Former Conservative Talker, WBCN 1660 AM in Charlotte NC has flipped to Southern Rock.
They also have an FM translator at 94.7.
http://947smoke.com/
They also have an FM translator at 94.7.
http://947smoke.com/
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WBCN Rocks Again
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In Boston 100.7 had a Country-Rock format that was mostly Southern Rock briefly in the late '70s as WTKK "TK 101".
It was interesting but technically a disaster. The whole thing was automated -- reel-to-reel tapes, I'd imagine, like what John Garabedian was doing at WGTR Natick earlier in the decade -- and the timing kept getting screwed up, with announcements popping up in the middle of songs, or even other songs starting before the song currently playing was done. Some of the mash-ups were comical: Crystal Gayle "duetting" with .38 Special, that sort of thing.
Love Southern rock and I'm no Trumpster. Marshall Tucker Band, especially. Sounds like a station that could develop a niche following in NC among conservatives and non-conservatives, although likely too old to appeal to advertisers.
Do people in parts of the country with X-band stations routinely tune that part of the AM band? Here in Connecticut, a new station could pop up on 1660 and hardly anyone would notice without a heavy advertising campaign, since X-band stations other than TIS aren't licensed up this way.
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Close, Eli; it was actually WTTK that was "TK 101".
96.9 was WTKK, another station I truly miss. Within the short span between June 2012 and Jan 2013, I lost both WODS and then WTKK. I used the first person singular in that last phrase because it seems to me that only a handful of the posters here actually gave a rat's patootie about either station.
More than a few messageboard posters misidentified WTKK, "96.9 FM Talk" as "WTTK"
And was there also -WKKT 100.7, the Cat?
And was there also -WKKT 100.7, the Cat?
After WTTK ended they became WKKT the Cat. That was also short lived, and then they became WZLX.
After WTTK, it went easy listening WHUE for a few years in the late '70s/early '80s, then briefly WKKT "The Cat", then WZLX.
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