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WZJY 1480AM Charleston flips to.............

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R&B :) --I'm not sure when it happened. I was surfing the AM dial on the way to work this morning and heard 'Return of the Mack' along with New Edition, Billy Ocean, Gladys Knight, EU, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Johnny Kemp, GAP Band, Al B Sure, etc. Its sounds like its mostly 80s with some 90s mixed in. I didn't hear anything current.


They have use these lines so far:

1. You've heard their side now hear ours this is some new 'ish' radio.
2. Charleston you're witnessing history in the making.
 
I take that back----WZJY is playing classic R&B but not for long. WZJY will become an Urban Talk station broadcasting shows like 2 Live Stews (Live from Atlanta), Bev Smith, Jesse Lee Paterson (live from LA), & Charleston's very own David Mack III (live in studio mornings 6 to 9)(that explained why 'Return of the Mack' played alot). They started playing clips from these shows around 5PM today.
 
It beats the hell out of recycled indignant angry white guy radio which dominates everywhere else on the dial. Not to mention indignant midwest transplants passing themselves off as Southern Confederistas.

I'll look forward to hearing the local morning show.
 
RadioMetalMan said:
It beats the hell out of recycled indignant angry white guy radio which dominates everywhere else on the dial. Not to mention indignant midwest transplants passing themselves off as Southern Confederistas.

I'll look forward to hearing the local morning show.
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Agreed on the transplant comment. But does angry black guy radio make this station better?

Two words: Jeremiah Wright. I think you'll find "black talk" much more "hate filled" than the other.

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The biggest problem I have with people like Jeremiah Right, Al Sharpton and the Jesse Jackson's fo the world is that they think that they are speaking for all of the black population and are espousing their hateful rheotoric and think that they are still oppressed when in fact they are discriminating against white people and I for one am really tired of it. I agree that the black population in the 1950's and 1060's were treated badly, but this is 2001, so let's get over it and move on.am
 
upstate29651 said:
Agreed on the transplant comment. But does angry black guy radio make this station better?
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Does it make it better? No. Not by a long shot. But listening to people merely repeat and rehash superficial thoughts posing as philosophy, and not to mention the alarming amount of strawman arguments that makes up about 90% of traditional talk radio (read: angry white guy radio), I'm at least willing to hear something else for a change. But I suspect that it'll be just as intellectually bankrupt as their peers already are.

I actually caught Jesse Lee Peterson for about half an hour today during lunch. I wasn't really impressed all that much.

Underwhelming doesn't really have a color, but it sure has a format, and that sadly is talkradio.

I miss the hosts who actually engaged you, be it with wit or wisdom.


Most of my coworkers, outside of radio, are so passed racial tensions it's the source of a lot of our jokes and humor. That being said, there's still so many people who can't see past the pigment for whatever reason.

It's truly a sad commentary on our species and countrymen. Racism is ripe just down the way in Mexico, Chile, and it's popping up like mad in the Scandinavian lands.

But how do current talk hosts make themselves relevant? Or rather, why should they bother when their audience takes what they say hook, line, and sinker. You think the populace would demand better talent, but never overestimate the public's need for information and want to cut through all the bullsh*t.
 
It would've been nice if they added Classic Soul along with the talk shows. It would kind of bring back the old POWER 73/WPAL-AM. When did Jabar take over this station? Speaking of Jabar, hows is the Mexican format doing on 98.9 FM?
 
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