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Topic: WJR (AM)


  
 WJR Information
On March 29, 1941, WJR moved from 750 to 760 kHz in accordance to the NARBA frequency reallocations.
WJR has dropped much, but not all, of its news programming, leaving WWJ-AM 950 as the main AM source for radio news in southeast Michigan.
WJR was sold with other ABC Radio stations to Citadel Broadcasting in January 2006.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/WJR   (903 words)

  
 WJR to broadcast MSU football, basketball in 2006-07 - 10/13/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Michael Fezzey, president and general manager of WJR, said the station is excited to bring play-by-play football and basketball to "a group of listeners who have been a little frustrated for the last 30 years that they haven't been able to hear Michigan State."
WJR _ at 760 on the AM dial _ is the most powerful station in Michigan and the only 50,000-watt station in the state, according to its Web site.
WJR also will feature weekly call-in shows with coach John L. Smith during football season and coach Tom Izzo during basketball season.
www.detnews.com /2005/msu/0510/13/01-348236.htm   (394 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/WJR
On December 16, 1928, the station moved from the newspaper's offices to the Fisher Building and began its callsign, "WJR Detroit, from the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building," which soon became famous across the country (and is literally still used to this very day).
WJR has dropped much, but not all, of its news programming (mainly during the overnight period) leaving WWJ as the main AM source for radio news in southeast Michigan.
Middle-of-the-road and adult contemporary music was for decades an integral part of WJR's broadcast day; as of July 2006, the only music-oriented show on the station is the Renfro Valley Gathering, aired early Sunday mornings.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/WJR   (1108 words)

  
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MSU and WJR sponsored the first "Coaches for the Kids" golf outing and dinner, a benefit for the For the Kids Foundation.
WJR and MSU agreed to a five-year contract in October for WJR to serve as the local flagship station for Spartans football and men's basketball broadcasts starting this football season.
Yatooma secured sponsorship for the event from WJR, which in turn brought new partner MSU on board for the campaign.
www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=57535   (430 words)

  
 MSU Today
WJR will have a major presence just outside the tunnel on the north side of Spartan Stadium at each home football game where “The Tailgate Show” will be hosted by Warren Pierce.
WJR (760 AM) became the flagship radio station for MSU football and men’s basketball play-by-play on July 1.
WJR was MSU’s flagship station from 1963 to 1976.
msutoday.msu.edu /news/index.php3?article=01Sep2006-5   (690 words)

  
 96.3 WDVD - Today's BEST Hits!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
WJR, WDVD and WDRQ are all licensed to ABC Radio Detroit, LLC, serve Detroit, Michigan market and share at least one employee.
WJR broadcasted live at the location and promoted the event heavily during the show.
WJR also promoted the Wayne County Community College Career Crusade on August 6, 2005 by conducting two live interviews with the Director of Marketing for WCCC days before and also with news announcements the day of the event.
www.963wdvd.com /eeo.asp   (2297 words)

  
 WJR losing news trio (Michiguide.com: News Archive 2005)
Station management wants listeners to know that WJR will continue to be first in covering local, national and world news that’s important to its large and loyal audience.
Quick hits: WJR’s Paul W. Smith recently won the fourth annual Spirit of Philanthropy Award at the 2005 Vattikuti Invitational at Oakland Hills.
Fred Jacobs, the Southfield-based radio consultant and father of the classic rock format, was voted Radio Industry Executive of the Year at the recent R&R Radio Convention in Cleveland.
www.michiguide.com /archives2005/2005/07/wjr_losing_news_trio.html   (747 words)

  
 WJR - Prognosis for Rush: Good with Cochlear Implant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I remember a few years ago an am/fm radio that was worn around your neck, and the speakers were right next to your right and left clavicle, and you could listen to the radio without 'using your ears'.
Yes - and she is DAMN GLAD and thankful to have it (she was totally deaf without it and trying to raise a family)...
A fun feature of the C.I. surgery is that Limbaugh will be totally deaf for a period of at least two months, while the surgery heals around the implanted wiring before they actually turn on the circuitry, during which time he'll have to rely entirely on lip reading, Sign Language, or written notes.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3bc3187f50ff.htm   (1957 words)

  
 WJR AM 760 Detroit
This kind of arrangement was unique at the time, allowing WJR to be the only CBS station in America that didn't broadcast Arthur Godfrey's show live.
WJR and WCX physically separate their operations as WJR moves to the 28th floor of the Fisher Building.
WJR begins using the new air slogan "The Goodwill Station".
www.michiguide.com /dials/rad-j/wjr.html   (458 words)

  
 Murray Gula on the WJR
During his inaugural WJR broadcast, station phone lines lit up throughout Gula’s three-hour show, with some callers waiting as long as 40 minutes to speak on air with him.
Among these callers was Jennifer Granholm, Michigan’s attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who dialed WJR with a personal welcome.
WJR Operations Manager Steve Stewart said he thought Gula’s first weekend of broadcasting at WJR was "spectacular."
www.claimoflien.com /wjr_murray_gula_on_the_set_pic_wjr_set.html   (455 words)

