WTRW

[classic_rocker]

For those of you hard core oldies fans who live north of Milwaukee( Sheboygan to Green Bay), try giving WTRW-1590 a listen. They are now billing themselves as a "true oldies station". They have heavy doses of late 50s and early 60s top-40,but unlike a "real oldies" format they also play a lot of great stuff from the mid 60s to the early 70s. They sound a lot like the WEMP of the mid-80s.
WOGB 103.1 out of Green Bay seems to be adding more 50s stuff to their playlist also.( hats off to Dan Marcus for that).They have a voice over with something like- here's another song from the roots of rock n roll-( not a direct quote) and go into Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis etc... Sounds GREAT!!!
Reading the post about WRIT below this one is sad in a way since Milwaukee really doesn't have an oldies outlet anymore.( they haven't for awhile I guess).Cheer up WBOG-1470 out of Sparta plays great stuff and they stream. Just go to oldies1470.com and enjoy.Of course there is always satellite radio if you want to pay for your oldies fix.
I guess my point here is there are still some great oldies stations out there,just wish Milwaukee had one. I guess WOKY comes the closest right now. I know R&R has WRIT billed as oldies,but we all know thats not really true anymore.

 

[JeremyAndrews]

> For those of you hard core oldies fans who live north of
> Milwaukee( Sheboygan to Green Bay), try giving WTRW-1590 a
> listen. They are now billing themselves as a "true oldies
> station". They have heavy doses of late 50s and early 60s
> top-40,but unlike a "real oldies" format they also play a
> lot of great stuff from the mid 60s to the early 70s. They
> sound a lot like the WEMP of the mid-80s.
> WOGB 103.1 out of Green Bay seems to be adding more 50s
> stuff to their playlist also.( hats off to Dan Marcus for
> that).They have a voice over with something like- here's
> another song from the roots of rock n roll-( not a direct
> quote) and go into Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis etc...
> Sounds GREAT!!!
> Reading the post about WRIT below this one is sad in a way
> since Milwaukee really doesn't have an oldies outlet
> anymore.( they haven't for awhile I guess).Cheer up
> WBOG-1470 out of Sparta plays great stuff and they stream.
> Just go to oldies1470.com and enjoy.Of course there is
> always satellite radio if you want to pay for your oldies
> fix.
> I guess my point here is there are still some great oldies
> stations out there,just wish Milwaukee had one. I guess WOKY
> comes the closest right now. I know R&R has WRIT billed as
> oldies,but we all know thats not really true anymore.
>

I would also recommend checking WJMK-104.3 Chicago when south of Milwaukee as well as WRLL-1690. WJMK is mostly 60s oldies with some 50s and 70s and WRLL is REAL oldies. And if in and around Milwaukee and Chicago, check out "Solid Gold Saturdays" on 1050 WLIP Kenosha. They have a real oldies request show and some VTed 50s and 60s oldies as well as "Oldies Coast To Coast" WLIP is also a good place for 60s oldies during their regular music programming. The signal covers Milwaukee just fine. And one other good outlet is 1500 WPJX Zion, IL. It can be heard in Kenosha if you're in that area. PLENTY of 50s-60s oldies with some classic country mixed in.
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[GregfromOC]

> > For those of you hard core oldies fans who live north of
> > Milwaukee( Sheboygan to Green Bay), try giving WTRW-1590 a
>
> > listen. They are now billing themselves as a "true oldies
> > station". They have heavy doses of late 50s and early 60s
> > top-40,but unlike a "real oldies" format they also play a
> > lot of great stuff from the mid 60s to the early 70s. They
>
> > sound a lot like the WEMP of the mid-80s.
> > WOGB 103.1 out of Green Bay seems to be adding more 50s
> > stuff to their playlist also.( hats off to Dan Marcus for
> > that).They have a voice over with something like- here's
> > another song from the roots of rock n roll-( not a direct
> > quote) and go into Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis etc...
> > Sounds GREAT!!!
> > Reading the post about WRIT below this one is sad in a
> way
> > since Milwaukee really doesn't have an oldies outlet
> > anymore.( they haven't for awhile I guess).Cheer up
> > WBOG-1470 out of Sparta plays great stuff and they stream.
>
> > Just go to oldies1470.com and enjoy.Of course there is
> > always satellite radio if you want to pay for your oldies
> > fix.
> > I guess my point here is there are still some great
> oldies
> > stations out there,just wish Milwaukee had one. I guess
> WOKY
> > comes the closest right now. I know R&R has WRIT billed as
>
> > oldies,but we all know thats not really true anymore.
> >
>
> I would also recommend checking WJMK-104.3 Chicago when
> south of Milwaukee as well as WRLL-1690. WJMK is mostly 60s
> oldies with some 50s and 70s and WRLL is REAL oldies. And if
> in and around Milwaukee and Chicago, check out "Solid Gold
> Saturdays" on 1050 WLIP Kenosha. They have a real oldies
> request show and some VTed 50s and 60s oldies as well as
> "Oldies Coast To Coast" WLIP is also a good place for 60s
> oldies during their regular music programming. The signal
> covers Milwaukee just fine. And one other good outlet is
> 1500 WPJX Zion, IL. It can be heard in Kenosha if you're in
> that area. PLENTY of 50s-60s oldies with some classic
> country mixed in.
>

WRLL streams at www.realoldies1690.com which is where I get my 50's and early 60's oldies

 

[amradioguy1]

WTRW plays their own songs, except from 9am to noon and again from 1pm to 3pm weekdays, when they team up with Scott Shannon's syndicated format. The format is only on 20 stations nationwide, and comes from NYC.

They play 1955-1974 exclusively, but can play songs that no one else does!