WOW. Those results are at the end of this article. Now its boring as hell. After PD Cagle left in late 1983/early 1984 and the jocks Bill Lee, Jack Armstrong, Mark McKay left I switched to KMEL/KITS on FM. WTIX - May 27, 1972. 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. Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? He hired major-market talent and they stayed. At least B100 was in Somebodys list. 2.) But KBOX was pretty amazing for having only 500 watts at night at 1480. WVLT, Vineland, NJ (for a long time and still currently, as far as I know) Seeing Lees List recognizing Big WAYS as a Top 20 Station and Randy Michaels actually listing 15Q, WAYS, and the Funky Monkey WAPE, gave me some warm fuzzies WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. June 1962. Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. (The legendary album-oriented rocker went Top 40 the same year asin fact, two months prior towhat would become Z-100, and remained so until 1992, when it evolved into its current Hot Adult Contemporary format.). In college I often drove at night and I could travel from Denver to Chicago tuned to KOMA listening to cmmercials for the Kearney Dragway in Nebraska, the commercial blarring out Be There, Be There, Saturday night.. Or you don't come in at all. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. KHJ lasted about 10 years. It really started in 1958 with Perry Allen, Russ The Moose Syracuse, Art Roberts and Dick Biondi. Gordon McLendon made it theater. Great contemporary, traditional country, and rock and roll, are gone. Some stations have been amazing at times and just awful at others. The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. WAPE/Jacksonville. How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. I worked at WCOG Greensboro during the short lived revival of the station under PD Phil Valentine now doing talk in Nashville, TNit was a Mann Media owned station then which included WGLD, and WKIX Raleigh..The Flying Dutchman started out in Mornings, only to leave and Steve Early movin in thereafter!!! We old people lucked out in having 60s and 70s Top 40 radio!!! It's FREE! Something is amiss. [13] 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. I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. Funny that nobody looked at the list and recalled Jeff Kayes often quoted positioning statement WKBW one of Americas two great radio stations!. Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. How good is that? CKY was our main source of music in the 60s, we were only 6 miles from the Manitoba border in Warroad, though sometimes we could get WLS or KOMA in the night. Im blessed to have been taught by the best. T-Bens daily morning segment The News You Need Now! is a tongue-in-cheek mock news report lampooning politicians, celebrities, and topical news stories, concluding with his signature catchphrase, but nobody cares!. KY-102, KC . And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! Randy, if you ask *me*, you can name every single radio station that ever was or has been Top 40 and the list would *still* be too short. 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. It was one of the stations that the great Wolfman Jack did his show from. Poor Lee hadnt been paying attention. We are very proud of what WVAQ has meant to West Virginia over the years. We're streaming. This website uses cookies for analytics and personalization. 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). Sign up to leave a comment and share your thoughts with other listeners. THATS! Great visit Great station!! That was the prelude I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. another Top 40 station of all time that was left out: WKNR Detroit. English Website 87 Listen live 17 Contacts WTIX-FM reviews 4 Keith Kosier 05.01.2023 I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! 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. of great Top 40 stations. They didnt last long, but they were awesome. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Daily industry headlines plus breaking news bulletins. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. Create a SoundCloud account BBC World Service 4. Bruce Bradley at WBZ told me at a record hop in 1963 NOT to go into Radio. While in the USAF in 1967-68 I visited KOMA. Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. * Richard Fahey -Newscast6/5/62 (3:39), * Michael Green -Tape City Spot for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. 1. We had already run over Jack McCoy and his Last Contest. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. 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. Register here. No credit card needed. I still carry a Kennedy half-dollar I got in some change our first night in Windsor, a constant reminder of the magic, good times and wonderful people we shared through most of 1972. And lets not forget WHK in Cleveland who owned that City from 1959 to 1964 blowing every other station away. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. Incidentally, almost all of us had been previously on WKDU, which shared time with us on 91.7 FM. I hope he and his legacy will never be forgotten. Lee, in addition to answering the question, included what he considers to be the 15 characteristics of great Top 40 stations. Boogie himself. $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour). I agree, Scotty. Mac Allen. ArkivMusic ITunes. KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. . If I could go to 30, TIX and MCA WOUKD certainly be in the mix. She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. And as Im originally from northern New Jersey (and currently living in the central New Jersey burbs of New York City, here are some previous or current Top 40 and AC stations in the New York City suburbs, PERIOD! Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? Great Music!!! KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) Playing songs I forgot about. The number one selection by the fan picks proves that the entire country would have benefited. Country Hits 3. He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. WTIX News Chief Jim Swiler does a, Signal 20 traffic report. Thanks for putting in the time and effort, much appreciated. Didnt your ass spin the Top 40 tunes on KJR? Owned by Hugh Holder, then Henderson Belk, Southern Broadcasting and Mann Media. Years later my wife was changing gates at DFW Airport when she spotted Wolfman Jack sitting against the wall in a bar. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. At the very beginning of 1980, as Disco was rapidly dying, we went Top 40. When everyone in Top 40 was going to short jingles and less talk, KB hired big talent, played long jingles, and gave the jocks all the time they wanted if what they said was compelling. Playlists are where millions of fans make billions of musical discoveries. Chuck Blore used the name on the AM, 1150: KIIS=K115. 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! Ps. I am a DJ on a community station WRDV and my program is AM Classics so I really appreciate your website, Youre right: WIBG Philadelphia was started by a church in the Philly suburb of Elkins Park, PA in the 20s. 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 You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! What you guys have done is incredible, if only Radio today was like it was in its heyday of top 40 with those stations you mentioned. It was a very hip kind of top 40 that meshed well with Boston at that time. Frank Brodie (CKLW) was incredible on the air in ANY format, as were most of the jocks from the true Top 40 era. ), all air talent/music driven Top 40 stations. it; THATTTS!! It must be hard to fire up an on-air staff when all they have to play is garbage. In Your Room. the Mighty 1190, KLIF. all Air Talent/Music Driven Top-40s , and oh yeah all live people 24/7, when radio was fun to do and to listen to. Baptist hired me and as soon as they realized they were over budget they told him to let me go I was boned since Id just got into an apartment, furniture, utilities He waited til Sat Nite to drop it on me Keep on keeping on. ABCs $50,000 Button? Thanks again. (3:00)* Buzz Bennett -AircheckMay 1967 (2:50). The McLendon format memos remain some of the best how-to handbooks for radio. Even though they had such a large audience with the 50,000watt tower. 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. * Bob Walker -AircheckOctober 22, 1969 (10:30). Morgantown? WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. For both stations I got our friend, Sam Lit (Hys son and a jock on WIFI), to produce great-sounding jingles and name shouts for us. WCAO Baltimore if only because of Johnny Dark. As a kid listening to WLS, WABC, WLAC, WSAI and any market I could pick up, the excitement was universal. (Jesus!, to leave out some of the Top 40 stations in any major city and yet mention WABC, WLS, CKLW or even Z-100, your input has gotta the hell motherfuckin suck SHIT!). Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. (3:13), * Bob Walker -Fats Domino PhoneInterview 1980 (5:51) Fats talks about his music, his upcoming shows at Bobby's Place, his upcoming movie with Clint Eastwood, and his new song in it, and he invites me and our Program Director Robert Mitchell over to his house next, weekso he can cook for us. Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. WKBW/Buffalo. Wibbages signal was not to cross the border into Canada. PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - 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. 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