Jim later made his way to Buffalo in 1972 or so. But, it was my child and teen years listening to CKLW that had the lasting impact on me. Great contemporary, traditional country, and rock and roll, are gone. And while were on the subject of Midwestern 50 kay-dubba-you AM blowtorches, *(the Cleveland version of) KYW/WXYZ (Top 40)/WWWE (aka 3WE) (Adult Contemporary)* and *WGAR (Adult Contemporary-and probably Top 40 at one point)*, both in Cleveland! Many stations that are just average have lasted a long time. KIIS is going on 40. 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! WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM 5. The number one selection by the fan picks proves that the entire country would have benefited. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. of great Top 40 stations. Randys list is more insightful, but both of them left out WFIL, which some felt at the time was the best Top 40 station in the U.S. (around 1968-1970). WMEX Boston should be on this list and one minor market station that sounded and programmed like a major market WAVZ New Haven, CT. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. KY-102, KC . Another station that deserves mention was WZZD, 990, when it was a Disco Hits format (i.e., disco hits played in a random Top 40-style format, as opposed to beat-blended, as on WCAU-FM.) I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. He stole and enhanced McLendons treasure hunts and other promotions and added a crazy outrageousness that hasnt happened since, except maybe for the Power Pig, which owes a lot to the Kaplans. And I agree that WQAM was a better example of the Storz sound. P.S. (3/30/2018 @11:15p: ) WTIX - April 8, 1972 Lou Saint. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. Everything about KB was show business. Skinny Tommy Cheney's shout out, and. Even that 50,000 watt blowtorch signal was so strong that it easily penetrated into my bedroomdown in the basement! That's a good thing. all Air Talent/Music Driven Top-40s , and oh yeah all live people 24/7, when radio was fun to do and to listen to. I remember Howard Taylor working the AM side then we had middle of the road on the FM side which captured the older crowd well. All Top 40 radio leaned towards MOR in the early Fifties. Great call letters, too. Before voice tracking, I would listen on the weekends to hear the next hot jock! I cut my teeth at the same stastion as Super Max and Pat Holliday of Big 8 fame, WKNY in Kinsgston, NY. WGR was a great station. Do you know the story why Bob Martz, John Garry andothers left WTOD for WOHO Jan 1964 then all back to WTOD by Nov 1965? ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. 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. Y100 Miami crushed it late 70s I listed WTIX because they were the very first Top 40. I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. (3:56) Defense Department ready to draw lottery numbers for the 1971 military draft. The sounds that listeners remembered the most: ( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), (Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! Was Out in the Street by the Shangri-Las really the last record you played on Wins and the last record heard thereon? Come on, no KOMA, Oklahoma City! Programmers write about The Glory Days of Top 40 Radio reminds me of watching the movie Argo. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) WTIX - May 27, 1972. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. 89.9 WWNO. Better production. 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. Another memory WMEX had the jocks names locked in like Fenway in the morning, Dan Donovan, Melvin X Melvin and so on. (504) 454 9000. I heard the audio, listened to stories. 80 miles away, across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. * what Im talking about! No station was better about promoting, playing the hits, and focusing on the community. We recommend to enable all cookies to guarantee the website properly work. Bart Prater (sp?) 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. Sorry, I dont mean to monopolize the conversation, but another old Philly station/format warrants mention: An all-Progressive Rock format launched by WDAS-FM, Hyskis Underground. A good playlist and entertaining jocks. Watch the video below! Unfortunately from what I understand, you were not part of the team at the time IIRC. Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time. I was listening to WTIX-FM (a station that I have only recently "discovered") while painting my kitchen the other night, and I have to say, I'm surprised they aren't doing better. Look, I am a total Drake disciple (and in my early years, I had the privilege of working for Gordon McLendontwice). I grew up in Goldsboro, NC, and there were a couple of stations that played top 40. General manager and program director Michael Costello developed TIX FM and is committed to preserving the legacy that is WTIX. WKBW went Top 40 in 1958 by stealing the PD and airstaff from WBNY, which was number one with only 250 watts. WLS was fun to listen to, but, was never as tight as WHK during the above-mentioned years. 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. Ive had this confirmed by others since. At the very beginning of 1980, as Disco was rapidly dying, we went Top 40. If you re-read this article, youll see that Randy Michaels *did* list WMCA. My grandkids love the old music. Speaking of flamethrowersyou could get WOWO in Sudbury Ontario! That was the prelude I agree with Steve above that WSGN was a great station under PD Jim Tabor. He brought me to 93Q in 87 as the night jock from B97 New Orleans. Tough duty but Lee and Randy did an amazing job Me? Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. -Bruce Scott Talk about versatility!) You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOBs LOL!! 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. Mac was also a very nice guy, btw. I meant WKYC, not WXYZ. But lets not forget KXOL/Ft. They were called the WMEX Good Guys. Morgantown? WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. Sorry, John Records Landecker, but Chicagos WCFL wins this one. CKY came in like a local during the day at Bemidji, Minnesota. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. Some of the greatest talent came through Detroit Toledo Ohio. And we cant forget the Top 40 version of KFI in between its two adult contemporary formats!, now, CAN we!!?!! They were late in the AM game. Dick Lamb and Gene Loving also did a show called Disc-O-Ten on WAVY-TV, and Lamb later had a morning talk show on WTAR (now WTKR), Channel 3. It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. It worked! (27:24). 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. IMNSHO I felt WLS hit their pinnacle right about 1981-2 when they segued to a Rock-40 format. (Shit, KJR was the KISN of *Washington State* **AS IT WAS**!) The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. The WAKY shout was created by Johnny and a group of girls he met out just after the bars closed. 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. None in major markets. Something is amiss. Whatever your new sound, pitching can help it get heard by fans around the world. While I was a devoted listener of the Big 89 for years before, thats when the (Top 40?) 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. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): Dallas was a separate media market back then and rightly so, as the enmity between the two cities was at its peak when Gordon McLendon was working his magic at KLIF. Third Floor WTIX FM 4539 n. i-10 service rd. According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. 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. Oh!, SHIT! 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). 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. WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! Owned by Hugh Holder, then Henderson Belk, Southern Broadcasting and Mann Media. It held the number one position from 1960 until 1977. Stand with Ukraine. This is where the Greaseman was at his best. 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? 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. Reading what so many U.S. Robert Mitchell plays the radio hits of 1969. A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. An error happened posting the review, sorry! Ron is one of the true radio savants (alongside Zapper, Dan Vallie, Bill Richards, Nick Bazoo, etc.). Bob Walker20-20Traffic,BillMurvinonSmith's&TapeCitySpot. 5/5 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. Includes Tom Cheney Newscast. Other stations have been more outrageous, more groundbreaking, or more entertaining, but KIIS is the most influential Top 40 station. Is one of the radio management sector of the Big 89 for before... 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