I heard this announcement and admit I'm curious as to what he's going to do. 

My guess is that, with a lousy signal on AM (even with an FM repeater) it may focus on the spoken word. But it bombed with Conservative talk, it almost certainly won't be replaced with left wing talk, WGR-AM owns the sports market on radio, and there are more than enough religious oriented stations in Buffalo, both on AM and FM. 

So what's left? Anyone care to make a prediction about what will be on 1270 AM after 3 PM Monday?

ckg927 wrote:

Buddy has mentioned than only 2 people know what the new format will be. He's one of them.

JMO, I think it's going to be yacht rock(which I know others have mentioned in this thread before). If you think about it, WECK has oldies from the 60s and 70s, while yacht rock is 70s & 80s for the most part.

But doesn't that limit the playlist? How many songs really fit the genre? Won't it be too repetitive?

ckg927 wrote:

Per Buddy Shula, WUSW and its two translators are running Halloween music right now.

He's teasing a new format that will debut at 3pm Monday(10/26)that will, as he put it, get the market talking.

Here's my joke prediction.
1270 The goast, all coast-to-coast style talk, all the time.

Let's go with year-round Christmas music, because there's nothing like rockin' around the Christmas tree on a stinking hot day. And besides, Christmas starts in August at most Costco's and there is a large catalogue of Christmas music out there to pick from.

Dale Patterson wrote:

Evuguy wrote:

Let's go with year-round Christmas music, because there's nothing like rockin' around the Christmas tree on a stinking hot day. And besides, Christmas starts in August at most Costco's and there is a large catalogue of Christmas music out there to pick from.

Some of the many TV channels I get carry Christmas programming year round. I like hearing Christmas music in the summer now and then.
 

Me to.
But It cant just be all I want for christmas and last christmas, they nead to play the carols and some novelty songs and some more traditional christmas songs.

ckg927 wrote:

Radio Insight has a piece up regarding what will replace The Patriot at 1270 AM.

I won't post it here, however. Let's all enjoy it when it debuts at 3pm.

What would have been wrong about posting it here?
 

ckg927 wrote:

Jody Thornton wrote:

ckg927 wrote:

Radio Insight has a piece up regarding what will replace The Patriot at 1270 AM.

I won't post it here, however. Let's all enjoy it when it debuts at 3pm.

What would have been wrong about posting it here?
 

There's nothing wrong with discovering it as it happens.

Yeah I read your RD post.  Meh!  I kinda like being the :"first to know" sorta thing, especially since I would NEVER tune in a Shula station other than to see what's going on here and there.  All good though!

Not what I was hoping for but good luck to him. I see they're trying to make it different enough from longtime market leader WYRK to differentiate it, but I think this cowpoke has a long trail ahead of him. 

Bad Idea, Buddy.
How's he going to be different from WXRL?
WXRL is already buffalo's long-standing classic country station.
He should of changed to purely local talk, almost like WGN.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

Bad Idea, Buddy.
How's he going to be different from WXRL?
WXRL is already buffalo's long-standing classic country station.
He should of changed to purely local talk, almost like WGN.

OH! I should delete my last post! Maybe he figured out how to be the "Inbetweenies" Country station.
WXRL for the true classics, 1270 for the "in betweenies" and WYRK for today's best Country.
(including some recent throwbacks that don't really go all that far back)

I wonder what 107.7 the wolf will do now?  

RadioAaron wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

I wonder what 107.7 the wolf will do now?  

They'll probably switch to sports 8 months ago.

Yup. Thanks I forgot they already flipped.

Radiowiz wrote:

Isn't there already a classic country in Buffalo @ 1300? What is the difference between this and WXRL? 

They're focusing on country from the 1980's to early 2000's.

If you missed it, here's what the debut sounded like. 

Wow, why all the haters on here?? I actually love Canada and I am getting clobbered on this forum. I have turned BIG WECK from a nothing to a top 10 in Buffalo. I employ real people. I love radio. You folks need to get your facts straight.  - The Patriot had zero advertiser and listener suppport. My bad. That's done. Let's move on to US COUNTRY - a total hit. In case you did not know, I have spent most of my radio career at WYRK and WLKK (Formerly WNUC)-  Hot Retro Country is a no-brainer. Have you seen the staff I have hired, including our advisor, the person who invented WYRK and saw it to #1 for almost 20 years? Folks, there is somehting wrong with country radio when you are not playing Garth, Reba, George, Alan, Shania, Kenny, etc. You cannot here that anywhere but US COUNTRY. Also, regarding the WXRL thing, you realize they have like a .05 share right, and they play more polka than country? We can leave them out of this conversation. US COUNTRY will not compete against WYRK - US COUNTRY will compliment them and extend the playlist of country in Buffalo, which includes that biggest era of country music, the 80's and 90's. Sit back, have another Molson, and let me run the station, then watch the ratings go up. Wow, so many haters. If you should hate anything it should be some other person in the US, not me. -Buddy

PS. We are perfectly happy being Buffalo's #2 country station. Especially when the #1 country station is the highest revenue getter and highest ratings getter in the market. I'm totally fine being #2 

Last edited by Buddy Shula (October 26, 2026 7:41 pm)

Buddy Shula wrote:

Wow, why all the haters on here?? I actually love Canada and I am getting clobbered on this forum. I have turned BIG WECK from a nothing to a top 10 in Buffalo. I employ real people. I love radio. You folks need to get your facts straight.  - The Patriot had zero advertiser and listener suppport. My bad. That's done. Let's move on to US COUNTRY - a total hit. In case you did not know, I have spent most of my radio career at WYRK and WLKK (Formerly WNUC)-  Hot Retro Country is a no-brainer. Have you seen the staff I have hired, including our advisor, the person who invented WYRK and saw it to #1 for almost 20 years? Folks, there is somehting wrong with country radio when you are not playing Garth, Reba, George, Alan, Shania, Kenny, etc. You cannot here that anywhere but US COUNTRY. Also, regarding the WXRL thing, you realize they have like a .05 share right, and they play more polka than country? We can leave them out of this conversation. US COUNTRY will not compete against WYRK - US COUNTRY will compliment them and extend the playlist of country in Buffalo, which includes that biggest era of country music, the 80's and 90's. Sit back, have another Molson, and let me run the station, then watch the ratings go up. Wow, so many haters. If you should hate anything it should be some other person in the US, not me. -Buddy

PS. We are perfectly happy being Buffalo's #2 country station. Especially when the #1 country station is the highest revenue getter and highest ratings getter in the market. I'm totally fine being #2 

I'm not sure they're haters. They're just not believers yet.

If you can do for WUSW what you did for WECK, then congratulations and kudos to you. These are weak signal stations (at least on AM) and the FMs are not full power.

But you made a believer out of me with WECK. So this very well could work. I wish you luck. 

Is there a new website up yet?