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WPFB & WPAY Sold To WNKU
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Middletown and the surrounding area deserves a station that will deliver them local news and local sports coverage. WPFB AM has a history of serving the community and that shoud be the focus. It needs to be a commercial station too to give the local business commnity more of a choice than just the Middletown Journal.
If I had the investors I woud buy the station in a heartbeat. Despite some critics in the posting with the right managment team in place WPFB can produce a solid revene stream.
You not ony have Middletown but Trenton, Franklin and Lebanon to draw on for revenue.
So, let's hope the future for WPFB AM will be a local and commercial station.
If I had the investors I woud buy the station in a heartbeat. Despite some critics in the posting with the right managment team in place WPFB can produce a solid revene stream.
You not ony have Middletown but Trenton, Franklin and Lebanon to draw on for revenue.
So, let's hope the future for WPFB AM will be a local and commercial station.
To Red Green.. I guess I should send an alert to several of my friends in the business who have been doing it live and local for quite sometime and are making a solid living. True, revenue has been down but they have been abe to serve the communty and make money being the source to turn to.
No one, except some of the bigger boys, can be live local 24/7 but they can be local in the key dayparts and deliver the local news and the other elements the local audience is demanding. .
No one, except some of the bigger boys, can be live local 24/7 but they can be local in the key dayparts and deliver the local news and the other elements the local audience is demanding. .
Such a shame to lose the local service of WPFB, and repeat WNKU.
I do have a problem with this duplication of service - the same programming being aired on three separate stations simualtaneously. I also question it being originated by a outlet licensed in one state yet using two other stations to air some thirty miles or so away in another state. While I realize the powerful output of 105.9 into the overall area, is what is being aired of true interest to people in the immedate vicinity of the Middletown and Butler/Warren counties?
DJJack1 said:It just chafes me to see them spend six million dollars on three stations, put up billboards all over town, and then cry poverty. Irritates me no end.
They got what they asked for. The press sounded great having the 105.9 signal. Things like that are always great until reality sets in! We've got 2 signals with another one coming and we're in the black!
WPAY-AM 1400 has now fallen silent:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/92295/wpay-a-portsmouth-oh-goes-silent
Not surprising because this is/was a stand alone AM station.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/92295/wpay-a-portsmouth-oh-goes-silent
Not surprising because this is/was a stand alone AM station.
Regarding the Good Guys Show;
The Good Guys was a name that was sort of "borrowed" or perhaps paid homage to the old WSAI DJ's. For a long time, WPFB was a Block Format meaning each show had it's own format. This Saturday morning show played Oldies Rock & Roll on Saturdays. In the late 70's it was kicked off by Kurt Radel and the late CD Kraft. As the partners changed through the years it became Craft with John Barry. Then John with the late Vaughn Allen, then in 1984 John with Will Mason, then Mason with Jerry Crisp. As Mason became the Program Director and Crisp became the General Manager, the two made WPFB a full service Country Music formatted station 24/7 and decided to make the Good Guys show a regular daily show. This midday show following the legendary Moon Mullins became a popular program. Crisp was famous for his Donald Trump-like eccentric personality and loved the public and they loved him. Mason who seemed to be the voice of reason, was a 20 year veteran in radio as a humorist, comedy writer and a free lance voice over announcer.
Crisps position as the station manager as well as being part of the operations for it's AM and FM station as well as involvement with the management of their two Portsmouth radio stations, his four year stint and presence on the Good Guys show became increasingly absent. Mason tried to keep his two-man-morning show going with the likes of Ron Beam from the sales department and others from the production department.
It didn't matter anymore. With the passing of Paul Braden, the entire programming and personnel changed as his son Doug Braden took over operations and relieved over half of the employees of their positions including the once popular Good Guys.
The Good Guys was a name that was sort of "borrowed" or perhaps paid homage to the old WSAI DJ's. For a long time, WPFB was a Block Format meaning each show had it's own format. This Saturday morning show played Oldies Rock & Roll on Saturdays. In the late 70's it was kicked off by Kurt Radel and the late CD Kraft. As the partners changed through the years it became Craft with John Barry. Then John with the late Vaughn Allen, then in 1984 John with Will Mason, then Mason with Jerry Crisp. As Mason became the Program Director and Crisp became the General Manager, the two made WPFB a full service Country Music formatted station 24/7 and decided to make the Good Guys show a regular daily show. This midday show following the legendary Moon Mullins became a popular program. Crisp was famous for his Donald Trump-like eccentric personality and loved the public and they loved him. Mason who seemed to be the voice of reason, was a 20 year veteran in radio as a humorist, comedy writer and a free lance voice over announcer.
