Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! It would be impossible to make a top 20 list that everyone would like, but these are great! David Bowie & Queen 1675326694. (3:56), for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. Hope you are doing well in all of your endeavors. Only later was the format extended to WHB and the other Storz stations in larger markets. What a great list. As does WICC Bridgeport, CT belong on not only my list of the greatest Top 40 stations in the New York suburbs, but also one of THE greatest Top 40 stations, PERIOD. more What's New Version History Version 1.0 Redeem Now Buffering PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 392 8 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. As a result, the signal to the Northwest started to die around Norristown, 5-10 miles away from the towers in Lafayette Hill, PA. WIBG started as a 25 watt station in a church in Elkins Park, PA, probably in the 1920s. We had already run over Jack McCoy and his Last Contest. I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! Ask most any of themit was the greatest experience of their careers. By the way, if you asked me to list The Greatest *ADULT CONTEMPORARY* Stations of All Time (or did Radio Ink already put out such a list? During the party, the dj there played the Doobie Bros Listen to the Music. I lived in Erie at that time and listened to Jet 14 and Randy Michaels, along with Frank Martin, Ronnie G (Seggi), Jim Conners, Jack OBrien, and Al Knight. For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) My God!, you namechecked KJR AND DIDNT THE HELL EVEN MENTION *PAT ODAY*?? WOV was on 1130. That's a good thing. One could consider ratings, longevity, originality, influence, or many other criteria. Sure, "oldies" obviously isn't everyone's niche, but the variety on this station is better than on any other station. No one, ever, anywhere, did the basics better than the Big 8. @Pat ODay: WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). Currently, WDGY is based in Hudson, WI and is back to playing hits from the 60s and 70s. I have radios in every room in my home. Surprised that WHBQ, Memphis didnt make someones list. Another station that is still around but with new ownership I believe. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. I am fortunate enough to have an aircheck of that broadcast. got a reply that he would love to have hired me but he needed someone who lived locally and could fill in on short notice. You might as well leave Larry Lujack out of your list of WLS jocks, yo! He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. . Listen to WTIX-FM Listen Live Listen with TuneIn JD on Twitter Follow @RealJDtheDJ JD on MeWe Time remaining in Biden Presidency: 1 year 10 months 26 days 15 hours 41 minutes 38 seconds Random Rants Random Rants let JD blow off steam on almost any subject. LOL Other stations interrupt. I did all nights at WFUN during my junior year in college at Miami and did the same in my senior year at WQAM. Do you know the story why Bob Martz, John Garry andothers left WTOD for WOHO Jan 1964 then all back to WTOD by Nov 1965? Hi Rick, you are right about other stations and jocks wanting to sound like CKLW, The Big 8. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). Thank you, Lee and Thank you, Randy. From 1966- thru 1976 they were a huge Atlanta powerhouse even with their highly directional 1KW at night at 790. WLS/Chicago. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. WABC won by dominating the areas WMCA didnt reach, and by raiding WMCA for talent and ideas. Additional examples: (New York:) WNBC (later Top 40, back to AC even later), WPIX, WYNY (first as AOR-oriented AC, then as hybrid MOR/Soft AC, then as Mainstream AC), WNSR Soft Rock 105/WMXV Mix 105; Todays 93.1 (simulcast of former BM/EZs WPAT-AM/FM Easy 93 Paterson, NJ); (Philadelphia: ) WIP (which had made a gradual transition from traditional MOR to AC from circa 1969 to the mid-70s if not the latter part of the early 70s [and, ironically, was itself Top 40 from 1960 until the following year, when it flipped to MOR (all MOR radio then was traditional, regardless of whether such stations occasionally played softer rock n roll hits); (CONTINUED) Great Stuff and why I got into radio for a few years full time and a couple of decades, part~time. So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. I worked in Trenton, MO in 78 and thought that WDAF 61 Country was great Top 40 radio and how good country radio could be programmed. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! I have to mention the station that I listened to every night growing up in Utah (and made me fall in love with radio) 1520 KOMA out of Oklahoma City. The kids of today, sorry to say, really have NO idea what a true lifestyle broadcast radio station sounds like. Whats easy to forget (especially if all the history happened before ones time) is that top 40 stations had strong loyalties akin to ball teams. I would say, with certainty, that it was The Big 8 that stirred my interest and music, and then, eventually, a radio career of my own. Apologies for any Ive forgotten Or just wait a little longer. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. between songs, and a 20-20 news summary of what was known at that moment by, Hazel Belle was one of our regular call-in "characters." I went to the University of New Orleans for 4 years and fell in love with TIX. Pentatonix (PTX) Pontchartrain Beach jingledonut and bed only -late 1960's (:42). You might turn up some of his historical pieces online. THERE!!! ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! ); WGH and WNOR Norfolk, VA (the former licensed to nearby Newport News); WGLI Babylon, Long Island, NY (one of the first rock n roll stations not only ever, but also in suburban New York City in general (if not THE first suburban-NYC station of its kind); WYNG Goldsboro, NC (was it also Top 40 under its previous callsign WGOL, I wonder? The FCC wasnt amused, but the public was. KIIS is going on 40. A little known fact is WADO (now a Spanish station) had a split-daypart format of Top 40, R&B, jazz and Italian from 59 through the early 60s, with Spanish being added in 61 or 62. Jocks with a bit more rope. Respectfully, though, I would not rank WCFL below WABC, much less rank them last, undeR WIXY?????? Alan Sneed & Gary Adkins had my back Monday morning they got me to Vic Rumore Jim Bob, who was GM at KGN and their consultant, Mr.Green Kent Burkhart I was on the air Monday Nite I stayed there until Big WAYS came a calling which is another story for another time. Oldies, needed now more then ever!!! To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. WAAM and WODA started to cooperate and eventually both taken over by Audre Bulova (of watch fame) and Milton Biowand renamed WNEW, which reintroduced DJs to New York. * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 10, 1972 (11:46). 9. I remember in the late 50s and rarly 60s living in northern Illinois, we always tried to tune in to WBZ Boston that broadcast just a little higher on the dial than WLS in Chicago! Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! WTIX 94.3 - WTIX-FM is a broadcast station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, playing Classic Rock, Oldies, Pop music. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleans's Greatest Hits Station. They lost the crown when WBBF went full time Top 40. Jeff Hurvitz When the Dodgers and Giants fled, the Yankees moved to WMGM. WBLI Patchogue, LI (Long Island), NY MSNBC News Trending 1. KNUS was a big deal when FM became commercially viable. Cant do it. At night I loved hearing Jackson Armstrong on WKBW, boogie check with the hilarious John Records Landecker on WLS and Supermax on CKLW! (504) 454 9000. He outgunned WABC within a year and made history for bringing FM into the 20th century. I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. Lee and my mom. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! Rock n roll became so popular to the point of almost dominating the research charts that Top 40 became practically a rock n roll format from that point on. Like a lot AM stations. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! Bob Walker20-20Traffic,BillMurvinonSmith's&TapeCitySpot. 56kbps New Orleans Talk Radio. Morgantown? On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. Use our service to find it! Make a playlist from a video: 1. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. * Tom Cheney - Newscast June 1970 during the Bill Murvin show. Save peace in the world. For help or assistance please contact us at 1-877-480-3201 or 1-717-338-2824 (TTY) or you may submit requests online via e-support. With the big 50,000-watt signal and the relatively few rock-n-roll radio stations across the plains, KOMA was the main station for the hits. NO way is it possible to please every jock and every station PD or group owner. Been listening for decades to WTIX. Lock it in and rip the knob off.. Biggest problem was losing talent to bigger markets. 2. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. May 16, 1972. God Bless. With all do respect KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! That's a good thing. Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. When I grew up, I had a steady diet of WABC, WNBC, KB radio 15, CKLW and WOWO. Wasnt a very large market, but captured Visalia and immediate area in a big way late 60s. WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. WMEX is my favorite Top 40 station of all time!! A great Top 40 station. You wont remember but at the 1969 Billboard convention, you were PD of KSTT and I asked you a bunch of questions. No mention of Pittsburgh area radio stations! Skinny Tom Cheney name shout 3. Easy to use internet radio. Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX by AH3RD Limited Time Offer: Get 50% off the first year of our best annual plan for artists with unlimited uploads, releases, and insights. announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, * Craig Roberts (with Bob Walker) -The Origin of Thanksgiving1971 (4:26) Explained by the oldest man in. I have to add to my list of rock stations in NYC carrying baseball. in the Spring of 1978, I was doing a late night fill-in on WKDU during their weekday Progressive Rock programming and I decided to do a show of all classic Progressive Rock tracks from the 60s and very early 70s, the music I had enjoyed from the afore-mentioned stations. Behind Production on Lee Abrams characteristics list of great Top 40 stations, number two is The Bible of Music. From 1965 until its demise in 1976, WCFL never let go of a Top 40 playlist/format. About my Junior year in High School, i found WXLO in New York. So today I credit you guys and of course others back then, who made a shy teenage boy grab on to something called radio, and go for the ride of his life! Bam, Wow, Im as proud today as I was back in the day when I enjoyed the honor of programming two of each of your picks! And even without WABCs reach vs. that of WMCA in the equationforget the Yankees and the Dodgers or even Mets of NYC Top 40WABC was the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of NYC Top 40 radio. New Orleans. It was the Top 40 station in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again. It was an awesome signal, but somehow they couldnt get that hum out of the transmitter. How do we use Cookies. Great Music!!! Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), 20/20 Newscast, with David Lawrence and Jon Reed 5/20/70, St. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, on September 16, 1964. Im blessed to have been taught by the best. It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. I was lucky to work with Randy for a long time (and regret that I didnt take better advantage of that connection as a petulant 20-something.). Ron Jacobs roasted you accurately years ago. More. I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. I had the pleasure of listening to 4 of these stations back in the day, CKLW from 67 through 74/75 before that WING Dayton in the Mid to Late 60s, WFIL in my early Air Force Days before shipping off to Vietnam, while stationed at Dover AFB in 68/69, and on occasion WLS with and without Lujack[WCFL as well} back in the mid 70s. Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET? Maybe Im biased, but its my list. The story (as I understand it) is that Mac Richmond (one of the WMEX owners) let Garabedian mix in some album cuts and long versions of the hits, and broke some stuff along the way (Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart being one). Anyway, brother Dick took over the station after Mac died and wrecked it. Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. He trashed the beautiful-music automation and took KFMBs little 10,000 watt FM live with no jingles, minimal formatting, an expanded uptempo playlist that was carted up at 46.5 RPM, heavy promotion, heavy Oganowski compression and a staff of crazed, hyper-caffeinated jocks including Rob Landree, Dave Conley, Rocketman (Scott Wright), Willie B Goode, Jimi Fox, Gary Kelley, Kevin Anderson, Phil Flowers and Billy Martin. WWOZ-FM. Somebody to Love. WGBB Freeport, LI, NY. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. And now ladies and gentlemen, MORE music and LES garland . It could compete anywhere. Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. The Brennans engineering genius and home-built transmitter pumped 50,000 daytime watts from Daytona to the North Carolina beaches. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! (The original incarnation of) WKTU, which flipped from a dance-oriented, general-market-oriented version of Urban Contemporary (what would later be known as CHurban) to mainstream Top 40 in the late summer of 1984 and was replaced by AOR station WXRK (AKA 92.3 K-Rock) in July 1985. WTIX - May 6, 1972 Bob Walker with Sonny & Cher. The story of Today and his PD, the great Bill Stewart hoisting a few pops after work and watching the waitresses load the jukebox is priceless and will live on and on! In this call, Louise talks about Ringo possibly being, nominated for President of the United States, - House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959, on the WTIX Original Oldie Hour at Noon with Bob Wallker - 1981 (1:11). Located at the heart of an area exceptionally rich in heritage with the major Loire Valley castles all clo. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. Lol! KHJ lasted about 10 years. Two legendary Top 40s that apparently didnt make the cut for these lists. I love that people actually thought that Wolfman was LIVE on WGR. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. Listen to 1080 wtic newstalk here and get all your favorite radio stations and podcasts on the go with the audacy app. November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. What about my all time favorite? Lou Saint . CKLW went Drake and WXYZ and WKNR went away.50,000 watts put the Big 8 into Cleveland,Toledo and eastern PA.I remember CKLW giving the weather for Toledo and Cleveland. WGLI Babylon, LI, NY I wouldnt leave out KEWB Oakland, where such notables as The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, and Casey Kasem played DJ before any of them became nationally known. WTIX-FM is an oldies outlet serving the New Orleans area. Thanks for putting in the time and effort, much appreciated. WROV could have easily made the cut. KY-102, KC . WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New Yorks then-impending wattage boost) WHLW/WOBM-AM Lakewood, NJ, (Adult Contemporary) >: >:0. In Your Room. Perry Murphy was a great host Took me home to meet his wife and through the KOMA facility BUddy Scott was doing his usual magic He was a BIG fellow but full of energy.
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