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            Articles in this issue include:

Album Adult Alternative                    (Richard Gainey)
"Arco-matic!!!!!"                    (PGEORGE)
Call letters                        (Jeffrey Kaplan)
Re: CBS    Radio Mystery Theatre Anyone?            (David A. Kaye)
Re: CBS    Radio Mystery Theatre Anyone?            (david jacobs)
Re: cliche                        (Eric Weaver)
Help:College Radio wants to broadcast            (The Seeker)
Re: Station Positioners                    (Tony Harding)
Re: RATINGS: Sacramento, CA                (Charles E Newman)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (Paul Ryack)
Re: WFMU - tower site?                    (David Mandl)
RE : WCXR fires    staff!                    (Mark Shneyder 2-4219)
Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!            (jwg)

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Subject: Album Adult Alternative
From: [e-mail] (Richard Gainey)
Organization: NONE

In response to David A. Kaye...

>Pardon my high density head here, but what exactly is Adult Album
>Alternative?  The only "alternative" music I'm familiar with is stuff
>which is not normally played on radio.  This lets out most "adult" music
>unless they're thinking of playing polkas, orchestrion, and caliope music.

This AAA format is the most recent addition to the Gavin listings. It
combines the alternative and progressive sounds with many mainstream
artists trying things a little less mainstream. If you watch cable programs
like MTV Unplugged, you'll find some artists doing acoustic versions of
their hit songs. These versions may find their way to the top of the charts
again and seem to be heard first on AAA stations.

BTW... WONB plays AA or Adult Alternative during the day and after 7:00pm,
we go for the younger, progressive audience with AAA.
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G.Richard Gainey
Director: Broadcasting Program
General Manager: WONB Radio
National Secretary: NBS-AERho
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH 45810
(419)  772-2469
FAX (419)  772-1856
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Subject: "Arco-matic!!!!!"
From: [e-mail]
Organization: NONE

Howdy World!!
     Here's one from the annuals of Boston radio.  Who was the first non-
duplicated FM rock station in Boston ?  The answer may surprise you.
No, it was  NOT WBCN (104.1).  It was WRKO-FM, "your automated all music
station in Boston !!!....I'm Arco-matic !!!!".  WRKO-FM came to the air
as "Arco, the shy but friendly robot" on October 12, 1966 at midnight.
It was nearly the same format as co-owned WOR-FM (98.7)/New York.
WRKO-FM predates WRKO-AM by 5 months when WNAC (680)/Boston switched
to the homebrew top-40 format that eventually be came the Bill Drake
format complete with Johhny Mann Singers jingles in ultra-ultra quick
succession....in March, 1967.
     WRKO-FM was a fun FM station in a time when FM had a "snob" factor
with nothing but the typical simulcast or the typical symphonic stereo
station.  Fortunately, I at the age of 6, had my first FM radio and I
loved the clean sound of not over-processed static free music.  So, if
somebody says WBCN-FM was the first rock FM station in Boston, tell
them..."think again !!!!"
     If anyone out there has any airchecks of the late, great ARCO-FM
please contact me here at my e-mail address of call me at [phone].
I don't care about the quality of the recording....let's talk.
And remember...."ARCO sounds good....like a radio station should!!!!!".
73's


Peter Q. George (N1GGP)
Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts


[e-mail]

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Subject: Call letters
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey Kaplan)
Organization: NONE


WDIV - Detroit, MI - D)etroit TV channel 4 (Roman numeral)
WIQB - Ann Arbor, MI - FM 103 - I=1; Q=0; B=3

University of Michigan radio - all three stations simulcast from U-M's
main campus in Ann Arbor.
WUOM - Ann Arbor - Univ Of Michigan
WFUM - Flint - Flint Univ of Michigan
WVGR - Grand Rapids - Vogt Grand Rapids (station is named in honor of,
         not owned by someone named Vogt)

WPZA - Ann Arbor - PiZzA - was owned by Domino's.  Later sold and renamed to:
WTKA - Ann Arbor - slogan - "the TalK of Ann arbor"

WAAM - Ann Arbor - location - Ann Arbor, Michigan
WNWO - Toledo, OH - location - NorthWest Ohio
WTOL - Toledo - location  - TOLedo
WSDS - Ypsilanti, MI - slogan - "Suds Country"
WDKX - Rochester, NY - named in honor of F Douglas, ML King, and Malcom X

Jeff Kaplan
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: CBS Radio Mystery Theatre Anyone?
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


Captain Ron ([e-mail]) wrote:

: About 15 to 20 years ago while living in L.A. County, CA, I listened to
: a radio program entitled the "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre".  Has anyone
: else ever heard of this program?  Is there anyone who knows if
: recordings of these radio broadcasts are available?

