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Grex > Music2 > #283: Rock 103 gone, W4 Country now at 102.9fm, Ann Arbor |  |
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birdy
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response 25 of 60:
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Sep 30 07:43 UTC 2000 |
WIQB broadcasts from Domino's Farms, which is located off of Plymouth Rd. on
Earhart (near 23). It's definitely Ann Arbor, not Detroit.
96.3 used to play really good alternative from the 80s and such...Smiths,
Cure, Depeche Mode, Peter Murphy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, B-52s, Madness,
etc, but now they're back to whiny "new" alternative crap. As if we don't
already have stations for that. Not only have they changed, they now play
the same ten songs over and over and over. *growl*
Thankfully, they kept their Big Sonic Heaven show on Sunday nights. Darren
Revell fought for it and got it with tons of listener support. It's the only
radio stuff I listen to now.
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russ
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response 26 of 60:
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Sep 30 15:49 UTC 2000 |
Hell, WIQB seriously deteriorated back in the 70's. There was a
time when they would play whole album tracks and more interesting
rock. Then one day I turned them on, and they had some wimpy DJ
voice who sounded Californian and a bunch of way-too-soft music
from a playlist that was obviously a bank of tapes.
That only lasted a few weeks, but they never went back to anything
like their previous quality of interesting music except really late
at night (and not terribly often then). WIOT was much better (I
caught "Wet Dream" there in the wee hours more times than I can
count) and I pretty much quit listening to WIQB.
Then I discovered WDET, and commercial radio lost its attractions for me.
(I'm listening to it as I type; it's been through NPR and jazz this
evening and is now techno, but I can't call it boring. It'll be something
else overnight if I'm still awake, and that won't be boring either.)
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twinkie
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response 27 of 60:
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Sep 30 19:41 UTC 2000 |
I really don't remember calling WIQB a Detroit station.
Hell, I can barely get it in South Lyon.
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tpryan
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response 28 of 60:
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Sep 30 23:37 UTC 2000 |
102.9fm carries into Detroit to about Middlebelt road. Then it
clashes to much with 102.7fm, out of Mt. Clemmens. Young Country, 99.5
is not the strongest signal, so 102.9 may be the FM Country station for
Detroits western suburbs and enclaves. It should also cover into Jackson
county and into Lennawaee county. They should be able to find a new
audience.
However, the rock loving U of M students will now only find what
they like on a Detroit radio station. Not many Ann Arbor businesses
advertise on those.
Young Country, 99.5fm, plays old Country classics on Saturday
night, a request show. At least 10% of the requests that end up on
the air are lighthearted or funny.
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tpryan
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response 29 of 60:
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Sep 30 23:41 UTC 2000 |
Oh and see the item earlier in music, or in the last agora about
The River, 93.9fm drying up and going to automated Lite Rock.
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senna
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response 30 of 60:
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Oct 1 00:19 UTC 2000 |
(There was a difference? :)
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bhelliom
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response 31 of 60:
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Oct 1 01:18 UTC 2000 |
You could imagine how trumatized I was when I turned on the radio today
(which I rarely do), switched the signal to 102.9 and heard TWANG! I
was praying to all gods dead, worshipped and unborn that it was a
fluke. I'm not completely anti-country, but there are just some songs
that should have never been recorded . . . I think I'll go cry now.
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scg
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response 32 of 60:
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Oct 1 02:58 UTC 2000 |
I've started listening to country music while driving through extremely rural
areas, in part because if I forgot to pack sufficient CDs I don't have much
choice, and in part because I figure I might as well sample the culture of
the areas I'm driving through. I was kind of surprised to find that I don't
detest it nearly as much as I thought I would. It's not what I'd listen to
given a choice, but it's still kind of nice in small doses.
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johnnie
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response 33 of 60:
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Oct 1 03:32 UTC 2000 |
See, that's how it starts--you try just a little bit, and the next thing
you know, you're wakin' up in a battered ol' pickup wearing nothing but
boots and a big hat.
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birdy
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response 34 of 60:
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Oct 1 05:22 UTC 2000 |
<laughs>
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scg
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response 35 of 60:
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Oct 1 07:55 UTC 2000 |
Hmm... I got rid of my battered old pickup after I started listening to
country music on long road trips.
