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WOWO tribute website is online

Excuse me while I wait several days for my goosebumps to disappear...I'm listening to the TM 1970 package right now, and not sure whether to jump for joy, cry, or do something really inapporpiate!
 
Damn that's taking me back. Until about 1977 I didn't listen to FM at ALL because we had WOWO. Ron Chris Bob Sievers Bob Chase the WOWO newsroom...brought a tear to my eye listening to the airchecks. Chris Roberts still sounds like that...

Excellent site. The jingles I really do miss. "11 Ninety Wo-Wo." Can't be said any better.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Excuse me while I wait several days for my goosebumps to disappear...I'm listening to the TM 1970 package right now, and not sure whether to jump for joy, cry, or do something really inapporpiate!
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Ditto. How can you get teary-eyed and smile ear to ear at the same time. I just sent the webmaster a thank you note for his efforts.

It wasn't the equipment, the location, the owner or how much they could crank out in sales. It was the personalities. The quick, creative ways they made that 50,000 watt AM stand out from the crowd is the reason there is a tribute web site. I can't say I've ever seen a tribute web site to a radio stations sales department! The mega-corporations are still not getting the message. Let the local personalities be creative and the sales WILL come.
 
I can't say I've ever seen a tribute web site to a radio stations sales department! The mega-corporations are still not getting the message. Let the local personalities be creative and the sales WILL come.
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Agreed. You can't tell me a similar format, whether on AM or FM, wouldn't work today. There are, of course, stations in small towns that still attempt full service AC, but without the personalities or the ability to produce quality newscasts (in other words, they sound small market and are just "newspapers with music".) Yes, it would cost a LOT of money to hire real personalities, fully staff the newsroom, and properly promote the station, but I believe people would listen and listen faithfully.
 
Driving home from work, this evening, I was able to listen to WOWO. I work in Wake Forest, NC, and just south of Knightdale, NC, which are northeast and east of Raleigh, respectively. The signal was coming in pretty decent.
 
Rummaging through some old belongings today, my mom found a ton of old cassette tapes. Among them were three "WOWO oldies tapes" I made between 1989 and 1991. I haven't listened to them but I know for a fact I got several station IDs and some clips of some of the DJs. I remember I got Ron Gregory for sure but don't know who else. If I can figure out how to upload to the site, I will do so.
What a thrill it is to hear a blast from my childhood!
 
Get some audio recording/editing software (called Adobe Audition..or its earlier version called Cool Edit Pro),hook up your cassette deck to your desktop computer and stop dubbing over your airchecks. There is a site called Mediafire.com where you can upload your files. After doing that, invite the webmaster of the WOWO tribute site that you have airchecks for them to download and listen to for possible online posting. Keep in mind that if you want to link the aircheck files in an email,the filenames at Mediafire are EXTREMELY case sensitive and long...make sure you have the links spelled correctly.

Once you've successfully uploaded your files to Mediafire, download and play them back to make sure they are right.Then burn some CDs of your aircheck files for safe keeping,then delete the audiofiles on your desktop since too many audiofiles on your computer may cause it to crash.

Good luck!
 
Last time I visited the site it was mentioned that a bunch of "logger tapes" had been found (these were extremely low speed tapes that could be used as proof that commercials ran as scheduled, or if there was a question about something that was said on the air). It'll be interesting to hear those. Several CKLW logger tapes from 1972 were cleaned up and posted on reelradio.com
 
Actually, as of today there are roughly 17 hours of the logger tapes mentioned by gr8oldies online at www.historyofwowo.com. The WOWO SoundScriber tapes on hand span 1978 to 1981, and another smaller batch from 1974 is coming in a month or so. The quality is generally decent, although on some recordings there is some RF noise (which was generated when they were originally recorded). They take considerable time to dub and clean up, so a few are added every few days.
 
The greatest story in Indiana Radio History is now preserved.... Thank you!
 
It was fun to hear the Jack Underwood Live read for the women's undergarment shop in North Manchester. I had only heard it one other time when the PBS station in Ft Wayne did a special on Ft Wayne radio years ago. It's a classic....Earl Finckle followed the live read like a champ with the weather forecast. What a great website!
 
I lived in Morocco (Africa... not Morocco, IN) for a year in 1968. I remember several nights in the winter being able to pick up
WOWO very well with my Lafayette HE-80 and a longwire antenna. I cant remember the content... but it make me incredibly homesick!
WBZ out of Boston came in almost every wintery night.
 
I think Fort Wayne, like Evansville are wonderful FAMILY metros you can raise kids and enjoy your neighbors.. I should have tried to get into WMEE/WMEF in the heydays of top-40... Too scared.. I was my biggest enemy...
 
I always wanted to work at WMEE or WQHK when I was in Celina OH. Dropped tapes off, took the tour a couple times. Never worked for them but got to work against them at WBYR and WBTU
 
I was lucky that I got to tour WOWO's last downtown studio in 1986, when I was training to be on at WJHS (as a geeky little sophomore in high school.) Still had that "big radio" look to it. Then we were shown by (I think) Jim Reed, now at WLDE in FW, the automation for their FM station in Huntington. Shoulda known right then and there I'd never get past working nights running the board on WQHK. But just being in that building...well, I won't complain.
 
I was there too, once in 1979 and once in 1989. Part time lady let me come up and splice my aircheck I used to get into WBYR.
 
Before life ends, I want to set foot on the WOWO Fire Escape, high above that bluff city....
 
I don't know what's in that building now since WOWO's in the one-story Fed Med deathstar on Maples Rd. We were higher above the city at the Medical Bldg. Majic 95 was on the 6th floor, the Bear was on the 7th.
 
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