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Legendary AM Station Going Dark After Almost 100 Years
This isn't local, but I couldn't help feeling a tinge of sadness at the news that a once legendary Top 40 station is going off the air forever beginning January 1st. You may never have heard of KQV Pittsburgh, which signed on way back in 1919, is one of the oldest radio stations in North America and one of only three in the east that starts with the letter "K". (The rest all begin with a "W".)
I well remember passing through Pittsburgh on family trips when I was a kid and finding KQV on the radio, and being impressed with it even back then. A lot of famous people worked there, including Merv Griffin and Rod Roddy, but one stands out, and love him or hate him, you can't deny he went on to bigger and better things.
"Jeff Christie" abandoned jocking to become a talk show host. You know him better these days as Rush Limbaugh.
RIP KQV. It will remain on air as an all news station until the stroke of midnight Jan. 1st, when the news wheel slows to a stop for good.
KQV going off the air at end of the year
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Wonder what Rush Limbaugh sounded like as a jock? Here's a brief sample:
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I didn't realize 'til now that he is a freekin' soprano. Never really thought about it before. At any rate...with THAT 'voice'...I can imagine why he thought that just yackin' about 'stuff' would likely take him farther down the road. Too bad he decided that pissing people off to the Nth degree was a route he could handle.
So when they bury KQV...here's hopin' that they bury Limbaugh with it.
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This isn't local, but I couldn't help feeling a tinge of sadness at the news that a once legendary Top 40 station is going off the air forever beginning January 1st. You may never have heard of KQV Pittsburgh, which signed on way back in 1919, is one of the oldest radio stations in North America and one of only three in the east that starts with the letter "K". (The rest all begin with a "W".)
I well remember passing through Pittsburgh on family trips when I was a kid and finding KQV on the radio, and being impressed with it even back then. A lot of famous people worked there, including Merv Griffin and Rod Roddy, but one stands out, and love him or hate him, you can't deny he went on to bigger and better things.
"Jeff Christie" abandoned jocking to become a talk show host. You know him better these days as Rush Limbaugh.
RIP KQV. It will remain on air as an all news station until the stroke of midnight Jan. 1st, when the news wheel slows to a stop for good.
KQV going off the air at end of the year
Just for the record - and I see this mistake all the time - radio stations go silent, TV stations go dark.
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Ya Dale...'Rush' would never 'go' dark...he's way too right wing for that. I do wish he'd go silent though...like...today... ... ...but January 1st will be a fine compromise.
Shaddap Rush. You make us ALL look bad.
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The new normal: Disagree with someone, hope they disappear. The old normal: Disagree with someone, change the damn station.
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Ya Dale...'Rush' would never 'go' dark...he's way too right wing for that. I do wish he'd go silent though...like...today... ... ...but January 1st will be a fine compromise.
Shaddap Rush. You make us ALL look bad.
Everybody's entitled to their point of view. Would you rather be like Cuba or North Korea where only one point of view - the state's - is allowed? If you don't like what you hear, don't listen. But I believe the more points of view you hear - whether it comes from the left, the right or somewhere in between - the better. One should be open and open-minded to all points of view.
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Sorry. Not big on the freedom to lie to people.
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire (attributed)
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Gotta love people, with the freedom to express their opinions, demand to stifle the opinions of those they disagree with. 🤔
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Just to conclude this thread, there may be life left in the 99-year-old station yet.
New station owner to bring KQV-AM radio back on air
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