Jet was truly a phenominal station. 56kbps New Orleans Talk Radio. 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). Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! Unfortunately from what I understand, you were not part of the team at the time IIRC. Who wants to play that crap? The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. KB proved that great talent, not great equipment, make great radio. 17. 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. * Craig Roberts - Vito Mufallato 1972 (:55), WTIX Morning newsman Craig Roberts was also known for his comic relief bits on Robert Mitchell's, When The Godfather movie was riding high in popularity when released in 1972, and New Orleans staged, another election not long afterwards, Craig Roberts created "Vito Mufallato" who urged people to vote the, * Jim Swiler -Traffic Report November1969 (1:55), * Jim Swiler -20/20 NewscastJuly 22, 1969 (6:03). Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! More Fats D! Thanks to all the fans who voted CKLW #1. I agree. WAPE/Jacksonville. There are many other B100 alumni (hi Kathy Aunan!) At the time, the AM was still number one! I worked there later in time. 89.9 WWNO. Instead of debating was KB the greatest, on has a tendency to wonder what the other station is! of great Top 40 stations. No doubt WQXI held off FM competition for years after the city grew beyond its signal. Stan invested in talent and promotion. Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. (3:56), for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. He brought me to 93Q in 87 as the night jock from B97 New Orleans. 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! Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. KIOA. And of course this is just my opinion on the greatest talent in the Motor and Glass Cities. Ryan reynolds, rob mcelhenney take a rare bite out of welsh history with '20 ways to make rarebit' cookbook. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. KTNQ 10Q I had to climb onto the counter to reach it. Lee and Randy How about adding to your list here? Owned and operated by Audacy. In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! Rockin Ron Schumacher was the board op-and when Wolfman answered the phone hed ask: Do you know the difference between meat and fish?. The equipment was ancient. I was stationed at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the 60s and loved WHB with DJ Johnny Dolan and others. In this call, Louise talks about Ringo possibly being, nominated for President of the United States, - House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959, on the WTIX Original Oldie Hour at Noon with Bob Wallker - 1981 (1:11). Thank you Michael, Al JD , Hot Rod .Keep it going M & M . If that sounds crazy, look at the ratings. WOW! Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? By the time I went off to college in 1978, there were more FM radio options that I switched to. Im not sure what happened to WYNG except that it was possibly drowned in the FM tsunami. Besides great Beatles music, DJs share many interesting facts about the British Pop sensations. WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New Yorks then-impending wattage boost) and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in 88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in 79), but in 73 or 74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM SM95 (I dont know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashvilles AC stations of the past. KY-102, KC . 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. WFAN 66 AM - 101.9 FM 3. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Playlists are where millions of fans make billions of musical discoveries. During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. Cmon people now, A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? I was still a AM KFRC fan up until 1983. ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! * 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. Jacobs was a creative genius and the contesting and of course promos for KHJ started with him. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Im proud to know people who worked thereand even at places like CKLW and KHJ. Great call letters, too. Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? Great stations produced great stars and huge ratings. Or you don't come in at all. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? As I recall, the only other time baseball was on a rock station was in 1969 when WABC-FM supplemented WJRZ in broadcasting the Mets, and on the very end of that WJRZ contract when the station transitioned from country to become top-40 WWDJ. 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 And in Charleston, SC it was WTMA / 1250 for many years. At least B100 was in Somebodys list. (The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. In this call, Louise talks about Ringo possibly being, nominated for President of the United Statesin the 1964 election in November. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. Lee and Randy..Congratulations on putting together that list. