They usually don't take drop-ins but someone canceled, so I get lucky.
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There is no need to register and drop-ins are very much welcome.
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Waitrose hosts yoga classes, and Marks & Spencer mental-health drop-ins called Frazzled Cafés.
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Trump has been known to make surprise drop-ins at weddings held at his properties.
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Drop-ins are welcome at Sitjemam, but "holiday-fighters" are generally not the target demographic.
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"Normally we need visitors," he said, expressing an appreciation for the drop-ins that are common here.
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Bryant's periodic drop-ins weren't a secret, and neither was his favorite meal, carne asada and flan.
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ManHealth, like most support groups, offers voluntary drop-ins that are accessible immediately and free of charge.
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In Maine, activists are busy organizing drop-ins to Collins's office and drafting letters to the editor.
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THE SWAMP Despite drop-ins by Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Mississippi election season sees unexpected star: civility .
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I did a few unexpected drop-ins here and there over the next month, and all was well.
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" Murray's deus ex machina drop-ins are an attempt, in Edwards's formulation, "to make real life more like the movies.
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How else are you going to get through all the gift shopping, parties, and random drop-ins from the in-laws?
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Teatime drop-ins have grown into dedicated asylum-support groups; charity workers reminisce proudly about refugee children who are now at university.
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After nearly two years on ClassPass as a top-rated studio with hundreds of drop-ins, we gained exactly two new members.
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The Hill reported in 2017 that the potential for experiencing one of Trump's drop-ins was a selling point for the wedding venue.
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What began as a standard booking at the club has expanded into a monthlong residency, full of surprise drop-ins and celebrity cameos.
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" In two visits to Washington, Christian Krogstad, the founder of House Spirits, spoke with several lawmakers during appointments and what he called "drop-ins.
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Earlier this month, the president crashed a wedding being held at his Bedminster club, and has been known to make surprise drop-ins before.
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But musicians usually are around when he's back home in L.A. Friendly drop-ins often lead to spontaneous recording sessions in his guest house studio.
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At three weekly bar nights around town, gay people sing along to theater tunes, cheer Broadway drop-ins and watch drag queens do musical numbers.
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That all changed with a splashy event featuring a live performance by singer Sarah McLachlan and live video drop-ins from Mick Jagger and U2's Bono.
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Like the Show, the Echo Spot has a camera on its face (hidden in the black ring surrounding the screen) and supports voice, video calls, and drop-ins.
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Distractions take overDo you constantly feel that it&aposs impossible to get anything done because of all the drop-ins and "got a minutes?" you must deal with?
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This weekly showcase on Tuesday nights features surprise drop-ins from out-of-town guests and comedy stars, as well as the best stand-ups in the city.
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But some things look the same across even the most different Democratic campaigns, with drop-ins on Super Bowl watch parties set to be a regular event Sunday evening.
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Drop-ins like this allowed for people to take a break, catch up with friends, and — of course — enjoy a meal, which is another big part of the Filipino lifestyle.
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Clinton's drop-ins on Sunday services, where many congregants were dressed in traditional African garb to celebrate the final days of Black History Month, earned her warm welcomes and standing ovations.
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Marineland, which gets regular, unannounced drop-ins from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, provided its own photos of Zeus: No one would suggest Demers is impartial.
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No one was allowed into the workshops after they'd begun—there was a sign saying so—and the strip mall was sleepy enough, especially on Saturdays, that drop-ins were rare.
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A yoga studio near my apartment has a promotional rate of $303 for a month of unlimited classes, and since regular drop-ins are $20 per class, I spring for it.
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The outcry over those drop-ins led the Cellar, which has a long and storied tradition of high-profile comics trying out material in unannounced sets, to add a disclaimer on tickets.
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The brassy Comedy Central comedy has enlisted a stellar set of drop-ins to Abbi and Ilana's surreal world, from Patricia Clarkson to Whoopi Goldberg to Tony Danza to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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All of this – from explicit content filters to whitelisting skills to turning on or off calling, messaging and drop-ins – should be managed from within the Alexa app, not from a separate website.
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In the public and informal Kenyan schools I visited, school administrators welcomed my impromptu drop-ins warmly, showed me their classrooms and introduced me to their teachers, who spoke frankly about their challenges.
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"Traffickers often gain people's trust at soup kitchens and drop ins and trick them into slavery through false stories of success and money," said Andrew Smith, chief executive of the charity Hull Homelessness.
