By the way, if you asked me to list The Greatest *ADULT CONTEMPORARY* Stations of All Time (or did Radio Ink already put out such a list? 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. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! Remember you well from Toronto and would have loved to work some those famous stations you didbut then again, you were one of the smoothest jocks ever!!! I couldnt stop laughing! (Re my comment on 5/22/2018 @4:03 PM:) A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. (For some reason, WMMR, which also joined in on that format, didnt appeal to me as much.) Hot Rod Glenn, Best station in New Orleans La good job Mike. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? Beers. WABC poached talent from WMCA? With this simple but effective application you will be able to listen to WTIX 94.3 New Orleans and all its content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week no matter where you are and what you are doing. The two most influential Top 40 radio stations of all time? Maybe Im biased, but its my list. Apparently all of the contributors didnt pay much attention. BBC World Service 4. Randy also sorta had something to do with Stevens & Pruitt and that 97.1 frequency in DFW, being the PD and all. It was more than just the music. May 16, 1972. Doug Limerick, you might remember, was later a news reader for the ABC Information Network. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. The sounds that listeners remembered the most: 1.) 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! (And!, heres some *trivia*!! Owned and operated by Audacy. * Keep listening to your radio while doing other tasks. Rather than take it like a man you delist the most important Top 40 station in the history of radio. Costello is best known as Michael in the Morning (M&M), host of the stations weekday morning show. Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, April 1967 Buzz at his manic best. WLS was vanilla in most respects, but it was consistently excellent. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. C-K-S-L of-a-TownLONNN-DONNN!! When I finally got it it was empty. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) When I grew up, I had a steady diet of WABC, WNBC, KB radio 15, CKLW and WOWO. When I made the trek to Dallas, I was enthralled by Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? FM Station Information. WRKO were all slices from the Bill Drake pie. Automation, consolidation and syndication killed the small-and-medium-market farm system that fed those larger-market stations. Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? Peter Gabriel 1675326418. Who Will You Run To. But CHUM also did what no other mere Radio Station did. None in major markets. And lets not forget WHK in Cleveland who owned that City from 1959 to 1964 blowing every other station away. I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! 41 were here. . Does anyone remember the station? Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. Of course we took him up on his offer. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). Don Patrick, Dick Smythe, Randall Carlisle, Grant Hudson and the chief himself Byron McGregor all grabbed your attention with their excellent delivery and news writing. KBOX gave us Dan Ingram, Bill Ward, and many others. Agree that KFJZ was the station in Ft Worth. Boogie himself. Mind if I add a few more Top 40 stations of the past, anyway, Doc? The studios were in a former carriage house with a false front to make it look taller and a mirror at the end of the long single hallway to make it look bigger when you walked in. WRKO-FM/98.5 (R-KO, The Shy But Friendly Robot) should get some honorable mention. For a 15 year-old growing up in East Texas, the best station in the country was WNOE in New Orleans. I knew what I wanted to do forever. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. 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. I can still hear Roger Kleins growling delivery. Sign up free 0:00 0:00 David Amen to WKIX 850 AM/96.1 FM The Giant of the South with a healthy share of PAMS jingles! who contributed to that magic. Then 890, Chicago, 1520 KOMA, were the ones to listen to at night. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. @n Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33), * Don Anthony -Louis Prima Interview 1974 (10:00), * Buzz Bennett -AircheckApril 1967 Buzz at his manic best. Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! 93Q had the better air personalities, including John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo; but, the music battle between the two stations was just exceptional. They didnt last long, but they were awesome. My God!, you namechecked KJR AND DIDNT THE HELL EVEN MENTION *PAT ODAY*?? About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. Boogie. 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. With separate board ops for the jocks and the newsroom, intro times to the quarter second, including commercials, no station was ever tighter. WAAM and WODA started to cooperate and eventually both taken over by Audre Bulova (of watch fame) and Milton Biowand renamed WNEW, which reintroduced DJs to New York. were on the moon on this date.Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Rex Root Beer. 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. KY102 was AOR not Top-40. (As theyve been saying on one segment of the Monday Night Football halftime show in recent years, ) COME on, man! Anybody who knows a THING about at least early PHILADELPHIA Top 40 radio knows that before there was WFIL (or at least the beginning of its own Top 40 format), there was Wibbage! Every time I went in there Id look at that thing and was kind of awesome. WFAN 66 AM - 101.9 FM 3. reconsider your sources. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. 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. I was still a AM KFRC fan up until 1983. WJET 1400. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. All of that amazing talent spoke into a vintage RCA mic and spun records on 16-inch transcription tables, right into the 1970s. Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. Wed 22.02 Thu 23.02 Fri 24.02 Sat 25.02 Sun 26.02 Mon 27.02 Tue 28.02 Recommended Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. Coverage to the north was lost, and unfortunately, Dallas grew to the north. This is the station all of the Super Q imitators wanted to be. It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. Charlie Tuna! He's an old, white guy, so who knows what he'll say? 90.7. . After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. I LOVED the 6-years+ I spent at the helm of those prestigious monster radio stations. With respect. In this call, Louise talks about Ringo possibly being, nominated for President of the United Statesin the 1964 election in November. (Willard The Rat Scott) rode the drive time shift. 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!!!!! Most every market had two or three pretty good Top-40s back then; lucky if you can find one now. Posted on April 10, 2021 by IPTVMate. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. Stan Roberts, Larry Anderson, Frank Benny, Shane, Tom Donahue, John Otto, Golden Joe Galuski, Craig Matthews and many, many others including yourself. KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. contest promo, a rats in the city PSA, and a Donovan concert promo by Robert Mitchell. One night I decided to check out thatr box. I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. When that station had to be sold or loose its license and it went to beautiful music WHN, the Yankees went to a non-rock stationWCBS. All Top 40 radio leaned towards MOR in the early Fifties. WHAT the damn FUCK??? I will always be thankful to those great PDs, Bill Holly, Dick Star, Charlie Murdock and Lee Sherwood. KY-102, KC . Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. Marlene I am so sad to hear that Lacy is no longer with us. Galliano - Only then did KOIL take notice and knocked off the daytimer with the larger 5kw day/night signal. Super CFL!! heard all over western US and Canada anybody remember ?? There were many good radio stations all over the USA radio map, like for me KACY, Ventura, KIST, Santa Barbara, KMBY Monterey, KDON Salinas. @Phil Dirt Dick Fatherly was my first source for the story that WTIX, then on 1450, was the first station to use the phrase Top-40. Great fun and memories. PAT ODAY! 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. (27:24). the Mighty 1190, KLIF. 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. With Johnny Randolph as PD, WAKY played one black and one country record every quarter hour. 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. 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. With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. It pre-dated WRKO (Now 6-8-0) on October 12th, 1966. Im not sure what happened to WYNG except that it was possibly drowned in the FM tsunami. David Kaye, 8/10/2017: Listed Mike Marshall as one of, if not THE Smoothest jock ever. WAKY/Lousiville. KIOA. KCBQ/San Diego. If you are looking Kodi Addons, please use IPTVMate Repository! LONG time ago, but good memories. WTIX Appreciation Night at Pontchartrain Beach Promos (Free Concerts): 1961 (Full) | 1961 (Short) | 1962 (Full) | 1962 (Short) | 1963 (Full), *New Orleans Singers Say "Hi"on the WTIX Original Oldie Hour at Noon with Bob Wallker - 1981 (1:11). Mad Daddy Pete Myers, Johnny Holliday, Scott Burton, Pat Fitzgerald, Johnny Walters, Ron Riley, Carl Reese and Keith Morris, what a great air staff. 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. But here we go. He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. How about 50,000 watt CKY in Winnipeg ??? Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. Ps. 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. 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. K92 was mentioned and they picked up the number one spot a few years after they went on the air in 1980, dethroning WROV. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. The Storz stations ruled for many years. KFRC and CKLW both had Bill Drake and Les Garland to thank for the edge, and the feel of those stations. Produce documentaries chronicling the history of Top 40 Music. 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. TALK! 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). As far as CKLW goes I think every jock I knew all tried to emulate the great sound of the Big 8 jocks. 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.. That's a good thing. 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. Third Floor Metairie, LA. Southeast Nebraska And Northeast Kansas, Streams Live Local Sporting Events 0 vote 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. Metairie, LA. I agree, Scotty. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. ); 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? Between the two, I slightly favored CKLWwhich was really the work of a woman, Rosalie Trombley, who I believe was officially the Music Director. K-NUZ. As a kid listening to WLS, WABC, WLAC, WSAI and any market I could pick up, the excitement was universal. 40 share and better in the 60s. search in gooogle: boorfes tips monetize your website. Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET? And let us not forget the news department which was something to be reckoned with. Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. How could you leave that out? Chalk up one more who thinks WQXI should have been on the list; the liveliest sounding station in the South, the one that seemed the least canned. Keep in mind, you can only create a playlist with your public videos. Funny that nobody looked at the list and recalled Jeff Kayes often quoted positioning statement WKBW one of Americas two great radio stations!. Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. Wasnt a very large market, but captured Visalia and immediate area in a big way late 60s. WDHA Dover, NJ (since reformatted to (Album-Oriented) Rock My grandkids love the old music. WABC had 10 times more power. I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. You will get your reward soon- in bankruptcy court! Louisiana, CKY was our main source of music in the 60s, we were only 6 miles from the Manitoba border in Warroad, though sometimes we could get WLS or KOMA in the night. Smile on your brother. In fact, owing to its location in New York City, it was the proverbial 800-lb gorilla of Top 40, period. Starting briefly as a mixture of Top 40 and Rhythm (Rhythm and Rock) [plus a Jazz show hosted by Demetrius], we quickly evolved into the only non-commercial disco station in the country (with the exception of my popular Oldies show on Friday nights, throughout). 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. When Metro Traffic came to Nashville, Marc put a Dumpster in the station parking lot and asked listeners to donate scrap metal so Y107 could buy a plane. The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) WHAT THE DAMN FUCK? 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. 3.) Watch the video below! It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. TIX also streams online. WasntKXOL in Fort Worth Top 40 back in the day? With only a 1,000-watt night signal, KLIF routinely clocked more listeners than all other Dallas-Ft. Worth stations combined. Funny?, I swear that one of those lists *did* mention WFIL. It deserves mention here. 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). MSNBC News Trending 1. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. THAT Lee Abrams guy? WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. 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. In that decade, it was an outstanding battle of the FM CHRs, 93Q/KKBQ and Power 104/KRBE. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Oh-lets not forget about three more Top 40 stations in the City That Never Sleeps: WWDJ Hackensack, NJ (1971-74); in the City itself, WPIX (1971-77, 1980-82) and WAPP (mainstream Top 40, 1984-85; Top 40/Rock 1985-86). * Bill Murvin -RC Cola SpotJuly 1969 (:34) $3.00 off a $19.95 portable 45 rpm record player. Of WLTH fame? 3. * Bob Walker -AircheckOctober 22, 1969 (10:30). dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. The Other Woman. 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. 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. Listen Here 1. Was in college there in the mid 60s. Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): LOVE IT!!! Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time. 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! Also The Great Roller Coaster Marathon at Pontchartrain, Beach winning WTIX DJ's. 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. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleans's Greatest Hits Station. No need to signup to iCloud, simply start creating and sharing playlists freely. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. 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. Doing a great job! They lost the crown when WBBF went full time Top 40. What a great list. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. 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. Thank you RadioInk for opening the doors to a grudge match of passionate RADIO people. A list of 20 is too short. After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. As noted by one of the experts, it was KOWH. ( How to play on VLC Media Player) The last sentence should have read, And in Buffalo, the list of the greatest Adult Contemporary rockers of all time would have to include not only WGR, but also WBEN andparticularly circa mid-to-late 80sare you ready for this?WKBW.. Lee and Randy..Congratulations on putting together that list. station lost me. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. Another great station that should have made the list. Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. KIMN Inter Mountain Network. May I put in a plug for non-commercial station that was run very professionally and achieved some notoriety in its time? I listen to the Crusin 1966 album almost religiously. Oldies, needed now more then ever!!! Thank you Randy Michaels for the 102 WVAQ mention! WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. PLEASE FIX THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE.I'm singing along at work and BAM the music goes out! KOIL Omaha was the first Top Forty station thanks to Todd Storzdont they deserve a mention? I remember listening to tix as a teenag. My list would probably put KFRC #2, KCBQ #3 and CKLW #4. you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! WLS/Chicago. During the party, the dj there played the Doobie Bros Listen to the Music. was one of my childhood heros. Special thanks to treasured mentors Jhani Kaye, Bill Gardner and Dr. , 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. Attention! 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