Many of these great stations can be heard at Rock Radio Scrapbook Canadas Aircheck Archive celebrating the Golden Age of Top 40 radio since 1996! Storz owned WHB but invented the format at KOWH. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. For the first time ever, these digitally remastered are now available to terrestrial radio. More Fats D! Features: * Listen to your favorite radio station anytime & anywhere. 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. Makes my Beer brewing on my deck a pleasure. I was stationed at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the 60s and loved WHB with DJ Johnny Dolan and others. 89.9 WWNO. It was just too great a line not to steal. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. KIIS is going on 40. Yes, it was a smaller market but, the 10kw daytime on 940 covered 90 of 99 counties in Iowa and at night with 5kw covered into Denver as well as WHO. Arnie Ginsburg, Larry Justice, Dan Donovan (Blaine Harvey.who carried the name to Minneapolis), Charlie Tuna, Larry Lujack, Jack Gale (Fenway), Ed Hider (another Fenway), J.J. Jeffries (Melvin X. Melvin) as well as talk show giants Jerry Williams, Larry Glick and Steve Fredericks all appeared on WMEX. Alan Sneed & Gary Adkins had my back Monday morning they got me to Vic Rumore Jim Bob, who was GM at KGN and their consultant, Mr.Green Kent Burkhart I was on the air Monday Nite I stayed there until Big WAYS came a calling which is another story for another time. Lee and Randy..Congratulations on putting together that list. Or maybe KSFO went all-soft rock later on in its years as a music station? Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! !, yet!) Thanks. These full 3-hour length classic American Top 40 shows from 1970-1978, all in their original broadcast form. and I was glad to see CKLW made #1 on the readers poll, also mentioning engineer Ed Butterbaughs work on their signal was unbelievable, CKLW actually DID jump out of radios, like Ive never heard since. (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) Under the video, click Save . Looks like they revised the list since you left your comment and replaced WHB with a lesser station. KBOX/Dallas. Thank you, Lee and Thank you, Randy. *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. Bill Drakes KHJ was amazing and should probably be on this list. 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 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. WKVQ (15Q)/Knoxville. 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. The later 5kw night site used 12 towers to put a lobe over Dallas that also covered the mid cities and just reached Ft Worth. Great stations produced great stars and huge ratings. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (now Hot AC 94-3 The Point) 14. #16 on one List and no mention on the other? WFAS-FM Bronxville, NY (renamed WNBM Boom 103.9 and reformatted to Urban AC in the early 2010s) Great station playing the music I grew up with. WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. As noted by one of the experts, it was KOWH. Jeff Hurvitz Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30s to mid 40s. She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. CNN Marlene I am so sad to hear that Lacy is no longer with us. WTIX FM WLS/Chicago. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. Great jocks, a lot of personality, fun to listen to. How good is that? WWDJ Hackensack, NJ carried Mets games during its first year or two as Top 40 (continuing its contract with the Mets that dated back to when it was country station WJRZ). How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. At least as far as CHR radio goes . WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. A fantastic radio station Keep it going. In Your Room. WTIM - NEWSTALK WTIM delivers local news and information, local weather, local and professional sports, and over 6 hours a day of agriculture programming! Living over in Texas I could hear TIX / had a powerful daytime signal but disappeared at night. They took overalong with the likes of Tommy Shannon, the still-to-come Dan Neaverth, Joey Reynolds and so many others. Marc took The Outrageous FM to a 17 share, 500,000 cume in a market of less than a million at the time. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. Listen Live Memories 98.3 Fm Radio With Onlineradiobox.com. Not long after you came on board in early 1972, WLS reduced its published chart to a Big 8 + 9 playlist. They had a New Years count down of the top 100 from the year and I listened to every song for several years. always got my day off with a laugh; I still remember the day he ran a commercial with Minnie Pearl and after it ended he said, Boy, Ill bet that dress is a booger to iron. I also remember Tommy Walker, Gary Edens, and Jimmy Capps; dont remember Pat Patterson because I wasnt living in Raleigh then. Been listening for decades to WTIX. In your TikTok app, go to your video that you want to use to create a playlist. In this call, Louise talks about Ringo possibly being, nominated for President of the United States, - House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959, on the WTIX Original Oldie Hour at Noon with Bob Wallker - 1981 (1:11). TIX also streams online. Playlist. As the song says tear open my shirt to show Rosie on my chest. CKY came in like a local during the day at Bemidji, Minnesota. Outstanding tunes !!!!!! heard all over western US and Canada anybody remember ?? 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. Loved the write up on david h Morris. It was certainly an interesting assignment. Toledo also had a lot of great talent. Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. Keep in mind, you can only create a playlist with your public videos. Reportedly with this approach and FM radios still uncommon in cars, WMEX was right up there with WRKO and actually beat them in some areas. A doctors son financed the killer Top 40 15Q until the money ran out. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. That's a good thing. Thats a fact. . None in major markets. and the WKNR Keener 13 crew. 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. more What's New Version History Version 1.0 of a damn BITCH!! Back to you, Pat ODay: KIMN Denver?!? [13] How can we not mention the stations owned and operated by the late Todd Storz which basically invented the Top 40 Format. * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33), * Don Anthony -Louis Prima Interview 1974 (10:00), * Buzz Bennett -AircheckApril 1967 Buzz at his manic best. May I put in a plug for non-commercial station that was run very professionally and achieved some notoriety in its time? Great Stuff and why I got into radio for a few years full time and a couple of decades, part~time. WVAQ is a giant in North Central West Virginia. 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. Pats right, Radio Ink, your damn input DOES!! Kids all over the Midwest left their radios on 890, turned them on after school, and waited for darkness. Years later my wife was changing gates at DFW Airport when she spotted Wolfman Jack sitting against the wall in a bar. been listening to TIX since the 70s. Few stations have been able to achieve consistent success in ratings, and the conversion of ratings to revenue and cash flow, like KIIS. Apologies for any Ive forgotten (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) Or certainly brought FM into the 1970s! 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. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. So was WVAQ, I am the person that changed it from beautiful music to Top 40 in 1976. Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. The last sentence should have read, And in Buffalo, the list of the greatest Adult Contemporary rockers of all time would have to include not only WGR, but also WBEN andparticularly circa mid-to-late 80sare you ready for this?WKBW.. The sounds that listeners remembered the most: 1.) IMNSHO I felt WLS hit their pinnacle right about 1981-2 when they segued to a Rock-40 format. Two very prominent stations in the TOP 40 history book! HOWEVER, PLEASE do something about it dropping constantly. I cant believe the PNW was left off of everybodys list. Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! Biggest problem was losing talent to bigger markets. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. he was a great talent and a class act! * 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. The Mets started out on WABC during its first 2 years until Rick Sklar kicked them off. YOU ARE!!! Hope you are both well. >: >:0. In the mid- and late 60s WMCA soundly beat WABC, where the signals werent even close. KFJZ 1270 was Fort Worths Top 40 station, headlined by Marky Baby, later known as Mark Stevens of the Stevens & Pruitt morning show on KFJZ-FM (Z-97) which morphed into The Eagle (KEGL) on the same frequency. The Storz stations ruled for many years. 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. I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. Doing a great job! With just 250 watts on 1230, KNUZ was the longtime market leader in Houston. And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. University of New Orleans. Apparently all of the contributors didnt pay much attention. Radio INK. 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) WMEX, Boston for sure. 16. Forever. 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. User Rating 5 out of 5 stars based on 1 review Recommended Channels Near Metairie, USA KLZA Sunny 101.3 FM Falls City NE Falls City, NE USA, Adult Contemporary. It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. Of WLTH fame? They got 60 shares in Dallas with that signal. This is my favorite Top 40. Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. 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. And during its last two years as a music station (continuing as a talk station almost a month-and-a-half into the latter of the two years), WABC was the Yankees flagship station. Love all the music and the DJs. (Any wonder why omissions of such stations have prompted responsesmine includedsaying that the poster forgot such and such Top 40 station?). KY102 was AOR not Top-40. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. Agree with Bill Wayland at one point 68 WRKO had an almost 60 share Teens. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. Also, chalk up WKIX; Mike Reineri (sp?) From well into the early 70s through the mid-70s, it underwent an MOR-to-soft rock transition not unlike what WIP Philadelphia underwent a half-decade earlier-and-change, tops. 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. I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. Funny that nobody looked at the list and recalled Jeff Kayes often quoted positioning statement WKBW one of Americas two great radio stations!. CHUM Toronto (I mean, COME! According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. KILT Houston? And not only live (as you also said), but LOCAL! WHAT ABOUT WPGC Morningside, MD/Washington, DC!?! Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? Use our service to find it! WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) I agree that Burt Levine created magic in that quonset hut! That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! I had the pleasure of listening to 4 of these stations back in the day, CKLW from 67 through 74/75 before that WING Dayton in the Mid to Late 60s, WFIL in my early Air Force Days before shipping off to Vietnam, while stationed at Dover AFB in 68/69, and on occasion WLS with and without Lujack[WCFL as well} back in the mid 70s. Those two local stations, though, played the soundtrack for many folks pre-teen and teen years here in our area. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. Before voice tracking, I would listen on the weekends to hear the next hot jock! I cut my teeth at the same stastion as Super Max and Pat Holliday of Big 8 fame, WKNY in Kinsgston, NY. WHAT THE DAMN FUCK? We had some pretty good board ops who could incorporate the Wolfmans customs. Country Hits 3. I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! Jim Craig Professor, Broadcast Studies KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. 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. The official Facebook page of 94.3 WTIX-FM New Orleans, playing the greatest hits of all time. Heart 1675326183. living in rural washington parish now out of bogalusa and we needs signal cause we part of new orleans area. ALL-TIME BEST OLDIES STATIONS! They did the impossible and stayed there for years, despite the signal handicap. Amen! You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. Where is our favorite station ,Thibodaux is waiting ,,we miss it !! WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. Hot Rod Glenn, Best station in New Orleans La good job Mike. Happily, Tix-FM exists and is very enjoyable. 7. Preferred radio stations and music genres, user's Favorites, stations reviews and many other services need your personal data processing. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. WHAT ABOUT WSGN BIRMINGHAM, AL!!! who contributed to that magic. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. There were so many great Personality AM powerhouses in the 50s-70s. Hoot Gibson? One KLIF engineer told me the new night signal was so tight it went down Commerce Ave without touching either curb! . Ryan reynolds, rob mcelhenney take a rare bite out of welsh history with '20 ways to make rarebit' cookbook. We held a three-week online poll asking readers what they think are or were the best Top 40s, and here are the results: Not bad company for my first dream station that I ever worked for to be in. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. For a 15 year-old growing up in East Texas, the best station in the country was WNOE in New Orleans. Sign up with Google. Wonderful memories from my days of driving my 61 Chevy with the radio volume pegged listening to tunes during my Air Force hitch. Randy, get over yourself. 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 I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. Growing up in southern Minnesota from the late 1960s through the late 1970s, my friends and I listened to WDGY AM during the day and WLS AM after sunset. 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. Listen to 1080 wtic newstalk here and get all your favorite radio stations and podcasts on the go with the audacy app. Tix has been a big part in my life. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. Radio Ink is a registered trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. 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. 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. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Please click "I agree" to ensure that you'll have the best experience of using our website. You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. The Drake stations all had Kanner Boxes, but Ed Butterbaughs setup, 50,000 watts, and lax Canadian rules on positive modulation made CKLW jump out of radios in a dozen U.S. markets all day long, and made the programming sound even better. These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. I worked there as a young man when Mac owned the station, so I know first hand. Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest 89 WLS to the west, and The Big 8 CKLW, to the east. Reading what so many U.S. (3:56) Defense Department ready to draw lottery numbers for the 1971 military draft. Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? Great visit Great station!! Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. 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). Is this the fluff-stuff that fires the imaginations of contemporary radio people? TiIX is the only station I listen to. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. Lee and Randy How about adding to your list here? [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] With only a 1,000-watt night signal, KLIF routinely clocked more listeners than all other Dallas-Ft. Worth stations combined. Years later, I hired him as Mike Marshall from an AOR station in Toronto to do Smooth Jazz. Didnt happen, but the writing was on the wall. But Ive got to know, did anyone measure? And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. And lets not forget Z-100 (WHTZ) ITSELF! Your right Guy. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. Listen To 103.3/95.9 Earth FM WRTH From Greenville And Get All Your Favorite Radio Stations On The Go With The Audacy App. "WTIX and we love you" jingle 2. The glory days of CKLW were only five years long, but the Big 8s influence reverberates today. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. ), all air talent/music driven Top 40 stations. I love that people actually thought that Wolfman was LIVE on WGR. You can use the best adsense alternative for any type of website (they approve all websites), for more info simply It was worth driving 500 miles each way to hear live. No, but I was named for him. You mean that Lee Abrams guy who came to Toronto in 1977 to work his Superstar Format Magic against CHUM-FM? Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. (Re my comment posted same date @3:29p:) Now its boring as hell. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch. Had a lot of fun working at TR, too, and enjoyed doing Smooth Jazz. A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. TIX also streams online. Yes!!! At the very beginning of 1980, as Disco was rapidly dying, we went Top 40. I did. Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. WBLI Patchogue, LI (Long Island), NY After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. ( How to play on VLC Media Player) Thanks for all of the comments and memories! 41 were here. 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. 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! 17. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Listen to WTIX 94.3 FM live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. include Z-100! It didnt though. KFM-BFM San Diego was, IIRC, the first major market FM Top 40 to be #1 in all demographics 12+ and all day parts, in Fall 1977. Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. That's a good thing. Plus they had Uncle Larthey could not loseeven with the bad signalthat supermod was flamethrower quality! (Re my comment on 5/22/2018 @4:03 PM:) WABC was good but rarely great. WGR was a great station. * Robert Mitchell (with Jim Swiler) -Quarterback "BillyKilmore"November 1969 (1:17), * Robert Mitchell (with Katy Caraway) -Mardi Gras Phone CallsFebruary 28, 1980(5:18). Perry told me that he had a microphone switch activated recorder and would review each jock, each day and provide help. Yeah, Im biased, but KNUS belongs on the list. Lee and my mom. I cannot think of two greater, more knowledgeable guys one could ask to create this list (those who are gnashing their teeth and should have been included damn, dudes). It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. 9. I can still hear Roger Kleins growling delivery. I could hardly go to sleep cause I was so revved up by that great music and Long John Silver. 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! We had a blast in HOU. The idea was to protect some station in Canada. 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. That station was my LIFE as a kid. When that station had to be sold or loose its license and it went to beautiful music WHN, the Yankees went to a non-rock stationWCBS. WRKO Boston and JJ Jefrey was the best of the Boss format. THAT Lee Abrams guy? It really started in 1958 with Perry Allen, Russ The Moose Syracuse, Art Roberts and Dick Biondi. 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. Like the stations you name-dropped (call letter-dropped? Agreed! Johnny Holiday on WHK was awesome as well as when he was on 250 watt WRVM in Rochester in the fifties. Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! -Bruce Scott Favorite part is the commercial for the Barracuda (or Baccaruda as the Plymouth man said). The original KLIF night signal was only 1kw. It was one of the stations that the great Wolfman Jack did his show from. Easy to use internet radio. Enjoy Music Playlist! As a latecomer (1976) to the game, but well aware of the history, the key here is knowing and targeting your market, tailoring everything and everyone to it. 15. ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. It was a crazy idea. Two legendary Top 40s that apparently didnt make the cut for these lists. At the time, the AM was still number one! WMEX started in late 50s. If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. How many lost 45s I have bought listening to those old WCFL airchecks is astounding. Didnt lose a single bottle in flight from DFW to SF. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Boogie. Love your station. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! The reason I know about some radio history is that I was kid of 9 or 10 when my friends from Kenner told us about their new favorite radio station back in either 1958 or 1959. I was lucky to work with Randy for a long time (and regret that I didnt take better advantage of that connection as a petulant 20-something.). ); WKIX Raleigh, NC. I agree. And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. They lost the crown when WBBF went full time Top 40. Here she is complaining about. How about 50,000 watt CKY in Winnipeg ??? With WEAF/WNBC, WABC/WCBS, WJZ/WABC and WOR all having network shows and WNEW having success with DJs, the baseball teams were stuck with the three remaining stations when they started broadcasting baseball in 1939the Dodgers on WHN/WMGM, the Yankees on WINS and the Giants on WMCA. Its fitting that KB is on both of these lists. No mention of Pittsburgh area radio stations! Thank you Michael, Al JD , Hot Rod .Keep it going M & M . Well said. Sandy Shore went all the way to Drake LA as Marc Elliot. We had already run over Jack McCoy and his Last Contest. During the party, the dj there played the Doobie Bros Listen to the Music. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, I listen from Ponchatoula. The voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. How could you leave that out? And if you dont know what I mean by that. 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