Soul, Information Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. The only reason Randy Michaels didnt rightfully list KHJ (which was number one on Lees list) is the fact that his anger towards Ron Jacobs and emotion ever came his logic. WJET 1400. 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. that launched in 2020 to provide accurate and comprehensive news coverage from a Black perspective. Yes, WABC had more listeners and more attention. At least as far as CHR radio goes . And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. From morning talk radio to classic hits, these are the top eight radio stations to check out in Cleveland, Ohio. How about the Middle of the Middle West Not WHO in Des Moines. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. Thankfully, is home to a host of quality radio stations., knows the importance of finding that perfect radio station. Glad to see the two stations I grew up with listed here. 1. He liked the name and had a jingle cut for WGR. Possibly the first FM to knock off a big AM (WABC) in the Top 40 realm. Login with Facebook Station 92.3 The Fan Cleveland, OH. Jim Connors from WJET went to WMEX in Boston in 1971. What about Kimn in Denver? WAKY/Lousiville. WICC Bridgeport, CT No dispute. His advice was 3 years too late. I knew what I wanted to do forever. KIIS is going on 40. Talk, Hip Hop KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. 40 share and better in the 60s. KY-102, KC . 14. Music, Indie Like a lot AM stations. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. Now its boring as hell. Public Join for free. Pop Culture Club Karma Chameleon. Part timers of that era included Jimmy JR Rogers, John Mondo Fox, Beaver Cleaver (Ken Levineyep, THAT Ken Levine) and Dr. As far as CKLW goes I think every jock I knew all tried to emulate the great sound of the Big 8 jocks. Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). Enjoyed working together in syndicated 24/7 formats as well.
It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. Station98.5 WNCXCleveland, Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. The station is affiliated with ESPN and features a mix of sports talk shows, live A great Top 40 station. Certainly those of us who worked there would say so. Frank Jolly did afternoons on KBOX and was great and a little crazy. Also thanks for mentioning WROV in Roanoke. Reportedly with this approach and FM radios still uncommon in cars, WMEX was right up there with WRKO and actually beat them in some areas. RnB WABC drove us home from Ft. Dix when we signed out on pass at midnight. Or maybe KSFO went all-soft rock later on in its years as a music station? KIMN Inter Mountain Network. Do your next 20 stations in the comments! Would have to be on my list. Sandy Shore went all the way to Drake LA as Marc Elliot.
No station was better about promoting, playing the hits, and focusing on the community. WMEX, Boston for sure. WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. Oh, yeah-former clear channel (thats with a small C each) WOWO Fort Wayne, IN-as an *AC* station **AND**! Charlie Tuna! CKLW is definitely #1, and the most influential Top 40 of all time (thanks to Rosie). Ill never forget the zany humor of Gary Owens and Don MacKinnon on KEWB. Nobody, and I mean nobody, listened to KLIF in Fort Worth. WRKO-FM/98.5 (R-KO, The Shy But Friendly Robot) should get some honorable mention. Not just morning drivers, but the whole day.
And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. It worked! And my time at WING, even though it was in the 80s, was some of the most fun times Ive had in radio. Sports It was great. Incidentally, almost all of us had been previously on WKDU, which shared time with us on 91.7 FM. Talk, Adult Contemporary WABC carried the Yankees during its final years, and I vaguely remember WMCA caring one of the teams in its final rock/talk years. Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. Talk, Comedy You mentioned Philly Top 40 station WFIL but not that same citys WIBG? The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. You might as well leave Larry Lujack out of your list of WLS jocks, yo! WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. How bout them Kardashians.? WKBW went Top 40 in 1958 by stealing the PD and airstaff from WBNY, which was number one with only 250 watts.
