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WBGB-FM 106.5 will be...............

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mhsbroncos2005

.............Simulcasting WOKV starting at 5:00 am tomorrow morning............this is offical from Cox Radio as a news release was released on there website. So those who wish to have FM news/talk in Jacksonville is getting there wish tomorrow. I am sure they are going to dump the WBGB call sign.........it would make sense for them to put in WOKV-FM.

Again who would have guess that 106.5 would simulcast WOKV.....not me.........I would have thought of something good.......oh well...later.

Link to story: http://coxradio.com/investors/news_092006.html
 
So I guess all the O & A hype lead many of us to conclude otherwise. I can understand why they are doing what they are doing- it's always about the almighty dollar. But after teasing the audience the way they did, I was expecting something new and different as they were proclaiming. Moving programing from one band to another is not that at all.

I think if they just made the switch, that would have been fine...I think I'll avoid the temptation next time in getting hype-hooked.....
 
Yeah, if that's all they had planned to do, there was no need to stunt. Non-N/T listeners would tune in Thursday morning, hear WOKV, and tune right out. I don't see how this will attract many more listeners, it will just make it easier or more pleasant for the P1's (that is, the right-wing fanatics, haha) to catch the night shows.

Anyway, can you really pick up 106.5 in an office building any easier than 690?
 
What a quick way to kill an old AM radio station, like a slow death. The question now is (drum roll): What will you do with a 50KW power eater whe the ratings go down. This may take a year or so, but they just shot themselves in the foot. Just a thought!!

Buzz
 
Well, I WAS going to 'sarcastically' spread an unfounded rumor that WOKV-FM would probably be the outcome, but got distracted with everyday life and didn't draft the post. I had no information to back it up. It was just my hunch. It didn't make much sense weighing all the other 'likely' format options. This didn't take into account offbeat formats that mom and pop owners use. A classic country station in Jax? Naw. Oldies (traditional) nope. Adult Standards... heck no. All won't sell according to the examples we see through the years. (remember AM 600 WPDQ Adult Standards in the early-mid 90s??).

Currently, it's WGBG for the 106.5 Calls. Recorded the TOH legal ID (actually making a pair of 45 minute airchecks this morning).

Tommy R. can confirm, I have an ever-growing audio clip of 106.5 legal IDs and airchecks. I started making airchecks in Jax in 1996...

Apparently, they're looking for an outlet for 690 to penetrate office buildings in the Downtown/Southside/Mandarin areas. Or perhaps they're experiencing some nasty power line noise issues there around Jax. I wouldn't think so, but can't be sure.

From the cheap seats in Palm Coast, FL; where I can only get the Lake City, FL 106.5 (pretty sketchy, but can make it out fine) and not one syllable of WBGB,

Rocky W. Shore
Palm Coast, FL
Broadcast Aircheck and ID Curator.
 
oldbuzzard said:
What a quick way to kill an old AM radio station, like a slow death. The question now is (drum roll): What will you do with a 50KW power eater whe the ratings go down. This may take a year or so, but they just shot themselves in the foot. Just a thought!!

Buzz
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Sorry to hear this. When I lived in Orlando, my car radio had a button on WOKV. Huge, heritage daytime signal (this was the original home of WAPE & The Greaseman, of course.)
 
The question now is (drum roll): What will you do with a 50KW power eater whe the ratings go down.
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Probably what 690 did between the AM demise of WAPE and the move of WOKV over from 600:

Paid religion (mid 80's), or a half-arsed format with lots of slimy infomercials (as in 690 in the early 90's) and the local yokels who've been brokering time oin 1010, 1530, 1570, 970, or whatever frequency is open.
 
I get the feeling that the vast majority of WOKV listeners will, out of habit, tune to AM and so I don't anticipate OKV potentially being in trouble even a year down the road. Cox Radio, I am sure, will do everything it can to protect that property.

For the music FM fans who occasionally tune into to talk, especailly when a big news event is happening, will find it easier to tune in via a simple car botton FM favorite preset. I just did. I dropped WKQL as I don't think I've listened to the station at all for over a month now. I may just put KQL on my FM2 favorites for station I rarely listen to.

This was the most financially sound choice Cox could gave made at this time. Who knows, maybe this was just to buy them time until they develop something else for 106.5. But in the meantime, they are in a win-win.
 
Not sure how many of you are old enough to remember, but WOKV was one of the first, well wayyy before the rest of the country, to try "Talk on FM", in early 1991, by putting their format on 100.7, displacing the short lived Oldies format on WIOI; "W-101"...It was also one of the first LMAs, when EZ Communications became one of the first broadcasters in the US to control programming on more than one FM in a market...The other FM they owned: WKQL/96.9....And now, 100.7 goes by what calls??

...riiiiight.....

Somewhere I have a tape of 100.7's first few days simulcasting WOKV (then on 600), and the combined "WOKV Jacksonville/WIOI Brunswick" ID. Frank Osborn owned IOI at the time. I couldn't quite understand how one company had 2 FMs, then I read in Billboard and Broadcasting what an LMA was...Then they let you own 2 FMs, then, well, then radio changed completely.
 
You seem to have a lot of information to share across the Florida boards. What part of the state do you live in? I'm from Orlando.

Welcome to Radio-Info too.
 
:D Nice way to kill an AM station.......................how much money did Cox spend do flip a switch? Tightwads and no creativity went into this move.
 
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