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True Oldies in FWB/PC/Pensacola
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Well rob....you are being consistent.....wrong again....590 is WDIZ in Panama City......we do not run "True Oldies"....the format is satellite delivered and is from Dial Global....the format is called "Adult Standards".....not true oldies....I believe True Oldies is distributed by ABC and is produced by Scott Shannon. I am sure I will be corrected by the peanut gallery if I am wrong.
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Maybe Castro's "tick tock" station on 590 decided to experiment with that terrible, capitalist, American "Rock and Roll!" ;D
There's obviously nothing
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Tibbs...thanks for that refreshing post !! Obviously, rob doesn't know that "True Oldies" (which is how he started this post) is a copyrighted trademark for ABC's satellite fed Oldies service. If he didn't want all of the response, he shouldn't have used the term "True Oldies".....hell, I thought rob was trying to show some knowledge of the industry by using the term....but he just pulled it out of his butt and didn't even know what he had stumbled upon.
So, as it happens, there IS a "True Oldies" affiliate within almost-earshot of Rob--the Mighty 930/WMGR in lovely, picturesque & historic Bainbridge, Georgia. With 5-kw @ 930 kHz, 'MGR booms out across the peanut fields of SW GA--but, of course, given The World's Worst Ground Conductivity, Rob may have to string antenna wire up into the backyard trees in order to hear the SOB. Or maybe drive up to beautiful Marianna (motto: "The Panhandle's Prison Capital"--because, of course, no town willingly lets the state build prisons there if they can attract any other kind of industry). But I'm betting that he can hear True Oldies through the AM Noise Curtain up there in Jackson County.
(But, yes, Rob--there are a number of stations that play older songs--whether they call their format "Oldies," "Adult Standards," or "Old Shit Aimed At Eighty-Year Olds").
(But, yes, Rob--there are a number of stations that play older songs--whether they call their format "Oldies," "Adult Standards," or "Old Shit Aimed At Eighty-Year Olds").
Now for an educational lesson:
To those reading:
Yes True Oldies is programmed by Scott Shannon and is owned by ABC Radio. I can get their Tuscaloosa Alabama station at 1150 AM. This station booms out a powerful 25,000 watt signal during the daytime.
A True Oldies station caters to music from the early days of Rock 'N" Roll (50s to the early 70s).
A Classic Hits station caters to music from the 60s to the early 90s (Mostly Rock tunes, with some even playing Disco, Classic 80s Pop and Classic Country).
An Adult Standards station caters to music from the Big Band and Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll era mixed in with some softer AC songs from the more recent past.
Hope that this lesson will teach everyone the basics on the various kinds of "Oldies Stations" that exists on the radio.
I would know these differences, because we have at least one representation of each style in my particular market.
R.D.P. <><
To those reading:
Yes True Oldies is programmed by Scott Shannon and is owned by ABC Radio. I can get their Tuscaloosa Alabama station at 1150 AM. This station booms out a powerful 25,000 watt signal during the daytime.
A True Oldies station caters to music from the early days of Rock 'N" Roll (50s to the early 70s).
A Classic Hits station caters to music from the 60s to the early 90s (Mostly Rock tunes, with some even playing Disco, Classic 80s Pop and Classic Country).
An Adult Standards station caters to music from the Big Band and Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll era mixed in with some softer AC songs from the more recent past.
Hope that this lesson will teach everyone the basics on the various kinds of "Oldies Stations" that exists on the radio.
I would know these differences, because we have at least one representation of each style in my particular market.
R.D.P. <><
Rob, I need some of the stuff you've been smoking, my stash isn't that good.
590 out of Panama City is, and has been, standards for a very long time. 590 has a very good signal along the highway 98 corridor all the way to Mobile Bay. Some people were confused and were reporting that they believed FEMA had put up a repeater of the United Radio Broadcasters of New Orleans in the Slidell after Katrina when they were really picking up 590 from Panama City over in the Bayou. I'm sure that any station you hear on 590 is the Panama City station. 590 is one of the few stations with more nighttime power than daytime power, not that it helps out reception over here, but they do not power down at night like most every other AM station.
1450 from Pensacola plays sanitized commercial free adult contemporary music with their main artist being Lionel Ritchie. It's quite possible that they haven't updated their music library since 1990, making those '80's songs qualify as oldies now. I have to assume their target audience is the student and faculty population of PCC. If you can stand to listen to 1450, I need some of that stuff you're smokin'!
1620 is in a state of flux. They still have Pensacola blanketed with billboards for the old news shows that they no longer carry. I still hear talk shows (Ramsey, etc...) or Fox Sports radio whenever I tune in. Are you reporting that they are filling in some blank space with oldies? That would be some refreshing news. Has anyone else heard oldies on WNRP?
You completely skipped 1490 from Milton. They're the closest you're going to get to a standards/oldies station that you could pick up. Besides 1490 from Milton and 590 from Panama City, which are more standards than oldies, there aren't any oldies stations here. I'm not sure what the two DeFuniak Springs AMs are playing now, sometimes they play oldies.
Also, Redneck is right on with WMGR 930 from Bainbridge, GA covering the Florida prison preservation district with a remarkable signal for 5000 watts in that part of the country. They are a true "Scott Shannon True Oldies" station. I usually tune them in on I-10 between Bonifay and Marriana and keep them on until I get home in Bainbridge. They make movies about the "Florida prison preservation district," check out "Chattahoochee" and "Vernon, Florida" (a true cult classic) next time you're in the dvd store. Actually, both of these movies could probably be purchased online for less than $10 each.