It was once produced by CBS Radio, from about 1973 or 74 until maybe
1980.  When it first began it was sold out -- and big sponsors, too.
Gradually it waned and finally went off, especially when they had a hard
time clearing time on affiliates.  I'm told it is unlikely to air again
because of lack of rerun rights.  If true, this is the same thing that
did in ABC Radio's "Theatre Five" in the 1960s.  I have never seen any
tapes of it anywhere, but I'm sure a call to WCBS in NY or KNX in Los
Angeles might get you an answer.

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Subject: Re: CBS Radio Mystery Theatre Anyone?
From: [e-mail] (david jacobs)
Organization: Adobe Systems

In article <2akkov$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Captain Ron) wrote:

>
> I've scanned this newsgroup and I'm not certain if this is the correct
> place to post this query, but in the hope that someone might be able to
> provide me with some information, here goes.
>
> About 15 to 20 years ago while living in L.A. County, CA, I listened to
> a radio program entitled the "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre".  Has anyone
> else ever heard of this program?  Is there anyone who knows if
> recordings of these radio broadcasts are available?  Any information
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron
>
YES! CBS R.M.T. was one the best shows. It scared the hell out of me as a
kid, and I loved it. Used to fall asleep to those stories. Was it EG
Marshall who did the narrator voice?
DaveJ
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I wish I never, woke up this morning. Life was easy, when it was boaring. -
Sting
email: [e-mail]

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Subject: Re: cliche
From: [e-mail] (Eric Weaver)
Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA


I have a little cassette course on commercial writing from Dan O'Day
in which he does a whole list of vacuous cliches.  The point being,
of course, to avoid them.

   Going On Now
   For A Limited Time Only
   And, What's More
   Sale Ends Soon
   For All Your _______ Needs

etc.
--
Eric Weaver  Sony AVTC  3300 Zanker Road, MS 4B1  SJ CA 95134  408 955-4904
& Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7  Foothill College  Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

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From: [e-mail] (The Seeker)
Subject: Help:College Radio wants to broadcast
Organization: Kansas State University

Hello,
    The University I attend has a radio station but it doesnt
broadcast over the air its signal is sent through cable only! The head
of the department doesnt know what needs to be done to broadcast so I
have been asked to check in to it.  I need any info on FCC regulations
(ie Lisences, minimum Wattage, etc.) I also need info on obtaining
or making a transmitter, antanae, etc. Please E-mail me any info you
can including Internet sites were I can ftp etc.
Thanks for your time and effort!

[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail] (Tony Harding)
Subject: Re: Station Positioners
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: NONE


This is KGB San Diego - 5,000 watts of Rock, running a muck
over sunny southern California.

>>>MATRIX version  1.21e

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Subject: Re: RATINGS: Sacramento, CA
From: [e-mail] (Charles E Newman)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <29sdt3$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (b.j. mora) writes:
> [e-mail] (Alan) writes:
>
> > Why would anyone want four stations in the
> > same market, all with the same format, when there are obvious gaps in the
> > market?
>
> but perhaps the country
> stations are playing 'different' formats within country - contemporary,
> classic, etc.
>
> > NO CHR
>
> i think KWOD used to be CHR before it began to lean modern.  Maybe KSFM, too.
>
> > NO commercial jazz/new age.
>
> KQPT used to be adult alternative, and actually did well for a time (top 10).
> --
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>



     Sacramento needs a local CHR badly. The closest CHR station you get
in the arden area, but can get in the south area is KWIN in Lodi, 97.7 FM,
or KHTN 104.7 in Merced. Northern California is an oddball radio market.
CHR does well in other areas of the country, but not in Sacramento or
San Francisco for some strange reason. KHOP in Modesto was a CHR station
until last november when new owners turned it into an AOR station. The only
other station you can get in Sacramento at times that does play Top 40 is
KEWB in Chico at 94.7 FM

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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (Paul Ryack)
Organization: Mount Holyoke College

Clarification: WHAI sounds like WAJI if the announcer isn't paying
attention.

