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xmusicmatt

Happened to be up in NE Ohio today and tuned in 94.9 WQMX! Great to hear live and local radio! For a small market this is a true gem! Live on air talent even on the weekends!
 
xmusicmatt said:
Happened to be up in NE Ohio today and tuned in 94.9 WQMX! Great to hear live and local radio! For a small market this is a true gem! Live on air talent even on the weekends!
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A lot of their people work all across the stations they own. Not sure if they voice-track or if they're doing it "live" across all of them. I'm not a country fan so don't listen to WQMX and probably won't until they bring back "The Quiet Island" of WDBN. {Yeah, never going to happen and besides the WDBN call letters are on a station in Wrightsville, Georgia now and have an "Urban" format known as 107.9 Jamz.}
 
A shame there are no commercial easy listening stations anymore. I know advertisers aren't interested in older folks, but apparently they were back in the day when there were numerous easy listening stations in the Cleveland/Akron area.
 
skiwest said:
A shame there are no commercial easy listening stations anymore. I know advertisers aren't interested in older folks, but apparently they were back in the day when there were numerous easy listening stations in the Cleveland/Akron area.
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Correct, they were at a time when there were few other choices available, and when easy listening radio was often used for in-store music. Today, advertisers have many more efficient ways of reaching their target demo.

Commercial classical was also once a big thing for the older demo. Cleveland had one of the pre-eminent classical stations in the country. Now that format is kept alive as a non-commercial format.

I was on an airport shuttle yesterday and the driver was playing K-Love. To me, that's an equivalent of what was once easy listening.

Back to the OP: I agree that WQMX is a fantastic station. Even though it's in Akron, it reaches parts of Cleveland. It consistently shows up in the Cleveland Nielsen book.
 


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