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In that decade, it was an outstanding battle of the FM CHRs, 93Q/KKBQ and Power 104/KRBE. At the time, the AM was still number one! Just goes to show ya how good radio was when it was competitive. My list would probably put KFRC #2, KCBQ #3 and CKLW #4. Spanish I am a DJ on a community station WRDV and my program is AM Classics so I really appreciate your website, Youre right: WIBG Philadelphia was started by a church in the Philly suburb of Elkins Park, PA in the 20s. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. WasntKXOL in Fort Worth Top 40 back in the day? Classic Hits Two legendary Top 40s that apparently didnt make the cut for these lists. Even got to bring Les Garland a 6 pack of Pearl Beer in my suitcase. NO way is it possible to please every jock and every station PD or group owner. Pop And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. Without further adieu, here are the best on-air stations to sing along to., nationally syndicated midday program from 10 am to 2 pm..

But now,looking back, it was a different era, and AM rode the wave while it was there. My point is whatever station you grew up listening to..

Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. WKRK-FM 92.3 FM. This app is great, but the customer service is even better! By far, #1: WPEN, Philadelphia (1975-76) Loved the write up on david h Morris. Great jocks, a lot of personality, fun to listen to. Johnny Holliday. And, ironically, WINS might have carried the Yankees at one point in its history as a Top 40 rock n roll station, but WMGM definitely did so. K-NUZ.

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he was a great talent and a class act! I worked in Trenton, MO in 78 and thought that WDAF 61 Country was great Top 40 radio and how good country radio could be programmed. House Mac converted WMEX to sports and talkradioand WMEX was very successful with that format, both on ratings and revenue, until new owners bought the station a few years later. 14. 92.3 The Fan. KIOA. If that sounds crazy, look at the ratings. 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. I was fortunate to work on 99X iin my 20s! WebA shoe-in as a major Midwest Top 40 station, 11 00 AM quickly became Clevelands number one rock and roll outlet. Never missed him, as he made R & B come alive. It was overdubbed several times. WebCleveland's "Play Anything" station.

Cleveland's Station playing all-time favorites of the 70s and 80s, Radiothon for Cleveland Clinic Children's, Win tickets to see The Beach Boys at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, Win tickets to see Peter Gabriel at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. Erie also had the talented Oogie Pringle who went from WJET to WRIE in Erie and then jumped to WNBC in NY. That shout is still in use at 620 AM and 103.5 FM, which use the WAKY calls today.). Automation, consolidation and syndication killed the small-and-medium-market farm system that fed those larger-market stations. When I finally got it it was empty. I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. 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.

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.) Anyway, brother Dick took over the station after Mac died and wrecked it. It was an awesome signal, but somehow they couldnt get that hum out of the transmitter. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. WebListen to your favorite stations, shows and podcasts on all your devices. (Amen!

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. I will always be thankful to those great PDs, Bill Holly, Dick Star, Charlie Murdock and Lee Sherwood. KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade.

And it had Dr. Don Rose. News (OBW, I was there too!). And lets not forget that WABC was the first flagship of the Metsduring its third and fourth years as Top 40. It was certainly an interesting assignment. 3. . RKOs WOR-FM. WLS/Chicago. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. Great stations produced great stars and huge ratings.

If youre THAT Johnny Holliday, werent you on WINS New York during the tail end of its Top 40 era (before flipping to (and pioneering) all-news radio in 1965? Z107.3 ; FCB Power ; WMJI Majic 105.7 FM ; Country Name. MEX had Dan Donovan and Fenway. Her first car was a manual Volkswagen Beetle aptly named Sticky that would terrorize her by randomly refusing to unlock its doors. 2.

(As theyve been saying on one segment of the Monday Night Football halftime show in recent years, ) COME on, man! Anybody who knows a THING about at least early PHILADELPHIA Top 40 radio knows that before there was WFIL (or at least the beginning of its own Top 40 format), there was Wibbage! He was a jock on WPLJ New York in the early years of its 1983-1992 CHR format. Holliday was also great as Baron of the Bay at KYA/SF. By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, Cleveland Browns - 850 ESPN Cleveland - NFL, WestCom Fire and West Suburbs Police - Digital MARCS, Brook Park Police and Fire Dispatch, Olmsted Falls and North Olmsted Police Dispatch, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls Park Police, Fire and EMS. Login or register. But lets not forget KXOL/Ft.

The equipment was ancient. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? And lets not forget Z-100 (WHTZ) ITSELF!. Getting it down to 20 was tough, unfair, and subjective. Each station uses it overnight on weekdays, and for selected hours on weekends. Pop Not mentioned but it should be was WHND and the talents of Richard D haase, Boogie Brian, Jon Ray, Stew Wilkins, et.al. LONG time ago, but good memories. Would have to be on my list. One of those in the mid 50s was George The Hound Lorenz at night on WKBW. Those two local stations, though, played the soundtrack for many folks pre-teen and teen years here in our area. WABC was the Yankees of the group. Well said. WVAQ is a multiple Marconi Award winner for good reason: It sounds great. FOR SALE! KNUZ/Houston.

