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.

38 responses total.

I listen to classical music all the time on WQRS 105.1 Detroit

Check out the media infocenter on hvcn (http://www.hvcn.org/info/mia.html)

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.

me too on WUOM

Oh, me too on WUOM.

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

Yup, I've listened tp WQRS and WIQB.  I'm not sure if I've caught WMAQ in
Washtenaw County, but I'll look for it tomorrow night...

Detroit's Classic Rock WCSX 94.7 is one of my favorites.

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).

Who's keeping score? How many of the responses in #6 count?

metoo on WIQB (but not very often)
I have listened to WQKL 107.1 (Kool 107)

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.

BTW, the old transmitter on Ann Arbor-Saline Road was used by WPAG (the
original call letters of what is now WTKA/KOOL 107).  Also, the offices were
in the Hutzel Building downtown (later moved to Domino Farms).

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?

RE #10 WTKA is the AM station (also does partial simulcasts from KOOL 107).
The former WAMX was originally at 107.1, but when they changed call letters
and the format to all oldies, WAMX moved to AM 1290 (formerly WNRS, another
former oldies station at one time).  Now AM 1290 is just a daytime-only
simulcast of WIQB.

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.

 I believe it's WTWR.

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.

  That one (WTWR) used to be in the RenCen, hence the name. I once got a tour
and a t-shirt. Man, that's ancient history ;)

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

Car Talk is one of my favorite programs. Of course we do furnish them with
"legal" advice. We are the "Cheatem" in the firm name.  And so it goes .  .

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.

I listen to What Do You Know on the Toledo station.

Now what does #18 mean by "WIQB is the best classical"?  Maybe WIQB goes all
classical in the middle of the night when I'm not listening.

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

I thought I typed WQRS as the best classical station, but I guess I typed WIQB
in a burst of idioticy (or is that local pride?). Thanks Jeff, I caught "What
Do You Know" out of the Toledo station for the first time Saturday morning.
It does come in much clearer then WKAR.  I do usually listen to WDET during
drivetime, and the RIVER if I can't stand what the NPR stations are
programming.

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?

I like WJR 760 - they have a website, you know. They also have 50,000 watts
of transmitter power, so they just do reach Ypsilanti at night, as well as
Missouri and some other states.

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. 

I'll invoke the four-day rule and report that I have listened to 890am 
Chicago. Mostly talk, news, sports, weather. Jake Hartford was the host 
of the show I heard. Had Ravel's Bolero in the background while he took 
calls about how romantic the music was. One caller said he had to play it 
four or five times before he was finished doing 'it'.

RE #25 Bmoran, you were listening to WLS in Chicago.

I am now working at Domino's Farms and have a choice of WIQB or WIQB while
at work.  Not bad if you want to listen to the same songs 20 times a day.

RE #27 Mpeacock what about Kool 107 or WTKA (AM 1050)?  Aren't their studios
also at Domino Farms?

I pulled 1410am WING, Dayton Ohio out of the static last night. It's a 
CBS news, talk (and probably sports) station. 

 Cool, and that's not in the clear channel zone either. 

I mostly listen to WDET 101.9, but I'll listen to the rebroadcast of Fresh
Air on WEMU 89.1, to THistle and Shamrock on WKAR, radio plays on CBC radio
89.9, or What do you know on WGLE Lima.  Occasionally something on WUOM
catches my ear, and for variety, I'll listen to 93.9, WCDR (?) "the River"
out of Winsor.

She is a "radio girl" for sure! 

I can pick up kool at Domino's Farms, but no a.m., not even WJR.  I love
Thistle and Shamrock, and now that WEMU and WDET don't seem to have it, when
is it on WKAR?  After 7 I also listen to Fresh Air on WEMU, as it's on too
early on WDET for me to listen.  

Just down the dial from WAAM, I was able to get 1570 WCLE Cleveland Tenn.
I looked it up, and they broadcast at 5(yes five) watts during the day,
and a whole 0.08 at night. I caught it at 9:45pm for about 15 minutes
until WAAM walked all over it for good.

When not tuned in to WEMU, or CBC, I sometimes catch the old country
show Sunday nights on WSDS, 1480 AM.

Do you ever listen to The Grand Ole Oprey on Saturday nights on WSM 650am?

There's a very strange Detroit-area station.  During the day it is 880am, atd
night 890am (or something like that).  It's sort of the International Channel
of local AM radio.

WNZK from Dearborn Mich. 690 day, 680 night. I heard some kind of Opera
until the news at 11pm, then something in Spanish. Another day I heard a
Jamacan show, then the call letters with the reverb turned way up.
Strange and fun!

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