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WDAS-AM is back!

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According to the front page of R-I. Rumba goes away tomorrow....R&B Christmas tunes starting tomorrow, then R&B Oldies after that. Awesome....a new preset!
 
Now that's what I call service.....
Just yesterday in the "What Station I Want Back" thread, my third alternate was to bring 50s-60s-70s RnB back to either WDAS-AM or WHAT. Ask and it shall be given ;D
 
The question about classic country, standards, and 50s and 60s oldies makes me wonder about the future of WVLT and its potential value as a non-brokered station. It is in the right place for all of those formats and likely cannot move.
 
Just the other day 105.3 wafted over to my cubicle from a secretary's desk, and I wondered why they were still promoting themselves as WDAS-FM, and not just WDAS...

So, anybody know where the Phillies' Spanish broadcasts will end up? WEMG? WHAT? WTTM? WOGL-HD-5?
 
observer2 said:
The question about classic country, standards, and 50s and 60s oldies makes me wonder about the future of WVLT and its potential value as a non-brokered station. It is in the right place for all of those formats and likely cannot move.
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With the sorry state of affairs that WNWZ seems to be in right now, it may be a place for one of those formats to go to. Other examples might exist as well.

I hope the resurrected 1480 can make a 'go' at it this time.
 
New website address for WDAS-AM: www.wdasam.com/main.html (splash page for now with a contest to win Dell concert series tickets)

The iheart player link for WUBA has been redesigned with the new WDAS-AM 1480 logo.
Still airs the "Rumba" format until the switchover on 11/23 Friday.

Player link: http://www.iheart.com/#/live/3405/
Player link with autoplay startup activated: http://www.iheart.com/#/live/3405/?autoplay=true

Direct URL link (do NOT click - just copy/paste into your favorite media player):
http://wuba-am.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/177/20054/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/wuba-am

The direct URL address won't change even after the call letter switch; there are many Clear Channel station streaming URLs with previous call letters still in use where the format just switched on one station and/or there was no swapping or deletion of a station/format.
 
klutch00 said:
observer2 said:
The question about classic country, standards, and 50s and 60s oldies makes me wonder about the future of WVLT and its potential value as a non-brokered station. It is in the right place for all of those formats and likely cannot move.
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With the sorry state of affairs that WNWZ seems to be in right now, it may be a place for one of those formats to go to. Other examples might exist as well.

I hope the resurrected 1480 can make a 'go' at it this time.
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Whew, I meant WNWR! Sorry!
 
This is great news! I used to listen to Jimmy Bishop and Harvey Holiday on DAS-AM.
 
Anyone know when they're gonna flip? Just checked out the stream and they're still playing the Rumba music (as of 6:30 AM ET).

I'm looking forward to it. Nice to have an urban oldies format on my IHeart app (though CC does have a station in Richmond, VA doing something similar).
 
Their website wdasam.com and iHeart app have links to "WDAS 1480 The Soul of Philadelphia". 106.1 HD-2 is still Spanish this morning and directing WUBA Rumba listeners to El Zol 1340. I listened to DAS-AM a lot in the 1960s with Georgie Woods, Jimmy Bishop, Jocko Henderson, Donny Brooks, Larry Daley, Butterball, Louis Williams, Carl Helm, Hy Lit, and John "Lord Fauntleroy" Bandy (spoke with a British accent and became assistant GM and VP). WDAS-AM simulcasted part of day on FM in 1966.
 
How fantastic! I look forward to checking this out on line. Even though I now live 800 miles away, I still try to catch Butter on Sunday night. Kudos (for once) to CC for making this move.
 
WDAS-AM should stay on during the daytime, only. Their nighttime signal is bad.
 
There's a reason for WDAS' poor night signal. They're pretty boxed in, having to protect 1480's in NYC and MA during the day.
At night, they cut power to 1 kW to protect, I believe, WHBC Cincinnati.
 
Julius, since the late 1970's, daytime-only radio stations have had little to no credability. In the 50's and 60's, listeners understood the fact that some stations came n at sunrise and went off at local sunset. Now everything is 24/7. If your station is not, don't even attempt to sell ads.
 
DG02816 said:
There's a reason for WDAS' poor night signal. They're pretty boxed in, having to protect 1480's in NYC and MA during the day.
At night, they cut power to 1 kW to protect, I believe, WHBC Cincinnati.
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Dave, WHBC is licenced to Canton Ohio. ....1480 Philadelphia is sadly a crippled night signal these day's. In some instances it may be poorer or as poor as 1340 Philadelphia.

When I was a kid the night signal seemed to have much better performance. There actually is a creek the runs right through the antenna system which gave it a nice water table reflection. Maybe the dang thing dried up. I don't know.

I remember as a kid the Butter (Joe Tamburro) used top have me run behind the station, across the antenna system, hop the creek, and get him has daily afternoon pizza steak at USA Pizza in the old Balwynne Park rd. shopping center. I wonder if it's still there.
 
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