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WILD 96-7

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FM Boy

Remember this short-lived station? I was a fan, it was a great CHR/Rhytmic, but had a crappy signal. A great mix of urban top 40 and dance mixes. Ahhh WILD!! WILD iwas what 95-5 THE BEAT should be, IMHO.
 
BRENT said:
Honestly, I do not know?

Why can't this station increase its power to at least try to cover up to Buckhead??
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doesn't work that way: they're limited to their 6000 watts due to being on a class A...
(and all the other stations also on 96.7) this signal now is all it's gonna be.
 
romer979fm said:
they're limited to their 6000 watts due to being on a class A...(and all the other stations also on 96.7)
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Not true anymore. Examples: KKSR Sartell, MN (St. Cloud market) is 50kW on 96.7. KCMQ Columbia, MO, is 100kW. So is KHFI in the Austin, TX, market.
 
This station has had a lot of good formats but it's crippled by it's weak signal. At least it had a decent rating when it was The Buzz and that was competing with 99X in their heyday. I enjoy the reinvented Lite format and the smooth jazz format on the HD2 station. I am surprised that this station did not even make the books. I know that it doesn't cover the entire area but there is a significant population on the southside. Either it will have to go back to being a locally focused station (probably some version of country) or go back to simulcasting another station like they did with Viva.
 
louisNatl said:
This station has had a lot of good formats but it's crippled by it's weak signal. At least it had a decent rating when it was The Buzz and that was competing with 99X in their heyday. I enjoy the reinvented Lite format and the smooth jazz format on the HD2 station. I am surprised that this station did not even make the books. I know that it doesn't cover the entire area but there is a significant population on the southside. Either it will have to go back to being a locally focused station (probably some version of country) or go back to simulcasting another station like they did with Viva.
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Oh God

We sure as HELL do not need another BUZZ or 99X>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
FM Boy said:
Remember this short-lived station? I was a fan, it was a great CHR/Rhytmic, but had a crappy signal. A great mix of urban top 40 and dance mixes. Ahhh WILD!! WILD iwas what 95-5 THE BEAT should be, IMHO.
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WiLD 96.7 was the bomb back in the day. I remember the 10,000 songs in a row and then the big vote for the stations name. They actually came in clear inside my house in Lithonia. They were "Atlanta's Party Station" before the flip to Urban as "Atlantas' New Home for Hip-Hop and R&B" and then "The Little Station" comparing itself to V103. I remember they even had former V103 jock Rick Party in afternoons. Remember all the remixes and mixshows on Friday and Saturday nights?

RIP: WiLD 96.7 / WLDA-FM
 
Dont you think it is a stretch to say 96.7 the buzz competed with 99x in its hey day. I am pretty sure they had already started on their slippery decline by then.

Plus how would most people even know 956.7 isd there. I contend older people are less inclined to listen to or preset a staticy station.
 
People on the southside know that there is a station at 96.7...Stockbridge, McDonough, Forest Park, Jonesboro, Riverdale, Tyrone, Newnan, Peachtree City, Fayetteville, College Park, East Point, parts of Atlanta Proper, and the 96.7 signal extends down I-85 past La Grange and almost reaches Columbus. These are all significant cities that could support the station. I concur that the station can never be a main player since the signal doesn't serve Cobb and Gwinnett counties well, but it could be a niche station. I find the format that they have now to be very good.
 
Doesn't Clear Channel have to divest a station here anyway? Makes sense to keep the easy to manage AC format on 96.7 since that's the obvious one to sell. I just don't understand why Paul Harvey is on it.
 
True, but they are not running it as a typical AC station. The playlist is more of a lighter version of Jack with much more variety than 98.5. I don't think that Paul Harvey is on any other station in the area. In smaller towns, he is on a country station or possibly an AC station instead of a talk station, depending on which station is the strongest in the area.
 
96.7 orgininally was WCOH 96.7 Fm, one of the state's first fm stations. I heard that it was possible that CC could move it back to the Newana area.
 
louisNatl said:
People on the southside know that there is a station at 96.7...Stockbridge, McDonough, Forest Park, Jonesboro, Riverdale, Tyrone, Newnan, Peachtree City, Fayetteville, College Park, East Point, parts of Atlanta Proper, and the 96.7 signal extends down I-85 past La Grange and almost reaches Columbus. These are all significant cities that could support the station. I concur that the station can never be a main player since the signal doesn't serve Cobb and Gwinnett counties well, but it could be a niche station. I find the format that they have now to be very good.
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I've lived in Fayetteville and Senoia and I remember listening to 96.7 during it's Wild days. I enjoyed it. I hated the flip at first, but enjoyed the Buzz even more.
 
Bad part of moving them to Newnan is that will be anothe station to pass up on jhead!
 
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