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WAMS 1260 and WRJE 1600

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PaulBWalkerJr

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I had no idea, but check this link:http://www.trueoldieschannel.com/html/stations.htmlApperently these stations are affiliates of Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. I'm willing to bet it's because it requires little or no local origination. Read the New jersey affiliate...... For one thing, these stations have no local phone number. I beleive one number that is/was lsited for them goes to a fax machine. Secondly, the stations are in horrible technical shape.Thirdly..... I beleive both stations might be off the air. I'm NOT sure on that.
 
No, they are not off the air. And they have been discussed at length here for months.First you bump and old thread up to the top with "I'm confused."Now you may get the WAMS cult groupies gushing again with "I'm NOT sure on that."Thank you very much.And what was the point of your post any way?All 24/7 satellite-delivered formats require "little or no local origination."ABC. Westwood One. Jones Radio. There's no shortage and you're getting the news maybe 15 years late.If you are doing morning drive out there in North Dakota, how come you have so much time to post in the morning?
 
As for what I do in the morning, as long as I get my job done... that's none of your concern.Other stuff will come to light about WRJE and WAMS soon..
 
It's a station few can receive and to which nobody listens.It probably has more people posting about it than actually tuned in.People talk about Julius going on about his topics; the WAMS cult is just as obsessed.Now this guy from North Dakota has rattled the cage of the WAMS groupies and...THEY'RE BACK!.Maybe this guy is going crazy out there on the North Dakota moonscape playing country music for the cows and tried to call WAMS for a job.Unless he's willing to pay them, forget it. Scott is free and automation is easy.I notice Scott Shannon's website also claims he has an affiliate called WAMS 1600 downashore in the Wildwood and Cape May area. Geez. Now I've gotten sucked in to talking about WAMS. Couldn't we keep this stuff on the Delaware board (now that we have one)?
 
So, one posting from a radio afficiando in Connecticut is considered a groupie? Just because we might like something you dont..... I guess that makes us a groupie.
 
Ah, my favorite topic!By the way, WAMS WAS off the air yesterday and was this morning.Last week, V/T djs. This week, Scott Shannon True Oldies in the afternoon (that is until yesterday when it was all static-all the time).One line-up one day, something else the next. Off at least one day a week, sometimes two days. Kids running a pirate station out of their bedroom sound more professional!
 
Local telephone number for WAMS is 302-455-WAMS (9267), this is the week that WAMS moves to it's new tower site. 1600 WRJE is not owned or operated by WAMS. It was sold off last year.
 
I actually listened to "WAMS" online yesterday and even their dial-up stream sounded nice. The jingles definately had that 60s feeling to em and the music was good!
 
Number 92

Above is the 91st WAMS post (at least since older posts were deleted from the board a few months ago). ???91 posts for a nothing station in Newark - not even in the Philadelphia market - that doesn't even reach downtown Wilmington and doesn't show up in the Wilmington book.Just when you thought it was safe again....Now some guy comes in claiming to be from North Dakota and brings WAMS back on the board.This is all too strange. I smell fake.
 
This will make your day as you'd probably consider me to be the original WAMS groupie. I know from talking to John, the guy who sometimes does an afternoon show from 11am-2pm and sometimes doesn't that quite often he's out on the road as the station's sales person so that's why he doesn't always do a live and local show. Unfortunately, if he's out on the road and the station goes off the air, well, I guess it stays off the air until he gets back. No doubt this is a real mom and pop, run on a shoe string budget, fly by the seat of your pants radio station. I agree that they should quit switching things around where one day Scott Shannon and the next day at that same time slot is their computer. Make a decision and stay with it. I agree with the person from North Dakota, that WAMS' music is great. When I'm in the mood for Oldies, I'd rather put up with their lack of technical know how and hear great oldies vs the superior station that plays the same 150 day in and day out that is Philly's big time oldies station. Who knows, with more and more people listening to radio/music online, WAMS might end up pulling in better numbers from online listeners than over the air listeners. I've heard that some stations do actually program spots just for their online listeners that do not go out over the air waves (the over the air listener may hear a different spot). Maybe this will be the "salvation" for AM radio, as the online sound is far better than the over the air AM sound. There, now you have the 92 posting for a station that has great music, but has a poor on air signal, but is on line so it can be heard around the world. Maybe someday, someone will figure out a way to have internet wireless anywhere so that these online stations would be available even in your car. Would satellite radio be able to compete with portable internet radio?
 
