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Hello, and welcome to All Things Radio Podcast 204!

Jeff’s radio news segment this week continues to look at major market revenue reports for the first quarter, The Personal People Meter for April, and takes a look at what’s happening on the street.

Jeff Bennett’s contact info

Radio news

Breaking Radio news first.

Jenny;s call letter and format changes show more stations changing to NBC Sports, and several stations are changing from country to talk. A couple sign off as well.

Call-letter and format changes.

Jenny Sparks contact information

Walt’s Retro Radio 152 includes:
a 1984 format change at WFGM in Fairmont, West Virginia, and a 1960 aircheck from Hot 1570 in Youngstown, Ohio.

Walt Kramer’s contact info.

Bill’s Market Scope begins with a listener  request of KAFE 104.1 Today’s soft Rock. Licensed to Bellingham, Washington, this station broadcasts to northwest Washington, and southwestern British Columbia.

KAFE 104.1 website.

Listen live to Cafe 104.1

We conclude the segment this week with a station from Ventura California, which changed from classic rock to classic hits.

KRRF Classic Hits 106.3

KRRF website

Listen live to KRRF 

You can check either the show notes or www.billsparks.org for the listen live links for our featured stations.

Jeff’s featured station this week is WCAU FM. from Syracuse New York. This is an aircheck from 1982 when the station was a a Hot Hits format.
This is a composite aircheck of February 1982.

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 204 for May 16, 2013. .

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Hello, and welcome to All Things Radio Podcast 203!

Jeff’s radio news segment this week takes a look at how well some of the large market groups did this quarter, as well as a look at what’s happening on the street.

Radio newsBreaking radio news first.

Jeff Bennett’s contact info

Jenny’s call letter and format changes feature several format changes out West. We also make note of the departure of a few stations in Michigan and California.

Jenny Sparks contact information

By Listener request, retro Radio 151 features WNDR, Syracuse, New York. Recorded April 14, 1961 this is an aircheck of Terry Mann’s afternoon drive program.

Walt Kramer’s contact info.

Bill’s Market Scope for this week features 2 stations in Memphis Tennessee.

WGKX Kix 106.

WGKX Kix 106

   The Kix 106 live stream.
Duane Shannon and Abby Summers, known as Duane and Abby, previously on WOGT Chattanooga, replaced Brian Elder and Jay Young in the morning late in 2010. Duane and Abby are one of the few married morning teams.
Remember a few weeks a go we Featured a married couple on WGRR Cincinnati.

We next go down the dial and listen to “The River Morning team” on WRVR.

 The WRVR website.

The WRVR live stream.
no they’re not married or at least I don’t think so.

Jeff’s featured station this week is the modern country of WOLF in Syracuse, New Yorkk. We conclude the segment with an aircheck from 1970  of WRFM, in New York.

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 203 for May 09, 2013. .  

Hello everyone, and welcom to All Things Radio podcast 202.

In Jeff’s news this week Beasley Broadcasting and Univision report revenues for the first quarter, more from the Personal People Meter for April, plus a look at what’s happening on the street.

Radio News

Breaking Radio news

Jeff Bennett’s contact info

Call-letter and format changes

Jenny Sparks contact information

In Jenny’s format news, California loses a few stations to sign offs, and several stations out west change their formats and network providers.

Retro Radio looks back at radio the way it was in 1963. Featuring
An aircheck of a May, 1963 count-down of the top 20 on Great Britain’s Radio Luxenberg,

Radio Luxembourg (English)

A rather generous sample of jingles contained in the popular PAMS jingle set of 1963 – Series 18 – the Sonovox Series,

Pams website.

An aircheck of the over-night show on Minneapolis-St. Paul’s WDGY as recorded the morning of Sunday, may 12, 1963,

And part of a local newscast that aired on Cleveland, Ohio’s KYW during March, 1963.

Walt Kramer’s contact info.

