love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. 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 More. HOWEVER, PLEASE do something about it dropping constantly. It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. 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.) That shout is still in use at 620 AM and 103.5 FM, which use the WAKY calls today.). WBLI Patchogue, LI (Long Island), NY The aforementioned call letters are at least said to have originally stood for I Believe in God.. Apologies for any Ive forgotten Or you don't come in at all. Generic syndication and voice-tracking leave little room for localized fun and connection and way fewer role models for the next generation of announcers. 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. Something is amiss. Keep on keeping on. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. 11. You wont remember but at the 1969 Billboard convention, you were PD of KSTT and I asked you a bunch of questions. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. Sign up free 0:00 0:00 That rarely exists anymore. It was my good fortune to program KIOA in those days. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. Beers. 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. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. Cant do it. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. Godchaux (Bob Walker), Pepsi (Bob Walker), the Zoom Zoom Room, RC Cola contest (Bill Murvin), * Robert Mitchell -Aircheck November1969 (22:45), Another Robert Mitchell Morning. @Phil Dirt Boogie. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Not mentioned but it should be was WHND and the talents of Richard D haase, Boogie Brian, Jon Ray, Stew Wilkins, et.al. It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. WooWoo!!!!. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. Classic Hits Classic Rock Oldies Pop RnB FM 94.3 - 64Kbps Galliano - Louisiana , United States - English Suggest an update Get the live Radio Widget Leave a comment Leave a review View comments View reviews Guest The editorial staff at Radio Ink came up with a great story and executed it well. WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. I did all nights at WFUN during my junior year in college at Miami and did the same in my senior year at WQAM. While I was there a tornado hit nearby at a car dealership. ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. Dick Lamb and Gene Loving also did a show called Disc-O-Ten on WAVY-TV, and Lamb later had a morning talk show on WTAR (now WTKR), Channel 3. I was also working for Norman Petty in Clovis NM at the time. Great station playing the music I grew up with. WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New Yorks then-impending wattage boost) WROV in Roanoke deserves a mention On the market for close to five years with more listeners than all other Roanoke stations Bert Levine, who owned the station, believed very much in developing personalities without exception all the personalities on the station became major celebrities in Western Virginia. 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. Love your station. KMPC remained Adult Contemporary (the soft-rock radio formats name by then) until about the turn of the following decade. It would be impossible to make a top 20 list that everyone would like, but these are great! If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. Lets also at least have some hat tips toward the unmentioned above: WKIX in Raleigh (with Pat Patterson and other huge talents, and huge numbers too), WCOG in Greensboro, WTOB and WAIR in Winston-Salem, WIBG and WFIL in Philly, WMEX in Boston, WOLF in Syracuse, WPTR in Albany, WQXI in Atlanta, WQAM in Miami, XERB (Wolfman era) in Tijuana/San Diego/Coastal CA), WIL in St. Louis, KOMA in Oklahoma City (as big with skywave in the West as WKBW was in the East), KAAY in Little Rock (another skywave monster) WXYZ in Detroit, CKEY in Toronto, WMID in Atlantic City, WINS and WMGM in New York (which lost to WMCA and WABC, but still), WAPE (The Big Ape) in Jacksonville and the coast up to Hatteras, KFWB and KRLA in Los Angeles, KYNO in Fresto, KFRC and KSFO in San Francisco, KIMN in Denver, KLIF in Dallas, WSAI in Cincinnati, WING in Dayton, WITH in Baltimore, WEAM and WPGC in DC Okay, Ill stop there. Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! . I am in the Tour city, France in the end of March. Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. I love all of the comments! There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. 2. That KB audio could also be heard as One of Americas TOO great radio stations. Storz didnt own KOIL. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. Ya just cant ignore a station that spawned Jay Thomas, The Greaseman, and Hoyle Dempsey, as well as having a swimming pool where you could dive in OUTSIDE and surface INSIDE in the lobby! Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. I did. He's an old, white guy, so who knows what he'll say? WHAT THE DAMN FUCK? Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. A Collection of Songs & Covers by the Greatest A Cappella Group Ever. WKBW/Buffalo. Jim Craig Professor, Broadcast Studies Everything about KB was show business. WOV was on 1130. Between the two, I slightly favored CKLWwhich was really the work of a woman, Rosalie Trombley, who I believe was officially the Music Director. Hi Mike! Already a user? The personality line up was one heavy hitter after another. 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. * 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. KILT in Houston? It was worth driving 500 miles each way to hear live. Pentatonix (PTX) WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. 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). Hows that for some entertaining teachers?! I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. Listen to 1080 wtic newstalk here and get all your favorite radio stations and podcasts on the go with the audacy app. WHAT ABOUT WSGN BIRMINGHAM, AL!!! Mike Marshall (Frank Brodie) Burlington, ON, Great to see you comments Mike. Weekends also feature Breakfast with the Beatles and Casey Kasem American Top 40 70s show. Both were top rated when AM Radio was King. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] IMNSHO I felt WLS hit their pinnacle right about 1981-2 when they segued to a Rock-40 format. * Skip Wilkerson - Aircheck Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), Lots of Beatles stuff and Beatles concert ticket finalists *Humorous Anacin commercial "I ONLY HAVE. For a 15 year-old growing up in East Texas, the best station in the country was WNOE in New Orleans. (P.S., Rockin Ron did a great Oldies Show Sunday nights on WBT, Charlotte). (3:13), * Bob Walker -Fats Domino PhoneInterview 1980 (5:51) Fats talks about his music, his upcoming shows at Bobby's Place, his upcoming movie with Clint Eastwood, and his new song in it, and he invites me and our Program Director Robert Mitchell over to his house next, weekso he can cook for us. search in gooogle: boorfes tips monetize your website. 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. Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. 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. Every time I went in there Id look at that thing and was kind of awesome. In March 1975, Bobby Rich (AKA Dr. Mad Daddy Pete Myers, Johnny Holliday, Scott Burton, Pat Fitzgerald, Johnny Walters, Ron Riley, Carl Reese and Keith Morris, what a great air staff. The Last Contest was born here. WWOZ 90.7 FM. At night I loved hearing Jackson Armstrong on WKBW, boogie check with the hilarious John Records Landecker on WLS and Supermax on CKLW! I hope he and his legacy will never be forgotten. Miller Communications, Inc. wanted to give WTIM's newstalk format a better signal both daytime and nighttime, so it secured 97.3 FM and moved WTIM from 1410 AM to 97.3 FM on November 13, 1997. 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. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! ), WCAU-FM Philadelphia (not just its Top 40 format, but also the Disco format that immediately preceded it), WOR-FM/WXLO New York, AOR-turned-pop WPLJ New York (as Top 40 and later Hot AC, the latter since defunct (the owners of the syndicated Christian AC network K-Love bought the station almost four months ago and took over WPLJ just nine days ago)), WBUD Trenton, NJ, and WYNG Goldsboro, NC come to mind. 40 share and better in the 60s. 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. please never go off air TIX !! This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. It didnt though. (takeoff on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). At least as far as CHR radio goes . You will get your reward soon- in bankruptcy court! Amen. At the time, the AM was still number one! Morgantown? They got 60 shares in Dallas with that signal. What about Kimn in Denver? 90.7. The GOAT top Forty stations were in almost every market, major, large, medium and even many small markets. You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! Holliday was also great as Baron of the Bay at KYA/SF. While WBZ was more sophisticated in many ways, WMEX played to the city (where their somewhat limited signal was best) so they had a grittier, earthier, more high-energy city sound. Oh!, SHIT! PLAYLIST lets you make playlists from your Apple Music library. THERE!!! Come on, no KOMA, Oklahoma City! They had a very strong signal at night and played all the latest hits!! 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. As we were next to WIFI on the dial, people were tuning us in by accident and said they liked us better! The greatest Top 40 station of all time? The Drake and Drew format there tore my ears off! Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Louisiana Power & Light. I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. 15. I completely agree. Marc Chase made more noise at WFLZ and WEBN, but this was his best work. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. Frank Brodie (CKLW) was incredible on the air in ANY format, as were most of the jocks from the true Top 40 era. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. Voice of the Rocky Mountains in Denver! In Your Room. Easy to use internet radio. This was a tough assignment because so many great stations had to be left out. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. YOU ARE!!! Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. Incidentally, almost all of us had been previously on WKDU, which shared time with us on 91.7 FM. WCFL was occasionally a better station. 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). CFL! Hope you are both well. Tix has been a big part in my life. P.S. Even to this day, as someone who, demographically, is supposed to be way outside the Top 40 parameters Im a 50-something male I still love a great CHR-Pop station. Wed 22.02 Thu 23.02 Fri 24.02 Sat 25.02 Sun 26.02 Mon 27.02 Tue 28.02 Recommended Sign up to leave a comment and share your thoughts with other listeners. Mac Richmond did not wreck WMEX. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. include Z-100! You mentioned Philly Top 40 station WFIL but not that same citys WIBG? Some stations have been amazing at times and just awful at others. It was the Top 40 station in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. It was a magical blend of personality, jingles, contests, and fun mixed with the greatest music that defined the era and continues to live today. KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. How good is that? Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. KIIS/Los Angeles. Register here. Better production. KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. This website uses cookies for analytics and personalization. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home. 1. Ed Ripley voiceover, featuring The Nerveless Nocks and the Poodle Express. Listen to WTIX 94.3 FM live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. He also did a live show from the afored mentioned WGR in Buffalo. 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. you played a song today between 10am and noon, the lyrics were You don't have to come home, you can rome because I don't love you and you don't love me. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) ! ran top of every hour. 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. 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