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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
<snip> One of the worst mistakes, again IMO, the previous owners of a former Music of Your Life (nostalgia) radio station in Cleveland ever made about eight years ago was to install a 50kW transmitter, then, shortly thereafter (and I mean shortly, as in a week or so later) dropping the MoYL format for ESPN sports. MoYL has never been heard in northeastern Ohio since then (on AM anyway), <snip>.
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That was no ordinary adult nostalgia station - that was the late, great, WRMR. It actually went to the 50kW daytime pattern (actually about 100 times stronger in Detroit than the 10kW pattern because the shape of the pattern changed) several months before it changed formats (first diluting the music with talk shows before WKNR sports radio took it over), and I listened to it at home and on the way to work every day.
They had one of the most eclectic playlists I had ever heard, beyond the big bands and tin pan alley, including short classical works, old R&B 78's unheard elsewhere, and some newer stuff if it had a beat and a melody (even the Backstreet Boys!).
Since WRMR was lost, I've generally given up on radio for music, using CDs for music and radio for news.