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WOLF 97.3 circa 1993???

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NoWayNoCC

I have a question for anyone with a long memory.

Someone said something about 97.3 now going country as 'The Wolf'. But this reminds me of something I saw years ago and forgot about until now.

Back around 1993 or 1994, in one of the buildings at NKU (I think it was Landrum), someone posted fliers on the wall advertising something called WOLF 97.3. These were standard black-and-white letter-size fliers that might have been made with a computer and photocopied. I think it was a want ad asking seeking people to apply for a job there.

I'm pretty sure that at the time 97.3 was just a CP or probably not even licensed at all yet.

At the time, I remember thinking, 'There's no 97.3 around here!' Even if 97.3 was a CP, it was for way up in Warren County, and nowhere near NKU.

Does anyone know what this was all about? When 97.3 finally went on the air sometime around 1996 or so, it never was WOLF 97.3.
 
I don't know. Perhaps 97.3 was a school station on the campus cable system or something. To my knowledge, 97.3 was never called 'Wolf'.

The earliest format I remember on the signal was oldies when they were WMMA Lebanon. That was around 1995 or 1996.
 
I think I asked some people back then what WOLF 97.3 was, and they didn't know either. The campus station was WRFN (which I know because I was on WRFN from 1993 to 1994).
 
Perhaps 97.3 in Lebanon was originally supposed to be the Wolf before they chose to go in the oldies direction.

Strange that they had posters all over NKU, though.
 
Hey... I actually work at NKU's student radio station, WRFN right now. Does anyone have any history about the station that they could share with me... We have a new website and will be streming live online next week... www.wrfnradio.com.
 
We Rock For Northern. It's been around as long as I've been in broadcasting (1981).

Wasn't 97.3 just WMMA?
 
wrfnradio said:
Hey... I actually work at NKU's student radio station, WRFN right now. Does anyone have any history about the station that they could share with me... We have a new website and will be streming live online next week... www.wrfnradio.com.
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I was there from early 1993 to the spring of 1994. When I started there were kind of a widely-focused rock format, but in '94 they got really pushy about "content." They pulled the song "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes because of "drug lyrics", for example.

After about 3 or 4 PM (I don't remember the exact hour), they would switch from rock to more a freeform format where the DJ's could play whatever type of music they wanted.

WRFN played music from vinyl in those days. The more popular songs though were on cart. I'd say there was only about 6 to 10 currents at the time, so mostly we did play older music. I played a lot of lost '80s hits.
 
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