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The author chronicles friendship in its many forms — in comments on Instagram and Facebook, in drop-ins at the hospital, in the friends who arrange one-night stands for her when she's desperate to have casual sex.
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"I have to put him on because that's what the owners are going to want to do," said Ray Gootz, a veteran comedian who produces multiple weekly shows around the city and has often welcomed drop-ins.
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Biden, the last major 2020 candidate to announce he was running, is making his first venture to the Silicon Valley fundraising circuit at a time when others have made as many as a half-dozen drop-ins even just in 2019.
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It's not clear if visitors are just drop-ins or come for the concept, but a few notable Silicon Valley visitors to the store so far include CEO of the RealReal Julie Wainright and founder of Sutro Energy Group Nicole Systrom.
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While proximity to the diner might make this seem like a steal, the unexpected late-night drop-ins from Luke's bad-boy nephew could knock down the value a bit (or make you want to offer more, if you're #TeamJess).
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The restaurant, founded in 1896, was famous for celebrity drop-ins ... including Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Jay Z. Frank appeared in "Goodfellas" and 'Law & Order' but he burst onto the scene beginning in 1999 when he was tapped as FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on 'Sopranos.
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He died there at 46, in a room off the lobby that is now a petite mirrored bar with glossies of famous drop-ins like Mick Jagger and Johnny Depp, and a cocktail called "Born to be Wilde," made with Bacardi, basil, honey, lime juice and Tabasco.
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" (While the Cellar is famous for celebrity drop-ins like Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle, no A-listers appeared on the premiere episode.) When asked how the politics of the Cellar would work on cable, Mr. Hirschorn replied: "I'm comfortable with the level of wokeness here.
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Not just on Twitter, where his penchant for tweeting off-message (and politically incorrect) sentiments has come to be a defining trait, but also in his drop-ins on the press corps and his extended question-and-answer sessions as he is boarding Marine One outside the White House.
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Watch live at Samsung's website Sony (5PM PT / 8PM ET) Previous Sony CES press conferences have featured drop-ins from the likes of Will Smith, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Usher, and Dr. Oz. I mean, yes, there will probably be gadgets, too — including (hopefully) some virtual reality — but what about the star power?
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Drop-ins are welcome and punch passes are available. In Fort Smith, one court is available at the Fort Smith Recreation and Community Centre.
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Drop-in or plastic bedliners are the most commonly found type, although with the spray-on bedliner industry garnered recognition, drop-ins have lost some value in market share. Drop-ins can usually be installed rather quickly with no major modification made to the bed of the truck except drilling small holes in key areas to hold it in place in certain applications. Typically made of a polyethylene composite, drop-ins are a rigid structure formed to the contours of a specific vehicle model. A newer version of a drop-in bedliner recently introduced is composed of separate sides and a rubber mat for the floor made by DualLiner.
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The charity provides free antenatal and postnatal support and information through its nationwide network of over 300 local branches, run by volunteers. Many of these groups are informal drop-ins, such as ‘Bumps and Babies’ groups, where parents usually pay a small fee to cover the costs of tea and coffee. Baby Cafés, NCT’s free feeding drop-ins primarily based in deprived areas, were used by almost 8,000 women in the UK last year (2017), providing information and support about feeding. It also provided free of charge training for over 150 women to become breastfeeding peer supporters.
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Usually the private courts have a policy for drop-ins or have a daily pass for non-members. The availability of these locations can be checked via Tennis Round or getting directly in touch with community centers, tennis facilities or country clubs.
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The RHPPC processor is fabricated with Honeywell’s SOI-V 0.35 µm, four level metal process. Standard cells and custom drop-ins are used. It is packaged in a hermetic, aluminium oxide, 21 x 21 mm grid array package with 255 (16 x 16) leads. The leads are on 1.27 mm centers.
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With Maria Bamford and Natasha Leggero, she cofounded the critically acclaimed stand-up comedy show What's Up, Tiger Lily? at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB), which ran for 10 years and was known for frequent celebrity drop-ins. Hill has performed for U.S. military troops in Hawaii, Guam, Singapore, Okinawa, Marshall Islands, Honduras, Bahamas, Guantanamo Bay, Curaçao and Greenland.
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He suggested that he would innovate the form by using brief clips from the movie or show being reviewed as drop-ins into his reviews, working them into his scripts as gags to create a new, witty form of review. Siegel, during his years at WCBS-TV, also created features for WCBS-AM Newsradio 88 called Joel Siegel's New York.
