Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. Mac Richmond (one of the owners) was a crazed micro-manager and abrasive as sandpaper, but he knew talent. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. Locally owned by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting, the station operates at 100,000 watts and serves the city of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Watch the video below! Kids all over the Midwest left their radios on 890, turned them on after school, and waited for darkness. WRKO-FM/98.5 (R-KO, The Shy But Friendly Robot) should get some honorable mention. Suitcase Simpson, Chuck Boo Baron, Eddie Beacon the Swingin Deacon, and others have never sounded better. Yes I was lucky enough to be in LA as a kid when KHJ was at its peak in the mid/late 60s and worked at KRTH in 70s when Paul Drew was National PD. 2 Having caught the radio bug at age 6, I soon got my first gig as a button pusher riding high as the weekend tape jockey. WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. KJR gave the industry Larry Lujack, Kevin Metheny. The voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. KILT Houston? Special thanks to treasured mentors Jhani Kaye, Bill Gardner and Dr. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. It may be 1pm here but it is Noon Chime Time on my radio. Mad Daddy Pete Myers, Johnny Holliday, Scott Burton, Pat Fitzgerald, Johnny Walters, Ron Riley, Carl Reese and Keith Morris, what a great air staff. I agree with Steve above that WSGN was a great station under PD Jim Tabor. Longtime morning man Lacy Neff passing was big news last June. Owned and operated by Audacy. B100 really captured the San Diego sound. And in Buffalo, the list of the greatest Adult Contemporary rockers of all time would have to include not only the aforementioned WGR, but also WBEN and-particularly circa mid-to-late 80s-are you ready for this?-WKBW. Reading what so many U.S. Also playlists are working with VLC Media Player. WBLI Patchogue, LI (Long Island), NY Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. WKBW/Buffalo. Hope you are both well. Ah, but Randy included the great WAPE!! THATS! Even though they had such a large audience with the 50,000watt tower. November1969 (1:09). . Have you heard it? My list would probably put KFRC #2, KCBQ #3 and CKLW #4. Also, not at all intending to sound braggadocious, I think I was the first one to introduce a Classic Rock format. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You have entered an incorrect email address! Agreed! Nice! KYNO deserved the inclusion, Doc. THATS! I agree that Burt Levine created magic in that quonset hut! (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.) And this is only a partial listing. WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. WasntKXOL in Fort Worth Top 40 back in the day? about IRONY! Definitely a slick imaged station! 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! And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. KSFO was MOR, not Top 40. * Bob Walker -AircheckMay 16, 1972 (11:00). 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. I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. @Radiovet Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time. Re said posters comment posted September 6, 2018 at 2:34 pm: We had already run over Jack McCoy and his Last Contest. And everyone remembers Yours Truly KOMA and the kissing tone. This was definitely an era where radio was fun. 90.7. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. At its prime, KISN was the king of Top 40 radio in this market. Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. WQXI was promotionally crazy at times (Rambling Raft Race) and very localized to the market musically. Photograph. When Metro Traffic came to Nashville, Marc put a Dumpster in the station parking lot and asked listeners to donate scrap metal so Y107 could buy a plane. P.S. The story (as I understand it) is that Mac Richmond (one of the WMEX owners) let Garabedian mix in some album cuts and long versions of the hits, and broke some stuff along the way (Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart being one). Jeff Hurvitz 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. 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 would agree with how great WRKO was. contest promo, a rats in the city PSA, and a Donovan concert promo by Robert Mitchell. Also thanks for mentioning WROV in Roanoke. Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. Lou Saint . Automation, consolidation and syndication killed the small-and-medium-market farm system that fed those larger-market stations. 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. Pardon the rambling, but that station was Top 40 during the day and Italian-language programming in the evening, with overnights split between jazz & R&B (the latter three from when it was WOV prior to the ownership change in 1959 that changed it to WADO and shuffled at least either of those dayparts to a different time slot). 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. Memories 98.3 - WTIX is a broadcast station from Concord, North Carolina, United States, playing Classic Rock, Country, Oldies. Talk about versatility!) Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Top talent, memorable promotions, attention-getting advertising, over-the-top production, and a relentless focus on the listener, not the advertiser, made the McLendon stations ratings juggernauts. 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. In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. WDGY had Bob Dayton, Jimmy Reed and the great Gene Leader, more well known as Mean Gene Okerlund. The best part of these 3 lists is bringing back the memories of when RADIO was competitive, creative, and most of all FUN. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (now Hot AC 94-3 The Point) 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. Well vetted comments like Randy and Lee are so welcome. 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. Charlie Tuna! This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. The music is just wonderful. Great program directors in Holland Cooke for AM and Gary Berkowitz for FM. 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? Of course we took him up on his offer. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. FKA ChuckerI'm now. I did all nights at WFUN during my junior year in college at Miami and did the same in my senior year at WQAM. And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33), * Don Anthony -Louis Prima Interview 1974 (10:00), * Buzz Bennett -AircheckApril 1967 Buzz at his manic best. Like a lot AM stations. Mac Richmond brought Arnie Ginsburg to 1510 from WBOS-AM. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! You mean that Lee Abrams guy who came to Toronto in 1977 to work his Superstar Format Magic against CHUM-FM? MEX had Dan Donovan and Fenway. Plus they had Uncle Larthey could not loseeven with the bad signalthat supermod was flamethrower quality! And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. 2. Already a user? As the song says tear open my shirt to show Rosie on my chest. (I still havent forgiven the Dodgers for leaving.) ABCs $50,000 Button? And it had Dr. Don Rose. CKY came in like a local during the day at Bemidji, Minnesota. WHAT the damn FUCK??? 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 Marlene I am so sad to hear that Lacy is no longer with us. play De La Salle, the time chime and the music that was on your radio. 