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! I worked with legends. Paper Filing? Lee, in addition to answering the question, included what he considers to be the 15 characteristics of great Top 40 stations. It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. 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. It was a GREAT station to DX back then. 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. WTIX Back To The Beach CD Signing 17 Choice Oldies CD Signing Bob Walker, T-Ben Boudreaux, Engineer Tom Courtney, Michael in the Morning, and Terry Knight (l-r) at the WTIX-FM 17 Choices Oldies CD signing remote broadcast at Borders Books in Metairie, Louisiana on 12/10/05. My thanks to Randy and Lee as this would have been a difficult task, since there were so many stations back in the day. 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). Jesus, that station was the damn WABC, WTIX, CKLW, WLS, WINS, WMCA, KHJ, KRLA, KLIF, WQXI, etc. Pat KJR was a great station. Poor Lee hadnt been paying attention. WTIX 690 AM New Orleans LA, Talk radio. The Greatest Top 40 Stations Of All Time! Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! 4539 n. i-10 service rd. Also playlists are working with VLC Media Player. (AND TO THINK THAT AT HIS PREVIOUS RADIO EMPLOYER IN BOSTONWMEXTHAT WAS ONE OF THAT STATIONSAS YOU SAID, PAULHOUSE NAMES! It's FREE! Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. 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. Then there was KYA in San Francisco with Bobby Mitchell and Tom Donohue, Gene Nelson, Tony Big, ed Hider and Johnny Holliday. Skinny Tom Cheney name shout 3. KY-102, KC . Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky. [Apologies if Im forgetting anybody.] PLEASE! The "WTIX and we love you" jingle (courtesy of PAMS jingles). Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). Tap Add to playlist, then tap Create a playlist. Even thought WCCO was not a music station, in the 60s and 70s, they would play softer top 40 hits during some of their programming. I can still hear those dulcet tones of yours. It was nowhere upstate or on the Jersey Shore. Paul in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. 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. (504) 454 9000. WSB (read: WSB-AM)s full-service format had, musically, reformatted to Adult Contemporary by circa early 1980s, that is. Sgt. I worked there later in time. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. 4. WMCA was more like the Dodgers: deeply loved inside the boroughs. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing Purple People Eater for a week. Bill Drakes KHJ was amazing and should probably be on this list. That 50,000-watt night signal put everything east of the Rockies in earshot at night. The editorial staff at Radio Ink came up with a great story and executed it well. WRKO-FM/98.5 (R-KO, The Shy But Friendly Robot) should get some honorable mention. Login here. Louis, WTIX/New Orleans and WQAM/Miami (or at least one of them) cant be taken seriously. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. Maybe Im biased, but its my list. @n Bob Mitchell and Jim Swiler conduct an interview with "Quarterback Billy Kilmore". As a kid listening to WLS, WABC, WLAC, WSAI and any market I could pick up, the excitement was universal. Randy, if you ask *me*, you can name every single radio station that ever was or has been Top 40 and the list would *still* be too short. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. WABC was the Yankees of the group. Bam, Wow, Im as proud today as I was back in the day when I enjoyed the honor of programming two of each of your picks! Like Country 4. Well said. Readers Top 10 Top 40s. And everyone remembers Yours Truly KOMA and the kissing tone. This was definitely an era where radio was fun. Of course we took him up on his offer. search in gooogle: boorfes tips monetize your website. Was Out in the Street by the Shangri-Las really the last record you played on Wins and the last record heard thereon? >: >:0. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? B100 interns Dave Sniff and Tony Pepper went on to part time status. But, it was my child and teen years listening to CKLW that had the lasting impact on me. KDU was a great station in 1978 under P.D., Santo Canone, also very professional. At its prime, KISN was the king of Top 40 radio in this market. * Bob Walker -AircheckAugust 10, 1972 (11:46). A top 40 station in the Washington,DC area in the mid to late 60s had a DJ named Alan Afterhours. Really? Forgot your username or WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) KIIS belongs on the list, no question. YOU ARE!!! Thank you Randy Michaels for the 102 WVAQ mention! And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) WOW! His KFRC was better. Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. OR KQV and KDKA in Pittsburgh? Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Also The Great Roller Coaster Marathon at Pontchartrain, WTIX DJ's. Didnt lose a single bottle in flight from DFW to SF. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. Pitch your music to a global audience. November1969 (1:09). If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. WKVQ (15Q)/Knoxville. Like the stations you name-dropped (call letter-dropped? I knew what I wanted to do forever. WHK during the Johnny Holi-days was as good as radio ever got. WHB was an early top 40 station but The Worlds Happiest Broadcasters were not the first. Also, I cant believe that Lee left off WMCA and WTIX, two of the greatest Top 40 stations ever. Great fun and memories. Respectfully, though, I would not rank WCFL below WABC, much less rank them last, undeR WIXY?????? Holliday was also great as Baron of the Bay at KYA/SF. If I could go to 30, TIX and MCA WOUKD certainly be in the mix. Especially before I Heart and Cumulus took over. I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. Storz didnt own KOIL. And lets not forget WHK in Cleveland who owned that City from 1959 to 1964 blowing every other station away. Most of The CHUM Jocks came up from pretty good Radio Stations in the U.S., including The Big 8. WFAS-FM Bronxville, NY (renamed WNBM Boom 103.9 and reformatted to Urban AC in the early 2010s) Dennis Williams Toledo. 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.) Even to this day, as someone who, demographically, is supposed to be way outside the Top 40 parameters Im a 50-something male I still love a great CHR-Pop station. 