Crisps position as the station manager as well as being part of the operations for it's AM and FM station as well as involvement with the management of their two Portsmouth radio stations, his four year stint and presence on the Good Guys show became increasingly absent. Mason tried to keep his two-man-morning show going with the likes of Ron Beam from the sales department and others from the production department.
It didn't matter anymore. With the passing of Paul Braden, the entire programming and personnel changed as his son Doug Braden took over operations and relieved over half of the employees of their positions including the once popular Good Guys.
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The two made public many public appearances including a listeners house who invited them to breakfast while they broadcast from her kitchen. The two produced a 24 hour Christmas music program to run on the 24th and 25th. They were active in getting the annual Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund marathon to the Town Mall. Because of this association, long time TV personality, Bonnie Lou became friends of the Good Guys program and had a featured program on the weekends. Also talk show host Joni Meyers became a weekday fixture on the station.
Regarding the Good Guys Show;
The Good Guys was a name that was sort of "borrowed" or perhaps paid homage to the old WSAI DJ's. For a long time, WPFB was a Block Format meaning each show had it's own format. This Saturday morning show played Oldies Rock & Roll on Saturdays. In the late 70's it was kicked off by Kurt Radel and the late CD Kraft. As the partners changed through the years it became Craft with Jerry Crisp then Craft with John Barry. Then John with the late Vaughn Allen, then in 1984 John with Will Mason, then Mason with Jerry Crisp. As Mason became the Program Director and Crisp became the General Manager, the two made WPFB a full service Country Music formatted station 24/7 and decided to make the Good Guys show a regular daily show. This midday show following the legendary Moon Mullins became a popular program. Crisp was famous for his Donald Trump-like eccentric personality and loved the public and they loved him. Mason who seemed to be the voice of reason, was a 20 year veteran in radio as a humorist, comedy writer and a free lance voice over announcer. The two made many public appearances including a listeners house who invited them to breakfast while they broadcast from her kitchen. The two produced a 24 hour Christmas music program to run on the 24th and 25th. They were active in getting the annual Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund telethon to the Town Mall. Because of this association, long time TV personality, Bonnie Lou became friends of the Good Guys program and had a featured program on the weekends. Also talk show host Joni Meyers became a weekday fixture on the station.
Crisps position as the station manager as well as being part of the operations for it's AM and FM station as well as involvement with the management of their two Portsmouth radio stations, his four year stint and presence on the Good Guys show became increasingly absent. Mason tried to keep his two-man-morning show going with the likes of Ron Beam from the sales department and others from the production department.
It didn't matter anymore. With the passing of Paul Braden, the entire programming and personnel changed as his son Doug Braden took over operations and relieved over half of the employees of their positions including the once popular Good Guys.
The Good Guys was a name that was sort of "borrowed" or perhaps paid homage to the old WSAI DJ's. For a long time, WPFB was a Block Format meaning each show had it's own format. This Saturday morning show played Oldies Rock & Roll on Saturdays. In the late 70's it was kicked off by Kurt Radel and the late CD Kraft. As the partners changed through the years it became Craft with Jerry Crisp then Craft with John Barry. Then John with the late Vaughn Allen, then in 1984 John with Will Mason, then Mason with Jerry Crisp. As Mason became the Program Director and Crisp became the General Manager, the two made WPFB a full service Country Music formatted station 24/7 and decided to make the Good Guys show a regular daily show. This midday show following the legendary Moon Mullins became a popular program. Crisp was famous for his Donald Trump-like eccentric personality and loved the public and they loved him. Mason who seemed to be the voice of reason, was a 20 year veteran in radio as a humorist, comedy writer and a free lance voice over announcer. The two made many public appearances including a listeners house who invited them to breakfast while they broadcast from her kitchen. The two produced a 24 hour Christmas music program to run on the 24th and 25th. They were active in getting the annual Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund telethon to the Town Mall. Because of this association, long time TV personality, Bonnie Lou became friends of the Good Guys program and had a featured program on the weekends. Also talk show host Joni Meyers became a weekday fixture on the station.
Crisps position as the station manager as well as being part of the operations for it's AM and FM station as well as involvement with the management of their two Portsmouth radio stations, his four year stint and presence on the Good Guys show became increasingly absent. Mason tried to keep his two-man-morning show going with the likes of Ron Beam from the sales department and others from the production department.
It didn't matter anymore. With the passing of Paul Braden, the entire programming and personnel changed as his son Doug Braden took over operations and relieved over half of the employees of their positions including the once popular Good Guys.
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