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On the Beat: David Menconi on music

News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.

Happy new year with "Country Legends"?

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Alas, another target date has come and gone -- and Raleigh's "Country Legends" oldies station has yet to return. WQDR, 570-AM, has been off the air since losing its antenna to a tornado back in April. Last month, station owner Don Curtis was saying that he expected it to be back in action by mid-December. But the latest update is that it should be sometime next month.

"They're telling me Jan. 15 now," Curtis said on Thursday afternoon. "It wound up taking a lot longer than I expected, and also costing a lot more than I thought it would. But in the end it will put out a better signal, so that's good."

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About the blogger

David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. He has a masters in journalism from the University of Texas and a B.A. in English from Southwestern University. You can find more of his writing here.

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