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WIBG---what a loser

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rob1010

This station isnt even close to the old wibg....The old WIBG had great jocks with personalities....this fraud has one live jock...who is also pd....the music mix is awful....WIBGs heyday was in the late 50s and early 60s...but this fraud plays very little 50s and 60s at all...they should have gotten the call letters from WFIL if they wanted to be a BOSS station...The people in charge have no clue whatsoever about what the old WIBG was all about...they think by merely changing the call letters and playing the same tired out oldies with the same tired out jock from WILW that this is some type of WIBG....couldnt be more wrong...they just dont have the bucks to make it a first class station ...and as long as it is run like this it will never even come close to the ORIGINAL WIBG.. please...dont insult our intelligence with this fraud....
 
While I understand the disappointment, the expectations are unrealistic. The original, much beloved, WIBG had live personalities who may have drawn good salaries. Personality radio, delivered by solid jocks can be expensive and beyond the budget WIBG-FM can pay. They really are hoping to trade on the memory of WIBG, but outside of we radio geeks, many don't remember original WIBG or even care at this point. One must also ask if the current WIBG-FM is being programmed by someone with genuine knowledge of the original WIBG playlists and formatics FM may be hoping to recreate.
 
The WIBG on 1520AM in the late 70s was a great radio station. It played top 40 with a decent rotation of oldies and recurrents, with echo, compression, great professionally produced jingles from Pams, tight quarter-hour "maintenance" and overall just a very light bright and tight sound. The jocks at the station were Jackson T Chase, Charlie Mills (the PD) Andy Halbkram, Steve Heldt and Ted Hudson. The station was only a daytimer but as soon as it signed off WKBW in Buffalo zoomed in on 1520 and it sounded local, so most listeners never realized the station was only a daytimer.
 
Wow...Forgot all about 1520. I do remember listening to Jackson T. , Andy Volvo and Gary Lane on Musicradio 1340 WMID. Good to hear Jackson on WTKU, which I think is a great sounding station.
 
Now they have a guy doing afternoon drive, think I heard him say Philly Billy or something like that.
Horrible! HEard him say "hear in Wildwood" (aren't they in Ocean City)?
No formatics whatsoever...doesn't know how to open or close a rap...
I got that in 20 miutes of listening.
 
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