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations. As the song says tear open my shirt to show Rosie on my chest. There were no general-market oriented rock n roll stations in the early and probably even well into the mid-Fifties. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. Or you don't come in at all. And as Im originally from northern New Jersey (and currently living in the central New Jersey burbs of New York City, here are some previous or current Top 40 and AC stations in the New York City suburbs, PERIOD! November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. !, your damn input sucks, Radio Ink! Redeem Now Buffering PAMS Series 27 The Jet Set - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 392 8 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. A doctors son financed the killer Top 40 15Q until the money ran out. 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. Hope youre doing well, Lee! Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? Talent like Ken Lowe (Steve Roddy), Rick Dees, Pat Patterson, Mike Reineri, Gary Edens, Tommy Walker, Eddie Weiss (Charlie Brown) with Jimmy Capps and Our Best To You in the late night hours and a terrific news team Joe Goodpasture, John Tesh, Doug Limerick, Bill Leslie, Mike Blackman. 93Q had the better air personalities, including John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo; but, the music battle between the two stations was just exceptional. Def Leppard 1675327016. KNUZ/Houston. Your leaving KJR Seattle out of the top 20 is typical of how poor that list is. 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. Finally, a plug for WGH. I agree. (And!, heres some *trivia*!! Id say ask Dick Fatherley but hes gone now. Dave Morris was the owner/morning man. Login here. 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). And looking at the remaining characteristics, Big 10 had it all. Great call letters, too. 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. 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. It pains me that the list was so short. 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. There was no mold for WLS. * Ted Green -AircheckSummer 1962 (15:50) Recorded on a DX radio signal, some QSB. You might turn up some of his historical pieces online. Yes!!! Peter Gabriel 1675326418. Who Will You Run To. [13] The BEST show came out of 55KRC in Cincinnati. WJET 1400. Great to see so many radio brethren on here. Use our service to find it! Pappy was the op for Joey Reynolds, among otherscorrect? KQV had the heritage and was owned by a company that knew something about Top 40, so 13Q was instant roadkill. And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. WGBR still exists but Im not sure the format. Beers. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. The best years came in the early 70s when the Top 40 battle was between WDGY, True Don Bleus KDWB before he went to KHJ, Chuck Knapp and MG Kelly on KSTP and Rob Sherwood moving from KDWB to start up U100. PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX by AH3RD Limited Time Offer: Get 50% off the first year of our best annual plan for artists with unlimited uploads, releases, and insights. A little known fact is WADO (now a Spanish station) had a split-daypart format of Top 40, R&B, jazz and Italian from 59 through the early 60s, with Spanish being added in 61 or 62. What a fun night! And that news intro: With Morse code beeping in the background and plenty of slapback echo, the news opened with From around the universe, around the world, around the nation, around Texas, around Dallas, and around the corner from your house, this is K-B-O-X news.. Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again. and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. McClendon may have guessed wrong. 2. By the time I went off to college in 1978, there were more FM radio options that I switched to. and other stations that came and went long after the latter two did away with Top 40,) Dallas (the Fort Worth station whose call letters escape me as well as the aforementioned KLIF and KBOX), Memphis (WHBQ and WMPS), Charlotte (WAYS, most notably), Norfolk (WGH and WNOR, especially the former), and so on. I didnt see WIBG Wibbage 990 in Philadelphia. With only a 1,000-watt night signal, KLIF routinely clocked more listeners than all other Dallas-Ft. Worth stations combined. 13. June 1962. Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. were on the moon on this date.Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Rex Root Beer. WTIX News Chief Jim Swiler does a, Signal 20 traffic report. Obviously there were many great stations back in the hay-day of Top 40! 5. THAT Lee Abrams guy? The rumor (never been able to pin this down) is that Mac was ready to buy WBCN when he died suddenly. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. 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. 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. All the playlists are suitable with Kodi ! Loved by everyone in all the western states! One of our four chime tones that we played whenever we announced what time it was in the 1970's. Apologies for any Ive forgotten I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. Louisiana, In the end, it was 93Q that threw in the towel on the Top 40 formatbut then went on to become 93Q Country, eventually slaying the KIKK 96 longtime country behemoth. Montereys location was perfect, radio-wise: San Francisco all day, L.A. at night, including Wolfman Jack on The Mighty 1090 XERB. WTIX FM 94.3 Webplayer. 7. Where is our favorite station ,Thibodaux is waiting ,,we miss it !! 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). Love your show! I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. (Ill give an honorable mention to WARM, Scranton, the first TOP 40 station I discovered; the jocks didnt have the personality of WABC, but the station played good music and had a nice flow.). In the mid-70s, Knoxville had a three-way AM Top 40 battle between WKGN, WNOX, and WRJZ going, while WOKI was playing the hits, sort of, on FM. (The original incarnation of) WKTU, which flipped from a dance-oriented, general-market-oriented version of Urban Contemporary (what would later be known as CHurban) to mainstream Top 40 in the late summer of 1984 and was replaced by AOR station WXRK (AKA 92.3 K-Rock) in July 1985. How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. was one of my childhood heros. I like edgy Top 40 stations, and that WLS was not. 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. 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