Bill’s Market Scope this week features radio coverage of the passing of George Jones. Bill speaks to Steve Allen, a visually impaired musician, about the influence George Jones had on his career.

Steve Allen’s contact info.

 Then we hear from 2 veteran broadcasters, broadcaster and country music historian Eddie Stubbs

WSM AM 650 website.

More on Eddie Stubbs.

WSM The Legend

 as well as Chubby Howard from WBZI in Xenia Ohio.

WBZI Classic Country Radio We conclude the tribute with a WSM tribute playing George Jones’ hits from A to Z.

Contact info for Bill Sparks

Jeff’s featured station this week starts off with an aircheck from WRFM in New York City.

 Then we listen to WAVV FM from Naples Florida.  This station bills itself as modern easy listening.

Modwern Easy listening. WAVV 101

Listen live to WAVV

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ACB Radio

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 202 for May 02, 2013. .

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Jeff’s radio news segment this week takes a look at how radio covered the Boston Marathon bombings, a look at the Personal People Meter ratings for April, as well as what’s happening on the street.

Radio News from Radio-info.Breaking radio news form Radio insight.

Jeff Bennett’s contact info

Jenny’s call letter and format changes have a few stations in Colorado signing off, while several new stations sign on in Oklahoma.

Call-letter and format changes from Stationintel.

Jenny Sparks contact information

Walt’s Retro Radio 149 features an aircheck of Dave Johnson from 1965 where he spent nearly 8 years at CHUM in Toronto.
A brief look at ABC’s 1968 split into 4 news networks, and Pams Jingle series One.

Pams website.

CHUM AM

Walt Kramer’s contact info.

Bill’s Market Scope goes to Cincinnati and  the new number one station in the PPM WGRR. We feature the morning show, Married With Microphones.

The WGRR Website.

Listen live to WGRR!

Chris & Janeen – Married With Microphones

Contact info for Bill Sparks

Jeff’s featured station this week is WSHE in Miami Florida. Variety 103.5.

The WSHE website.  

Listen live to WSHE

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 201 for April 25, 2013. .

Hello, and welcome to All Things Radio Podcast 200

Jeff’s radio news for this week takes a look at the Personal People Meter ratings for March, as well as what’s happening on the street.

Radio News

Breaking radio news.

Jeff Bennett’s contact info

Jenny’s call letter and format changes for this week have lots of stations changing network providers and a few new stations signing on.

Contact info for Jenny Sparks

Call-letter and format changes.

Great oldies website.

Walt Kramer’s contact info.

Walt’s Retro Radio 148 is a profile of WOLF AM 1490 in Syracuse, New York where Dick Clark got his start. Despite having only 250 watts of power, WOLF was a top 40 powerhouse in the ’60’s. This profile includes:
1. A montage of commercials and other production aired on W_O_L_F in 1955,
2. A brief aircheck of Arlene Dee, who in 1965 had to be one of the first women doing top 40 radio,
3. W_O_L_F banner lines on the half-hour and news at 55,
4. And a montage of W_O_L_F production samples.

For Podcast 200 Bill’s market scope revisits 2 of his favorite market scopes from the past.
WAKY from Louisville Kentucky featuring Johnny Randolph.

WAKY FM

Welcome to 79WAKY.com – WAKY Airchecks Page

Contact info for Bill Sparks

Then, we go to Saint Louis and checkout how KZQZ AM 1430 is sounding these days.  This is a really good first generation oldies station.

“Hot Talk, Cool Oldies”

Jeff’s featured station this week is 95.7 KISS FMFM from San Diego California.  Featuring Cheo in the morning.  This station is owned by Clear Channel, and presents a rhythmic oldies format.

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 200 for April 18, 2013. . 

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Jeff’s radio News segment this week takes a look at the NAB conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as classical music coming to Sait Louis Missouri and Portland Main.

Contact Jeff Bennett

Radio News

Breaking Radio news

Jenny’s format and call letter changes for this week cover changes from Spanish to oldies. With a few classic country stations thrown in for good measure.

