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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 3, 2024 19:08:24 GMT -5
WSQL has not started AT40 at the usual 7PM ET time. On that social media thingie Squirrelly radio posted the studio is barely operational so no AT40 tonight. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 3, 2024 20:32:27 GMT -5
WSQL has not started AT40 at the usual 7PM ET time. On that social media thingie Squirrelly radio posted the studio is barely operational so no AT40 tonight. Is the end near for Squirrelly radio if it doesn't come back on the air soon? |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 3, 2024 20:34:58 GMT -5
On that social media thingie Squirrelly radio posted the studio is barely operational so no AT40 tonight. Is the end near for Squirrelly radio if it doesn't come back on the air soon? WSQL IS 'on the air', or at least streaming. Just not airing AT40 this week. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 3, 2024 20:41:30 GMT -5
Is the end near for Squirrelly radio if it doesn't come back on the air soon? WSQL IS 'on the air', or at least streaming. Just not airing AT40 this week. Hope WSQL doesn't drop AT40: The 70's for good post Hurricane Helene. WMGN Magic 98 Madison, Wisconsin dropped AT40: The 70's (and AT40: The 80's) 2 months after the COVID pandemic started in March 2020. |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 3, 2024 20:52:00 GMT -5
WSQL IS 'on the air', or at least streaming. Just not airing AT40 this week. Hope WSQL doesn't drop AT40: The 70's for good post Hurricane Helene. WMGN Magic 98 Madison, Wisconsin dropped AT40: The 70's (and AT40: The 80's) 2 months after the COVID pandemic started in March 2020. How does that event have anything to do with WSQL? Illogical. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 3, 2024 21:55:25 GMT -5
As caseyfan100 points out,WSQL didn't have time to download this week's episode of "AT40-The 70's"-Perhaps they'll be able to do it on Saturday (10/5).
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Post by caseyfan100 on Oct 3, 2024 22:00:41 GMT -5
There's more important things happening in that region of the country. They were knocked off the air for a few days and it probably took a big effort just to get back on the air. The least important thing for WSQL right now is to air AT40. The people of that region need them and other radio stations that are on the air is to be what these stations need to be at this time and that's serving their local communities.
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Post by jmack19 on Oct 3, 2024 22:54:51 GMT -5
I'll go with 10/13/73 over 10/17/70 & 10/15/77 for next weekend. 10/13/73 last aired as an "A" show in 2009, "B" show in 2021.
Premiere aired 10/17/70 in 2019. 10/15/77 last appeared as an "A" show in 2019. For the "B" show, I'll go with 10/13/79.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Oct 4, 2024 4:36:24 GMT -5
There's more important things happening in that region of the country. They were knocked off the air for a few days and it probably took a big effort just to get back on the air. The least important thing for WSQL right now is to air AT40. The people of that region need them and other radio stations that are on the air is to be what these stations need to be at this time and that's serving their local communities. The first radio station I worked at in Alabama in 1979 was in the path of Hurricane Frederic in September and I know that we were one of only two stations that stayed on the air during the storm. We had hooked the station up to World War II generators to keep from losing power (which did happen to the area). I recall that the station was one of the first places to have 'regular' power restored, after the storm passed, and as many of you indicate the station was a major source of information for the area. We served a small area of Alabama (about 70 miles north of Mobile) and I know people really depended on us (and some weekly newspapers) to keep up with events in the area. We took the responsibility of serving the community very seriously and I hope today's stations fulfill the same need. Maybe we should all donate to some agency that is helping the people affected by Helene. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 4, 2024 8:05:12 GMT -5
I'll go with 10/13/73 over 10/17/70 & 10/15/77 for next weekend. 10/13/73 last aired as an "A" show in 2009, "B" show in 2021. Premiere aired 10/17/70 in 2019. 10/15/77 last appeared as an "A" show in 2019. For the "B" show, I'll go with 10/13/79. If next weekend's AT40: The 70's show is 10/13/1973, would Premiere replace the accidentally played B-side of "You're a Special Part of Me" ("I Think I'm Falling In Love With You") by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross with the correct A side of that single song? Then play the mistake B-side song as an OPTIONAL EXTRA - just like Premiere did for Rod Stewart's "Angel" (A side) and "Lost Paragoys" (B side originally accidentally played) for AT40 12/16/1972? |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 4, 2024 8:14:56 GMT -5
There's more important things happening in that region of the country. They were knocked off the air for a few days and it probably took a big effort just to get back on the air. The least important thing for WSQL right now is to air AT40. The people of that region need them and other radio stations that are on the air is to be what these stations need to be at this time and that's serving their local communities. The first radio station I worked at in Alabama in 1979 was in the path of Hurricane Frederic in September and I know that we were one of only two stations that stayed on the air during the storm. We had hooked the station up to World War II generators to keep from losing power (which did happen to the area). I recall that the station was one of the first places to have 'regular' power restored, after the storm passed, and as many of you indicate the station was a major source of information for the area. We served a small area of Alabama (about 70 miles north of Mobile) and I know people really depended on us (and some weekly newspapers) to keep up with events in the area. We took the responsibility of serving the community very seriously and I hope today's stations fulfill the same need. Maybe we should all donate to some agency that is helping the people affected by Helene. I remember during the Summer 1993 Midwest flooding rains period when then Shadoe Stevens AT40 station WXLC 102.3 FM Waukegan/Libertyville, Illinois didn't play the 7/3/1993 Shadoe AT40 show due to not getting that week's show because of the station flood surroundings - and it was the same 7/4/1993 weekend WBBM B 96 FM Chicago dropped Casey's Top 40 in favor the short lived The Retro Show on Sundays! The next bet was picking up WBUS 99.9 FM Kankakee, Illinois to get Casey's Top 40 access that weekend. For the record, WXLC aired Shadoe Stevens AT40 Sunday mornings at 8 AM following Jim "Captain Whammo" Channel's "Contemporary Christian Countdown" show. |
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 4, 2024 9:47:02 GMT -5
That's well said that there are more important things than AT40 for WSQL. This has nothing to do with AT40 so you'll have to give me a pass. But they sponsored a bike ride that I rode on earlier this year. There are many such rides in and around the mountains of NC. One way to help besides sending supplies which I have done through my bicycling club is to sign up for those rides. I will be doing that as much as possible going forward. Ok back to the countdown.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 5, 2024 8:05:22 GMT -5
Bad news, WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison Wisconsin isn't airing this Saturday morning AT40: The 70's in its 8 AM time slot and is playing its normal classic hits! Maybe there's a time change or someting? I'll check at 9 AM or otherwise I will send a facebook message and/or email to the station.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 5, 2024 8:09:10 GMT -5
Have any stations specifically announced that they would play the 1971 B show?
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Post by secretman on Oct 5, 2024 8:35:14 GMT -5
Have any stations specifically announced that they would play the 1971 B show? currently playing it. |
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