Stolen from another thread......what station in the area has had the most format flips? I'm going with WNPQ 95.9. [New Philadelphia, but I think more oriented towards Canton nowadays.] Before they finally flipped to religious and then were sold to EMF it seems like they were playing "Spin the Format Wheel". Seemed like every other week they were changing to some different type of format.....CHR, country, oldies, AC, gopher mating calls, screaming seagulls....you name it, it seemed like they tried it.
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What station has had the most format flips?
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92.3 and 107.9 each had a lot of format flips prior to their current, long-running ones (Sports and Hip-Hop respectively).
Of more recent vintage is WNWV 107.3.
Since 2010:
Flipped from smooth jazz "The Wave" to AAA "V 107.3" (after initially trying to be "Boom 107.3" in honor of Len "Boom" Goldberg)
Flipped from AAA back to "The Wave", but with a modified smooth AC format
Flipped from smooth AC to the short lived modern AC "Jeny 107.3"
Flipped from modern AC to alternative rock as "107.3 Alternative Cleveland"
Since 2010:
Flipped from smooth jazz "The Wave" to AAA "V 107.3" (after initially trying to be "Boom 107.3" in honor of Len "Boom" Goldberg)
Flipped from AAA back to "The Wave", but with a modified smooth AC format
Flipped from smooth AC to the short lived modern AC "Jeny 107.3"
Flipped from modern AC to alternative rock as "107.3 Alternative Cleveland"
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And out of them all, WWMK (Radio Disney) was the longest to maintain the same format, call letters, and ownership of 17 years.
The station has the unique distinction of being home to both Larry "The Duker" Morrow and Hanna Montana.
WDOK-AM
WIXY
WMGC
WBBG
WMJI-AM
WRDZ
WMIH
WWMK
WCCR
While the majority of 1260's format changes also involved new call letters at the same time, at least one set of calls had multiple format flips within them.
When WMGC first became WBBG, they were "Supergold 1260", playing mostly oldies. They also had a sports talk show (Bruce Drennan I believe was one of the talents) which was either part of the Supergold format at night or was it's own format in between the Oldies and the Big Band format that WBBG was mostly remembered for.
WIXY
WMGC
WBBG
WMJI-AM
WRDZ
WMIH
WWMK
WCCR
While the majority of 1260's format changes also involved new call letters at the same time, at least one set of calls had multiple format flips within them.
When WMGC first became WBBG, they were "Supergold 1260", playing mostly oldies. They also had a sports talk show (Bruce Drennan I believe was one of the talents) which was either part of the Supergold format at night or was it's own format in between the Oldies and the Big Band format that WBBG was mostly remembered for.
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