And looking at the remaining characteristics, Big 10 had it all. *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. 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. Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), 20/20 Newscast, with David Lawrence and Jon Reed 5/20/70, St. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, on September 16, 1964. Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio 1675325920. Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. Alternatively, you can select which cookies or technologies you want to allow in "Settings". Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home. PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX by AH3RD Limited Time Offer: Get 50% off the first year of our best annual plan for artists with unlimited uploads, releases, and insights. This was a tough assignment because so many great stations had to be left out. Yes!!! Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Here she is complaining about. 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 WDHA Dover, NJ (since reformatted to (Album-Oriented) Rock 15. A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. 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. Loved by everyone in all the western states! I listen to the Crusin 1966 album almost religiously. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. 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. It was more than just the music. 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). Though I grew up and lived my whole life in Philadelphia, for Top 40, my all-time favorite station was WABC. It was worth driving 500 miles each way to hear live. 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! Another great station that should have made the list. And it had Dr. Don Rose. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - THE SOUND OF SILENCE, KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND - I'M YOUR BOOGIE MAN, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - MIDNIGHT RIDER, MIKE & THE MECHANICS - ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - BREAKDOWN, NAKED EYES - ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME, HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS - I WANT A NEW DRUG, GEORGIA SATELLITES - KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS - I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU, MARVIN GAYE - I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL - DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - SUNSPOT BABY, BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE - ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY, TEARS FOR FEARS - SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - SWEET TALKING WOMAN, BROWNSVILLE STATION - SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM, KATRINA & THE WAVES - WALKING ON SUNSHINE, JOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND - ON THE DARK SIDE, MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - DANCING IN THE STREET, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - YOU'LL ACCOMP'NY ME, RUPERT HOLMES - ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG), SPIRAL STARECASE - MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY, JOE JACKSON - IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM, REO SPEEDWAGON - CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING, ELTON JOHN - SATURDAY NIGHTS ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - THE FIRE DOWN BELOW, ROLLING STONES - LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER, TAVARES - HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - DON'T BRING ME DOWN, THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND - THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES - I CAN'T GO FOR THAT, BILLY VERA AND THE BEATERS - AT THIS MOMENT, STING - IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE, LONDONBEAT - I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU, GLASS TIGER - DON'T FORGET ME WHEN I'M GONE, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS - CRIMSON AND CLOVER, TEARS FOR FEARS - EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, SCANDAL (FEATURING PATTY SMYTH) - THE WARRIOR, BARRY WHITE - YOU'RE THE FIRST, THE LAST, MY EVERYTHING, MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS - DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON, JOHN LENNON - WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT, MEAT LOAF - PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT, SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - DANCE TO THE MUSIC, DOOBIE BROTHERS - TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS, U2 - I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, TINA TURNER - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - MARY JANE'S LAST DANCE, JOE COCKER AND JENNIFER WARNES - UP WHERE WE BELONG, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND - KATMANDU, JOHN PARR - ST. ELMO'S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION), DURAN DURAN - IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW, DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES - KISS ON MY LIST, SPINNERS - COULD IT BE I'M FALLING IN LOVE, MEMBER PROGRAM - BRINGING MOTOWN TO OUR TOWN. So many markets not mentioned. So was WVAQ, I am the person that changed it from beautiful music to Top 40 in 1976. In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. Im referring to WPWT, 91.7 FM, in Philadelphia, from mid-1978 to early 1980, of which I was proudly a part. 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). There were some outstanding stations and many of the personalities became legends. 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. 5. On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. That 50,000-watt night signal put everything east of the Rockies in earshot at night. Listening from Toronto. a painter at $3.00 an hour among other stuff of 1972. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. Sorry no credibility. WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. TIX also streams online. KNUS was a big deal when FM became commercially viable. . Forgot your username or Before there was Drake, there was Storz and McLendon. CHUM Toronto (I mean, COME! Create a playlist Find a video you want in the playlist. A list of 20 is too short. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. Fenway Park was in back of 70 Brookline Avenue. