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Waky fm

I don't see them spreading the same format out onto yet another translator. With what they've got now, 103.5 and 100.1 (and I guess the AM station, but I doubt anybody intentionally listens to that one with the FMs there) do an adequate job of covering Louisville. I can usually pick up either one perfectly fine anywhere in the city. And that also seems like something that wouldn't exactly be a big announcement.

I would love to see a format split on WAKY. They're too broad with their 60s-80s playlist, it would be nice if that could be split in half over two separate stations. I don't see that happening either though (since it would require doing double the work with probably much less than double the payoff), but it would be nice. Then again, they would have to be using that translator for something, so who knows. Maybe not necessarily my idea, but to create something new with a different format.
 
The more I think about it,I think the announcement will be that another DJ from the past from either WAKY or WKLO will be joining the air staff.Since they say it will be a "major" announcement maybe it will be Gary Major :)
What I would like is for the station to tighten up their playlist.I would love to hear hits only from 1975-1995 on WAKY.
 
radiofan502 said:
The more I think about it,I think the announcement will be that another DJ from the past from either WAKY or WKLO will be joining the air staff.Since they say it will be a "major" announcement maybe it will be Gary Major :)
What I would like is for the station to tighten up their playlist.I would love to hear hits only from 1975-1995 on WAKY.
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See, one thing I like about WAKY is the fact that the playlist is so broad. 107.7 has the 200 song playlist down to an artform and they do very well with it, but I can't listen to them for very long.
 
Dan76 said:
See, one thing I like about WAKY is the fact that the playlist is so broad. 107.7 has the 200 song playlist down to an artform and they do very well with it, but I can't listen to them for very long.
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They could pull off a broad playlist with a narrowed emphasis on the years. I feel like there is a dividing line somewhere around the late 70s that divides "oldies" and "classic hits" (even though it is all called "classic hits" now). WAKY started out oldies and has slowly been drifting into more and more classic hits, aside from the weekends of course when they're more true oldies. I can't stand listening to it on the weekends, but I'm sure that does well with some audiences or otherwise they wouldn't do it. And I'm sure some of the ones there for the oldies are getting tired of what is going on weekdays with more of the classic hits.

It would be good to have two stations: something with the oldies (going through about the late 70s) and something else (as somebody else mentioned) with "classic hits" (late 70s through early 90s... in fact, one of the classic hits stations that I listen to out of Columbus, IN and actually can be heard over the air in parts of Louisville, WWWY, plays stuff like Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls and Hootie and the Blowfish, and they manage to make it work with the Hall and Oates and such). They could keep the WAKY name for the oldies and do something else for the rest. I don't think they'll do what I'd like to see, but it would probably keep audiences tuning in more consistently if they did. With all of this translator stuff going around, there is no telling what they could do.
 
Split the AM and one of the translators and bring back lateral replay like the old KJ100.
 
sdskees said:
They could pull off a broad playlist with a narrowed emphasis on the years. I feel like there is a dividing line somewhere around the late 70s that divides "oldies" and "classic hits" (even though it is all called "classic hits" now). WAKY started out oldies and has slowly been drifting into more and more classic hits, aside from the weekends of course when they're more true oldies. I can't stand listening to it on the weekends, but I'm sure that does well with some audiences or otherwise they wouldn't do it. And I'm sure some of the ones there for the oldies are getting tired of what is going on weekdays with more of the classic hits.

It would be good to have two stations: something with the oldies (going through about the late 70s) and something else (as somebody else mentioned) with "classic hits" (late 70s through early 90s... in fact, one of the classic hits stations that I listen to out of Columbus, IN and actually can be heard over the air in parts of Louisville, WWWY, plays stuff like Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls and Hootie and the Blowfish, and they manage to make it work with the Hall and Oates and such). They could keep the WAKY name for the oldies and do something else for the rest. I don't think they'll do what I'd like to see, but it would probably keep audiences tuning in more consistently if they did. With all of this translator stuff going around, there is no telling what they could do.
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I live in Southern Indiana and get WWWY very clear. I listen to them 90% of the time, since WQMF's fiasco. Not only do they play those songs listed above, they also play harder songs than most traditional classic hits stations. They often play Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls, AC/DC, Ted Nugent etc. .... and somehow it works. This is the direction WQMF should have gone.
 
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