Just wondering if WCTT Radio - 680-AM - in Corbin, Kentucky is still going? I don't see much about that station on the internet information I have received. I know they used to be on the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network. That does remind me of a story about that station. I was traveling through Corbin and listening to the Reds game in San Francisco one Sunday afternoon in August many years ago. The Reds were trailing by only one run and had the bases loaded. With Frank Robinson at bat, WCTT cut in to announce there was a fire in downtown Corbin and switched to a station representative on the scene. Normally, smaller stations like that have only one man taking care of everything, so this on-the-spot report was something special even though it was interupting the Reds game broadcast. Upon finishing the report, the station swithced back into the Reds network feed and I heard the announcer say that was Robinson's fourth (or whatever the number was) career grandslam homerun. Yes. While WCTT was giving the news report on the fire, Robby had hit a grandslam to give the Reds the lead. They wound up winning by one run, but by that time, I was farther south and heard the end of the game on WNOX out of Knoxville. Just a past incident that I think of whenever I hear of Corbin, Kentucky and WCTT.
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WCTT 680 is still around. The last I heard, they were running adult standards.
You don't have to go to Corbin for that entertainment...it plays in southern Indiana every weekday on numerous AM dial positions...and a few FM's.history said:
I haven't heard one of those "Swap Shop" shows on radio for quite a while. I remember one that was called "Tradieo". Once while riding in a car south of Columbus, Ohio, I heard a show like this on a nearby AM station. In this one, the announcer was reading types of items for sale that had either been mailed in or telephoned in to the station. Someone was selling drapes and apparently had listed the measurements as 19 inches by 60 inches. The announcer, who of course was in the midst of reading all kinds of items, said, "we have a pair of 1960 drapes", making it sound like the year. The guy I was with in the car responded, "Sure, buddy. Drapes have years just like cars".
Closest one to Cincy is WSCH 99.3 Aurora which is audible in Cincinnati--theirs is around 6:15PM or 6:30PM. WJCP 1460 North Vernon,IN (9AM), WTRE 1330 Greensburg,IN (10AM), WSLM AM 1220/FM 97.9 Salem,IN and WZZB 1390 Seymour,IN (8:30AM) are just a few of the stations in southern IN that have dial a deal, tradio, swap shop, etc. WSLM's is by far the most 'old timey' of the bunch. You can hear the phone ring in the background! I think WSLM has 2 swap shops daily, but I don't recall their times.Cincinnati Kid said:
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WMMG in Brandenburg has Tradio everyday.
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Man I love small town radio!
Ironically, I heard WCTT-AM for the first time a few weeks ago when I was driving up that way for lunch. It caught my attention only because they were running Dave Ramsey, a program I really enjoy. So, I'm thinking that while they may in fact still run Standards, they are also doing talk at least part of the day.
We run an hour and a half of Tradio every morning on both of our stations. It has plenty of listeners and lots of advertiser interest. It might not fly in a bigger market, but it's something our listeners love and expect to hear.
We run an hour and a half of Tradio every morning on both of our stations. It has plenty of listeners and lots of advertiser interest. It might not fly in a bigger market, but it's something our listeners love and expect to hear.
Not sure if they still do it, but WIBC 1070 Indianapolis was doing a swap shop from about 8AM-9AM on Saturdays about a year ago. I think it's great for small market stations. It instantly answers the question from skeptical would be sponsors..."how do I know that anyone is listening?". The phone company will often do a free report that can be used for sales...tell them you don't know if you have enough phone lines & they will run a report on how many calls came in, how many got busy signals, etc.thebroker said:
Back in the 80's when WKGN in Knoxville was news/talk we did a swap and shop program from 9 til 10am daily and the lines stayed jammed the whole time.
WLIL in lenoir city has been airong one for over 50 years as has WLIK in Newport, Tn. They have one on 3 times daily and they stream as well.
Some call it barter time, tradio, trading post. But it all serves the same purpose. Allows your listeners to become part of the station and the station to a part of the community.
WLIL in lenoir city has been airong one for over 50 years as has WLIK in Newport, Tn. They have one on 3 times daily and they stream as well.
Some call it barter time, tradio, trading post. But it all serves the same purpose. Allows your listeners to become part of the station and the station to a part of the community.
Probably...don't think you can sell goats on Ebay... ;Dgr8oldies said:
BobOnTheJob said:
I heard that show from WSCH last night while driving in Clermont County. A guy called in trying to sell his 1965 Chevy Impala Supersport automobile. I'd like to see that car.
Cincinnati Kid said:
I can assure you that “Great 68” is very-much alive in all its “splendor”—but I can’t attest to just how well it financially-functions in this millennium. I wouldn’t dream of a trip from South Carolina to Indiana [and vice-versa] without enjoying it along that stretch of I-75 between Jellico, TN and Richmond, KY. It has AN EXCEPTIONAL [RF] signal—day AND NIGHT... You can hear it nearly SEVENTY-MILES north at the White Hall exit [just shy of Lexington] after sunset, and it routinely bounces into east-central Indiana—despite WLW’s IBOC trash! It continues to carry Reds baseball.
Please pardon my saying: This station is SOOO “bad”—it is delightful. A mad-scientist-turned-programmer couldn’t better this effort! WCTT puts a whole new spin on “entertainment value”—and all [it appears] from an ancient reel-to-reel based automation system—complete with home-brewed music tapes. To label it as “Adult Standards” might enrage those working at what remains of The Music of Your Life service. Alas, there’s no shortage of big-band sounds from Les Brown and Harry James; “standards” from the Mills Brothers, Mitch Miller’s “sing-along” gang, and Dino “That Little Ole Wine-Drinker” Martin... Ray Conniff and the singers are in hot rotation also... BUT, it’s the semi-pop “Oldies from Hell-Week” stuff that really provides the humor. WCTT unabashedly-plays some of the VERY-WORST titles that were ever evilly-conceived in a recording studio—and with seemingly no shame right next to the aforementioned icons of the seventy-something set!