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. Great Stuff and why I got into radio for a few years full time and a couple of decades, part~time. 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! Super CFL!! A great Top 40 station. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). By the time I went off to college in 1978, there were more FM radio options that I switched to. Keep rocking! (And!, heres some *trivia*!! Unfortunately from what I understand, you were not part of the team at the time IIRC. Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. KCBQ/San Diego. I remember listening to tix as a teenag The sounds that listeners remembered the most: 1.) 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. WMGK Magic 103 (soft rock-oriented AOR until modifying to hits-oriented soft rock in the early 80s); WSNI Sunny 104/104 and-a-half/Sunny 104.5 (first hybrid AC- /MOR-based easy listening, then all-soft rock hits), Kiss 100 (WKSZ Media, PA) WSSJ Camden, NJ; WJBR Wilmington, DE; and even WIBG and WFIL (1975-77 (before briefly going Top 40 for the last time) and 1977-81, respectively). What a great business it was back then! The sounds that listeners remembered the most: ( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), (Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Maybe Im biased, but its my list. Personally, I thought WQAM was the best and is on my list, but thats not to take anything away from KXOK, WHB, KOMA, KOWH, WTIX WDGY. WICC Bridgeport, CT 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. 70006 (504) 454 9000 Website: http://wtixfm.com/ Email: questions@wtixfm.com Stations WTIX-FM New Orleans' Oldies Station Shows American Top 40 - The 70's For the first time ever, these digitally remastered are now available to terrestrial radio. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! 10. June 1962. May 16, 1972. Listening to Happy Hare or Shotgun Tom or Charlie and Harrigan, you wouldnt know the calls originally stood for CBS Quality.. Also includes commercials for Pontchartrain Beach, the 1962 Ford Galaxy, Mexsana Powder, 7-Up Float, and amention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. he was a great talent and a class act! !, yet!) Generic syndication and voice-tracking leave little room for localized fun and connection and way fewer role models for the next generation of announcers. Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. 2. If I could go to 30, TIX and MCA WOUKD certainly be in the mix. Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky. 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. (3/30/2018 @11:15p: ) , 4539 N. I-10 Service road Third FloorMetairie, LA. Quixie in Dixie. K92 was mentioned and they picked up the number one spot a few years after they went on the air in 1980, dethroning WROV. 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.) I like the mention of Big WAYS and WTIX as I lived in those cities and I used to hear WAPE. In stereo! 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. Then the Canadian govt. , June 1970. 3036 Estate Aldersville Christiansted, VI 00820 Phone: 340-718-3339 Fax: 340-774-7092 * Bob Walker - Aircheck October 6, 1968 (10:47), It's a WTIX Golden Weekend on a Sunday Night. The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. (27:24) Relive the fun for almost a half hour with Robert Mitchell and the radio hits of 1969. While at age 20 I had only about 10% of an idea of how to actually be an effective PM drive personality, I had loads of freedom, encouragement from Bobby Rich, inspiration from all my peers and energy to spare. Toast. 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). Ask most any of themit was the greatest experience of their careers. Hear the audio that matters most to you. KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. NO way is it possible to please every jock and every station PD or group owner. KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade. Lock it in and rip the knob off.. Ill give you Z-100 in New York (a bit later era, but still deserving). I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. I have radios in every room in my home. That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! In his undershirt he personally cooked, and rice, along with corn bread for us. That KB audio could also be heard as One of Americas TOO great radio stations. 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. One night I decided to check out thatr box. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. WMEX is my favorite Top 40 station of all time!! Biggest problem was losing talent to bigger markets. 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. 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. Thank you I Heart, for ruining the industry. He hired major-market talent and they stayed. By far, #1: WPEN, Philadelphia (1975-76) WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. heard all over western US and Canada anybody remember ?? As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. ***HELL***!! Yeah, Im biased, but KNUS belongs on the list. He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. Hey! To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. One KLIF engineer told me the new night signal was so tight it went down Commerce Ave without touching either curb! However you guys have to increase your power. While I was a devoted listener of the Big 89 for years before, thats when the (Top 40?) Many of the big AM Top 40 stations had FM stations. They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. 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. Jet was truly a phenominal station. The Big 8 will NEVER be forgotten! I'm a 79 year old and love your line up. Sandy Shore went all the way to Drake LA as Marc Elliot. Randys list is more insightful, but both of them left out WFIL, which some felt at the time was the best Top 40 station in the U.S. (around 1968-1970). After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. Ill never forget the zany humor of Gary Owens and Don MacKinnon on KEWB. Over 50 million titles available from the Apple Music catalog! Loved by everyone in all the western states! NPR/Classical. All Top 40 radio leaned towards MOR in the early Fifties. Early Feb., 1980, the station management purged us all. And looking at the remaining characteristics, Big 10 had it all. TIX also streams online. (Jesus!, to leave out some of the Top 40 stations in any major city and yet mention WABC, WLS, CKLW or even Z-100, your input has gotta the hell motherfuckin suck SHIT!). * Bill Murvin -Bernie Dumas Buick Spot November1969 (:32), * Gene Phillips - Aircheck June 1962. An industry veteran thats been everywhere. 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! But Ive got to know, did anyone measure? The GOAT top Forty stations were in almost every market, major, large, medium and even many small markets. (Shit, KJR was the KISN of *Washington State* **AS IT WAS**!) From the early 60s to the mid 70s, WKIX was a powerhouse. You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! Listen to any aircheck from any era of Kaplan ownership Jack Gale, Robert Murphy, Boo Baron, or Jay Thomas. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. No need to sign-up! Of course, Im referring to CKLW and KFRC. WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! 3. Everything about KB was show business. 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