WMEX Boston should be on this list and one minor market station that sounded and programmed like a major market WAVZ New Haven, CT. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. They had a broad playlist and I wish I could have been a kid in Chicago. While I was there a tornado hit nearby at a car dealership. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. WLS/Chicago. And lets not forget Z-100 (WHTZ) ITSELF!. 17. The editorial staff at Radio Ink came up with a great story and executed it well. Playlists are where millions of fans make billions of musical discoveries. He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. KFRC and CKLW both had Bill Drake and Les Garland to thank for the edge, and the feel of those stations. When everyone in Top 40 was going to short jingles and less talk, KB hired big talent, played long jingles, and gave the jocks all the time they wanted if what they said was compelling. WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. 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. But, its always been a favorite of mine. As a latecomer (1976) to the game, but well aware of the history, the key here is knowing and targeting your market, tailoring everything and everyone to it. WooWoo!!!!. The music is just wonderful. Streamline Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. They were called the WMEX Good Guys. Pitch your music to a global audience. When that station had to be sold or loose its license and it went to beautiful music WHN, the Yankees went to a non-rock stationWCBS. KFJZ 1270 was Fort Worths Top 40 station, headlined by Marky Baby, later known as Mark Stevens of the Stevens & Pruitt morning show on KFJZ-FM (Z-97) which morphed into The Eagle (KEGL) on the same frequency. ). 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. In the early '60s such guys as Robert Mitchell, "Buzz" Bennett, Ted Green, Deane Johnson, Bobby Reno, "King" Bob Walker, and Don Anthony were the greatest! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Daily industry headlines plus breaking news bulletins. Great to see so many radio brethren on here. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. Even outside on the patio, and whats a drive without tix. Thanks to all the fans who voted CKLW #1. 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 in major markets. WRKO Boston and JJ Jefrey was the best of the Boss format. Oldies station for new orleans louisiana. KIIS is going on 40. Gotta put a vote in for The Big 143, CKFH! The glory days of CKLW were only five years long, but the Big 8s influence reverberates today. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. 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.] Radio Ink sure hit a LIVE WIRE here didnt they! In the mid-60s, the remaining R&B/Soul, group harmony (Doo Wop) and Italian (and jazz?) TiIX is the only station I listen to. Worth where Paxton Mills started and George Carlin got his start (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6WheuRi0s). Make a playlist from a video: 1. It worked! KFRC was a good station, but anyone whos honest it was strictly second-tier and never (especially during AM Top 40s most dominant era) had anything close to the production magic and genius of Boss Radio, Morgan and Steele were the most influential in the business. Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. The story of Wolfmans visit to WROV can be found under History of Roanoke Radio then click on WROV. Fun. Everyone here has had the luxury of living through some of the best radio ever. Radio INK. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Didnt your ass spin the Top 40 tunes on KJR? , 4539 N. I-10 Service road Third FloorMetairie, LA. 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. WHAT THE DAMN FUCK? Jim Connors from WJET went to WMEX in Boston in 1971. * 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. That rarely exists anymore. A list of 20 is too short. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. Jim later made his way to Buffalo in 1972 or so. 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!). Barq's RootBeers. 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. @Phil Dirt * Richard Fahey -Newscast6/5/62 (3:39), * Michael Green -Tape City Spot for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. Dick Fatherly was my first source for the story that WTIX, then on 1450, was the first station to use the phrase Top-40. Nice! Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). Listening from Toronto. WDGY had Bob Dayton, Jimmy Reed and the great Gene Leader, more well known as Mean Gene Okerlund. 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? PAT ODAY! Of course we took him up on his offer. Also includes commercials for Pontchartrain Beach, the 1962 Ford Galaxy, Mexsana Powder, 7-Up Float, and amention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. Frank Jolly did afternoons on KBOX and was great and a little crazy. 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. Easy to use internet radio. 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. Still have a bunch of it on my iPad! Y100 Miami crushed it late 70s KB proved that great talent, not great equipment, make great radio. Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. Weekends also feature Breakfast with the Beatles and Casey Kasem American Top 40 70s show. KOWH was the original Storz station in Omaha, where Todds dad brewed Storz Beer, and KOWH was the first to focus on a tight list of the most popular songs, but KOWH leaned towards MOR and didnt really target a young audience. We recommend to enable all cookies to guarantee the website properly work. WIBBAGE had personalities, good on-air production and a remarkable audience share; WFIL came along in 1965 and had the best example of tight production and format anywhere. It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. The Last Contest was all about perception and theater of the mins. You could say the same about WHB and KXOK. Keep on rocking ! Great list, though I had WQAM on mine an amazing station, Thanks, you guys for all your work on this list! * Robert Mitchell (with Jim Swiler) -Quarterback "BillyKilmore"November 1969 (1:17), * Robert Mitchell (with Katy Caraway) -Mardi Gras Phone CallsFebruary 28, 1980(5:18). I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. Hard To Handle. FLEUR DE LIS BROADCASTING, INC. Create a SoundCloud account The station was 1000kw days 250 nights but still was credited by many of the major record labels as being great market for breaking new artists and new singles, sorryfirst sentence should read owned the market not on the Market. Heart 1675326183. SON! DAMN!!!!! By far, #1: WPEN, Philadelphia (1975-76) Frequent updatesbetween songs, and a 20-20 news summary of what was known at that moment by, * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 8, 1972 (9:52), Includes live spots for Godchaux's Bottoms Up Shop, 7-Up the Uncola, and an employment opportunity for. you played a song today between 10am and noon, the lyrics were You don't have to come home, you can rome because I don't love you and you don't love me. Look at the Superstar talent that went thru there Paul Drew, Dr. Don Rose, Tony Taylor, Big Ron, Randy Robbins, Scott Shannon, John Leader, Gary Mckee and so many more. And then Eddie Haskell took it to the #1 CHR nationally in certain demos.I was fortunate to be there on air then!!! . Yes I was lucky enough to be in LA as a kid when KHJ was at its peak in the mid/late 60s and worked at KRTH in 70s when Paul Drew was National PD. WABC poached talent from WMCA? WCAO Baltimore if only because of Johnny Dark. 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). Then the Canadian govt. announced, a fun contest to Name JFK's PT boat, and the telephone Double, election not long afterwards, Craig Roberts created "Vito Mufallato" who urged people to vote the. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. June 1962. (OBW, I was there too!). 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. Love those PAMS jingles and all of the hits mixed with crazy promotions. put their content rules into the playlist.Too much Ann Murray and other Canadian artist. WVAQ/Morgantown, WV. The McLendon format memos remain some of the best how-to handbooks for radio. >: >:0. Hoot Gibson? She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. WTIX 94.3 FMs heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, The Mighty 690. WTIX 690 AM New Orleans dominated the airwaves from the 1950s into the 1980s as Americas first Top 40 radio station, and the FM station debuted initially as its sister station in 1995.Today TIX FM continues the legacy of the original TIX AM featuring the classic hits, heritage TIX jingles, and the famous Chime Time that rings when the personalities give the time on the air a feature that was also a staple of Musicradio WABC New York in its heyday. love the music, feels like 60s again growing up in slidell. Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Ed Ripley voiceover, featuring The Nerveless Nocks and the Poodle Express. WABC didnt lose its stranglehold until like 1979. And, plus, HOW can you even contemplate omitting New Yorks WINS (Thats where Murray the K made his mark, dontcha know that? 1. Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. How many lost 45s I have bought listening to those old WCFL airchecks is astounding. Wibbage was a true top 40 station from about 1958 until roughly 1977. Respectfully, though, I would not rank WCFL below WABC, much less rank them last, undeR WIXY?????? 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). If you worked at Top 40 Radio in North America, chances are your station aired a CHUM Documentary. One night I decided to check out thatr box. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. Love it..used to listen to a oldies station (Poppa Stoppa DJ ) in my Grandfathers Meat Market next to Circle Food Store with my Uncle Tyrone. He liked the name and had a jingle cut for WGR. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. Pats right, Radio Ink, your damn input DOES!! 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. Even as a kid, I remember, by the mid-70s, WLS wasnt quite as exciting as CKLW, but still a wonderful experience. KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. KBOX/Dallas. 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. Using the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and splicing the banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlighted the WTIX DJ's of 1962 instead of the Clampett family. They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. Im referring to WPWT, 91.7 FM, in Philadelphia, from mid-1978 to early 1980, of which I was proudly a part. 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. WTIM was unable to reach outside of Taylorville at night due to its FCC-mandated 63 watts of power. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? When I made the trek to Dallas, I was enthralled by (504) 454 9000. Playing songs I forgot about. