97.1?

[Nashradio300]

So is there any news on 97.1  (WRQQ) ?     Are they flipping soon or whatever they think will help them?    I like the music but I just dont like the imaging of the station.    Someone mentioned about them flipping to "The Eagle" but isnt there an Eagle in Clarksville?     http://www.eagle943.com/



So many questions so little time!    



Have a great day everyone!

[LouP]

WRQQ is still "Classic Hits 97.1" -- the Eagle talk was simply speculation.

[D Dean]

on how many of these rumors are just... well, rumors.  And how many actually come true?

[courier37027]

I remember two rumors or gags played on Nashville listeners.  Fall 1981 KDF circulated a rumor that the Rolling Stones would play the Tennessee State Fair. The Stones did not show.

1987 (or about) 104.5 The Fox hosted "Livestock", a concert with all the superstars.  People sought tickets and wanted to find this mystery concert. The farce created lots of buzz. The "concert" was live album cuts and some crowd sound effects.

In late 1979 or early 1980 the Rock 106 WKQB change from AOR to easy listening seemed to catch the air staff off guard.  Any truth to that rumor?

[romer979fm]

1987 (or about) 104.5 The Fox hosted "Livestock", a concert with all the superstars.  People sought tickets and wanted to find this mystery concert. The farce created lots of buzz. The "concert" was live album cuts and some crowd sound effects.

I got to work the "Livestock" event...true theater-of-the-mind.  We had maps drawn of the concert location...and posted them all over the control room.  This allowed whoever was on the air to say things like..."off to the right...on the west stage...looks like the Stones are getting set up"...you get the idea.  The premise was that WGFX had a broadcast studio at the edge of the stages...and we'd run muted crowd noise and use normal mic processing.  Then during a stopset...the jock would "leave the broadcast booth...and step on stage to introduce the next act".  Better crowd nose on cart...and
tons of reverb on the mic.  I also had guitar tuning sfx...lots of cuts of feedback...drum warmups...etc...and ran them
during the tunes.  And...a large crow laugh track, so I sounded like I was actually entertaining the crowd.
It was fun...and while a few believed it was a real event...most realized that Hendrix was NOT really at a secret location in Middle Tennessee.  Very tiring shift...but a lot of funj.  I have an aircheck somewhere...and I think this was late summer 1988.  Could be 89...I dunno...but Leigh Jacobs was the PD during the event.

[Journeyman]

It was fun...and while a few believed it was a real event...most realized that Hendrix was NOT really at a secret location in Middle Tennessee. 

I was working for a competing station at the time and our request lines were LIT UP by irate listeners who were p****d off that they were being taken by the the Fox. Yeah, I realize Jimmy Hendrix had been dead for decades, but some if these people apparently didn't! It was a HOOT! (By the way, I believe these same listeners today make up the core caller demo of most talk stations)

[deltas69]

not nearly as famous as the livestock caper, but when kris bradley, worked with us at WHIN, under the guise of FRB THE 3...we did a parody of OMAR the snake man. those who may not know of OMAR, he was one of Fate THomas old cronies and would set up in parking lots and get in a "pit" of live rattlesnakes.  we did a loop of baby chicks squeaking on a cart, and put Kris in a pit of "deadly baby chicks" on the air...The soon to be Kris with a K played it to the hilt..and phones lit up..people actually came to the station( we hastily put cardboard over the studio door window, and kids were crying on the phone..don't kill frb..don't kill frb...no fun like that on the air now...

[Tibbs2]

CR --- I am so so old . . .

But did Rock 106 (WKQB) flipped to Funeral Music as WJYN on January 1st? Great just after Christmas present
to the gang that was let go. I seem to remember it was known in advance as jocks started fleeing prior to the flip.
I remember bits and pieces. It was a shock to radio listeners that this happened. I also somehow recall,
either before, during or after, that KDF made reference to the demise. It remains etched in a lot of people's minds
17/18 years later, wow. The other big flip and similar fiasco is still occurring ... no one has gotten their head out
of their ----- to right that injustice. For all that complain that The Rock is weak,  it's nothing close to Joy 106.

[romer979fm]

Tibbs...it's early...I'm still brain-foggy...but the ROCK 106 to WJYN "Joy of Nashville" happened
on Christmas Eve.  Not unusual for a station to drop normal programming for Christmas tunes...
but ROCK 106 never returned.  Sudbrink owned the station (with WLAC) at the time...and Woody
Sudbrink decided for whatever reason...to do a favor to a buddy (Shulke)...and help him debut
a "world altering" format...called (horns sfx) "Shulke II".   The format was also running in Orlando at WORJ...
another successful AOR blown up for this new format.   The basic "Shulke II" format was this: easy listening
and standards...but...with a twist (wait for it)... instead of seques...there was planned dead air between every event.  And wait...let's make it a positive...it's not "dead air"...it's called "SAVOR TIME".
I'm 100% serious...they thought "savor time" would let the listener reflect on how much they just ejnoyed hearing that Malilow tune.  Brilliant.  BTW...the jocks were not allowed to use headphones: there was no need...as you just waited for dead air to do anything...or say anything.  The station was semi-automated...
with insta-carts for the spots.   I never had to work the format...but I was hired for the switch away from
WJYN to "The New 106 FM" which was designed to grab the old SM-95 audience when WSM-FM went country.  I had to do a few days of a modified WJYN format (no dead air) to learn the control room...
then (since I was doing overnights) got to be the first to use the WLAC-FM call letters with the switch.
Original airstaff also included Dave Nichols, Karen Gerson, and Dick Kiser.  I think I'll wear my "New 106 FM"
Members Only jacket to work today...

[jason99]

if it was speculation then why do we still have 971eagle.com going to cumulus when you put it in the address bar, and why is www.classichits971.com still under construction??