Your contributions to the Seattle music scene and radio are undeniable. He liked the name and had a jingle cut for WGR. Gordon McLendon made it theater.

That station is on my list of the greatest Adult Contemporary stations of all time as it is. Hip Hop Maybe Im biased, but its my list. 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations. Sign up to leave a comment and share your thoughts with other listeners. 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. I grew up in southern Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and we didnt know it then but it was radio heaven. The Drake stations all had Kanner Boxes, but Ed Butterbaughs setup, 50,000 watts, and lax Canadian rules on positive modulation made CKLW jump out of radios in a dozen U.S. markets all day long, and made the programming sound even better. Perry Murphy was a great host Took me home to meet his wife and through the KOMA facility BUddy Scott was doing his usual magic He was a BIG fellow but full of energy. Jeff Hurvitz But CHUM also did what no other mere Radio Station did. 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. , which prides itself on playing everything from the 70s up to today! And my time at WING, even though it was in the 80s, was some of the most fun times Ive had in radio. Jacobs was a creative genius and the contesting and of course promos for KHJ started with him.

(The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. WCBS-FM, New York (when they first launched, c. late 1980s into the 1990swent downhill since) Unfortunately from what I understand, you were not part of the team at the time IIRC. It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. !, FOR CHRISTS SAKE! Culture Club Karma Chameleon.

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A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. It didnt though.

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.

Plus 100,000 AM/FM radio Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. And to THINK Uncle Lar (the late, great Larry Lujack) was on both LS *AND*!! Does anyone remember the station? WGBB Freeport, LI, NY.

Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB.

Between the two, I slightly favored CKLWwhich was really the work of a woman, Rosalie Trombley, who I believe was officially the Music Director. (they spelled it MUSICRADIO 89) RnB I always thought of them as the WABC of the South.

RnB WMCA killed WABC in the ratings from 1963-1965. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. (And!, heres some *trivia*!! Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET?

I have to add to my list of rock stations in NYC carrying baseball. You mentioned Philly Top 40 station WFIL but not that same citys WIBG? Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. . I knew what I wanted to do forever. Top 20 based on what?

And if you dont know what I mean by that. Soft Rock 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. Thinking you were referring to Michaels not Brown. He trashed the beautiful-music automation and took KFMBs little 10,000 watt FM live with no jingles, minimal formatting, an expanded uptempo playlist that was carted up at 46.5 RPM, heavy promotion, heavy Oganowski compression and a staff of crazed, hyper-caffeinated jocks including Rob Landree, Dave Conley, Rocketman (Scott Wright), Willie B Goode, Jimi Fox, Gary Kelley, Kevin Anderson, Phil Flowers and Billy Martin.

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). Like I said this was a tough assignment. Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. When we went Top 40, we added Carl Lee.

Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. Unfortunately Their gone for good. Thanx for listening.. Z100 Pirate Radio, New York. 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. WAAM and WODA started to cooperate and eventually both taken over by Audre Bulova (of watch fame) and Milton Biowand renamed WNEW, which reintroduced DJs to New York. A further thought on this string: As kids growing up in Welland, Ontario, most of the radio we listened to was from Buffalo. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. A tue rocker in its days. Talk, Adult 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. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Sure, the arts are great, but what about sports? This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

From well into the early 70s through the mid-70s, it underwent an MOR-to-soft rock transition not unlike what WIP Philadelphia underwent a half-decade earlier-and-change, tops.

RnB, Adult @Pat ODay: KBOX/Dallas. Come on, no KOMA, Oklahoma City! I grew up listening to KXOK in St. Louis during the daytime hours (Johnny Rabbit) and WLS at night. 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. And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. Lee and Randy How about adding to your list here? 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. Perry told me that he had a microphone switch activated recorder and would review each jock, each day and provide help. [Apologies if Im forgetting anybody.]

What a great business it was back then! (Top 40) He had 60 shares with a 500- watt daytimer. How can we not mention the stations owned and operated by the late Todd Storz which basically invented the Top 40 Format. Chuck Blores clever contests, tight production, and a great pick of music made KEWB one of the very best Top 40 stations. News It was a very hip kind of top 40 that meshed well with Boston at that time.

There were no general-market oriented rock n roll stations in the early and probably even well into the mid-Fifties. Of WLTH fame? All the Top 40 stations that Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels each included, those that many posters, myself included, called them out for omittingincluding those that you mentioned in your own comment, plus WIFI Philadelphia (WIFI 92 (pronounced Wi-Fi 92 (Whod have thought, right? 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! 3 radio stations. 80 miles away, across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. ), 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? Those were the days of Ron Riley;Art Roberts; Clark Weber;and The Great Wild Itralion Dick Biondi himself. He brought me to 93Q in 87 as the night jock from B97 New Orleans. ALL-TIME BEST OLDIES STATIONS! -Bruce Scott WAPE/Jacksonville. News Top 40 Hitz. For both stations I got our friend, Sam Lit (Hys son and a jock on WIFI), to produce great-sounding jingles and name shouts for us. Several on-air staff departed for KTNQ Los Angeles in late 1976, creating openings for Shotgun Tom Kelly in AM drive, Glen (Martin) McCartney middays, yours truly in PM drive and Gene Knight in the evenings. (Shit, KJR was the KISN of *Washington State* **AS IT WAS**!) Rock

KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. You can hear Hits Radio Cumbria on online.