Contact info for Jenny Sparks

Call-letter and format changes

Walt’s Retro Radio 147 features a 1961 aircheck of “singing along radio”
on Buffalo, New York’s WEBR, PAMS color radio jingles (series 6B and 6C),
And a 1969 aircheck of Chris Randall’s last show on Albany, New York’s WPTR.

Walt’s Contact info

PAMS color radio jingles

History of WEBR/WNED 1924 to 1998

Bill’s Market scope this week is WZTI. Here is just a little background to get you started.
On February 26, 2013, WMCS began stunting with Elvis Presley songs in preparation of a format flip.
 At 3 p.m. on March 1, the station debuted its new adult standards format as “1290 Martini Radio”,
 with the new WZTI call sign.

WZTI website.

Listen live!

Jeff’s feature station this week is Whyi

Y100, FM in Fort Lauderdale Florida.  This is a CHR station.

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 199 for April 11, 2013. .

Hello, and welcom to All Things Radio  Podcast 198!

Jeff’s Radio News  has format changes from Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. Are some markets saturated with sports? How much money do Spanish stations make?

Radio News

Breaking radio news

contact info for Jeff Bennett

Jenny’s call letter and format changes present lots of changes out West, and several new stations signing on with religion.

Call-letter and format changes.

Contact info for Jenny Sparks

Walt’s Retro Radio segment presents CBS coverage of the Martin Luther King assassination, from Minneapolis-Saint Paul’s WCCO.

Walt’s Contact info.

This week in the Market Scope, we speak with longtime Dallas broadcaster John Conley, who hosted a classic country show for several years. He also talks about his work with Bill Bragg’s Yesterday USA as well as his work with the Dallas radio reading service.

Yesterday USA Radio Networks

Bill Sparks Contact info

Jeff’s featured stations this week are WLTW New York 106.7 and KOST 93.5 Los Angeles.  

106.7 Lite FM

Coast 103

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Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 198 for April 04, 2013. .

Hello, and welcome to All Things Radio podcast 197!
Coming up this week in the radio news segment Jeff Bennett takes a look at the Personal People Meter ratings for February, the future of HD radio and what’s happening on the street.

Radio news and information.

In Jenny’s call letter and format changes a few stations are changing city of license, while some are changing from country to classic country.

Call-letter and format changes.

In Retro Radio 145, Walt features an aircheck from 1965 of Lansing Michigan’s WJIM, as well as clips from WJIM when it was an oldies station.

Bill’s Market Scope features WVUB 91.1 from Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana. They are very community based. You will notice this in the public service announcements. Give a listen to their HD channel, which is Jazz.

WVUB live stream.

WVUB website.

Jeff’s Featured Station for this week is KIIS FM in Los Angeles, California.  It is the Number 2 rated station acording to Arbitron’s Personal People Meter.

KIIS website.

If you like the smell of scented candles, but don’t like the idea of an open flame, try Scentsy with over 80 scents to choose from as well as our great line of skincare products.  To find out more, or for contact information, go to

Jenny Sparks’s Scentsy store.

Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 197 for March 28, 2013. .

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Hello and welcome to our latest ATR podcast 196.

We begin this weeks podcast with a introduction and preview of the podcast from the host Gary Stevens.

Jeff Bennett has the latest new from the world of Radio.

News

Breaking radio news.Jenny Sparks has the latest call-letter and format changes.

call-letter and format changes.

Walt Kramer has another installment of Retro Radio.

Bill Sparks has a market scope which features WIRL AM 1290 from Peoria Illinois. This station has added a FM translator at 102.7 and has changed there form to a Goodtime oldies format. Which is a first generation oldies station. You can listen to the station by going directly our website radio lookup

WIRL

In Jeff Bennett’s featured segment he looks at the NBC network.

Listen to All Things Radio Podcast 196 for March 21, 2013. .