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WSAI 1530 Cincinnati - Great Station
Not an advertisement, no, I'm not the PD, WSAI is simply one great kick ass
oldies 50 KW rock n roll flamethrower! Live DJ's, no music past 1968 or so, a tolerable commercial load, all in all very listenable. Clear Channel owned, but that hasn't seemed to screw it up yet. Hope you can hear it where you live, pattern must turn northward at night as Louisville reception goes to hell at sundown. /regards, Tom |
You are right about the old WCKY! I used to listen to it as a kid
even. Every night the CBS radio mystery theater was on 1530:-) I wonder if the nighttime pattern has changed? I have the same trouble you do here in Bowling Green. Must not be a lot of southwest radiation? To bad they changed the classic call but Wonderful Sounds And Information is OK... Ben W4WSM On 22 Nov 2003 17:35:46 GMT, "t.hoehler" wrote: Not an advertisement, no, I'm not the PD, WSAI is simply one great kick ass oldies 50 KW rock n roll flamethrower! Live DJ's, no music past 1968 or so, a tolerable commercial load, all in all very listenable. Clear Channel owned, but that hasn't seemed to screw it up yet. Hope you can hear it where you live, pattern must turn northward at night as Louisville reception goes to hell at sundown. /regards, Tom |
Hope you can hear it where you live,
Up here in Western NY we have WKBW 1520 AM. It's doing a good job on all fronts AND brought back "Chickenman". I live 75 miles east of Buffalo and can still get it quite well in all types of weather. Jim |
On 22 Nov 2003 17:35:46 GMT, "t.hoehler"
wrote: Not an advertisement, no, I'm not the PD, WSAI is simply one great kick ass oldies 50 KW rock n roll flamethrower! Live DJ's, no music past 1968 or so, a tolerable commercial load, all in all very listenable. Clear Channel owned, but that hasn't seemed to screw it up yet. WSAI is indeed a very well-put-together station. But in fact, except for morning drive time and the request shows, it is voicetracked. Mark Howell |
I'll agree 100%. They sound good. I like the reverb too! I think their
pattern change occurs at west coast sunset, where they protect KFBK Sacramento, I think. They are good in the Carolinas. Very strong. "t.hoehler" wrote in message ... Not an advertisement, no, I'm not the PD, WSAI is simply one great kick ass oldies 50 KW rock n roll flamethrower! Live DJ's, no music past 1968 or so, a tolerable commercial load, all in all very listenable. Clear Channel owned, but that hasn't seemed to screw it up yet. Hope you can hear it where you live, pattern must turn northward at night as Louisville reception goes to hell at sundown. /regards, Tom |
Hope you can hear it where you live, pattern must turn northward at
night as Louisville reception goes to hell at sundown. /regards, Tom It does reduce toward Louisville at night. It frequently reaches Connecticut at night after WDJZ goes off. Bob Radil A ?subject=NewsgroupRes ponse" E-Mail /A |
You are right about the old WCKY! I used to listen to it as a kid even. Every night the CBS radio mystery theater was on 1530:-) I wonder if the nighttime pattern has changed? I have the same trouble you do here in Bowling Green. Must not be a lot of southwest radiation? Originally WCKY, Covington, KY, this station protects the co-channel Class A in Sacramento, CA, using four towers. Therefore, nearly no radiation SW, W or NW. WCKY had the frequency all to itself for quite a while. The Sacramento station, KFBK, was a conversion from, then, a Class IV to a Class I-B. |
Royce Dean had written:
| I'll agree 100%. They sound good. I like the reverb too! I think their | pattern change occurs at west coast sunset, where they protect KFBK | Sacramento, I think. Yes -- it (then-WCKY) was strong in eastern and central Missouri for a couple of hours after sunset until the switch was flipped. The reference to reverb is amusing -- in the early 1970s I recall WCKY as an easy-listening station -- with reverb! Mix in a little groundwave/skywave phase cancellation, which one occasionally got for WCKY near St. Louis, and you got quite the ethereal effect! That's only the *second* most inappropriate use of reverb I've ever heard -- the most inappropriate was when KPRC in Houston was a news/talk station in head-on competition with KTRH -- and used reverb in 1985 and part of 1986! -- "Cyber and bar: There are two words that should be kept in separate buildings." -- John Kelso, Austin American-Statesman |
Let's not get carried away. I can hear them fine and they suck.
