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WAMO

It's not Christians, but those who identify Christianity and conservative broadcasts as one and the same. "Liberals" can be Christians too, by golly. Christians might not find Boss Limbough particularly Christian.
 
Where did I equate the programming on 104.7 to Christianity?

Where do you think others are?

Do liberals equate the programming on Air America to Christianity?
 
Pratte4Life said:
Where did I equate the programming on 104.7 to Christianity?

Where do you think others are?

Do liberals equate the programming on Air America to Christianity?
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I have no idea where you're coming from with that last one...but it might help you to know that AAR carries a religious-themed show called "State of Belief", hosted by Rev. Welton Gaddy.
 
I see another thread on this board was locked after someone posted "good riddance" to WAMO.
I was never much of a WAMO listener, but it's passing is a sad day in Pittsburgh broadcasting history.
The station had a major impact here, dating all the way back to the WHOD days when Porky Chedwick
first started pushing against taboo cultural barriers. And it's passing does leave a sizeable portion of our
community feeling that they are not being served by anybody on the radio dial.

Not to mention, when I lived in other states and mentioned to people that the urban station back
home was WAMO, they all agreed that was just about the coolest set of call letters they'd ever heard.
 
Fred- I think it could be argued the station that pushed taboo cultural barriers has been long gone. WAMO was no more that station than B-94 is the station it was in 1959.

As far as a sizeable portion of our community feeling they are no longer served on the radio dial- I'll save them a seat next to me.

I'm sitting over here next to the classic country fan. The jazz fan. The classical fan. The fan of '80s hair bands. The fans of disco. The fans of folk. The female fans of modern rock. The bluegrass fans . . .

Just don't steal my seat. I'm getting up to get my friend MsMusicRadio, the doo-wop fan, a cup of coffee while we wait, presumably for the rest of our lives, to have our tastes satisfied by local commercial radio.
 
Pratte4Life said:
Fred- I think it could be argued the station that pushed taboo cultural barriers has been long gone. WAMO was no more that station than B-94 is the station it was in 1959.
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Aside from the fact that B94 didn't exist in 1959, I get your point a little bit. But only a little. What we really lost is the station that served their community with class and quality with personalities like Hal Brown, Del king and John Anthony. And the station continued musically to accurately reflect the culture of its audience, and play what they wanted to hear, up until its demise.

Pratte4Life said:
As far as a sizeable portion of our community feeling they are no longer served on the radio dial- I'll save them a seat next to me.

I'm sitting over here next to the classic country fan. The jazz fan. The classical fan. The fan of '80s hair bands. The fans of disco. The fans of folk. The female fans of modern rock. The bluegrass fans . . .

Just don't steal my seat. I'm getting up to get my friend MsMusicRadio, the doo-wop fan, a cup of coffee while we wait, presumably for the rest of our lives, to have our tastes satisfied by local commercial radio.
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The big difference is that WAMO had an audience. Everything you listed is either a long-gone fad or never had a mass appeal audience in the first place. You can't equate this with the fact that there's no room for micro-niche formats on the conventional dial... that's what satellite and the internet are for these days.

And yet, they all perished for the same reason...no business. It would be an interesting case study to now see if Urban can be viable in markets smaller that the top 10 if that market is not at least 20-25% African-American (meaning a bigger portion of the business community is as well, or at least that they would more aggressively market to that population).
 
Pratte4Life said:
Fred- I think it could be argued the station that pushed taboo cultural barriers has been long gone. WAMO was no more that station than B-94 is the station it was in 1959.

As far as a sizeable portion of our community feeling they are no longer served on the radio dial- I'll save them a seat next to me.

I'm sitting over here next to the classic country fan. The jazz fan. The classical fan. The fan of '80s hair bands. The fans of disco. The fans of folk. The female fans of modern rock. The bluegrass fans . . .

Just don't steal my seat. I'm getting up to get my friend MsMusicRadio, the doo-wop fan, a cup of coffee while we wait, presumably for the rest of our lives, to have our tastes satisfied by local commercial radio.
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The African-American community loses a radio station, and that's somehow equated to a lack of bluegrass music on radio? Wow.
 
Personnally, I'm still scratching my head at why the African-American community still sat by and said nothing. One gets the feeling that sooner or later that they will be crying wolf that don't have a R&B outlet in Pittsburgh and everyone who post here will point out the reason why time and time again. I guarantee you that the words "I told you so" will be played out like a Lil' Wayne track.
 
Pratte4Life said:
Fred- I think it could be argued the station that pushed taboo cultural barriers has been long gone.
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Yes, and the station that first broadcast the Harding-Cox Election Returns seems like it's been running
Tradio and Ask the Dog Groomer since 1994!
 
In 1959, B-94 was WKJF playing B/EZ and possibly the only FM in Pittsburgh with it's own programming. WLOA (96.9) was classical, but had the same programming on 1550. If I remember right!
 
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