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Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:13:20 -0400 |
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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
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