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WIHB is now WCKN

HOLY COW!!!!!!! WCKN Lives... I remember those calls on what is now WROQ.... Man now if only we had good radio wars like we did in the 80's when Kiss FM in Asheville and WCKN had pretty good radio wars going where Kiss always called WCKN "The Chicken" for playing what at the time was wempy music while Kiss FM had balls to the wall music and a very big sound and signal to back it up... CC1
 
And the old 925TheBox.com now forwards to Now959.com which has a Go Daddy place holder page up.
Are the wonderers wondering if CHR is headed for 95.9?
Is this a smokescreen by Apex management to make the wonderers wonder if CHR is headed for 95.9?
 
Like I say I am betting it will be a safe format that can be sold... Seems like no one in radio wants to try anything creative anymore... Now could also be used as a Hot AC, but would be cool to see someone try the "Click" Format and do a Modern Hits format which slowly seems to be making a small come back simular to how Modern AC was back in the mid to late 90's... That way it could get the female demo and bring in some of the older listeners that would love to see 96Wave come back... CRAZEE yeah... CC1
 
FM Talk would be an interesting choice. You could just plug into TRN. Local morning show or America's Morning News, Laura Ingraham, Jerry Doyle or local afternoon show, Phil Hendrie overnights, maybe something else nights.

They probably will do some dull AC format.
 
freqdev said:
when the wckn calls were in anderson they had jingles and led into jingles. it was jingle mania
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Yeah, it WAS jingle mania. Back in 86 when I was hired there by Gary Jackson(yes, another one of the million stations I've worked at), it was one of the purest of Mike Joseph's 'Hot Hits' formatted stations. We had a certain number of jingles we had to play each HALF HOUR. We'd comeout of a song with a shotgun jingle into a jingle with a 20-30 second bed where the jock could do a personality piece/music tease/or feature tease. We weren't expected or encouraged to use all 20-30 seconds, either. We'd shotgun jingle out of the bed into spots. Then we'd shotgun jingle out of the stop set into a WCKN Cares jingle with bed to read a PSA, after which we'd shotgun jingle out of that into a WCKN weather jingle and bed, do the weather, then shotgun jingle out of the bed into a Hot Hits music jingle back into music...and that was just one stop set. I broke a sweat just typing my memory of it. We also only played 10 songs with about 20 or so recurrents(I think). The same power would recycle every hour and 10 minutes. To this day, due to that format and quick song turnover, if I hear 'Party All the Time', 'That's What Friends Are For', 'The Miami Vice Theme', 'Life In A Northern Town' and 'Separate Lives', I suddenly find myself in a rice paddy there on top of that hill on the outskirts if Anderson where the studios used to be having a flashback.
 
LOLOLOL Ya know what is scary I remember that format very well... Going to school in Spartanburg I remember those top 10 countdowns and just how often the same songs played over and over... Some of the songs I remember always being played to a crisp was Part-time Lover, Rhythm Of The Night, One night In Bangkok... That was around 85ish... Near the end of the Hot Hits format I remember them actually opening up the playlist quite a bit before they flipped to Classic Rock... CC1
 
CrazeeCarroll1 said:
LOLOLOL Ya know what is scary I remember that format very well... Going to school in Spartanburg I remember those top 10 countdowns and just how often the same songs played over and over... Some of the songs I remember always being played to a crisp was Part-time Lover, Rhythm Of The Night, One night In Bangkok... That was around 85ish... Near the end of the Hot Hits format I remember them actually opening up the playlist quite a bit before they flipped to Classic Rock... CC1
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You know, Carroll, now that you mention it, it was around the end of summer/start of fall when I started there. And you're right, I'd did loosen up format-wise(thankfully for my sanity). I remember Jim Wilson editing John Cougar's 'R-O-C-K In the USA' into a TOH ID that looped the 'C-K-In...' part of the chorus so it sounded like 'C-K-N! C-K-N! C-K-N!' Needless, it's difficult to listen to THAT song nowadays, too. Lol.
 
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