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WKXA/Findlay going country

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Radiofreewill

From wkxa.com

Findlay Publishing Co.'s 100.5 WKXA going country

WKXA announced today that it will move to a country format Tuesday and will be known as “Your Country Now, 100.5-WKXA.”
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“The new country format will offer listeners the best in today’s country music as well as offer some of the favorites that date back to the late 1990s,” said Mike Holman of the Findlay Publishing Co., which owns the station.

The company, which publishes The Courier, also owns WFIN, which has a news-talk format, and classic rock station WBUK.
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WOW! Never saw that one coming -- Doesn't Findlay already get Country music from 103.7 up that way? (It's been awhile since I have drove up there)

WKXA has been it's current format for aslong as I can remember.
 
WCKY is targeting Toledo nowadays; they even moved their COL to Pemberville.
 
borderblaster said:
They were country for ages as WHMQ and as I recall a rimshot has those calls now.
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Rimshot? 107.7 took the calls in the early 90's after 100.5 dropped them, but they were hardly a rimshot; the tower was just northeast of Findlay. (I was PD; we beat WKXA in middays, and were very close in morning and afternoon drive. Smokin' Joe Bacon, Meg Stevens, and John Marshall were among those a part of *that* version of WHMQ, who later went to work for WKXA/WFIN. John Boyle ["Billy Blaze" at WHMQ] went on to program a number of stations, and is currently doing promotions for Entercom in Sacremento, and doing a kickass video thing.)

But alas, those calls left the frequency many years ago now. Some time as a classic rock station, and even some form of AC (as My 107.7). And, for far too long, dead air.
 
Lima's T102 isn't that far away. Looks like that station flips quite a bit. I remeber a radio station in York Pa. switched from classic hits similar to what this station is switching from.
 
Interesting that they are going to make the flip on Valentine's Day. Any guesses on what the last classic hits song to be played will be and what the first country song played will be?
 
borderblaster said:
They were country for ages as WHMQ and as I recall a rimshot has those calls now.
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I didn't know WKXA was country at some point.. I last heard them in the 90s and they were what I would call AC/Classic Hits type music mix.
 
Just what the area needs, more of the same. I get it but I would have rather seen something else. The area can already get country on: 99.9,102.1,103.7,107.7,. How many freakin more do you want? CC should flip 103.7, they lose miserably to K-100 all the time. 107.7fm, no idea how they are doing.
 
Dave Crosser formerly of WCKY and the WFGF in Lima is now there. Do you think it is his way of getting back in the programming chair?
 
Flipped early Monday evening after 9:00 pm. I think the last song was "Little Pink Houses" by John Mellencamp. Will remove 100.5 from my pre-sets in the morning.
 
Yes, WIMT and WCKY are both listenable in that area. Trouble is, CC has made them premium choice. Whatever you hear on WIMT will be on WCKY, usually at the same time. Where I live, I can hear WIMT, WCKY, WMRN (Marion) and WNCO (Mansfield,) and they all usually play the same songs at the same time. On Sunday nights, even powerhouse WCOL out of Columbus will be playing the same thing as the others I mentioned. It's like listening to a bunch of repeaters. It sucks. WKXA probably got wind of it and started doing country to jab at WIMT and WCKY's repeaters.
 
That sez it. Premium Choice if you live between 2 cities where the stations are owned by the same company makes radio sound bad.
 
chad43358 said:
Yes, WIMT and WCKY are both listenable in that area. Trouble is, CC has made them premium choice. Whatever you hear on WIMT will be on WCKY, usually at the same time. Where I live, I can hear WIMT, WCKY, WMRN (Marion) and WNCO (Mansfield,) and they all usually play the same songs at the same time. On Sunday nights, even powerhouse WCOL out of Columbus will be playing the same thing as the others I mentioned. It's like listening to a bunch of repeaters. It sucks. WKXA probably got wind of it and started doing country to jab at WIMT and WCKY's repeaters.
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Same thing on CC chr station's 92.5 Kiss fm,Channel 95.5 and 96.5 Kiss fm overnight will all play the same music at the same time.
 
the marv said:
That sez it. Premium Choice if you live between 2 cities where the stations are owned by the same company makes radio sound bad.
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My point exactly!
 
It's time for 103.7 to give up country for a new format!
 
Outside of people like us on ythis board, does anyone in the general public care that the same song is playing on 2 or more stations, when they are more than likely only listening to one of them? What is WKXA doing that is drastically different enough to make a difference?
 
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