What's different today is that there are more formats that you can skip over looking for something listenable. I'd like an all-loogthung station. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
The reference to reverb is amusing -- in the early 1970s I recall
WCKY as an easy-listening station -- with reverb! WJIB 740 AM Stereo in Cambridge/Boston, MA -- one of the few, if not the last, Easy Listening/Beautiful Music stations on the AM band in the USA -- uses stereo reverb. It's not too heavy, but you can notice it. That's only the *second* most inappropriate use of reverb I've ever heard -- the most inappropriate was when KPRC in Houston was a news/talk station in head-on competition with KTRH -- and used reverb in 1985 and part of 1986! FM talk station "New Jersey 101.5" (WKXW-FM Trenton, NJ) uses a healthy dose of stereo reverb during their talk programming as well as the Oldies music they play on weekends. It does get a bit annoying, especially if you're listening with headphones. |
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"Kymberleigh Richards" wrote in message ... On 26 Nov 2003 17:59:06 GMT, (WBRW) wrote: The reference to reverb is amusing -- in the early 1970s I recall WCKY as an easy-listening station -- with reverb! WJIB 740 AM Stereo in Cambridge/Boston, MA -- one of the few, if not the last, Easy Listening/Beautiful Music stations on the AM band in the USA -- Definitely not the last. KWXY AM 1340 in Cathedral City/Palm Springs is still doing Beautiful Music, simulcast with KWXY FM 98.5 ... with live air personalities, no less. Interestingly, this may be among the poorest AMs of its class in terms of coverage. The day signal covers Cat City and most of Palm Springs. By the time you get to Palm desert, it can be noisy. At night, it gets out maybe 8 or 9 miles. Which is what you get with a high-band signal broadcasting from a desert. There is no Coachella Valley station that covers the entire market, day or night. |
It's about time someone made radio oldies fun again. Hopefully there will be
a satellite radio station that makes oldies fun and there will be more stations like this. In fact, come to think of it, I have listened to 1530 at night here in GA. I wonder if they use PAMS Series 18 jingles? I just love those jingles and those old deeejays. I think we are too hard on Clear Channel. There is a horrible local yokel station in my GA town that downloads off satellite (and pulled a Yankee out of the ad sales pool to get a big city look) But there is a Clear Channel station that has better personalities. For more info on old music radio check http://www.mindspring.com/~kturnerga/aircheck. Ken Macon, GA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com "t.hoehler" wrote in message ... Not an advertisement, no, I'm not the PD, WSAI is simply one great kick ass oldies 50 KW rock n roll flamethrower! Live DJ's, no music past 1968 or so, a tolerable commercial load, all in all very listenable. Clear Channel owned, but that hasn't seemed to screw it up yet. Hope you can hear it where you live, pattern must turn northward at night as Louisville reception goes to hell at sundown. /regards, Tom |
On 28 Nov 2003 18:40:26 GMT, Steven J Sobol
wrote: I'm not saying that there aren't stations they don't completely screw up, but there are some good ones out there. Clear Channel and Infinity are both run basically "by the numbers." That is to say, local managers can do pretty much what they want as long as they meet their cash flow budgets. Conversely, they must cut anything and everything if they don't, regardless of the impact on operations. This style of management means the quality of the local GM is really crucial. And as anyone who's been around the business a while knows, the quality of general managers is wildly variable. What amazes me is that Infinity owns a station out here... I don't recall which one. Infinity and Clear Channel both scooped up lots of marginal stations by buying entire groups to get the better ones. Where they differ is that Infinity really does not want to be in smaller markets, whereas CCU seems to want to own everything it possibly can, everywhere. However, even CCU has been sloughing off a few lately. The 1220 AM in Canyon Country, CA was sold back to its former owner for less than a third of what CCU paid for it. He was making money operating it -- they never did. Mark Howell |
"KA Turner" wrote:
It's about time someone made radio oldies fun again. Hopefully there will be a satellite radio station that makes oldies fun and there will be more stations like this. In fact, come to think of it, I have listened to 1530 at night here in GA. I wonder if they use PAMS Series 18 jingles? I just love those jingles and those old deeejays. I think we are too hard on Clear Channel. There is a horrible local yokel station in my GA town that downloads off satellite (and pulled a Yankee out of the ad sales pool to get a big city look) But there is a Clear Channel station that has better personalities. For more info on old music radio check http://www.mindspring.com/~kturnerga/aircheck. Ken Macon, GA -- Neither WSAI or WCPO/WUBE used Series #18, so anthything is possible. Currenbtly they are using resings fo the Pacific And Southern TM package first used when on 1360. They have some other TM items still to used on air. To hear resings of classic PAMS in the internet, try www.kmin980.com and click on Listen Now. They are live in the am and pm dirve and have otehr live segments through out the week. Sadely, like most braodcasters today, they rely on computer automation during other times. Owner is a good friend and really cares about locally owned radio. |
Actually, WSAI repurchased TM's Southern & Pacific jingles. The
package was originally a custom for WCFL/WWDJ/WQXI/WSAI. The original multitracks were pulled (I know... I did it) and new vocal arrangements were scored utilizing the new frequency of 1530. The cuts were sung at TM Century, Inc. In addition to the TM cuts, they are using the Drake-Chanault stager ID, 20/20 news jingle and thematic breaks. Tracy E. Carman Media Preservation Foundation topcat_at_mailblocks_dot_com On 28 Nov 2003 15:13:47 GMT, "KA Turner" wrote: It's about time someone made radio oldies fun again. Hopefully there will be a satellite radio station that makes oldies fun and there will be more stations like this. In fact, come to think of it, I have listened to 1530 at night here in GA. I wonder if they use PAMS Series 18 jingles? I just love those jingles and those old deeejays. I think we are too hard on Clear Channel. There is a horrible local yokel station in my GA town that downloads off satellite (and pulled a Yankee out of the ad sales pool to get a big city look) But there is a Clear Channel station that has better personalities. For more info on old music radio check http://www.mindspring.com/~kturnerga/aircheck. Ken Macon, GA |
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