Hi, all.

As many of you may know, one of my interests over the years has been 
monitoring patterns in formats for both AM and FM broadcast stations.

Today, I was casually cruising through the AM broadcast band from here in 
Central Lower Michigan, and I came across W O K Y, 920 AM, out of Milwaukee, 
WI.

What really struck me is that here was a station with an oldies format that 
clearly was trying to re-create the sound and aura of those 1960's top 40 AM 
stations that many of us grew up with.

During the short time I listened, I actually was rather impressed with what 
they were doing.

I remember that WKBW in Buffalo, NY was doing this several years ago when I 
came across them while visiting relatives on the east coast, but they since 
have gone to some kind of awful talk format which I couldn't stand listening 
to for more than 5 minutes.

In researching W O K Y further via the radio-locator web site, I notice that 
they are a Clear Channel station.

I wonder if this is something that more clear channel stations are going to 
try, or whether W O K Y is just an isolated experiment by Clear Channel.

I also wonder how W O K Y is doing with regard to ratings in the Milwaukee 
area.  I think that Howard (WA9TOP) from the list is from the Milwaukee 
area, so perhaps he can give us some insights from a local perspective if he 
is interested.

I hope you all don't mind this post. I just found the situation with W O K Y 
A M to be quite interesting.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI