tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373810.post114476780654214083..comments2023-03-27T07:13:44.903-05:00Comments on N=1: David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426665677422154326noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373810.post-58244850842017249692017-07-18T19:00:22.593-05:002017-07-18T19:00:22.593-05:00And, here in 2017, I was just about to respond to ...And, here in 2017, I was just about to respond to a post that I responded to many years ago! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04103882071016539273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373810.post-1144814161371180112006-04-11T22:56:00.000-05:002006-04-11T22:56:00.000-05:00oh and btw...WFYR..."The Music You Want & The Info...oh and btw...WFYR...<BR/><BR/>"The Music You Want & The Information You Need"...<BR/><BR/>a great radio station it was!<BR/><BR/>-dan kelley<BR/> lansing, miAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373810.post-1144814070905033212006-04-11T22:54:00.000-05:002006-04-11T22:54:00.000-05:00With regard to WICV...having grown up in suburban ...With regard to WICV...having grown up in suburban Deerfield, I do recall WICV...it was on 99.5...but was short-lived, if it actually got on the air at all. Shortly after acquisition by General Cinema, the WICV call letters were approved...but (the following pasted from a Google search of WEFM WICV)(although there appears to be some confusion on the part of the writer about dates and company names, but the information is pretty much correct otherwise):<BR/><BR/>Zenith decided<BR/>> to sell the station, as there were now plenty of things for its<BR/>> customers to listen to, and the people at Multimedia (?) bought it<BR/>> with the distinct plan of turning it into a top hit format.<BR/><BR/>To be exact it was General Cinema Corporation, who bought the station in 1972.<BR/><BR/>> The FCC approved the sale, however there was a tremendous stink<BR/>> by listeners, via a group called 'Friends of WEFM' who protested<BR/>> the proposed format change. So the FCC put a temporary kibosh on<BR/>> the whole thing, since the Friends were protesting so much. But<BR/>> Zenith had already packed up and left by that point, so Multimedia<BR/>> was stuck operating a strictly classical music station for the next<BR/>> two years, like it or not.<BR/><BR/>Since GCC took over in 1972, it turned out to be six years. The call letters in 1972 were about to be flipped to WICV and the library was packed to go over to WNIB when a court injunction was issued stopping the format change. There was even an ad in the Chicago Tribune the next day and billboards up for WICV that couldn't be stopped. They then had to fire the new DJ staff.<BR/><BR/>> Finally, two years later, in 1978, after numerous court orders,<BR/>> petitions, legal actions, FCC orders, etc, the new owners of WEFM were<BR/>> permitted to change the format subject to a few conditions:<BR/>> (1) the entire recorded archives of classical WEFM which consisted of<BR/>> about ten thousand albums had to be given to a very small (at the<BR/>> time) classical station in Chicago called WNIB which was run by Sonia<BR/>> and Bill Florian. I have commented on them here in the past.<BR/><BR/>The pre-1972 library went to WNIB. The post-1972 library went to WBEZ, the Board of Education-owned NPR station -- along with the rights to some syndicated programs and announcer Dick Noble.<BR/><BR/>> (2) they had to retain existing on-air people of classical WEFM for a<BR/>> period of a year or give them that much in severance pay, if those<BR/>> people wished to announce and play the type of music which would be<BR/>> aired (I do not think any of them stayed around). They had, you see,<BR/>> proposed to toss all the recorded music in the dumpster and kick all<BR/>> the employees out on the street.<BR/><BR/>-Dan Kelley<BR/> Lansing, MIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com