They turned 92.7 WLIR into some damn spanish station. you don't know how pissed I was. It was bad enough 2 months ago when they deemed it the "new lir" aka playing more crap and less of the good stuff.

So I go to the website, and see this:

"As WLIR moves off of the 92.7 dial position, a brand new TMO station will simultaneously hit the airwaves. 107.1 The Box (WLIR-FM), Long Island’s New Music Alternative, will provide cutting edge rock and modern alternative hits from artists such as Linkin Park, Blink 182, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trapt, Nirvana, Maroon 5, the Beastie Boys, Audioslave, Korn, No Doubt and Sublime. Additionally, the station will continue ‘LIR’s tradition of fostering unique music from local artists and spinning new music first. The company’s other two stations, Party 105.3-FM (Dance) and 98.5-FM The Bone (Classic Hard Rock) will continue to broadcast their current formats."


and of course that station doesn't come in around here:o Bastards.

I remember in L.A., a bunch of people made a BIG deal when KNAC (105.5) left the airwaves, for the next few years there was a cult following of the station with lingering fans sticking old KNAC stickers on their new cars, making t-shirts, etc. Until recently, KNAC came back but only online. It's actually a great station... they play groups like, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, and other hard rock groups.

I remember years ago since I was in Anderson School that B-94 was a radio station in the Hudson Valley was playing nothing but rap, R&B and pop when it changed it to a jammin' oldies station for example Rhythm 94.3. Back in my New York area, Jammin' 105 was one of my favorite stations playing music by KC & the Sunshine Band, Chaka Kahn, A Taste of Honey, Stephanie Mills, The Village People, Donna Summer and others. Rhythm 94.3 played the same thing. And then by 2002, Jammin' 105 was changing its format again and it became Power 105, the stations play hip-hop and R&B. Also in the Hudson Valley, Rhythm 94.3 was changing it again to Cool 94.3 for 50's and 60's oldies and finally last year, the station was changed once again to Kicks 94.3 for country music. That's kinda strange. But now, living in the Hudson Valley, I lost all my oldies format what can I do with the stations format? Finally in the New York area, 102.7 WNEW was switched from trash talk to music and it became Blink 102.7. And finally at the beginning of the new year, the station was changed again to Mix 102.7 FM. I know all the station formats through the years before and during my time.

1965: 1010 WINS was switched music to an all-news station.

1970: WMCA was switched from music to talk.

1974: WWDJ was switched from music to inspirational music.

1982: WABC was switched from music to talk again.

1988: WNBC was switched from music to an all sports station, WFAN. That same year, Hot 103 became Hot 97.

1992: WNEW-AM was switched from standards to news and information from Bloomberg.

1998: WQEW was switched from standards to a teen pop station called "Radio Disney".

If you are a New York radio fan, here are some of the links that certain radio stations had changed its format from through the years:

http://musicradio.computer.net/other/wnbclast10-7-88.ram
http://musicradio.computer.net/other/winsapril65.ram
http://musicradio.computer.net/images/inglun5-10-82.ram
http://www.musicradio77.com/wmca/pnm/montage6370.ram
http://www.reelradio.com/wwdj/index.html#wwdjend
http://rockradioscrapbook.tripod.com/wqewend.ram
http://rockradioscrapbook.tripod.com/wnewend.ram

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Ugh, I hate that too. They turned one of my old favorite stations into a talk-radio station...ugh.

I go to WMTR's website over the weekend that it is going to change its format very soon from "Great Songs & Great Memories" to a classic oldies station. I missed WMTR where they were playing standards while I was in Brooklyn a few years ago.

http://www.wmtram.com/images/newwmtr3-1x1.gif

By the way. I listened to the radio that Q92.1 in the Hudson Valley was changed and it became 92.1 Lite-FM. As for the oldies station in Kingston, WKNY plays the oldies every Saturday, none of these station in the valley can't get the oldies anymore. I should listen to CBS-FM and the new WMTR.

There is a web site for WKIP which was used to be a talk, information and a Top-40 station from years ago which was changed to a Music of Your Life affiliate. Here is that site.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/airchecks/wkip.html
http://www.musicofyourlife.com

I found it. Here is the clip of how the radio staton changed from WYNY to WKTU. This was from February 10th, 1996. You should listen to it:
http://home.att.net/~tomasheski4/wyny-wktu.wav

Here is another format switch this time from 1988. The stations WYNY and WQHT had swap its frequencies from Hot 103 to Hot 97 and Country 97 to Country 103.5. This is a rare piece of radio history. You should listen to it at:
http://radio-info.com/airchexx/wyny-swap.ram

Go to my thread:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?threadid=85051

Kingston's Radio History - WBPM (WKXP later on for country music):

