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It’s a Final Four Weekend

April 1, 2006 By Blaine 5 Comments

I struggled this week deciding how many ID’s to add today. Do I add four ID’s, since it’s a Final Four weekend? That didn’t sound very satisfactory. Do I find four ID’s from four radio stations in each college’s town? No, don’t have the resources for that. Finally, I came up with it. I’ll add Twelve ID’s.

Now, for all who are scratching their head and muttering “But Nine is the magic radio number!”, I understand this may be tough to understand. Really, you may discard my notion of Twelve being an all important number, as it’s really not.

How did I come up with twelve? Mom and my fourth grade math teacher would both tell you that’s as high as I can count. That’s not true. (Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourtee…eh, I’m getting off track here.)

Why am I putting up twelve new ID’s? Simple: The Final Four this year is held in Indianapolis. That’s a twelve letter word.

(I know. Mom also said I wasn’t very clever either.)

Here’s the ID’s:

  • Appleton, etc. – A 1999 ID from then-WEZR.
  • Danville, IL (A new Toppy market!) – We’ll start with a 2001 ID I recorded from WKZS and I’ll add more later.
  • Detroit – One of the last ID’s from classical WQRS.
  • Fort Wayne – Three ID’s from WJFX – The first is a Mitch Craig ID from 1996 when they were still “Foxy 107.9”, the second ID is a 1998 ID when they were still “Foxy,” and the third ID is very recent, touting their radio ratings performance.
  • Las Vegas – A 2000 ID I recorded from KISF.
  • NYC – This is the first 1996 ID with WKTU named.
  • Rochester, NY – A 1995 live ID from WPXY.
  • Syracuse – An ID from a short lived stunt – WHEN-FM – as “Quick 108.”
  • Washington, DC – A 1996 live ID from WRNR.
  • Waterloo, IA – An ID I recorded in 2000 from KOKZ.

Enjoy the new sounds and the basketball games tonight (if that’s your thing.)

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Comments

  1. Lance Venta says

    April 2, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Not to be a nitpicker…

    Wait yes I am, but WRNR should be listed in the Baltimore market and not Washington.

    Reply
  2. Tybois Uphold says

    April 2, 2006 at 5:40 pm

    Unless it is WRNR-AM, then it would be Martinsburg, WV :o)……the plot thickens!

    Reply
  3. Blaine says

    April 8, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I moved WRNR to the Baltimore market.

    Reply
  4. Tim says

    April 15, 2006 at 12:52 am

    I also do not intend to be a nitpicker, nor am I attempting to tell the site editors how to run things, but isn’t Danville, IL part of the Champaign market?

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  5. Brian says

    April 15, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    The oh-so-very clear answer to that is: depending on who you ask.

    Defined by Arbitron, the metro is only Champaign County, although Vermillion is part of the TSA. If you look at signal contours, the two Danville AMs have no Champaign coverage to speak of and other than WXTT, the FMs are signal deficient in C-U as well.

    We actually debated whether to make Danville part of C-U, and in the end, the signal issues and the fact that Danville used to be an Arbitron market on its’ own led to the call to make them separate markets.

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