Nice comments, Jim. WooWoo!!!!. When I went on leave to Cincinnati I always dialed in KXOK in St. Louis as I wen east on old Highway 40 in the pre I-70 days. Hope youre doing well, Lee! KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit; and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. When we went Top 40, we added Carl Lee. 5. Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. WWOZ-FM. These are all good stations, who deserve their place in history, and our hearts. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? They had a broad playlist and I wish I could have been a kid in Chicago. WAKY/Lousiville. Stan was a sales animal, but like McLendon, Kaplan knew that advertisers spent money to reach listeners, not the other way around. WCAO Baltimore if only because of Johnny Dark. KNUZ/Houston. I was still a AM KFRC fan up until 1983. been listening to TIX since the 70s. 9. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. When I was a baby DJ at the Q, there was a reel tape box way up in a corner of the production studio marked The Last Contest. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. The best part of these 3 lists is bringing back the memories of when RADIO was competitive, creative, and most of all FUN. ), WCAU-FM Philadelphia (not just its Top 40 format, but also the Disco format that immediately preceded it), WOR-FM/WXLO New York, AOR-turned-pop WPLJ New York (as Top 40 and later Hot AC, the latter since defunct (the owners of the syndicated Christian AC network K-Love bought the station almost four months ago and took over WPLJ just nine days ago)), WBUD Trenton, NJ, and WYNG Goldsboro, NC come to mind. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. The best years came in the early 70s when the Top 40 battle was between WDGY, True Don Bleus KDWB before he went to KHJ, Chuck Knapp and MG Kelly on KSTP and Rob Sherwood moving from KDWB to start up U100. No need to signup to iCloud, simply start creating and sharing playlists freely. WROV in Roanoke deserves a mention On the market for close to five years with more listeners than all other Roanoke stations Bert Levine, who owned the station, believed very much in developing personalities without exception all the personalities on the station became major celebrities in Western Virginia. KTNQ 10Q xmplaylist Recently played songs on XM Sirius radio Genre SiriusXM Hits 1 Pandora Now TikTok Radio The Pulse The Coffee House 70s on 7 80s on 8 90s on 9 Pop2K The 10s Spot PopRocks Pitbull's Globalization The Whitney Channel Mosaic The Blend The Bridge The Beatles Channel Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Elvis Radio E Street Radio Underground Garage While in the USAF in 1967-68 I visited KOMA. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. 14. 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. We had a blast in HOU. I worked with legends. WABC drove us home from Ft. Dix when we signed out on pass at midnight. Keep on keeping on. Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) As a kid I surfed the dial nightly from my Guelph Ontario backyard on one of the first 6 transistor Sony battery radios from Dick Summer on WBZ Boston to Cousin Brucie at WABC NYC, from Quixie in Dixie to WOWO Ft.Wayne to WLS & WCFL Chicago. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] Metairie, LA. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. I completely agree. You mentioned KONG AM Visalia. 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. . During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. KISN Portland?!? It was certainly an interesting assignment. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Big Time. Laugh-Incontest promo, a rats in the city PSA, and a Donovan concert promo by Robert Mitchell. Years later my wife was changing gates at DFW Airport when she spotted Wolfman Jack sitting against the wall in a bar. KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. Godchaux (Bob Walker), Pepsi (Bob Walker), the Zoom Zoom Room, RC Cola contest (Bill Murvin), * Robert Mitchell -Aircheck November1969 (22:45), Another Robert Mitchell Morning. Great to see so many radio brethren on here. ! ran top of every hour. Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! KSFO was MOR, not Top 40. Talk about versatility!) None of the 15Q guys Michaels mentions, were there when the station signed-on Dr. Steve (Bridgewater) West am drive, Ron Baptist midday, Shot Bob Kelly pm drive, Bro Mick Rizzo 6-10, Kid Curry did 10-2a I worked there later in time. 4. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. Every time I went in there Id look at that thing and was kind of awesome. Toledo also had a lot of great talent. Unless you mean BOTH Z-100 AND Pirate Radio, the latter was a station in Los Angeles; in fact, he left Z-100 to helm the Pirate Radio format (I forgot what station had that branding). I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. Jesus, that station was the damn WABC, WTIX, CKLW, WLS, WINS, WMCA, KHJ, KRLA, KLIF, WQXI, etc. Having caught the radio bug at age 6, I soon got my first gig as a button pusher riding high as the weekend tape jockey. I later worked with Jacobs on the KHJ book we put out together using his memos as a base(and yes he we had to redo the book over and over again til Ron thought it was perfect before it was released). KRFC. Yes I was lucky enough to be in LA as a kid when KHJ was at its peak in the mid/late 60s and worked at KRTH in 70s when Paul Drew was National PD. Outstanding tunes !!!!!! Boy what trash we have now. Miller Communications, Inc. wanted to give WTIM's newstalk format a better signal both daytime and nighttime, so it secured 97.3 FM and moved WTIM from 1410 AM to 97.3 FM on November 13, 1997. That was the prelude The equipment was ancient. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! Login here. And of course this is just my opinion on the greatest talent in the Motor and Glass Cities. WTIX 690 AM New Orleans LA, Talk radio. Keep rocking! And, plus, HOW can you even contemplate omitting New Yorks WINS (Thats where Murray the K made his mark, dontcha know that? You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. Stan invested in talent and promotion. WFAN 66 AM - 101.9 FM 3. The website cannot function properly without these files, they can only be disabled by changing your browser settings or by using our website in "Incognito" mode. Listen To 103.3/95.9 Earth FM WRTH From Greenville And Get All Your Favorite Radio Stations On The Go With The Audacy App. 10. Anyway, brother Dick took over the station after Mac died and wrecked it. 50000 good watts during the day, but cut back to 10000 at night, pointed at the city and South Jersey. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. My how things changed! 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. * Bob Walker -AircheckOctober 22, 1969 (10:30). KIMN Inter Mountain Network. Sgt. FTR I remember seeing this back when I was in the 8th grade on a movie reel. WTIX began simulcasting the oldies format of WSAT in Salisbury, with local news, sports and information for an area that will also include Concord and Kannapolis. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. A list of 20 is too short. I remember listening to tix as a teenag Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Plus, (Boston: ) WBZ (AM & FM [separate broadcasts]), WHDH, WROR (to name just three in Boston); (Pittsburgh: ) KDKA, (oldies/AC hybrid) WTAE; (Chicago: ) WFYR, WIND (two jocks who worked at the latter during its AC era: Clark Weber (who not only previously did Top 40 at WLS and WCFL, and contemporary MOR and later Uptempo (read: all-soft rock hits) MOR at WMAQ, but also remained at WIND during its first all-talk format), and Connie Szerszen (pronounced SIR-zin)aka the Top Rock Girly Jock and the Polish Princess); (Charlotte: ) WBT; (Louisville: ) WHAS; (Los Angeles: ) KNX-FM, KOST (still going strong as an AC station), KFI (which, IINM, was AC twicein the mid-Seventies [when the AC format was known as Pop Adult, Soft Rock, Uptempo MOR, etc.] I was listening to WSAI when JFK was assasinated, and when I first heard The Beatles. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. Tix has been a big part in my life. Mind if I add a few more Top 40 stations of the past, anyway, Doc? Yeah. Again, if that was you, you were so patient and kind to the then shy and dorky radio-loving kid! The aforementioned call letters are at least said to have originally stood for I Believe in God.. More Fats D! With Johnny Randolph as PD, WAKY played one black and one country record every quarter hour. Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! Bobby Rich, you nailed it. Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. * Bill Murvin - Aircheck, June 1970. Cant do it. SERIOUSLY! Oldies station for new orleans louisiana. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. Larry Anderson, the PD at WGR Buffalo, listened to WJET driving back and forth to see family in Ohio. THAT Lee Abrams guy? 40 share and better in the 60s. 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