Still, WMGM had its legends, most notably Peter Tripp. Including two that are in The National Radio Hall Of Fame. WebListen to radio stations from Cleveland OH, from a wide variety of genres like News, Pop, RnB, Rock and Talk. Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again.

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We had a blast in HOU. I was super stoked to see that B100 San Diego made the readers top 10. WebCleveland Radio Stations Filter: All world United States Ohio Cleveland ESPN 850 AM news talk sports 14 374 Ambient Sleeping Pill ambient Altus - Accessing the Coma 2 218 1 AM 1420 The Answer news talk LED ZEPPELIN - AUTH/ (INST) Immigrant Son (1:18) 1 25 CLE Oldies classic rock 70s oldies 60s 50s Dan Sweeney - Dan Sweeney OHW 0 56 1 La Mega pop The best part of these 3 lists is bringing back the memories of when RADIO was competitive, creative, and most of all FUN.

As an engineer, I was lucky enough to work along side many of them, and even heard Humble Harve and Bill Drake cutting IDs and voice-overs in the early 70s. Jet was truly a phenominal station. It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. For others, the hyper-high energy and tight production of talents like JoJo Kincaid was the Holy Grail. Gospel This radio station is for you (and the answer is always sushi). Everywhere you went, if someone had a radio on, it was tuned to WLS. Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time.

KBOX and the Balaban stations trained Stan Kaplan. Ohio Restaurant Serves The Best Burrito In The Entire State. WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations.

Register here. Join for free. CKY came in like a local during the day at Bemidji, Minnesota. How many lost 45s I have bought listening to those old WCFL airchecks is astounding.

And let us not forget the news department which was something to be reckoned with. Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. Ya just cant ignore a station that spawned Jay Thomas, The Greaseman, and Hoyle Dempsey, as well as having a swimming pool where you could dive in OUTSIDE and surface INSIDE in the lobby! WebAll-Time Favorites of the 70s & 80s. In 1983, right after NBC paid six figures to researchers to learn that there was absolutely no hole for Top 40 in New York, Milt Maltz paid $8.3 million for an FM in Newark that played show tunes, figured out how to move it to Empire, brought in a redneck morning man and PD (Scott Shannon, who was so not New York and went worst to first). 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. Thanks to those folks I managed to make a living in radio for a good bit of my life and I will always be grateful for their willingness to teach new guys! WADOs 1280 signal was originally a time share of WAAM Newark, WODA in Patterson and WHBI.

you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! The Mets started out on WABC during its first 2 years until Rick Sklar kicked them off. THERE!!! Hebrew How Big Was WKSUs MaxxCasting Ratings Boost?

It was the Top 40 station in San Francisco during the Summer of Love.

Growing up in southern Minnesota from the late 1960s through the late 1970s, my friends and I listened to WDGY AM during the day and WLS AM after sunset. There were some outstanding stations and many of the personalities became legends. KIIS/Los Angeles. RnB

Todd Storz introduced a tight pop music format on KOWH in 1953. Like the stations you name-dropped (call letter-dropped?

Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? Hip Hop

But KBOX was pretty amazing for having only 500 watts at night at 1480.

Oldies Talk, Jazz When WNBC went CHR in the 70s, that ranked up there, too.

CA. RnB, Hip Hop WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) Praise 1300 Cleveland's Inspiration Station: Urban One: Gospel: 1330: WINT-AM: Willoughby: 101.5 FM/1330 AM Romantic Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch.

Rap Thats a shame.

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The night I visited Joey in the studio, he asked me to take a 45 in to PappyMemphis by Lonnie Mackplayed for the first time that night! Bruce Bradley at WBZ told me at a record hop in 1963 NOT to go into Radio.

My brother Lacy Neff loved what he did and was very very proud of his station and co workers. Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. Another station that is still around but with new ownership I believe. Talk, Adult Contemporary Talk, Hanukkah

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Glad to see the two stations I grew up with listed here. His stories were fascinating especially told in that booming authoritative voice.

and the WKNR Keener 13 crew. in the Spring of 1978, I was doing a late night fill-in on WKDU during their weekday Progressive Rock programming and I decided to do a show of all classic Progressive Rock tracks from the 60s and very early 70s, the music I had enjoyed from the afore-mentioned stations. No mention of Pittsburgh area radio stations! In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! for you: they each began its first season [first season ever in the Falcons case, first season in a new market in the Braves case] at since-demolished Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Longtime morning man Lacy Neff passing was big news last June.

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