Jeff Strieble wrote:
While NBC did sell WKYC-AM about 1970, the FM station, which was sold
at the same time, IIRC, did not become WMJI until 1981. Between
WKYC-FM and WMJI was WWWM-FM "M105" in the early '70s. WWWM was
operated by the same sports promoter who purchased WKYC-AM from NBC.
The M in the station's new callsign was the first letter of the new
owner's last name.

Would that have been Leonard Maltz of Malrite Communications? He also
owned several other properties in Cleveland including WMMS and (later)
WOIO-TV, and some radio stations in other cities (including, notably, Z-100
in New York).

Was a real shame when Malrite got out of the business. In particular, WMMS
was sold to Nationwide, which later sold out to Jacor, which later sold out
to Clear Channel, and has never been the same since.

WWWM-FM ran automated easy-listening music from
1972 until 1975 or so (during which they used an identification
announcement "We've changed our name, but not our tune; we're WWWM,
Cleveland"), then it went to live DJs and rock in '75. When the
station was sold the second time, the callsign was changed to WMJI,
and the format, under yet another new owner, was changed to oldies, as
it is today (although the station has been accused by another AM
oldies station here in Lake County

WELW in Eastlake?

where I live, of not being a true
"oldies" station by virtue of playing only music from the 1960s and
'70s

Well, yeah, that's because a lot of what WMJI otherwise would be playing
was on Mix 106.5 when they were playing "the best mix of the 80's, 90's and
70's". 'course, I can't see why some of the stuff on Mix couldn't also be
played on Majic. But that's just me.

I listen to WMJI quite a bit--I have and did for years, even when
they were WKYC-FM and WWWM--and know for a fact they do have an
extensive oldies library going back to the '50s.

yeahbut... when you're only playing the thirty or forty most popular songs in
your library, doesn't really matter, does it?

west, and to Akron to the south). I live about 35 miles northeast of
Cleveland and can hear WMJI extremely well on every FM radio in my
apartment, so the new owners may have improved the station's signal
somewhat since its NBC days.

May have? Probably did. Jacor and Clear Channel probably didn't have much
trouble justifying investing in WMJI, which has been #1 in the ratings in
Northeast Ohio for most of the last 15-20 years.

So Jeff, how's Fairport? I used to be your neighbor - lived in Mentor on
the Lake until last July. (Lived in Painesville for a while, too.)

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