WIDE AM- What happended to it?

[MickeyD]

I remember visitig a friend that worked the afternoon shift at WIDE AM back in the 70's. They had a morning guy named Alaimo. The lobby looked like my grandmotehr's living room.

Anyone know when it dropped the music?

Mike

 

[Andy Taylor]

Boring!Saga bought them a few years ago and simulcast 1490 in Portland.At first it was Standards.Now it's Talk

 

[noflufftampa]

WIDE AM.....was it me or did everyone in the market at one time or another work there?

 

[MickeyD]

Boring!Saga bought them a few years ago and simulcast 1490 in Portland.At first it was Standards.Now it's Talk

Well I suppose it is boring but so is Maine radio these days. Well for that matter so is radio in general even radio in NYC isn't what it used to be.

 

[RBW]

WIDE AM.....was it me or did everyone in the market at one time or another work there?

I've been outta the biz since 1992 --- live in NY now, BUT the last station I worked for was WIDE/WSTG. I did middays on Star 94.3 and had babysitting duties for WIDE. 1400 was talk then ... quite awhile before the stations were sold again, and the simulcasts began.

 

[Dusty Dale Brooks]

WIDE was a big sounding station, for sure.

It brings to mind another little dynamo: WJTO in Bath. They only had like 500 watts but you could frequently hear them on Cape Cod and in Nova Scotia.

 

[rjoc]

WIDE was a big sounding station, for sure.

It brings to mind another little dynamo: WJTO in Bath. They only had like 500 watts but you could frequently hear them on Cape Cod and in Nova Scotia.

They are 730-AM and 1000 watts and still sounding good...locally owned and operated by JIBGUY!