Loved the write up on david h Morris. KLIF/Dallas. I don't like your friends and you don't like my friends. WKVQ (15Q)/Knoxville. An error happened posting the review, sorry! Reading what so many U.S. Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. Depending on the selected settings, some functions may become unavailable! "WTIX and we love you" jingle 2. Or just wait a little longer. And looking at the remaining characteristics, Big 10 had it all. Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. 4539 N Interstate 10 Service Rd W, Metairie, LA 70006. Thank you for still give g praise to him. His advice was 3 years too late. Presidential candidate / Alabama Governor George Wallace had just been shot. [13] I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. Also The Great Roller Coaster Marathon at Pontchartrain, Beach winning WTIX DJ's. Lou Saint . It's FREE! KNUS was a big deal when FM became commercially viable. 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. Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. Over 50 million titles available from the Apple Music catalog! Hear the audio that matters most to you. Quixie in Dixie. WEAM 1390..WPGC.1580.WEEL.1310 and one of my favorites WRCThe Great 98. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. Edgier. 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. Preferred radio stations and music genres, user's Favorites, stations reviews and many other services need your personal data processing. Ask most any of themit was the greatest experience of their careers. WHAT the damn FUCK??? I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30s to mid 40s. It was a very hip kind of top 40 that meshed well with Boston at that time. I am fortunate enough to have an aircheck of that broadcast. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. - English, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road 3rd Floor, Metairie, LA 70006, Breakfast with The Beatles No, but I was named for him. WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM 5. I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. These full 3-hour length classic American Top 40 shows from 1970-1978, all in their original broadcast form. Outstanding tunes !!!!!! Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. Hope youre doing well, Lee! WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. As the name impliedand impliesTop 40 played, then as now, the most popular songs (read: hit recordings). This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Unbelievable! Listen to 1080 wtic newstalk here and get all your favorite radio stations and podcasts on the go with the audacy app. 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. He was the inspiration for the song, W*O*L*D from Harry Chapin. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! Thats a shame. I know, because I was just cutting my teeth in Toledo radio beginning in 1973. 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. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. My grandkids love the old music. I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. !, yet!) 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. 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. David Bowie & Queen 1675326694. Jim Connors from WJET went to WMEX in Boston in 1971. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Call sign: WTIX-FM Frequency: 94.3 FM City of license: Galliano, LA Format: Oldies Owner: Fleur de Lis Broadcasting Area Served: New Orleans Sister stations: Z-104.5 WMZ FM Contact Storz owned WHB but invented the format at KOWH. * Bill Murvin -Bernie Dumas Buick Spot November1969 (:32), * Gene Phillips - Aircheck June 1962. KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) WWDJ Hackensack, NJ carried Mets games during its first year or two as Top 40 (continuing its contract with the Mets that dated back to when it was country station WJRZ). 4539 n. i-10 service rd. Hi Mike! How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. Login here. 2.) all Air Talent/Music Driven Top-40s , and oh yeah all live people 24/7, when radio was fun to do and to listen to. I remember listening to you! WHB was an early top 40 station but The Worlds Happiest Broadcasters were not the first. Much appreciated. I would agree with how great WRKO was. What a great list. I loved WAPE 690. I agree that Burt Levine created magic in that quonset hut! WTIX FM 94.3 Webplayer. Frank Brodie (CKLW) was incredible on the air in ANY format, as were most of the jocks from the true Top 40 era. Includes a 20-20 Newscast (by Bob Walker), a WTIX. "Michael In The Morning" Costello (under the name Fleur de Lis Broadcasting) and operates at 94.3 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. K-NUZ. It would be impossible to make a top 20 list that everyone would like, but these are great! She was a white chick with R&B and soul in her blood! Thats a fact. *Bob Walker -Christmas Eve1967(1:08)Bob flubs his midnight Bible reading. On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. TiIX is the only station I listen to. WFIL, Philadelphia (c. 1983) This is my favorite Top 40. The formats would be better, if the music product was better. 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 I Heart, for ruining the industry. The story (as I understand it) is that Mac Richmond (one of the WMEX owners) let Garabedian mix in some album cuts and long versions of the hits, and broke some stuff along the way (Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart being one). And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX by AH3RD Limited Time Offer: Get 50% off the first year of our best annual plan for artists with unlimited uploads, releases, and insights. Currently, WDGY is based in Hudson, WI and is back to playing hits from the 60s and 70s. Station was located at 70 Brookline Avenue. 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. Will ALWAYS love radio. I agree, Scotty. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. I meant WKYC, not WXYZ. More. I listed WTIX because they were the very first Top 40. Around these parts, that means 106.1 KISS-FM in DFW. KNUZ/Houston. Mac was also a very nice guy, btw. WHTZ (Z100)/New York. Great to see WHB from KC and KXOK from St. Louis on the list. When I was a baby DJ at the Q, there was a reel tape box way up in a corner of the production studio marked The Last Contest. WDHA Dover, NJ (since reformatted to (Album-Oriented) Rock . 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. There were many good radio stations all over the USA radio map, like for me KACY, Ventura, KIST, Santa Barbara, KMBY Monterey, KDON Salinas. * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 10, 1972 (11:46). 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. Donny Osmond was at #1, the TIX All-Stars basketball team was ready, toplay De La Salle, the time chime and the music that was on your radio. 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. WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. 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. Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Louisiana Power & Light. 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. EVERYONE wanted to be like you guys, including me who at the time had a lot to learn. Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. . Like a lot AM stations. David Kaye, 8/10/2017: I have radios in every room in my home. By the way, I have since heard, on the Rock Radio Scrapbook website, an composite aircheck of WINS last day as a Top 40 station (complete with [a] then-weekly Sunday night/Monday morning transmitter-maintenance sign-off followed by [a reinserted recording of] the National Anthem, [b] the then-weekly Monday-at-sunrise sign-on [with the prior or shortly-subsequent SSB edited out?] After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. 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. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) In your TikTok app, go to your video that you want to use to create a playlist. KFRC/San Francisco. However you guys have to increase your power. a painter at $3.00 an hour among other stuff of 1972. Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. This is the station all of the Super Q imitators wanted to be. Special thanks to treasured mentors Jhani Kaye, Bill Gardner and Dr. Finally, a plug for WGH. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. At night despite having a terrible signal at night(WMEX could be heard across at the pond but couldnt be heard in parts of Boston). Ya just cant ignore a station that spawned Jay Thomas, The Greaseman, and Hoyle Dempsey, as well as having a swimming pool where you could dive in OUTSIDE and surface INSIDE in the lobby! New Orleans. Jim Woods in the night time was the most exciting thing around. xmplaylist Recently played songs on XM Sirius radio Genre SiriusXM Hits 1 Pandora Now TikTok Radio The Pulse The Coffee House 70s on 7 80s on 8 90s on 9 Pop2K The 10s Spot PopRocks Pitbull's Globalization The Whitney Channel Mosaic The Blend The Bridge The Beatles Channel Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Elvis Radio E Street Radio Underground Garage Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. Programmers write about The Glory Days of Top 40 Radio reminds me of watching the movie Argo. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. I ended up racking up 25 years total. 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. just wanted to list my name as the author of the preceding post. After sunset gone. 15. Everyone here has had the luxury of living through some of the best radio ever. Bobby thanks for your kind comments. Under the video, click Save . At the time, the AM was still number one! WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. WTIM - NEWSTALK WTIM delivers local news and information, local weather, local and professional sports, and over 6 hours a day of agriculture programming! The personality line up was one heavy hitter after another. I couldnt stop laughing! Like other stations, it rolled with the times and changed. They were as good as anything, anywhere. 94.3 Rewind playlist United States Michigan Monroe 94.3 Rewind 94.3 Rewind playlist 94.3 Rewind playlist Don't know what song's been playing on the radio? WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. WTIX 94.3 FM Download now for free and listen to the radio easily. The FM is still Tp 40. WTIX 94.3 - WTIX-FM is a broadcast station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, playing Classic Rock, Oldies, Pop music. WTIX FM 4539 n. i-10 service rd. Somehow it seemed appropriate. Country Hits 3. (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) 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. C-K-S-L of-a-TownLONNN-DONNN!! I can still hear Roger Kleins growling delivery. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. Use our service to find it! 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! And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! WHAT THE DAMN FUCK? With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. Before there was Drake, there was Storz and McLendon. I am a DJ on a community station WRDV and my program is AM Classics so I really appreciate your website, Youre right: WIBG Philadelphia was started by a church in the Philly suburb of Elkins Park, PA in the 20s. Poor Lee hadnt been paying attention. 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. Loved by everyone in all the western states! Yes, football on Top 40 worked for them with the excitement of a new team in town. 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. Would have to be on my list. It was a time that will live in our hearts forever. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Great to see so many radio brethren on here. Ron Jacobs roasted you accurately years ago. And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. There were some outstanding stations and many of the personalities became legends. Robert Mitchell plays the radio hits of 1969. The story of Today and his PD, the great Bill Stewart hoisting a few pops after work and watching the waitresses load the jukebox is priceless and will live on and on! They were tight, bright, slight reverb and very punchy like WABC. 