...sense of decline in the ratings. Thats how we wound up with so many lookalike talk stations. Maybe now the trend is reversing? -Bill Drive time is ... the quickest fill-in programing for AMers seems to be oldies formats. I've a few stations use oldies as a transitional format recently. First, it's oh great, a new oldie station, then poof! Back to some other yak yak 24/7. ...

...jeffhs@ameritech.net says... WOWO is now a news-talk station, still 50kW, still on 1190... it was.... it was purchased by the people in NYC that already owned a station on 1190 ... and of course they were at nite being clobbered even in NYC...... and its a little tough at nite to get it here... then of course they resold the station... new owners stuck with what we have... and yes its talk...

... players. The nature of the modern broadcast property owner is to change to another format, any format, as soon as there is a sense of decline in the ratings. Thats how we wound up with so many lookalike talk stations. Maybe now the trend is reversing? -Bill ... ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

..., IIRC), plays very nearly every rock and roll record ever made. I often ... literally in decades--the obscure songs that may have been hits in the city or town in which they were recorded, but have since faded... and would never be heard again, were it not for oldies stations such as Oldies 102-5 in Edgewood... channel as I explain below. WOWO is now a news-talk station, still 50kW, still on 1190...

... Chuck Cecil's "Swinging Years" - she has been quite distressed that the station that carries it here has moved it to sunday AM when she wants to be sleeping - She figures ....com/ Though the URL still says news another precious music station has come into my airspace! John H...Ft Wayne, IN ... we have two little low power stations about 25 miles or so away from Ft Wayne ...

... k9uwa" <k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF> wrote in message news:Fpypk.300397$yE1.111621@attbi_s21... ... bucks to spend for the products offered up in commercials on those stations!.. What took 'em so long? Seems like AM radio has...many of them and a lot of people still consider them the top format. I also noticed no satellite radios. Hmmm . . . If you are looking ...

... Goller, k9uwa" <k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF> wrote in message news:Fpypk.300397$yE1.111621@attbi_s21... ... the bucks to spend for the products offered up in commercials on those stations!.. What took 'em so long? Seems like AM radio has ... so many of them and a lot of people still consider them the top format. I also noticed no satellite radios. Hmmm . . . Marketplace is ...

... enough on a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona, there are two active oldies station on AM there. Not sure how long they've been on the air. One is the Westwood One satellite format, the ...a custom oldies format which sounds more like it was produced there. I just wonder what the stations were before this format, and what caused them to change. Maybe there is a trend to STAY with these formats...

...940news.com/ Though the URL still says news another precious music station has come into my airspace! John ... years ago ... one of the more powerful local stations switched over to Oldies... they figured out that the low power ... to spend for the products offered up in commercials on those stations!.. Now and then I catch some younger kids listening to them also! John ...

....940news.com/ Though the URL still says news another precious music station has come into my airspace! John H.... two years ago ... one of the more powerful local stations switched over to Oldies... they figured out that the low power ... bucks to spend for the products offered up in commercials on those stations!.. Now and then I catch some younger kids listening to them also! John ...