Today Milwaukee's WOKY flipped from Oldies to Country. Clear Channel now owns TWO Country stations in town. Milwaukee has no '50s/'60s station. That's sad for a town that just last month honored Henry Winkler and the cast of the "Happy Days" TV show (which was based in Milwaukee) by erecting a bronze statue of Fonzie.
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WOKY flips to Country
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Meanwhile, here in Nashville, we have THREE country stations! And that's just on the FM dial! Yeah, I know we are "the home of country music" and "music city USA" and all that, but there is always talk of the #3 country station (and I believe that is WKDF right now) switching to something else. We have no oldies station here in Nashville, and haven't for the past couple of years. The nearest oldies station is WKOM in Columbia, TN, about an hour away, and their signal is not all that great most of the time, but I can occasionally pick them up. There is also WVCP in Gallatin, TN, but they are a student-run non-commercial station from Vol State Community College, and I'm on the wrong side of town to pick them up, but they do broadcast online.
Did Happy Days ever actually do any filming in Milwaukee? I know the show was set there, but supposedly there exists a photograph of the Cunningham home which had to be closely cropped because there was a palm tree growing right behind it! ;D
Did Happy Days ever actually do any filming in Milwaukee? I know the show was set there, but supposedly there exists a photograph of the Cunningham home which had to be closely cropped because there was a palm tree growing right behind it! ;D
[Did Happy Days ever actually do any filming in Milwaukee? I know the show was set there, but supposedly there exists a photograph of the Cunningham home which had to be closely cropped because there was a palm tree growing right behind it! ;D
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To my knowledge no filming was done in Milwaukee. But Arnold's Drive In was modeled after an actual drive-in in Milwaukee. A drive-in still stands on the site, remodeled of course.
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To my knowledge no filming was done in Milwaukee. But Arnold's Drive In was modeled after an actual drive-in in Milwaukee. A drive-in still stands on the site, remodeled of course.
I listened to WOKY last month and I wasn't impressed. A dull FM style presentation and a predictable Clear Channel playlist. If you're doing oldies on AM I believe you need to play a little more than just the "safe and tested" music like WDJO in Cincy does where they throw in a few surprises.
I got a few e-mails from new listeners the morning of the flip, so good job clear channel, you're sending more folks my way! 
Unlike terrestrial, here on the internet the banner ad and audio ad agencies don't care about the age of the audience yet so I have no reason to stick to the crap format everyone else uses...
Unlike terrestrial, here on the internet the banner ad and audio ad agencies don't care about the age of the audience yet so I have no reason to stick to the crap format everyone else uses...
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