Why don't you go back to Bedrock, Fred Flintstone!!!! I've known Paul for 6 years. And I can tell you where he has worked for those 6 years.He did some fill-in work at WICH/WNLC in New London, Connecicut. He ran his own Part 15 radio station. He was a Voicetracked jock on an internet Smooth Jazz Station. He worked at WQMS in Marks, Mississippi. He was the co-host of an alternative lifestyle internet radio show. He was the co-host of a political talk show on WXCT Hartford/WARL Providence. He worked at WTIR in Cocoa Beach Florida. And now he works at Thunder Country in North Dakota.
 
Then why is he a [******* *****], who is always getting into my space with his smart remarks.[EDIT*=name calling]
 
Ok, Mark. He's a great guy. I get it. This topic has been beaten to death. At one point, the majority of threads on page one of this board were WAMS. Nothing new or different has happened with WAMS since then. It's an automated tin-can-and-string running a 24/7 satellite format. It can not be received clearly in much of the Wilmington market - let alone the Philadelphia market. It has no measurable audience. It is not worth talking about AGAIN on the Delaware board - let alone here.Mike From Delaware has a fondness for underdog radio stations. I can relate to that, although I think he gives WAMS too much undeserved praise in his eagerness to have them succeed. But why should anybody in North Dakota - who has not worked in this market, according to you - care about this flea bite station? His interest can't be about a unique opportunity to listen to Scott Shannon's program; stations much closer to North Dakota than Newark carry it. Scott Shannon's "True Oldies" audio stream is available online directly from his own True Oldies website and from two other stations (Chicago and Danbury, CT). The music is generic late-boomer oldies with no local flavor. Just in the Chicago market, Shannon's format is not a pimple on WRLL, with a true real oldies playlist, legendary Top 40 jocks and local flavor. In Wilmington, WVLT has better sound, a better signal, local-live programming, local flavor and also a real oldies playlist - not the vanilla oldies sound of the satellite-delivered one-size-fits-all oldies formats (including Shannon).PS: Stations may not broadcast ad agency spots (which use AFTRA talent) online without paying a fee. To avoid the fee, most stations cover their spots with music bridges, PSAs or dead air. A few actually go out and sell spots on the audio stream and treat the audio stream as a potential revenue stream. And one rotund ex-Wilmington program director just went ahead and ran his former station's audio stream commercials and all. With so few listeners, nobody noticed. With so few commercials, nobody cared.
 
Actually.. it didn't sound like Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel when I listened the past few days..
 
MikefromDelaware said:
This will make your day as you'd probably consider me to be the original WAMS groupie. I know from talking to John, the guy who sometimes does an afternoon show from 11am-2pm and sometimes doesn't that quite often he's out on the road as the station's sales person so that's why he doesn't always do a live and local show. Unfortunately, if he's out on the road and the station goes off the air, well, I guess it stays off the air until he gets back. No doubt this is a real mom and pop, run on a shoe string budget, fly by the seat of your pants radio station. I agree that they should quit switching things around where one day Scott Shannon and the next day at that same time slot is their computer. Make a decision and stay with it. I agree with the person from North Dakota, that WAMS' music is great. When I'm in the mood for Oldies, I'd rather put up with their lack of technical know how and hear great oldies vs the superior station that plays the same 150 day in and day out that is Philly's big time oldies station. Who knows, with more and more people listening to radio/music online, WAMS might end up pulling in better numbers from online listeners than over the air listeners. I've heard that some stations do actually program spots just for their online listeners that do not go out over the air waves (the over the air listener may hear a different spot). Maybe this will be the "salvation" for AM radio, as the online sound is far better than the over the air AM sound. There, now you have the 92 posting for a station that has great music, but has a poor on air signal, but is on line so it can be heard around the world. Maybe someday, someone will figure out a way to have internet wireless anywhere so that these online stations would be available even in your car. Would satellite radio be able to compete with portable internet radio?
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I guess the women situation is bad back there too.
 
Re: WAMS DOCE SESENTA

Apparently WAMS remains dark. Word on the Delaware board is when it comes back it will be en espanol.

Can't they even make it though one whole ratings period with the same format?

Oldies Fans: 92.1 FM will welcome you back.
 
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