Launched around 1965 as WGHQ-FM, running Beautiful Music from the start (with some simulcasts of the AM in off-peak hours). Flipped to automated Top 40 in 1975, switching calls to WBPM ("World's Best Popular Music") by late 1976. By 1984 had become a totally-live CHR, "B94", which was the starting point for several longtime area jocks like Lou Brown and Mike Dylan of WBWZ, Carl Dayton, Mike Vincent, CJ McIntyre (who is later hosted the show which is up on the dial at Kiss-FM 96.1)-who has been there on and off since then). By the mid-90's a change of ownership (to Jean and Walter Maxwell's "Historic Hudson Valley Radio") led to much cutting and not putting money for new on-air imaging (the same jingles/Charles Van Dyke liners from the mid-80's lasted nearly 15 years). By 1996, B94 went to a rhythmic lean (plus gold from their glory days) to counter against the then-adult leaning WSPK. When WSPK became dance-leaning mainstream, B94 went to a cult favorite mix of obscure hardcore dance, urban hits, and early 90's CHR. Was sold in 1999 to Roberts Radio (and divested by Clear Channel in 2000 to Concord Media) and flipped to Rhythmic Olddies "Rhythm 94.3" on June 10th. CJ McIntyre returned to do mornings (after 4 months gone from B94) and Lou Brown has done various shifts as well. When "Rhythm 94.3" went off the air in 2001, the station flipped the switch into 50's and 60's oldies as "Cool 94.3". CJ left the station to do afternoons on Kiss-FM 96.1 and Lou Brown does the host on "Cool 94.3" for a short time before he left the station to become general manager at Hudson Valley's Clear Channel. "Cool 94.3" was sold by Clear Channel in 2003 and bought it out by Cumulus Media and continued to do oldies until October of last year where the station switched from oldies to Christmas music as "Christmas 94.3" and later stunned that the station switched again and it becomes country music as "Kicks 94.3" and the new call letters WKXP was born. As of right now, the original call letters WBPM belonged to 92.9 after changing from its former 94.3 frequency to become "Cool 92.9" for oldies after leaving WRKW where it used to be "92.9 Rock".

(From "Hudson Valley Radio History", updated by me.)

Yesterday, a radio station in Philadelphia WPEN (950 AM) was switched from adult standards to all oldies format playing the first 10 years of Rock & Roll from 1955 to 1964 as part of the sister station WMTR. In Long Island, WLIR makes its comeback for a format known as "The Box 107.1" playing biggest hits of the 80's & 90's. The format will begin tomorrow.:D

I was upset when KLOU 103.3 FM changed back to a mostly 60s
format after having been a 70s-early 80s station for about 2 years

Originally posted by Mr. Stefani
They turned 92.7 WLIR into some damn spanish station. you don't know how pissed I was. It was bad enough 2 months ago when they deemed it the "new lir" aka playing more crap and less of the good stuff.

So I go to the website, and see this:

"As WLIR moves off of the 92.7 dial position, a brand new TMO station will simultaneously hit the airwaves. 107.1 The Box (WLIR-FM), Long Island’s New Music Alternative, will provide cutting edge rock and modern alternative hits from artists such as Linkin Park, Blink 182, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trapt, Nirvana, Maroon 5, the Beastie Boys, Audioslave, Korn, No Doubt and Sublime. Additionally, the station will continue ‘LIR’s tradition of fostering unique music from local artists and spinning new music first. The company’s other two stations, Party 105.3-FM (Dance) and 98.5-FM The Bone (Classic Hard Rock) will continue to broadcast their current formats."


and of course that station doesn't come in around here:o Bastards.

Don't worry, WLIR is coming back to 107.1 starting tomorrow for a look back for what the station was used to be and it still be called "The Box 107.1". It's a 4-day weekend of all the music and goodies from the 80's and 90's. So tune in and find out!:)

I used to hate it when my fave radio station got changed, too. I have so many CDs now though thanks to kazaa lite and other mp3 download sites that I don't even have to listen to the radio anymore to hear my fave tunes. I remember there was one station in the '90s that had country music on it which I thought was okay and then changed to a modern day rock hits station and then changed to a station that played music from the '80s and '90s and some music of today, the '80s songs weren't too bad, but it gets annoying when the stations are always switching the types of tunes they're playing. I remember back in about 1999 I was listening to 62 Kool and it was a station that played oldies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Last I heard it changed to a news station. That was around 2002 or 2003, I think. When I first heard that I thought, that sucks, I like the old tunes.
Now, I don't even listen to the radio anymore. Thanks to Kazaa Lite, all the music I could ever want, I have burned onto CDs.

There is also a website about music format change called the "Format Change Archive". It gives you a list how radio stations has changed numerous times. You can go to this site here.:)

Format Change Archive (http://www.radiobb.com/format)

i don't listen to the radio

As of yesterday, CD 101.9 (WQCD) in New York City was departed from the "Smooth Jazz" format and it flipped into a format which is now called "Chill Music" it plays nothing but quiet jazz music and anything but the same. I always loved smooth jazz music, but it was sad to see it go.:( Long live the "Smooth Jazz" format.

There are some other changes. Both WELV at 1370 in Ellenville and WGHQ at 920 in Kingston are leaving the "Music of Your Life" network format.:( I missed all the great music of Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Jack Jones and others with all the great sounds from the Big Band era and popular standards. The last two stations WKIP in Poughkeepsie and WHUC in Hudson are currently has the "Music of Your Life" format. As of right now, WGHQ made its return to the talk format for the first time in 3 years. The last one was in early 2001 as WGHQ flipped to a "Music of Your Life" station. WELV was also flipped its format and the call letters changed to WRWD-AM in which the station would simulcast on 107.3 as a country station.