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What AMs are still great?
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If you're talking about great AM stations of any format; I would have to nominate WVLG-640 out of The Villages, Florida (a retirement community of about 70,000 just north of Leesburg,FL. (The Villages encompasses parts of three counties, has numerous gulf courses, their own daily newspaper, hosptial, radio station and cable TV station- VNN).
WVLG is live 24/7, but overnights has a format that is a hybrid of nostalgia and smooth jazz; during the day (6am to midnight) they play the hits from thelate 1950's throught the mid 1980's; they are a bit more mellow during the week, and then on the weekends have special weekends. (British weekends; Motown weekends etc).
The Villages is a 50+ retirement community and their d.j's include a retired WABC d.j. as well as a CKLW d.j. and a few others.
They also have a good jingle package.
They are music 23 hours a day; they do have a local talk program on, one hour a day; it used to be called "Focus on the Villages", but now has been renamed as "More at Four", they interview different experts on different subjects and on Fridays they have some high school interns from The Villages Charter High School.
drt/
st. petersburg
WVLG is live 24/7, but overnights has a format that is a hybrid of nostalgia and smooth jazz; during the day (6am to midnight) they play the hits from thelate 1950's throught the mid 1980's; they are a bit more mellow during the week, and then on the weekends have special weekends. (British weekends; Motown weekends etc).
The Villages is a 50+ retirement community and their d.j's include a retired WABC d.j. as well as a CKLW d.j. and a few others.
They also have a good jingle package.
They are music 23 hours a day; they do have a local talk program on, one hour a day; it used to be called "Focus on the Villages", but now has been renamed as "More at Four", they interview different experts on different subjects and on Fridays they have some high school interns from The Villages Charter High School.
drt/
st. petersburg
Chicago has WGN, (no matter what you say - all local and live- great ratings great revenue and Marconi award winning station of the year), WLS (not MY favorite but ok), the Score 670 (HILARIOUS talking about the olympic loss); and all money makers.
It sounds like WIND and WYLL are making money, too.
It sounds like WIND and WYLL are making money, too.
WENK in Union City, Tennessee, must be still doing great. They are a full-service AM station playing oldies. As far as I know, they are live 24/7. They carry high-school football and basketball, and I believe, college football and basketball as well.
Now the disclaimers. They are indeed, in a small town with not much competition, and they now own another AM station in a nearby community about 50 miles away that simulcasts with them, and an FM simulcaster, too, but the FM station can only be heard in the area around that second community.
Now the disclaimers. They are indeed, in a small town with not much competition, and they now own another AM station in a nearby community about 50 miles away that simulcasts with them, and an FM simulcaster, too, but the FM station can only be heard in the area around that second community.
I remember an attempt by WDXN in Clarksville, Tennessee, to return to their former greatness back in 1993. I remember this because I was working there at the time. The station sold to new ownership, who bought all new equipment, moved us into a sharp new studio, bought a new station van, converted the station to AM stereo (too late by 1993), and put up billboards all over town promoting the station. But as far as I could tell, the attempts at reform were greeted with a collective yawn by the people of Clarksville. For one thing, Clarksville is too close to Nashville, so everyone was listening to the FM powerhouse stations from Nashville. Even Q-108, the Clarksville-Hopkinsville-Fort Campbell FM station, was #8 in the Clarksville-area ratings.
Re: Wow
Well my point is obviously moot now but it seemed as though replies to that topic came at rapid fire within a matter of a couple days rather than over time. I just imagined we enjoyed a well-deserved roasting of stations gone sour rather than complementing and admiring those stations which still remain good if not great. I suppose its a case of the boss never says a word when you do a good job.
Steven21 said:
Well my point is obviously moot now but it seemed as though replies to that topic came at rapid fire within a matter of a couple days rather than over time. I just imagined we enjoyed a well-deserved roasting of stations gone sour rather than complementing and admiring those stations which still remain good if not great. I suppose its a case of the boss never says a word when you do a good job.
KGO - still the best local station in the country
WGN - some of its legendary brilliance has dulled but they are working on it
I keep hoping for a return to solid local programming.
WGN - some of its legendary brilliance has dulled but they are working on it
I keep hoping for a return to solid local programming.
WLW 700 despite Bill Cunningham
WCBS 880
WBT 1110/99.3
KYW 1060
AM exception:
WTOP 103.5/103.9/107.7
Former greats:
WWL 870 pre-Katrina
WHAS 840
WSB 750/96.5
WCBS 880
WBT 1110/99.3
KYW 1060
AM exception:
WTOP 103.5/103.9/107.7
Former greats:
WWL 870 pre-Katrina
WHAS 840
WSB 750/96.5
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