Re: [IRCA] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but a couple hours ago, I sorted through lots of old issues of DX News from around that time, THIS time checking the DDXD-East column.  In Vol. 60, Issue 14, I found this: 
 
 540  WWCS  PA Canonsburg - 12/14/92 0350-0400 Classical music and several IDs at 0400 with mention of Pittsburgh and
        Canonsburg, advertisements and back to classical music.  Good signal and new here.  (Jim Bagge-Springfield, Mass.) 
 
So what it looks like here, Steve, is that either the religious format on WWCS was short-lived, or that it only aired classical music
during the overnight hours (I think KPOF-910 in Denver does the same thing nowadays).   Either way, I'm now about 95% certain that the CLA music heard after CBK's sign-off at 0208 ELT was coming from WWCS. 
 
So that's one solved, but that leaves the mystery station with rock and/or oldies heard on 540 at the same time.  "Brother Louie" and "Wild Thing" would certainly be classified as oldies, but "Whipping Post" is a pure album-rock track, never released as a single.  The first two could've been played on WGTO, but the last one would've been a good candidate to be in the library of CJSB (which Shawn Axelrod heard twice during 1992).  Is it possible that I had both coming in during that half-hour?  That's why I'm hoping that someone who RECORDED KNAK's test might've heard the same songs, but more clearly (AND with a ID afterwards) than I did in Iowa City. 
 
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska


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From: Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993


WWCS was the first thing I thought of, too.  But the October 30, 1991 Pittsburgh Press, in a story headed "WWCS Owners Lament End of Classical Format", says they dumped classical for paid religion in September of that year, fifteen months before Rick's unIDs during the KNAK DX test period.

Were insatiable local hucksters to blame for the format change?

Jeffrey Warshaw, a VP of owner Universal Broadcasting, said, "It's a black eye on the city of Pittsburgh.  For four years we were rejected by the advertising and business community of Pittsburgh.  Although listeners were very loyal, there weren't enough to satisfy the ad agencies in town."

Station is a pest here under any calls or format, unlike the Maryland and Long Island stations, neither of which has ever made an appearance.

Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 4:53 pm
Subject: [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993


Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern Time Zones who might've had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of KNAK-540 in Utah in January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact date).  I never got the test from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that morning that have bedeviled me for years.  One was playing classical music (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!) and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with "Brother Louie" by the Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers, and "Wild Thing" by the Troggs.  I stuck this is DX News back then to see who could figure it out, but never got a reply.  Why am I so occupied with unIDs from nearly 20 years ago?  'Cause I wanna get 'em solved!  Respond here or write me off-list if ya want. 
 
73,
Rick Dau  
South Omaha, Nebraska   
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