A follow-up post in connection to the former #WMHI Radio 1370 AM/103.9 FM of Braddock Heights, MD; near my home area:
They once used a Pepper-Tanner jingle package, the same one that the former NBC/ #WMAQ Radio 670 in #Chicago used in the early 1970s:
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(2/2): A future post on #WMHI & the station's second & most popular incarnation after the change in format & call letters in November 1975 will be mentioned in a future post, as this November will mark the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned call letter/format change.
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"1370 on your dial.. Music and News. WMHI Radio- Musical Heights, Inc.; Braddock Heights, MD." Near my home area: An early 1960s newspaper advertisement for the now-defunct WMHI Radio/AM 1370 in Braddock Heights/Frederick, Maryland (1960-75). A Stereo FM simulcast of then-AM 1370, then-WMHI 103.9 was added in the early 1970s. "MHI"= Musical Heights, Inc.; a play on the station's city of license. A future post on the station's second and most popular incarnation after its call letter and format change in Nov. 1975 will be mentioned in a future post, as this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned call letter/format change of the Braddock Heights/Frederick, Maryland radio station.
(1/2): Near my home area: An early 1960s advertisement for the now-defunct #WMHI Radio/AM 1370 in Braddock Heights, Maryland (1960-75).
A Stereo FM simulcast of AM 1370, WMHI 103.9 was added in the early 1970s.
"MHI"= Musical Heights, Inc.; a play on the city of license.
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An early 1970s promotional "Wooden Nickel" for the former WMHI-AM 1370/FM 103.9, "104" in Braddock Heights, Maryland- which is near my hometown. This was spotted on EBay, where the seller misidentified the classic "WMHI AM 1370/FM 104 Wooden Nickel" being from "Cape Vincent, New York." An unrelated FM station from Cape Vincent, New York currently has the WMHI call letters on 94.7 FM. WMHI started broadcasting in 1961, the call letters stood for "Musical Heights, Incorporated-" a pun on the station's town of license- Braddock Heights. WMHI became WZYQ/14ZYQ/the original "Hot Stereo Rock Z-104" around Nov. 1975 and dominated Frederick, Maryland with its then-Top 40 music format for many years. 1370 later changed its frequency to AM 820- as it stopped being a simulcast of WZYQ/Z-104 around the late 1980s The AM signal was reformatted to a then-Top 40 Country station, WQSI 820/"82Q." The two original owners of Musical Heights sold WZYQ/WQSI in the mid-1990s. After the stations were sold, 103.9 simulcasted the now-former "Xtra 104," which was re-formatted into another "Z104" out of Washington, D.C.- which was not like the original Frederick/Braddock Heights "Z-104," while 820 still had its classic/modern Country format until 2000, when then-owner Bonneville International utilized 820 AM as a simulcast of Washington's all-news radio station, WTOP. After the demise of the Washington "Z104," 103.9 simulcast the former WGMS for a brief while- WTOP's simulcast would move from 820 to 103.9 FM in 2007. 820 would later have the distinction of being one of the first all-digital "HD Radio" AM radio stations in the United States under the Hubbard group- which absorbed WTOP Radio & its associated frequencies from Bonneville. Today, 820 has the WSHE call letters- with "The Gamut" freeform music format programmed from the former WMHI/WZYQ/WQSI/WXTR plant in Braddock Heights by WTOP/Hubbard engineers. -C.H.
Proof of the former WMHI Radio & city of license in Braddock Heights/Frederick, Maryland. From a 1974 Broadcasting/Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook, via worldradiohistory.com.
1. I know my fellow wonderful friends in #Radio & #Broadcasting will be quite interested in this:
Near my home area: an early 1970s "Wooden Nickel" for the former #WMHI AM 1370 & FM 103.9/"104" in Braddock Heights, Maryland.