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WSCR has its eye on FM dial
- Thread starter radioman148
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Honestly, I don't see them making a full move to FM. Many AM's are simulcasting on HD 2 and 3's. An AM/FM simulcast on 104.3 MAY happen down the road, but even that isn't all that likely. The score will be at 670 for years to come. The ratings are only low because the product isn't as great as it once was, and splitting the audience with WMVP (almost wrote WLUP there) doesn't help. Chicago is still a fairly AM friendly town and people lo0king for sports talk (yes, even those under 40) know they can find it on 670 AM. My ex in-laws have a condo on North Lake Shore Drive, and AM reception in there is god-awful, 5 or 6 stations at best, and 670 has the best signal. It's cleaner than a lot of the FMs.
joebob said:
You don't have anything to worry about now. WSCR isn't going to disappear from AM anytime soon.
Mark Jeffries said:
LOL, I thought he was typing posts in using morse code! ;D
;DAs for WJMK being oldies, it's been a couple of years since they went Jack, Bobby. As Mark indicated, the oldies are alive and well at 94.7.
I am afraid to ask, but how in the world did WSCR "kill" WJJD and WAIT?
BRNout said:Mark Jeffries said:
LOL, I thought he was typing posts in using morse code! ;D
As for WJMK being oldies, it's been a couple of years since they went Jack, Bobby. As Mark indicated, the oldies are alive and well at 94.7.
I am afraid to ask, but how in the world did WSCR "kill" WJJD and WAIT?
Maybe he was talking about WJMK's HD2 which still plays oldies.
Or maybe he hasn't turned on the radio for several years. ;D
jh said:
WCBD/WAIT/WCZE/WXEZ/WPNT was on 820 from 1941 to 1991 (and had been on various other frequencies since 1923), when the land underneath the towers in Elmhurst was sold and the station went off the air.
WSCR signed on from 4949 W. Belmont in Chicago, the home of then-sister-stations WSBC & WXRT and sharing its tower with WSBC, in January 1992.
>>WSCR signed on from 4949 W. Belmont in Chicago, the home of then-sister-stations WSBC & WXRT and sharing its tower with WSBC, in January 1992.>>
And sometimes the hosts on WSCR complained that they could hear WSBC bleeding through their headphones.
And sometimes the hosts on WSCR complained that they could hear WSBC bleeding through their headphones.
Haha, I remember the Score's early days. Back then the 820 signal could be so iffy in the south suburbs that WBAP from Dallas would sometimes start wiping them out before they even signed off at sunset.
WAIT was literally dead when the Score signed on, and WJJD was a walking corpse of bird talk shows when the Score was moved to 1160. If you want to accuse them of "killing" any station to make room for the Score, it would be WMAQ, which was still doing alright when its format was dropped. I still wish they'd have at least kept the WMAQ call letters on the sports format.
WAIT was literally dead when the Score signed on, and WJJD was a walking corpse of bird talk shows when the Score was moved to 1160. If you want to accuse them of "killing" any station to make room for the Score, it would be WMAQ, which was still doing alright when its format was dropped. I still wish they'd have at least kept the WMAQ call letters on the sports format.
EnbyCee said:
I do miss the alternative of another news station in Chicago.
I thought WMAQ did the format well.
I'd be happy to see any news station compete with WBBM-- and I think it should be on FM. I am tired of listening to muffled, telephone quality audio accompanied by hiss in the background, all thanks to IBOC. Also, there are a couple of voices on the station that just drive me bananas-- Regine is one, and there's a nameless announcer (probably one of the production assistants) who does a lot of the commercials with a dreadfully insipid delivery-- not to mention repeating the 800 numbers 4x.
WMAQ was really the best news station in my opinion, although does anyone remember when 1390 was all news? Didn't they do it before either WMAQ or WBBM?
WMAQ had the right call letters for news: "We Must Answer Questions". WBBM was the "World's Best Broadcast Music"... where did that go? To WFMT, I guess.
WMAQ was really the best news station in my opinion, although does anyone remember when 1390 was all news? Didn't they do it before either WMAQ or WBBM?
WMAQ had the right call letters for news: "We Must Answer Questions". WBBM was the "World's Best Broadcast Music"... where did that go? To WFMT, I guess.
audioguy said:
I remember 1390--WNUS all news in the mid 60s owned by Gordon McLendon. He invented the all news format with XTRA News in Southern California. Chicago also had a short lived news station on FM in the mid 70s.
It was the NBC owned FM which had been WMAQ-FM and their calls were WNIS ("News & Information Service.")
It didn't last long though.
audioguy said:
WMAQ unofficially stood for "We Must Ask Questions," or "WilliaM A. Quinn" (an early station manager). WBBM's slogan was originally "World's Best Battery Maker," after original owners Ralph & Leslie Atlass, who owned the Mallory Battery Co. at the time. "We Broadcast Better Music" was another slogan.
In reality, both callsigns were sequentially assigned and officially stood for nothing. IIRC, the Department of Commerce (pre-FRC/FCC) didn't allow the requesting of callsigns until around 1924. Both WMAQ and WBBM were already on the air by then.
BOBBY.B said:
It's all about the money.
stormy01 said:
Hopefully (as has been mentioned in many threads on R-I), the FCC will open 76-88 MHz to FM and allow the current AM stations to move there if HD on FM doesn't take off. The receivers already exist since the Asian FM band is 76-108 MHz (or portions thereof, depending on the country). If not, then HD on FM will have to be perfected and HD receiver sales will have to be much better than they are now.
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