I agree, Scotty. I was listening to WSAI when JFK was assasinated, and when I first heard The Beatles. Of all the airchecks in recent years I have heard from the late 60s through the 70s from different TOP40 stations around the country, I wish I could have experienced listening to Super CFL in Chicago live back then. If it did, then Adult Contemporary was the closest KSFO ever came to being a Top 40 station. Also, Randy Brown, who commented just before me, is right. Alternatively, you can select which cookies or technologies you want to allow in "Settings". ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. One night I decided to check out thatr box. We old people lucked out in having 60s and 70s Top 40 radio!!! In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! WGLI Babylon, LI, NY Consider the voices who worked the window on Burnside at NW 10th Tom Murphy, The Real Don Steele, Roger Hart, Sam Holman, Dick Sainte, Mike OBrien, Tom Michaels, Roger W. Morgan, Dave Records Stone, and the all-night Preacher, Pat Pattee. Hey! Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! The reason I know about some radio history is that I was kid of 9 or 10 when my friends from Kenner told us about their new favorite radio station back in either 1958 or 1959. . I knew several of the voices on the radio from back then! 18. How do we use Cookies. were on the moon on this date.Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Rex Root Beer. Also, chalk up WKIX; Mike Reineri (sp?) KLIF with Ron Chapman, Hal Martin (Michael Spears, who gave me my first job at 14), Michael OShea (who gave me my first tour of a radio station), Jimmy Rabbit, Dave Van Dyke (who kicked me out of the building when I sneaked up the fire escape), Paxton Mills, Jim Taber and Rod Roddy (I was his call screener when Gordon gave him an evening talk show). In 67 we got an advanced copy of Sgt Pepper at little old WKBK in Keene, NHbefore WABC (I was told)..thats when turning on mike was fun. Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. The studios were in a former carriage house with a false front to make it look taller and a mirror at the end of the long single hallway to make it look bigger when you walked in. on. Whatever your new sound, pitching can help it get heard by fans around the world. I can still hear Roger Kleins growling delivery. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. 2 If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. They were even the first station to carry the Atlanta Falcons when the team started in 1967. * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour), Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. This list is bullit. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) Use our service to find it! That's a good thing. Radio Ink is a registered trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. 3. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. just wanted to list my name as the author of the preceding post. Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! Id say most folks who heard KNUS during its brief glory years would tell you it belongs on the list. ), all air talent/music driven Top 40 stations. Who wants to play that crap? My God!, you namechecked KJR AND DIDNT THE HELL EVEN MENTION *PAT ODAY*?? In the mid- and late 60s WMCA soundly beat WABC, where the signals werent even close. 19. While it was playing, some lady went up to the dj, grabbed his microphone, and sang the CKLW top of the hour ID jingle! WTIX 94.3 - WTIX-FM is a broadcast station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, playing Classic Rock, Oldies, Pop music. Bob Martz was probably one of the most funny guys along with the likes of John Garry, Larry Obrien, Bob Kelly, Don Williams (and of course myself Rick Allen, I just had to toot my own horn didnt I? Also, not at all intending to sound braggadocious, I think I was the first one to introduce a Classic Rock format. In mid-1963, the remaining Top-40 pop rock programming was dropped in favor of even more Spanish programming and a primarily-Spanish format. Also, WMGM went MOR/EZ and reverted back to WHN in 62, not 61. Those were glorious days for AM radio with all the on air personalities, jingles and contests. Lou Saint . It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. I worked (twice) at WKDA (am) and I think BOTH MAK and KDA were both great outlets. Thanks, to that Ron Parker, whether you or someone else, You have the right RP, Robert. As noted by one of the experts, it was KOWH. Please power up if that is the problem. