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. for you: they each began its first season [first season ever in the Falcons case, first season in a new market in the Braves case] at since-demolished Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. 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. I also worked on 13/WAVZ New Haven, another great station. Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. KIIS/Los Angeles. DAMN!!!!! 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. But lets be honest, there were TONS of great Top 40 stations and narrowing it down to 10 or 20- or 40- is nearly impossible because of what appeals to the one making the choices. I think it says something that I remember all those *personalities*. Another station that is still around but with new ownership I believe. 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. "Michael In The Morning" Costello (under the name Fleur de Lis Broadcasting) and operates at 94.3 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. Yes!!! I would agree with how great WRKO was. It was top 40 while I was there, after I left they adopted an AOR format and changed the call letters from WAJR to WVAQ. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. Ive had this confirmed by others since. . Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? Create a SoundCloud account ABCs $50,000 Button? (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! please never go off air TIX !! What a fun night! WABC was the Yankees of the group. Skinny Tommy Cheney's shout out, and. Hear the audio that matters most to you. WCAO Baltimore if only because of Johnny Dark. Later, as a student in college, whenever Not a registered user of Streema yet? And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. How can we not mention the stations owned and operated by the late Todd Storz which basically invented the Top 40 Format. er. 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. The Playlist: With Christian Hillborg, Gizem Erdogan, Edvin Endre, Severija Janusauskaite. * Joe Hagler -AircheckSummer 1962 (2:07), * Robert Mitchell -AircheckJune 1969. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. Well vetted comments like Randy and Lee are so welcome. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. Playing songs I forgot about. FKA ChuckerI'm now. He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. WABC didnt lose its stranglehold until like 1979. Listening from Toronto. * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox. Cmon people now, BBC World Service 4. CHUM Toronto (I mean, COME! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Daily industry headlines plus breaking news bulletins. How could you leave that out? . WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. Pat KJR was a great station. She was a white chick with R&B and soul in her blood! 6. Here she is complaining about. Located at the heart of an area exceptionally rich in heritage with the major Loire Valley castles all clo. David Bowie & Queen 1675326694. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first Top 40 station was born. I worked there as a young man when Mac owned the station, so I know first hand. This is where the Greaseman was at his best. I did all nights at WFUN during my junior year in college at Miami and did the same in my senior year at WQAM. New Orleans. Somebody to Love. (27:24). KISN Portland?!? 5. Fenway Park was in back of 70 Brookline Avenue. In stereo! WFAS White Plains, NY (gold-based AC) But the signal was awful, the staff was expensive, and 15Q failed quickly. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. Shows WTIX 94.3 - WTIX-FM is a broadcast station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, playing Classic Rock, Oldies, Pop music. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! Really. Metairie, LA, USA. I cant believe the PNW was left off of everybodys list. The glory days of CKLW were only five years long, but the Big 8s influence reverberates today. Never missed him, as he made R & B come alive. In 1983, right after NBC paid six figures to researchers to learn that there was absolutely no hole for Top 40 in New York, Milt Maltz paid $8.3 million for an FM in Newark that played show tunes, figured out how to move it to Empire, brought in a redneck morning man and PD (Scott Shannon, who was so not New York and went worst to first). 80 miles away, across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. "WTIX and we love you" jingle 2. KIMN Inter Mountain Network. Mike Phillps, Jerry Kay, Lan Roberts, and many more, plus grabbing as much as 35% of all radio listening in the nations 13th largest market. Radio INK. Pontchartrain Beach jingledonut and bed only -late 1960's (:42). Ed Perry bought the license and is putting it back on the air, by the way. Lol! Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. In the early '60s such guys as Robert Mitchell, "Buzz" Bennett, Ted Green, Deane Johnson, Bobby Reno, "King" Bob Walker, and Don Anthony were the greatest! WJET 1400. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. 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. WEAM 1390..WPGC.1580.WEEL.1310 and one of my favorites WRCThe Great 98. In that decade, it was an outstanding battle of the FM CHRs, 93Q/KKBQ and Power 104/KRBE. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. suck! I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Would have to be on my list. I did. 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. I love that people actually thought that Wolfman was LIVE on WGR. Gordon McLendon made it theater. Kids all over the Midwest left their radios on 890, turned them on after school, and waited for darkness. For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. Respectfully, though, I would not rank WCFL below WABC, much less rank them last, undeR WIXY?????? For those who aren't aware, WTIX , "The Mighty 6-90" was one of the first if not THE first Top 40 stations in the world! Go to YouTube, search keywords of the playlist like a country music playlist, Christian music videos, classic music playlist, etc. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. At least in my city. No one has said anything about the greatest radio promo of all timein my humble opinion that would be Jack McCoys The Last Contest! Which I heard on the also great KCBQ in San Diego with Mason Dixon! Thanx for listening.. Z100 Pirate Radio, New York. 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. * Keep listening to your radio while doing other tasks. It's funny, when people are with me they always get confused about the time. 89.9 WWNO. No mention of Pittsburgh area radio stations! FLEUR DE LIS BROADCASTING, INC. Smile on your brother. WTIX FM 40 share and better in the 60s. reconsider your sources. LOL Other stations interrupt. (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) I knew what I wanted to do forever. * Craig Roberts -Guglielmo the Tree 1972 (:25)Smoky the Bear PSA takeoff for Italy. 