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Randy lists his top stations, and also details why each station he picked was great in the Top 40 format. 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. It was a PERSONALITY driven format. Didnt happen, but the writing was on the wall. Hoot Gibson? KQV had the heritage and was owned by a company that knew something about Top 40, so 13Q was instant roadkill. Didnt your ass spin the Top 40 tunes on KJR? * 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. One could consider ratings, longevity, originality, influence, or many other criteria. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. The WAKY shout was created by Johnny and a group of girls he met out just after the bars closed. WTIX - May 27, 1972. Stan Roberts, Larry Anderson, Frank Benny, Shane, Tom Donahue, John Otto, Golden Joe Galuski, Craig Matthews and many, many others including yourself. [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] And lets not forget that WABC was the first flagship of the Metsduring its third and fourth years as Top 40. WKBW went Top 40 in 1958 by stealing the PD and airstaff from WBNY, which was number one with only 250 watts. The music was very attractive in those days. Keep in mind, you can only create a playlist with your public videos. Toast. (In other words, Uptempo MOR, Pop Adult, Rock MOR or whatever (at least soft rock hits-oriented) Adult Contemporary radio was called during most of the 70s.) Make a playlist from a video: 1. The Last Contest was born here. LONG time ago, but good memories. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! I worked (twice) at WKDA (am) and I think BOTH MAK and KDA were both great outlets. password ? Third Floor All the Top 40 stations that Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels each included, those that many posters, myself included, called them out for omittingincluding those that you mentioned in your own comment, plus WIFI Philadelphia (WIFI 92 (pronounced Wi-Fi 92 (Whod have thought, right? Dennis Williams Toledo. 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. The Black Crowes 1675327253. WOW! I was listening to WTIX-FM (a station that I have only recently "discovered") while painting my kitchen the other night, and I have to say, I'm surprised they aren't doing better. Costello is best known as Michael in the Morning (M&M), host of the stations weekday morning show. . 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!. 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. TiIX is the only station I listen to. CFL! Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. Radio Ink recruited two of the best programming minds in the business, Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels, to answer this question: What are the greatest Top 40 stations of all time? Heres how they stacked them up and your lively debate, comments and disagreements on how they did. Bobby thanks for your kind comments. [13] Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. he was a great talent and a class act! Nicd guy. Dick worked weekends at WDAF Kansas City when I was Ops Manager there in 1977. Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. Rather than take it like a man you delist the most important Top 40 station in the history of radio. Playing songs I forgot about. Then there was KYA in San Francisco with Bobby Mitchell and Tom Donohue, Gene Nelson, Tony Big, ed Hider and Johnny Holliday. Never missed him, as he made R & B come alive. 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. How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. But now,looking back, it was a different era, and AM rode the wave while it was there. Frequent updatesbetween songs, and a 20-20 news summary of what was known at that moment by, * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 8, 1972 (9:52), Includes live spots for Godchaux's Bottoms Up Shop, 7-Up the Uncola, and an employment opportunity for. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) 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! 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 didnt see WIBG Wibbage 990 in Philadelphia. 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. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! Enjoyed working together in syndicated 24/7 formats as well. put their content rules into the playlist.Too much Ann Murray and other Canadian artist. It pre-dated WRKO (Now 6-8-0) on October 12th, 1966. (OBW, I was there too!). What a great business it was back then! Mac Richmond did not wreck WMEX. Hi Rick, you are right about other stations and jocks wanting to sound like CKLW, The Big 8. As are the respective lists of Top 40 *AND* Adult Contemporary stations that I listed above. Keep on rocking ! * Skip Wilkerson - Aircheck Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), Lots of Beatles stuff and Beatles concert ticket finalists *Humorous Anacin commercial "I ONLY HAVE. Coverage to the north was lost, and unfortunately, Dallas grew to the north. Agree that KFJZ was the station in Ft Worth. Like I said this was a tough assignment. Look, I am a total Drake disciple (and in my early years, I had the privilege of working for Gordon McLendontwice). . Yes!!! 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. KDU was a great station in 1978 under P.D., Santo Canone, also very professional. Jet was truly a phenominal station. In the business since I was a kid - Tix was my station of choice when I could receive it over on the coast in Southeast Texas as a preteen! Nolan B, Love Love TIX . 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. Hear the audio that matters most to you. Also, WMGM went MOR/EZ and reverted back to WHN in 62, not 61. 