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. Thinking you were referring to Michaels not Brown. Many of the most spectacular Top 40 stations werent around that long. I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. The Other Woman. The reason is KHJ, Drakes first RKO project, was huge news and sent Top 40 radio on a new trajectory that would eventually affect virtually every station in the format. Ive had this confirmed by others since. Look, I am a total Drake disciple (and in my early years, I had the privilege of working for Gordon McLendontwice). In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. Other stations have been more outrageous, more groundbreaking, or more entertaining, but KIIS is the most influential Top 40 station. (I still havent forgiven the Dodgers for leaving.) Forever. 44 12 Magic 101.9 is an Adult Contemporary radio station serving New Orleans. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. #16 on one List and no mention on the other? Maybe Im biased, but its my list. Also The Great Roller Coaster Marathon at Pontchartrain, WTIX DJ's. Definitely a slick imaged station! Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. These full 3-hour length classic American Top 40 shows from 1970-1978, all in their original broadcast form. KFRC/San Francisco. Oh-two soft rock stations I meant to name-check (I list those among the greatest AC stations of all time, as well): WSB and WSB-FM Atlanta (WSBs full-service format had, musically, reformatted to Adult Contemporary by circa early 1980s). Mind if I add a few more Top 40 stations of the past, anyway, Doc? [Apologies if Im forgetting anybody.] My grandkids love the old music. Hello Lee Roberts! Even though they had such a large audience with the 50,000watt tower. It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. And, I confess to plagiarizing W-C-F-L of-a-TownCHI-CA-GO for the rebranding of CKSL London Ontario in the mid 70s. Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. 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. 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). Didnt your ass spin the Top 40 tunes on KJR? Jim Woods in the night time was the most exciting thing around. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Thank you Radio Ink for this amazing trip down memory lane. The glory days of CKLW were only five years long, but the Big 8s influence reverberates today. Already a user? Another station that deserves mention was WZZD, 990, when it was a Disco Hits format (i.e., disco hits played in a random Top 40-style format, as opposed to beat-blended, as on WCAU-FM.) ( How to play on VLC Media Player) I could hardly go to sleep cause I was so revved up by that great music and Long John Silver. I meant WKYC, not WXYZ. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. WTIX News Chief Jim Swiler does a, Signal 20 traffic report. Streamline Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. *Bob Walker -Christmas Eve1967(1:08)Bob flubs his midnight Bible reading. No doubt WQXI held off FM competition for years after the city grew beyond its signal. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch. Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? By far, #1: WPEN, Philadelphia (1975-76) 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. The formats would be better, if the music product was better. Everything about KB was show business. The station is owned by Michael A. I don't like your friends and you don't like my friends. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. (27:24) Relive the fun for almost a half hour with Robert Mitchell and the radio hits of 1969. WEBE WEBE (pronounced WEE-bee) 108 Westport, CT (WICCs sister station) How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. 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. To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. Readers Top 10 Top 40s. Login with Google. Still love it! 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. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. You wont remember but at the 1969 Billboard convention, you were PD of KSTT and I asked you a bunch of questions. 