{"id":24290,"date":"2017-02-19T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24290"},"modified":"2017-02-19T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T13:28:39","slug":"coming-soon-to-wbcq-7490-uncle-bills-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/coming-soon-to-wbcq-7490-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to WBCQ 7490: Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unclebillslogo-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24293\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unclebillslogo-copy-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unclebillslogo-copy-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unclebillslogo-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBill Tilford, who currently brings us From the Isle of Music on WBCQ and Channel 292, is launching a second program, Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, a half hour music variety program, on March 2 on WBCQ, 7490 Khz. \u00a0It will be a combination of Americana, World Music, Comedy, Novelty, \u00a0and Bill \u00a0threatens that it will \u00a0be one of the most musically eclectic programs on any band along with a few laughs here and there.<\/p>\n<p>WBCQ pegs its long term schedule to EST\/EDT and translates to UTC. \u00a0 UBMP will air 7:00-7:30pm EST\/EDT Thursdays (for the first couple of weeks, 0000-0030 UTC Fridays, then 2300-2330 Thursdays).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Tilford, who currently brings us From the Isle of Music on WBCQ and Channel 292, is launching a second program, Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, a half hour music variety program, on March 2 on WBCQ, 7490 Khz. \u00a0It will be a combination of Americana, World Music, Comedy, Novelty, \u00a0and Bill \u00a0threatens that it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,43,1167],"tags":[4685,5983,657],"class_list":["post-24290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bill-tilford","tag-uncle-bills-melting-pot","tag-wbcq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6jM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24728,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-march-20-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":24290,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, Week of March 20-25","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"March 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, Week of March 20 -25, 2017 This week, our special guest Oriente L\u00f3pez, the Musical Director of Afrocuba during much of the 1980s and now with his own excellent projects, will discuss both Afrocuba, one of Cuba's most interesting Fusion\/Cuban Jazz ensembles, especially during the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PromoftiomMar212017-copy-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24530,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/uncle-bills-melting-pot-episode-2-on-wbcq-7490\/","url_meta":{"origin":24290,"position":1},"title":"Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, Episode 2 on WBCQ 7490","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"March 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Uncle Bill sez.......... 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