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The Recreation Athletic and Wellness Centre (RAWC), located in the South Building, expanded the Campus Rec Intramural Program in 2006–07. The RAWC supplies sports equipment for drop-ins with a student card or membership. These sports include basketball, soccer, volleyball, tablet tennis, and racquet sports. In addition to these sports, the Centre offers organized classes in dance, martial arts, yoga, and swimming.
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" The recording was done mostly live. Walker said, "Until this project, I was relying heavily on vocal drop-ins and was meticulous in getting everything perfect and all that. On this project, I didn't have the opportunity. I was playing piano and singing at the same time so what I was singing was also going into the piano mike, so that was it.
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It was commissioned by Spanish label, Bang! Records, where Spencer had developed a loyal following. The Ages Patrick Donovan opined that it showed his "many moods and styles, from snarling, swampy guitar slinger to tender balladeer, and features his many incarnations". The Barman described the various line ups as "a star-studded list of drop-ins, drop-outs and dropkicks to be sure, but the real star is Spencer hisself".
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Schodowski wrote that Ghoulardi usually adapted well to the changing scenes, as Anderson could only view a monitor with a reversed image of the broadcast and his "drop-ins" were live. One time the scene in the film changed before Anderson noticed, and he reacted with a "Whooo!" and quickly removed his hand when he realized that Ghoulardi was cupping the breast of the giant woman (Allison Hayes) live onscreen.
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The basic tracks were recorded in just one day, and put the band under intense pressure. During a session, McAloon made a crying Wendy Smith sing two words over and over for three hours. McAloon wrote piano parts for the songs despite being unable to play the instrument, and recorded the parts with the aid of drop-ins. A synthesiser was used on several tracks, chosen for its sparse and refined sound.
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Guy Openshaw is 44 years old and on his death bed. Cancer is coming down hard on Guy, and he cannot stand the stream of visitors to his London flat. His wife Gertrude entertains the drop-ins, who were once part of a lively set that came by after work hours for a drink and chat. The visitors all relied on Guy for advice and money, and as he dies the varied people in the novel begin to fray.
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She continues to make appearances at local R&B; and jazz concerts such as DJ Lubi's Soul Rebels, in what Rose calls "drop-ins for a sing song!" Images of Rose and other Leeds musicians have been captured on canvas by Leeds fine artist Neil Hardy, in his Funk'd exhibition. She has recorded and toured with the James Taylor Quartet, performing the funk single "Free", which also features on the JTQ Room at the Top album. Lara Rose joined the Leeds-based band The Soul Circle Gang.
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He also mentioned that the original killer was Jane Beale and then Cindy Williams, but stated his reason for the change: "There was one other suspect for about a day, but then it didn't feel right. We always said that this story had to come from the heart, and with this, it's the start of a whole big new story for the Beales." Bobby being the culprit was originally suggested by series producer Alex Lamb. On Twitter, Dominic Treadwell-Collins announced that drop-ins were filmed to accompany the recent killer reveal during live week.
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Capital Radio 604 was an almost carbon copy of Capital Radio 194 (1548 kHz) in London (which later split to become Capital Gold and Capital FM). Capital Radio 194 operated on Medium Wave at 194 metres (hence the name) and veteran broadcasting executive Michael Bukht, Capital Radio London's first programme controller, acted as consultant to 604. Capital Radio 604 actually operated on 603 kHz, Medium Wave, but promoted a frequency to which the jingles would rhyme. Bill Mitchell returned to re-word the deep gravelly voice drop-ins and simply said 604 instead of 194.
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It was accused of selling out as some of their DJs were removed and replaced by their Kiss counterparts who play some electronic music. By 12 October 2004, Capital had received and implemented a merger of their FM licences, operating a service across the capital on the two frequencies and cutting back on the North London-specific music requirements. The DAB service also became a simulcast of the London station, with the demise of local drop-ins. Following their takeover of Choice, Capital Radio Group merged with GWR to form GCap Media in 2005.
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NCF not only established free-use computers in public places, such as libraries, but also made use of volunteers to teach classes, run drop-ins, and act as speakers to other organizations. NCF established a formal Electronic Resource and Access Centre staffed by volunteers at the main branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Early in December, the three people who made up the full-time NCF staff moved into a new office, Dunton Tower at Carleton University. This was the first time that all had been located in the same place.