2:22am 02/25/2023 Classical Through the Night (HD-2) WFAS-FM Bronxville, NY (renamed WNBM Boom 103.9 and reformatted to Urban AC in the early 2010s) Over 50 million titles available from the Apple Music catalog! My decades of respect for Lee Abrams has increased thanks to his 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations and his selections are 85% perfect. During the summer I would break away and listen to WCCO AM for Twins baseball games. As a latecomer (1976) to the game, but well aware of the history, the key here is knowing and targeting your market, tailoring everything and everyone to it. You can search Youtube Playlists and Channels using the search button and the app allows you to select specific playlists to only listen to those songs - mood changes often and so should your jukebox! WVAQ is a giant in North Central West Virginia. Love all the music and the DJs. 70006 How could you leave that out? TALK! WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! Dic Youngs, Jim Michaels, Mike Pace. Go to YouTube, search keywords of the playlist like a country music playlist, Christian music videos, classic music playlist, etc. [13] WCTC New Brunswick, NJ (went talk in 91, w/AC on Sunday overnights only, literally all-talk in 92, (syndicated) oldies in 2008 and reverted to talk in 2011) Great to see so many radio brethren on here. 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. WHB710. Sure, "oldies" obviously isn't everyone's niche, but the variety on this station is better than on any other station. 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. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. With WEAF/WNBC, WABC/WCBS, WJZ/WABC and WOR all having network shows and WNEW having success with DJs, the baseball teams were stuck with the three remaining stations when they started broadcasting baseball in 1939the Dodgers on WHN/WMGM, the Yankees on WINS and the Giants on WMCA. it; THATTTS!! 11. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). (AND TO THINK THAT AT HIS PREVIOUS RADIO EMPLOYER IN BOSTONWMEXTHAT WAS ONE OF THAT STATIONSAS YOU SAID, PAULHOUSE NAMES! I cant believe the PNW was left off of everybodys list. Really. Theyd say Goodbye, Dinuba, goodbye Orange Cove Then my cousins would tune in KONG/1400 from Visalia, or surf the iffy skywaves of KRLA, KFWB, KFRC and or other relative weaklings, since the West Coast at the time lacked a Top 40 flamethrower such as the Midwest, prairie and East enjoyed with the likes of WLS, WABC, KAAY and KOMA. I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! Oh, yeah-the aforementioned WMAQ Chicago (during its AC format from circa 1972 to 1975); and KMPC Los Angeles (which like WIP in Philly, transitioned gradually from MOR to soft rock from well into the early 70s to about 1976. May I put in a plug for non-commercial station that was run very professionally and achieved some notoriety in its time? Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. I agree: there were SCORES! Thank you RadioInk for opening the doors to a grudge match of passionate RADIO people. WMEX, Boston for sure. WTIX Back To The Beach CD Signing 17 Choice Oldies CD Signing Bob Walker, T-Ben Boudreaux, Engineer Tom Courtney, Michael in the Morning, and Terry Knight (l-r) at the WTIX-FM 17 Choices Oldies CD signing remote broadcast at Borders Books in Metairie, Louisiana on 12/10/05. (8:55), * Robert Mitchell -AircheckIt's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. And over at the Lou Dickey flagship station WOHO, The late Swingin (Frank) Sweeny, Bobby Rich, Ben Gall, Tom Dean, Jungle Jim Williams, Craig Edwards, Irwin Young, Peter Trip, Gary Calvert, Earl Richards (me again), Gene Wurley, E. Alvin Davis, The Mojoman Sid Grubb, Buddy Carr, Sir Bernard J Quayle, Sam Holman, Don Armstrong, Ken R Deutch. Todd Storz introduced a tight pop music format on KOWH in 1953. Rockin Ron Schumacher was the board op-and when Wolfman answered the phone hed ask: Do you know the difference between meat and fish?. Morgantown? LOL, Morgus' Experiment- House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959(4:07), Pontchartrain Beach radio spot-WTIX 1962 (1:02). Listen to any aircheck from any era of Kaplan ownership Jack Gale, Robert Murphy, Boo Baron, or Jay Thomas. WAPE/Jacksonville. and many others that would have put stations on Lee Abrahms Those that I liked list too shame. Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! Surprised that WHBQ, Memphis didnt make someones list. @Radiovet Jocks with a bit more rope. I was in college at the time and walking down the hall of the dorm all you heard was the Big 8 in Bowling Green, Ohio, I went to a birthday party in my city not long ago. Louisiana, Special thanks to treasured mentors Jhani Kaye, Bill Gardner and Dr. 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). Unsere Bestenliste Feb/2023 - Detaillierter Produktratgeber Die besten Eos d6 Bester Preis : Vergleichssieger. Owned and operated by Audacy. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. Finally, a plug for WGH. Not just morning drivers, but the whole day. A great Top 40 station. 40 share and better in the 60s. 3036 Estate Aldersville Christiansted, VI 00820 Phone: 340-718-3339 Fax: 340-774-7092 Ed Perry bought the license and is putting it back on the air, by the way. 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