WKVE on the air
Pittsburgh:Classic Rock fans, set your FM dial to 103.1 where WKVE has been on the air since 8 o'clock Tuesday night. Station owner Robert Stevens says everything will run automated for now and as long as no glitches happen, the station will remain on the air. More information as we hear it...
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Yes… we know! I was able to pick it up on my 05 Honda Accord parked in our garage in Wintersville.
Trefdawg - May 05, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Just what Western PA needs…another automated station playing the same, tired songs of the 60s-70s-80s. Yawn.
Why won’t somebody take a chance and try something different? How about a Classic Country format (to spare us country listeners from being bombarded by Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts)? Or even a Hot AC to take the place of Star 100.7 (which is now B94 lite). Hell, the ‘Burg could even become reacquainted with another “Smooth Jazz” format.
deerejohn - May 06, 2010 at 09:54 am
I agree. It looks like another station looking to contribute to the death of radio. No personality, no character, no reason to tune in. I just don’t know when these suits will learn.
WhyRadio - May 06, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Radio around these parts has become one of four formats: redneck newstalk, country, bubblegum oldies (I never dreamed I would use the term “bubblegum”) and regurtitated classic rock. Next to no one has the spine to try anything but, and the formats that have been shelved have fallen victim to this anal-retentive “it’s not commercially viable” crutch.
Rick - May 06, 2010 at 10:57 pm
In their defense, they do insert a few great oldie album cuts in their sequence of top 40 classics. I miss the album rock format of yore, but then I’m an old geezer from the sixties and seventies. There’s a lot of exceptional music from that time period through today that deserves to be broadcast. But today it’s all about the $$$ and not the love of the music. It’s just the way it is.
TheRAM - May 31, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I agree with TheRAM,they do play stuff you never hear on the established station. Hopefully, when they get up and running they’ll play a more free form style like WYDD or KISS. (Boy am I dating myself) There’s so much good old music that never gets airplay. Long live “Laid Back Larry Allen!”
Spike - June 04, 2010 at 6:51 pm
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the variety of both “deep” and new rock. Stuff that DVE might bring out for the Electric Lunch but should be in regular rotation, plus Shinedown, STP, Counting Crows. I hope the variety sticks around once the DJs/regular broadcasts come on.
KeyboardKev - June 10, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Come on, give this station a chance. Here is station that does not play the same old playlist of 300 songs. Remember when rock was dangerous, subversive, underground and had an agenda? WKVE plays some of that stuff. If more of us tune in and turn on, they will play more of the music that started the free form progressive psychedelic rock revolution. I’ve heard lp tracks that the so-called dove of peace, DVE hasn’t played in yonks. Turn off the santized corporate rock, the corporate right-wing hacks, the corporate country and give Bob Steven’s station a chance. The guy has put this station on almost single-handedly. You can tell, he has a genuine love for music and you can’t say that about any corporate-owned station.
mountainrob - August 17, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Thanks Spike ! Didn’t think anyone remembered. Check out XM Sirius Deep Tracks channel. The old old warhorse dj’s are alive n’ well. If you have Dish TV you can get it free. Larry
laidback - October 05, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Laidback: Yes you ARE remembered! How can we forget Friday’s Jam nites. 801 Live and Epic Forest are STILL in heavy rotation at my home. WYDD is missed, well, at least by the old school hipsters
gels - November 09, 2010 at 4:45 pm
This is great,I think wkve is broadcasting for the love of the music. They play lots of different stuff(good stuff) that you don’t hear on other radio stations.Keep up the good work.
Gary Briggs - January 21, 2011 at 01:39 am
Great station! A station I been looking for that plays classic rock and new rock without the repeats.
I is the only station I can get in my area that has no interference or static. Strong signal.
Tim - April 03, 2011 at 4:30 pm
“Laid Back” Larry Allen is now “Laid Off Larry Allen”. After 30+ years with 1250 WTAE (ESPN WEAE) Larry and other veterans were terminated last year to cut costs. He’s tired of eating hamburger helper so if you have Production Dir vacancy at your station or know of one, pls contact him at radiorocket88@yahoo.com before his unemployment runs out!
Jerry Grant - May 08, 2011 at 3:50 pm
This radio station play incredible classic rock! I’m so glad I found it. I’ve been telling everyone about it. I hear songs that I haven’t heard in years! It’s so refreshing and they don’t play the same songs over and over and over…
Nancy - May 14, 2011 at 07:54 am
Ilove this station. As a long time hater of WDVE who has been playing the same short list of songs for the 35 years this is great. I can’t believe peope are complaining. Pittsburgh is the onyl city I have ever been to where there are hardly any rock stations at all. It’s about time!
Ken - June 12, 2011 at 10:24 pm
not to bad a station, it needs a web sight to go with it. so i can stream it as its a little fuzzy in Indiana pa
terry - September 27, 2011 at 8:21 pm
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