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Metairie, LA, USA. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. WRKO were all slices from the Bill Drake pie. To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. Pontchartrain Beach jingledonut and bed only -late 1960's (:42). (I still havent forgiven the Dodgers for leaving.) After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). One night I decided to check out thatr box. . Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. Both were top rated when AM Radio was King. For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. WTIM was unable to reach outside of Taylorville at night due to its FCC-mandated 63 watts of power. Oldies station for new orleans louisiana. The FM is still Tp 40. Paul in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. The Last Contest was born here. The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. 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). How many lost 45s I have bought listening to those old WCFL airchecks is astounding. (takeoff on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). (For some reason, WMMR, which also joined in on that format, didnt appeal to me as much.) and the WKNR Keener 13 crew. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. WIBBAGE had personalities, good on-air production and a remarkable audience share; WFIL came along in 1965 and had the best example of tight production and format anywhere. Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. Love those PAMS jingles and all of the hits mixed with crazy promotions. 16. 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? The number one selection by the fan picks proves that the entire country would have benefited. I knew what I wanted to do forever. One of our four chime tones that we played whenever we announced what time it was in the 1970's. Yes, football on Top 40 worked for them with the excitement of a new team in town. This station has a major-market sound in a small market. And if neither WAPE Jacksonville, FL NOR WQXI was the WABC of the South, so many of the larger Southern cities were contenders for that title: including New Orleans (WNOE as well as WTIX), Atlanta again (WPLO, WAKE (with its 1,000-watts daytime/250-watts nighttimeand prior to the early 60s, 250 watts full timesignal! Jim Connors from WJET went to WMEX in Boston in 1971. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. An industry veteran thats been everywhere. WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. Marc took The Outrageous FM to a 17 share, 500,000 cume in a market of less than a million at the time. I listen as often as possible! Glad to see the two stations I grew up with listed here. 13. Everything about KB was show business. The best part of these 3 lists is bringing back the memories of when RADIO was competitive, creative, and most of all FUN. P.S. Several on-air staff departed for KTNQ Los Angeles in late 1976, creating openings for Shotgun Tom Kelly in AM drive, Glen (Martin) McCartney middays, yours truly in PM drive and Gene Knight in the evenings. Spotify for Artists is the only way to submit new music for playlisting. 2. 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. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. Ryan reynolds, rob mcelhenney take a rare bite out of welsh history with '20 ways to make rarebit' cookbook. Ill give you Z-100 in New York (a bit later era, but still deserving). His advice was 3 years too late. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. It didnt though. As a result, the signal to the Northwest started to die around Norristown, 5-10 miles away from the towers in Lafayette Hill, PA. WIBG started as a 25 watt station in a church in Elkins Park, PA, probably in the 1920s. Great call letters, too. 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. Nolan B, Love Love TIX . Nice! Anyway, brother Dick took over the station after Mac died and wrecked it. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. 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. Even though I came later in the game to be involved with some of the biggest of those stations, I did make it to a couple. - English, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road 3rd Floor, Metairie, LA 70006, Breakfast with The Beatles Every time I went in there Id look at that thing and was kind of awesome. How bout them Kardashians.? History-making in so many ways, and still great today. station lost me. WHB was an early top 40 station but The Worlds Happiest Broadcasters were not the first. WTIX FM 94.3 Webplayer. Pitch your music to a global audience. Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. Cant do it. The Other Woman. We're streaming. Additional examples: (New York:) WNBC (later Top 40, back to AC even later), WPIX, WYNY (first as AOR-oriented AC, then as hybrid MOR/Soft AC, then as Mainstream AC), WNSR Soft Rock 105/WMXV Mix 105; Todays 93.1 (simulcast of former BM/EZs WPAT-AM/FM Easy 93 Paterson, NJ); (Philadelphia: ) WIP (which had made a gradual transition from traditional MOR to AC from circa 1969 to the mid-70s if not the latter part of the early 70s [and, ironically, was itself Top 40 from 1960 until the following year, when it flipped to MOR (all MOR radio then was traditional, regardless of whether such stations occasionally played softer rock n roll hits); (CONTINUED) There was no mold for WLS. Oh wait. Dic Youngs, Jim Michaels, Mike Pace. I was stationed at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the 60s and loved WHB with DJ Johnny Dolan and others. Date of Recording: 1996 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 94.3 WTIX-FM (KLEB-FM/KZZQ-FM/KBAU) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personalities: Jay Douglas, Doug O'Brien (News) (WNBC/WINS) Contributor: Annonymous. I have listened to this channel since I was a teenager! CFL! Edgier. ArkivMusic ITunes. I was also working for Norman Petty in Clovis NM at the time. Its city of license is Galliano, Louisiana. I ended up racking up 25 years total. From 1966- thru 1976 they were a huge Atlanta powerhouse even with their highly directional 1KW at night at 790. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. It was one of the stations that the great Wolfman Jack did his show from. During the summer I would break away and listen to WCCO AM for Twins baseball games. Ill never forget the zany humor of Gary Owens and Don MacKinnon on KEWB. 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