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I se so much talk of Smooth Jazz stations switching to other formats in the past six months but no one has ever spoke much of a low power FM station located at Indian Lake in west Central Ohio. WRPO-LP located at Russells Point at the lake made a format switch from big band/adult standards to Smooth Jazz earlier this spring.

I met Gene Kirby who operates the station in March of this year and he is one of the nicest people I have ever met in radio...real easy going fellow. His station only transmits in mono within a ten mile radius of Russells Point and barely audible in nearby Bellefontaine and Jackson Center,Ohio..but if you're ever travelling on U.S. Route 33 heading either towards Fort Wayne or Columbus and you're apporaching Indian Lake (popularized by the 1969 Cowsills song of the same name and the long missed Sandy Beach Amusement Park where many Big Bands did live radio programs there in the 1940s)give it a listen at 93.5 FM. A generous donation would surely be appreciated by Gene if you would.

Too bad this station doesn't stream or broadcast in stereo. Perhaps some smooth jazz fans out there can group together and give Gene a much needed hand and a financial boost to do so here. WRPO also needs underwriters from the Indian Lake region to stay on the air.

http://www.wrpo-fm.com
 
looks like an interesting little outfit. another interesting little outfit that i was just going to post about because of a recent format tweak, but i'll post it as part of this thread, is to check out kutztown university radio in rural eastern pennsylvania. it's a tiny little college station whose primary way to get out is a cablecast and a webcast. i've posted on the lehigh valley board that i hear businesses in the kutztown area with the local tv bulletin board channel on that plays the station in the background. anyway, they have standard college fare at night, but during the day and during the summer, their primary format is called "cafe KUR" which up until now was mainly oldies with a sprinkling of smooth jazz, but now their website says it is half smooth jazz/half oldies. i gave it a listen since the tweak. sounds good. they mix all kinds of jazz. smooth, traditional, acid, but it is mainly smooth. then they'll segue into elvis presley or some oldie. their liners say things like "making history with a cool mix of jazz and oldies." i recently read in the paper that kutztown university radio was applying for a non commercial FM license, so if they win it and wjjz goes off the air again (WJJZ is weakly listenable in kutztown), this station may fill a void. they're also in berks county which is the home of the big berks jazz fest.

http://kur.kutztown.edu/
 
Now that's being creative...getting closer to my baby, RHYTHM & ESSENCE...soul/jazz/gospel/oldies/light alternatives...created it 8 years ago and put it out on the www back in '02/03...

If any of the WRPO gang need some help or suggestions in growing this sound of theirs (which people who have listened to mine go crazy over) contact me through radio-info.

-Bill Alley
 
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