K107.3 / 1570 WWCK

[Colonel Flagg]

Is anyone listening to this half-baked attempt of a Classic Hits station? It was off the air for several months in 2021, but I assume it's back now. Has anyone noticed? Radio geeks don't count.

The last time I listened, they were using a hipster voice guy who sounded far too young for warmed over Classic Hits, at the very least.

[Ben Zonia]

At the time they were off the air, they had an AM transmitter failure, and couldn't get parts because of the pandemic related supply chain problems. So they had to get a new transmitter. From what I have heard for many decades, it was long overdue. The old transmitter ate IPA tubes, and much of the time, they were below full power. The brother of an engineer there circa 1970, Chris Olson, told me it was water cooled, at least at the time, the last such transmitter in the state. Chris also oversaw the building of the new WAAM 1600 site South of Ann Arbor, with seven total towers, in the early to mid 1970s, as co chief engineer when he went to U of M. Doug Boynton knew him down there. They couldn't have the translator on the air without the AM.

[Willie108]

It's a Cumulus station. What do you expect????