790 WAEB DOING OLDIES ON THANKSGIVING DAY!

[humwing]

  i'm happy that reading got thier WRAW back and got the true oldies channel.now why can't the lehigh valley get it! and at least on weekends at 790.craig uses the system that's online.it's better than nothing at all i'd say! commercial radio around here is blah! only WGPA and THE HAWK are just there....for me WDIY and WMUH are the best.

[Rockin Rob]

I'm listening online. Oldies seem to be mostly 60's, with WAEB jingles resung. I love it!!! It would be nice if some station would bring this format back 24/7.

[radiomayor2]

with prophet..i understand it's a no brainer to load the music.......

so 'aeb is most likely using a cc music library......

they should bring some of their old jocks back to v/t it....

hmmmmmm  where is joe Mclain or "Jivin" Gene Kaye these days....

[humwing]

   YES! a 24/7 oldies station around here! even if it's true oldies channel like WRAW is now! they even have the doo-wop guy back on.....and YES! part 2.....i have told craig to look into getting orignal WAEB jocks like the two "radiomayor2" has listed.and jeff frank! it would have been great to have heard guy randall ackley on mighty 790.....sad...very sad! what are the chances of finding "cooker ryan","kiren","don brooks" and "T.C.dooley" oh and of course!!! "the daver!"   heck even I would love to do it and say these famous words.....MUSIC RADIO 79 WAEB! and i finally recorded a top 10 hit #5. that only 79-0h! was playing in 1975.."can't live this way" by barnaby bye! anybody esle remember this great tune dude?!?!?

[KenMatthews.com]

OLDIES 1470 WKAP(CC) was a great sounding station.....too bad no one REALLY wanted to sell it. The product was there...and so was the audience.


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[mrwattson]

I agree Ken. Replacing the oldies format with the Christian format was a disaster. I wonder how long the sports format will last. I doubt in the short term that WSAN will go back to oldies since WAEB is running oldies online and they are both sister stations. But then again, who knows?

If the WSAN's sports format is ever changed, why not make WSAN another talk station with a slant on Democratic Party viewpoints? That would be a format never tried in the Valley.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned that WAEB 790 is online now - Gunther and all the syndicated shows. And I might add that the sound quality is EXCELLENT.

Unlike many of you out there, I don't agree that WAEB should run music on the weekend. It is a talk station. The reason they run oldies a few times a year is to promote their online oldies.

[EnoughJohnMayer]

I've heard in many talk markets people say "Let's get a Progressive Party slanted station." The problem? The format doesn't work. I'd love to hear about a market where a lib station puts up even the numbers that WAEB-AM puts up consistently. People tend to think that the right-leaning station only serves the right. Wrong! The lefties will tune in as well, often to hear the opposite viewpoint. The numbers may not be equal, but the number of people who tune in and HATE Rush isn't completely dwarfed by those who love him. CC-Allentown would be fracturing their audience on 790, and wouldn't be adding much on the left side of the isle.

I do agree that dropping the oldies format was a mistake...I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I'd have to imagine that while the demo leans quite old, the TSL has to be HUGE. You don't turn off an oldies station...because every song is good in a listeners ear. It becomes non-offensive background noise at worst. Salespeople not selling a station!?! NO! Too bad nearly all of them anymore are literally hired off the street to collect the 3 months draw, and then realize they can't do the gig. Plus, most of them are 21-24. Oldies to them include Aerosmith, Flock of Seagulls, and Duran Duran.

Question: Does locally produced programming "work" on WSAN? A local sports talk show in the Lehigh Valley? While FSR leaves a lot to be desired, can a local show be sold talking Eagles and Phils, when WIP gets into the market? Seems to me that station would be best served with the pot to the satellite open 24-7 (with the exception of HS football & basketball and Iron Pigs baseball or something.) Does the effort equal the output, both in listeners and $$$? Thoughts?

[mrwattson]

Point well taken about Clear Channel worrying about WAEB's audience if WSAN would go to a Progressive format.

As I write this, I realize that the listener is the loser. Since Clear Channel owns so many stations in the Valley, WSAN and WAEB will never compete against each other. Never.

There are two sports AM stations in the Lehigh Valley-- WEEX with its simulcast on 1320 and WSAN. At some point, one of them has to go in my opinion. Both have a local format during drive time. During the last ratings period, WEEX had much better ratings.

BUT WHAT REALLY GETS UNDER MY SKIN IS THAT THERE ARE TWO REALLY GOOD LOCAL TALK SHOW HOSTS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AIRWAVES. THEY BOTH ONCE WORKED AT WGPA. ONE HAD A STINT FOR A FEW YEARS AND THE OTHER WAS ONLY GIVEN TWO WEEKS. BOTH VOICES ARE SORELY MISSED IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY.

Anyone who listens to AM radio knows who I am referring to.

[EnoughJohnMayer]

BUT WHAT REALLY GETS UNDER MY SKIN IS THAT THERE ARE TWO REALLY GOOD LOCAL TALK SHOW HOSTS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AIRWAVES. THEY BOTH ONCE WORKED AT WGPA. ONE HAD A STINT FOR A FEW YEARS AND THE OTHER WAS ONLY GIVEN TWO WEEKS. BOTH VOICES ARE SORELY MISSED IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY.

Do people really know what they are missing? No offense to Ken and the years he put in at B, but lets be honest, everyone of us is expendable...and easily replaced. It's the nature of our industry. Again, using Ken as the example, I'm sure the hate mail rolled in when he was canned...but each month that feedback decreased to a point now where it's probably at zero. (Hating the current show is a possibility, but I digress.)

The listener will look back on the show fondly, as many of us do when we think of the "good ol' days." Honestly, though, the listener has moved on.

In the end, to reuse the phrase, the listener doesn't know what he or she is missing. And, honestly, doesn't care. There are too many other things to capture their attention anymore.

And if they have such a great show, produce it and podcast it. Sell ad time on it. You'd reach more people on the net than via Jolly Joe.

[reptimania]

In the end, to reuse the phrase, the listener doesn't know what he or she is missing. And, honestly, doesn't care. There are too many other things to capture their attention anymore.

And if they have such a great show, produce it and podcast it. Sell ad time on it. You'd reach more people on the net than via Jolly Joe.

i think that answer could be found in the fact that b104 is now in 6th in the ratings according to those that posted here and ask thier ad sales team now that they have nothing but garbage to sell. 

however your second idea i think would be brilliant for ken.  but then.. anyone can beat jolly joes ratings cause according to those that work for him.. he won't even give away expired mustard he's so cheap lol