Better production. 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. I grew up in Northern VA. We had Major Top 40 AM competition! Great Stuff and why I got into radio for a few years full time and a couple of decades, part~time. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. These were stations worth traveling to hear. But any list that completely overlooks the Todd Storz stations, including WHB/Kansas City, KXOK/St. Lock it in and rip the knob off.. 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. @Radiovet 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. What I love best about this story is how it gives the reader a little glimpse into how Randy thinks. It was certainly an interesting assignment. And of course this is just my opinion on the greatest talent in the Motor and Glass Cities. I listen from Ponchatoula. Great contemporary music doesnt exist today. For those who aren't aware, WTIX , "The Mighty 6-90" was one of the first if not THE first Top 40 stations in the world! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTrSr-Dfuw. ), all air talent/music driven Top 40 stations. T-Bens daily morning segment The News You Need Now! is a tongue-in-cheek mock news report lampooning politicians, celebrities, and topical news stories, concluding with his signature catchphrase, but nobody cares!. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Coverage to the north was lost, and unfortunately, Dallas grew to the north. WTIX-FM is an oldies outlet serving the New Orleans area. Gordon McLendon made it theater. Or you don't come in at all. Bill Drakes KHJ was amazing and should probably be on this list. Metairie, LA, USA. At least as far as CHR radio goes . 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. Id like to thank Randy. KOWH was the original Storz station in Omaha, where Todds dad brewed Storz Beer, and KOWH was the first to focus on a tight list of the most popular songs, but KOWH leaned towards MOR and didnt really target a young audience. After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. 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. I later worked with Jacobs on the KHJ book we put out together using his memos as a base(and yes he we had to redo the book over and over again til Ron thought it was perfect before it was released). Please power up if that is the problem. reconsider your sources. 5. David Amen to WKIX 850 AM/96.1 FM The Giant of the South with a healthy share of PAMS jingles! (Users must have an Apple Music account to use this app.) No mention of Pittsburgh area radio stations! A real crew. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. 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. Jesus, that station was the damn WABC, WTIX, CKLW, WLS, WINS, WMCA, KHJ, KRLA, KLIF, WQXI, etc. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first Top 40 station was born. They were tight, bright, slight reverb and very punchy like WABC. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. After PD Cagle left in late 1983/early 1984 and the jocks Bill Lee, Jack Armstrong, Mark McKay left I switched to KMEL/KITS on FM. (27:24) Relive the fun for almost a half hour with Robert Mitchell and the radio hits of 1969. They were king of radio, nevermind that they played beautiful music on Sundays..and had to sign off at sunset. The DJ's he 'sings' about are: Ron Martin, David Nebel, Bill Baker, Ed Ripley, Bob Robin, Ted Green and Gene Phillips. Yes, I agree, I don't understand why my car radio often does not pick up WTIX clearly. Pretty remarkable. I remember listening to tix as a teenag But its been copied around the world just because its KIIS/Los Angeles. Its fitting that KB is on both of these lists. There were many good radio stations all over the USA radio map, like for me KACY, Ventura, KIST, Santa Barbara, KMBY Monterey, KDON Salinas. No dispute. and other stations that came and went long after the latter two did away with Top 40,) Dallas (the Fort Worth station whose call letters escape me as well as the aforementioned KLIF and KBOX), Memphis (WHBQ and WMPS), Charlotte (WAYS, most notably), Norfolk (WGH and WNOR, especially the former), and so on. announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, * Craig Roberts (with Bob Walker) -The Origin of Thanksgiving1971 (4:26) Explained by the oldest man in. And lets not forget that WABC was the first flagship of the Metsduring its third and fourth years as Top 40. KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. Metairie, LA. I was stationed at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the 60s and loved WHB with DJ Johnny Dolan and others. At night I loved hearing Jackson Armstrong on WKBW, boogie check with the hilarious John Records Landecker on WLS and Supermax on CKLW! 6. ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! 16. And they had some great ones Charlie Tuna, Machine Gun Kelly (at night!). Yes, WABC had more listeners and more attention. and the WKNR Keener 13 crew. Hoot Gibson? WABC was the Yankees of the group. It will be amazing. * Craig Roberts -Guglielmo the Tree 1972 (:25)Smoky the Bear PSA takeoff for Italy. The equipment was ancient. At least in my city. 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) 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. Owned by Hugh Holder, then Henderson Belk, Southern Broadcasting and Mann Media. In mid-1963, the remaining Top-40 pop rock programming was dropped in favor of even more Spanish programming and a primarily-Spanish format. 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. Plus they had Uncle Larthey could not loseeven with the bad signalthat supermod was flamethrower quality! WCFL was occasionally a better station. Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite. It was overdubbed several times. 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. great memories from back in the day when radio was great. Not to nitpick, but you were off by one year as to the debut of the Atlanta Falcons: they actually started in 1966. 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.] KLIF was the first and best. KYNO deserved the inclusion, Doc. WIOQ, Philadelphia (1987-88) Somebody to Love. And I definitely remember John Leader. It was more than just the music. 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. So was WVAQ, I am the person that changed it from beautiful music to Top 40 in 1976. 70006 WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. 