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Joseph_Gallant
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It's beginning to look like fans of any kind of music may not have many choices on the radio in Washington.
Consider:
(1) Bonneville moved clssical-formatted WGMS to two rimshot signals, and all-news WTOP moved from AM to FM, on the old WGMS frequency of 103.5.
(2) Washington is one of those cities with a "Free FM" talk station.
(3) In recent years, noncommercial WAMU-88.5 and WETA-90.9 dropped formats of mostly bluegrass and classical, respectively, to go to NPR news/information.
(4) And now reports that WBIG-100.3's oldies format may be "blown up", with one Radio-Info.com contributor thinking that WBIG could go sports talk (Personally, I think "general-interest" talk could be another possibility; see the thread I've started on that possibility elsewhere on this board).
(5) WTOP's all-news format is leaving 107.7 in Warrenton, but it's being flipped not to music, but to another talk-type format, "Washington Post Radio" (simulcast with 1500 on the AM dial; the former home of WTOP).
Is it my illusion, or could Washington soon have the fewest number of music-formatted radio stations of any major market?? And could this trend spread elsewhere??
Remember this: It's very difficult to listen to live talk programming on an I-Pod or an MP-3 player unless it also includes a radio.
Consider:
(1) Bonneville moved clssical-formatted WGMS to two rimshot signals, and all-news WTOP moved from AM to FM, on the old WGMS frequency of 103.5.
(2) Washington is one of those cities with a "Free FM" talk station.
(3) In recent years, noncommercial WAMU-88.5 and WETA-90.9 dropped formats of mostly bluegrass and classical, respectively, to go to NPR news/information.
(4) And now reports that WBIG-100.3's oldies format may be "blown up", with one Radio-Info.com contributor thinking that WBIG could go sports talk (Personally, I think "general-interest" talk could be another possibility; see the thread I've started on that possibility elsewhere on this board).
(5) WTOP's all-news format is leaving 107.7 in Warrenton, but it's being flipped not to music, but to another talk-type format, "Washington Post Radio" (simulcast with 1500 on the AM dial; the former home of WTOP).
Is it my illusion, or could Washington soon have the fewest number of music-formatted radio stations of any major market?? And could this trend spread elsewhere??
Remember this: It's very difficult to listen to live talk programming on an I-Pod or an MP-3 player unless it also includes a radio.