WKVE on the air

By Eric O Brien

Pittsburgh:

Classic Rock fans, set your FM dial to 103.1 where WKVE has been on the air since 8 o'clock Tuesday night. Station owner Robert Stevens says everything will run automated for now and as long as no glitches happen, the station will remain on the air. More information as we hear it...

Disclaimer: Oh, you all know by now...



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Posted at May 05, 2010 at 10:14 pm by






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Yes… we know! I was able to pick it up on my 05 Honda Accord parked in our garage in Wintersville.
Trefdawg - May 05, 2010 at 10:19 pm

Just what Western PA needs…another automated station playing the same, tired songs of the 60s-70s-80s. Yawn.

Why won’t somebody take a chance and try something different? How about a Classic Country format (to spare us country listeners from being bombarded by Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts)? Or even a Hot AC to take the place of Star 100.7 (which is now B94 lite). Hell, the ‘Burg could even become reacquainted with another “Smooth Jazz” format.
deerejohn - May 06, 2010 at 09:54 am

I agree. It looks like another station looking to contribute to the death of radio. No personality, no character, no reason to tune in. I just don’t know when these suits will learn.
WhyRadio - May 06, 2010 at 1:11 pm

Radio around these parts has become one of four formats: redneck newstalk, country, bubblegum oldies (I never dreamed I would use the term “bubblegum”) and regurtitated classic rock. Next to no one has the spine to try anything but, and the formats that have been shelved have fallen victim to this anal-retentive “it’s not commercially viable” crutch.
Rick - May 06, 2010 at 10:57 pm

In their defense, they do insert a few great oldie album cuts in their sequence of top 40 classics. I miss the album rock format of yore, but then I’m an old geezer from the sixties and seventies. There’s a lot of exceptional music from that time period through today that deserves to be broadcast. But today it’s all about the $$$ and not the love of the music. It’s just the way it is.
TheRAM - May 31, 2010 at 2:29 pm

I agree with TheRAM,they do play stuff you never hear on the established station. Hopefully, when they get up and running they’ll play a more free form style like WYDD or KISS. (Boy am I dating myself) There’s so much good old music that never gets airplay. Long live “Laid Back Larry Allen!”
Spike - June 04, 2010 at 6:51 pm

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the variety of both “deep” and new rock. Stuff that DVE might bring out for the Electric Lunch but should be in regular rotation, plus Shinedown, STP, Counting Crows. I hope the variety sticks around once the DJs/regular broadcasts come on.
KeyboardKev - June 10, 2010 at 5:51 pm

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