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. WTIX 94.3 FMs heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, The Mighty 690. WTIX 690 AM New Orleans dominated the airwaves from the 1950s into the 1980s as Americas first Top 40 radio station, and the FM station debuted initially as its sister station in 1995.Today TIX FM continues the legacy of the original TIX AM featuring the classic hits, heritage TIX jingles, and the famous Chime Time that rings when the personalities give the time on the air a feature that was also a staple of Musicradio WABC New York in its heyday. Thank you Radio Ink for this amazing trip down memory lane. 90.7. They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. Toast. It was just too great a line not to steal. 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. TIX also streams online. The best years came in the early 70s when the Top 40 battle was between WDGY, True Don Bleus KDWB before he went to KHJ, Chuck Knapp and MG Kelly on KSTP and Rob Sherwood moving from KDWB to start up U100. A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. 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! Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. When WNBC went CHR in the 70s, that ranked up there, too. Memories 98.3 - WTIX is a broadcast station from Concord, North Carolina, United States, playing Classic Rock, Country, Oldies. WTIX - May 6, 1972 Bob Walker with Sonny & Cher. I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. 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!!! But here we go. How could you leave that out? Thanks again. he was a great talent and a class act! 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. Jim Woods in the night time was the most exciting thing around. The station is owned by Michael A. Love your show! Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? Pontchartrain Beach, Schlitz Beer, Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling). Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! 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. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour). HOWEVER, PLEASE do something about it dropping constantly. Voice of the Rocky Mountains in Denver! 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. Country Hits 3. I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! Chuck Blore used the name on the AM, 1150: KIIS=K115. And it had Dr. Don Rose. WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. Make a playlist from a video: 1. Just as I was leaving B100 to trade PM drive for med school, Bobby returned and reinvigorated San Diegos greatest station for several more years. In your TikTok app, go to your video that you want to use to create a playlist. Do your next 20 stations in the comments! Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. As I recall, the only other time baseball was on a rock station was in 1969 when WABC-FM supplemented WJRZ in broadcasting the Mets, and on the very end of that WJRZ contract when the station transitioned from country to become top-40 WWDJ. KOIL Omaha was the first Top Forty station thanks to Todd Storzdont they deserve a mention? you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. Lee, in addition to answering the question, included what he considers to be the 15 characteristics of great Top 40 stations. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. While it was playing, some lady went up to the dj, grabbed his microphone, and sang the CKLW top of the hour ID jingle! You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. Those results are at the end of this article. Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? Doug Limerick, you might remember, was later a news reader for the ABC Information Network. Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. 12. Both were top rated when AM Radio was King. Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. 11. (Amen! WHLW/WOBM-AM Lakewood, NJ, (Adult Contemporary) And for the very reason you namedthe stations that personally floated the proverbial boat of the person making the choicesnarrowing them down to any given number at least falls short of impossible. Wibbage was a true top 40 station from about 1958 until roughly 1977. WROV could have easily made the cut. WWOZ 90.7 FM. The Mets started out on WABC during its first 2 years until Rick Sklar kicked them off. Even though they had such a large audience with the 50,000watt tower. The Marvelous Myth promo (Beatles), DH Holmes Yardley promotion, Sears (Dave Ralston), Expo '69 (not '67), Sergio Mendez concert (Michael Green), Bernie Dumas Buick (Bill Murvin), a bad Drive-In Movie ad, Metropolitan. Mind if I add a few more Top 40 stations of the past, anyway, Doc? McClendon may have guessed wrong. 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. KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade. The voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. Thank you Michael, Al JD , Hot Rod .Keep it going M & M . There were no general-market oriented rock n roll stations in the early and probably even well into the mid-Fifties. KIOA. Listen to WTIX 94.3 FM live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. Pitch your music to a global audience. Amen. Playlists are where millions of fans make billions of musical discoveries. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. That's a good thing. Y100 Miami crushed it late 70s Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. While in the USAF in 1967-68 I visited KOMA. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. 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. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! 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. Most every market had two or three pretty good Top-40s back then; lucky if you can find one now. I love radio. 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. THANK YOU for the whole thing! Oh!, SHIT! MSNBC News Trending 1. Presidential candidate / Alabama Governor George Wallace had just been shot. Only one mention of Super CFL Chicago?!?! Radio Ink is a registered trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. Listen Live Memories 98.3 Fm Radio With Onlineradiobox.com. Will ALWAYS love radio. WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New Yorks then-impending wattage boost) Im blessed to have been taught by the best. WAYS/Charlotte. The FCC wasnt amused, but the public was. It pains me that the list was so short. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. 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. Thanks for the great work you did there. Well vetted comments like Randy and Lee are so welcome. Hi Michael, Hot Rod, Al! 13. Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. Hy Lit was its best, played R and B on a top 40 station. WFIL, Philadelphia (c. 1983) WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. He outgunned WABC within a year and made history for bringing FM into the 20th century. Heres how everyone stacked up against each other. KQV had the heritage and was owned by a company that knew something about Top 40, so 13Q was instant roadkill. Yes, it was a smaller market but, the 10kw daytime on 940 covered 90 of 99 counties in Iowa and at night with 5kw covered into Denver as well as WHO. Again, if that was you, you were so patient and kind to the then shy and dorky radio-loving kid! And as for the aforementioned KFI Los Angeles, that also belongs on the list of the greatest Top 40 stations of all time, as it was a Top 40 station from the mid- or late 70s to about the mid-80s. KLIF/Dallas. https://wjla.com/news/entertainment/argo-contriversy-ex-canada-ambassador-slighted-by-affleck-s-argo85572. Paul in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. It was a PERSONALITY driven format. Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. Skinny Tommy Cheney's shout out, and. What about Kimn in Denver? 3.) announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, election not long afterwards, Craig Roberts created "Vito Mufallato" who urged people to vote the. WVAQ/Morgantown, WV. Like other stations, it rolled with the times and changed. Imagine how the whole history of Boston radio would be changed if that happened. WTIX 94.3 FM Download now for free and listen to the radio easily. (8:55), * Robert Mitchell -AircheckIt's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. An error happened posting the review, sorry! I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. Some of them went back to the U.S. as well as creating the mess that radio is now. Hi there! Then the Canadian govt. We werent allowed to say the word magic, because KMJC Magic 91 was a competitor. 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). 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 WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) Create a SoundCloud account Love it..used to listen to a oldies station (Poppa Stoppa DJ ) in my Grandfathers Meat Market next to Circle Food Store with my Uncle Tyrone. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. always got my day off with a laugh; I still remember the day he ran a commercial with Minnie Pearl and after it ended he said, Boy, Ill bet that dress is a booger to iron. I also remember Tommy Walker, Gary Edens, and Jimmy Capps; dont remember Pat Patterson because I wasnt living in Raleigh then. Ps. More. If you are looking Kodi Addons, please use IPTVMate Repository! 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. 2 The Playlist: With Christian Hillborg, Gizem Erdogan, Edvin Endre, Severija Janusauskaite. Bob Walker20-20Traffic,BillMurvinonSmith's&TapeCitySpot. There were so many great Personality AM powerhouses in the 50s-70s. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. 2.) As Beatlemania set in, Louise Harrison Caldwell (sister of Beatle George Harrison) called WTIX every day, fromSt. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, concert in New Orleanson September 16, 1964. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. I was fortunate to work on 99X iin my 20s! Especially before I Heart and Cumulus took over. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) 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. With just 250 watts on 1230, KNUZ was the longtime market leader in Houston. Then there was KYA in San Francisco with Bobby Mitchell and Tom Donohue, Gene Nelson, Tony Big, ed Hider and Johnny Holliday. In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! 2B Productions changed its name to Rowan-Cabarrus Radio, and Catawba students will train for journalism and communications careers on its three stations. The reason I know about some radio history is that I was kid of 9 or 10 when my friends from Kenner told us about their new favorite radio station back in either 1958 or 1959. Surprised that WHBQ, Memphis didnt make someones list. 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 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. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. Louisiana, As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. been listening to TIX since the 70s. As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. During the summer I would break away and listen to WCCO AM for Twins baseball games. KILT in Houston? Forever. ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. And my time at WING, even though it was in the 80s, was some of the most fun times Ive had in radio. Yes!!! WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. Streamline Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Keep on keeping on. WMCA/New York. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! They were called the WMEX Good Guys. I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. Also, while I suppose KLIF/Dallas has to be on the list, I would be remiss if I didnt mention that we dusted their asses when I was at KNUS/Dallas (the station Fairchild foolishly didnt want to buy when they purchased KLIF from McLendon, but passed on his FM station). These are all good stations, who deserve their place in history, and our hearts. At the time, the AM was still number one! Do you know the story why Bob Martz, John Garry andothers left WTOD for WOHO Jan 1964 then all back to WTOD by Nov 1965? Theyd say Goodbye, Dinuba, goodbye Orange Cove Then my cousins would tune in KONG/1400 from Visalia, or surf the iffy skywaves of KRLA, KFWB, KFRC and or other relative weaklings, since the West Coast at the time lacked a Top 40 flamethrower such as the Midwest, prairie and East enjoyed with the likes of WLS, WABC, KAAY and KOMA. 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. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. 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. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. The music was very attractive in those days. WHB was added in 1954. Who pissed the furthest? The BEST show came out of 55KRC in Cincinnati. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. Even though I was over my head, I was well aware I was standing in a historic spot. Dennis Williams Toledo. Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. Looks like they revised the list since you left your comment and replaced WHB with a lesser station. Before there was Drake, there was Storz and McLendon. LOL Other stations interrupt. It's funny, when people are with me they always get confused about the time. "WTIX and we love you" jingle 2. Im proud to know people who worked thereand even at places like CKLW and KHJ. Ron Jacobs roasted you accurately years ago. Did you mention Willie B. Goode? Or you don't come in at all. WABC poached talent from WMCA? Thats a fact. Gotta put a vote in for The Big 143, CKFH! Fans make billions of musical discoveries beam across the western us was also great. 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