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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! My all time favorite Oldies format stations were WPEN, from 1975-76 (great jocks, jingles, funny newscasters) and WIOQ, during its brief stint in that format, 1987-88, as I recall. WBZ, WPTR, WRKO, WMEX..in the 60 led the way in our part of NE for those of us just coming in to the business. Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). about IRONY! The WAKY shout was created by Johnny and a group of girls he met out just after the bars closed. Sandy Shore went all the way to Drake LA as Marc Elliot. FLEUR DE LIS BROADCASTING, INC. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! I cannot think of two greater, more knowledgeable guys one could ask to create this list (those who are gnashing their teeth and should have been included damn, dudes). Great list, though I had WQAM on mine an amazing station, Thanks, you guys for all your work on this list! Id say ask Dick Fatherley but hes gone now. 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.] WLS/Chicago. Cant do it. Thats a fact. We had a blast in HOU. Both were top rated when AM Radio was King. Thats a shame. 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! As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) I was still a AM KFRC fan up until 1983. Ah, but Randy included the great WAPE!! Didnt happen, but the writing was on the wall. Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. Better production. WRKO were all slices from the Bill Drake pie. The personality line up was one heavy hitter after another. How good is that? Log In (Existing Digital Subscriptions Only), Pittman: Q4 Highest Revenue Quarter in History, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6WheuRi0s, Chicago Bears Broadcasts Moving up the Dial Next Year, Former FEMA Execs Push To Save AM Radio in EVs. With respect. Def Leppard 1675327016. My how things changed! Thank you I Heart, for ruining the industry. Thanks to those folks I managed to make a living in radio for a good bit of my life and I will always be grateful for their willingness to teach new guys! Thanks for the great work you did there. more What's New Version History Version 1.0 We had some pretty good board ops who could incorporate the Wolfmans customs. Also, chalk up WKIX; Mike Reineri (sp?) I now live in South Florida and have internet radio at home and in the car. Pontchartrain Beach, Schlitz Beer, Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling). The story of Wolfmans visit to WROV can be found under History of Roanoke Radio then click on WROV. Id like to thank Randy. Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. You wont remember but at the 1969 Billboard convention, you were PD of KSTT and I asked you a bunch of questions. THANK YOU for the whole thing! I remember Howard Taylor working the AM side then we had middle of the road on the FM side which captured the older crowd well. You mean that Lee Abrams guy who came to Toronto in 1977 to work his Superstar Format Magic against CHUM-FM? 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! The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. Jim Jackson. Nice! Ed Perry bought the license and is putting it back on the air, by the way. MEX had Dan Donovan and Fenway. June 1962. 14. Metairie, LA, USA. Its fitting that KB is on both of these lists. Also, Randy Brown, who commented just before me, is right. Register here. When it comes to Top-40 influence in its day, KOMA ranks up there and Ive met so many jocks over my career who say KOMA was a big influence on them. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. right, **WPLJ*!! Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest 89 WLS to the west, and The Big 8 CKLW, to the east. The station is owned by Michael A. David Kaye, 8/10/2017: Randy also sorta had something to do with Stevens & Pruitt and that 97.1 frequency in DFW, being the PD and all. Nice comments, Jim. Anyway, brother Dick took over the station after Mac died and wrecked it. Galliano - Bank Of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling), Dr. Pepper, Robo-Wash and more. No one, ever, anywhere, did the basics better than the Big 8. . (Users must have an Apple Music account to use this app.) I think one of the elements that is missing today was competition, radio wars. Years later my wife was changing gates at DFW Airport when she spotted Wolfman Jack sitting against the wall in a bar. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. Call sign: WTIX-FM Frequency: 94.3 FM City of license: Galliano, LA Format: Oldies Owner: Fleur de Lis Broadcasting Area Served: New Orleans Sister stations: Z-104.5 WMZ FM Contact The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. Maybe Im biased, but its my list. Or you don't come in at all. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. And would this surprise you? . When that station had to be sold or loose its license and it went to beautiful music WHN, the Yankees went to a non-rock stationWCBS. These full 3-hour length classic American Top 40 shows from 1970-1978, all in their original broadcast form. (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) Talk about versatility!) You made radio come alive. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. I went to the University of New Orleans for 4 years and fell in love with TIX. Hi Rick, you are right about other stations and jocks wanting to sound like CKLW, The Big 8. He liked the name and had a jingle cut for WGR. Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. Lock it in and rip the knob off.. The station was 1000kw days 250 nights but still was credited by many of the major record labels as being great market for breaking new artists and new singles, sorryfirst sentence should read owned the market not on the Market. WABC didnt lose its stranglehold until like 1979. Amen! He's an old, white guy, so who knows what he'll say? The kids of today, sorry to say, really have NO idea what a true lifestyle broadcast radio station sounds like. Ya just cant ignore a station that spawned Jay Thomas, The Greaseman, and Hoyle Dempsey, as well as having a swimming pool where you could dive in OUTSIDE and surface INSIDE in the lobby! In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. Many of these great stations can be heard at Rock Radio Scrapbook Canadas Aircheck Archive celebrating the Golden Age of Top 40 radio since 1996! Just as I was leaving B100 to trade PM drive for med school, Bobby returned and reinvigorated San Diegos greatest station for several more years. But the signal was awful, the staff was expensive, and 15Q failed quickly. One other station I listened to was WSGA in Savannah, GA. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! 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. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. TiIX is the only station I listen to. As a kid listening to WLS, WABC, WLAC, WSAI and any market I could pick up, the excitement was universal. as well as creating the mess that radio is now. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. Other stations have been more outrageous, more groundbreaking, or more entertaining, but KIIS is the most influential Top 40 station. 3.) Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. Costello is best known as Michael in the Morning (M&M), host of the stations weekday morning show. But, I was lucky to have grown up in South-Central Michigan in the late 60s and into the 70s. So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. Seamless Internet Connectivity required for playback as the App does not store any videos offline. WMEX started in late 50s. Plus they had Uncle Larthey could not loseeven with the bad signalthat supermod was flamethrower quality! Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. (Re my comment on 5/22/2018 @4:03 PM:) I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! KIIS/Los Angeles. I remember listening to you! KY-102, KC . Don Patrick, Dick Smythe, Randall Carlisle, Grant Hudson and the chief himself Byron McGregor all grabbed your attention with their excellent delivery and news writing. Even though I was over my head, I was well aware I was standing in a historic spot. I remember listening to tix as a teenag Louis, WTIX/New Orleans and WQAM/Miami (or at least one of them) cant be taken seriously. And lets not forget that WABC was the first flagship of the Metsduring its third and fourth years as Top 40. (As theyve been saying on one segment of the Monday Night Football halftime show in recent years, ) COME on, man! Anybody who knows a THING about at least early PHILADELPHIA Top 40 radio knows that before there was WFIL (or at least the beginning of its own Top 40 format), there was Wibbage! 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. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. 44 12 Magic 101.9 is an Adult Contemporary radio station serving New Orleans. * 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. And I agree that WQAM was a better example of the Storz sound. I like the mention of Big WAYS and WTIX as I lived in those cities and I used to hear WAPE. The Mets started out on WABC during its first 2 years until Rick Sklar kicked them off. Only later was the format extended to WHB and the other Storz stations in larger markets. The mainstay jocks on our station throughout this period were Big Bill Barthe, our P.D., who was legally blind, Sab Michael, Ken Nelson and myself, Bruce Scott. They were as good as anything, anywhere. (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite.". I knew several of the voices on the radio from back then! Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. As noted by one of the experts, it was KOWH. As far as CKLW goes I think every jock I knew all tried to emulate the great sound of the Big 8 jocks. 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. announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, election not long afterwards, Craig Roberts created "Vito Mufallato" who urged people to vote the. Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. Reportedly with this approach and FM radios still uncommon in cars, WMEX was right up there with WRKO and actually beat them in some areas. 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. With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. In Your Room. and to see CKLW picked by the readers at #1!!! Thats how a Top 40 station owned the traffic image. I have listened to this channel since I was a teenager! They were king of radio, nevermind that they played beautiful music on Sundays..and had to sign off at sunset. I like edgy Top 40 stations, and that WLS was not. [13] But, that station, in its on-air presentation, was wound as tight a top-quality watchit was flawless, with great talent like Dave Shafer, Tom Shannon, Gary Burbank, Jim Edwards, Brother Bill Gable, Super Max Kinkel, Charlie OBrien, Charlie Van Dyke, and on and on. If you worked at Top 40 Radio in North America, chances are your station aired a CHUM Documentary. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. Around these parts, that means 106.1 KISS-FM in DFW. The Marvelous Myth promo (Beatles), DH Holmes Yardley promotion, Sears (Dave Ralston), Expo '69 (not '67), Sergio Mendez concert (Michael Green), Bernie Dumas Buick (Bill Murvin), a bad Drive-In Movie ad, Metropolitan. Storz owned WHB but invented the format at KOWH. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. A further thought on this string: As kids growing up in Welland, Ontario, most of the radio we listened to was from Buffalo. The editorial staff at Radio Ink came up with a great story and executed it well. So many great stations not mentioned here. Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! Only one mention of Super CFL Chicago?!?! As Beatlemania set in, Louise Harrison Caldwell (sister of Beatle George Harrison) called WTIX every day, fromSt. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, concert in New Orleanson September 16, 1964. Jim Connors from WJET went to WMEX in Boston in 1971. Lenny Kravitz 1675325726. I was super stoked to see that B100 San Diego made the readers top 10. Pentatonix (PTX) Even though I came later in the game to be involved with some of the biggest of those stations, I did make it to a couple. It was nowhere upstate or on the Jersey Shore. More Fats D! Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. , 4539 N. I-10 Service road Third FloorMetairie, LA. This station has a major-market sound in a small market. 12. To me, radio was riveting in the 60s and 70s, and it fascinated me enough to get in to it, which I enjoyed for over 40 years. 7. In his undershirt he personally cooked, red beansand rice, along with corn bread for us. It's FREE! After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. LOL Other stations interrupt. FM Station Information. If that sounds crazy, look at the ratings. Growing up in southern Minnesota from the late 1960s through the late 1970s, my friends and I listened to WDGY AM during the day and WLS AM after sunset. Between the two, I slightly favored CKLWwhich was really the work of a woman, Rosalie Trombley, who I believe was officially the Music Director. on. Even to this day, as someone who, demographically, is supposed to be way outside the Top 40 parameters Im a 50-something male I still love a great CHR-Pop station. 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