How many DECADES have passed since ANY radio station has dared to play Bobby Sherman’s “[Hey] Little Woman (make up your mind – you’ve GOT-TO come into my world ‘n leave your world behind)”? —about FOUR of them, I think! I guess they like to keep their women close in Corbin!
Imagine the following segues generated by your copy of Selector:
“Chug-A-Lug” [Roger Miller] > “Dominique” [The Singing Nun]
“On Top of Old Smoky” [The Weavers] > “Never My Love” [by the “Uka-Chaka—Uka-Chaka” group of the mid-70s—Blue Swede]
“The Children’s Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack – Give the Dog A Bone)” > “My Girl Lollipop” [Millie Small]
“Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” [Johnny Mercer] > “How Do You Do” [Mouth & MacNeal from the early-70s]
“Buttons ‘n Bows” [Dinah Shore from 1948] > “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep”
[Mac & Katie Kissoon from 1971 – and complete with 45-RPM cue-burns] And my all-time favorite – on a Great 68 “at-work network” midweek morning...
“Spanish Flea” [Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass] > “Jet T’Aime Plus” —basically a 1968 recording of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin having sex in front of two AKG microphones – complete with foreplay in French, heavy-breathing, and climatic moaning to the accompaniment of a cheesy Hammond organ! No—IT DIDN’T make the “Top-40”; and God-knows how it found its way onto a music reel in Corbin, Kentucky. If ANYONE there spoke the Continental “love language”—they would have tripped the AC circuit-breaker on the 1kw transmitter. I HAD to hit the scan button... I was laughing so hard behind the wheel doing 75mph and Jellico Mountain was fast approaching. I wasn’t ready for a thousand-foot plunge to the valley floor over the broadcast antics of WCTT!
I swear to the Almighty above that I’m NOT making ANY of this up. This station defies explanation, and most I describe it to—simply don’t believe it to be a reality... I had to Pogo-LX it from Laurel River Lake this past summer JUST to offer proof to those that thought I was pulling their leg. And now Dave Ramsey is coming to the rescue? DARN... Another one bites the bird :'(
I wonder if they still interupt play-by-play sports broadcasts for on-the-spot fire reports?
I remember being upset back when I was a teenager, when WENK in Union City, TN, interrupted Casey Kasem's American Top 40 to tell us about a fire in downtown Union City. I didn't give a damn about that fire! It was Sunday afternoon! American Top 40 was "appointment radio" for me when I was 13! How dare they interrupt "Night Moves"? ;D This was the winter of 1977, and it was extremely cold! I seem to recall the water from the fire hoses was freezing in the street!
They apparently let AT40 continue to play while they reported on the fire. Whenever they would rejoin the program, they would rejoin it in progress. They interrupted several times that afternoon with reports on that fire! But it could have been worse! I later found out one of my sister's friends was trying to do some "home-taping" from the radio that afternoon! She was trying to record Donny and Marie's version of "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" when there was another interruption for a fire report! ;D
They apparently let AT40 continue to play while they reported on the fire. Whenever they would rejoin the program, they would rejoin it in progress. They interrupted several times that afternoon with reports on that fire! But it could have been worse! I later found out one of my sister's friends was trying to do some "home-taping" from the radio that afternoon! She was trying to record Donny and Marie's version of "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" when there was another interruption for a fire report! ;D
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DARN-IT! ...Don’t you just hate-it when some really-good local operator deprives a pubescent teen of their Donny & Marie fix to report on frozen fire-hoses? The former WOXY [Oxford, OH] – in an earlier life as WOXR [“Wonderful WOX’R”] ran AT-40 on Saturday mornings. They would have interrupted the Osmonds also—but NOT because of a fire in Uptown Oxford! This was a station, that mere hours later, would serve-up The Grateful Dead and Rick Wakeman on the 97.7 frequency... Another legendary station with a split-personality that was delightful!
WENK, Union City... AHH... The “Big 1230 AM”—well, at least ONE of about FIVE-HUNDRED of them! Didn’t you just LOVE the old “Class 4s”? Speaking of “LOVE” and “local frequencies”... I recall a hilarious off-topic story once-told to me by a dear friend who still works in Louisville radio concerning 1240 AM there: They had just changed ownership [and their Adult Standards format] to a local Minister who opted for Black Gospel programming using the “1240-Love” moniker.
Along comes the FCC with the directive that Class 4s shall be permitted to run 1kw at night [all were formerly-limited to 250-watts]. MOST with any engineering sensibilities knew that there was no free lunch in the land of Mother Nature – and all six of those notorious post-sunset “bogs” would cruise into further oblivion—negating any nighttime coverage improvement. Such was the case with Louisville’s 1240. W.W.J.D.? ...Well he must have come to Brother Love in a dream and directed him to return 1240 to just 250-watts at sunset!
Inquiring Louisville radio minds wanted to know WHY the spirited 1240-Love would sacrifice 750 additional watts when the nighttime RFI hoard came-a-calling. The stations owner “rationalized” that his 1kw night signal was actually WORSE – SOOO, he would attempt to reclaim lost turf by... RETURNING to 250-watts!
TRUE STORY! :I was actually wondering if any of those old reel to reel automation systems were still in operation anywhere, even the third world! I'm pretty sure WPTW in Piqua, OH bought the last one that rolled off the assembly line in Quincy, IL. WCTT can get out; I had picked it up in Ft. Wayne.
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