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The Harbor is Dead
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So Harbor a temp format..and supposedly got 3x the FNX numbers ..now maybe variety hits could go to 96.9? Were they bailing on format before GM launches competition or is this going after Amp?
Look for new call letters that spell out "Evolution".
WEVL would be perfect but I think those are in Memphis
Recording a bit of it now for a friend--some I'm not fond of, but right now they're working in a bit of "Istanbul Not Constantinople" (Danny Simon orig and later They Might Be Giants...) Neat.
not counting Christmas I assume
It would have to be under six months...trying to think. There may have been a small station that switched then abruptly switched again...or maybe something like 1150
How about an unintentionally short format change at 1150 when some cleaners changed the station on the radio from WAAF to Jam'n not realizing they were also changing what 1150
was broadcasting?
1360 briefly simulast WUMB-FM , does that count?
>>North East RadioWatch: October 8, 2002
WLYN (1360 Lynn) has an unusual temporary format: while its sale waits to close, the station is simulcasting the folk music of WUMB-FM (91.9 Boston), in part because the stations share a chief engineer, Grady Moates. WLYN had been operating only sporadically until the simulcast began.
http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-021008.html
And under the listing for WWDJ 1150 on bostonradio.org
>>On October 17 (1996), WROR (1150) became the sixth affiliate of the Kidstar children's radio network, based out of Seattle. October 21st, WROR changed callsign to WNFT, under the moniker “Nifty 1150”. When the KidStar network folded in early 1997, WNFT spent some time doing tests of Digital Audio Broadcasting before becoming a simulcast of country sister WKLB-FM
So from 10/17/96, and it says KidStar folded in early '97...so just a few months
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/25051
Fybush's 97 year in review said Kidstar folded in Feb of that year
>>KidStar folds, leaving WNFT (1150) Boston with nobody to lease it
So, Oct 96 to Feb 97.
How about an unintentionally short format change at 1150 when some cleaners changed the station on the radio from WAAF to Jam'n not realizing they were also changing what 1150
was broadcasting?
1360 briefly simulast WUMB-FM , does that count?
>>North East RadioWatch: October 8, 2002
WLYN (1360 Lynn) has an unusual temporary format: while its sale waits to close, the station is simulcasting the folk music of WUMB-FM (91.9 Boston), in part because the stations share a chief engineer, Grady Moates. WLYN had been operating only sporadically until the simulcast began.
http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-021008.html
And under the listing for WWDJ 1150 on bostonradio.org
>>On October 17 (1996), WROR (1150) became the sixth affiliate of the Kidstar children's radio network, based out of Seattle. October 21st, WROR changed callsign to WNFT, under the moniker “Nifty 1150”. When the KidStar network folded in early 1997, WNFT spent some time doing tests of Digital Audio Broadcasting before becoming a simulcast of country sister WKLB-FM
So from 10/17/96, and it says KidStar folded in early '97...so just a few months
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/25051
Fybush's 97 year in review said Kidstar folded in Feb of that year
>>KidStar folds, leaving WNFT (1150) Boston with nobody to lease it
So, Oct 96 to Feb 97.
Jimmy128 said:
"Gaffe Radio" on WXKS-AM 1200 for about a month last year. A loop of "gaffes" from mostly famous political campaigns and speeches. It was on in between the conservative "Talk 1200" format and "Matty's Comedy".
The Harbor was dead the minute they went on the air. Terrible station.
raccoonradio said:
"Istanbul" was an MOR hit back in the early '50s (yes, approximately 60 years--more than half a century--ago). The artists were, I believe, the Four Lads. That has to beat your references by quite a few decades!
Yes I was aware of the Four Lads version but wasn't sure if that was the one being heard it the mix. i looked it up and found that it was written by Nat Simon (not Danny Simon as I'd thought) and Jimmy Kennedy.
The Four Lads version peaked at #10 in 1953. The Danny Simon I mentioned was a TV
scriptwriter, older brother of Neil...
Nat Simon also wrote The Old Lamp Lighter.
Here's the Four Lads version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPnXBWl9Tk
(hmm, maybe this was what I'd heard after all; I think I'd heard it years ago)
The Four Lads version peaked at #10 in 1953. The Danny Simon I mentioned was a TV
scriptwriter, older brother of Neil...
Nat Simon also wrote The Old Lamp Lighter.
Here's the Four Lads version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPnXBWl9Tk
(hmm, maybe this was what I'd heard after all; I think I'd heard it years ago)
Short lived call letters, but the format may have basically stayed the same after they changed
calls again...to WWZN
>>In February, 2001, WNRB became “The Sports Zone”, WSZE. Just a few weeks later, the callsign was changed again, to WWZN.
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/12789
calls again...to WWZN
>>In February, 2001, WNRB became “The Sports Zone”, WSZE. Just a few weeks later, the callsign was changed again, to WWZN.
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/12789
How long did WLVG, the gospel station, last on 740 before it became WWEA?
bostonradio.org WJIB entry
>>By late 1983, the station was in bankruptcy, where it would remain for 8 years. The bankruptcy trustees allowed the station to be run by the Rev. Earl Jackson, who changed the calls to WLVG, the format to black gospel... On July 1, 1991, WLVG was put up for auction in federal bankruptcy court. Broadcaster Bob Bittner...won the station. After three days of darkness in the summer of 1991, 740 reappeared in the fall as WWEA, “Earth Radio 740”...WWEA played an eclectic blend of AC, oldies, R&B, and environmental messages.
Doesn't say exactly when Jackson began running it and when the calls were in effect (during that period) though...
Wiki entry: >>The format continued even after Kaiser finally sold the station, in 1976, but ended with a sale of the station in 1981 after the then-owners, Dan Murphy and Mel Stone, were forced to file bankruptcy for WCAS. The rest of the 1980s would see a revolving door of owners, call letters, and formats. In 1991, Bob Bittner purchased the station, then known as WLVG {"We love God"} and programming a Black Gospel format. Bittner changed the format to "Earth Radio"
>>By late 1983, the station was in bankruptcy, where it would remain for 8 years. The bankruptcy trustees allowed the station to be run by the Rev. Earl Jackson, who changed the calls to WLVG, the format to black gospel... On July 1, 1991, WLVG was put up for auction in federal bankruptcy court. Broadcaster Bob Bittner...won the station. After three days of darkness in the summer of 1991, 740 reappeared in the fall as WWEA, “Earth Radio 740”...WWEA played an eclectic blend of AC, oldies, R&B, and environmental messages.
Doesn't say exactly when Jackson began running it and when the calls were in effect (during that period) though...
Wiki entry: >>The format continued even after Kaiser finally sold the station, in 1976, but ended with a sale of the station in 1981 after the then-owners, Dan Murphy and Mel Stone, were forced to file bankruptcy for WCAS. The rest of the 1980s would see a revolving door of owners, call letters, and formats. In 1991, Bob Bittner purchased the station, then known as WLVG {"We love God"} and programming a Black Gospel format. Bittner changed the format to "Earth Radio"
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