years. It also allowed Charlie Boswell to apply for a then 3KW license in Orangeburg on 102.9 and grab the WIGL call letters, he later bought 105.1 from Burcalter a then Branchville station. This all started with WIGL 106.7 when it came to Orangeburg and sounded bigger than it was for the area.
 
Brings me back to KBCQ, Roswell NM in the 1980s. Basically Top-40, they hammered the town itself with a strong, upbeat "big-city" sound that belied Roswell's then population of just under 40,000.

KBCQ was a caged monster; even at 50K watts, the signal was so directional as to render it ineffective, save for daytime.
 
[As far as past SC radio, here are my choices:

WHTK/Port Royal-Hilton Head-Savannah
WKZQ, WYAV, and WBPR/Myrtle Beach
WPDZ and WJMX/Florence

Robyn

Thanks for mentioning my old station, WYAV. That may have been the most fun I ever had in radio. As far as WKZQ goes, I was once working with the late Rusty Walker, and when he found out where I was from, he said WKZQ when Greg Fowler was there, was the best small market station in the country.
 
WHLZ Manning back when they were at 92.5. For a small town country station, sounded very good. Great morning show, covered lots of local events, lots of personalities. Served their niche very well, Clarendon, Sumter, Florence, and the counties between Florence and Charleston, even though signal reached both markets.

WSUY sounded very good from about 1998-2002 and so did WXLY. Those sounded like stations you'd hear in Charlotte or other places.
 
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