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Radio Notes: Hoerth to do online radio broadcast
Friday, May 23, 2008

Doug Hoerth fans who miss the longtime radio host have a chance to reconnect with him online this Sunday.

Hoerth will do a live broadcast on the Pittsburgh Oldies Channel (pgholdies.com), a local online radio channel that plays music from the '50s through the '70s.

Hoerth has been off the air since former employer WPTT-AM and WJAS-AM let him go almost six months ago. He had hosted a daily talk show on WPTT and a Sunday oldies show on sister station WJAS.

Hoerth will draw on both his talk and music radio background for the Webcast, with an evening of what he terms "songs and snappy patter." While his play list will include oldies, as it did on WJAS, the music will be more free-form, driven in part by e-mail requests from listeners.

The Webcast is an experiment. If it's well-received, Hoerth says, he may do another this summer and possibly a regularly scheduled one. Hoerth says he's excited by the potential of Internet broadcasting. "Internet radio goes everywhere. The audio is as good as anything" on mainstream radio.

The Webcast is scheduled for Sunday from 4 p.m. to midnight. To listen, go to: pgholdies.com. It's not a call-in show. People who want to request music or interact with Hoerth can do so through the following e-mail address: uncledougie44@yahoo.com.

The show will then repeat continually through Friday on the Pittsburgh Oldies Channel.

XM airing 'Audio 14'

XM Satellite Radio will air a new edition of "Audio 14," its re-creation of the KQV-AM of the '60s -- at the time a Top 40 powerhouse -- on Friday from 4 to 9 p.m.

Every week, XM's '60s channel pays tribute to one of the great radio stations of the era, re-creating its sound and format through hit music, audio of DJs who were on the air at the time, jingles and references to local places and happenings.

It's hosted by XM's Terry "Motormouth" Young, who has researched the history of KQV and other stations featured, and uses material from his own audio archives and those of others.

Adrian McCoy can be reached at amccoy@post-gazette.com or 412-263-
First published on May 23, 2008 at 12:00 am