I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. 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. Or WTAE Pittsburgh-ONE OF THE PIONEER ACS! With all do respect KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. 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. (5:10) * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33) That's a good thing. In fact, owing to its location in New York City, it was the proverbial 800-lb gorilla of Top 40, period. Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. WKTQ (13Q)/Pittsburgh. I still carry a Kennedy half-dollar I got in some change our first night in Windsor, a constant reminder of the magic, good times and wonderful people we shared through most of 1972. In his undershirt he personally cooked, and rice, along with corn bread for us. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. In 67 we got an advanced copy of Sgt Pepper at little old WKBK in Keene, NHbefore WABC (I was told)..thats when turning on mike was fun. I have to mention the station that I listened to every night growing up in Utah (and made me fall in love with radio) 1520 KOMA out of Oklahoma City. Hey! The founder and owner, Myron Jones, built the building and wired the studios himself. Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. the jocks, the music, the contests..they created the magic that made your station the very best! Larry Anderson, the PD at WGR Buffalo, listened to WJET driving back and forth to see family in Ohio. SERIOUSLY! I hope he and his legacy will never be forgotten. No need to sign-up! Here she is complaining about. You mean that Lee Abrams guy who came to Toronto in 1977 to work his Superstar Format Magic against CHUM-FM? It's FREE! I agree. I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. 2. Does anyone remember the station? Alan Sneed & Gary Adkins had my back Monday morning they got me to Vic Rumore Jim Bob, who was GM at KGN and their consultant, Mr.Green Kent Burkhart I was on the air Monday Nite I stayed there until Big WAYS came a calling which is another story for another time. Listed Mike Marshall as one of, if not THE Smoothest jock ever. 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. Pontchartrain Beach jingledonut and bed only -late 1960's (:42). KISN Portland?!? Thank you Radio Ink for this amazing trip down memory lane. Rock Popular 1. Those were some really good years on Twin Cities radio. Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. It really started in 1958 with Perry Allen, Russ The Moose Syracuse, Art Roberts and Dick Biondi. Later, as a student in college, whenever Id like to thank Randy. The Black Crowes 1675327253. Many of these great stations can be heard at Rock Radio Scrapbook Canadas Aircheck Archive celebrating the Golden Age of Top 40 radio since 1996! Radio Ink recruited two of the best programming minds in the business, Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels, to answer this question: What are the greatest Top 40 stations of all time? Heres how they stacked them up and your lively debate, comments and disagreements on how they did. Randy also sorta had something to do with Stevens & Pruitt and that 97.1 frequency in DFW, being the PD and all. There was no mold for WLS. ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. WBZ, WPTR, WRKO, WMEX..in the 60 led the way in our part of NE for those of us just coming in to the business. K92 was mentioned and they picked up the number one spot a few years after they went on the air in 1980, dethroning WROV. Well said. KYNO deserved the inclusion, Doc. WGR was a great station. What else can I say? 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. Stand with Ukraine. I worked there as a young man when Mac owned the station, so I know first hand. 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.. Unless you mean BOTH Z-100 AND Pirate Radio, the latter was a station in Los Angeles; in fact, he left Z-100 to helm the Pirate Radio format (I forgot what station had that branding). All of that amazing talent spoke into a vintage RCA mic and spun records on 16-inch transcription tables, right into the 1970s. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. They were as good as anything, anywhere. I listen to the Crusin 1966 album almost religiously. Already a user? My point is whatever station you grew up listening to.. I just wish I had been in the business ten years earlier. It was nowhere upstate or on the Jersey Shore. However, I likewise agree with Lee that KHJ should be at or near the top of the list. Louis, WTIX/New Orleans and WQAM/Miami (or at least one of them) cant be taken seriously. One of our four chime tones that we played whenever we announced what time it was in the 1970's. Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30s to mid 40s. it; THATTTS!! Look, I am a total Drake disciple (and in my early years, I had the privilege of working for Gordon McLendontwice). 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. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. There were many good radio stations all over the USA radio map, like for me KACY, Ventura, KIST, Santa Barbara, KMBY Monterey, KDON Salinas. ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. Agree with Bill Wayland at one point 68 WRKO had an almost 60 share Teens. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. Already a user? The equipment was ancient. 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. As noted by one of the experts, it was KOWH. No station was better about promoting, playing the hits, and focusing on the community. Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. Great stations produced great stars and huge ratings. YOU ARE!!! If you go by Abrams characteristics, CFL was heads and shoulders above the rest (plus they had Chickenmanand Lujackand King B, Jim Stagg (who traveled with the Beatles on tour), Biondi, Barney Pip, Jerry G Bishop, Joel Sebastion, Jim Runyon, Ken Draper as GM, a huuuge news department, and on and on). Nice! Best radio station without question. Call sign: WLMG Frequency: 101.9 FM City of license: New Orleans, LA Format: Adult Contemporary Owner: Audacy Area Served: New Orleans Contact Address: 400 Poydras Street, Suite 800, New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: 504-526-3000 WWOZ-FM. Redeem Now Buffering PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 392 8 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. Toast. KDU was a great station in 1978 under P.D., Santo Canone, also very professional. 4. As does WICC Bridgeport, CT belong on not only my list of the greatest Top 40 stations in the New York suburbs, but also one of THE greatest Top 40 stations, PERIOD. ***HELL***!! Its been fun reading everyones passions for their picks for the best Top 40 Station. I had the pleasure of listening to 4 of these stations back in the day, CKLW from 67 through 74/75 before that WING Dayton in the Mid to Late 60s, WFIL in my early Air Force Days before shipping off to Vietnam, while stationed at Dover AFB in 68/69, and on occasion WLS with and without Lujack[WCFL as well} back in the mid 70s. We had already run over Jack McCoy and his Last Contest. I remember listening to tix as a teenag PLEASE FIX THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE.I'm singing along at work and BAM the music goes out! Bruce Bradley at WBZ told me at a record hop in 1963 NOT to go into Radio. And it had Dr. Don Rose. COMPOSER: Anton Arensky. That shout is still in use at 620 AM and 103.5 FM, which use the WAKY calls today.). DAMN!!!!! Great visit Great station!! With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. WTIX 94.3 FM Download now for free and listen to the radio easily. Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET? Thanks, to that Ron Parker, whether you or someone else, You have the right RP, Robert. Didnt happen, but the writing was on the wall. Todd Storz introduced a tight pop music format on KOWH in 1953. include Z-100! WHLW/WOBM-AM Lakewood, NJ, (Adult Contemporary) ALL-TIME BEST OLDIES STATIONS! WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (now Hot AC 94-3 The Point) To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. 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. and the WKNR Keener 13 crew. LOL, Morgus' Experiment- House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959(4:07), Pontchartrain Beach radio spot-WTIX 1962 (1:02). Great to see so many radio brethren on here. Much appreciated. on Saints QB Billy Kilmer). This website uses cookies for analytics and personalization. WTIX - May 27, 1972. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. It was a PERSONALITY driven format. How bout them Kardashians.? The kids of today, sorry to say, really have NO idea what a true lifestyle broadcast radio station sounds like. I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. How about the Middle of the Middle West Not WHO in Des Moines. To coin a sound alike phrase from the late Bill Drake, AND THE TALENT JUST KEPT ON COMIN. Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? Only later was the format extended to WHB and the other Storz stations in larger markets. Presidential candidate / Alabama Governor George Wallace had just been shot. [13] When I grew up, I had a steady diet of WABC, WNBC, KB radio 15, CKLW and WOWO. We should celebrate the greatness. How about 50,000 watt CKY in Winnipeg ??? In mid-1963, the remaining Top-40 pop rock programming was dropped in favor of even more Spanish programming and a primarily-Spanish format. Love those PAMS jingles and all of the hits mixed with crazy promotions. But, I was lucky to have grown up in South-Central Michigan in the late 60s and into the 70s. MEX had Dan Donovan and Fenway. Features: * Listen to your favorite radio station anytime & anywhere. Our playlist stores a 94.3 Rewind track list for the past 7 days. A little known fact is WADO (now a Spanish station) had a split-daypart format of Top 40, R&B, jazz and Italian from 59 through the early 60s, with Spanish being added in 61 or 62. Mac Richmond (one of the owners) was a crazed micro-manager and abrasive as sandpaper, but he knew talent. , 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. Buy on. FM Station Information. Tix has been a big part in my life. The Mets started out on WABC during its first 2 years until Rick Sklar kicked them off. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. 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). K-NUZ. Date of Recording: 1996 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 94.3 WTIX-FM (KLEB-FM/KZZQ-FM/KBAU) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personalities: Jay Douglas, Doug O'Brien (News) (WNBC/WINS) Contributor: Annonymous. The Last Contest was born here. That station is on my list of the greatest Adult Contemporary stations of all time as it is. Register here. Those two local stations, though, played the soundtrack for many folks pre-teen and teen years here in our area. BTW, I was honored that I got to meet you at the CKLW Fifty Year celebration in Detroit in july. How good is that? CONDUCTOR: William Boughton. https://wjla.com/news/entertainment/argo-contriversy-ex-canada-ambassador-slighted-by-affleck-s-argo85572. WTIX - May 20, 1972 Michael Green. 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. ! ran top of every hour. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. * Tom Cheney - Newscast June 1970 during the Bill Murvin show. 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! 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. 90.7. WCFL was occasionally a better station. 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. How Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and business partner Martin Lorentzon revolutionized the music industry through free and legal music streaming when they launched Spotify. I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. A Collection of Songs & Covers by the Greatest A Cappella Group Ever. WMGM had a better signal (broader pattern, full-size half-wave towers with 50kw) than either WMCA or WINS, and a good sound too, but I guess Storer didnt feel like competing when they bought the station and turned it back to WHN in 61. Storz owned WHB but invented the format at KOWH. Before there was Drake, there was Storz and McLendon. Jet was truly a phenominal station. [Reportedly, WCAU-FM, the Disco Powerhouse at the time, was calling our P.D., to get reactions to new songs we were breaking.] Gordon McLendon considered Dave Morris his toughest competitor. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. She was a white chick with R&B and soul in her blood! The crew that made Pappy Smith famous. WKMB Stirling, NJ (reformatted to country in 79; to black gospel/[mostly] African-American-oriented Christian talk/preaching/teaching out of Plainfield but still licensed to Stirling] in 2003; went dark in 2017) Listen To 103.3/95.9 Earth FM WRTH From Greenville And Get All Your Favorite Radio Stations On The Go With The Audacy App. The formats would be better, if the music product was better. Use our service to find it! During the party, the dj there played the Doobie Bros Listen to the Music. as well as creating the mess that radio is now. Pats right, Radio Ink, your damn input DOES!! 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! * Bob Walker -AircheckMay 16, 1972 (11:00). Those results are at the end of this article. 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. Lou Saint . WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. 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!!!!! Jim Jackson. WTIX began simulcasting the oldies format of WSAT in Salisbury, with local news, sports and information for an area that will also include Concord and Kannapolis. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? CK had yourself Mike (did you know that? Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? While it was playing, some lady went up to the dj, grabbed his microphone, and sang the CKLW top of the hour ID jingle! If you know how to make a playlist on YouTube, you can directly open the playlist you created or saved before. *The Fat Black Pussycat movie spot * The Beatles are coming to New Orleans Louise Harrison Caldwell (George's sister)reports on the Beatles and Ringo being nominated for President, of the United States * Dan Diamond adfor Tackle facemedication * Community Billboard * Name Dropper, Contest * 5 minute Charlie Ray newscast. Automation, consolidation and syndication killed the small-and-medium-market farm system that fed those larger-market stations. Buzz Bennett showing up the first day with a German shepherd and a sledgehammer to knock the NBC logo off the lobby wall set the tone. WJET 1400. WROV in Roanoke deserves a mention On the market for close to five years with more listeners than all other Roanoke stations Bert Levine, who owned the station, believed very much in developing personalities without exception all the personalities on the station became major celebrities in Western Virginia. Now its boring as hell. For a long time Id wondered what was in that box and theater of the mind. KILT Houston? This is where the Greaseman was at his best. It was great. 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. Of course we took him up on his offer. Hard To Handle. Ive had this confirmed by others since. OR KQV and KDKA in Pittsburgh? Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. The BEST show came out of 55KRC in Cincinnati. Bob Mitchell and Jim Swiler conduct an interview with "Quarterback Billy Kilmore". 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? His wife did the music. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! WRKO Boston and JJ Jefrey was the best of the Boss format. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. Really. 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. Listening to Happy Hare or Shotgun Tom or Charlie and Harrigan, you wouldnt know the calls originally stood for CBS Quality.. By the time I went off to college in 1978, there were more FM radio options that I switched to. Photograph. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. 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. And over at the Lou Dickey flagship station WOHO, The late Swingin (Frank) Sweeny, Bobby Rich, Ben Gall, Tom Dean, Jungle Jim Williams, Craig Edwards, Irwin Young, Peter Trip, Gary Calvert, Earl Richards (me again), Gene Wurley, E. Alvin Davis, The Mojoman Sid Grubb, Buddy Carr, Sir Bernard J Quayle, Sam Holman, Don Armstrong, Ken R Deutch. Dick Fatherly was my first source for the story that WTIX, then on 1450, was the first station to use the phrase Top-40. I was also privileged to catch CHUM, TR, CKEY, and CKOC during their hayday(s). 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). I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. 4539 N Interstate 10 Service Rd W, Metairie, LA 70006. Coverage to the north was lost, and unfortunately, Dallas grew to the north. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! Reading what so many U.S. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. (OBW, I was there too!). Radio Ink is a registered trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. No credit card needed. Lets also at least have some hat tips toward the unmentioned above: WKIX in Raleigh (with Pat Patterson and other huge talents, and huge numbers too), WCOG in Greensboro, WTOB and WAIR in Winston-Salem, WIBG and WFIL in Philly, WMEX in Boston, WOLF in Syracuse, WPTR in Albany, WQXI in Atlanta, WQAM in Miami, XERB (Wolfman era) in Tijuana/San Diego/Coastal CA), WIL in St. Louis, KOMA in Oklahoma City (as big with skywave in the West as WKBW was in the East), KAAY in Little Rock (another skywave monster) WXYZ in Detroit, CKEY in Toronto, WMID in Atlantic City, WINS and WMGM in New York (which lost to WMCA and WABC, but still), WAPE (The Big Ape) in Jacksonville and the coast up to Hatteras, KFWB and KRLA in Los Angeles, KYNO in Fresto, KFRC and KSFO in San Francisco, KIMN in Denver, KLIF in Dallas, WSAI in Cincinnati, WING in Dayton, WITH in Baltimore, WEAM and WPGC in DC Okay, Ill stop there. WTIX - May 6, 1972 Bob Walker with Sonny & Cher. 12. Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! 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. Fewer than Five Full-Time Employees? We werent allowed to say the word magic, because KMJC Magic 91 was a competitor. In March 1975, Bobby Rich (AKA Dr. It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. It held the number one position from 1960 until 1977. WIOQ, Philadelphia (1987-88) I now live in South Florida and have internet radio at home and in the car. WLS was vanilla in most respects, but it was consistently excellent. Your comment is being published.Thanks for keeping alive the conversation. Cant do it. KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. WLS was the most influential station in the nation in the late 60s and early 70s. Skinny Tom Cheney name shout 3. 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