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Jim later made his way to Buffalo in 1972 or so. Listen to 1080 wtic newstalk here and get all your favorite radio stations and podcasts on the go with the audacy app. Especially those of us who contributed directly as jocks, PDs, GMs, Promotions, Sales, Engineering, and god love the Traffic departments. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. The night I visited Joey in the studio, he asked me to take a 45 in to PappyMemphis by Lonnie Mackplayed for the first time that night! The greatest Top 40 station of all time? Cant do it. But, it was my child and teen years listening to CKLW that had the lasting impact on me. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. As we were next to WIFI on the dial, people were tuning us in by accident and said they liked us better! While I was there a tornado hit nearby at a car dealership. , 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. 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! Toast. Somebody to Love. Yes, you were the last DJ on Wins, and , yes,Out in the Street (pun intended?) In Your Room. 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. WGLI Babylon, LI, NY From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. (3:00)* Buzz Bennett -AircheckMay 1967 (2:50). When the Dodgers and Giants fled, the Yankees moved to WMGM. I was in college at the time and walking down the hall of the dorm all you heard was the Big 8 in Bowling Green, Ohio, I went to a birthday party in my city not long ago. How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. It was a very hip kind of top 40 that meshed well with Boston at that time. Favorite part is the commercial for the Barracuda (or Baccaruda as the Plymouth man said). I went on to have a 40 year career thanks to that 50,000 watt monster. (5:10) * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33) This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. WJET 1400. Whats easy to forget (especially if all the history happened before ones time) is that top 40 stations had strong loyalties akin to ball teams. @Pat ODay: To coin a sound alike phrase from the late Bill Drake, AND THE TALENT JUST KEPT ON COMIN. Though I grew up and lived my whole life in Philadelphia, for Top 40, my all-time favorite station was WABC. 11. I do remember, however, getting WLS on my Zenith Royal 400 7-transistor radio on the floor of Yosemite Valley that same summer, though. THATS! I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. Playing songs I forgot about. John Box gave Gordon McLendon fits and forced KLIF to be even better. And looking at the remaining characteristics, Big 10 had it all. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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. Lou Saint . However, I likewise agree with Lee that KHJ should be at or near the top of the list. Mac converted WMEX to sports and talkradioand WMEX was very successful with that format, both on ratings and revenue, until new owners bought the station a few years later. 2:22am 02/25/2023 Classical Through the Night (HD-2) KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), 20/20 Newscast, with David Lawrence and Jon Reed 5/20/70, St. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, on September 16, 1964. 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. 2. 10. (The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. Cmon people now, Also, not at all intending to sound braggadocious, I think I was the first one to introduce a Classic Rock format. Some of the greatest talent came through Detroit Toledo Ohio. Great visit Great station!! FM Station Information. WTIX FM I had to climb onto the counter to reach it. The equipment was ancient. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. Many of the big AM Top 40 stations had FM stations. WCBS-FM, New York (when they first launched, c. late 1980s into the 1990swent downhill since) Still love it! WTIX - May 6, 1972 Bob Walker with Sonny & Cher. Voice of the Rocky Mountains in Denver! And I agree that WQAM was a better example of the Storz sound. We held a three-week online poll asking readers what they think are or were the best Top 40s, and here are the results: Not bad company for my first dream station that I ever worked for to be in. Sorry. They didnt last long, but they were awesome. It was nowhere upstate or on the Jersey Shore. Looks like they revised the list since you left your comment and replaced WHB with a lesser station. With separate board ops for the jocks and the newsroom, intro times to the quarter second, including commercials, no station was ever tighter. She was a white chick with R&B and soul in her blood! At least in my city. Bob Martz was probably one of the most funny guys along with the likes of John Garry, Larry Obrien, Bob Kelly, Don Williams (and of course myself Rick Allen, I just had to toot my own horn didnt I? 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. ), WCAU-FM Philadelphia (not just its Top 40 format, but also the Disco format that immediately preceded it), WOR-FM/WXLO New York, AOR-turned-pop WPLJ New York (as Top 40 and later Hot AC, the latter since defunct (the owners of the syndicated Christian AC network K-Love bought the station almost four months ago and took over WPLJ just nine days ago)), WBUD Trenton, NJ, and WYNG Goldsboro, NC come to mind. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleans's Greatest Hits Station. Even though I was over my head, I was well aware I was standing in a historic spot. suck! I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. 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. [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. I know, because I was just cutting my teeth in Toledo radio beginning in 1973. And let us not forget the news department which was something to be reckoned with. * what Im talking about! 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. 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.] Forgot your username or After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. I will always be thankful to those great PDs, Bill Holly, Dick Star, Charlie Murdock and Lee Sherwood. And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. Michael Green, Robert Mitchell & Bob Walker. , 4539 N. I-10 Service road Third FloorMetairie, LA. So was WVAQ, I am the person that changed it from beautiful music to Top 40 in 1976. