97.7's audio processing sounded awful the last time I drove up that way. Super muddy and loud. I wonder if that has been fixed? As hard as it is to believe, the FM was originally built to serve Beaverton. Studios were in a single wide trailer at the base of the tower. Calls were WGEO. 1979-80 was a...

Studios are where WJZZ used to be, on the boulevard. Haven't been by there in awhile. Bell Broadcasting's WCHB, which occupied 1440 for many years, originated from there as well. It vied for the R&B audience with WJLB, which then was on 1400. WJZZ had formerly been WCHD. Yes, I am old enough to rem...

I noticed WMKM is off the air today. I wonder what's going on? Seems odd for a station that plays gospel music (among other things) to be silent on Sunday. Not even a dead carrier. The co-owned Chicagoland AM has been in receivership for awhile. Something might be up with this...I wouldn't want to r...

WWJ sounds very distorted at times. At first I thought it was the old Sears kitchen portable radio, but it sounds almost as shitty in my truck. Something is definitely off a few clicks.

Someone needs to give the Music Director a swift kick in his or her ass! A great cover song is ruined. Unbelievable they've been playing the same botched recirding of this song, with horrendous mp3 artifacts, for multiple years now. GET A FUCKING PROPERLY RECORDED VERSION OF THE SONG!!!! I noticed ...

audiophile wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 06, 2023 6:35 pm

Matt's sports those Bush bumper stickers.

It certainly adds up. Probably a Jeb supporter.

I don't care much for DeSantis. Reminds me in some ways of Bush 41. A little too smug and arrogant. No sense of humor. Always seems angry about something. No thanks.

Mixing up "sex" and "gender" again, are we? There are two SEXes (with some outliers, but a very small percentage) and GENDER is a social construct, not a biological identifier. But gender, up until very recently, was used interchangeably with one's sex, at least with regards to the terminology. Not...

It's a shame Monkey Ward's is out of business...

Colonel Flagg could use some "new threads"

As much as I respect Paul W, and Mitch, to some degree, I really believe that the term "unmitigated disaster" will apply to the changes at WJR.

Tell me where I'm wrong.

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Thu Jun 29, 2023 4:42 pm

I noticed rain in Lyon Township, around Eight Mile and Pontiac Trail, but it was bone dry everywhere else. Weird.

Nothing weird at all. That's what the phrase "scattered showers" means. Or, as Sonny Eliot would say, a "renegade shower"

During her 9:25 am "newscast" with Stoney and Jansen today, Heather commented a recent French study that discussed the artificial sweetener aspartame being classified as a possible cancer-causing agent. Heather said that the study was leading the WHO to declare aspartame "a possible carcinoginian."...

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Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:42 pm

Wasn't Danny bondauce the morning show host on 95.5 after Dick left, and 93.1's first morning show as DRQ had a Drag queen?

I believe it was Kevin O'Neill who replaced Purtan.

But I could be wrong.

WPLT flipped away from alternative to the format du jour, Modern AC, around 1996. That format flamed out rather quickly in many places where it was attempted. Chicago, Denver and San Francisco were among noteworthy exceptions. Despite mediocre ratings, WPLT seemed to bumble along. A turn to a poorl...

Anyone up there still hearing JML on 1110? Only because you asked... I fired up my Sony 7600GR and... Yes... very faint signal. Had to manually tune it. Some female voice ID'd it, "This is Eleven Ten WJML Petosley" in between what sounds like your typical music on hold @ about 6:10pm & again at 6:1...

https://youtu.be/1FklZ0IEUNU You have no idea what I would give to tune in to 95.5 and hear even HALF of this playlist. This was also the time where we had no true CHR in Detroit. Then DRQ reformatted in 1999 and the rest is history. I remember Dick Purtan sarcastically making fun of the change fro...