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Status of WABB-AM 1480

A visitor of the WABB-AM Facebook page suggested streaming the station's programs, since he can hear the programs hardly, and received a response about a stream currently in development for the Facebook page and wabbam.com.

http://www.facebook.com/1480AMWABB
 
Since Lou Dobbs would host his last radio program on Friday, February 24th, I wonder what WABB-AM would broadcast from 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM Monday through Friday, on Saturdays between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM, and on Sundays between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM? I would suggest a local program with discussions about local broadcasters, newspapers, magazines, and World Wide Web sites between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. I would suggest readjusting weekend programming to make way for new syndicated programming or local programming.
 
I Clark Howard aired in the market? If not and I was running WABB I would be calling Cox in Atlanta and getting a phone number and a contact name with his syndication agent.
 
What about Leo Laporte? He's not on around here, is he? I wish one of the 5-6 News/talk stations covering Pensacola would pick up good ol' Leo.
 
Well I'll be. Leo's on WPNN and I know most everyone that works there. Mike Schroeder has been running some of my old commercials to fill time for the last year or three. Guess I'll give Mike or Scott a call and start paying them to run those spots... maybe record a new one and become a sponsor of Laporte's show. Maybe I can talk to them about getting Leo in a better time slot than the apparent 8pm Sunday time.
 
I had spoken to the directors of programming for WABB-AM and WAVH-FM (Jack Spade and Sean Sullivan respectively) by telephone suggesting "Leo Laporte the Tech Guy" after WBZR-AM and WBZR-FM stopped broadcasting the program due to the station switching to country music programming. Even though the director at WAVH-FM was interested in "Leo Laporte the Tech Guy", his station's deal to broadcast Auburn University football and basketball prevents them from carrying the program.

Now would be a good opportunity for WABB-AM to get the local rights to broadcast "Leo Laporte the Tech Guy", since "The Lou Dobbs Show" is coming to an end. If you want to encourage the folks at WABB-AM to carry the program (or make programming changes), I suggest contacting their director of programming by electronic mail by using the address [email protected].
 
I noticed WABB-AM broadcast advertisements and "Doug Stephan's Good Day" simultaneously for a few minutes after a break for CNN Radio programming and other advertisements. The advertisements ended before a station identification recording. Similar programming errors have occurred many times in recent years.
 
I've never been cool enough to listen to Podcast. I don't even own an Ipod or whatever that word refers to. I did download some podcast from KEXP a couple years back and enjoyed them... except that they didn't have breaks between the songs and I was forced to listen all the way through (I wasn't about to learn how to fast forward a cd on my car radio while driving 80 down I-10). If I could have listened all the way through once, then cut out the interview and just skipped to the live studio tracks later I think it would have worked for me.
Leo's show seems like it would make more since to download/burn/and listen that to try to remember to crank up the ol AM radio and tune in 790 at 8PM on Sunday. WPNN must have a dozen or so listeners at that hour!
I also noticed on Leo's website that WFLF-FM in Panama City carries the show twice on the weekend. That might work into my schedule better.

I need a DVR in my car radio!
 
Having a podcast — or netcast, as Leo prefers to call them since it's not associated with owning a crappy iPod — is like having a DVR in your car. I can start, stop, rewind and replay my favorite shows without interruption and listen to them when it's convenient.

Car Talk at 3 am? Sure. This American Life on a Tuesday evening? Why not. Leo Laporte while I shower? Absolutely! A Mike O'Meara Show marathon (er, O'Mearathon as I call it) on the weekend? Sign me up.

Any cheap mp3 player will handle netcasts, you just need to look for one that can bookmark your stopping point so you don't start at the beginning next time you hit play.

This Week In Tech would never fit on a CD as an audio track. It usually runs about 2 hours. He does have commercials which can be fast forwarded, but they are all live reads with panel interaction and usually much more pleasurable than Suzuki Man shouty commercials or whatever your local station plays.

I know NPR member stations must despise having all their shows available as podcasts since it eats up precious bandwidth online, but it is definitely the way to go. I sure as heck ain't getting up at 10 am just to listen to Click and Clack on a Sunday!
 
I could pull off a 2 hour recording on a CDR in my car. I'm one of those "high-tech rednecks" so my CD player can handle MP3 CDs... I just wish it could play .flac or .shn files. I've never owned a blank CDRW so I don't know if it can play those. Getting up the motivation to do the work required to download and burn and listen... that's another story all together.

Humm, so you're also telling me I can download Click and Clack along with Laporte... this is getting interesting. Just don't make me listen to Bobby Likis.
 
Oh poledo, if your CD player handles mp3s you're golden. That's hours… days, even, of content on demand. :)

My car is so old it has only a basic CD player… and a tape deck. Which is how I route the HD radio or mp3 player through the system. It's lo-fi but it works.
 
My CD Player may handle MP3s but the speakers sound like the paper is torn. Easier to swap out a CD player than to take apart the doors.
 
As of today, the lapping of advertisements over the first few minutes of "Doug Stephan's Good Day" after 7:05 AM continues to happen regularly. I checked the station yesterday when "The Lou Dobbs Show" was scheduled for broadcast and heard nothing from my radio.
 
WABB-AM was supposed to begin broadcasting "The Michael Medved Show" today after the end of "The Lou Dobbs Show". Shortly before 3:00 PM, I heard nothing until the station identification segment, a CNN Radio segment, and some advertisements. Since then, I have heard nothing still.
 
I have not heard any regular programming from WABB-AM today. The stormy weather must have interfered with their reception of syndicated programming such as "Doug Stephan's Good Day" and "The Laura Ingraham Show".

I wish I knew a way to contact someone currently involved with WABB-AM, since I have failed to contact someone by telephone since the operation of WABB-FM (now WLVM-FM) was taken over by the Educational Media Foundation on March 1st.
 
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