Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. 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! Rockin Ron Schumacher was the board op-and when Wolfman answered the phone hed ask: Do you know the difference between meat and fish?. Then the Canadian govt. Great to see so many radio brethren on here. (Re my comment on 5/22/2018 @4:03 PM:) My all time favorite Oldies format stations were WPEN, from 1975-76 (great jocks, jingles, funny newscasters) and WIOQ, during its brief stint in that format, 1987-88, as I recall. 15. Ron is one of the true radio savants (alongside Zapper, Dan Vallie, Bill Richards, Nick Bazoo, etc.). They were as good as anything, anywhere. No station was better about promoting, playing the hits, and focusing on the community. But the signal was awful, the staff was expensive, and 15Q failed quickly. WVLT, Vineland, NJ (for a long time and still currently, as far as I know) * Bob Walker -AircheckOctober 22, 1969 (10:30). What is that song??? Wibbage was a true top 40 station from about 1958 until roughly 1977. For a 15 year-old growing up in East Texas, the best station in the country was WNOE in New Orleans. But CHUM also did what no other mere Radio Station did. Bobby Reno, a mainstay of New Orleans radio for 50 years whose career as a disc jockey began and ended at WTIX, where he was one of the more popular on-air personalities of the 1960s, died. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. Nobody, and I mean nobody, listened to KLIF in Fort Worth. How good is that? I'm a 79 year old and love your line up. Oldies station for new orleans louisiana. The announcers of WTIX 94.3 FM are all veteran broadcasters. Living over in Texas I could hear TIX / had a powerful daytime signal but disappeared at night. And that news intro: With Morse code beeping in the background and plenty of slapback echo, the news opened with From around the universe, around the world, around the nation, around Texas, around Dallas, and around the corner from your house, this is K-B-O-X news.. These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. Have you heard it? 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. 44 12 Magic 101.9 is an Adult Contemporary radio station serving New Orleans. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! FKA ChuckerI'm now. Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. Unsere Bestenliste Feb/2023 - Detaillierter Produktratgeber Die besten Eos d6 Bester Preis : Vergleichssieger. 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! Behind Production on Lee Abrams characteristics list of great Top 40 stations, number two is The Bible of Music. From 1965 until its demise in 1976, WCFL never let go of a Top 40 playlist/format. Another station that deserves mention was WZZD, 990, when it was a Disco Hits format (i.e., disco hits played in a random Top 40-style format, as opposed to beat-blended, as on WCAU-FM.) 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. RKOs WOR-FM. (Any wonder why omissions of such stations have prompted responsesmine includedsaying that the poster forgot such and such Top 40 station?). He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. The best 1-2 punch: Fenway 6-10 am and Ginsburg 8-10 pm M-S. And Blaine Harvey went on to Minneapolis and later Philadelphia broadcasting as Dan Donovan. It pains me that the list was so short. After moving to 1400, still at low power, no one could touch them, and everyone tried. Budweiser Beer( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), Kreeger's Mam'zelle K Shop(RobertMitchell), Metairie Ford(Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! The crew that made Pappy Smith famous. WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. Pitch your music to a global audience. Top 20 based on what? 3.) Bob Mitchell and Jim Swiler conduct an interview with "Quarterback Billy Kilmore". Its city of license is Galliano, Louisiana. There were so many great Personality AM powerhouses in the 50s-70s. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. 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. Attention! A list of 20 is too short. I agree. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! 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. s. Includes a 20-20 Newscast (by Bob Walker), a WTIX. KHJ lasted about 10 years. Your comment is being published.Thanks for keeping alive the conversation. [13] Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest 89 WLS to the west, and The Big 8 CKLW, to the east. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. 2. Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. 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 (8:55), * Robert Mitchell -AircheckIt's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox. 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.] I lived in Erie at that time and listened to Jet 14 and Randy Michaels, along with Frank Martin, Ronnie G (Seggi), Jim Conners, Jack OBrien, and Al Knight. Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. 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. 11. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. My decades of respect for Lee Abrams has increased thanks to his 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations and his selections are 85% perfect. After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. reconsider your sources. I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. Enjoyed working together in syndicated 24/7 formats as well. , 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. It was one of the stations that the great Wolfman Jack did his show from. These were stations worth traveling to hear. And lets not forget Z-100 (WHTZ) ITSELF! (Thats 3 a.m. in Louisville. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! Produce documentaries chronicling the history of Top 40 Music. Skinny Tommy Cheney's shout out, and. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. * Bob Walker -AircheckMay 16, 1972 (11:00). Hi there! He outgunned WABC within a year and made history for bringing FM into the 20th century. Also includes commercials for Pontchartrain Beach, the 1962 Ford Galaxy, Mexsana Powder, 7-Up Float, and amention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. However, I likewise agree with Lee that KHJ should be at or near the top of the list. And during its last two years as a music station (continuing as a talk station almost a month-and-a-half into the latter of the two years), WABC was the Yankees flagship station. Login here. Jerry Clifton blazed a huge trail when he turned WXLO FM into 99x. been listening to TIX since the 70s. suck! Like other stations, it rolled with the times and changed. ! ran top of every hour. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. WVAQ is a giant in North Central West Virginia. The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. WFIL, Philadelphia (c. 1983) WEEL/1310 and WEAM/1390 were great in DC/Northern Virginia in the late 70s/early 80s, so easy to ping-pong between them (WEAM had slightly better music, WEEL had slightly better personalities!). KFRC/San Francisco. TiIX is the only station I listen to. CKLW in late 60s and early 70s was like listening to a non-stop party. The Greatest Top 40 Stations Of All Time! WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. CKLW is definitely #1, and the most influential Top 40 of all time (thanks to Rosie). Sure, "oldies" obviously isn't everyone's niche, but the variety on this station is better than on any other station. Thanks for the great work you did there. I also worked on 13/WAVZ New Haven, another great station. And it had Dr. Don Rose. History-making in so many ways, and still great today. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. Cant do it. And let us not forget the news department which was something to be reckoned with. Louisiana, Somebody to Love. No one, ever, anywhere, did the basics better than the Big 8. right, **WPLJ*!! KMPC remained Adult Contemporary (the soft-rock radio formats name by then) until about the turn of the following decade. 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. Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. (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! WHLW/WOBM-AM Lakewood, NJ, (Adult Contemporary) They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. Watch the video below! I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. At least as far as CHR radio goes . CD Signing Video WICC Bridgeport, CT For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. 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