I use to enjoy listening to:

"THE NIGHT FLIGHT"

on WJR.

It was a wonderful mix of jazz.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Digital AM


> Hi Phil, it is interesting you mentioned that Clear Channel has Air
> America station here.  Clear Channel owns about a half a dozen stations on
> AM and FM here in the Detroit area, and stations which were really self
> sufficient long before Clear Channel took them over.  WJR which is our 50
> KW giant here has mainly conservative talk, and gave up sports in exchange
> for Rush and Hanity and Laura.  I couldn't believe it, since WJR has
> mainly had either local programming and of course lots of sports for many
> years, but now is not very local, and what is isn't what it used to be,
> and I am saying that from someone who never really paid attention to WJR
> when it was mainly local programs.  We have one FM talker and that is 97.1
> and I don't know what will happen with that once Howard stern goes off
> regular radio at the end of the year.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Phil Scovell wrote:
>
>> Funny how things change.  I moved to Denver 33 years ago.  I have been a
>> talk show junky since I was 18 years young.  I'm now creeping up on 54
>> years
>> of age.  Anyhow, Denver had absolutely no conservitive talk shows on 33
>> years ago.  Now we have air America represented, on a Clear channel owned
>> station I might add, and at least one other small station that is mostly
>> libral.  The Clear Channel stations running mostly conservitive shows are
>> two main local stations, although they own a total of 8 stations in the
>> Denver listening market I have been told.  I don't understand why the
>> digital stuff isn't put in the upper band and everything from 535 to 1610
>> is
>> left to the standard am broadcasts.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
>
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