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On that final DC broadcast, they also played We Want The Airwaves, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Radio, Radio, So Long Baby Goodbye, and Satellite of Love—their last song played on WJFK. Until early 2010, the show openers were created by Mooch Cassidy & Chris Stanley. The openings mixed drop-ins from movies and pop culture into a song followed by "North American Scum" by LCD Soundsystem. For a brief period in early 2010, the show opened with a brief introduction that cuts to Ron in the studio speaking in medias res.
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Xfm logo used from 2004–15. Xfm has held 28-day Restricted Service Licence FM broadcasts in a number of British cities, including Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow. In 2000, Xfm London was added to a number of DAB multiplexes around the country, and in January 2006 its reach expanded when it replaced The Storm on a number of other local multiplexes, creating near- national coverage. It was at one point reported that this 'national' version of Xfm London (known as Xfm UK) would have local content drop-ins within it (e.g.
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The parent education program Nobody's Perfect was established by Health Canada in 1987 and has become the model for many programs that followed. Toy libraries and drop-ins were major contributors to the current model of family resource programs. Joanna von Levetzow was a Toronto social worker who worked with children with disabilities and was interested in adapting toys to the physical needs of the children. She was inspired by the work of international toy lending libraries and worked to form an informal toy lending network in Ontario called the Canadian Association of Toy Libraries.
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SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon. Launched on January 18, 2007, the organization builds on the popularity of the "small world phenomenon" by enabling people to become "celebrities for their own causes" by donating to or raising money for any charity in the United States. In March, 2014, the organization celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game by announcing plans to connect local changemakers with recognized celebrities through "drop-ins" and "shout-outs".How Kevin Bacon Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, Jarett Wieselman, BuzzFeed.
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In 2015, Adrienne Wu came out to the public as neutrois, a non-binary gender identity and started going by gender-neutral pronouns. In the following year, Wu wrote an article on the Medium explaining the concept of being non-binary and how it differs greatly from other transgender identities. Wu has since openly participated in the Trans Fusion drop-ins at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto, advocating for the visibility of non-binary identities within the vast spectrum of gender diversity. Wu frequently posts video updates about their transition journey on their personal YouTube channel as of 2016.
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Perrynoid, Cherrynoid, Mikeyboy, David Lee Kinison (aka Elfish), Cigar Sid (aka Sidcada) and Crazy Jen became call-in and studio regulars. During the late summer of 2003, Ron and Fez took calls for 2 extra hours on the evening of Hurricane Isabel. All of the DC, Northern Va and Maryland areas were without power or under water. Known for being team players, Ron and Fez worked on split shifts, did drop-ins for WJFK's Redskins broadcasts, did live commercials and appearances, and helped mentor the hosts of a weekend show (later to become weeknight show), The Hideout.
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The idea worked, despite recording the song in small sections and using multiple drop- ins which took some time to finalise and piece together. "In High Places" was written by Oldfield with lyrics by himself and Yes vocalist Jon Anderson, who sings on the track. Two pair had worked on several occasions prior to recording Crises, and Oldfield had enjoyed Anderson's vocal style and how easy it was working with him. Anderson was living in Barbados at the time of writing, so Oldfield phoned him from England and sung the song's tune to him, after which Anderson went away and wrote lyrics to it.
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Chuck Schodowski (b. June 28, 1934) started as a producer/engineer at WJW-TV (and before that at KYW-TV), and became a close friend of Ernie Anderson. When Anderson's previous sidekick, eventual Hollywood actor Tim Conway, was fired for a fabrication on his résumé, Schodowski was hired as Conway's replacement. Schodowski worked closely with Anderson (as Ghoulardi) on Shock Theater, and was instrumental in bringing in the blend of blues and polka music that helped define the show, adding comic audio drop-ins to enliven the often awful movies, and immortalized The Rivingtons' tune "Papa Oom Mow Mow" by marrying it to the image of an old man gurning.
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His apparent lack of brilliance also had positive side effects, making him immune to mind-numbing chemicals in "Goof Gas Attack" and being the only person able to properly handle the Kirwood Derby hat in "Missouri Mish Mash". His voice is nasally, with a lisp added. Bullwinkle also hosted other segments of the program, including: "Mr. Know-It-All," where he tried to demonstrate his supposed (albeit nonexistent) expertise at a subject, such as disarming bombs or curing hiccups; "Bullwinkle's Corner", where the moose would attempt to read poetry, notably I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (The Daffodils) of William Wordsworth; and various interstitial drop-ins.