  
 CBN History: Radio/Broadcasting Timeline
WJR cuts the UM's educational broadcasts for commercial broadcasting.
These studios broadcast on AM to their respective buildings via carrier current.
1987: At WJJX (WCBN's AM counterpart), a student DJ is fired for broadcasting a series of racist jokes.
www.wcbn.org /history/wcbntime.html   (1001 words)

  
 The Complete Howard Stern Links! - Ratings - Detroit - page 2
WJR operations director Steve Stewart said that "summer is traditionally not one of our more consistent or stronger ratings periods." He declined to place blame for the drop on the dismal Tigers baseball season and held out hope that the new 6-7 p.m.
WJR rebounded from the fall '98 and winter '99 doldrums, when major news breaks appeared to lure some members of its audience to news WWJ-AM (950).
The most significant movement was in the morning, where the audience for Paul W. Smith's WJR show dropped from a 9.4 share during the fall to an 8.2 during the winter.
www.animaux.net /stern/detroit2.html   (9507 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lloyd began his career at WJR in 1993 as the city/county beat reporter and is now assistant news director.
He says he loves the fact that radio is “fast and now,” but dislikes the objectivity that the job requires.
Lloyd has won numerous awards while at WJR, including honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists.
www.specshoward.com /HallOfFame-Jackson.htm   (111 words)

  
 The NEW Fanfare FTA-100AM/FM tuner Reviewed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Separate AM and FM antennas are connected to the unit via industry-standard “F” connectors.
I spent several hours/day over a 4-day period of time listening to their high-quality AM stereo music, and was I stunned at the quality of the AM audio (both stereo and mono) on the Fanfare, as its AM audio is better than many local FM stations on an automotive receiver.
A scan up the AM dial stopped at AM stereo 760 - WJR which also takes great pride in broadcasting a high-quality audio signal that many people miss, (unless they're listening with their premium OEM AM stereo car radios), or if they have a tuner like this quality Fanfare.
www.fanfare.com /fta100-rvw-jp.html   (1170 words)

  
 New co-owners for Great Voice of the Great Lakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It's a complicated deal involving stock and cash, and, to confuse you even further, essentially the company is still majority-owned by Disney shareholders.
Many of the stations involved are flamethrower, historic AM stations such as WJR, including WLS-AM Chicago, WABC-AM New York and KGO-AM San Francisco.
WJR president and general manager Mike Fezzey affirmed that the changeover is seven or eight months off.
www.detnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/ENT02/602090397/1032/ENT   (533 words)

  
 Welcome to the Midnight Trucking Radio Network
Also established in 1922, WJR is known worldwide as "The Great Voice of the Great Lakes." It's 50,000 watt, stereo, clear-channel, 24 hour-a-day non-directional signal blankets the Midwest and East Coast of the United States and Canada.
A sister station to WBAP Radio, WJR is also owned and operated by ABC, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Broadcasting in AM stereo from Idaho's capital city, KBOI lives up to its slogan as "The Station To Depend On" for Boiseans and Idahoans.
www.midnighttrucking.com /affiliates.html   (968 words)

  
 Discussion Forums
Two veteran WJR news staffers, Gene Fogel and Dan Streeter, "retired" from the ABC-owned news-talk station last week.
Rod Hansen, a 30-year veteran of the station, was reportedly let go Wednesday.
WJR vice president and general manager Mike Feezey said, "We don't comment upon personnel matters."
www.760wjr.com /forum/display_message.asp?mid=44465   (149 words)

  
 VoA Michigan - Adopt-A-Family Christmas Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Each year WJR Radio helps bring forth Christmas joy for families in need by utilizing their on-air personalities to promote the program.
Last year, with the help of our media sponsor WJR News/Talk AM 760, the Adopt-A-Family Program served 2,769 families and 12,364 children and seniors across the State of Michigan.
As in many years past, with the help of generous sponsors, we will be able to provide Christmas blessings to families throughout Michigan to make Christmas 2007 one they will never forget.
www.voami.org /page.cfm/36   (401 words)

  
 The State News - www.statenews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
WJR (760-AM) will become the flagship radio station for Spartans' athletics beginning in the 2006-07 season, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon announced Thursday.
WJR will cover live MSU football and men's basketball events and broadcast weekly in-season call-in shows with the respective head coaches.
WJR will also have the rights to broadcast additional MSU sporting events.
www.statenews.com /print.phtml?pk=32381   (238 words)

  
 SRT Solutions Principal, Bill Wagner, To Discuss Blogs on Next WJR Internet Advisor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tune in to WJR AM 760 at 8:00 pm to hear the host of Internet Advisor, Foster Braun, and Bill demystify blog technology, explain how it will change web sites as we currently know them and discuss the current status of this sometimes controversial and always powerful technology.
The role they played in the November election was closely followed and the role the technology will play in the future is enormous, not just for individuals expressing opinions and wanting the most up-to-date news and weather delivered to their desktops but for corporate knowledge management and communication.
WJR’s Internet Advisor helps people stay in touch with the exploding world of the Internet in a way that is intriguing to the "newbie" and valuable to frequent users of the Internet for business and pleasure.
myst-technology.com /mysmartchannels/public/item/86938?itemLink=open   (505 words)

