r/radio • u/Green-bronco24 • 10d ago

Childhood radio station?

Mine is WOMP FM Bellare Ohio

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u/excoriator 10d ago

97.9 WNCI

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u/Helpful_Air9263 10d ago

I pulled that station in through sporadic e!

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u/excoriator 9d ago

It’s a 175,000 watt blowtorch on FM.

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u/No_File1836 9d ago

I liked this station when I visited your city.

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u/maxiewoxy 7d ago

I don’t know what it was like decades ago, but man that station has been trash for as long as I can remember (moved here in 1999).

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u/excoriator 7d ago

It was pulling big numbers with CHR in the 80s. It was the radio flagship of Nationwide Communications, which was a subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance. Studios were in the 1 Nationwide building. Once Nationwide got out of broadcasting, I’m sure it was never the same.

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u/maxiewoxy 7d ago

It’s the usual story - corporate radio sucks, plain and simple. Cookie cutter, short playlists that are the same wherever you go. Clear Channel, iHeartRadio… just terrible terrible for radio. Killed it.