The grex radio-off!

Feb 16 23:58 UTC 1996

The "grex-off" is a contest to see who has met the most grex people.  Here's
a similar contest to see who has heard the most radio stations.  It's a
contest for those of us who are such dweebs that we haven't met hundreds of
grexers....

Here are the proposed rules:

Name a radio station you've listened to including frequency and call letters.
Info about what kind of programming and what the circumstances were when you
first heard the station is optional.

Anyone can metoo a previously named station.

Let another contestant name one before you name another one.

Only stations you've heard in Washtenaw county qualify.  Regional stations
and national stations you can pick up on AM at night count.  But this contest
is not to see who has traveled around the county looking for radio stations
the most.  

Let's make this contest a bit less structured than the grex-off.  Anyone can
join any time.  Keep your own score.

I'll start.  I'm currently listening to a news show on WUOM 91.7 Ann Arbor
which plays classical music and news and public affairs programming.

response 2 of 38:

Feb 18 06:25 UTC 1996

20 minutes from Downtown to O'Hair (sp?)... In the search for an obscure radio
station to name in this item, I ended up listening to a Chicago traffic
report, on WMAQ (670 AM, from Chicago).  It came in a lot better last time
I listened to it, at my parents' house, than it does in my apartment.

Me too on WQRS.

response 4 of 38:

Feb 19 05:17 UTC 1996

Oh, me too on WUOM.

I listen to WIQB (102.9 in Ann Arbor) a lot.

response 6 of 38:

Feb 19 17:48 UTC 1996

Metoo on WCSX.  Also listening to WWJ (AM 950), WTKA/WQKL (1050 AM & 107.1
FM -- KOOL 107), WAAM (except for the G. Gordon Liddy Show), and when in
Detroit. listened to WDOZ (AM 1310 -- Radio Aahs), WCHB (AM 1200), WABJ and
WLEN when visiting my mother in Adrian, Michigan, as well as WMXD (92.3 FM),
WLTI (93.1 FM on the Muzak at the AA News), WNIC (100.3 FM), WKQI (Q 95.5),
WCBN (88.3 FM), and WVHV (98.7 FM - The Station Formerly Known as WLLZ
Detroit's Wheels).

response 8 of 38:

Feb 20 06:17 UTC 1996

Does WQKL still have the transmitter right in the center of downtown?  Can
people still listen to it on their toasters?

1050 WTKA the allmost all sports station in Ann Arbor used to have its
transmitter where the McDonald's is at 94 and Ann Arbor-Saline Road.  I still
listen to the station even though I don't know where the transmitter went.

I said this is an informal contest, keep your own score.  I suppose if we need
a score-keeper for this item I'll volunteer, but what's the point?  All the
info can be found at the URL listed above.

Oh yeah, metoo on WQKL.  Name the other local station owned by the same New
York company that owns QKL, IQB, and TKA.

response 10 of 38:

Feb 21 05:10 UTC 1996

I thought that station was both WPAG and WPZA, depending on whether it was
FM or AM.  WPZA, of course, was Monaghan naming his radio station after his
other product.  The fourth station along with WQKL, WIQB, and WTKA would be
what used to be WIQB AM, but is now called something else.  I forget, is it
WAMX?

response 12 of 38:

Feb 21 19:22 UTC 1996

I'm pretty sure that #10 and  #11 are both correct.  AM 1290 is just a
daytime-only simulcast of WIQB, but it retains the WAMX call letters.  Listen
to 1290 near the top of the hour.  A voice comes over the music to tell you
that you're listening to WAMX.

I'm now listening to Tower-98 98.3 Toledo but I don't know the call letters.

response 14 of 38:

Feb 22 01:13 UTC 1996

RE #12 and #13 - WTWR was the call letters of an oldies station in Detroit
(Tower 92) in the late 1970's through 1981.  The station in Toledo took over
these call letters when the Detroit station switched to country music.

response 16 of 38:

Feb 24 15:58 UTC 1996

I'm now listening to the end of Car Talk on WEMU Ypsilanti 89.1 FM. 

response 18 of 38:

Mar 22 05:26 UTC 1996

I once used  the Car Talk barristers of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe in a 
Business Communications presentation.  The next week, the instructor
told me that her husband caught the reference.  I told her, "What do you
expect, originality?."  I think WIQB is the best classical in the area,
with WKAR out of East Lansing being second best.   WUOM is a distant third.
WKAR has the added advantage of being the only station you can receive in
Washtenaw County where you can hear What Do You Know, a cheesey quiz show
out of Madison WI (8:00 p.m. Sat.) that is very funny.

response 20 of 38:

Mar 22 07:33 UTC 1996

I was wondering the same thing.  Then again, maybe I've just lost track of
what Classical means these days.

response 22 of 38:

Mar 31 06:24 UTC 1996

Me too, on most of the above. Including WMAQ, Chicago.
Has everyone forgotten WJR 760am Detroit? Or doesn't anyone listen to the 
Tigers on the radio?

response 24 of 38:

Apr 2 04:47 UTC 1996

I was listening to 870am, New Orleans, last week. Was coming in pretty 
clear. I found out that you should never keep garlic in the 
refridgerator, and what the Chinese call 'hungry tigers'. Here in the U.S. 
we call them slot machines.