590 out of Panama City is, and has been, standards for a very long time. 590 has a very good signal along the highway 98 corridor all the way to Mobile Bay. Some people were confused and were reporting that they believed FEMA had put up a repeater of the United Radio Broadcasters of New Orleans in the Slidell after Katrina when they were really picking up 590 from Panama City over in the Bayou. I'm sure that any station you hear on 590 is the Panama City station. 590 is one of the few stations with more nighttime power than daytime power, not that it helps out reception over here, but they do not power down at night like most every other AM station.
1450 from Pensacola plays sanitized commercial free adult contemporary music with their main artist being Lionel Ritchie. It's quite possible that they haven't updated their music library since 1990, making those '80's songs qualify as oldies now. I have to assume their target audience is the student and faculty population of PCC. If you can stand to listen to 1450, I need some of that stuff you're smokin'!
1620 is in a state of flux. They still have Pensacola blanketed with billboards for the old news shows that they no longer carry. I still hear talk shows (Ramsey, etc...) or Fox Sports radio whenever I tune in. Are you reporting that they are filling in some blank space with oldies? That would be some refreshing news. Has anyone else heard oldies on WNRP?
You completely skipped 1490 from Milton. They're the closest you're going to get to a standards/oldies station that you could pick up. Besides 1490 from Milton and 590 from Panama City, which are more standards than oldies, there aren't any oldies stations here. I'm not sure what the two DeFuniak Springs AMs are playing now, sometimes they play oldies.
Also, Redneck is right on with WMGR 930 from Bainbridge, GA covering the Florida prison preservation district with a remarkable signal for 5000 watts in that part of the country. They are a true "Scott Shannon True Oldies" station. I usually tune them in on I-10 between Bonifay and Marriana and keep them on until I get home in Bainbridge. They make movies about the "Florida prison preservation district," check out "Chattahoochee" and "Vernon, Florida" (a true cult classic) next time you're in the dvd store. Actually, both of these movies could probably be purchased online for less than $10 each.
Wow...poledo, I just mentioned "Vernon, Florida" to someone at lunch today...that is weird....and you are right about 590 rebroadcasting "United Broadcasters of New Orleans".
I picked up the signal from UBNO (actually coming out of Clear Channel Baton Rouge, where Clear Channel and Entercom set up studios for UBNO after Katrina) via Premiere Radio's satellite facilities and patched it straight into the WDIZ STL. We remained at 2.5kw NON directional for over 3 weeks so that our signal could be heard all along the Gulf Coast. 590 has a helluva signal all the way to Cameron LA during the day as long as you stay close to the coast.
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I picked up the signal from UBNO (actually coming out of Clear Channel Baton Rouge, where Clear Channel and Entercom set up studios for UBNO after Katrina) via Premiere Radio's satellite facilities and patched it straight into the WDIZ STL. We remained at 2.5kw NON directional for over 3 weeks so that our signal could be heard all along the Gulf Coast. 590 has a helluva signal all the way to Cameron LA during the day as long as you stay close to the coast.
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During the daytime, I could hear 590 just fine on my car radio from Ocean Springs, MS. I'm guessing the higher nighttime authorization is to overcome interference from the Cuban station on that frequency (?)
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620-St. Petersburg does that also. They were getting completely clobbered inside the Tampa/St. Pete metro by the Cuban 620. The FCC granted them an emergency power increase to 10kW nights (still at 5kW days.) Not sure if this is still in effect (?)
robfwb said:
not quite yet fireball...
see other posts re: Bainbridge, GA...what's that, about a 2 day drive?
The "Dead Thread" was the one where I was picking up an echo of 1450 on 530 with a cheapo radio at my office about 1 mile from the transmitter, right? It took me weeks to identify the station because I would fall asleep before they would break for an ID and they never played commercials.
Is there another recent post about Bainbridge or did I miss an inside joke?
There's recorded evidence on this board that it does indeed take Rob about 2 weeks to get to Bainbridge when his mule is healthy, but it's only a 2 hour drive down I-10 from Pensacola if you don't have to stop for gas or groceries. If gas would go back to $1 a gallon and it was legal for me to work in Florida and live out of state, I'd move there permanently.
It's horrible that it's going to take me longer to drive to Panama City next week than it would take me to drive to Georgia.
I need to pick up a copy of Vernon, Florida on DVD, the VHS versions I've seen had muddy sound. That movie is just so real it's scary. Of course, none of the people I know around here are true locals, so they all think it's a joke.
Is there another recent post about Bainbridge or did I miss an inside joke?
There's recorded evidence on this board that it does indeed take Rob about 2 weeks to get to Bainbridge when his mule is healthy, but it's only a 2 hour drive down I-10 from Pensacola if you don't have to stop for gas or groceries. If gas would go back to $1 a gallon and it was legal for me to work in Florida and live out of state, I'd move there permanently.
It's horrible that it's going to take me longer to drive to Panama City next week than it would take me to drive to Georgia.
I need to pick up a copy of Vernon, Florida on DVD, the VHS versions I've seen had muddy sound. That movie is just so real it's scary. Of course, none of the people I know around here are true locals, so they all think it's a joke.
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