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. All my old pals! Sorry, I dont mean to monopolize the conversation, but another old Philly station/format warrants mention: An all-Progressive Rock format launched by WDAS-FM, Hyskis Underground. A good playlist and entertaining jocks. Boogie. It's FREE! Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! At night despite having a terrible signal at night(WMEX could be heard across at the pond but couldnt be heard in parts of Boston). 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 just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? Im surprised nobodys talking about CHUM or CFTR and God bless the late Tom Rivers, one of the best jocks ever in Toronto, at the Big 8 Windsor/Detroit, or anywhere! (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! And lets not forget WHK in Cleveland who owned that City from 1959 to 1964 blowing every other station away. At least B100 was in Somebodys list. How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. All Top 40 radio leaned towards MOR in the early Fifties. That station was my LIFE as a kid. search in gooogle: boorfes tips monetize your website. 90.7. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. (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. 4. Memories 98.3 - WTIX is a broadcast station from Concord, North Carolina, United States, playing Classic Rock, Country, Oldies. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. Led through the 60s by Program Directors Dean Johnson, Dale Wehba, and Perry Murphy, some of the best-remembered DJs spun the hits each day and night. I love radio. Johnny Holliday. Ah, but Randy included the great WAPE!! Tap Add to playlist, then tap Create a playlist. https://wjla.com/news/entertainment/argo-contriversy-ex-canada-ambassador-slighted-by-affleck-s-argo85572. In your TikTok app, go to your video that you want to use to create a playlist. WTIX/New Orleans. Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. KIIS/Los Angeles. His KFRC was better. Charlie Tuna, Dale Wehba, Don McGregor, Paul Miller, John David, Chuck Dann, J. Michael Wilson, Johnny Dark, Buddy Scott, John Ravencroft, and many others were among those who played the hits from the studios in Moore, Oklahoma. dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. 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). Amen. 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. the jocks, the music, the contests..they created the magic that made your station the very best! WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New Yorks then-impending wattage boost) WICC Bridgeport, CT Re said posters comment posted September 6, 2018 at 2:34 pm: Photograph. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. Morgantown? Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! 1. 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 carried the Yankees during its final years, and I vaguely remember WMCA caring one of the teams in its final rock/talk years. But its been copied around the world just because its KIIS/Los Angeles. 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? Hello Lee Roberts! $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour). Jim Woods in the night time was the most exciting thing around. 2:22am 02/25/2023 Classical Through the Night (HD-2) Johnny Holiday on WHK was awesome as well as when he was on 250 watt WRVM in Rochester in the fifties. "Michael In The Morning" Costello (under the name Fleur de Lis Broadcasting) and operates at 94.3 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. 9. Part timers of that era included Jimmy JR Rogers, John Mondo Fox, Beaver Cleaver (Ken Levineyep, THAT Ken Levine) and Dr. How do we use Cookies. My grandkids love the old music. Most every market had two or three pretty good Top-40s back then; lucky if you can find one now. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. Again, I enjoyed reading about all the other great stations across the country as well. KJR gave the industry Larry Lujack, Kevin Metheny. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. 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. Dick Fatherly was my first source for the story that WTIX, then on 1450, was the first station to use the phrase Top-40. Surprised that WHBQ, Memphis didnt make someones list. 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. . WAYS/Charlotte. I think it says something that I remember all those *personalities*. No, but I was named for him. I listen as often as possible! It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. . I know, because I was just cutting my teeth in Toledo radio beginning in 1973. WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. WTIX News Chief Jim, Swiler does a Signal 20 traffic report, and a 20-20 newscast with an update of the Apollo 11 astronauts who. KLIF/Dallas. Barq's RootBeers. Id like to thank Randy. WKTQ (13Q)/Pittsburgh. 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. 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. And while were on the subject of Midwestern 50 kay-dubba-you AM blowtorches, *(the Cleveland version of) KYW/WXYZ (Top 40)/WWWE (aka 3WE) (Adult Contemporary)* and *WGAR (Adult Contemporary-and probably Top 40 at one point)*, both in Cleveland! Imagine how the whole history of Boston radio would be changed if that happened. Tix has been a big part in my life. WFAN 66 AM - 101.9 FM 3. 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. I will always be thankful to those great PDs, Bill Holly, Dick Star, Charlie Murdock and Lee Sherwood. Back to you, Pat ODay: KIMN Denver?!? LOL, Morgus' Experiment- House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959(4:07), Pontchartrain Beach radio spot-WTIX 1962 (1:02). (Users must have an Apple Music account to use this app.) Come on, no KOMA, Oklahoma City! WOW. I loved WAPE 690. Again, if that was you, you were so patient and kind to the then shy and dorky radio-loving kid! 93Q had the better air personalities, including John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo; but, the music battle between the two stations was just exceptional. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33), * Don Anthony -Louis Prima Interview 1974 (10:00), * Buzz Bennett -AircheckApril 1967 Buzz at his manic best. Dave Charles once called me smooth but I couldnt hold a candle to MM! WRKO, KLIF, KCBQ. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. I knew what I wanted to do forever. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. No dispute. 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) FKA ChuckerI'm now. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! But Ive got to know, did anyone measure? I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. Rock Popular 1. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. They were king of radio, nevermind that they played beautiful music on Sundays..and had to sign off at sunset. Login here. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade. Drill 5. He stole and enhanced McLendons treasure hunts and other promotions and added a crazy outrageousness that hasnt happened since, except maybe for the Power Pig, which owes a lot to the Kaplans. Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. Lol! Mac was also a very nice guy, btw. Also, chalk up WKIX; Mike Reineri (sp?) Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. KIMN Inter Mountain Network. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. You mentioned KONG AM Visalia. Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. And of course this is just my opinion on the greatest talent in the Motor and Glass Cities. (Ill give an honorable mention to WARM, Scranton, the first TOP 40 station I discovered; the jocks didnt have the personality of WABC, but the station played good music and had a nice flow.). He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! An error happened posting the comment, sorry! The Rock Of New Orleans - WKBU-FM | Bayou 95.7 FM Contests & Events Latest The Rise Guys on Bayou Latest The Rise Guys After Hours Podcast Bayou Rock Box: Your chance to win Guns N' Roses tickets Login and Listen to Bayou 95.7 for your chance to win Duran Duran Tickets Bayou Rock Box: Your chance to win tickets to Depeche Mode 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. Thanks to all the fans who voted CKLW #1. so he can cook for us. WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. Metairie, LA, USA. University of New Orleans. Redeem Now Pause PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 546 7 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. Also, Randy Brown, who commented just before me, is right. Only one mention of Super CFL Chicago?!?! WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM 5. The formats would be better, if the music product was better. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Louisiana Power & Light. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. 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. Listen to any aircheck from any era of Kaplan ownership Jack Gale, Robert Murphy, Boo Baron, or Jay Thomas. Ryan reynolds, rob mcelhenney take a rare bite out of welsh history with '20 ways to make rarebit' cookbook. Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. *The Fat Black Pussycat movie spot * The Beatles are coming to New Orleans Louise Harrison Caldwell (George's sister)reports on the Beatles and Ringo being nominated for President, of the United States * Dan Diamond adfor Tackle facemedication * Community Billboard * Name Dropper, Contest * 5 minute Charlie Ray newscast. Voice of the Rocky Mountains in Denver! Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - THE SOUND OF SILENCE, KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND - I'M YOUR BOOGIE MAN, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - MIDNIGHT RIDER, MIKE & THE MECHANICS - ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - BREAKDOWN, NAKED EYES - ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME, HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS - I WANT A NEW DRUG, GEORGIA SATELLITES - KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS - I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU, MARVIN GAYE - I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL - DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - SUNSPOT BABY, BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE - ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY, TEARS FOR FEARS - SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - SWEET TALKING WOMAN, BROWNSVILLE STATION - SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM, KATRINA & THE WAVES - WALKING ON SUNSHINE, JOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND - ON THE DARK SIDE, MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - DANCING IN THE STREET, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - YOU'LL ACCOMP'NY ME, RUPERT HOLMES - ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG), SPIRAL STARECASE - MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY, JOE JACKSON - IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM, REO SPEEDWAGON - CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING, ELTON JOHN - SATURDAY NIGHTS ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - THE FIRE DOWN BELOW, ROLLING STONES - LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER, TAVARES - HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - DON'T BRING ME DOWN, THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND - THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES - I CAN'T GO FOR THAT, BILLY VERA AND THE BEATERS - AT THIS MOMENT, STING - IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE, LONDONBEAT - I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU, GLASS TIGER - DON'T FORGET ME WHEN I'M GONE, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS - CRIMSON AND CLOVER, TEARS FOR FEARS - EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, SCANDAL (FEATURING PATTY SMYTH) - THE WARRIOR, BARRY WHITE - YOU'RE THE FIRST, THE LAST, MY EVERYTHING, MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS - DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON, JOHN LENNON - WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT, MEAT LOAF - PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT, SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - DANCE TO THE MUSIC, DOOBIE BROTHERS - TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS, U2 - I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, TINA TURNER - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - MARY JANE'S LAST DANCE, JOE COCKER AND JENNIFER WARNES - UP WHERE WE BELONG, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - KATMANDU, JOHN PARR - ST. ELMO'S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION), DURAN DURAN - IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW, DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES - KISS ON MY LIST, SPINNERS - COULD IT BE I'M FALLING IN LOVE, MEMBER PROGRAM - BRINGING MOTOWN TO OUR TOWN. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? Hi there! * Craig Roberts -Guglielmo the Tree 1972 (:25)Smoky the Bear PSA takeoff for Italy. WGBR still exists but Im not sure the format. What a great list. @Phil Dirt WPGR, 1540, also did a nice job during their stint as an Oldies station. 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! Login with Google. Except for the late-Sunday evening religious (African-American Protestant church services) broadcasts, WADO had become all-Spanish and so remains (having switched its Spanish format from music or music/talk to all-talk circa the turn of the decade before last, dropping its aforementioned English-language religious daypart). The "WTIX and we love you" jingle (courtesy of PAMS jingles). Great fun and memories. KY-102, KC . Finally, a plug for WGH. We werent allowed to say the word magic, because KMJC Magic 91 was a competitor. WJET 1400. 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 That station is on my list of the greatest Adult Contemporary stations of all time as it is. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. I based this list on originality and impact. But any list that completely overlooks the Todd Storz stations, including WHB/Kansas City, KXOK/St. K-NUZ. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. In the very-early Sixties, thanks in no small part to three fulltime Top 40s in NYC, WADO reintroduced African-American and Italian programming to its daytime schedulethis time, sharing it with Top-40 rock n roll. MY GOD!, ANYdamnbody who the hell KNOWS A GODDAMN FUCKIN *THING* about Sixties and Seventies rock n roll radio KNOWS that KJR was one of the ALL-TIME GREATS in Top 40 radio AND IN RADIO, PERIOD!!!!! Somebody to Love. Dallas was a separate media market back then and rightly so, as the enmity between the two cities was at its peak when Gordon McLendon was working his magic at KLIF. The equipment was ancient. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. (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. Still love it! Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. Charlie Tuna! Using the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and splicing the banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlighted the WTIX DJ's of 1962 instead of the Clampett family. WDHA Dover, NJ (since reformatted to (Album-Oriented) Rock I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! Few stations have been able to achieve consistent success in ratings, and the conversion of ratings to revenue and cash flow, like KIIS. The one basic element that the great stations back then were built around was the great music of the time. Does anyone remember the station? Best wishes to all alumni of radios golden age. At the time, the AM was still number one! Of course we took him up on his offer. The Greatest Top 40 Stations Of All Time! You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. Under the video, click Save . I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. Laugh-Incontest promo, a rats in the city PSA, and a Donovan concert promo by Robert Mitchell. as well as creating the mess that radio is now. Date of Recording: 1996 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 94.3 WTIX-FM (KLEB-FM/KZZQ-FM/KBAU) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personalities: Jay Douglas, Doug O'Brien (News) (WNBC/WINS) Contributor: Annonymous. If you know how to make a playlist on YouTube, you can directly open the playlist you created or saved before. Others from that same summer (as we were on a long road trip from our home New Jersey, where WABCs tower stood outside my bedroom window): KMEN in San Bernardino and KCBQ in San Diego. WRAN Dover, NJ WEBE WEBE (pronounced WEE-bee) 108 Westport, CT (WICCs sister station) WAKY/Lousiville. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. Mac Richmond (one of the owners) was a crazed micro-manager and abrasive as sandpaper, but he knew talent. !, *yeah*! Already a user? 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. Many stations saved money on jingles by getting names cut during a session or by recycling house names. They didnt last long, but they were awesome. Country Hits 3. 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