Posted by Media Reader on November 17, 2023, 1:22 pm
Rick Kaempfer Friday media blog 11/17
Rick writes today - NO MEDIA NOTEBOOK COLUMN NEXT WEEK. RETURNING DECEMBER 1. As always, if you have any media story you’d like to share or think that I might be interested in sharing, drop me a line at rick@eckhartzpress.com or amishrick@yahoo.com.
*November 15, 1977 =An agreement was reached regarding the classical station WEFM. Lee Abrams had big plans to turn it into a Top 40 Rock station.
I read that a few years ago.
5 years battling the holdouts not wanting to lose classical. (WLS really played dirty on that episode). One can only imagine what would have happened if that never took place. In 5 years the market and the format changed drastically. 99.5 WE-FM was not for long. First adopting Fozi Bear to be their station mascot and then losing the jingles (becoming really bland) the CHR dream was over for 99.5!