IMO, WESC sounds much better than Whistle. WSSL sounds much more like the cookie-cutter CC country station. WESC has a much better sound and variety. I'm surprised that WSSL manages to top WESC so much.
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Goodtimesandgreatoldies said:You could easily do a 4,000 song playlist heavy on 1990`s-1980`s country with other decades put in. i think that would be alot better....... It has worked in other markets.
Can you name the markets and stations?
As I have stated before, if it is not broke, then do not fix it. The biggest problem I have with a gold based format including classic country is that you start hearing the same songs ever day and it loses the luster of it and with what they have done at WESC by mixing the older and newer songs must be working because of their strength with every ratings book that comes out.
more kilowatts said:I keep scratching my head on this one. Why would anybody want to tinker with the playlist on a station that always does as well as WESC does in the ratings? 8.2 in the Spring, 7.6 in the Summer book for 12+, second only to WJMZ.
I was around when WESC-AM 660 was Greenville's big country music outlet. I used to listen to them on my battery-operated Sony table radio, the 1st transistor radio I ever had. I am thankful that 660's heritage lives on with 92.5.
Was that Sony perchance a Sony Handy Personal....a TR-712 that takes 3 D cells? Sorta blue green? If so I have one and I use it to play WKDK all day long while I am at the station and the dog, Jolene, has something to listen to. She gets to come to the station some, and she knows everybody there.
Powell
Powell E. Way III W4OPW said:Was that Sony perchance a Sony Handy Personal....a TR-712 that takes 3 D cells? Sorta blue green? If so I have one and I use it to play WKDK all day long while I am at the station and the dog, Jolene, has something to listen to. She gets to come to the station some, and she knows everybody there.
Powell
Yes, in fact it was a Sony Handy Personal like you describe, only mine is a light yellow color. I never realized it was offered in different colors. It had a large speaker and was a great sounding radio . I remember it had a single wire sticking out of the back so you could attach an external long wire antenna. I still have it somewhere. I will have to go dig it out and give it a proper place on the mantlepiece. I found a picture of a blue-green one on the web: http://www.transistor.org/collection/sony/sony27.html
I wish i still had my Zenith Transoceanic that was a great AM radio, good sound, good seperation, and good sencitivity. I hate I lost at radio.
Gatekeeper007 said:I wish i still had my Zenith Transoceanic that was a great AM radio, good sound, good seperation, and good sencitivity. I hate I lost at radio.
Ebay is your friend. Be sure to have lots of money. I have a late model tube type one. It plays, but sensitivity is rather low, and it is not a tube. I guess I need to replace capacitors.
They are easier to find than that Sony I was talking about. Right now I am listening to my 1949 RCA table radio I am restoring.
Powell
Powell E. Way III W4OPW said:Gatekeeper007 said:I wish i still had my Zenith Transoceanic that was a great AM radio, good sound, good seperation, and good sencitivity. I hate I lost at radio.
Ebay is your friend. Be sure to have lots of money. I have a late model tube type one. It plays, but sensitivity is rather low, and it is not a tube. I guess I need to replace capacitors.
They are easier to find than that Sony I was talking about. Right now I am listening to my 1949 RCA table radio I am restoring.
Powell
You can find anything on Ebay.. I've found a few good radios on there myself, but didn't buy any....
Back to your regular WESC programming... LOL.
more kilowatts said:Powell E. Way III W4OPW said:Was that Sony perchance a Sony Handy Personal....a TR-712 that takes 3 D cells? Sorta blue green? If so I have one and I use it to play WKDK all day long while I am at the station and the dog, Jolene, has something to listen to. She gets to come to the station some, and she knows everybody there.
Powell
Yes, in fact it was a Sony Handy Personal like you describe, only mine is a light yellow color. I never realized it was offered in different colors. It had a large speaker and was a great sounding radio . I remember it had a single wire sticking out of the back so you could attach an external long wire antenna. I still have it somewhere. I will have to go dig it out and give it a proper place on the mantlepiece. I found a picture of a blue-green one on the web: http://www.transistor.org/collection/sony/sony27.html
Send me a picture of the yellow one! It's actually a very simple radio, 7 transistors. There isn't too much to go wrong with them. There were I think, about 150,000 of them manufactured. They do not show up on Ebay very often.
Powell
Regarding the size of the playlist, WIST in the Greensboro, NC, market claims to have the largest one in the Carolinas.
They claim to play only country from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but a few Randy Travis and Reba McEntire songs, and possibly others, are from the 90s, and a few others are definitely 50s because Hank Sr. died in 1953. I wish they'd play Alan Jackson but I guess that would open up a can of worms.
It's not an old-sounding station at all. It just doesn't play the junk that makes up most of a country radio playlist today. A lot of the music is from the 80s and it sounds "new" to me.
WESC sounded good when I listened several times in the mountains last June. I was surprised a 100,000-watt station would play so much old music.
They claim to play only country from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but a few Randy Travis and Reba McEntire songs, and possibly others, are from the 90s, and a few others are definitely 50s because Hank Sr. died in 1953. I wish they'd play Alan Jackson but I guess that would open up a can of worms.
It's not an old-sounding station at all. It just doesn't play the junk that makes up most of a country radio playlist today. A lot of the music is from the 80s and it sounds "new" to me.
WESC sounded good when I listened several times in the mountains last June. I was surprised a 100,000-watt station would play so much old music.
J
Jim Graham
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Uh-oh. I've been running WESC FM's transmitter on 92.5.... where's that FCC paperwork..?
Teee heeee
Jim Graham
CC Greenville
Teee heeee
Jim Graham
CC Greenville
Jim Graham said:Uh-oh. I've been running WESC FM's transmitter on 92.5.... where's that FCC paperwork..?
Teee heeee
Jim Graham
CC Greenville
LOL, GOod one Jim!
Jim that is funny.
lol...actually, if you dug around enough, WMUU probably does have 5,000 songs in their rotation. You can hear some pretty strange stuff there.
lol, that's probably about it. Everytime I hear "FM 94.5, Beautiful Music" I swear it's the 60s all over again, that voice is almost eerie. They've got to be the largest station around still playing "Beautiful Music", even though they mix the religious in.....I can only imagine what that facility is worth.freqdev said:you are right. i have seen the facility from the street and i picture middle aged men in dress suits sitting behind old microphones playing religious music from turntables. i wonder what they would put on an hd side channel?
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