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WBUD also has Princeton University football, something not mentioned at top of page 2.
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Re: WBUD to go all sports Monday - End Of Mainstream Music on AM
WBUD is now running announcements by PD Eric Johnson that WBUD will become Fox Sports 1260 on Monday the 14th at noon due to 'increased demand' for sports talk radio (by the sales department?), and they thank the loyal listeners for their support over the years. The Sunday morning Sinatra show with Jack Pinto continues (wow, he's survived a long time there, although he left to do mornings at WBUX in Doylestown, Pa. for a time in the '80's and was the board op for the syndicated "Brooke & Roberta" show when WBUD ran it on tape delay). This is the last AM station I can pick up close to the old 'standard' AM station with news on the hour and 'adult' music around the clock that the dial was full of until a few years back (of course minus the personalities it had years ago before they were VT'ed then eliminated). WBUD changed the name of the format several times since this current music format started after the time as NBC-NIS and the simulcast of Kix 101 and a half but it was usually a mix of soft oldies and standards that made the pop charts in the '60's & -70's. Now any music left on AM is mixed in with talk shows and infomercials unless kiddy, Christian or foreign language formats.
WBUD is now running announcements by PD Eric Johnson that WBUD will become Fox Sports 1260 on Monday the 14th at noon due to 'increased demand' for sports talk radio (by the sales department?), and they thank the loyal listeners for their support over the years. The Sunday morning Sinatra show with Jack Pinto continues (wow, he's survived a long time there, although he left to do mornings at WBUX in Doylestown, Pa. for a time in the '80's and was the board op for the syndicated "Brooke & Roberta" show when WBUD ran it on tape delay). This is the last AM station I can pick up close to the old 'standard' AM station with news on the hour and 'adult' music around the clock that the dial was full of until a few years back (of course minus the personalities it had years ago before they were VT'ed then eliminated). WBUD changed the name of the format several times since this current music format started after the time as NBC-NIS and the simulcast of Kix 101 and a half but it was usually a mix of soft oldies and standards that made the pop charts in the '60's & -70's. Now any music left on AM is mixed in with talk shows and infomercials unless kiddy, Christian or foreign language formats.
John1 said:
"Increased demand"? You can get WFAN, WIP, the Nassau ESPN 1050 LMA and probably the Philly ESPN in BUD's area. So... yeah.
Speaking of WBUD, does anyone know whatever happened to Mike Landry? He was a midday jock at WBUD in the early 90s. He had a trivia contest called the "College of Knowledge" where listeners would win a prize and a WBU-Degree. I always found that kind of cool. I still have my WBU-Degree at home somewhere.
Mike still works there, I see him on the weekends now and then. Nice guy ! Mike has been there since the 70s. Second picture down, upper left corner ... he still looks the same 
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/wbud.html
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/wbud.html
Tom McNally said:Mike still works there, I see him on the weekends now and then. Nice guy ! Mike has been there since the 70s. Second picture down, upper left corner ... he still looks the same
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/wbud.html
Thanks for the info. Hopefully he survived the format switch and will stay with WBUD or Millenium in some capacity.
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