Storz didnt own KOIL. Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. If you go by Abrams characteristics, CFL was heads and shoulders above the rest (plus they had Chickenmanand Lujackand King B, Jim Stagg (who traveled with the Beatles on tour), Biondi, Barney Pip, Jerry G Bishop, Joel Sebastion, Jim Runyon, Ken Draper as GM, a huuuge news department, and on and on). The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. What else can I say? The only WMCA personality who ever worked at Top 40 WABC was Harry Harrison, and he had already decided to leave WMCA when Rick Sklar called him to offer a job (just before they dropped everything that made them successful as the Good Guys due to a management change). MSNBC News Trending 1. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) Your input sucks! Side note- thanks to Randy Michaels for seeing what I saw- that great radio isnt necessarily only in great cities. (The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. Morgantown? he was a great talent and a class act! Poor Lee hadnt been paying attention. 13. It put rock and roll on the FM map in Boston and eventually made WRKO/680 the legendary Top 40 rocker in Boston beginning in March of 67. WAKY/Lousiville. 19. They were late in the AM game. A doctors son financed the killer Top 40 15Q until the money ran out. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home. WABC didnt lose its stranglehold until like 1979. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. As the song says tear open my shirt to show Rosie on my chest. Listening to Happy Hare or Shotgun Tom or Charlie and Harrigan, you wouldnt know the calls originally stood for CBS Quality.. Especially those of us who contributed directly as jocks, PDs, GMs, Promotions, Sales, Engineering, and god love the Traffic departments. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. Love it..used to listen to a oldies station (Poppa Stoppa DJ ) in my Grandfathers Meat Market next to Circle Food Store with my Uncle Tyrone. Even though they had such a large audience with the 50,000watt tower. * Bill Murvin - Aircheck, June 1970. Big Time. Even as a kid, I remember, by the mid-70s, WLS wasnt quite as exciting as CKLW, but still a wonderful experience. KBOX gave us Dan Ingram, Bill Ward, and many others. Keep rocking! Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. Paul in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. LOL) at WTOD. Plus they had Uncle Larthey could not loseeven with the bad signalthat supermod was flamethrower quality! Best radio station without question. Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. Bart Prater (sp?) Super CFL!! 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. CKLW was high on a pedestal in those days and people admired it. WTIX-FM is an oldies outlet serving the New Orleans area. 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 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! You patiently answered them for this 17 year old radio freak. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. * Bill Murvin -Bernie Dumas Buick Spot November1969 (:32), * Gene Phillips - Aircheck June 1962. KFRC and CKLW both had Bill Drake and Les Garland to thank for the edge, and the feel of those stations. U of Ps WXPN also did a good job with that format. Sorry. dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. Shortly thereafter, the Sunday time share that WADO had with religious/ethnic WHBI Newark, NJ was discontinued, and the former inherited (at the very least, some of) the latters Spanish programming, expanding WADOs Spanish daypart to Saturdays, and probably some of not all of the WHBIs Sunday religious programming during that day of the week. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. And then Eddie Haskell took it to the #1 CHR nationally in certain demos.I was fortunate to be there on air then!!! KISN Portland?!? 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? (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite. more What's New Version History Version 1.0 The best 1-2 punch: Fenway 6-10 am and Ginsburg 8-10 pm M-S. And Blaine Harvey went on to Minneapolis and later Philadelphia broadcasting as Dan Donovan. 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. 3. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. WHB and KXOK were among his best. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! Those were glorious days for AM radio with all the on air personalities, jingles and contests. 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. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. Edgier. (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. on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). June 1962. (3:56) Defense Department ready to draw lottery numbers for the 1971 military draft. Only then did KOIL take notice and knocked off the daytimer with the larger 5kw day/night signal. Gotta put a vote in for The Big 143, CKFH! as well as creating the mess that radio is now. 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 time that will live in our hearts forever. Biggest problem was losing talent to bigger markets. Lee, see my comment from May 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM. Example: 1-XXX-XXX-9849 (WTIX) I think it says something that I remember all those *personalities*. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Forgot your username or I also worked on 13/WAVZ New Haven, another great station. *Bob Walker -Christmas Eve1967(1:08)Bob flubs his midnight Bible reading. PLEASE FIX THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE.I'm singing along at work and BAM the music goes out! CONDUCTOR: William Boughton. My thanks to Randy and Lee as this would have been a difficult task, since there were so many stations back in the day. If you know how to make a playlist on YouTube, you can directly open the playlist you created or saved before. By the time I went off to college in 1978, there were more FM radio options that I switched to. No, but I was named for him. WTIX/New Orleans. WJET 1400. You could say the same about WHB and KXOK. WFAS-FM Bronxville, NY (renamed WNBM Boom 103.9 and reformatted to Urban AC in the early 2010s) Also includes commercials for Pontchartrain Beach, the 1962 Ford Galaxy, Mexsana Powder, 7-Up Float, and amention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. When we went Top 40, we added Carl Lee. 17. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. But here we go. WMGM had a better signal (broader pattern, full-size half-wave towers with 50kw) than either WMCA or WINS, and a good sound too, but I guess Storer didnt feel like competing when they bought the station and turned it back to WHN in 61. I LOVED the 6-years+ I spent at the helm of those prestigious monster radio stations. My brother Lacy Neff loved what he did and was very very proud of his station and co workers. Redeem Now Buffering PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 392 8 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. All Top 40 radio leaned towards MOR in the early Fifties. on. (27:24). I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. And, plus, HOW can you even contemplate omitting New Yorks WINS (Thats where Murray the K made his mark, dontcha know that? Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! 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. Thank you, Lee and Thank you, Randy. KIMN Inter Mountain Network. For me it was KFRC and KYA being born and raised and living my entire life in the Bay Area. I heard the audio, listened to stories. 2. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Wasnt a very large market, but captured Visalia and immediate area in a big way late 60s. Like Country 4. Toledo also had a lot of great talent. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. 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