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His wife did the music. KY-102, KC . He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. Id say ask Dick Fatherley but hes gone now. We had some pretty good board ops who could incorporate the Wolfmans customs. Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! THERE!!! Around these parts, that means 106.1 KISS-FM in DFW. If you know how to make a playlist on YouTube, you can directly open the playlist you created or saved before. heard all over western US and Canada anybody remember ?? Later, as a student in college, whenever NO way is it possible to please every jock and every station PD or group owner. I heard the audio, listened to stories. Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. Thank you RadioInk for opening the doors to a grudge match of passionate RADIO people. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. WTIX/New Orleans. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) Your input sucks! Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. The night I visited Joey in the studio, he asked me to take a 45 in to PappyMemphis by Lonnie Mackplayed for the first time that night! 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 could hardly go to sleep cause I was so revved up by that great music and Long John Silver. Ron Jacobs roasted you accurately years ago. They got 60 shares in Dallas with that signal. And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, * Craig Roberts (with Bob Walker) -The Origin of Thanksgiving1971 (4:26) Explained by the oldest man in. Lee, see my comment from May 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM. 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. KNUS was a big deal when FM became commercially viable. Years later, I hired him as Mike Marshall from an AOR station in Toronto to do Smooth Jazz. . $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour). 2. The original KLIF night signal was only 1kw. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. WWOZ 90.7 FM. Even with Bobbys departure for 99X New York and a format change in 1979, B100 kept me in flip flops, burgers and beers for 8 years, for which I am eternally grateful. Marlene I am so sad to hear that Lacy is no longer with us. Rock n roll became so popular to the point of almost dominating the research charts that Top 40 became practically a rock n roll format from that point on. In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. To coin a sound alike phrase from the late Bill Drake, AND THE TALENT JUST KEPT ON COMIN. Thats the real story so if WABC was great, WMCA was much more. * Craig Roberts - Vito Mufallato 1972 (:55), WTIX Morning newsman Craig Roberts was also known for his comic relief bits on Robert Mitchell's, When The Godfather movie was riding high in popularity when released in 1972, and New Orleans staged, another election not long afterwards, Craig Roberts created "Vito Mufallato" who urged people to vote the, * Jim Swiler -Traffic Report November1969 (1:55), * Jim Swiler -20/20 NewscastJuly 22, 1969 (6:03). Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. Between the two, I slightly favored CKLWwhich was really the work of a woman, Rosalie Trombley, who I believe was officially the Music Director. I think one of the elements that is missing today was competition, radio wars. KOIL Omaha was the first Top Forty station thanks to Todd Storzdont they deserve a mention? 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. KNUZ/Houston. Nicd guy. Those two local stations, though, played the soundtrack for many folks pre-teen and teen years here in our area. Paper Filing? Thank you for still give g praise to him. Listed Mike Marshall as one of, if not THE Smoothest jock ever. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. Attention! The station is owned by Michael A. ( How to play on VLC Media Player) A little known fact is WADO (now a Spanish station) had a split-daypart format of Top 40, R&B, jazz and Italian from 59 through the early 60s, with Spanish being added in 61 or 62. Please power up if that is the problem. WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. 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. Best wishes to all alumni of radios golden age. Toast. Rock Popular 1. WGR was a great station. Edgier. With this simple but effective application you will be able to listen to WTIX 94.3 New Orleans and all its content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week no matter where you are and what you are doing. However, I likewise agree with Lee that KHJ should be at or near the top of the list. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. Produce documentaries chronicling the history of Top 40 Music. 2B Productions changed its name to Rowan-Cabarrus Radio, and Catawba students will train for journalism and communications careers on its three stations. As I was an avid DXer, at night I really enjoyed WKBW, WLS and CKLW. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) However you guys have to increase your power. . Possibly the first FM to knock off a big AM (WABC) in the Top 40 realm. As an engineer, I was lucky enough to work along side many of them, and even heard Humble Harve and Bill Drake cutting IDs and voice-overs in the early 70s. 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 Hi Mike! The greatest Top 40 station of all time? WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. WDGY had Bob Dayton, Jimmy Reed and the great Gene Leader, more well known as Mean Gene Okerlund. Funny?, I swear that one of those lists *did* mention WFIL. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. Starting briefly as a mixture of Top 40 and Rhythm (Rhythm and Rock) [plus a Jazz show hosted by Demetrius], we quickly evolved into the only non-commercial disco station in the country (with the exception of my popular Oldies show on Friday nights, throughout). Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. Listening to radio as a kid, hearing major talent in the major markets and locally here in Erie, PA, it inspired me to jump into the business at the age of 15. (takeoff on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). At least as far as CHR radio goes . As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. Here she is complaining about. The music is just wonderful. Write a book Randy. 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). I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. Jim Jackson. 