[NJARC] Philadelphia Radio

[Scott Roberts]

The Philadelphia market has gone nuts recently: Within
the past 10 years(much of this recent) weve lost or
changed as follows:

WFLN 95.7 went from decades of Classical, to newest
pop 40 overnight, then to something else, now a great
range of classic 70's-90's rock.

WWDB 96.5, went from decades of talk radio (Remember
Irv Holmer, Dr. James Corea, Frank Ford?) overnight to
pop 40, then classic rock, back to pop 40.

1210 WCAU news radio went to all sports, as did 950
WPEN- I used to listen to rock on '95 P..E..N' as a
kid- I remember when Joe Niagra came back...(Shades of
WIBG)

540 WFIL Gone

97.5 WPST went from original current rock(in 70's &
80s) to pop 40s, to classic rock. As of last Thursday,
97.5 is now what 106.1 is, and carries smooth jazz...
And 106.1 took WPST call sign, and the classic rock-
right after I said "Wow! 'PST is back carrying the
music I used to listen to on it when the music was
new!" and decided to listen to an old favorite station
for a while. D'OH!

And what the hell happened to Sunny 104.5? After
decades of elevator rock, and bop along office chippie
music, it is now all-Latino.... Moy Loco.

There are more, but I gotta run...

Scott



--- Robert Flory <robandpj at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> Personality radio is not dead.
> 
> Pierre Robert has been celebrating his 25th
> anniversary at WMMR lately.
> Many of his contemporaries are still around but have
> moved around the dial
> as stations come and go.
> 
> I kick myself for not holding on to some cassettes
> that I found in the
> attic of a house I lived in back in the 80s.  They
> were tapes that a
> soldier's wife recorded for him while he was in Viet
> Nam.  Most of them
> were off-air recordings of WNEW FM and had such
> great period pieces as
> promos for the upcoming Three Dog Night concert and
> the new Black Sabbath
> album.  Many of the recordings had a female disk
> jockey whose name escapes
> me now but who many would recognize.  That was a
> novelty in the 70s.
> 
> I think that some recordings of that era would make
> an interesting bridge
> for some young people into our world.  Many
> teenagers appreciate classic
> rock music and might be interested to hear what it
> was like to listen to
> the radio when that music was new.
> 
> Yesterday I heard that the Library of Congress,
> which adds 25 historically
> significant recordings per year to its collection,
> included Jimi Hendrix's
> "Are You Experienced?" this year.  I thought I
> pushed the wrong button on
> my car radio when I hit NPR and heard Jimi surfing a
> wave of feedback.
> 
> Rob Flory
> robandpj at earthlink.net
> www.home.earthlink.net/~navyradio  WWII Navy Radio
> www.home.earthlink.net/~robandpj    Les Flory
> Television and Electronics
> 
> 
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