Nothing new received in Whitmore Lake but it was still nice to have a tropo opening so early in the year. Some highlights: 88.5 Smile FM (WCTP) from the Thumb 90.3 WBLV Twin Lake 91.3 WCSG 94.1 WHST from the Thumb 95.7 WLHT 95.9 FM96 London 97.3 WMEE Fort Wayne 100.5 WSGW-FM 100.9 CBC Radio 1 Wingha...

With so many Beautiful Music stations in Detroit at that time and most of them being FM Stereo operations, how they thought a 250-watt AM station could compete with that is beyond me. WQTE had the advantage of being at a low dial position and getting into the format before the market was heavily FM ...

My great-aunt was an avid WTAK listener, except for Paul Winter who was a bit too liberal for her. (To illustrate how much better the station got out at that time: she lived in St. Clair Shores.) Winter, of course, was a former WXYZ radio personality and went on to be the voice of WTVS 56 for many y...

Fifth format, I think. The first was K-Love, then Praise Network, then The Roar, then Podcast and now Playa. Unless I'm missing something. Salsa music is actually more popular in Mexico than many people realize. Its audience is primarily in the bigger cities, however, and I would assume most Spanish...

Melanie Safka's biggest hits included the #1 "Brand New Key" from late 1971 and the Top 10 "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" (inspired by her experience at Woodstock) with the Edwin Hawkins Singers from 1970. She had recently been working on a new album. https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-peop...

Lead singer of the girl group with three Top 10 hits in the mid-'60s, including the #1 "Leader of the Pack." She was 75.
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/2024-01-19 ... s-has-died

On the subject of slogans, I seem to recall that both WDRQ and WKQI used the slogan "Today's Best Music" simultaneously for a very short time circa 1997. That happened after DRQ dropped the "Detroit's Dance Music" tagline and added some Modern AC product to sound a little more like a mainstream CHR ...

Technically, Detroit's period without a mainstream CHR station began at the end of 1992, when 99.5 The Fox disappeared in favor of Wow-FM (and later WYCD). WHYT reported as a mainstream CHR (as Radio & Records didn't have a Rhythmic panel yet), but they were straight up Rhythmic/Churban, not dissimi...

Reminds me of the comment sections on the 9/11 videos I watch. It's either: *anchor stays calm and says they don't want to assume anything* "Oh my GOD how did they not know it was terrorism!?!? I knew it right away! Ugh! Stupid media!" Or "Oh if this happened today the anchors would be beside thems...

eHarmony used Natalie Cole's "This Will Be" for years. I never saw it again after Natalie's death, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg0wD8gNtgQ Geico used Roy Orbison's "Ride Away" to illustrate "free range chicken" a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swjMqIiSBhg On the topic of...

Was this local or network?
Channel 4 had a show called "Beat the Champ" back in the '60s... it aired late at night but allegedly had hee-yooge ratings. Which I suppose isn't hard if you're the only program on the air at 1:30am.

PBS and NPR obviously don't cater to those whose idea of "solid educational programming" is PragerU. Fortunately, if that describes you, you have other options where you can rest assured you'll never hear anyone who isn't a heterosexual, cisgender WASP described in anything less than demonizing term...

Appears to be a corporate move, as all of Gray's NBC affiliates did the same. Gray having bad blood with NBC? Apparently Gray is moving to de-emphasize network affiliations for all of their stations, according to this forum thread: https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/topic/17000-the-ever-evolving-gray-gr...

Here’s more on the channel changes: https://thedesk.net/2023/12/outlaw-the365-replacing-circle-country-january-2024/ https://www.wilx.com/2023/12/19/new-channel-line-up-coming-wilx-january-1-2024/ It also appears that WILX and sister station WLUC owner Gray TV just extended its NBC affiliations: ht...

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Sun Dec 31, 2023 1:15 am

How the hell did I miss this? This isn't far from me, either. Absolutely terrible. Those poor souls.

You live in Brighton, IIRC. My mom's girlfriend works at the Brighton Costco and said she felt nothing. Maybe there was an "acoustic shadow" of sorts?