  
 The Oakland Press: Marquee: Neck-and-neck AM rivals behind a new No. 1
They and the promotion people at these two competing stations seemingly have the toughest job in local radio - making sure you know which station is at 760 and which is at 950 on the AM dial.
They and their staffs must be doing a decent job because the two 50,000-watt outlets are in a dead-heat tie in the just-released summer ratings, even though it wasn't a very hot summer.
Following WMXD, WJR and WWJ is The Mix's sister station, urban hits WJLB-FM (97.9).
www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/102204/mar_20041022003.shtml   (874 words)

  
 The Hologlobe Press -- AAA Broadcast History (part 3)
The first day of broadcasting for the AAA Traffic Network had four main reports, two of which were written in the morning by Robert Morosi and two of which were written for the afternoon shift.
Beginning at 9 a.m., commuters should expect to find intermittent one and two lane closures on eastbound and westbound I-96 at the Chilson and Mason Road Bridges in Livingston County.
and 8:30 a.m.; the reports were given between nineteen after the hour and twenty-one after the hour and between forty-nine after the hour and fifty-one after the hour, and the lengths of the reports werer between thirty seconds and sixty seconds.
www.hologlobepress.com /aaahis-3.htm   (13077 words)

  
 Hand-Made AM STEREO Radios & AM STEREO Decoders
For instructions on how to modify the MetroSound AMS 400 to achieve maximum performance, as well as instructions on how to construct a simple, yet highly effective antenna to turn the MetroSound (or any radio) into a DX machine, please click here.
This is one of the latest AM STEREO conversion projects of Chris Cuff.
These particular decoders were given to those AM stations that agreed to sign on with the C-QUAM system so that station engineers could convert their monitors accordingly.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kevtronics/ccuff.htm   (1676 words)

  
 Converted from "3889.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As for other stations they could acquire, the only unduopolied major AM in the market is WGN, and I don't think Tribune's going to sell it.
There is a company making AM stero processing boxes which sent out a press release claiming that without their box, AM stereo listeners in mono received a great loss in level.
It had an AM Stereo radio in it.
www.airwaves.com /archive1/3889.html   (2489 words)

  
 Vuolo Video U of M Football Guide
They were taken to the Spartan Stadium where the MSU band was on the field playing the fight song and the WJR logo was already up on the scoreboard.
Most Detroit AM stations direct their signals northward away from those states.
The long delay was due to negotiations with WJR management over the university’s desire to have Frank Beckmann call the games while remaining a key mid-morning talk host on 760 AM.
www.vuolovideo.com /u-mfootball.html   (2170 words)

  
 Behind the Clear-Channel Matter - Pt 5
This is the fifth in a series of six articles about the history of clear-channel AM radio stations.
In that same year at least two stations, WGN and WJR, went before a court of appeals to challenge the FCC order denying their super-power applications.
He continued to promote super-power and suggested the majority of the commissioners were “sparring with windmills” in their rush to a duplication of the clears.
www.nrcdxas.org /articles/clear05.html   (1412 words)

  
 The Oakland Press: Marquee: So long to WJR's man behind the scenes
With due respect for all of the fine broadcast engineers in metro Detroit, one man "towers" over all others.
Twice he completely rebuilt the WJR studios, once in 1987 and again in 2001.
Mike Fezzey, WJR president and general manager, says it best: "Ed has led us through rebuilds, build-outs, flouts, uplinks, downlinks, installs, re-installs, AM stereo, transmitter installations, digital conversion and more."
www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/050704/mar_20040507011.shtml   (873 words)

  
 Premiere Radio Networks :: Rush Limbaugh Rules in Detroit and Philadelphia
Franken, who airs at the same time on WHAT-AM, scored among Persons 12+ a 0.2 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 2,200 listeners.
Known as the media pundit who reshaped the political landscape with his entertaining and informative brand of conservatism, Mr.
Limbaugh is also widely credited with resuscitating AM radio by many industry experts.
sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20050721/LATH09721072005-1.html   (468 words)

  
 SHOCK: Shock’s Cash Teams Up With WJR AM 760 And South Oakland YMCA To Celebrate National Girls And Women In Sports ...
Shock’s Cash Teams Up With WJR AM 760 And South Oakland YMCA To Celebrate National Girls And Women In Sports Day On February 10
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Detroit Shock WNBA All-Star forward and 2004 USA Basketball Olympic Gold Medalist Swin Cash has teamed up with WJR 760 AM and the South Oakland Family YMCA to provide a two-hour complementary basketball and life skills clinic on February 10 from 5 — 7 p.m.
The clinic will be in honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which will be celebrated nationally on February 9.
www.wnba.com /shock/news/cashteamsup_050210.html   (503 words)

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