Hope you are both well. It didnt though. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. WMGQ Magic 98.3 New Brunswick, NJ (WCTCs sister station) BTW, I was honored that I got to meet you at the CKLW Fifty Year celebration in Detroit in july. Rather than take it like a man you delist the most important Top 40 station in the history of radio. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. Top 20 based on what? Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. 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. I listen to the Crusin 1966 album almost religiously. 1. It deserves mention here. for you: they each began its first season [first season ever in the Falcons case, first season in a new market in the Braves case] at since-demolished Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. 10. KIIS/Los Angeles. you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! I remember in the late 50s and rarly 60s living in northern Illinois, we always tried to tune in to WBZ Boston that broadcast just a little higher on the dial than WLS in Chicago! 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. MEX had Dan Donovan and Fenway. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! The announcers of WTIX 94.3 FM are all veteran broadcasters. Listed Mike Marshall as one of, if not THE Smoothest jock ever. None of the 15Q guys Michaels mentions, were there when the station signed-on Dr. Steve (Bridgewater) West am drive, Ron Baptist midday, Shot Bob Kelly pm drive, Bro Mick Rizzo 6-10, Kid Curry did 10-2a WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. 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. The crew that made Pappy Smith famous. (5:10) * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33) Jim Craig Professor, Broadcast Studies Sorry. I listen as often as possible! Thanks for putting in the time and effort, much appreciated. No need to sign-up! 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. Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. In 1962, inspired by the success of the new CBS-TV show "The BeverlyHillbillies," WTIX created and recorded "The Ballad Of The TIX Tigers." Your contributions to the Seattle music scene and radio are undeniable. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. Please click "I agree" to ensure that you'll have the best experience of using our website. and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in 88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in 79), but in 73 or 74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM SM95 (I dont know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashvilles AC stations of the past. I wouldnt leave out KEWB Oakland, where such notables as The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, and Casey Kasem played DJ before any of them became nationally known. Especially before I Heart and Cumulus took over. Storz didnt own KOIL. ). Nolan B, Love Love TIX . KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. I lived in Erie at that time and listened to Jet 14 and Randy Michaels, along with Frank Martin, Ronnie G (Seggi), Jim Conners, Jack OBrien, and Al Knight. Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. Frank Jolly did afternoons on KBOX and was great and a little crazy. CKLW is definitely #1, and the most influential Top 40 of all time (thanks to Rosie). KJR gave the industry Larry Lujack, Kevin Metheny. I worked with legends. May 16, 1972. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. Big Time. During that same event KOMA lost power but had a generator I asked Perry how he knew when to cut back to utility power. The equipment was ancient. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. A doctors son financed the killer Top 40 15Q until the money ran out. More Fats D! Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. The Greatest Top 40 Stations Of All Time! 2 days later Live commercials for local businesses and PSA's another job offering for $4.00 an hour, * Bob Walker - with Hazel Belle Jenkins 1977 (1:19) Hazel Belle was one of our regular call-in "characters." (Top 40) I think it says something that I remember all those *personalities*. They were late in the AM game. You made radio come alive. Jet was truly a phenominal station. KNUZ/Houston. We werent allowed to say the word magic, because KMJC Magic 91 was a competitor. Now we know, it was CKLW! Sign up free 0:00 0:00 16. Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. WVLT, Vineland, NJ (for a long time and still currently, as far as I know) Not mentioned but it should be was WHND and the talents of Richard D haase, Boogie Brian, Jon Ray, Stew Wilkins, et.al. . In the end, it was 93Q that threw in the towel on the Top 40 formatbut then went on to become 93Q Country, eventually slaying the KIKK 96 longtime country behemoth. 19. MY GOD!, ANYdamnbody who the hell KNOWS A GODDAMN FUCKIN *THING* about Sixties and Seventies rock n roll radio KNOWS that KJR was one of the ALL-TIME GREATS in Top 40 radio AND IN RADIO, PERIOD!!!!! LOL Other stations interrupt. Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! Voice of the Rocky Mountains in Denver! KISN Portland?!? Jerry Clifton blazed a huge trail when he turned WXLO FM into 99x. She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. From 1966- thru 1976 they were a huge Atlanta powerhouse even with their highly directional 1KW at night at 790. Re said posters comment posted September 6, 2018 at 2:34 pm: Hear John Fred, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the Dixie Cups, Eddie Powers, Frankie Ford, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Barry, Mike Ancona, Milson Luce and Oliver "Who Shot The La-La" Morgan, all saying hi on Bob Walker's Original Oldie Hour at 12 noon on WTIX 690-am. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. Plus, (Boston: ) WBZ (AM & FM [separate broadcasts]), WHDH, WROR (to name just three in Boston); (Pittsburgh: ) KDKA, (oldies/AC hybrid) WTAE; (Chicago: ) WFYR, WIND (two jocks who worked at the latter during its AC era: Clark Weber (who not only previously did Top 40 at WLS and WCFL, and contemporary MOR and later Uptempo (read: all-soft rock hits) MOR at WMAQ, but also remained at WIND during its first all-talk format), and Connie Szerszen (pronounced SIR-zin)aka the Top Rock Girly Jock and the Polish Princess); (Charlotte: ) WBT; (Louisville: ) WHAS; (Los Angeles: ) KNX-FM, KOST (still going strong as an AC station), KFI (which, IINM, was AC twicein the mid-Seventies [when the AC format was known as Pop Adult, Soft Rock, Uptempo MOR, etc.] Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. * Bill Murvin -RC Cola SpotJuly 1969 (:34) $3.00 off a $19.95 portable 45 rpm record player. No way that can happen today, with so many other signals on every formerly clear channel. Talent like Ken Lowe (Steve Roddy), Rick Dees, Pat Patterson, Mike Reineri, Gary Edens, Tommy Walker, Eddie Weiss (Charlie Brown) with Jimmy Capps and Our Best To You in the late night hours and a terrific news team Joe Goodpasture, John Tesh, Doug Limerick, Bill Leslie, Mike Blackman. er. 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. * Bob Walker - Aircheck October 6, 1968 (10:47), It's a WTIX Golden Weekend on a Sunday Night. Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. 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. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Or you don't come in at all. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. LOL Other stations interrupt. Readers Top 10 Top 40s. 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. Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. Y100 Miami crushed it late 70s GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. KTNQ 10Q I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). Imagine how the whole history of Boston radio would be changed if that happened. Thats a shame. The official Facebook page of 94.3 WTIX-FM New Orleans, playing the greatest hits of all time. Heres a shout out to them. (27:24). THATS! I loved WAPE 690. Two very prominent stations in the TOP 40 history book! Those were some really good years on Twin Cities radio. between songs, and a 20-20 news summary of what was known at that moment by, Hazel Belle was one of our regular call-in "characters." 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! Login here. WABC won by dominating the areas WMCA didnt reach, and by raiding WMCA for talent and ideas. The "WTIX and we love you" jingle (courtesy of PAMS jingles). FTR I remember seeing this back when I was in the 8th grade on a movie reel. I worked at WCOG Greensboro during the short lived revival of the station under PD Phil Valentine now doing talk in Nashville, TNit was a Mann Media owned station then which included WGLD, and WKIX Raleigh..The Flying Dutchman started out in Mornings, only to leave and Steve Early movin in thereafter!!! When Gordon McLendon signed on KILT with 5,000 watts down at 610, it should have been endgame, but KNUZ bested KILT for a long time. I am in the Tour city, France in the end of March. Also playlists are working with VLC Media Player. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Memories 98.3 - WTIX is a broadcast station from Concord, North Carolina, United States, playing Classic Rock, Country, Oldies. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. 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. just wanted to list my name as the author of the preceding post. 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). I have to mention the station that I listened to every night growing up in Utah (and made me fall in love with radio) 1520 KOMA out of Oklahoma City. 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. 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. 17. Bruce Bradley at WBZ told me at a record hop in 1963 NOT to go into Radio. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. When we went Top 40, we added Carl Lee. Love those PAMS jingles and all of the hits mixed with crazy promotions. Certainly those of us who worked there would say so. 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! And it had Dr. Don Rose. David Kaye, 8/10/2017: His KFRC was better. They were king of radio, nevermind that they played beautiful music on Sundays..and had to sign off at sunset. Keep in mind, you can only create a playlist with your public videos. ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. 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. Again, I enjoyed reading about all the other great stations across the country as well. I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. All the Top 40 stations that Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels each included, those that many posters, myself included, called them out for omittingincluding those that you mentioned in your own comment, plus WIFI Philadelphia (WIFI 92 (pronounced Wi-Fi 92 (Whod have thought, right? Or certainly brought FM into the 1970s! Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. WHB was added in 1954. WAYS/Charlotte. They were even the first station to carry the Atlanta Falcons when the team started in 1967. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. !, FOR CHRISTS SAKE! Costello is best known as Michael in the Morning (M&M), host of the stations weekday morning show. Owned and operated by Audacy. Thanks for all of the comments and memories! One could consider ratings, longevity, originality, influence, or many other criteria. A further thought on this string: As kids growing up in Welland, Ontario, most of the radio we listened to was from Buffalo. CHUM Toronto (I mean, COME! WOV was on 1130. You might as well leave Larry Lujack out of your list of WLS jocks, yo! WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. And, I confess to plagiarizing W-C-F-L of-a-TownCHI-CA-GO for the rebranding of CKSL London Ontario in the mid 70s. I worked there later in time. WCBS-FM, New York (when they first launched, c. late 1980s into the 1990swent downhill since) After sunset gone. Ill never forget the zany humor of Gary Owens and Don MacKinnon on KEWB. Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. No, but I was named for him. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Daily industry headlines plus breaking news bulletins. Id say ask Dick Fatherley but hes gone now. station lost me. I listen from Ponchatoula. (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite. I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. 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 hope he and his legacy will never be forgotten. The music was very attractive in those days. Look at the Superstar talent that went thru there Paul Drew, Dr. Don Rose, Tony Taylor, Big Ron, Randy Robbins, Scott Shannon, John Leader, Gary Mckee and so many more. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. MSNBC News Trending 1. If youre THAT Johnny Holliday, werent you on WINS New York during the tail end of its Top 40 era (before flipping to (and pioneering) all-news radio in 1965? I worked in Trenton, MO in 78 and thought that WDAF 61 Country was great Top 40 radio and how good country radio could be programmed. So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. Every single one of us is in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, every single one has gone on to stellar careers in our chosen branch of the business, most of us still going strong. It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. It really started in 1958 with Perry Allen, Russ The Moose Syracuse, Art Roberts and Dick Biondi. General manager and program director Michael Costello developed TIX FM and is committed to preserving the legacy that is WTIX. The reason is KHJ, Drakes first RKO project, was huge news and sent Top 40 radio on a new trajectory that would eventually affect virtually every station in the format. Early adopter in the format (1958, survived to the mid-70s). Heart 1675326183. Love your show! ENSEMBLES: English Symphony Orchestra. (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. Jim Jackson. So many great stations not mentioned here. In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - 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. Redeem Now Buffering PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 392 8 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. , Skip Wilkerson -Aircheck Morning Drive, March 16, 1965 (10:02), * Sy Jenkins - Aircheck 20/20 Newscast, with David Lawrence and Jon Reed 5/20/70 ( 8:38 ), Beatles Concert Ticket Contest- WTIX September 1964 (1:02), *Louise Harrison Caldwell WTIX Aircheck, August 5, 1964. No doubt WQXI held off FM competition for years after the city grew beyond its signal. I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. CKLW in late 60s and early 70s was like listening to a non-stop party. Gene Chenalt was a gentleman who was always good to me. I was still a AM KFRC fan up until 1983. Dic Youngs, Jim Michaels, Mike Pace. 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. CKLW went Drake and WXYZ and WKNR went away.50,000 watts put the Big 8 into Cleveland,Toledo and eastern PA.I remember CKLW giving the weather for Toledo and Cleveland. 8. Gotta put a vote in for The Big 143, CKFH! WADOs 1280 signal was originally a time share of WAAM Newark, WODA in Patterson and WHBI. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. I'm a 79 year old and love your line up. . Those were glorious days for AM radio with all the on air personalities, jingles and contests. Budweiser Beer( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), Kreeger's Mam'zelle K Shop(RobertMitchell), Metairie Ford(Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! Keep on keeping on. 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. That station was my LIFE as a kid. WYHY (Y107)/Nashville. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? WAPE/Jacksonville. Kids all over the Midwest left their radios on 890, turned them on after school, and waited for darkness. ABCs $50,000 Button? This station has a major-market sound in a small market. 2. How many lost 45s I have bought listening to those old WCFL airchecks is astounding. In 1983, right after NBC paid six figures to researchers to learn that there was absolutely no hole for Top 40 in New York, Milt Maltz paid $8.3 million for an FM in Newark that played show tunes, figured out how to move it to Empire, brought in a redneck morning man and PD (Scott Shannon, who was so not New York and went worst to first). 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