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WKRG-FM?

R

Rob

Am I hearing this right? That there is going to be a WKRG-FM coming to Mobile/Pensacola?

WE NEED a bloody news station on the FM band...Please someone tell me I heard right (on a radio programme on.. I think 100.7)

Their TV station needs to be fixed as the audio is right heavy. I wonder if there even aware of that

-Rob
 
99.9 was known as WKRG-FM, G-100, back in the 70's-80's. It was competing directly with WJLQ, Q-100(.7) and WABB playing top-40 and I believe that G-100 was winning that battle. Mobile's 710 AM was also WKRG-AM back in the 70's-80's but I don't know what their format was. WKRG AM/FM/TV were all one, family owned, cluster back then.

I've heard nothing of a news talk FM coming to the area, but with WPMI TV's recent relationship with Cumulus Mobile I find it hard to believe that WKRG TV would be teaming up with Cumulus Pensacola.
Perhaps WPMI would extend their reach from Cumulus Mobile to Cumulus Pensacola (and perhaps Cumulus Fort Walton) and form a news/talk station???

Also, WEAR, being owned by Sinclair, is not likely to get behind a news talk station and I've read that WALA is back on the market, making a radio partnership with them also unlikely.
 
poledo said:
Mobile's 710 AM was also WKRG-AM back in the 70's-80's but I don't know what their format was.
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Back then, WKRG-AM was your basic full-service MOR, CBS Radio affiliate and everything that goes with it.

WKRG-FM was automated MOR (might've been the D-C "Hit Parade" format, but I'm not sure) prior to 1978, when "G-100" debuted with live jocks. At that point, WABB-FM was calling itself "97-ROCK" and doing AOR .... 'ABB-AM was still top-40.

--Russell
 
This area is in desperate need of a 100KW news/talk station. All the A.M.s are directional (why?)
If they were non directional, I bet all of Mobile/Pensacola could get a glimpse of it (daytime)

Looking at some of these maps, they seem to cover more water then land.

-Rob
 
The problem with having a 100kw news/talk station here is that all the 100kw stations cover 2 or 3 different markets and people don't care about the neighboring cities. Panama City, Tallahassee, Dothan, and Biloxi all have FM News/Talk stations. What the Redneck Rivera needs is three FM News/Talk stations... one each for Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort Walton.
I'd like to see Cumulus put WDLT on 104.1 or 100.7. Make Mobile's 98.3 News/Talk. Then move Pensacola's WCOA-AM to 106.1. I don't have an idea on what could be done to give FWB FM News/Talk, perhaps 103.1 could flip, but they would have to create an entire station from scratch... maybe someone could affiliate with the NorthWest Florida Daily News paper?
 
I tried listening to 100.7 on my drive home and didn't hear anything about WKRG in a promo--I'll keep listening, though. Could this 'WKRG-FM' possibly involve WJLQ's HD2 channel?
 
Perhaps. Is that a news station? (carrying coast to coast am)?

-Rob
 
Russell W. said:
poledo said:
Mobile's 710 AM was also WKRG-AM back in the 70's-80's but I don't know what their format was.
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Back then, WKRG-AM was your basic full-service MOR, CBS Radio affiliate and everything that goes with it.

WKRG-FM was automated MOR (might've been the D-C "Hit Parade" format, but I'm not sure) prior to 1978, when "G-100" debuted with live jocks. At that point, WABB-FM was calling itself "97-ROCK" and doing AOR .... 'ABB-AM was still top-40.

--Russell
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Careful Russell! You're showing your age! You are absolutely 100% correct on all of the above INCLUDING the fact that WKRG-FM was a subscriber of the Drake/Chenault "Hitparade" format. (I sill have a stack of the old 10.5" reels around here, somewhere!)

It's good to know that I am not the only person around who recalls the "old days" of Mobile radio!

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I remember living up near Utica, NY we had a KG 104
(G was used often in radio a lot back then why I don't know)

-Rob
 
KBKH 92.9-FM said:
Careful Russell! You're showing your age! You are absolutely 100% correct on all of the above INCLUDING the fact that WKRG-FM was a subscriber of the Drake/Chenault "Hitparade" format. (I sill have a stack of the old 10.5" reels around here, somewhere!)

It's good to know that I am not the only person around who recalls the "old days" of Mobile radio!
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In all honesty, my knowledge of Mobile radio history is very much secondhand -- going from airchecks, conversation with others, etc. I'm much more familiar with "upstate" Alabama radio. Glad I was correct on 99.9 being "HitParade" in the '70s! I do remember some bits and pieces about the area from the late '70s, such as 101.5 in Pensacola back when it was WBOP-FM, the first R&B FM station I'd ever heard.

FM top-40 in Mobile/Pensacola appeared to have killed AM down there much sooner than other places ... like Memphis (where Rick Dees kept WHBQ beating FM), and other Alabama markets with still-holding-in AMs: Montgomery (WHHY-AM), Birmingham (WSGN, WERC) and Huntsville (WAAY, WVOV).

I have about 90 minutes of a Mobile dialscan from September '78, and the only AM on there is WABB 1480. It sounds like they know their days are numbered (sweeper: "Fewer commercials mean MORE MUSIC!" -- somehow I don't think that's by CHOICE :p). Between Q-100, G-100 and WABB-FM ... that was some great listening.

--Russell (age 42; now what did I do with the Poli-Grip? ;D)
 
Russell W. said:
Between Q-100, G-100 and WABB-FM ... that was some great listening.

--Russell (age 42; now what did I do with the Poli-Grip? ;D)
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Actually it was "JAMMIN ...G-100" As I remember spinning tunes there for a short while. some of the most fun I have had in radio doing a chainsaw rock n roll format......then went to Detroit for a few years (WOMC-FM) and returned (thanks to my wife..a Mobile girl) to what had changed to "WKRG-FM" with a hot a/c format...I worked several years there doing middays...seeing the most amazing selection of terrible morning men I have ever encountered.
AM radio here now is pretty much dead, mostly in part to a terrible collection of signals...with gospal the only one doing well.
 
The only thing on radio I hear are the tic tocks from cuba. WSM doesn't even come in here at all.

-Rob
 
Apparently Clear Channel is now partnered with WKRG-TV (and reunited with it's former AM & FM counterparts, as well as WKSJ and WRKH)
It makes sense now that they all share the same building.
 
Run DMC said:
Apparently Clear Channel is now partnered with WKRG-TV (and reunited with it's former AM & FM counterparts, as well as WKSJ and WRKH)
It makes sense now that they all share the same building.
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I figured the radio partnership (for hurricane coverage I hope we won't need for a good long while) was what they were referring to.

BTW, that 'now' has been several years--IIRC, as 99.9 and 710 were once owned by Kenneth Giddens (WKRG's founder), they've been housed at 555 Broadcast Drive since WKRG-TV moved there about 25 years or so ago. WKSJ and WRKH are the newbies.
 
again though 710 hardly covers all of mobile. especially @ night. what this area needs is a 25kw non directional station 24/7 on say..530?

-Rob
 
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