WJJD Receives Donation of 1950s-70s Country Music!

I'd like to take a moment and acknowledge a good deed.

As most folks involved in Internet radio have discovered, running an online
radio station can be downright tough. There's not much revenue, and not much local recognition. I feel very fortunate that my station has been mentioned in the Tallahassee Democrat on a couple of occasions. They did a nice feature story
when I launched my first webcast back in 2001 under the name of "Delta Star Radio." That's still the name of my non-profit corporation that the station operates under. I'll share our growing pains in another post later on, but I renamed the streaming station "WJJD" in 2005.

Since turning the station to country, its growth has been tremendous. We've launched nearly 35,000 listener streams. Physically, even with two spare bedrooms now bursting at the seams, we've outgrown our space. There's not enough storage space in particular.

But here's what I call a good deed: A former country broadcaster in Illinois has donated a country music library to WJJD consisting of country music from the 1950s, 60s and 70s - on discs with clean mp3 copies of the songs.

It's a lot of music. I now have music from my friend Erwin O'Conner and his former station which was country once upon a time. I had a decent collection to start with.

I've discovered some songs on the mp3 discs that I'm sure haven't hit Tallahassee's airwaves in 20 years or more. I can't wait to get some more songs added to the playlist.

Speaking of WJJD's playlist - it's big, with more than 2100 active titles now on the air. I add in more stuff every week.

I think 2007 will be the year that WJJD moves to the next level - a broadband
stereo stream of the same music, rebuilding the Part-15 AM side of things,
and hopefully a move to larger quarters.

Stations only grow when there are caring listeners and friends. WJJD has
made many friends in a lot of places. To all of you who have donated music,
services, and made financial contributions - thank you! I'd be nowhere without you.

I told my friend Erwin several times how much I love the old country music. It's what I grew up with. I don't dislike all the new stuff - but I like the variety of hearing Tammy Wynette, Susan Raye, Billy Walker, Sonny James, (I could go on forever) along with the currents. My real vision is to keep the older country music alive, and introduce it to a generation that has no idea who any of these people are.

It's not terrestrial radio, but the content of WJJD is the radio station I always dreamed of owning. This might be as close as I can get to the real thing.

Thanks for listening and supporting WJJD The Country Giant.

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