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AM is slowly dying.....
Espn....turn em off...just paid promos for their other sport programming...and trying to sell their tolerance “xcept for you” mentality..
What the frack?????????? Depending where one lives in the DC area, WMAL’s AM reception is better than the FM reception.
The news talk formet now on 630 will remain on WMAL-FM, 105.9.
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When listening to Rush driving from Baltimore vicinity to the south, I switch to 630 AM when 680 AM begins to fade. I guess I’ll have to set FM 105.9 as a preset if Rush will be on there.
If we all went back to AM we wouldn’t need seat belts.
I regularly listen to Chris Plante and Rush on WMAL using https://talkright.talkstreamlive.com
I guess I’ll have to ask Alexa to tune into another station besides WMAL for Chris and Rush.
WTF with ANOTHER sports talk station??? I can’t possibly imagine anything more BORING than endless, mindless speculation over whether some tight end is going to be available to play on Sunday or how much playing time a bench-sitter is going to have now that the power forward is going to be trying to keep up with a 7-footer next Thursday.
FM, No static at all...
I'm old so it doesn't make a difference to me, but all of my grand kids were exposed to Rush, Sean etal, during our rides for years.
They are all conservative adults and the exposure to conservative talk radio was part of their growing up {along with conservative parents and grand parents on both sides}.
Young people are being exposed to liberal bullshit and they believe what they are taught, and what their piers repeat.
SAD.
Very stupid idea. Most of the listeners on the Maryland side can’t get 105.9, as it comes from Woodbridge, VA and it’s crowded out by 105.7 from Bawlmore.
DC already has two sports stations, WTEM 980 and WJFK 106.7 (which has a similar problem in parts of Maryland, as Baltimore also has a station at 106.5.)
Cumulus just sold 107.3 FM, WRQX Mix 107.3, a strong signal. They would hve been better served to sell 105.9 and move WMAL-FM to 106.7.
And this has been tried before in DC . AM 570 was a talk station, WTNT, then abandoned talk to become a sports station. Guess what it is now? A talk station. It’s Sean Hannity’s DC affiliate.
Somebody is going to start up a talk station and have success with it, and ESPN 630 is going to be a failure. And the morons at Cumulus will probably double down.
Then they’ll go to a talk format, but it may be too late by then.
Someone ought to buy WTEM and turn it to talk. Find out when Rush’s and Mark’s contracts with WMAL run out (maybe Plante’s too) and go get them. Fill with other quality shows.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Really?!!
This is a shame. WMAL was my preferred station when i am in the Dee Cee area.
Good to know for the few times I’m primarily near DC instead of Baltimore. I have it saved but now might recall why it’s not what I expect.
Overall, a bad move. Have already removed 630 AM from the car presets.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!