I thought I was the only person that would like to have joked that the calls stood for WRECK, but misspelled .  I felt that way back when WECK reduced the 70s and early 80s spins on the station though.  I suppose the new format on 1270 will "trump" oldies though 

Last edited by Jody Thornton (July 4, 2025 11:30 am)

I wonder if Ostrander, in his infinite wisdom, will now subscribe to a ratings service to trumpet and verify the performance of 1270.  I am not holding my breath. 🤨

Last edited by Easily Amused (July 4, 2025 4:06 pm)

Nothing but noise where I am. 

ckg927 wrote:

Easily Amused wrote:

I wonder if Ostrander, in his infinite wisdom, will now subscribe to a ratings service to trumpet and verify the performance of 1270. I am not holding my breath. 🤨

1270 barely moved the needle when it doing the same stuff as Talk 1270. 

All they did was swap out some conservative talkers for OTHER conservative talkers(albeit better known ones).

Do you really THINK ratings are going to improve?

I was more looking forward to reading Ostrander's spin on the facts over in the Buffalo / Niagara Falls / Rochester subforum at Radio Discussions. 😁

I'll likely laugh harder at some of the opinions on this station than I ever did when Funny820 existed.

ckg927 wrote:

Easily Amused wrote:

I wonder if Ostrander, in his infinite wisdom, will now subscribe to a ratings service to trumpet and verify the performance of 1270. I am not holding my breath. 🤨

1270 barely moved the needle when it doing the same stuff as Talk 1270. 

All they did was swap out some conservative talkers for OTHER conservative talkers(albeit better known ones).

Do you really THINK ratings are going to improve?

Aren’t you the same idiot who trolls the Buffalo boards with incorrect information all the time. I think you mentioned one time that WECK would get no ratings, yet I’ve turned it into a top 8 metro station, beating 50,000 watt FMs in Buffalo.

First off, this is not Talk 1270. It is WUSW 1270 The Patriot “Buffalos Conservative Talk”. There is a huge difference from “Monday morning quarterbacks” like you, and people who actually know how to create and run winning radio stations, like me.

WBEN is already in reaction mode to The Patriot. Let’s talk a year from now and see how wrong you were, again.

RadioActive wrote:

It's official - 1270 AM, WUSW, is now all ultra-conservative talk. I, for one, will miss being able to hear WECK over-the-air with a semi-decent signal, although it's still available online. This station may make some sense for the Buffalo market, which after all is really all that counts, but to me, it's a real loss and a waste of a frequency.

They really WECK-ed the place!

 
Fortunately, your opinion means zero to mean until you become a citizen of the U.S. That’s why our WECK streaming stops at the border. Could care less about Canadian listenership until it is the 51st state

Buddy Shula wrote:

Aren’t you the same idiot who trolls the Buffalo boards with incorrect information all the time. I think you mentioned one time that WECK would get no ratings, yet I’ve turned it into a top 8 metro station, beating 50,000 watt FMs in Buffalo.

First off, this is not Talk 1270. It is WUSW 1270 The Patriot “Buffalos Conservative Talk”. There is a huge difference from “Monday morning quarterbacks” like you, and people who actually know how to create and run winning radio stations, like me.

WBEN is already in reaction mode to The Patriot. Let’s talk a year from now and see how wrong you were, again.

He never said you were Talk 1270.  He was comparing you to the previous format.

Thanks for the branding lesson by the way.  It's really cute how you spelled "Buffalo's" (as in possessive) without the bloody comma.  And throwing around the term "idiot", there's real class right there!

Buddy Shula wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

It's official - 1270 AM, WUSW, is now all ultra-conservative talk. I, for one, will miss being able to hear WECK over-the-air with a semi-decent signal, although it's still available online. This station may make some sense for the Buffalo market, which after all is really all that counts, but to me, it's a real loss and a waste of a frequency.

They really WECK-ed the place!

 
Fortunately, your opinion means zero to mean until you become a citizen of the U.S. That’s why our WECK streaming stops at the border. Could care less about Canadian listenership until it is the 51st state

Well, that's disappointing. I actually have great respect for Mr. Shula (or had!) considering how he took a one-lung local frequency on 1230 AM and transformed it into a truly great radio station that's attracted a lot of attention. 

I was just expressing my sadness at losing the ability to hear it over-the-air here in Toronto and making a silly joke about the call letters. It was actually a compliment in a way to be sorry not to be able to get it anymore because I enjoyed the station so much.

And yes, Canadians mean nothing to your newcomer on 1270, nor should they. No one on this side of the border, besides this board, really knows it exists or will be listening. You can, of course, do whatever you want with WUSW, and I'm sure there will be an audience for it down south. But insulting people who admired you maybe isn't the way to attract the best PR. 

I'm actually flattered that a station owner reads us from time to time and hope you'll be back soon, although with a less arrogant attitude. And as for geoblocking WECK, a VPN takes care of that issue quite nicely. So I'll still be tuning in from time to time with or without your permission!

It's akin to saying 'Beetlejuice' three times.

Last edited by Easily Amused (July 7, 2025 7:42 am)

Do you see what Donald tRump has done to long-standing friendships with his mountains of lies?

How sad and disgusting what one amoral criminal can do.

RadioActive wrote:

I was only trying to say I liked his station more than what he replaced it with on 1270. Somehow that got turned around into an attack on Canadians. I would remind everyone that the loudest and most obnoxious people in the room aren't necessarily the majority.

They may be in for a rude awakening if they continue - with an accent on the "rude."

Even on his Radio Discussions thread, Buddy hates when the focus is NOT on him.  He was triggered by the discussion of Canadian radio reception in Western New York, in that thread.  Buddy refuses to share the spotlight with anybody.

Jody Thornton wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

I was only trying to say I liked his station more than what he replaced it with on 1270. Somehow that got turned around into an attack on Canadians. I would remind everyone that the loudest and most obnoxious people in the room aren't necessarily the majority.

They may be in for a rude awakening if they continue - with an accent on the "rude."

Even on his Radio Discussions thread, Buddy hates when the focus is NOT on him.  He was triggered by the discussion of Canadian radio reception in Western New York, in that thread.  Buddy refuses to share the spotlight with anybody.

Well stated.

While we're at it, can anybody tell me how sobriquets like

tRump

MAGAts

contribute to the discourse? I get the goal of these (mis)spellings but they come across as equally intolerant to me and leave just as much distaste in my mouth as the above blather from Mr. Shula. *shrug*

Last edited by Binson Echorec (July 7, 2025 6:33 pm)

I'd have to liken Buddy's management style to that of a seagull: Comes in, shits and flies away.  Whether Buddy wants it or not (and I strongly suspect he does), he will pull in an audience on the Canadian side of the border.  As mentioned a while ago in another thread, you only have to look at Crawford's audience numbers in Canada and listen to the percentage of them that support Trump.  With the audience numbers that Fox News and Newsmax pull in the US, I think he will do okay with the format change and give WBEN some competition.  As I do with WBEN, I will listen to WUSW, though I probably will find myself shouting back at the radio more often.