That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! Hows that for some entertaining teachers?! about IRONY! >: >:0. Rock, Jazz Like other stations, it rolled with the times and changed. Jewish WebWWGK (1540 AM) is a commercial daytime-only radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, that is currently silent. Talk, Christian The best news and talk radio stations in Cleveland, The best music radio stations in Cleveland, How to save money on car insurance in Cleveland, Whether youre getting your daily dose of news from 89.7 FM WCLV or enjoying the classic hits with 105.7 FM WMJI, these are the top eight radio stations to tune in to in. Login with Google. It deserves mention here. Rap, Indie Ive great memories of WLS, and WCFL. Arnie Ginsburg, Larry Justice, Dan Donovan (Blaine Harvey.who carried the name to Minneapolis), Charlie Tuna, Larry Lujack, Jack Gale (Fenway), Ed Hider (another Fenway), J.J. Jeffries (Melvin X. Melvin) as well as talk show giants Jerry Williams, Larry Glick and Steve Fredericks all appeared on WMEX. 50000 good watts during the day, but cut back to 10000 at night, pointed at the city and South Jersey. Talk, Bollywood And that was Mr Abrams #20. News Alternative Ill give you Z-100 in New York (a bit later era, but still deserving). @Rich Marston I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. At 96.5 KISS-FM, Clevelands top 40 station, nearly all of its on-air staff were let go, cleveland.com learned. You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOBs LOL!! I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. I was also privileged to catch CHUM, TR, CKEY, and CKOC during their hayday(s). WHB710. Education Holidays (they spelled it MUSICRADIO 89) . Some of the greatest talent came through Detroit Toledo Ohio. You mentioned KONG AM Visalia. Jocks with a bit more rope. Hi Mike! She holds a double-major in journalism and dramatic art from UNC-Chapel Hill. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. And, I confess to plagiarizing W-C-F-L of-a-TownCHI-CA-GO for the rebranding of CKSL London Ontario in the mid 70s. They had a New Years count down of the top 100 from the year and I listened to every song for several years. ^ "Once again this year Majic 105.7 will be Cleveland's Christmas Music Station - Cleveland's Greatest Hits". 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. On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. Information KHJ lasted about 10 years.
I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. College Even that 50,000 watt blowtorch signal was so strong that it easily penetrated into my bedroomdown in the basement! Talk, Children's Family Whether its a. , these are the radio stations to check out for news. I based this list on originality and impact. CA. WKRK-FM 92.3 FM.
I didnt see WIBG Wibbage 990 in Philadelphia. WAYS/Charlotte. He hired major-market talent and they stayed. Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. Classic Hits from 5 am to 9 am on weekdays for comprehensive international and national news. A top 40 station in the Washington,DC area in the mid to late 60s had a DJ named Alan Afterhours. I grew up in Northern VA. We had Major Top 40 AM competition! 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. I will always be thankful to those great PDs, Bill Holly, Dick Star, Charlie Murdock and Lee Sherwood. And, plus, HOW can you even contemplate omitting New Yorks WINS (Thats where Murray the K made his mark, dontcha know that? How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. Rock KISN Portland?!? I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. 16. was the last song heard both on your show and on WINS in general. Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. WGLI Babylon, LI, NY
Rap WHB and KXOK were among his best. KOIL Omaha was the first Top Forty station thanks to Todd Storzdont they deserve a mention? KIIS belongs on the list, no question. Yes! But, it was my child and teen years listening to CKLW that had the lasting impact on me. In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. 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. Education What a great business it was back then! And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. Thanks for all of the comments and memories! Talk, Christian WABC poached talent from WMCA? WebGuardians Get First Win Of 2023 Campaign, Routing Seattle 9-4 Apr 01, 2023. LONG time ago, but good memories. Those were the days of Ron Riley;Art Roberts; Clark Weber;and The Great Wild Itralion Dick Biondi himself. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. Station was located at 70 Brookline Avenue. Marc Chase made more noise at WFLZ and WEBN, but this was his best work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTrSr-Dfuw. In the mid-70s, Knoxville had a three-way AM Top 40 battle between WKGN, WNOX, and WRJZ going, while WOKI was playing the hits, sort of, on FM. Pop News, Comedy WIOQ, Philadelphia (1987-88) Ska, Adult Contemporary Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. One KLIF engineer told me the new night signal was so tight it went down Commerce Ave without touching either curb! B100 really captured the San Diego sound. Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. Ohas far as Adult Contemporary stations of the pastand the greatest such stations of all timeare concerned, Id be remiss if I omitted KMPC Los Angeles. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. There was no mold for WLS.
