Anyone listen to WAKY this weekend?
What new format goes on WRKA next week?
What new format goes on WRKA next week?
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talkproducer
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what the heck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when did WASE change to WAKY???? do they still play the same music?
Engineer and Rob.... When did this all come down??? Where were the calls?? Danville?? "M".. .Sorry I have not been in pocket when you called me.. I have been on the road for OCU.... MARATHON! 
The website says Friday at 5am.
On some skunkhole station.
Go OCU. Jennifer will be officially graduating from OCU in a few weeks. She passed on the ceremony. Took teh remaining classes at Ivy Tech.
On some skunkhole station.
Go OCU. Jennifer will be officially graduating from OCU in a few weeks. She passed on the ceremony. Took teh remaining classes at Ivy Tech.
Then the OCU family grows and the we always see graduation as a option.. With 600 grads in all our programs, statewide and two services on graduation Saturday, I was a LONG DAY for me... Looking for those smart kids who get involved and need money to go to school.. I even have pep band and cheerleading scholarships for those late bloomers that show progress and have good FAFSA support.. No noses allowed in the air.. Those don't last long.. Your better half was from OC, was she not??? Also, I will be relocating to OC as soon as I sell the house in Keystone.. I need to be closer... I will get with you on 'tower' talk, soon!
Your Bro. in the city of Oak... "Skip"
Your Bro. in the city of Oak... "Skip"
It makes marketing scene... But can the staff pull it off without the names the oldies fans expect from those calls??? Time will tell... "Double-UUUUU-AAAAYYYY-KAAAAAAAY-WHHHYYYYYYYYY" Radclif..Humm? Louie-ville!" ;D
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skippertthomas said:
Did they bring back the old jingles, etc.? I'm not sure it's such a big deal that the "names" (I assume you mean the old WAKY jocks). These "let's bring the legendary call letters back" things are neat and cool for us but I'm not sure it really means much to most listeners. Does this station put much of a signal into Louisville?
Old WAKY Jingles are on the new incarnation. Sound like new jingles.
It sounds like WLS in the mid 1970's.
It sounds like WLS in the mid 1970's.
The jingles are a mix of brand new PAMS resings (done by JAM) and JAM jingles that were originally done in the mid- and late-70s. JAM went into their archives and furnished the station copies of the mono '70s stuff with noise reduction.
The resings include cuts from PAMS Series 27 and -- my all-time favorite WAKY jingle package -- The Philadelphia Story -- as well as a couple of other '60s PAMS packages.
The resings include cuts from PAMS Series 27 and -- my all-time favorite WAKY jingle package -- The Philadelphia Story -- as well as a couple of other '60s PAMS packages.
talkproducer said:
When Country WAKY/Springfield changed formats to AC and call letters to WYSB, the WAKY calls became available. I imagine the new WAKY expects WRKA to drop Oldies eventually.
This station sounds great in the car until you get between the 103.1 and 103.9 transmitter sites. It picket fences some then. Amazingly, it's 20 miles S of Louisville, but carries farther N of Louisville than WRKA. WRKA has a better signal in the center of town, while WAKY is probably better in most other places. If only one of the two Oldies stations survives, I hope it's 103.5 . I always liked them better than WRKA. And if it sounds like WLS 30 years ago, so much the better. Are they streaming by any chance?
One thing that is a joke is that 103.5 put HD radio on a few years ago. HD radio has a much smaller footprint than the main channel. With the rural area surrounding their transmitter, that was one colossal waste of money. HD is only going to work for the stations with transmitters that sit right in the midst of town. The rimshotters might as well save their money. This logic may change if the analog portion ever goes away & a 100% HD signal is aired. But I never expect to see that in my life time...
One thing that is a joke is that 103.5 put HD radio on a few years ago. HD radio has a much smaller footprint than the main channel. With the rural area surrounding their transmitter, that was one colossal waste of money. HD is only going to work for the stations with transmitters that sit right in the midst of town. The rimshotters might as well save their money. This logic may change if the analog portion ever goes away & a 100% HD signal is aired. But I never expect to see that in my life time...