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. WMGK Magic 103 (soft rock-oriented AOR until modifying to hits-oriented soft rock in the early 80s); WSNI Sunny 104/104 and-a-half/Sunny 104.5 (first hybrid AC- /MOR-based easy listening, then all-soft rock hits), Kiss 100 (WKSZ Media, PA) WSSJ Camden, NJ; WJBR Wilmington, DE; and even WIBG and WFIL (1975-77 (before briefly going Top 40 for the last time) and 1977-81, respectively). During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. OH!, my GOD, Pat! In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! How could this survey overlook two important Philadelphia stations: WIBG- an early giant from the late 50s thru mid 60s at a time when the local American Bandstand set the tone of the nation. Its easy to pick the ones you loved, but its also unfair to think those are the only ones. I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. 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. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. Then there was KYA in San Francisco with Bobby Mitchell and Tom Donohue, Gene Nelson, Tony Big, ed Hider and Johnny Holliday. When it comes to Top-40 influence in its day, KOMA ranks up there and Ive met so many jocks over my career who say KOMA was a big influence on them. Jeff Hurvitz Thank you, Lee and Thank you, Randy. Boogie himself. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) Re said posters comment posted September 6, 2018 at 2:34 pm: You wont remember but at the 1969 Billboard convention, you were PD of KSTT and I asked you a bunch of questions. Two legendary Top 40s that apparently didnt make the cut for these lists. WTIX - March 28, 1970 With DJ Pics WTIX (Football Survey) - November 27, 1971 Football shaped survey. Use our service to find it! WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. Lee felt WABC was the greatest Top 40 station, but I think they were way out-programmed by WMCA. Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. So many markets not mentioned. The music is just wonderful. These are all good stations, who deserve their place in history, and our hearts. KILT Houston? !, FOR CHRISTS SAKE! Sandy Shore went all the way to Drake LA as Marc Elliot. 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. (P.S., Rockin Ron did a great Oldies Show Sunday nights on WBT, Charlotte). In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. Oh-two soft rock stations I meant to name-check (I list those among the greatest AC stations of all time, as well): WSB and WSB-FM Atlanta (WSBs full-service format had, musically, reformatted to Adult Contemporary by circa early 1980s). FKA ChuckerI'm now. It could compete anywhere. 2. CNN Well said. KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. Best radio station without question. WMEX is my favorite Top 40 station of all time!! My brother Lacy Neff loved what he did and was very very proud of his station and co workers. Bobbys internet tribute to B100 streams now at http://www.B100.fm, featuring all the hits that fits, lots of fondly remembered mid-chart stiffs, and recent voice tracks from the surviving members of the B100 air staff. ***HELL***!! Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, I listen from Ponchatoula. It must be hard to fire up an on-air staff when all they have to play is garbage. Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. During the summer I would break away and listen to WCCO AM for Twins baseball games. Bob Walker20-20Traffic,BillMurvinonSmith's&TapeCitySpot. Ed Ripley voiceover, featuring The Nerveless Nocks and the Poodle Express. KHJ lasted about 10 years. BBC World Service 4. Please power up if that is the problem. Led through the 60s by Program Directors Dean Johnson, Dale Wehba, and Perry Murphy, some of the best-remembered DJs spun the hits each day and night. 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. 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? A Collection of Songs & Covers by the Greatest A Cappella Group Ever. Wasnt a very large market, but captured Visalia and immediate area in a big way late 60s. Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. KJR gave the industry Larry Lujack, Kevin Metheny. Kudos to the very talented people at those stations who contributed to creating the well deserved legendary status that still exists. 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. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit; and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. WYHY (Y107)/Nashville. KSFO was MOR, not Top 40. Ps. Living over in Texas I could hear TIX / had a powerful daytime signal but disappeared at night. Consider the voices who worked the window on Burnside at NW 10th Tom Murphy, The Real Don Steele, Roger Hart, Sam Holman, Dick Sainte, Mike OBrien, Tom Michaels, Roger W. Morgan, Dave Records Stone, and the all-night Preacher, Pat Pattee. as a Top 40 station. I knew several of the voices on the radio from back then! Later that year he bought WTIX and it was there that the phrase Top 40 was first introduced. B100 really captured the San Diego sound. Back to you, Pat ODay: KIMN Denver?!? * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour), Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. It was an awesome signal, but somehow they couldnt get that hum out of the transmitter. The two most influential Top 40 radio stations of all time? Would have to be on my list. Years later, I hired him as Mike Marshall from an AOR station in Toronto to do Smooth Jazz. Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Louisiana Power & Light. Or certainly brought FM into the 1970s! Listen Here 1. I have noticed you dont monetize your website, dont waste Hoot Gibson? And even without WABCs reach vs. that of WMCA in the equationforget the Yankees and the Dodgers or even Mets of NYC Top 40WABC was the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of NYC Top 40 radio. I heard the audio, listened to stories. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. 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). 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