WWJZ 640

[JH_Radio]

This sounds like An EZ format, not the big band you'd hear during normal hours.
Thanks though, Steve.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Here is WWJZ in 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRhAiqXw-A

I listened for less than four minutes. I think you'd have to call it languid. I'm old and I'm a big-band fan, but that music is too torpid to even quite qualify as elevator music. Too somnolent for me! I didn't hear any commercials, but a mattress commercial would seem to be in order.

 

[cyber]

That's not a real representation of the station on youtube. A lot of Big Bands were played during the week by Pete Sullivan, Bob Markel, Des McBride and John "Johann Sebastion Bach" Beatty. Weekends also featured the Big Bands and some special programming like "The Wax Museum" on Sunday evenings with Dave Solomon. That concentrated on sounds of the early 20th century.

The station had a good sound and it did expose a past era to anyone willing to give a listen and hopfully appreciate the music. High School band directors and their students would have learned a lot.

 

[JH_Radio]

Yeah, i was thinkin a specialty sunday show wasn't representative of the format.

 

[Radio Wreck]

A lot of Big Bands were played during the week by Pete Sullivan, Bob Markel, Des McBride and John "Johann Sebastion Bach" Beatty.

Are any of the personalites from the 640 WWJZ big band days still around?

 

[klutch00]

Don't forget Bob Bittner's WJIB 740 Cambridge MA and WJTO 730 Bath ME. These stations run Standards and Easy Listening, with WJTO running an updated version of the format. For WWJZ to do that kind of format again would take a LOT of listener donations just to pay the power bill at 50 kW if they tried a listener-supported model. WJIB and WJTO are lower powered, running 250 watts and 1 kW respectively Listener support works with those two at their power levels. So outside of yet ANOTHER dollar-a-holler AM'er, Disney is the best fit. Surprised, though that ESPN wasn't put there.

IMNSHO 640 would not be a good place to do a specialty format such as Nostalgia/standards or whatnot. A smaller facility with a decent daytime signal might be the way to go. Stations which come to mind could include 690, 1110, perhaps 740, 800 or 900. If anyone is 'displaced', they could always make the owners of 1540 an offer they can't refuse and put their programming there.