Jet was truly a phenominal station. I based this list on originality and impact. WJET-FM debuted at number one. Favorite part is the commercial for the Barracuda (or Baccaruda as the Plymouth man said). How about 50,000 watt CKY in Winnipeg ??? CONDUCTOR: William Boughton. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Heart 1675326183. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! At least in my city. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. He stole and enhanced McLendons treasure hunts and other promotions and added a crazy outrageousness that hasnt happened since, except maybe for the Power Pig, which owes a lot to the Kaplans. It was my good fortune to program KIOA in those days. 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. Lol! I cant believe the PNW was left off of everybodys list. 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. 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. 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. I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. Until WFIL became top 40 in 1966 WIBG was it in Philadelphia, although there was great R and B at WHAT 1340 and WDAS 1480. WEBE WEBE (pronounced WEE-bee) 108 Westport, CT (WICCs sister station) The McLendon format memos remain some of the best how-to handbooks for radio. Around these parts, that means 106.1 KISS-FM in DFW. WasntKXOL in Fort Worth Top 40 back in the day? It was a crazy idea. The aforementioned call letters are at least said to have originally stood for I Believe in God.. great memories from back in the day when radio was great. . Rather than take it like a man you delist the most important Top 40 station in the history of radio. ), I meant, so many Top 40 stations in the larger Southern cities were contenders for that title., Is this the Ron Parker I listened to on 93Q in Houston? 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) Sign up with Facebook Super CFL!! * Robert Mitchell (with Jim Swiler) -Quarterback "BillyKilmore"November 1969 (1:17), * Robert Mitchell (with Katy Caraway) -Mardi Gras Phone CallsFebruary 28, 1980(5:18). WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. This is my favorite Top 40. Im not sure what happened to WYNG except that it was possibly drowned in the FM tsunami. He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. About the app Radio stations that might interest you Top 5 1. WTIX Back To The Beach CD Signing 17 Choice Oldies CD Signing Bob Walker, T-Ben Boudreaux, Engineer Tom Courtney, Michael in the Morning, and Terry Knight (l-r) at the WTIX-FM 17 Choices Oldies CD signing remote broadcast at Borders Books in Metairie, Louisiana on 12/10/05. But now,looking back, it was a different era, and AM rode the wave while it was there. It was just too great a line not to steal. Many of the most spectacular Top 40 stations werent around that long. Listening to Happy Hare or Shotgun Tom or Charlie and Harrigan, you wouldnt know the calls originally stood for CBS Quality.. Pat KJR was a great station. you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! The number one selection by the fan picks proves that the entire country would have benefited. And it had Dr. Don Rose. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. The Drake and Drew format there tore my ears off! Nice comments, Jim. Boogie. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. Todd Storz introduced a tight pop music format on KOWH in 1953. Hard To Handle. Oldies, needed now more then ever!!! Finally, a plug for WGH. 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. Apparently all of the contributors didnt pay much attention. 10. WMCA killed WABC in the ratings from 1963-1965. Owned and operated by Audacy. Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. Listen Live Memories 98.3 Fm Radio With Onlineradiobox.com. The DJ's he 'sings' about are: Ron Martin, David Nebel, Bill Baker, Ed Ripley, Bob Robin, Ted Green and Gene Phillips. 90.7. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Many stations saved money on jingles by getting names cut during a session or by recycling house names. Memories 98.3 - WTIX is a broadcast station from Concord, North Carolina, United States, playing Classic Rock, Country, Oldies. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. By far, #1: WPEN, Philadelphia (1975-76) WABC was the Yankees of the group. Mind if I add a few more Top 40 stations of the past, anyway, Doc? Thats a shame. Of course we took him up on his offer. And I definitely remember John Leader. Early Feb., 1980, the station management purged us all. More Fats D! CD Signing Video On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. You can use the best adsense alternative for any type of website (they approve all websites), for more info simply It was top 40 while I was there, after I left they adopted an AOR format and changed the call letters from WAJR to WVAQ. How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. I like edgy Top 40 stations, and that WLS was not. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. Never missed him, as he made R & B come alive. Sorry. (P.S., Rockin Ron did a great Oldies Show Sunday nights on WBT, Charlotte). 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 agree that Burt Levine created magic in that quonset hut! 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. Includes a 20-20 Newscast (by Bob Walker), a WTIX. (3/30/2018 @11:15p: ) We had a blast in HOU. