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In the very early '90's, 102.1 went on the air as an adult contemporary/lite rock station. It seems like that station was changing formats every time the wind changed direction and it's last format was classic country from a satellite feed. Then, the station went silent for several months. Recently, it came back on the air and it's programming is nothing more than a simulcast of 910 AM, which is political talk radio.
On 1390 AM, there's a southern gospel station and that station has been some sort of gospel station for the past 25 years. Recently, they started simulcasting on an LPFM frequency on 93.something. And, the FM station actually sounds worse than the AM station.
If you do have a decent music station in your area, consider yourself lucky. The last decent music AM station that we had was WYLS. In early 2005, they switched to automated black gospel and have never looked back, despite the many thousands of calls and letters from angry listeners. Before that, we had WMOX, which switched from music to 100% talk in the mid '90's. WQIC-1450 was a black programmed station; but, they played decent R&B/soul from the old days. That station was sold in the early '90's and has had numerous call letters and format changes since then. They are now black gospel. WNBN-1290 is a locally owned station and has been black gospel since it signed on in '88. And, WMER-1350 is currently southern gospel and has been a gospel station for 25+ years. Before that, they were WFEZ and played easy listening music. WALT-910 is now talk; but, they used to be black gospel and rap/r&b before they were gospel. Actually, 910 was home to WCOC, which was one of the oldest stations in the area and remained on the air until it was sold in '73. So, our current AM line-up consist of 2 talk stations, 3 black gospel stations, and 1 southern gospel station. And, I don't mean any offense; but, do we really need 3 black gospel stations in one market? I don't think so! No more than we need the 3 or 4 modern "country" stations that are on the FM dial. There is an oldies station (1150, IIRC) out of Tuscaloosa, AL; but, it is very hard to receive and is very noisy even when I can bring it in.
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