News, Classic Rock 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! Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30s to mid 40s. Ask most any of themit was the greatest experience of their careers. RnB And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! WDHA Dover, NJ (since reformatted to (Album-Oriented) Rock I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. Somehow it seemed appropriate. Listen to Hits Radio Cumbria. If it was radio at all, it was WLS Music radio. Contacts and information for Hits Radio Cumbria, the top 40 radio station in the UK, including postal address, email and telephone numbers. GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. Great to see WHB from KC and KXOK from St. Louis on the list. I want to try a different policy provider. Im still grateful for the opportunity when you hired me in New Have, CT all those years ago. It kind of reminds me of the famous scene with Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti. ); WKIX Raleigh, NC. It was a PERSONALITY driven format. The later 5kw night site used 12 towers to put a lobe over Dallas that also covered the mid cities and just reached Ft Worth. Owned by Hugh Holder, then Henderson Belk, Southern Broadcasting and Mann Media. I agree. Elvis Presley s arrival in 1956 as the first rock superstar helped cement the new radio trend . 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!!! Kudos to the very talented people at those stations who contributed to creating the well deserved legendary status that still exists. Now that youre all caught up on current events, its time to rock out! Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): Soul, Christian Yes, football on Top 40 worked for them with the excitement of a new team in town. Register here. Oldies Sign up with Facebook 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. 17. 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.
Login or register. Information Better production. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. Is this the fluff-stuff that fires the imaginations of contemporary radio people? History-making in so many ways, and still great today. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch.). Seeing Lees List recognizing Big WAYS as a Top 20 Station and Randy Michaels actually listing 15Q, WAYS, and the Funky Monkey WAPE, gave me some warm fuzzies -Bruce Scott A list of 20 is too short. 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! The two most influential Top 40 radio stations of all time? I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. just wanted to list my name as the author of the preceding post. Cleveland's Station playing all-time favorites of the 70s and 80s, plus every holiday season, Cleveland's Christmas Classics. I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. 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. RnB, Adult Contemporary Filter: All world; United States; Texas; Cleveland; The RnB Channel. They had a broad playlist and I wish I could have been a kid in Chicago. I have noticed you dont monetize your website, dont waste At night I loved hearing Jackson Armstrong on WKBW, boogie check with the hilarious John Records Landecker on WLS and Supermax on CKLW! I love radio. Religious, Classic Rock A doctors son financed the killer Top 40 15Q until the money ran out. That rarely exists anymore. Definitely a slick imaged station! (Shit, KJR was the KISN of *Washington State* **AS IT WAS**!) With Johnny Randolph as PD, WAKY played one black and one country record every quarter hour. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home. Information You patiently answered them for this 17 year old radio freak. KYNO deserved the inclusion, Doc. 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. 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. Rock . 5. And then Eddie Haskell took it to the #1 CHR nationally in certain demos.I was fortunate to be there on air then!!! Wiped out the used car lot, skipped over a gas station then wiped out the new car lot. The McLendon format memos remain some of the best how-to handbooks for radio. Listen in the car, on your computer, or download the iHeartRadio app on your phone., 9 best road trip destinations for music lovers in the US, There you have it! @Phil Dirt Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. WebRadio Stations in Cleveland, OH. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? KLIF with Ron Chapman, Hal Martin (Michael Spears, who gave me my first job at 14), Michael OShea (who gave me my first tour of a radio station), Jimmy Rabbit, Dave Van Dyke (who kicked me out of the building when I sneaked up the fire escape), Paxton Mills, Jim Taber and Rod Roddy (I was his call screener when Gordon gave him an evening talk show). This is my favorite Top 40. Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? 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). A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. Storz didnt own KOIL. Radio Ink is a radio-industry trade publication that is published 12 times a year for the radio management sector of the radio broadcasting industry. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (before reformatting to Top 40 and then to Hot AC) 3. Pop Had a lot of fun working at TR, too, and enjoyed doing Smooth Jazz. 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