--
Paul R. Ryack, M.D., M.P.H.    |[e-mail]
                |W1ETH@K1MEA.#WMA.MA.USA.NOAM
There are certain sections of    |fax: [phone]
New York, Major, that I wouldn't|
advise you to try and invade.    |

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Subject: Re: WFMU - tower site?
From: [e-mail] (David Mandl)
Organization: Lehman Brothers

In article <2akkqs$[e-mail]> testnet![e-mail] writes:

   Read in M Street Journal that WFMU-91.1 East Orange NJ is granted
   a change in tower height and  changing transmitter location.

   I believe I saw postings from a WFMU person (as well as an
   anti-WFMU person) but will ask in general:

   Where is the antenna tower now? Where is it moving to?

   Interestingly, for all the hoopla over the current allocation,
   and WFMU's trying to maintain its current power, the grant
   is for an INCREASE in tower height.

   please follow up to this newsgroup.

I guess I'm the FMU person you're referring to.

The antenna is now located on "First Mountain" in West Orange, NJ.
It's moving one mile south (on the same ridge it's on now).  This
is mainly to get away from a huge water tower nearby.  As far as
I know there is no increase whatsoever on paper, and the new location
may not be any higher at all, though I don't know for sure.  If you
call the station (201-678-8264), I'm sure Ken Freedman (station manager)
or Bill Suggs (general manager) will be happy to give you all the
information you want about the move.

BTW, we're not at all certain what the effects of the move will be.
It could easily result in *worse* coverage of NYC than we have
currently.  We're taking a chance.

I could be wrong on some of the minor details above.  For the official,
authoritative word, call the station.

I hope you're not comparing this antenna move to the massive programs
of expansion that the stations attacking us have embarked on.

   --Dave.

--
Dave Mandl

[e-mail]  (play)
[e-mail] (work)

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Subject: RE : WCXR fires staff!
From: [e-mail] (Mark Shneyder 2-4219)
Organization: NONE

> From: Tom Lacko <[e-mail]>
>
> WCXR FM 105.9 Washington, D.C.'s struggling CLASSIC ROCK station has
> fired most of it's on air staff.  Gone are morning duo Herman & McBean,
> In the summer ratings, WCXR finished in 15th place in overall ratings
> among listeners aged 12 and older.  They had a 2.5 which was only
> slightly down from their spring 2.6.  In 1992, WCXR posted a 2.9 in the
> summer and a 2.4 before that.

Classic Rock is the most boring, most unimaginative of all formats in
radio today. WZLX-100.7FM in Boston,Mass claimed to be the first
'Classic Rock' station in America when it started out about 8-9 years
ago. For a while, they were getting good numbers with 25-54 listeners
but let's face it : listening to the same 'hits' from '60s,'70s, and '80s
on continious basis could be down right torturous for any rock'n'roll
fan. 'ZLX never was and never will be a major player in the #9 market in
America...It does, however, make a nice combo with Infinity's other property
in Boston - 25-year AOR powerhouse WBCN-104.1FM. Both station often play the
same boring classic 'hits'...There's only so much classic rock'n'roll to
go around:-) and so many 'original' gimmicks that you can use with
a classic rocker( "'60s at 6, '70 at 7 and '80s at 8"; "Three for Thursday";
"No Repeat Tuesday"; "Select-A-Set"; "A Deep Cut",etc) ....

-Mark

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Subject: Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!
From: SEDV1.acd4.acd.com![e-mail] (jwg)
Organization: /u/jwg/.organization

In article <2akkq6$[e-mail]> Tom Lacko <[e-mail]> writes:

<much deletia about changes at WCXR>
   The new program director will be
   Steven Kosbau.  He comes from WXRK FM in New York (Howard Stern's home
   station).

Hmm.  This guy just started at K-Rock this summer... why is he moving
already?

I used to hear Steve Rock-the-Kosbau when he was PD and afternoon driver
at WZZQ/Terre Haute.


jim grey
[e-mail]


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