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Retro: Frederick, Maryland Tuesday January 12, 1971

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Frederick, Maryland radio listings
Tuesday, January 12, 1971
Frederick News-Post

WFMD-AM 930....
CBS News on the hour with headlines at :35

5-7am Happy Johnny ( C&W Music )
5:55 Words for a New Day ( devotional )
6:25 First Line Report
6:35 Weather Roundup
7-9:30 Tommy Grunwell
7:35 Frederick Sports
7:55 Community News
8:00 CBS World News Roundup
9:30-11 Bill Price/Coffee Break
10:30 Dear Abby-CBS ( never knew she did radio !! )
11:10 Time For Health-CBS
11:15 Arthur Godfrey Time-CBS
11:45-1pm Happy Johnny ( C&W Music )
11:55 Community News
12;15 Ag News
12;30 Weather Roundup
1-3pm Al Rogers
1:30 Midday Report-CBS
1:55 Mike Wallace at Large-CBS
2:30 Profile-CBS
3-7pm Jim Titus
3:30 Reasoner Report-CBS
4:30 Walter Cronkite-CBS
4:54 Community News
5:30 Correspondents Report-CBS
6:10 Local News
6:15 Sports Roundup
6:45 Lowell Thomas-CBS
7:00 The World Tonight-CBS
7:15 The Business Report-CBS
7:20 Frank Gifford Sports-CBS
7:30 The Minority Report-CBS
7:35-11:55 Bill Synder's Nightbeat ( Rock music )
11;11:15 WFMD News & Sports Final
11:55 Be Still and Know ( Devotional )



WMHI-AM 1370 "New Sound" Daytime with sign-off at 5:15pm
Metromedia News on the hour ( any relation to Metromedia TV? )

6-10am Al Soper
10-2 pm Carl Keller
2-5:15pm Don Mills



WFMD-FM Stereo 99.9
ABC-FM News at :25 each hour

6am-Mid "Favorite Music in Stereo"
 
WFMD's jock lineup of Tommy Grunwell, Al Rogers & Jim Titus was top notch. Grunwell would have fit perfectly in any major market morning show in America--and still would (Tom's retired, at last report). Jim Titus is still on-air at Hagerstown's 1240/WJEJ and sounds great. Rogers was a very likeable & versatile talent. All three were as close to "celebrities" as Frederick had in those days--right behind early morning fixture "Happy Johnny" whose "hillbilly" act dated back to the forties or early fifties. (Today we think of Frederick as DC Suburbia. But 60 years ago, Frederick County was full of farmers and mountaineers--hillbillies, and proud of it)!

In the "six degrees" category, WJEJ is owned by John Staub, who in 1971 was one of the three partners who owned WMHI-AM/FM. John sold his share a couple years later to buy WJEJ, and the two remaining partners flipped WMHI (Musical Heights, Incorporated) to WZYQ--as 14ZYQ & Z104.

About that same time--around '74--WFMD-FM flipped to WFRE but remained in Easy Listening another 15 years or so before flipping to Country. In 1971 nobody (okay, very few people) had FM receivers... so WFMD-FM was pretty much a rumor.
 
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