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Japanese musician Gen Hoshino (pictured) remixes Lipa's "Good in Bed" with Zach Witness Club Future Nostalgia is a 1990s house, 2020 pop, and 1980s soul album, that was noted for blending several different subgenres including Baltimore club, dance, disco, drum and bass, and piano house. The DJ Mix edition of the album is crafted so each track seamlessly transitions into the next, with DJ drop-ins from the remixers and Lipa, and samples from many of Lipa's influences. The DJ Mix edition opens with Joe Goddard's jubilant "Future Nostalgia" remix. Reminiscent of a 3am Glastonbury Festival DJ set, the remix incorporates Hot Chip-style synths and Daft Punk-inspired whirrs.
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In a paper published in 2010, York University professor, Stephen Gaetz, argued that, "[p]risoners who are sentenced or who are awaiting trial often lose their jobs and housing, and without support, wind up in homeless shelters and drop-ins upon release ... When prisoners become homeless, their chances of reoffending increase." In 2005 Alberta initiated a three-year program offering an "alternative to sending people to jail or helping them when they are released". Alberta's Pathways to Housing program, which includes about $7 million in provincial money, has been helping homeless Calgarians who have been in and out of the corrections system due to unpaid tickets for petty crimes.
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Ollusion received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 4 reviews. Allmusic's editor Andy Kellman found it "Almost all of these beats would be classified as snapping, slapping, or smacking before banging, flecked with details yet simultaneously somewhat half-assed-sounding. Given the number of partially detached vocals, filled with android-in-heat impersonations, clipped-phrase drop-ins, and messing around, it's as if Omarion wanted to make a concerted attempt to downplay his vocal ability, which only adds to the album's weird, teasing charm.".
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The success of the N Street Village in addressing the issue of homelessness in the nation's capital is only part of the life and legacy of John Steinbruck. Inspired by the words of the prophet Isaiah, "to be a light to the nations,"Luther Place N Street Village Newsletter, Thanksgiving/Hanukkah/Christmas 1988. Print. he attracted many new members to Luther Place who discovered "a no non-sense task force of God working here at Thomas Circle - this intersection of the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful - they became drawn to the craziness of God."Turner, Darrell, "Pastors Hope Easter Will Give Drop-Ins New Start," The Washington Post, April 11, 1992, B-7. Print.
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Since the format change to "Charlie", the station localized the sound with a variety of drop-ins that reference landmarks, roads, quirks, folk-lore for the region. On June 13, 2008, Charlie FM's programming was abruptly dropped, replaced with that of WORD News Radio, which had previously only broadcast on AM, leaving the station to abandon music altogether after nineteen years. No reasoning was ever officially announced, but it is believed that Entercom was worried that the adult hits format would hurt its sister stations, especially WSPA-FM and WROQ. The switch also makes up for the poor signals generated by WYRD-AM and WORD-AM at night, when the stations have to cut their power and go directional.
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In addition, there is a very active citizenry, some of whom have lived in the village for over fifty years and an excellent Crime Watch and citizen patrol in the evenings. The Richmond police chief, Chris Magnus, has been very helpful in increasing police reaction speed to reports of suspicious activity and patrol officers are frequent drop-ins to Atchison Village meetings. The Mayor Gayle McLaughlin endorsed the idea of a "beat cop" to be assigned to the Village at a subsequent resident meeting about violence in the neighborhood. The Village itself has acted to control unlawful behavior, since it does have the power to expel residents by cancelling their membership for gross violations of their share contract with AVMHC.
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Throughout Reagan's first term and into the 1984 re-election campaign, Finkelstein advised Deaver, conducting polls and planning events and visuals (e.g. Reagan's trip to France for the 40th anniversary of D-Day). As The Washington Post reported: "For the White House, Finkelstein is more of an idea man than a pollster, specializing in media events such as the president's "spontaneous" drop-ins on disadvantaged individuals and institutions."Cannon, Lou, "Public's Personality Seems Split in Its Perception of Reagan", The Washington Post, July 12, 1982. He also began dabbling in gubernatorial contests—in New Jersey (1981), for Jim Wallwork (defeated by Tom Kean in the GOP primary);Carroll, Maurice, "Wallwork Seeks to Ride Conservative Tide in New Jersey", The New York Times, May 5, 1981, p.
