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by WC8KCY
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Actors you don't care for
Replies: 19
Views: 1462

Re: Actors you don't care for

Turkeytop wrote:
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:29 pm
Fred Astaire
What about Ginger Rogers?
by WC8KCY
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Actors you don't care for
Replies: 19
Views: 1462

Re: Actors you don't care for

If you must know...

Drew Carey
by WC8KCY
Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:25 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Hampton Inn
Replies: 180
Views: 13738

Re: Hampton Inn

I think it's been at least 10 years since I made coffee in the room. Unless I forgot a place, seems everywhere I've stayed has coffee by the lobby anytime of the day or night. This particular Marriott had a Starbuck's that was only open in the morning, and a bar & grill where one could buy coffee. ...
by WC8KCY
Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:14 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Hampton Inn
Replies: 180
Views: 13738

Re: Hampton Inn

I provided feedback in the survey after I checked out about how much I appreciated having a wireless phone charging station bedside instead of a clock and suggested that should be implemented at all Marriott brand hotels. The last Marriott I stayed at (Lexington, KY) had a clock radio that had both...
by WC8KCY
Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:57 pm
Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
Topic: NBC Nightly News’ prepping new logo, graphics update
Replies: 3
Views: 927

Re: NBC Nightly News’ prepping new logo, graphics update

I don't get it, either. NBC went and blew up the distinctive branding and logos of CNBC, Versus, and (especially) Golf Channel and slapped the Peacock on all of 'em, but now the news department--which is the face of the network for many, many viewers--is moving away from the corporate standard. Weir...
by WC8KCY
Sat Feb 11, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Central/Western Upper Michigan
Topic: WDBC playlist shift - back to MOR/Standards?
Replies: 7
Views: 2226

Re: WDBC playlist shift - back to MOR/Standards?

I'll have to tune into an America's Best Music affiliate to compare and contrast the playlists. In about seven hours of listening over the last two days, the "crooners" have been absent on 680. I distinctly recall hearing Sinatra/Bobby Darin/Nat "King" Cole standards on WDBC on a UP road trip last M...
by WC8KCY
Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:22 pm
Forum: Central/Western Upper Michigan
Topic: WDBC playlist shift - back to MOR/Standards?
Replies: 7
Views: 2226

Re: WDBC playlist shift - back to MOR/Standards?

Tuned in today at 12:35 PM and for the next hour, here is what was aired: If – Bread (1971) Longer – Dan Fogelberg (1979) Save the Best for Last – Vanessa Williams (1992) The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Robert John (1972) Rocket Man – Elton John (1972) Leaving on a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul and Mary (1967) ...
by WC8KCY
Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:07 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.
Replies: 80
Views: 14671

Re: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.

Is 9&10 really distancing itself from CBS like how they say Local 32 rather than Fox 32? Nope. They haven't incorporated The Eye into their logo since the 1970s, starting with this one: https://i.postimg.cc/cHdCV5kG/9and10-blocky-3.jpg And if they were, why would they use roughly the same blue, gol...
by WC8KCY
Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:37 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.
Replies: 80
Views: 14671

Re: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.

Only "problem" with that one... they (we) don't use tape anymore LOL I agree. The old logos, probably any of them, would be significantly better than this new one. Tape? I recall 9&10 using slides well into the '80s, as we did at WFRV/WJMN-TV. Since the blocky 9&10 logo from the '80s went away, the...
by WC8KCY
Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:34 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.
Replies: 80
Views: 14671

Re: Holy shit, 9&10 has a new logo.

Not a fan of the new 1C9 logo. They could've done better just resurrecting this old logo:

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by WC8KCY
Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:51 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Ontario 2023 Predictions
Replies: 13
Views: 1606

Re: Ontario 2023 Predictions

...The biggest change over the past few years has been the evolution of the music from traditional nostalgia/standards into basically an oldies format with a touch of soft AC (not unlike the former CFCO Classic Gold). '50s music is rarely heard anymore and pre-'50s music is virtually gone except fo...
by WC8KCY
Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:44 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Ontario 2023 Predictions
Replies: 13
Views: 1606

Re: Ontario 2023 Predictions

4. I'm going to say there is about a 50/50 chance of AM 740 continuing with its current format. I'm in full agreement with you on that one. They've been tweaking their current format over the last 18 months; the biggest head-scratcher was a conspiracy theory show running late evenings. Now there's ...
by WC8KCY
Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:15 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: NBC IN ALPENA
Replies: 22
Views: 7126

Re: NBC IN ALPENA

1954, It seems odd to me that WPBN didn't use WMBV-TV (and later, WFRV and WLUK) for at least an alternate NBC feed. There may have been a time shift problem due to Wisconsin being on central time zone. Central time zone stations use the Eastern time zone feeds without time shifting, although tape-...
by WC8KCY
Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:10 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: NBC IN ALPENA
Replies: 22
Views: 7126

Re: NBC IN ALPENA

WTOM-TV did indeed have a 10 element 4 bay antenna on their tower at Cordwood Point to pick up WNEM-TV 5 for alternate off air NBC programming in the 1960s. I would think that it would have been used during tropospheric conditions that caused extreme cochannel interference from WBKB-TV/WLS-TV when ...
by WC8KCY
Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:43 am
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Console television sets
Replies: 16
Views: 1616

Re: Console television sets

The change from picture tube to the new flat screen TVs happened so rapidly, there must have been a lot of the old style TVs left unsold. Eh, it didn't happen that quickly. Plasma flat-screen TVs were introduced 25 years ago, in 1997. They quickly earned a reputation for very high energy usage and ...