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Blarney Stone broadcasting opens a Go Fund Me page.

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Re: Blarney Stone broadcasting opens a Go Fund Me page.

Post by Milk » Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:16 am

92.1 was a much-better station when it was WKKM "The Country King". It was in mono and most of the music was on vinyl, even well into the CD age of the 1990s.



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Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:29 am

What I remember about that station were the weather updates straight from the National Weather Service in Houghton Lake. The actual NWS meteorologists gave a brief summary and then read the forecast. Very unique! I don't know of any other commercial radio station with such an arrangement.

I loved the authentic sound of the station. That station really got out, too, for having just 6 kW (or was it 3 kW?).



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Post by Deleted User 4520 » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:28 pm

This station has prerecorded weather and they DO NOT break in with severe weather alerts nor do they mention if there is a watch for your area. Is there some sort of rule that says they have to participate in that?



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Post by audiophile » Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:12 pm

No rule.


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Post by Colonel Flagg » Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:32 am

Blarney Stone would be wise to go back to focusing on the Grayling stations they own, and forget about "renting" all of these rim-shot signals around Traverse City.


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Post by audiophile » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:33 pm

Good point.


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Post by Jim Sofonia » Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:32 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:29 am
What I remember about that station were the weather updates straight from the National Weather Service in Houghton Lake. The actual NWS meteorologists gave a brief summary and then read the forecast. Very unique! I don't know of any other commercial radio station with such an arrangement.
We did that at WATZ in Alpena for some time. One of the announcers had a friend at the local NWS.



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