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The Be a Pro central hub has also been updated to match the revamped mode, allowing for the player to access all important aspects of their hockey player in one screen. The multiplayer-based World of Chel umbrella mode includes four separate modes that were present in NHL 20; Ones, a three-way free-for-all mode; Threes Eliminator, an arcade-style 3v3 mode; Drop-ins, 3v3 or 6v6 matches composed of different individual players; and Clubs; 3v3 or 6v6 matches between clubs of players. A new progression system is introduced to World of Chel, which allows players to earn a rank in each of the four sub-modes separately. There are six ranks players can reach; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Elite.
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The Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), formerly known as the Sex Worker Open University (SWOU), was founded in 2009 to provide educational and other resources to sex workers in the United Kingdom. It is a sex worker- led organisation. Their activities include educational projects, breakfast drop-ins for sex workers, and Glasgow's sex worker support effort Confide. In April 2013, SWOU took a lead role in halting the further criminalisation of sex work in Scotland by organising a massive grassroots community response, included street protests, public education, sex worker-only workshops on safety, the law, and fighting stigma, and the presentation to packed audiences of evidence as to the effects of criminalisation, from sex workers and academics from around the world.
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The album was recorded by Aaron Cupples, a "good friend" of Liddiard. He recalled that the band wanted "an honest and uninvolved" sound, similar to Neil Young's Tonight's the Night: "I wanted [...] not to 'hide' the process of recording from the listener [...] all the drop-ins and drop-outs are all just laid out bare." He recalled a crossfade 2 minutes into the track "I'm Here Now" for the drop-in of a new guitar, which he made smaller to make it sound "like a volume swell that you can do on a guitar with the volume knob". The band also spent a lot of time "placing the drums in the right spot so they sounded big", which ended up being in the middle of the room and lent the recordings "plenty of low end".
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Wonder what happens if…'." The music is "heavy on the gangster/rude boy vibe," reflected in the titles of "Hustling," "Original Gangsta," "Heartless" and "Original Nuttah", and in the lyrical delivery throughout the album, with "some of the most aggressively fun vocabs and ways around things vocally than most could ever dream of." The "dub bass moves and the drop-ins of shotguns and echo," which have been compared to Lee Perry, give the music a dancehall vibe, which, according to Raggett, is "why you have Junior Dan going on about being heartless with a sweet-touched reggae backing at points even while the drums are going wonderfully nuts all around him." Many of the songs concern urban alienation, and while, according to Raggett, "staying one step ahead of capture" in the "urban jungle" was not necessarily a new subject for music, the speed to the music is essential, "because this isn't being cool and head-nodding, it's bolting forward.
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In the West Midlands, after the divesture of some radio holdings to Orion Media, the Gold brand continued as a franchise, however, in late 2012 these stations were rebranded as Free Radio 80s and no longer carried Gold network programming. Most Gold stations on AM/local DAB transferred to receive their network programming provision from Smooth Radio on 24 March 2014; local news/travel and advertising drop-ins into the network programming feed continue as previously provided under Gold, and the former Gold stations in Wales continue to offer a four-hour local show as Smooth Wales. Three Gold areas where Smooth is already provided on FM – London, Manchester and the East Midlands – retain a reduced Gold service on AM and (bar Manchester, where capacity is unavailable) local DAB, with most presented shows (aside from a daily morning show) ceasing. A number of areas gained or regained Gold as a DAB service in September 2015 in space vacated by XFM, following XFM's move from local to national transmission as Radio X.
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In April 1985, owner Amaturo Radio Group dropped the urban format of WDRQ and changed the call letters to WLTI (initially known as W-Lite, later 93.1 Lite FM). The station initially aired a soft adult contemporary package from Transtar called Format 41 (so named because it consisted of songs meant to appeal to female listeners in their early 40s), described by Amaturo president Monte Lang in an April 20, 1985 Billboard article as "targeted at listeners who prefer Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond and leaning toward easy listening." Despite the success Amaturo had had with Format 41 with its own WJQY in the Fort Lauderdale-Miami market, the Detroit market was already crowded with adult contemporary stations and WLTI failed to attract an audience until the station added local personalities around 1987. DJs such as the morning drive team of Eddie Rogers and Pat Holiday (both veterans of CKLW) - whose show featured comedic "celebrity" drop-ins by the spoofed likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, as well as original characters like Mr. Action, enabled the station to hold its own in competition against the other AC stations in the market, including WNIC.
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