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! My thanks to Randy and Lee as this would have been a difficult task, since there were so many stations back in the day. While in the USAF in 1967-68 I visited KOMA. Pardon the rambling, but that station was Top 40 during the day and Italian-language programming in the evening, with overnights split between jazz & R&B (the latter three from when it was WOV prior to the ownership change in 1959 that changed it to WADO and shuffled at least either of those dayparts to a different time slot). The original KLIF night signal was only 1kw. Apologies for any Ive forgotten BTW, I was honored that I got to meet you at the CKLW Fifty Year celebration in Detroit in july. Keep in mind, you can only create a playlist with your public videos. reviews. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Automation, consolidation and syndication killed the small-and-medium-market farm system that fed those larger-market stations. !, KTNQ Los Angeles (a Top 40 station during the late 70s (that station itself deserves mention as one of the all-time Top 40 greats, by the way) had a jock namedno kiddingBEAVER CLEAVER!! suck! FKA ChuckerI'm now. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. While at age 20 I had only about 10% of an idea of how to actually be an effective PM drive personality, I had loads of freedom, encouragement from Bobby Rich, inspiration from all my peers and energy to spare. * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 10, 1972 (11:46). Thats the real story so if WABC was great, WMCA was much more. They were late in the AM game. WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. Glad to see the two stations I grew up with listed here. This is where the Greaseman was at his best. Like other stations, it rolled with the times and changed. 40 share and better in the 60s. KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. Early adopter in the format (1958, survived to the mid-70s). This was a tough assignment because so many great stations had to be left out. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. WABC won by dominating the areas WMCA didnt reach, and by raiding WMCA for talent and ideas. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. Spotify for Artists is the only way to submit new music for playlisting. Wasnt a very large market, but captured Visalia and immediate area in a big way late 60s. WFAS-FM Bronxville, NY (renamed WNBM Boom 103.9 and reformatted to Urban AC in the early 2010s) 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!). And I definitely remember John Leader. got a reply that he would love to have hired me but he needed someone who lived locally and could fill in on short notice. WMGQ Magic 98.3 New Brunswick, NJ (WCTCs sister station) As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. @Phil Dirt WVAQ/Morgantown, WV. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. Possibly the first FM to knock off a big AM (WABC) in the Top 40 realm. Shortly thereafter, the Sunday time share that WADO had with religious/ethnic WHBI Newark, NJ was discontinued, and the former inherited (at the very least, some of) the latters Spanish programming, expanding WADOs Spanish daypart to Saturdays, and probably some of not all of the WHBIs Sunday religious programming during that day of the week. 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 These are ALL good stations..the ones listed and the ones that arent. Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. Also thanks for mentioning WROV in Roanoke. 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. Those were some really good years on Twin Cities radio. KY102 was AOR not Top-40. KYNO was THE station for them, and they actually enjoyed hearing the station bid farewell to outlying towns at sunset, when the station dropped from 5kw to 1kw (same pattern, though). KQV had the heritage and was owned by a company that knew something about Top 40, so 13Q was instant roadkill. Classic Rock Country Oldies Pop RnB 30 tune ins AM 1410 - 30Kbps Concord - North Carolina , United States - English Suggest an update Get the live Radio Widget (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) Like I said this was a tough assignment. 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. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. Your right Guy. PLEASE FIX THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE.I'm singing along at work and BAM the music goes out! Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. password ? And for the very reason you namedthe stations that personally floated the proverbial boat of the person making the choicesnarrowing them down to any given number at least falls short of impossible. Weekends also feature Breakfast with the Beatles and Casey Kasem American Top 40 70s show. Thanx for listening.. Z100 Pirate Radio, New York. You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOBs LOL!! ); WKIX Raleigh, NC. WJET-FM debuted at number one. !, *yeah*! Personally, I thought WQAM was the best and is on my list, but thats not to take anything away from KXOK, WHB, KOMA, KOWH, WTIX WDGY. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch. 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. While I was there a tornado hit nearby at a car dealership. Even as a kid, I remember, by the mid-70s, WLS wasnt quite as exciting as CKLW, but still a wonderful experience. Save peace in the world. An error happened posting the comment, sorry! Even with Bobbys departure for 99X New York and a format change in 1979, B100 kept me in flip flops, burgers and beers for 8 years, for which I am eternally grateful. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. 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? *Bob Walker -Christmas Eve1967(1:08)Bob flubs his midnight Bible reading. 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