Oldies
1310 WADB/1160 WOBM Become Good Time Oldies
Previous Format: 1310 Sports, 1160 Standards New Format: Oldies Date & Time Of Change: 9/3/2010 9:00am More Info: Wikipedia
940 CINW Signs Off
Previous Format: Oldies “AM 940” New Format: Silent Date & Time Of Change: January 29, 2010 at 7:00pm More Info: RadioInsight, Wikipedia Related Changes: 690 CINF Signs Off Aircheck Contributed by Mark David
“Kool 106.1” KQLL Tulsa Becomes “Gen X Radio”
Previous Format: Classic Hits New Format: 90’s Hits Date & Time Of Change: 12/28/2009 1:00pm More Info: RadioInsight
103.1 WRKA Becomes New Country Q103.1
Previous Format: Oldies “103.1 WRKA” New Format: Country “New Country Q103.1” Date & Time Of Change: July 18, 2008 at 3:00pm More Info: LKYRadio, Wikipedia
103.3 KLOU becomes “My 103.3”
With the “Oldies” branding becoming taboo due to the aging of the target audience, broadcasters have looked for new ways to position the format. In St. Louis, when Clear Channel brought on market legend Smash for mornings at KLOU they used the opportunity to reposition the market’s longtime oldies station as programmed by the listeners. The station brought on Bob Costas as the imaging voice as well.
Big 100.3 WBIG Evolves From Oldies To Classic Hits
Previous Format: Oldies New Format: Classic Hits Date & Time Of Change: April 3, 2006 at 5:00pm More Info: Wikipedia, Washington Post
Oldies “KB 1520” becomes Liberal Talk
Top 40 radio in Buffalo was once spelled KB 1520. WKBW was the 50kw Top 40 powerhouse in the market, yet had fallen on hard times like many AM’s in the past 15-20 years. The calls had been changed to WWKB following the sale of the station away from its sister TV, which kept the WKBW calls. A parade of short lived formats: Classic Country, Sports, Business News, CHR simulcast followed none generating much ratings noise as Entercom protected its other two AM stations 550 WGR and 930 WBEN. In 2003, WWKB brought back many of it former DJ’s and went Oldies. However with lackluster ratings continuing and crosstown 1270 WHLD about to join Air America’s network the following week, Entercom flipped WWKB to Liberal Talk in attempt to beath WHLD to the punch and create a wall of tal...
Oldies 92.9 WFOG becomes The Wave WVBW
In Early 2005, Barnstable Broadcasting sold its Norfolk cluster to Max Media, who years prior had operated AC powerhouse 101.3 WWDE “2WD” in the market. Dick Lamb, one of the principles in Max Media and founder of 2WD had stayed on as morning host at 2WD until the acquisition of Barnstable’s cluster ended his 26 year run in mornings there. In order to create a spot in their new cluster for Lamb, the Oldies format of WFOG was dropped in favor of a Gold-based AC format. The Wave’s success has since led to 2WD shifting from Mainstream AC to a softer variation of the format. Aircheck Contributed By Bob Corbin of VARTV.com
101.1 WCBS-FM Becomes Jack-FM
Previous Format: Oldies “101.1 CBS-FM” New Format: Variety Hits “101.1 Jack-FM” Date & Time Of Change: June 3, 2005 at 5:00pm More Info: Wikipedia Related Change: 101.1 WCBS-FM Returns It was the day many never thought would happen. And when it happened, two of the top three radio markets would simultaneously wonder what had happened. At around 3:50pm WCBS-FM midday jock Bill Brown hinted at something about to go down in his final break. At 4:00 the station played a half-hour of songs with nothing but jingles in between. However, each song hinted ominously at what was to come. Songs like “Hit The Road Jack” and “Movin’ Out” led into Frank Sinatra’s “Summer Wind”. At 4:30, a 5 minute stunt loop led into the introdu...
