Virginia/Dallas Texas Radio

[shadough]

hmmm. someone posted a thread w/ a title but no content??

I'll chime in on this....
the only Dallas Texas station/network in Virginia that *I* know of is Q96, WGRQ Fredricksburg. Which 'used to be' the "All hit radio" channel from Dallas, later changed to "The Heat". And when everyone was dumping the CHR format in the early 90s, 'The Heat' became an oldies format. Q96 is STILL an oldies station today, allthough I think they actually HAVE at least some air staff now. Not sure if they are still streaming that Dallas channel or not, my guess is yes, at least for overnights.


I know when I was listening to Q96 in the late 80s, I was fooled. I actually beleived Vic Saint John, Jason Taylor & Monty Foster (MoFo) were actually working in Fredericksburg. Boy was I gullable.

 

[kg4qwr]

Q96 several years ago was known as "Rockin' Oldies 95.9" with a satellite feed from ABC Radio Networks' Oldies format. They then brought in Jim Herring from Richmond for a live shift from 3-7PM. About three or maybe four years ago, Telemedia Broadcasting changed the format to include all live or voice-tracked programs (outside of Tom Kent in the evening and other weekend programs). During the weekdays now, about 75% of the daytime material is live (the other 25% being when Kristin voice tracks her 10-3 shift rather than be live). The weekends are just about all voice-tracked, but everything is now local. Hope this sheds light on the station.


Jeffrey

 

[kris-alyx]

if we're talking about virginia station that were broadcasted from texas how in hades could anyone forget Z-ROCK their only station in virginia was 92.1 WTZR norfolk

 

[VARTV]

if we're talking about virginia station that were broadcasted from texas how in hades could anyone forget Z-ROCK their only station in virginia was 92.1 WTZR norfolk

I couldn't forget... Z-Rock replaced WOFM...

 

[mleach]

Q96 several years ago was known as "Rockin' Oldies 95.9" with a satellite feed from ABC Radio Networks' Oldies format.

Jeffrey

That would be the ABC/SMN "Good Time Rock and Roll" format and Fredericksburg wasn't the only place to get that either. Between 1990 and 2000 that very same satellite feed found its way to FOUR different radio stations in just the Harrisonburg-Winchester area alone.

1990-1991..First it was used on Mount Jackson's WSVG-AM. The feed wasn't automated at all other than the legal ID. The jocks from WSIG would walk across the hall, pod down whatever was on the air and play the spots and then after that, they would pod up whatever the network was feeding, yes often in the middle of a song. This would go on all day long.

Harrisonburg"s WBOP-FM 106.3 I believe used the feed a year later ( 1993 ? ) but I am not sure if WBOP only used it for overnights or for other dayparts but I do remember WBOP's bumper stickers at the time sporting the phrase "Good Time rock and Roll".

in the mid 90s, the Winchester area's WAPP 104.9/105.5 picked it up and it was a mix of live and local and the SMN feed. At first WAPP was live only between 10am and Noon with The Coffee Break hosted by Craig Orndorff. Then other shifts would be added like mornings with "Crusin Susan", Shae Parker and the late Scott Goens. All of this would end by 1998 when Winchester's WINC-FM bought the station and they went "Apple Country". However not long after WAPP dropped "Good Time Rock and Roll", Front Royal's WZRV 95.3 picked it up. In WZRV's case only the mornings and afternoons were live, with mostly former Q102 staff doing the shows like Randy Woodward, Jimmy Lee, Warren Gosnell and Mario Ratrosi appearing on there. Lonnie Hill who goes back to the days of WFTR was and still is on WZRV. There was a rumor for a time that Randy's wife Jenny Lynn would be doing middays on 95.3 after her "Apple Country" experience but that never happened, instead she got a job at a Food Lion supermarket instead. I believe WZRV has since dropped the ABC/SMN feed and gone with someone else.

Then there is this...when WAPP was part of the Good Time Rock and roll network, one of the WAPP board-ops also worked at Q102 doing some board op-ing there. When Winchester's 610 was looking for a format to replace their 24/7 CNN Headline News feed ( 610 CNN ), the board-op thought it would be a good idea for 610 to pick up the Good Time Rock and Roll feed. However instead of talking to WUSQ managment about his idea, he took it upon himself to contact SMN/ABC in Dallas, Texas. ABC/SMN then calls up WUSQ ( they weren't very happy talking to board-ops on programming issues ) and WUSQ fired the board-op for doing this. And in classic text book "some people never learn" the very same board-op got a job at Martinsburg's WRNR-AM 740 and did the same thing there too and like what happened at WUSQ, WRNR fired him.