19. THATS! Didnt your ass spin the Top 40 tunes on KJR? The Other Woman. And to THINK Uncle Lar (the late, great Larry Lujack) was on both LS *AND*!! Later in the early 60s, Spanish-language programming was added to the daytime schedule. 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! Hey! No dispute. ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! Id like to thank Randy. reconsider your sources. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! (3:56) Defense Department ready to draw lottery numbers for the 1971 military draft. 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. right, **WPLJ*!! 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. 89.9 WWNO. Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. Jim Craig Professor, Broadcast Studies It was more than just the music. You mentioned KONG AM Visalia. Hows that for some entertaining teachers?! 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. It was a PERSONALITY driven format. WTIX - May 27, 1972. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. Nobody, and I mean nobody, listened to KLIF in Fort Worth. Hope you are doing well in all of your endeavors. * Bill Murvin - Aircheck, June 1970. June 1962. Great stations produced great stars and huge ratings. 94.3 Rewind playlist United States Michigan Monroe 94.3 Rewind 94.3 Rewind playlist 94.3 Rewind playlist Don't know what song's been playing on the radio? and to see CKLW picked by the readers at #1!!! Hi there! TWO HANDS !!!" I grew up listening to KXOK in St. Louis during the daytime hours (Johnny Rabbit) and WLS at night. As I recall, the only other time baseball was on a rock station was in 1969 when WABC-FM supplemented WJRZ in broadcasting the Mets, and on the very end of that WJRZ contract when the station transitioned from country to become top-40 WWDJ. I couldnt stop laughing! I do remember, however, getting WLS on my Zenith Royal 400 7-transistor radio on the floor of Yosemite Valley that same summer, though. Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. so he can cook for us. FM Station Information. * Joe Hagler -AircheckSummer 1962 (2:07), * Robert Mitchell -AircheckJune 1969. The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. Nice comments, Jim. The kids of today, sorry to say, really have NO idea what a true lifestyle broadcast radio station sounds like. Keep on rocking ! KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. NPR/Classical. And, ironically, WINS might have carried the Yankees at one point in its history as a Top 40 rock n roll station, but WMGM definitely did so. He hired major-market talent and they stayed. Does anyone remember the station? It was certainly an interesting assignment. WRKO were all slices from the Bill Drake pie. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. And then Eddie Haskell took it to the #1 CHR nationally in certain demos.I was fortunate to be there on air then!!! All of that amazing talent spoke into a vintage RCA mic and spun records on 16-inch transcription tables, right into the 1970s. That station is on my list of the greatest Adult Contemporary stations of all time as it is. I didnt see WIBG Wibbage 990 in Philadelphia. Classic Rock Country Oldies Pop RnB 30 tune ins AM 1410 - 30Kbps Concord - North Carolina , United States - English Suggest an update Get the live Radio Widget 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. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. Another memory WMEX had the jocks names locked in like Fenway in the morning, Dan Donovan, Melvin X Melvin and so on. If you worked at Top 40 Radio in North America, chances are your station aired a CHUM Documentary. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. Another station that deserves mention was WZZD, 990, when it was a Disco Hits format (i.e., disco hits played in a random Top 40-style format, as opposed to beat-blended, as on WCAU-FM.) Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first Top 40 station was born. 4. Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. 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. No credit card needed. (3/30/2018 @11:15p: ) WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. ABCs $50,000 Button? 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! Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, April 1967 Buzz at his manic best. And my time at WING, even though it was in the 80s, was some of the most fun times Ive had in radio. CKLW is definitely #1, and the most influential Top 40 of all time (thanks to Rosie). Ive had this confirmed by others since. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. 8. It's funny, when people are with me they always get confused about the time. Like Country 4. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. WHB was added in 1954. KBOX gave us Dan Ingram, Bill Ward, and many others. WTIX 94.3 FMs heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, The Mighty 690. WTIX 690 AM New Orleans dominated the airwaves from the 1950s into the 1980s as Americas first Top 40 radio station, and the FM station debuted initially as its sister station in 1995.Today TIX FM continues the legacy of the original TIX AM featuring the classic hits, heritage TIX jingles, and the famous Chime Time that rings when the personalities give the time on the air a feature that was also a staple of Musicradio WABC New York in its heyday. Stan invested in talent and promotion. KDU was a great station in 1978 under P.D., Santo Canone, also very professional. Of WLTH fame? Buzz Bennett showing up the first day with a German shepherd and a sledgehammer to knock the NBC logo off the lobby wall set the tone. @Rich Marston And I definitely remember John Leader. I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again. were on the moon on this date.Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Rex Root Beer. WMEX Boston should be on this list and one minor market station that sounded and programmed like a major market WAVZ New Haven, CT. Well vetted comments like Randy and Lee are so welcome. I was also privileged to catch CHUM, TR, CKEY, and CKOC during their hayday(s). And in Charleston, SC it was WTMA / 1250 for many years. Station to DX back then that is missing today was competition, radio wars Root Beer revved by. Khj like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him Marty with the Party, April Buzz! Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got mention WFIL commercially viable disco was. Careers on its three stations werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 station! 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