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. Will ALWAYS love radio. KFRC was a good station, but anyone whos honest it was strictly second-tier and never (especially during AM Top 40s most dominant era) had anything close to the production magic and genius of Boss Radio, Morgan and Steele were the most influential in the business. It was a crazy idea. (5:10) * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33) And for the very reason you namedthe stations that personally floated the proverbial boat of the person making the choicesnarrowing them down to any given number at least falls short of impossible. Bobbys internet tribute to B100 streams now at http://www.B100.fm, featuring all the hits that fits, lots of fondly remembered mid-chart stiffs, and recent voice tracks from the surviving members of the B100 air staff. Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. WHAT the damn FUCK??? I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. And everyone remembers Yours Truly KOMA and the kissing tone. This was definitely an era where radio was fun. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. 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. Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! CNN Jim later made his way to Buffalo in 1972 or so. Chuck Blore used the name on the AM, 1150: KIIS=K115. But, its always been a favorite of mine. The Greatest Hits On Earth! Just consider the staff: Ken Dowe (& Granny Emma), mornings; Michael Spears (PD), middays; Beau Weaver, middays; Kevin McCarthy, afternoon drive; Tommy Kramer, nights; Christopher Haze (that would be me), late nights; Jim White and Nick Alexander, overnights. In Your Room. Rather than take it like a man you delist the most important Top 40 station in the history of radio. For a long time Id wondered what was in that box and theater of the mind. Thank you, Lee and Thank you, Randy. WRKO, KLIF, KCBQ. 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. KHJ lasted about 10 years. Yes, you were the last DJ on Wins, and , yes,Out in the Street (pun intended?) Doc thanks for the shout out to Drake/Chenalts 13KYNO, in Fresno, where so many radio (and television) notables passed through. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. Please power up if that is the problem. In my teen years, I remember calling in and winning prizes. It was certainly an interesting assignment. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. The FCC wasnt amused, but the public was. Radio Ink is a radio-industry trade publication that is published 12 times a year for the radio management sector of the radio broadcasting industry. (AND TO THINK THAT AT HIS PREVIOUS RADIO EMPLOYER IN BOSTONWMEXTHAT WAS ONE OF THAT STATIONSAS YOU SAID, PAULHOUSE NAMES! Ill give you Z-100 in New York (a bit later era, but still deserving). (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite. What I love best about this story is how it gives the reader a little glimpse into how Randy thinks. I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. 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. 9. Chuck Blores clever contests, tight production, and a great pick of music made KEWB one of the very best Top 40 stations. WFAN 66 AM - 101.9 FM 3. 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. Thank you Michael, Al JD , Hot Rod .Keep it going M & M . Only then did KOIL take notice and knocked off the daytimer with the larger 5kw day/night signal. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. Wonderful memories from my days of driving my 61 Chevy with the radio volume pegged listening to tunes during my Air Force hitch. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. PLAYLIST lets you make playlists from your Apple Music library. Including two that are in The National Radio Hall Of Fame. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! 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. In the end, it was 93Q that threw in the towel on the Top 40 formatbut then went on to become 93Q Country, eventually slaying the KIKK 96 longtime country behemoth. Additional examples: (New York:) WNBC (later Top 40, back to AC even later), WPIX, WYNY (first as AOR-oriented AC, then as hybrid MOR/Soft AC, then as Mainstream AC), WNSR Soft Rock 105/WMXV Mix 105; Todays 93.1 (simulcast of former BM/EZs WPAT-AM/FM Easy 93 Paterson, NJ); (Philadelphia: ) WIP (which had made a gradual transition from traditional MOR to AC from circa 1969 to the mid-70s if not the latter part of the early 70s [and, ironically, was itself Top 40 from 1960 until the following year, when it flipped to MOR (all MOR radio then was traditional, regardless of whether such stations occasionally played softer rock n roll hits); (CONTINUED) WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. TIX also streams online. They were king of radio, nevermind that they played beautiful music on Sundays..and had to sign off at sunset. Especially those of us who contributed directly as jocks, PDs, GMs, Promotions, Sales, Engineering, and god love the Traffic departments. (Re my comment posted same date @3:29p:) Instead of debating was KB the greatest, on has a tendency to wonder what the other station is! 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? 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. 1. We had a blast in HOU. They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. Listen to any aircheck from any era of Kaplan ownership Jack Gale, Robert Murphy, Boo Baron, or Jay Thomas. Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. !, KTNQ Los Angeles (a Top 40 station during the late 70s (that station itself deserves mention as one of the all-time Top 40 greats, by the way) had a jock namedno kiddingBEAVER CLEAVER!! Nolan B, Love Love TIX . Use our service to find it! I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. 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. Best radio station without question. KCBQ/San Diego. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. But here we go. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. SERIOUSLY! 16. I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. Ohas far as Adult Contemporary stations of the pastand the greatest such stations of all timeare concerned, Id be remiss if I omitted KMPC Los Angeles. 56kbps New Orleans Talk Radio. 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. Possibly the first FM to knock off a big AM (WABC) in the Top 40 realm. Talent like Ken Lowe (Steve Roddy), Rick Dees, Pat Patterson, Mike Reineri, Gary Edens, Tommy Walker, Eddie Weiss (Charlie Brown) with Jimmy Capps and Our Best To You in the late night hours and a terrific news team Joe Goodpasture, John Tesh, Doug Limerick, Bill Leslie, Mike Blackman. 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. ); WGH and WNOR Norfolk, VA (the former licensed to nearby Newport News); WGLI Babylon, Long Island, NY (one of the first rock n roll stations not only ever, but also in suburban New York City in general (if not THE first suburban-NYC station of its kind); WYNG Goldsboro, NC (was it also Top 40 under its previous callsign WGOL, I wonder? Thanks Randy for clarifying the Randy Michaels on WJET. 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. Somehow it seemed appropriate. WWOZ 90.7 FM. 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. 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