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Where are our old stations?

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How come new york gets their old stations back. First they got KRock and now they just got WCBS-FM. Where are our old stations at? Why not bring WRDU back and WTRG and the old WRVA huh? Listen up Clear Channel.
 
Well I can guarantee Oldies 93 ain't comin' back, Majic 94 is doing great, it doesn't sound quite as old as Oldies 93 and maybe that is the ticket. I am quite surprised that The Walf is doing so well, but it is. So sadly Oldies 93 is a goner forever in Greensboro.
 
realradioplayer said:
Well I can guarantee Oldies 93 ain't comin' back, Majic 94 is doing great, it doesn't sound quite as old as Oldies 93 and maybe that is the ticket. I am quite surprised that The Walf is doing so well, but it is. So sadly Oldies 93 is a goner forever in Greensboro.
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But still guest what!!! You can still listen Oldies 93 with your HD-Radio on the dial WPAW 931The Wolf HD-2 Digital dial.
 
The old saying- what goes around, comes around is alive and well. Heritage music will be comin back sooner than later. Lots of groups now realizing that decision to blow up the oldies station to do the trend of the week format was a big mistake. Sure, wolf is showing some numbers- about the same as Oldies 93 had- but look what it's costing them to fight the battle. I'd like to see what the year end cashflow looks like.
I look for one of the Triad group owners to eventually climb on the oldies bandwagon.
 
There are many radio markets where "Oldies" continue to do well in the ratings,
take WNCT-FM in Greenville, North Carolina; There numbers for the "spring Book"
was released recently, and they came in among the top five.
As for this format, i agree with someone who points out what "Clear Channel"
did to what was WTRG(Now WRVA), and WRDU, neither station in the triangle
have done much since the changes took place, and they ought to seriously
consider bringing back "Oldies 100.7" and maybe "1061RDU"
We shall see in time...
 
Uh, doesn't the Triad already have an Oldies station? The aforementioned Majic 94.1?
 
Raleigh Rocker said:
Uh, doesn't the Triad already have an Oldies station? The aforementioned Majic 94.1?
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Strictly speaking...yes, they do...at least for now. Keep an eye on the Commission's FM database and Rowan Zoning.
 
Once again, we agree, Nextline. Entercom cut off their nose to spite their face with The Walf. They HAD a super heritage station with Oldies 93 and if they would have just worked to improve it, with some cooler music, they could have kept right on. I also think they didn't have very good salespeople if they couldn't sell those numbers and that audience! Just stupid! Now they have a station that they've had to spend a fortune on to get the "pretty good" ratings they have. Those costs have to be recouped somehow! Wouldn't want to be on THEIR sales staff! :p

I would also add that I don't think the big groups are going to let Davidson County Broadcasting get away with getting those ratings and dollars. Someone will challenge them at some point and I don't think DCB has the $$$ to fight them off.
 
I wish RDU would come back...I loved that station. Reynolds and Silva, Bob the Blade..
that station ROCKED. There's nothing like it anymore in the Triangle.
 
Yeah, RDU was THE station in those days. They had a vision and they were living it. Interestingly, there was a healthy competition between Phil Zachary (GM at RDU - Raleigh) and Dick Harlow (GM at WMAG - GSO) in those days. Both stations were owned by Voyager Communications. Voyager was owned by two men with a vision and they fostered greatness in their employees. I think the competition between Zachary and Harlow propelled them to be their very best. WMAG is still a major player in Greensboro all these years later. Too bad the big groups couldn't have learned something from Carl Venters and Jack McCarthy. Responsible broadcasters with integrity. Imagine that!
 
As long as you played Carl's Louie Prima records when he was in town... ::)

(...sing 'Just A Gigolo' with me now)
 
Wonder what ever happened to some of those cats at the old AOR 'QDR.

Examples:
Tom Guild, Rockin' Ron Phillips, Bob Walton, Gayle Rancer, Joan Siefert, Frank Laseter, Chris Miller, Jim Huste, Greg Wells, Jo Leigh Ferris, Daniel Brunty, Tom Gongaware, Brian McFadden, and many more I'm certainly forgetting.

I was a teenager then, and the folks at "94 FM" were almost gods to me.

Ahhh, good times...
 
I ran into Brian McFadden at an Xmas party a year or so ago. If I remember right, he told me he was working at a station in one of the Virginia markets.

Jim Huste works for TransLanTech Sound in NYC, making and selling Ariane audio processors and other cool stuff.

Joan Siefert Rose is the general manager at WUNC-FM.
 
WTRG has been reborn in Gaston, NC as "The Great 98" (actually 97.9). Oldies with some Carolina Beach music on weekends.

Their station ID: "WTRG Gaston Emporia Roanoke Rapids-The Great 98"
 
Marathon Don said:
Wonder what ever happened to some of those cats at the old AOR 'QDR.

Examples:
Tom Guild, Rockin' Ron Phillips, Bob Walton, Gayle Rancer, Joan Siefert, Frank Laseter, Chris Miller, Jim Huste, Greg Wells, Jo Leigh Ferris, Daniel Brunty, Tom Gongaware, Brian McFadden, and many more I'm certainly forgetting.

I was a teenager then, and the folks at "94 FM" were almost gods to me.

Ahhh, good times...
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wesradio said:
Marathon Don said:
Wonder what ever happened to some of those cats at the old AOR 'QDR.

Examples:
Tom Guild, Rockin' Ron Phillips, Bob Walton, Gayle Rancer, Joan Siefert, Frank Laseter, Chris Miller, Jim Huste, Greg Wells, Jo Leigh Ferris, Daniel Brunty, Tom Gongaware, Brian McFadden, and many more I'm certainly forgetting.

I was a teenager then, and the folks at "94 FM" were almost gods to me.

Ahhh, good times...

Greg Wells suffered a fatal heart attack while swimming in the ocean at Jacksonville, Florida. I think it was about 3 or so years ago. We worked together at WOE in Eden. In the early 70's. Two weeks ago I pulled out my old Sony reel to reel and put on a few jingle composite tapes that Greg put together. He had recorded a brief intro which brought back some great memories for me. Frank Laseter was teaching broadcasting at UNCG in the late 70's. Frank would invite me to speak to his class about how to get that first job in radio. He did news for WMAG when they first came on the air. And Jim Huste,...worked with him at WHPE-FM before he went to WQDR. Max Parrish would get all over him for playing Jethro Tull. Jim was on the AOR edge early, and was always telling me to slow down a little, and finally I did listen to his advice. He even stopped by the WRQK studios off I-85 to tell me how much better I sounded. Still have to remind myself to slow down though.

Marathon Don. Thanks for putting up all these names and bring back all these as you say....
Ahhh Good Times! And Great memories!
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