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. In 67 we got an advanced copy of Sgt Pepper at little old WKBK in Keene, NHbefore WABC (I was told)..thats when turning on mike was fun. These were stations worth traveling to hear. (takeoff on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). * 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. In college I often drove at night and I could travel from Denver to Chicago tuned to KOMA listening to cmmercials for the Kearney Dragway in Nebraska, the commercial blarring out Be There, Be There, Saturday night.. Easy to use internet radio. 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.). Listen to any aircheck from any era of Kaplan ownership Jack Gale, Robert Murphy, Boo Baron, or Jay Thomas. I did all nights at WFUN during my junior year in college at Miami and did the same in my senior year at WQAM. Stan Roberts, Larry Anderson, Frank Benny, Shane, Tom Donahue, John Otto, Golden Joe Galuski, Craig Matthews and many, many others including yourself. Definitely a slick imaged station! 50000 good watts during the day, but cut back to 10000 at night, pointed at the city and South Jersey. Generic syndication and voice-tracking leave little room for localized fun and connection and way fewer role models for the next generation of announcers. * Tom Cheney - Newscast June 1970 during the Bill Murvin show. Id like to thank Randy. You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! Kids all over the Midwest left their radios on 890, turned them on after school, and waited for darkness. WGLI Babylon, LI, NY It's funny, when people are with me they always get confused about the time. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. Great to see WHB from KC and KXOK from St. Louis on the list. My grandkids love the old music. 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. KQV had the heritage and was owned by a company that knew something about Top 40, so 13Q was instant roadkill. ); WGH and WNOR Norfolk, VA (the former licensed to nearby Newport News); WGLI Babylon, Long Island, NY (one of the first rock n roll stations not only ever, but also in suburban New York City in general (if not THE first suburban-NYC station of its kind); WYNG Goldsboro, NC (was it also Top 40 under its previous callsign WGOL, I wonder? I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. For help or assistance please contact us at 1-877-480-3201 or 1-717-338-2824 (TTY) or you may submit requests online via e-support. They did the impossible and stayed there for years, despite the signal handicap. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. 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! Lee, in addition to answering the question, included what he considers to be the 15 characteristics of great Top 40 stations. Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. Would have to be on my list. For both stations I got our friend, Sam Lit (Hys son and a jock on WIFI), to produce great-sounding jingles and name shouts for us. Your contributions to the Seattle music scene and radio are undeniable. (Re my comment on 5/22/2018 @4:03 PM:) 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. Fewer than Five Full-Time Employees? Already a user? WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. My point is whatever station you grew up listening to.. ***HELL***!! As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. While it was playing, some lady went up to the dj, grabbed his microphone, and sang the CKLW top of the hour ID jingle! The comments pour in, what a fun read, and Tribute to how good it all was. 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. For a number of years Fenway was the morning man. What I love best about this story is how it gives the reader a little glimpse into how Randy thinks. Most every market had two or three pretty good Top-40s back then; lucky if you can find one now. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. LOL Other stations interrupt. * what Im talking about! How bout them Kardashians.? Currently, WDGY is based in Hudson, WI and is back to playing hits from the 60s and 70s. Boogie himself. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. To me, radio was riveting in the 60s and 70s, and it fascinated me enough to get in to it, which I enjoyed for over 40 years. Do your next 20 stations in the comments! 1. Great fun and memories. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. 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. KMPC remained Adult Contemporary (the soft-rock radio formats name by then) until about the turn of the following decade. reconsider your sources. Then the Canadian govt. Thanks for the great work you did there. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! 56kbps New Orleans Talk Radio. (For some reason, WMMR, which also joined in on that format, didnt appeal to me as much.) 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. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. 11. It pre-dated WRKO (Now 6-8-0) on October 12th, 1966. Yes, you were the last DJ on Wins, and , yes,Out in the Street (pun intended?) I worked with legends. 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. #16 on one List and no mention on the other? It was overdubbed several times. Somehow it seemed appropriate. I do remember, however, getting WLS on my Zenith Royal 400 7-transistor radio on the floor of Yosemite Valley that same summer, though. As are the respective lists of Top 40 *AND* Adult Contemporary stations that I listed above. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. Lou Saint . WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. I was also privileged to catch CHUM, TR, CKEY, and CKOC during their hayday(s). JD the DJ follows with the Rock and Roll Flight to Midnight. Suitcase Simpson, Chuck Boo Baron, Eddie Beacon the Swingin Deacon, and others have never sounded better. With separate board ops for the jocks and the newsroom, intro times to the quarter second, including commercials, no station was ever tighter. Necessary cookies are responsible for the basic functionality of Online Radio Box. as a Top 40 station. Gordon McLendon made it theater. Login here. At least B100 was in Somebodys list. It could compete anywhere. KB proved that great talent, not great equipment, make great radio. More than 1,300 airchecks from all across Canada and the U.S. KISN in Portland was my favorite. I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. 14. One of the WTIX classic Time Chimes, New Orleans Radio Shrine All Rights Reserved, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie. Playing songs I forgot about. Mike has successfully managed to give WTIX a wonderful magic which I lovekeep it up! In the very-early Sixties, thanks in no small part to three fulltime Top 40s in NYC, WADO reintroduced African-American and Italian programming to its daytime schedulethis time, sharing it with Top-40 rock n roll. In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. 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. Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. Or you don't come in at all. 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. All the playlists are suitable with Kodi ! Login with Google. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! The night I visited Joey in the studio, he asked me to take a 45 in to PappyMemphis by Lonnie Mackplayed for the first time that night! The station was 1000kw days 250 nights but still was credited by many of the major record labels as being great market for breaking new artists and new singles, sorryfirst sentence should read owned the market not on the Market. You will get your reward soon- in bankruptcy court! Sgt. He's an old, white guy, so who knows what he'll say? WRKO Boston and JJ Jefrey was the best of the Boss format. Metairie, LA. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. and to see CKLW picked by the readers at #1!!! . And let us not forget the news department which was something to be reckoned with. How Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and business partner Martin Lorentzon revolutionized the music industry through free and legal music streaming when they launched Spotify. 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. WDGY had Bob Dayton, Jimmy Reed and the great Gene Leader, more well known as Mean Gene Okerlund. In mid-1963, the remaining Top-40 pop rock programming was dropped in favor of even more Spanish programming and a primarily-Spanish format. Makes my Beer brewing on my deck a pleasure. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. WICC Bridgeport, CT We old people lucked out in having 60s and 70s Top 40 radio!!! Dennis Williams Toledo. Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. If you worked at Top 40 Radio in North America, chances are your station aired a CHUM Documentary. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. suck! Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? 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. Johnny Holliday. Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. About my Junior year in High School, i found WXLO in New York. 9. KISN Portland?!? While I was a devoted listener of the Big 89 for years before, thats when the (Top 40?) Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. Charlie Tuna, Dale Wehba, Don McGregor, Paul Miller, John David, Chuck Dann, J. Michael Wilson, Johnny Dark, Buddy Scott, John Ravencroft, and many others were among those who played the hits from the studios in Moore, Oklahoma. KSFO was MOR, not Top 40. Another memory WMEX had the jocks names locked in like Fenway in the morning, Dan Donovan, Melvin X Melvin and so on. Call sign: WLMG Frequency: 101.9 FM City of license: New Orleans, LA Format: Adult Contemporary Owner: Audacy Area Served: New Orleans Contact Address: 400 Poydras Street, Suite 800, New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: 504-526-3000 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. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. 4539 n. i-10 service rd. This website uses cookies for analytics and personalization. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. 80 miles away, across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. 3. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time. KCBQ/San Diego. If you go by Abrams characteristics, CFL was heads and shoulders above the rest (plus they had Chickenmanand Lujackand King B, Jim Stagg (who traveled with the Beatles on tour), Biondi, Barney Pip, Jerry G Bishop, Joel Sebastion, Jim Runyon, Ken Draper as GM, a huuuge news department, and on and on). But lets not forget KXOL/Ft. Bobby thanks for your kind comments. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. Listed Mike Marshall as one of, if not THE Smoothest jock ever. More. LONG time ago, but good memories. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) ! ran top of every hour. I would agree with how great WRKO was. With the good guys. WPGR, 1540, also did a nice job during their stint as an Oldies station. 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