Posted on 08/08/2014 3:54:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Two widely expected format flips occurred Aug. 7 on Pittsburgh radio.
WJAS (1320 AM) began picking up the former news-talk format of WPGB (104.7 FM) at noon, while at 3 p.m., WPGB flipped from news-talk to “Big 104.7” airing “Pittsburgh's New Hit Country.”
The new “Big 104.7” opened with Florida Georgia Line's “This Is How We Roll” and pledged 10,000 songs in a row without commercials to start its competition with CBS Radio's WDSY “Y-108” (107.9 FM) and Keymarket's three Froggy FM stations, WOGG (94.9 FM), WOGH (103.5 FM) and WOGF (104.3 FM).
WPGB alerted listeners to the format change on its website, while midday host Rush Limbaugh was hailing the addition of WJAS as an affiliate of his “Excellence in Broadcasting” network on his website.
Essentially, the former WPGB format is being moved from the Clear Channel-owned FM to AM 1320, which was sold by Renda Broadcasting to Frank Iorio's Radio Partners LLC. The WPGB announcement touted the move of syndicated hosts Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to WJAS. WPGB's Fox News Radio affiliation moved to WJAS as well.
The move came one day after former WJAS announcers Jack Bogut and Bill Cardille bade their listeners farewell from morning-drive and midday slots, respectively, on WJAS, which under Renda operated with a nostalgia format.
Conservative talk staying at WJAS
by Scott Fybush fybush.com
*Veteran western Pennsylvania owner Frank Iorio has found a buyer for his last station. St. Barnabas Broadcasting, Inc., an offshoot of the St. Barnabas Health System, will pay Iorio’s Pittsburgh Radio Partners LLC $2.05 million for WJAS (1320) and translator W256DE (99.1) in Pittsburgh.
There’s no property included in the sale – Iorio was leasing the two-tower AM site, as well as subleasing studio and office space from iHeart at its Green Tree cluster facility. And there’s no format change planned for WJAS, which effectively took over the syndicated lineup that iHeart dropped from WPGB (104.7) in 2014. That includes the Bloomdaddy morning show from WWVA in Wheeling, WV, as well as most of Premiere’s national talkers (among them, for now, Rush Limbaugh.)
Pitt radio update
From Eric at PBRTV
2-4-22
David Bloomquist, AKA “Bloomdaddy” announced his departure from iHeart owned WWVA (1170 Wheeling). The show has been carried in Pittsburgh – first via sister station WPGB (104.7) after the departure of Quinn and Rose in 2013. The next year he made the move with the majority of programming when WJAS (1320) switched after Pittsburgh Radio Partners bought the station from Renda Broadcasting.
According to our sources, Bloomdaddy announced that he will be on the air at Cleveland’s WTAM where he will be on in afternoon drive beginning Monday. WTAM is also owned by iHeartMedia.
No word what will be on the air at WWVA come Monday. But the 100-year-old WJAS will be airing “America in the Morning” between 6:00 and 9:00 with “First Light” between 7:00 and 8:00.
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Thanks for the update. I have a subscription to Quinn’s M-F show. I listened to “Bloomdaddy” once or twice but wasn’t impressed and haven’t gone back. At work we listen to Wendy Bell on Wimkin on the internet. She’s been hired/fired so many times it’s hard to keep up. The only time I go to WJAS now is to hear Dan Bongino in the afternoon. I sure wish they got Quinn and Rose back.
Not a good start.
You’re welcome. WRKO Boston plugged
Bloomdaddy in a few days around Christmas/ New Year’s and I also wasn’t impressed.
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