Re: WTRY (was Re: WPTR, again

["Douglas J. Broda" <djbroda@mindspring.com>]

The '73 aircheck is at http://www.digisys.net/users/csdfg/Radio.html. In
the '73 aircheck, which I think is an overnight shift, he calls the station
"The Sound Of Oldies" as well as "Great 98"; heard are "Lady Godiva,"
"Hush," and "I'll Never Fall In Love Again." The current mixed in (Jim
Croce's "One Last Set Of Footsteps") is referred to as a  "future memory."

This suggests that maybe it was oldies/Top 40 mix then, with some
preference for oldies, and the currents eventually got mixed out? I know
that by the early 80s, whether there were currents or not in the mix, they
did a ton of late-night and weekend oldies shows... but I didn't listen to
the radio during the daytime then.

BTW, this site also has a check from WWOM (perhaps the most boring station
in memory) and one from WABY's religious period.

You might also find the airchecks at http://www.gis.net/~nuhuc/huc/ of
interest.

At 09:21 AM 1/11/00 -0500, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>At 01:18 AM 1/11/00 -0500, Douglas J. Broda wrote:
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>>Now if only we could get an adjustment to WTRY. Not only has it been
>>playing virtually the same short playlist of 50s/60s oldies since I arrived
>>in the area in 1977, but I just downloaded a 1973 aircheck and it was the
>>same songs then, too. Not saying they should ditch 50s/60s oldies - the
>>name recognition is incredibly strong and the basic format's still most
>>viable --  but maybe mix in a few more songs after 27 years playing the
>>same couple of hundred songs (or so it seems)???
>>
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>I'm not sure when WTRY switched to an oldies format, but I think it was
>sometime in the mid-80s.  I have a couple airchecks of them from around '82
>and they were definitely Top 40.  Maybe your 1973 tape was some sort of
>weekend oldies extravaganza?  PS, where did you find the 1973 aircheck?
>