As a kid listening to WLS, WABC, WLAC, WSAI and any market I could pick up, the excitement was universal. Hope you are both well. Dic Youngs, Jim Michaels, Mike Pace. I agree: there were SCORES! KIIS belongs on the list, no question. include Z-100! WROV could have easily made the cut. 40 share and better in the 60s. WMEX went on the auction block on this past December 15, 2017. But Ive got to know, did anyone measure? LOL Other stations interrupt. Oh, yeah-the aforementioned WMAQ Chicago (during its AC format from circa 1972 to 1975); and KMPC Los Angeles (which like WIP in Philly, transitioned gradually from MOR to soft rock from well into the early 70s to about 1976. The music is just wonderful. CKLW went Drake and WXYZ and WKNR went away.50,000 watts put the Big 8 into Cleveland,Toledo and eastern PA.I remember CKLW giving the weather for Toledo and Cleveland. These were stations worth traveling to hear. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) Tix has been a big part in my life. Please click "I agree" to ensure that you'll have the best experience of using our website. Oldies station for new orleans louisiana. How can we not mention the stations owned and operated by the late Todd Storz which basically invented the Top 40 Format. Mac Allen. The story (as I understand it) is that Mac Richmond (one of the WMEX owners) let Garabedian mix in some album cuts and long versions of the hits, and broke some stuff along the way (Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart being one). I loved WAPE 690. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. The formats would be better, if the music product was better. Some stations have been amazing at times and just awful at others. TALK! 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). Get discovered by a world of playlist listeners. His wife did the music. In March 1975, Bobby Rich (AKA Dr. His advice was 3 years too late. Louis, WTIX/New Orleans and WQAM/Miami (or at least one of them) cant be taken seriously. 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? According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. They did the impossible and stayed there for years, despite the signal handicap. Ah, but Randy included the great WAPE!! With respect. Much love Boomer, Late 1967As Paul Drew gave me my first look at the Big 8 control room, Tom Shannon was introducing Glen Campbells By The Time I Get To Phoenix. Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. Hope you are doing well in all of your endeavors. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. Of course, Im referring to CKLW and KFRC. was the last song heard both on your show and on WINS in general. Photograph. Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. WRKO Boston and JJ Jefrey was the best of the Boss format. At the time, the AM was still number one! In college I often drove at night and I could travel from Denver to Chicago tuned to KOMA listening to cmmercials for the Kearney Dragway in Nebraska, the commercial blarring out Be There, Be There, Saturday night.. WHB and KXOK were among his best. 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. 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. Listening to radio as a kid, hearing major talent in the major markets and locally here in Erie, PA, it inspired me to jump into the business at the age of 15. Side note- thanks to Randy Michaels for seeing what I saw- that great radio isnt necessarily only in great cities. Like a lot AM stations. 7. 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. We're streaming. WCFL was occasionally a better station. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. I remember visiting my cousins in Dinuba as a teen in the summer of 63. KJR gave the industry Larry Lujack, Kevin Metheny. It deserves mention here. (3:56), for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. With Johnny Randolph as PD, WAKY played one black and one country record every quarter hour. Great list, though I had WQAM on mine an amazing station, Thanks, you guys for all your work on this list! THERE!!! They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. 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. Great Stuff and why I got into radio for a few years full time and a couple of decades, part~time. Both were top rated when AM Radio was King. 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. I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. English Website 87 Listen live 17 Contacts WTIX-FM reviews 4 Keith Kosier 05.01.2023 I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. I grew up listening to KXOK in St. Louis during the daytime hours (Johnny Rabbit) and WLS at night. Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. And I definitely remember John Leader. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. John Box gave Gordon McLendon fits and forced KLIF to be even better. I think one of the elements that is missing today was competition, radio wars. WMEX Boston should be on this list and one minor market station that sounded and programmed like a major market WAVZ New Haven, CT. Lee felt WABC was the greatest Top 40 station, but I think they were way out-programmed by WMCA. Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. of a damn BITCH!! Those results are at the end of this article. Agree with Bill Wayland at one point 68 WRKO had an almost 60 share Teens. Thank you Radio Ink for this amazing trip down memory lane. She was a white chick with R&B and soul in her blood! WTIX News Chief Jim Swiler does a, Signal 20 traffic report. (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. 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. You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOBs LOL!! I had WFIL at #15. Of all the airchecks in recent years I have heard from the late 60s through the 70s from different TOP40 stations around the country, I wish I could have experienced listening to Super CFL in Chicago live back then. Except for the late-Sunday evening religious (African-American Protestant church services) broadcasts, WADO had become all-Spanish and so remains (having switched its Spanish format from music or music/talk to all-talk circa the turn of the decade before last, dropping its aforementioned English-language religious daypart). 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. We old people lucked out in having 60s and 70s Top 40 radio!!! Stan was a sales animal, but like McLendon, Kaplan knew that advertisers spent money to reach listeners, not the other way around. 5. WGBB Freeport, LI, NY. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. WLS/Chicago. The Brennans engineering genius and home-built transmitter pumped 50,000 daytime watts from Daytona to the North Carolina beaches. * Bob Walker - Aircheck October 6, 1968 (10:47), It's a WTIX Golden Weekend on a Sunday Night. I was stationed at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the 60s and loved WHB with DJ Johnny Dolan and others. (And!, heres some *trivia*!! ABCs $50,000 Button? KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. LOVE IT!!! Not to nitpick, but you were off by one year as to the debut of the Atlanta Falcons: they actually started in 1966. No way that can happen today, with so many other signals on every formerly clear channel. It would be impossible to make a top 20 list that everyone would like, but these are great! That 50,000-watt night signal put everything east of the Rockies in earshot at night. Thats how a Top 40 station owned the traffic image. November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. Under the video, click Save . The Other Woman. At night I loved hearing Jackson Armstrong on WKBW, boogie check with the hilarious John Records Landecker on WLS and Supermax on CKLW! Id say most folks who heard KNUS during its brief glory years would tell you it belongs on the list. Mad Daddy Pete Myers, Johnny Holliday, Scott Burton, Pat Fitzgerald, Johnny Walters, Ron Riley, Carl Reese and Keith Morris, what a great air staff. It was a magical blend of personality, jingles, contests, and fun mixed with the greatest music that defined the era and continues to live today. With the big 50,000-watt signal and the relatively few rock-n-roll radio stations across the plains, KOMA was the main station for the hits. Unfortunately from what I understand, you were not part of the team at the time IIRC. Finally, a plug for WGH. 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. Even the news anchors, like Grant Hudson and Byron MacGregor (who had a hit record of his own, The Americans) sounded spectacular. Many of the big AM Top 40 stations had FM stations. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. ); WGH and WNOR Norfolk, VA (the former licensed to nearby Newport News); WGLI Babylon, Long Island, NY (one of the first rock n roll stations not only ever, but also in suburban New York City in general (if not THE first suburban-NYC station of its kind); WYNG Goldsboro, NC (was it also Top 40 under its previous callsign WGOL, I wonder? (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite.". Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. Skinny Tom Cheney name shout 3. And lets not forget that WABC was the first flagship of the Metsduring its third and fourth years as Top 40. You can use the best adsense alternative for any type of website (they approve all websites), for more info simply Oldies, needed now more then ever!!! Bobby Reno, a mainstay of New Orleans radio for 50 years whose career as a disc jockey began and ended at WTIX, where he was one of the more popular on-air personalities of the 1960s, died. Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. That station was my LIFE as a kid. Thats the real story so if WABC was great, WMCA was much more. Jerry Clifton blazed a huge trail when he turned WXLO FM into 99x. McClendon may have guessed wrong. A top 40 station in the Washington,DC area in the mid to late 60s had a DJ named Alan Afterhours. Thats a shame. * 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). 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. Or you don't come in at all. WJET-FM debuted at number one. Bobby Rich, you nailed it. WRKO were all slices from the Bill Drake pie. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. Sorry. !, FOR CHRISTS SAKE! He also did a live show from the afored mentioned WGR in Buffalo. Use our service to find it! Living over in Texas I could hear TIX / had a powerful daytime signal but disappeared at night. Oh-lets not forget about three more Top 40 stations in the City That Never Sleeps: WWDJ Hackensack, NJ (1971-74); in the City itself, WPIX (1971-77, 1980-82) and WAPP (mainstream Top 40, 1984-85; Top 40/Rock 1985-86). WTIX was a great station, but I felt WQAM was a better example of Storz. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. New Orleans. The Power Pig was more outrageous, but Y107 was a better station. KYNO deserved the inclusion, Doc. Thank you for still give g praise to him. If you re-read this article, youll see that Randy Michaels *did* list WMCA. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You have entered an incorrect email address! Special thanks to treasured mentors Jhani Kaye, Bill Gardner and Dr. Im not sure what happened to WYNG except that it was possibly drowned in the FM tsunami. Ed Ripley voiceover, featuring The Nerveless Nocks and the Poodle Express. You can search Youtube Playlists and Channels using the search button and the app allows you to select specific playlists to only listen to those songs - mood changes often and so should your jukebox! Reportedly with this approach and FM radios still uncommon in cars, WMEX was right up there with WRKO and actually beat them in some areas. As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. And lets not forget Z-100 (WHTZ) ITSELF! SERIOUSLY! 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. 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. The GOAT top Forty stations were in almost every market, major, large, medium and even many small markets. While in the USAF in 1967-68 I visited KOMA. Even got to bring Les Garland a 6 pack of Pearl Beer in my suitcase. Im surprised nobodys talking about CHUM or CFTR and God bless the late Tom Rivers, one of the best jocks ever in Toronto, at the Big 8 Windsor/Detroit, or anywhere! Hope youre doing well, Lee! Amazing talent, awesome production, revolutionary promotions. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. station lost me. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. 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. and many others that would have put stations on Lee Abrahms Those that I liked list too shame. Too bad the radio gurus dont travel a little far to the east. During the day we kistened to WKY (Oklahoma City) but when dusk came we had KOMA (Oklahoma City), WLS (Chicago), KLIF (Dallas), WNOE (New Orleans), and XERF out of Del Rio carryying Wolfman Jack. That list shouldve included AT LEAST *ONE* station in the Pacific Northwest-especially KJR! Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. Yes! From 690 to 94.3 Not a day goes by that Im not listening to tix. LOL Other stations interrupt. WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. Talk about versatility!) Others from that same summer (as we were on a long road trip from our home New Jersey, where WABCs tower stood outside my bedroom window): KMEN in San Bernardino and KCBQ in San Diego. B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. CKLW was high on a pedestal in those days and people admired it. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. There was no mold for WLS. Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. David Bowie & Queen 1675326694. Our playlist stores a 94.3 Rewind track list for the past 7 days. I love all of the comments! But here we go. 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