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Article: Music fans still flock to Wheeling
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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WHEELING - On a clear evening, an AM radio signal carries the
music of "Jamboree USA" as far as Australia and Japan.
But it's the little things about one of the nation's oldest live
radio shows that keep devoted country music fans listening 69 years
after its first broadcast.
It's the small stage in the small but lavishly decorated hall,
where every seat in the house is good. It's the little-known names
that sometimes later make it big: Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Brooks
& Dunn. It's the value of an inexpensive ticket to a good show on a
Saturday night.
"To me, this is way better than going to a civic center or
someplace like that," says longtime listener Sherri Reischman.
"There, it's ...