Byron Crawford's column in today's Courier-Journal is about the new WAKY:
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=COLUMNISTS04
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=COLUMNISTS04
In case you missed the launch of the new 103-5 WAKY on May 11, you can download a scoped version of the first hour (which includes the last moments of WASE) from www.79WAKY.com.
I just tried to download it...says "oops...the page isn't there". Hopefully that will get fixed...I'd really enjoy hearing that.
The link is fixed.
If somebody wants links to hi-res MP3s of the last hour of WASE and the first hours of the WAKY, e-mail me at [email protected].
If somebody wants links to hi-res MP3s of the last hour of WASE and the first hours of the WAKY, e-mail me at [email protected].
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No offense, but I don't think WRKA spends 30 seconds a day worrying about what WASE (or WAKY) does.
Of course they don't...They've already dropped the term "oldies" and are on the way to Classic Hits via the "Greatest Hits Of The 60's & 70's" route. WGRR did it...WRKA will too. WAKY will own the Oldies format in the next 12 months IMHO...
On HD.. Still, with a male and military audience available around the 20 mile radius of the Radcliff-Fort Knox site.. It will still possibly bring benefits to the station... As HD slowly grows, so will reception ability and tuners will become affordable... Time will tell.. John.. I will ask for that, as a buff and secret admirer of WASE... [email protected] ... On the oldies - classic hits stuff... This could be a win-win in the next several years for both stations.. We see, as much as oldies purists hate WGRR in Cincy, they are garnering the audience they want and their 12+ numbers have returned to the top end of the market... Louisville will have the advantage of both oldies and classic hits on FM.... I only have a hole on 103.5 near the spagetti bowl on the Kentucky Side of the Kennedy Bridge...Would it be even 'cooler' if WAKY-FM could find a dead AM in the market to simulcast on??? Humm?
That's where I get the flutter on WAKY...just a mile or so south of the river on 65...and it's not terrible. But it's quite good every where else I have been.
From what I'm hearing, the useful range of HD with a typical antenna is somewhat less than the 70db contour. For a Class B, that's 21 miles. For a 6KW A, about 9 miles. For a C3 (I think that's Kentucky's version of a B1), it would be between the two. I tend to agree that we are on the early part of the curve as far as receivers go (same logic applies to HDTV receivers IMHO). But until the full ERP of any given station is applied to the HD signal, the fact is that the HD ERP is only a few percent of the main channel ERP and that pretty well rules out any building penetration possibilities. I hope the day comes that stations will be given the option to go full power HD radio (as much as I dislike HD radio in the first place). A station with a 1 share analog converted to full HD ERP could, at some point in the receiver saturation process, be on a more level playing field than now.
Lord knows there are enough underperforming AM's (and FM's) in that market...you wouldn't think it would be too tough to pair one up with WAKY. But with their 103.5 signal, they are still far better at night than WAKY was in it's heyday...and what was WAKY pullling? 40 shares...50 shares?
From what I'm hearing, the useful range of HD with a typical antenna is somewhat less than the 70db contour. For a Class B, that's 21 miles. For a 6KW A, about 9 miles. For a C3 (I think that's Kentucky's version of a B1), it would be between the two. I tend to agree that we are on the early part of the curve as far as receivers go (same logic applies to HDTV receivers IMHO). But until the full ERP of any given station is applied to the HD signal, the fact is that the HD ERP is only a few percent of the main channel ERP and that pretty well rules out any building penetration possibilities. I hope the day comes that stations will be given the option to go full power HD radio (as much as I dislike HD radio in the first place). A station with a 1 share analog converted to full HD ERP could, at some point in the receiver saturation process, be on a more level playing field than now.
Lord knows there are enough underperforming AM's (and FM's) in that market...you wouldn't think it would be too tough to pair one up with WAKY. But with their 103.5 signal, they are still far better at night than WAKY was in it's heyday...and what was WAKY pullling? 40 shares...50 shares?
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