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WZUM 1590

PHIL Z said:
Mrs Hickling Lives Their And her Phone Number is Still WZUM's 922 0550. Cool to live in a radio station.
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Probably not cool when someone thinks they're dialing the Request Line at 2am, asking for House of the Rising Sun.
 
dB said:
Probably not cool when someone thinks they're dialing the Request Line at 2am, asking for House of the Rising Sun.
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Well, WZUM has several "advantages" here:

(1) It hasn't been competitive for 35 years
(2) It's been dark since March
(2) It's essentially a daytimer. (24 watts at night)

C.
 
dB said:
PHIL Z said:
Mrs Hickling Lives Their And her Phone Number is Still WZUM's 922 0550. Cool to live in a radio station.
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Probably not cool when someone thinks they're dialing the Request Line at 2am, asking for House of the Rising Sun.
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If that happens, it's a 99% chance the caller is MsMusicRadio.
 
If you want to hear House of the Rising Sun at 2AM, you need to be calling 620 KHB!
 
FreddyE1977 said:
If you want to hear House of the Rising Sun at 2AM, you need to be calling 620 KHB!
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If you want to hear House of the Rising Sun at 2:00 AM, you need to either click here or pop a CD into your dashboard. With the former, you can also enjoy the innovative choreography. And check out the Harmony guitar and bass, and the bass player strumming his bass. I'd also like to know how the guitar player got those great flat-picked arpeggios whilst strumming like he was playing a dixieland banjo.
 
Talk_Dude said:
I'd also like to know how the guitar player got those great flat-picked arpeggios whilst strumming like he was playing a dixieland banjo.
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Clearly he was a graduate of the Partridge Family Academy of Music
 
Talk_Dude said:
If you want to hear House of the Rising Sun at 2:00 AM, you need to either click here or pop a CD into your dashboard. With the former, you can also enjoy the innovative choreography. And check out the Harmony guitar and bass, and the bass player strumming his bass. I'd also like to know how the guitar player got those great flat-picked arpeggios whilst strumming like he was playing a dixieland banjo.
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Many people do not want to turn on their computers just to hear a song.

Many people do not want to buy a CD just for one song.
 
corporateradiosucks said:
Talk_Dude said:
If you want to hear House of the Rising Sun at 2:00 AM, you need to either click here or pop a CD into your dashboard. With the former, you can also enjoy the innovative choreography. And check out the Harmony guitar and bass, and the bass player strumming his bass. I'd also like to know how the guitar player got those great flat-picked arpeggios whilst strumming like he was playing a dixieland banjo.
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Many people do not want to turn on their computers just to hear a song.

Many people do not want to buy a CD just for one song.
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I guess turning on a computer to hear a song is a whole lot harder than turning on a radio and making a phone call. And, I'll wager that most people who like "House of the Rising Sun" so much that they'll go to the trouble of making a phone call at 2:00 AM to request it would also like the other songs on any oldies compilation CD that included "House of the Rising Sun".

And, if anyone was that big a fan of "House of the Rising Sun", they could always just buy it for 99¢ as a download and burn it onto a CD.

I'd also be curious about the size of the universe of people who are so determined to hear "House of the Rising Sun" that they'll go to the trouble of calling a radio station at 2:00 AM in hopes that maybe there will be a live DJ who will answer the phone and play the request, but who are too lazy to turn on their computer to listen to the song on YouTube. You claim it is "many". Can you name even two such people?

And, if someone is too lazy to turn on their computer, and too cheap to buy a CD, who cares if they tune in to your station at 2:00 AM anyway? Will having that one extra listener make any difference on how many spots you'll sell at 2:00 AM?
 
So, whither WZUM? One month from today, the station will have been off the air for a year, and their
license (ultimately) will be cancelled. I've heard there are attempts to save the station, but have not
heard much else. Are the towers still standing? Will they meet the deadline? Has anyone thought of
plugging in a CD player with some Mad Mike Moldies?

C.
 
From what I last remember hearing, they removed the transmitter from the building, and were supposed to tear down the towers. I don't know if that ever happened.
 
From Scott Fybush's column this morning:

"And in Pittsburgh, we say goodbye to WZUM (1590 Carnegie), whose license will go away for good on Tuesday, at which point it will have been silent for more than a year. The little AM signal was beset by plenty of problems, including an FCC fine for overpowered night operation and a dispute with Crafton Borough officials over unpaid rent at its tower site that led to an order that the WZUM towers be removed."

http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2011/110321/nerw.html

C.
 
If what I've been told is true, at least three groups or individuals tried to save the station. I imagine
the complications overwhelmed their attempts, and, as more than one person has said to me, it's not
a great signal. If it had been 540 or 1250 I suspect it would have been rescued. Stilll, it might have
served a purpose (and an audience) had it been revived.

C.
 
cingram said:
If what I've been told is true, at least three groups or individuals tried to save the station. I imagine
the complications overwhelmed their attempts, and, as more than one person has said to me, it's not
a great signal. If it had been 540 or 1250 I suspect it would have been rescued. Stilll, it might have
served a purpose (and an audience) had it been revived.

C.
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Clarke,

We're having our first radio gathering of 2011. I'm sure that Lee, our social secretary, has contacted you. You haven't been to one of these for quite a while. Hope you can make it!!!!
 
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