Remember when radio had personality? CKLW!
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cfz2882
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LOL..just finished an"am dxing" post-used to like WLS chicago
back in the early '80s,i remember hearing about the tylenol
scare as it was going down!-they played some good music too.
back in the early '80s,i remember hearing about the tylenol
scare as it was going down!-they played some good music too.
70's era teens in the midwest, all listened to AM WLS. You could only get it at night. High school girls always made tapes of their favorite songs, on their brand new cassette recorders. I remember hearing rockin robin alot, and the stations call letters WLSSSSssss. Thanks Rickr that brought back lots of memories of long school bus rides, and water gun fights on the bus in the hot, late spring weather. I remember confiscating the folks Motorola with the hump over the tuning dial, and tinting the WLS tuning with magic marker. I learned of the death of Jim Croce in 1973 from WLS.alr2903
cfz2882
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WLS
i was listening to WLS in the gillette,wyoming area-last time
i listened to music on wls was in 1987 over the original am
radio of my '69 camaro,by 1991 or so they had gone to talk
radio.
i was listening to WLS in the gillette,wyoming area-last time
i listened to music on wls was in 1987 over the original am
radio of my '69 camaro,by 1991 or so they had gone to talk
radio.
This takes me back...
to the days when I used to stay up at night to listen to Buffalo's WKBW on my AM transistor. I even had a pillow speaker so that I could "sneak" a listen when I should have been asleep.
Pittsburgh's 13Q was also a favorite. I remember picking up the little paper survey cards listing the weekly song standings--used to pick those little cards up at a local record shop.
Wow, how times have changed.
Joe
to the days when I used to stay up at night to listen to Buffalo's WKBW on my AM transistor. I even had a pillow speaker so that I could "sneak" a listen when I should have been asleep.
Pittsburgh's 13Q was also a favorite. I remember picking up the little paper survey cards listing the weekly song standings--used to pick those little cards up at a local record shop.
Wow, how times have changed.
Joe
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I like the old radio shows from the early days. There is a site called Radio Spirits that sells the old recordings. They also have a weekly radio show called When Radio Was.
www.radiospirits.com
Radio Spirits
www.radiospirits.com
jasonl
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For us in New Orleans
It was the MIGHTY 690, WTIX!
WTIX-FM, which features a few of the old jocks from 'TIX AM, is only a shadow of what it used to be.
Then in 1980, B-97 FM went from elevator music to Pop Muzik and WTIX died a slow painful death.
Click the video and scroll down to the comment about WTIX AM and click the time. You will get a snippet of the mighty 690.
It was the MIGHTY 690, WTIX!
WTIX-FM, which features a few of the old jocks from 'TIX AM, is only a shadow of what it used to be.
Then in 1980, B-97 FM went from elevator music to Pop Muzik and WTIX died a slow painful death.
Click the video and scroll down to the comment about WTIX AM and click the time. You will get a snippet of the mighty 690.
I listened to WLS (Chicago) as a teen in the 1970's. A very young, accordion-toting maniac named Weird Al Yankovic was a regular guest on Dr. Demento's show.
CKLW
I remember all of that. Biggest and best radio station that was.
I remember all of that. Biggest and best radio station that was.
WQXI and WAOK on AM in Atlanta
Long ago and far away. Oh, and in Tampa WTMP.
Loved FM in the early days when they didn't have so many commercials. Now even XM/Sirius is loaded with damned commercials. I dropped XM because of it.
Long ago and far away. Oh, and in Tampa WTMP.
Loved FM in the early days when they didn't have so many commercials. Now even XM/Sirius is loaded with damned commercials. I dropped XM because of it.
I remember back in the early 70's picking up WLS at night on a weekend trip to the Lake Almanor area in Northern California. I liked how they used their call letters to stand for "We Love Summer." So true back in my high school days.
