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THE AM BAND AND STANDARDS AT THE SHORE

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I cannot believe the choice of music on the AM band in the Atlantic City area. I was there today and Standards are alive and well on WOBM-1160, WHLI-1100, WCMC-1230 and a few other signals around 900 et al that are listenable there. There was also a tremendous oldies outlet 1340 WMID and a not so good simulcast on 1490. A few people some posts down, disagreed about music on the AM band and believing Standards cannot be feasible anymore, this area proves this theory wrong. Plus, every large market has either a full time local Standards station or a fringe signal that can be picked up, except the Philly market. I say bring back WJBR-AM
 
Plus, every large market has either a full time local Standards station or a fringe signal that can be picked up, except the Philly market.
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Every large (Top 10) market except...ChicagoSan FranciscoPhiladelphiaHoustonWashingtonAtlantaThat's six of the top 10 markets.Do you just make up the stuff you post?If Clear Channel had been making money with Standards, they would still play Standards.The economics of radio are different in small markets like Atlantic City. Large markets depend on ad agency media buyers who buy demos. Small markets buy based on personal contact and what the advertiser likes. So Oldies and Standards hang on.People complain about Julius, but Oldies and Standards fans are the ones who are really in denial and who keep asking the same questions over and over and refusing to accept the answers they get.For Standards and Oldies, click here:http://www.xmradio.com/Or here:http://www.sirius.com/
 
Sorry "Eagle 106", all the markets you mentioned have one or two fringe signals playing Standards, (except Philly). In fact, Chicago has a fantastic Oldies/Standards hybred on the expanded AM band that puts any station to shame. The only Standards outlet that can be heard daytime here, is WOBM-A, WCMC and one in the LV, but too poorly to matter. BTW, you sure know how to keep that other board alive, with all your starter posts.
 
Thanks but I am MWebster on the other board, not EagleCVI (aka Ballz). When this board first came back online, I could not log in with the other name. I really hope in the new RI we can talk about radio rather than getting stuck in these guessing games trying to figure out who other posters are?Are you talking about Oldies or Standard here? Two different formats. In your original post, you said Standards and I replied on that basis. However, currently LA, San Francisco, Washington, Atlanta and - most recently - Detroit no longer have Oldies stations. Former Oldies stations in those markets have dropped the "Oldies" name and have broadened and/or updated their playlists to become Variety, Adult Hits or Classic Rock. Except for the Real Oldies station in Chicago you mentioned and WMTR in North Jersey, which gets into New York, none of the Top 10 markets have Real Oldies stations, either.And for the record, WJBR-AM was a Wilmington station, which could only be received in adjacent portions of Delaware and Chester Counties.WOBM is in Tom's River in Ocean County and WCMC is in Wildwood. Atlantic City is on the fringe for both. WHLI is in Hempstead on Long Island and if you heard it in Atlantic City it's a freak occurance. Unfortunately, most people are not willing to listen to fringe AM stations - especially for music. If you talk about AM stations with a good signal in Atlantic City, you have Oldies WMID as you mentioned and Radio Disney; that's about it.Next time you pick up one of these Standards (or AM Oldies) stations, notice what spots they are running. Is it a healthy spot load? And to whom are they selling?
 
Standards was the original topic I was discussing, but I also threw in this new breed of Oldies stations on AM, which plays the real "Oh Wow" type tunes. To sum it up, most large markets do have Standards AM'ers drifting in, except Philly, they also have AM oldies stations that play the real stuff. WJBR-A had a city grade signal in Philly during the day and from CC south at night, they were like a local, I always heard many Philly radios tuned into them, and that is when WPEN was still Standards. WHLI is always a good catch in AC, give it a try next time you are down there.
 
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