organman95 wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:03 am

The footage says 1994, so I'm going to say most likely. How long did Federal own the station?

After doing a quick search of some old issues of Broadcasting Magazine, Federal picked up the stations from Beam around 1991 and sold them to Raycom in 1997.

Found this a while back, forgot to post about it here. Pretty interesting find. I can’t wait to see what else the uploader has in store. As for the question on the night newscasts, I can only assume most people wouldn’t just get up early and immediately fire up their VCRs to record the morning news,...

I thought they only did 60's on weekends? The only changes I've noticed to the regular playlist are the addition of 80's songs.

I posted this video on my new YouTube channel a while back, this is pretty much commercials and DJs talking from KHQ and KPK around December of ‘89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOhWOygtIQ

Let’s see what I managed to get up north... 92.1 WCSR 92.3 WCOL 92.5 WDJQ 93.1 WBTU 93.9 WBKS 94.7 WSNY (hardly listenable but I could hear it through W234BU) 97.9 WNCI 98.3 WPKO 98.7 WYKL 98.9 WBYR 100.5 WBGI 101.5 WIBA 101.9 WTMX 102.1 WDOK 102.7 WCPZ 103.3 WGLX 104.3 WOGI (first PA station!) 104....

According to the Baraga website, they just switched to Relevant Radio on October 15, so they’ve already made the switch.

Jeez, so many personnel changes it’s making my head spin... I thought Smitty had retired for good at this point!!!

But to be fair, I can see Smitty sticking around in the morning show slot for quite a while.

Busted...

Here's what I was able to log here in Traverse City on the same opening... 92.3 WZRH - Laplace, Louisiana - 1,058.62 mi 92.5 KZPS - Dallas, Texas - 1,033.82 mi 93.1 KQID - Alexandria, Louisiana - 971.21 mi 93.3 WQUE - New Orleans, Louisiana - 1,051.78 mi 93.5 KLXK - Breckenridge, Texas - 1,087.28 mi...

Finally, skip season's here! Too bad I missed out on the opening yesterday...

Crap, when I saw the title I thought 107.5 FM FINALLY dropped those 80's songs. They're "The 70's Station", don't you know?

I was getting some okay tropo up north last night and early this morning. Just the usual Wisconsin lakeshore, Grand Rapids and NE Michigan stuff. Nothing too special.

From Traverse City...

AM: CBW 990 Winnipeg, MB
FM Tropo: KEZO 92.3 Omaha, NE
FM E-Skip: WFLC Miami, FL
TV: Well, I haven't really got any good results from TV DXing yet...

The only solution is to make Stopnswop programming director, obviously.

I've always pondered the idea of bringing back the old WJML as an online radio station. Complete with 70's music, old jingles and classic Northern Michigan commercials, and maybe even some old Bob & Tom bits (given they started off at the station). I've seen a lot of online stations dedicated to old...