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jerryr
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response 36 of 60:
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Oct 1 12:03 UTC 2000 |
re: #32 i forget which comedian it was (george carlin?) who had an hillarious
routine about driving thru the south and every station he punched up was a
twanger. i had just returned from active duty in the south. it floored me.
imagine being trapped on a man o' war and having that stuff piped in 24/7/365.
ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
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n8nxf
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response 37 of 60:
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Oct 1 12:04 UTC 2000 |
WCBN and WDET take care of alternative listening needs. I'd like to keep up
with stuff my kids are growing up with but it's about as difficult to take
as much of the stuff I grew up with back in the 70's. The lousy to good ratio
is just too high... Perhaps a lot of the crap will vanish once they start
playing it on the golden oldies stations. Anyway, it's sad to see 103 (really
102.9) go. I always wonder about the correlation between their assigned
frequency and their call sign: 1=I, 0=Q, 3=B. It was a radio station for the
analog era. There is is enough slop in a analog radios' tuning dial so that
102.9 is the same as 103. Not so with digital tuners of today.
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tod
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response 38 of 60:
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Oct 1 13:42 UTC 2000 |
I listen to 105.1 The Groove cuz it plays the most local talent.
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cmcgee
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response 39 of 60:
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Oct 1 15:15 UTC 2000 |
WIQB lost its touch when it was bought out by Tom Monahagn's little radio
group (WPZA, Kool 10?, etc) WPZA was also originally an Ann Arbor station with
broadcast studios on the second or third floor of the building at the
southeast corner of Main and Liberty.
WIQB broadcast from studios out near Saline when it was a truly great local
rock station.
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tpryan
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response 40 of 60:
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Oct 1 18:40 UTC 2000 |
Yes, at one time WIQB had ads, bumber stickers and the such that
stylized the IQB so you could see the 103.
Is the 500 watter, 1290, still on the air. It was the original
sister station to WIQB, setting up a Radio 129 thing. Both had the
same digits in their frequency, and the significant digits where in the
same order.
I listened to more W4 Country on 102.9 Friday evening. It only
took 90 minutes for two songs in a row to repeat.
Now, if Dr. Don (Carpenter) is on in their mornings, that would
be cool.
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tpryan
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response 41 of 60:
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Oct 1 18:51 UTC 2000 |
WPAG was that original Ann Arbor station. 1050 or 1090 if I
recall correctly. Who recalls where their towers used to be?
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ea
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response 42 of 60:
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Oct 2 02:40 UTC 2000 |
I thought the original Ann Arbor station was 1600, which went through a
few changes before becoming WAAM?
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senna
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response 43 of 60:
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Oct 2 04:42 UTC 2000 |
That's one thing I won't miss: Bob and Tom.
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cmcgee
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response 44 of 60:
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Oct 2 16:06 UTC 2000 |
WPAG, right. WPAG and WAAM co-existed for a long time.
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ric
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response 45 of 60:
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Oct 2 16:57 UTC 2000 |
Nobody was talking about the original ann arbor station.. the original SISTER
station of WIQB, which was 1290 AM.
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ashke
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response 46 of 60:
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Oct 3 14:20 UTC 2000 |
I liked some of the commedy of Bob and Tom. Some times it was good, like at
5 when they played the best of the morning, and it was a commedian or someone.
I'll miss IQB, but after I was out of High School, it wasn't the same. It
was cool having a morning show guy who went to my school, graduated, and knew
the town. Also, they gave traffic for A2, not Detriot and THEN A2, if it got
so bad they noticed over there. So now my morning is incomplete. I can't
find a morning show to listen to that I like. Planet gets on my nerves now,
they're trying too hard, and RIF? oh god, I can't listen to that!
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snowth
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response 47 of 60:
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Oct 3 19:08 UTC 2000 |
Already I'm dying because WIQB is gone. I'm out in Adrian now, and 102.9 Twang
comes through just fine, but 96.3 doesn't and RIF's questionable... argh. A
lot of cds. Time to go shopping.
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scott
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response 48 of 60:
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Oct 3 21:26 UTC 2000 |
Ya know, country stations would be a lot better if they actually played
country music, instead of twang-oriented lite rock...
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tpryan
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response 49 of 60:
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Oct 3 22:01 UTC 2000 |
Try Dick Purtain on 104.3fm. Fun stuff, he doesn't insult
the audience and has been a long time Detroit radio presence.
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