J.P., if you’re reading this, Artic Outpost’s “shtick” is “spinning the 78’s” from the 30’s. Speaking of Norwegians, we’ve been streaming Artic Outpost from Norway, on Radio Garden, can’t stop listening: like one guys was the “daddio of the rad-ee-o”. OMG, the “It’s a Shame” radio jingle is fantastic! Smart PR department for running that, I’m passing that around to my radio pals! Love the “Happy Norwegian” too remember when radio people had “identifiers” like that? I remember a few from my youth. ![]() 1070 in Indiana breathed its last at the end of August 2. Here are the last couple minutes of 1070, once a powerhouse radio station in central Indiana. The owners sold the land and dismantled the towers, with no set plans to continue operating the station on 1070. WIBC’s parent company aired a sports-talk format on 1070, and later added two low-power FM signals at 93.5 and 107.5 to carry that programming.Ī sad commentary on the value of AM radio today, but in recent years the land that 1070’s towers sat on became more valuable than the station itself. On FM, WIBC has continued to do very well and remains a top-rated station, although of a much smaller listenership as radio itself has become less relevant. As 2007 drew to a close, WIBC abandoned its historic 1070 AM frequency and switched to FM at 93.1, where it still broadcasts. AM radio was changing radically in these days, as FM had long since come to dominate in listenership. It was a hugely popular radio station for decades and decades.įull service died in about 1993 on WIBC, when the station debuted a news-talk format. In central Indiana, everybody listened to WIBC at least once in a while. WIBC was what used to be called a “full service” station, playing “middle of the road” music with big personality disk jockeys and news every hour on the hour. _ĪP Media Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.For many years, one of the most popular radio stations in central Indiana broadcast over 1070 AM. Authorities opened an investigation into alleged “doctor shopping,” saying he received up to 2,000 pills from four doctors over a period of six months, but he ultimately reached a deal with prosecutors that dismissed the single charge. In 2003, Limbaugh admitted an addiction to painkillers and entered rehabilitation. His popularity has survived brickbats and thrived despite personal woes. Limbaugh has frequently been accused of hate-filled speech, including bigotry and blatant racism through his comments and sketches such as “Barack the Magic Negro,” a song featured on his show that said Obama “makes guilty whites feel good” and that the politician is “black, but not authentically.” Two years later, Limbaugh would be so widely credited as key to Republicans’ takeover of Congress for the first time in 40 years, he was deemed an honorary member of the new class. His idol, Ronald Reagan, wrote a letter that Limbaugh read on the air in December 1992 and which sealed his reputation among conservatives: “You’ve become the number one voice for conservatism in our country,” Reagan wrote. ![]() The media figure’s endorsement and friendship is a conservative political treasure.
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