1170 am to possibly go back to "Classic country"!

[NightAire]

What Radio55 is talking about sounds like full-service MOR...  sounds good here!

...And as for Stan's bright idea: I'll see your EZ Listening / Rap blend station and raise you a station playing:

Muzak'd versions of rap songs!!!

(Or would that format be called, "Smooth Jazz?"  Hm-m-m...)   

[Zero Zagnut]

I know you guys are kidding with this, but if I was in a (former) Clear Channel situation with some (possibly) underperforming FM's, heck, I'd create an Easy Listening format with instrumental hits, movie themes, toss in a little Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Julie London, Jo Stafford, light jazz ("The In Crowd," by Ramsey Lewis Trio comes to mind...), put it on Maestro or something similar, break on the quarter hours with brief ID's and "coming ups," quick local newscast top and bottom of the hour in morning drive and, hey, wait a minute, I think I have a FORMAT here (but not nearly as sleepy as the old Schulke format from years ago). The last thing Tulsa needs is another form of Country or AC.

OR...  if I had a few million lying around, I'd buy Big Country 995... and even if I had to run it voice-tracked, it would be honest-to-goodness Classic Country with fewer breaks and sharp jingles (instead of the stupid produced imaging I keep hearing... sorry, I just think the "imaging" on today's radio is pretty lame and canned), but when there WERE breaks, they would be local, local, local.

But in reality, if I had a few million lying around, I wouldn't do a damn thing.

(But it is kind of fun thinking about it!)

Journal should simulcast KFAQ on 99.5. Put the ol' Big Country girl out of her misery,
like a good workhorse that's seen her best days.

[NightAire]

...or swap formats, put live jocks back on 1170 playing classic country...

...nah, never happen...

[OKCRadioGuy]

Now that they've cheaped up the Big Country format swapping the two signals would make a LOT of sense. Kill the stereo pilot on the FM and get after it on FM guys!  I think for the most part the signal would go into all the offices and other places the AM signal wont.  Those that love the classic country would gladly go back to the AM. I'd think it would be a win-win for both stations, so Journal will likely NOT do it.  They are pretty damn dumb from what I can tell.

[Radiogre]

Now that they've cheaped up the Big Country format swapping the two signals would make a LOT of sense. Kill the stereo pilot on the FM and get after it on FM guys!  I think for the most part the signal would go into all the offices and other places the AM signal wont.  Those that love the classic country would gladly go back to the AM. I'd think it would be a win-win for both stations, so Journal will likely NOT do it.  They are pretty damn dumb from what I can tell.

I feel their pain. After 22 years, I just got replaced by a computer today. I guess I get to re-learn how to sleep at night.