The FCC is smoking something these days. RW reported you could bid on an FM CP as lowe as $750-$1500, but the FCC boys asked for a minimum bid of $50K for an AM daytimer. WTF am I missing? Let's kill AM quicker by making any AM opening cost 25x what an FM CP would cost? Can you believe it?

"...In a bar in Toledo, across from the Depot..." damn, wrong Kenny Rogers song for the station ID

Yep, Andy The Hemp Zone would have been a contender... You need pot to listen to The Zone- I don't mean to bitch, but the audio on WXKR HD-2 is about like a walkie-talkie. It has no dynamic range, no bass, no treble, just voice frequencies and sound like they don't have ANY audio processing. I have ...

I'm worried that Mig Cabrera is in danger of destroying his .300+ lifetime batting average if he has 3-4 crap years with the Tigers? It might be to his HOF advantage to be remembered as the last Triple Crown batting Winner and retire while his average is still above 0.300; plus, I think he has surpa...

I must be slow on this one, but WCWA's format sounds like a backroom bookie joint, not a sports channel anymore to me? Nothing but betting odds, etc? My guess is they don't even care about ratings on WCWA as long as they just keep getting paid to run the national spots and air the broadcasts? I don'...

106.1 is still waiting on a tower so they can increase power from 20 to 100watts. I get 97.7 pretty well in Lucas County, but disappears in Wood County

I'll see if WXKR can lock-in my HD radio in Perrysburg today so I can listen to the Zone. 92.5 easily locks-in since you can see the damn tower, and usually the River locks-in until you drive South on OH25 until you reach the 93.5 tower, but 104.7 has a hard time locking the HD, which makes no sense...

There's a Spanish LPFM on 96.5 that is fairly active in community affairs, you know, like radio used to be, and their 100W covers most of the City of Toledo, originating from the old South end. Doesn't cover as well iHearts 250W translators, but does okay. They used to buy time on WCWA/WSPD before h...

There are more AM Stereo cars from the 80's and 90's than HD now. EVERY Chrysler from 83-92 had AM Stereo on stock stereos. On most cars to get HD you need to do an aftermarket, which I've done, and unless you're in Detroit, there ain't all that much on HD here; only The River has 3 HD channels here...

IIRC, Ann Delisi had the last 'music program' on WJR- it was on Sunday nights and it was titled something like "behind the music" - like Bob Dylan's XM Theme Time Radio, it had a topic, like songs about "whilstling" - I enjoyed her WJR show quite a bit, and it was when WJR still had their superior s...

As usual, Cumulus did nothing special during The Changing of the Guard. When 1470 dropped, it was simply, "WLQR, Toledo" and that are that was it, no national anthem no tribute from Bob Kelly or any of the other staff from the station, simply power off.

When Ed B was CE at WJR, that station had a better than FM stereo audio chain over the air, and it's been crap since his passing. The engineer's Cumulus has circulated thru the Toledo/Detroit market have been insufficient in number, and have been more "I.T." people than RF and audio people. It's tru...

As ABBA sang, "Money, Money, Money"....that part sucks. I've still tried to figure out how 92.5 gets #1 Toledo without local talent, how cities like Cincinnati and Chicago could have the top station in town be the heritage AM signal, while others crash and burned from their summit (like WLS-AM)? K-1...

Pre-remodel a couple years ago, when they still had a lot of real books, Main Library used to have local history on the 3rd floor. Maps of Toledo before the expressway systems added, even printed books that had the locations of where you could find 1920's immigration paperwork on mircofilm. Then you...

Not hard to do early in the year when you only pitch 2/3 inning and it gets knocked out of the park!