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. OH!, my GOD, Pat! Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. Even got to bring Les Garland a 6 pack of Pearl Beer in my suitcase. Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET? No doubt WQXI held off FM competition for years after the city grew beyond its signal. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. ), I meant, so many Top 40 stations in the larger Southern cities were contenders for that title., Is this the Ron Parker I listened to on 93Q in Houston? B100 really captured the San Diego sound. LOL, Morgus' Experiment- House of Shock theme & experiment - '45 record released in1959(4:07), Pontchartrain Beach radio spot-WTIX 1962 (1:02). ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. For a 15 year-old growing up in East Texas, the best station in the country was WNOE in New Orleans. Hy Lit was its best, played R and B on a top 40 station. An error happened posting the review, sorry! Smile on your brother. WMGQ Magic 98.3 New Brunswick, NJ (WCTCs sister station) Listen to WTIX-FM Listen Live Listen with TuneIn JD on Twitter Follow @RealJDtheDJ JD on MeWe Time remaining in Biden Presidency: 1 year 10 months 26 days 15 hours 41 minutes 38 seconds Random Rants Random Rants let JD blow off steam on almost any subject. I was super stoked to see that B100 San Diego made the readers top 10. As I was an avid DXer, at night I really enjoyed WKBW, WLS and CKLW. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. An industry veteran thats been everywhere. . Stan invested in talent and promotion. I completely agree. Thanks, to that Ron Parker, whether you or someone else, You have the right RP, Robert. Fenway Park was in back of 70 Brookline Avenue. Hear John Fred, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the Dixie Cups, Eddie Powers, Frankie Ford, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Barry, Mike Ancona, Milson Luce and Oliver "Who Shot The La-La" Morgan, all saying hi on Bob Walker's Original Oldie Hour at 12 noon on WTIX 690-am. 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. THANK YOU for the whole thing! Had a lot of fun working at TR, too, and enjoyed doing Smooth Jazz. (3:56), for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. 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. Also the WTIX 1969 Halloween House Decoration Contest, a Signal 20 traffic report by David Lawrence, a spot for the new Vanilla Fudge tape on sale at Tape City USA, and a full Coca Cola "It's The Real Thing", Cruise out on the lakefront once again with the sound of the real and classic WTIX 690 on a summertime, * Bob Walker -Aircheck April 1971 (1:23), * Bob Walker -Aircheck February 1972(12:08), Where were you in February 1972? The Marvelous Myth promo (Beatles), DH Holmes Yardley promotion, Sears (Dave Ralston), Expo '69 (not '67), Sergio Mendez concert (Michael Green), Bernie Dumas Buick (Bill Murvin), a bad Drive-In Movie ad, Metropolitan. Hello Lee Roberts! In the business since I was a kid - Tix was my station of choice when I could receive it over on the coast in Southeast Texas as a preteen! KRTH, Los Angeles (1980s,Sorry I havent been out to the West Coast in a long time) It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. 3. reconsider your sources. ( How to play on VLC Media Player) Yes, I agree, I don't understand why my car radio often does not pick up WTIX clearly. As far as CKLW goes I think every jock I knew all tried to emulate the great sound of the Big 8 jocks. I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! WTIX FM 4539 n. i-10 service rd. Larry Anderson, the PD at WGR Buffalo, listened to WJET driving back and forth to see family in Ohio. it; THATTTS!! search in gooogle: boorfes tips monetize your website. Bob Walker20-20Traffic,BillMurvinonSmith's&TapeCitySpot. My thanks to Randy and Lee as this would have been a difficult task, since there were so many stations back in the day. I worked with legends. But its been copied around the world just because its KIIS/Los Angeles. !, yet!) May I put in a plug for non-commercial station that was run very professionally and achieved some notoriety in its time? At least B100 was in Somebodys list. Ive had this confirmed by others since. The DJ's he 'sings' about are: Ron Martin, David Nebel, Bill Baker, Ed Ripley, Bob Robin, Ted Green and Gene Phillips. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! 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. WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) who contributed to that magic. Ron is one of the true radio savants (alongside Zapper, Dan Vallie, Bill Richards, Nick Bazoo, etc.). Drill 5. Keep rocking! And not only live (as you also said), but LOCAL! That station is on my list of the greatest Adult Contemporary stations of all time as it is. Have you heard it? WMCA killed WABC in the ratings from 1963-1965. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. 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. I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. But CHUM also did what no other mere Radio Station did. . Depending on the selected settings, some functions may become unavailable! The founder and owner, Myron Jones, built the building and wired the studios himself. Where is our favorite station ,Thibodaux is waiting ,,we miss it !! Lol! Dick worked weekends at WDAF Kansas City when I was Ops Manager there in 1977. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! 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