In the SF Bay Area we had KYA, full of personalities all day long, and KEWB aka Channel 91. KSFO was totally old school and did the personality thing to the hilt, played more old standards which I enjoyed, along with comedy bits by the likes of Nichols and May and Bob & Ray, and broadcast all of the SF Giants games. I listened to them a lot. More locally, we had KLIV, which also had personalities and more importantly, had a beach/surfer focus and provided regular traffic reports from "Cloud 9" restaurant at the summit going over to Santa Cruz.
KSFO is still around, but it's hate-talk radio now. KLIV is still around, but its' all news, delivered by inexperienced and tongue-tied interns, it seems. The other frequencies have changed their call letters. One is talk, the other is churchy.
KCBS, however, remains. All news as it has been for decades. It is basically the ancestor of the very first commercial radio station ever, which was then KQW, right here in downtown San Jose. In thrift shops and antique stores, you can still find KQW, KPO, and KYA stuck onto selector buttons of old console radios.
In the SF Bay Area we had KYA, full of personalities all day long, and KEWB aka Channel 91. KSFO was totally old school and did the personality thing to the hilt, played more old standards which I enjoyed, along with comedy bits by the likes of Nichols and May and Bob & Ray, and broadcast all of the SF Giants games. I listened to them a lot. More locally, we had KLIV, which also had personalities and more importantly, had a beach/surfer focus and provided regular traffic reports from "Cloud 9" restaurant at the summit going over to Santa Cruz.
KSFO is still around, but it's hate-talk radio now. KLIV is still around, but its' all news, delivered by inexperienced and tongue-tied interns, it seems. The other frequencies have changed their call letters. One is talk, the other is churchy.
KCBS, however, remains. All news as it has been for decades. It is basically the ancestor of the very first commercial radio station ever, which was then KQW, right here in downtown San Jose. In thrift shops and antique stores, you can still find KQW, KPO, and KYA stuck onto selector buttons of old console radios.
Thanks for posting! I grew up listening to CKLW. I remember as a kid camping in the backyard with the next door neighbours listening to the transistor radio, most likely tuned to CKLW. Then WABX FM on my brother Marantz Hi-Fi, one of the best rock and roll stations I've ever heard.
77 WABC
Nothing, and I mean nothing beat New York City's 77 WABC AM radios' top 40 format in the 60's, 70's. TALK ABOUT RADIO PERONALITIES......Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Harry Harrison, Bruce Morrow......I call still hear those "77 WABC" chimes and Harry Harrsion chiming in HEEEEEEELLLLOOOOOOOO LOVE FROM THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!!! In the car, in the kitchen on the transistor radio it was ALWAYS WABC.
Mike
Nothing, and I mean nothing beat New York City's 77 WABC AM radios' top 40 format in the 60's, 70's. TALK ABOUT RADIO PERONALITIES......Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Harry Harrison, Bruce Morrow......I call still hear those "77 WABC" chimes and Harry Harrsion chiming in HEEEEEEELLLLOOOOOOOO LOVE FROM THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!!! In the car, in the kitchen on the transistor radio it was ALWAYS WABC.
Mike
WABX..yeah remember that too as well as WRIF and their riff raff, that was a good station. AM hit radio and CKLW had more or less died by then.
Petek, I have listened to WRIF since the 70's off and on. Agree CKLW wasn't on the decline by then. Also listened to "Honey" Radio WHND.
blackstone
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Yes, WABC was the best. I'd always go for the best DX catches, like WHO; WFAA(?) Dallas; WLS; WWL; any of the 50,000 watt stations, as listed in White's Radio Log. Best surprises were catching low-power stations during twilight hours.
JasonL, i know you too must have listened to WWL 870 Am, In the aftermath of Katrina, i was at my mother's in Mo. Late at night i could hear WWL, news radio, and get much more accurate info than what was on CNN, Mom would listen with me, huddled like the Waltons to get the radio updates. Garland Robinette took callers and there accurate information, if by chance they were lucky enough to get a phone signal in the early day's right after the storm. Never take for granted that you will have a phone signal, or truly accurate news coverage on satellite tv. It renewed my respect for AM radio. alr2903
