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The Journey is over and it led us to… WCOA

tomservo

tomservo

Well, Cumulus couldn't leave well enough alone, and at midnight Monday morning Journey 100 (WJLQ) flipped to talk as Newstalk 100 WCOA-FM.

In addition to a lineup of local talk hosts, it puts Clear Channel-owned personalties on FM right in WNTM's backyard. Their afternoon lineup is all Premiere: Rush, Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. I do wonder how this will affect WNTM and the theory that CC was moving the 100.3 translator to carry 710 AM on FM in Baldwin County. With the popular talkers now on 100.7 and on 104.9 out of Pascagoula it kinda negates the need for WNTM during the syndicated shows.

Between this and WALA and WPMI both going HD for local news, it's been an interesting weekend.
 
How many Journey stations nationwide have flipped now? Someone told me recently that the first Journey station (in Cincinnati or Cleveland or somewhere like that) flipped a month or two ago. Were all these stations just placeholders until Cumulus could figure out a long-term strategy, or did the format just tank so bad that they just couldn't keep it on the air another moment?
 
Rush will not air on the FM. Hukabee will. A problem for FM talk?
 
Exciting...another FM talk station... ::)

How long has it been since the WCOA-FM calls have been on 100.7? 35+ years maybe?
 
Well, we now have more than enough.
Hopefully, a Adult Hits station will come back one day to the Gulf Coast. I don't know if a lot of people who listened to the 'Journey' did not take the change well on the way to work this morning...
 
Re: The Journey is over and it led us to… WCOA

Still excited for the P-Cola area.

May not like Cumulus but I wish this new station all the success in the world.

Hope our friend from FWB will listen till his heart is content and happy.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. Now if anyone were to wish for Limbaugh to find his way on a Full Powered FM station here in the Black Belt, I'm not with you on that.  Glad that only one station carries him.  I look for WHBB 1490 AM to soon drop him from their broadcast.  I'm surprised that his program is still on here.
 
It is good that radio listeners in Mobile will be able to hear ABC Radio Network programming again. The last time radio listeners in Mobile were able to hear ABC Radio Network programming from a local radio station was in 2004, when WNTM-AM switched from ABC Radio Network programming to FOX News Radio programming upon becoming WPMI-AM (the call letters WNTM were restored in 2007).

I wished another radio station serving Mobile had affiliated with ABC News Radio before Paul Harvey Aurandt died. The decision by WNTM-AM cost many radio listeners in Mobile and neighboring areas the chance to hear his last radio broadcasts.
 
musiconradio.com said:
Rush will not air on the FM. Hukabee will. A problem for FM talk?
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*smacks forehead* Gosh, I had forgotten that Cumulus was trying to go toe-to-toe with Limbaugh with the new Huck Mikeabee show. That might've been the tipping point to finally blow up a music station for talk, then.

It might be a problem for FM Talk, but the Boortz show probably holds its own until it goes off at noon. I think Boortz actually beats Limbaugh in some markets where and when they're directly competing. Clark Howard, though… probably won't stand much of a chance.

I still think WNTM 710 is going to be the big loser here. They're getting chipped away by 106.5 and CC's own 104.9 in west Mobile already, this is one more convenient FM excuse not to flip on the AM band.

Personally, it won't pull me off WRKH-HD2 or FM Talk, because Red Eye Radio just… I'm sorry, there's no polite way to say it: it just sucks on toast.
 
Mario-500 said:
It is good that radio listeners in Mobile will be able to hear ABC Radio Network programming again. The last time radio listeners in Mobile were able to hear ABC Radio Network programming from a local radio station was in 2004, when WNTM-AM switched from ABC Radio Network programming to FOX News Radio programming upon becoming WPMI-AM (the call letters WNTM were restored in 2007).

I wished another radio station serving Mobile had affiliated with ABC News Radio before Paul Harvey Aurandt died. The decision by WNTM-AM cost many radio listeners in Mobile and neighboring areas the chance to hear his last radio broadcasts.
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Sort of related: I remember hearing top of the hour ABC News updates (sans Paul Harvey) on the former "Cool 107.3". I can't remember if they were temporarily added days/weeks after the September 11th tragedies, Hurricane Ivan, or possibly both--but I definitely remember hearing them.
 
Re: The Journey is over and it led us to… WCOA

Glad that Radio-Info is back to normal again.

Glad that Pensacola has a new Talker on the FM.

I'm predicting a so so for it though.

When you have too much of one thing, it can lead to overkill.

Once the overkill happens, then someone must suffer and change their format.

I believe this station might be the one to do it.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. I'm making another prediction too.  I see WHBB 1490 AM here in Selma going to an all Jazz/Black Gospel format, real soon.  With the population dropping off like flies, due to crime and drugs, I just don't see how WHBB will continue to air "The Head Of The Republican Party" much longer.  If they were to drop Mr. Limbaugh and the other talk shows they still carry, my feelings wouldn't be hurt at all.  Matter of fact, I would be stoked and excited.  I say that because for years now WHBB has done some programming for the Black community anyway.  I look for them to soon become 100% black oriented within the next year or two.  Call me nuts and/or crazy but I see this happening.  If it does, then WBFZ will become the default voice for talk in West Central Alabama. 
 
Dear cumulus, take this as a hint to move WVNN-FM to 93.3 so it doesn't take 4 signals just to cover huntsville with alabama games
 
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