This is a great station to listen to as they still play Oldies, Old Commercials and Jingles.
KZQZ
http://www.kzqz1430am.com/
KZQZ
http://www.kzqz1430am.com/
Near Knoxville Tennessee, WKCE just signed on with an oldies format
Near Knoxville Tennessee, WKCE just signed on with an oldies format:
https://www.facebook.com/1120wkce/?fref=ts
http://www.1120wkce.com/
Much emphasis is placed on 'graffiti-gold' (pre-1964 material).
1000 watt daytimer. Surrounded by translators on just about every possible frequency. Transmitter site to the southeast of Knoxville, so the signal would be listenable in the larger community but subject to the usual interference sources. Flipped to Oldies from a homebrew News format which had only been put in place in July, and they did Oldies from January to July after less than a year doing Comedy ... before that, ESPN in Spanish from 2007 to 2010 and in English for four years after that.
This looks like a "hail mary pass" move. Four format flips in under two years?
More museum than format. Big Mama Thornton? Joe Turner? The Clovers? Really? Looking through six hours of playlist info, I can't find a single song (other than Christmas selections) from later than 1967, and most of the music is from way, way before then. Musicologists and the "if it was a hit, play it" club will love it, but I can't this station gaining any significant audience -- not even an audience large enough to make WKCE attractive to local mom-and-pop advertisers. And what sort of advertisers would be interested in an audience of a few dozen oldies buffs, nearly all in the 60s or older? Secondhand stores? Vintage record shops? Brylcreem? Moxie? DeSoto?
Now if they could only hire Dick Biondi.........................
I am barely... by 5 days... a Baby Boomer.
Near Knoxville Tennessee, WKCE just signed on with an oldies format:
https://www.facebook.com/1120wkce/?fref=ts
http://www.1120wkce.com/
Much emphasis is placed on 'graffiti-gold' (pre-1964 material).
It seems to be a little heavy on "gold country" but otherwise a lot like the full service stations of the 50's. I like it so far and part of that is not knowing just what song may pop up next. The country music is probably OK with the Knoxville market. Hope they can get enough revenue out of local businesses to stay for awhile.
Wasn't Knoxville the market in which a country station used to get ratings in the high 20s/low 30s routinely back in the '70s?
Born in late December 1964, then? Happy birthday!
It seems to be a little heavy on "gold country" but otherwise a lot like the full service stations of the 50's. I like it so far and part of that is not knowing just what song may pop up next. The country music is probably OK with the Knoxville market. Hope they can get enough revenue out of local businesses to stay for awhile.
It's not even in Knox County. It is a local station to Maryville and the 5 mV/m does not even cover 5% of the Knoxville metro area.
And that music mostly predates what Biondi played on WLS... think Four Seasons and not Four Preps.
Biondi started in music radio at WKBW, Buffalo NY in 1958. The Four Seasons had their first chart hit, Sherry, in 1962.