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What Blown Up Station Do You Miss Most?

To Cincinnati Kid.. Thanks for the update on WKRC. Didn't Will with a Way or something like that go from 6 p to 8p?

Also, what did they do on the week-ends?
 
TANKSBACK said:
WDAO and WBLZ. Two powerhouse urban signals with fantastic music, great personality jox and huge ratings in their day.
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WDAO (the original FM) did something that lot of people never realized. By being launched on FM in 1964, they began to get younger people aware of FM and stereo broadcasting much earlier than in a lot of other markets. Thus, WDAO paved the way for stations like WVUD and WONE-FM, later WTUE to go after the younger market broadcasting rock formats more than a few years earlier than a lot of cities around here. (In many cases in other cities, FM didn't really take hold till the mid-70's).

But, this not just my recollection. In an interview I did not long ago with former WTUE Program Director Bill Struck, he, too...credited WDAO...saying that they made the launch of other young leaned stations on FM possible in Dayton, since much of the audience for it was already tuning in FM.
 
lovejamminoldies said:
WBTT/94.5 The Beat in Dayton
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The Beat was a good station in the first few months or so from August-December '96. They used to play the hell out of Ghostown DJs "My Boo" and Ginuwine's "Pony", along with "Nobody" by Keith Sweat. They were super Rhythmic in those first few months before they swung more Pop-ish with a Rhythmic lean later on. What I didn't like was it was a thorn in the side of Z-93...and one of the many reasons Z is no longer on the Dayton airwaves. Jeff Ballentine was the first PD at WBTT(As well as former Z PD). Also former Z jock Mojo and his henchmen Vern and Big Mama also joined him under different names. Lee Riley did mornings for awhile at The Beat as well under the handle "Pops" Lee Riley. Those calls are now assigned to a station in Jacksonville, FL. if I recall off the top of my head.
 
WDAO was a great station in the '80s before they sold it and the new owners put on "Star 107.7 WWSN" sometime in 1985 if I recall correctly. Anyone know what the WWSN calls stood for? Of course I know there is/was a slang term out there for what WDAO stood for, which I will not post here(Dayton radio geeks know what I'm talking about here). I remember being furious over the change. As an 8 year old kid at the time, it was the first format flip that I was subjected to(Of many later on down the road). I remember a couple of tunes they used to play back then were "Operator" by Midnight Star and "Basketball" by Kurtis Blow. Long live 108 WDAO!
 
pioneer71 said:
To Cincinnati Kid.. Thanks for the update on WKRC. Didn't Will with a Way or something like that go from 6 p to 8p?

Also, what did they do on the week-ends?
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I think "Will With A Way" with Will Warren was on after the 6 P.M. news up to 7 P.M. and "Party Line" was heard from 7 P.M. to 8 P.M.

I'm not totally sure about the weekends. Jerry Thomas was on on Saturdays, but that may have been via tape, using bits with "Granny", etc. Bob Jones also was heard on Saturday and featured extended portions of the interviews he had used that past week on "Kaleidescope". "Will With A Way" was also heard on Saturday mornings. WKRC aired the UC football & basketball games then with Daryl Parks calling the action. Many would have been heard on Saturday afternoons or evenings in the respective seasons.
 
Alans613: After flipping WDAO to the AM band, the WAVI calls were going away and WWSN was going to be called "Sunny 107" (or 107.7) but Sunny-95 in Columbus got wind of that plan and if I remember correctly got a cease and desist against the Dayton station using the same moniker, something about trademark or copyright infringement. Do you remember the era when they simply called themselves WSN, 107-7?
 
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Alans613: After flipping WDAO to the AM band, the WAVI calls were going away and WWSN was going to be called "Sunny 107" (or 107.7) but Sunny-95 in Columbus got wind of that plan and if I remember correctly got a cease and desist against the Dayton station using the same moniker, something about trademark or copyright infringement. Do you remember the era when they simply called themselves WSN, 107-7?
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Yep, I sure do remember the WSN days. Weird to hear an FM station identify their brand with three call letters. I wonder who came up with that brilliant idea?
 
1960's WSAI and Dusty
Late 70's-Early 80's Q102
Old 'KRC Dusty, Dave Lee and the Oldies

WSAI Gene Austin was the only jock to beat Stan Matlock in the ratings.
 
Maybe someone can help me out here, but how does a certain station or company own a "Brand name" like Q or Sunny? I understand in the same market(Like that stupid move that WQRT 1160 AM in Cincy made at first by calling themselves Q1160)but in totally different markets? It doesn't make sense.
 
alans613 said:
Maybe someone can help me out here, but how does a certain station or company own a "Brand name" like Q or Sunny? I understand in the same market(Like that stupid move that WQRT 1160 AM in Cincy made at first by calling themselves Q1160)but in totally different markets? It doesn't make sense.
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I have never been comfortable with the word "brand" when used in the context of broadcasting. Perhaps I'm old school, but "brand" was never used when I was working as a PD or OM. My best guess is that one of the dreaded consultants coined the term "brand" at some god-awful radio / TV seminar somewhere, and it caught on among the throngs of AE's and GM's in the audience. ::)

Twenty years ago, we built stations to win. Today, we put on mediocre "flanker" stations to "protect the brand". Now, that's weak... ::)
 
WEBN in the late 70s early 80s .....something special going on there.......before Tom Owens...
Bo Wood and Denton......that crew............Sandman Beatles show........Ty Williams over nights.........

Wing-FM in Dayton was pretty awesome for a few years..........they had real funny jokes between the records.....and that VooDoo Guru dj from Lousianna was too much.
 
Ty Williams was the best.

I also miss "Brian O'D" from the original 94.9 The Fox.

Also, "The Big WAZU" circa 1989, with Michael Luzak as PD.
 
stereolane said:
Ty Williams was the best.

I also miss "Brian O'D" from the original 94.9 The Fox.

Also, "The Big WAZU" circa 1989, with Michael Luzak as PD.
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I remember Ty Williams on overnights at WEBN.. he was a great DJ to listen to...

Are you referring to Brian O'Donnell? He did go to 90.9 WGUC for a period of time and how has now moved over to 89.7 WNKU in Northern Kentucky... looks to be him!

http://www.wnku.org/page_wnku.asp?p=0531100
 
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