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WRBZ AM 850

jmo...you are right and wrong.
AARP and Depends demo's are really, really listening.
my in-laws do. all the time. every day. the radio's their internet.
not the TV. they turn their TV off. the radio stays on.
so....WKIX is "old school" or even "iron age school"?
with Pensions/Social Security/MediCare/and Medicaid...
it would be Profitable to Program to this Demographic.
they have $$$$ for their grandchildren or church.
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
As a listener, I am enjoying the new format very much!! I listened to "Kix" from about 1985-88. "Joe-Wade" did the morning show. I do not remember hearing many songs from the 50s', just 60s' and 70s'.

Were there two different "Kix" formats? One from the 50s' and 60's, and the one I used to listen to?. It seems they are going to combine both formats and play 50s', 60s', and 70s'.

Thanks
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There were several tweaks during that time. It's amazing how much I have forgotten so bear with me ;>). Joe Wade did mornings at first and for the most part the Country jocks at the time just started playing Oldies. At some point we were a mix of live and Satellite using Transtar's "The Oldies Channel" (which SUCKED in my opinion). Dale Van Horn did mornings for a period of time just before he went to 'QDR. At some point we brought Pat Paterson back to do mornings and went live during the week again. I can't remember how long that lasted. The it was Pat in the morning, Oldies Channel for the rest of the day and weekends. He was still doing mornings when I left for WTRG.
 
Hey Sniffy: Pat be seethin' and moanin loss at AM gig. After all, Imas sooooo funnny...HAHAHA ::) ::)
Maybe you move hear..and play "old freakin' dead mucous" and have same suckess as you has wiff NORMAN 108.7. YOU ROCK!!!! ;D ;D
 
I remember when they did the 40s, 50s and 60s, though like oldies stations these days don't do much from the 50s, they didn't actually do much from the 40s. They actually had more 70s and 80s music (soft AC) plus newer songs that sounded like they came from the 40s. When the FM went country, they finally got appropriate letters (WYLT) and the WKIX letters meant something again
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AM oldies SHOULD be '58-72. Maybe '73...with a core of 1964-68, targeting 45-54 cell. Not that you can't play titles from as early as '54 (Rock Around the Clock), you can... maybe once every other hour. Set them up with a sweep/jingle... "Now, a jukebox classic from the birth of RNR" or something like that.

With AM radio cume being 50+... why play anything over '73? You'll just alienate what you have... losing the upper demos faster than you can grow the younger ones... losing cume. Then there's the TSL issue.

Adding a Beach music feature definately a great idea. Syndicated fare like Elvis Only, Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop, even the old Dick Clark shows (still available from United Stations).

If WKIX is brought to 850..... adding Mike Mitchell to the lineup would be a great idea. Ron McKay is retired... believe me when I say he wants nothing to do with radio anymore.
 
RadioDze wrote: Listened a little last night, music is 50s-60s-70s with an occasional spot about rebuilding the legendary "KIX 850", with an old PAMS jingle or two worked in, though the great majority of it is just back-to-back music with no liners/imaging in between. Top of the hour ID is still "WRBZ, Raleigh".
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Did WRBZ license the jingles through PAMS? Just because you have them, or paid for them years ago, doesn't give licensing rights. Have to call John Wolfert at PAMS. We just did this for WAKR Akron. Fee was very small.
 
HELL YES!!! KIX is back! I'm going there this week to see what they have open. FYI, Rick Dees is between gigs right onw and it
would not suck to have him back on the mighty mighty big and alive, AM 85! Baby! What's Pat Patterson doing now? What ever happended to Pat Patteerson? Is he still around? I'd love to hear him back on 85! Grin Grin Grin Cheesy Smiley Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Grin
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The budget couldn't handle Dees, who lives in Kentucky. Sure, he's got ISDN... but would still cost more than the station generates.
 
MaxGM said:
Stuart Greenberg said:
As a listener, I am enjoying the new format very much!! I listened to "Kix" from about 1985-88. "Joe-Wade" did the morning show. I do not remember hearing many songs from the 50s', just 60s' and 70s'.

Were there two different "Kix" formats? One from the 50s' and 60's, and the one I used to listen to?. It seems they are going to combine both formats and play 50s', 60s', and 70s'.

Thanks
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There were several tweaks during that time. It's amazing how much I have forgotten so bear with me ;>). Joe Wade did mornings at first and for the most part the Country jocks at the time just started playing Oldies. At some point we were a mix of live and Satellite using Transtar's "The Oldies Channel" (which SUCKED in my opinion). Dale Van Horn did mornings for a period of time just before he went to 'QDR. At some point we brought Pat Paterson back to do mornings and went live during the week again. I can't remember how long that lasted. The it was Pat in the morning, Oldies Channel for the rest of the day and weekends. He was still doing mornings when I left for WTRG.
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When I went to WYYD (Summer 1980), WKIX was still an AC/Top 40 blend and Joe Wade was doing mornings, Van Horn midday, McKay afternoon and Bill Flynn nights. Wasn't long after that (I think September 1980), KIX went Country. Still Joe Wade, Van Horn and McKay. Flynn left to go to WCHL. Jay Butler took over enenings on KIX Country.

A year later, WYYD went Soft AC and McKay moved over to do mornings for a year or so.

Then along came Pat Patterson for mornings at WYYD. I rememebr a big "Pat's Back" promotion His frst YYD morning show was broadcast from the restaurant from atop the Holiday Inn downtown - a big deal with lots of local dignitaries and Patterson characters attending. I have some pictures, somewhere.
 
That is very cool and I remember that! Any way to post some pix here? That was a big event!! ;D ;D Wow, I wonder what Pat's doing now and if he even knows we are talking about him? :-X
 
MORE RADIO TRUTH said:
Oldies station
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/02/22/daily12.html
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I forgot I had this link. I never go to other web sites outside a select group at home.

If he wants to reach 55-70 listeners, why doesn't Don Curtis just go with the format this station had from 1990 to 1995? I've been saying this since the word got out that they wanted to do music. Still, if they're going after geezers, it should sound good enough. I tried the signal the other day, but the car I have now doesn't pick up the station like the one my father was driving back when this station played the music I like.

Something I find quite curious: I went to the WWMY article on Wikipedia because a link from the above article mentioned the station's simulcast partner and I wantd to use the article as a source to add more information to Wikipedia. I saw the sections for 102.9 FM and 102.3 FM had the same title. As I generally do when I see an edit on Wikipedia that wasn't done right, I looked at the article's history. One edit summary said WKIX and WWMY have traded letters. Is this not the strangest move they've ever made? The perfect opportunity to put the WKIX letters back where they belong and they don't do it? ???
 
Wikipedia is loaded with misinformation, and you're adding to it "Chimp".

Be patient while "business" and not your "hobby" get taken care of in due time. ::)

The call letters of Y102.9 are NOT WKIX, and if you listened to the station's top of the hour ID you'd know.

Get back on the case Sherlock. ;)
 
Calls have changed and TOH ID reflects this. 102.9/Raleigh is now WKIX-FM and 102.3/Goldsboro is WWMY. The change was effective on March 4. My guess is this was a prelude to changing 850 calls to WKIX(AM).
 
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