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. WLS/Chicago. 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. At least B100 was in Somebodys list. Lets see here, who did WAYS Charlotte create that we remember? His wife did the music. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) Perry Murphy was a great host Took me home to meet his wife and through the KOMA facility BUddy Scott was doing his usual magic He was a BIG fellow but full of energy. Your input sucks! Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. WFAS White Plains, NY (gold-based AC) In his undershirt he personally cooked, and rice, along with corn bread for us. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. Those results are at the end of this article. Stand with Ukraine. The number one selection by the fan picks proves that the entire country would have benefited. . Later in the early 60s, Spanish-language programming was added to the daytime schedule. 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. That's a good thing. Hey! I remember listening to tix as a teenag 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. I completely agree. WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. Later, as a student in college, whenever I love radio. Ive had this confirmed by others since. I love all of the comments! Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. KFM-BFM San Diego was, IIRC, the first major market FM Top 40 to be #1 in all demographics 12+ and all day parts, in Fall 1977. The Rock Of New Orleans - WKBU-FM | Bayou 95.7 FM Contests & Events Latest The Rise Guys on Bayou Latest The Rise Guys After Hours Podcast Bayou Rock Box: Your chance to win Guns N' Roses tickets Login and Listen to Bayou 95.7 for your chance to win Duran Duran Tickets Bayou Rock Box: Your chance to win tickets to Depeche Mode WTIX 94.3 FM's heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, "The Mighty 690." We had a blast in HOU. CONDUCTOR: William Boughton. During that same event KOMA lost power but had a generator I asked Perry how he knew when to cut back to utility power. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. 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. Certainly those of us who worked there would say so. Paul in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. Oh wait. 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." I listen as often as possible! reconsider your sources. 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.. You could say the same about WHB and KXOK. (Any wonder why omissions of such stations have prompted responsesmine includedsaying that the poster forgot such and such Top 40 station?). A list of 20 is too short. Early adopter in the format (1958, survived to the mid-70s). Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. KIOA. Lock it in and rip the knob off.. I remember Howard Taylor working the AM side then we had middle of the road on the FM side which captured the older crowd well. . Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again. ). And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. include Z-100! But, that station, in its on-air presentation, was wound as tight a top-quality watchit was flawless, with great talent like Dave Shafer, Tom Shannon, Gary Burbank, Jim Edwards, Brother Bill Gable, Super Max Kinkel, Charlie OBrien, Charlie Van Dyke, and on and on. WLS and WCCO are now news talk stations. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. These were stations worth traveling to hear. That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. That's a good thing. My list would probably put KFRC #2, KCBQ #3 and CKLW #4. While I was a devoted listener of the Big 89 for years before, thats when the (Top 40?) 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. This website uses cookies for analytics and personalization. When I finally got it it was empty. Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. 10. Louisiana, 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. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. I also worked on 13/WAVZ New Haven, another great station. Mike Phillps, Jerry Kay, Lan Roberts, and many more, plus grabbing as much as 35% of all radio listening in the nations 13th largest market. I hope he and his legacy will never be forgotten. contest promo, a rats in the city PSA, and a Donovan concert promo by Robert Mitchell. For a long time Id wondered what was in that box and theater of the mind. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. What about Kimn in Denver? GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. As a latecomer (1976) to the game, but well aware of the history, the key here is knowing and targeting your market, tailoring everything and everyone to it. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. Pat KJR was a great station. A further thought on this string: As kids growing up in Welland, Ontario, most of the radio we listened to was from Buffalo. COMPOSER: Anton Arensky. (AND TO THINK THAT AT HIS PREVIOUS RADIO EMPLOYER IN BOSTONWMEXTHAT WAS ONE OF THAT STATIONSAS YOU SAID, PAULHOUSE NAMES! WOV was on 1130. Those were some really good years on Twin Cities radio. Ah, but Randy included the great WAPE!! These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. Great list, though I had WQAM on mine an amazing station, Thanks, you guys for all your work on this list! Sorry, I dont mean to monopolize the conversation, but another old Philly station/format warrants mention: An all-Progressive Rock format launched by WDAS-FM, Hyskis Underground. A good playlist and entertaining jocks. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home. 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. 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 Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. He brought me to 93Q in 87 as the night jock from B97 New Orleans. 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