To me, radio was riveting in the 60s and 70s, and it fascinated me enough to get in to it, which I enjoyed for over 40 years. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Quixie in Dixie. Not to nitpick, but you were off by one year as to the debut of the Atlanta Falcons: they actually started in 1966. WCTC New Brunswick, NJ (went talk in 91, w/AC on Sunday overnights only, literally all-talk in 92, (syndicated) oldies in 2008 and reverted to talk in 2011) #16 on one List and no mention on the other? We held a three-week online poll asking readers what they think are or were the best Top 40s, and here are the results: Not bad company for my first dream station that I ever worked for to be in. As far as CKLW goes I think every jock I knew all tried to emulate the great sound of the Big 8 jocks. Bank Of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling), Dr. Pepper, Robo-Wash and more. It deserves mention here. You might as well leave Larry Lujack out of your list of WLS jocks, yo! The "WTIX and we love you" jingle (courtesy of PAMS jingles). Agree with Bill Wayland at one point 68 WRKO had an almost 60 share Teens. Stan was a sales animal, but like McLendon, Kaplan knew that advertisers spent money to reach listeners, not the other way around. While it was playing, some lady went up to the dj, grabbed his microphone, and sang the CKLW top of the hour ID jingle! ! ran top of every hour. Happily, Tix-FM exists and is very enjoyable. Doug Limerick, you might remember, was later a news reader for the ABC Information Network. Did you mention Willie B. Goode? The station which invented Top Forty. Yeah. Also playlists are working with VLC Media Player. and many others that would have put stations on Lee Abrahms Those that I liked list too shame. Great visit Great station!! B100 really captured the San Diego sound. WICC Bridgeport, CT Would Randy Michaels be the same who worked afternoons on WJET? According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. I remember listening to tix as a teenag By the way, I have since heard, on the Rock Radio Scrapbook website, an composite aircheck of WINS last day as a Top 40 station (complete with [a] then-weekly Sunday night/Monday morning transmitter-maintenance sign-off followed by [a reinserted recording of] the National Anthem, [b] the then-weekly Monday-at-sunrise sign-on [with the prior or shortly-subsequent SSB edited out?] KMPC retained its AC format from circa 1976 through the rest of the decade. I cant believe the PNW was left off of everybodys list. WTIX/New Orleans. Taking a chance on a record on-air from time to time and listening to their feedback, not just auditorium testing. * Richard Fahey -Newscast6/5/62 (3:39), * Michael Green -Tape City Spot for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. That shout is still in use at 620 AM and 103.5 FM, which use the WAKY calls today.). I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. Hot Rod Glenn, Best station in New Orleans La good job Mike. Edgier. But any list that completely overlooks the Todd Storz stations, including WHB/Kansas City, KXOK/St. WMCA, with its broader signal pattern and low dial position, covered the Monmouth and northern Ocean County beaches quite well, despite being only 5kw. I am in the Tour city, France in the end of March. WTIX was a great station, but I felt WQAM was a better example of Storz. His wife did the music. Use our service to find it! Classic Hits Classic Rock Oldies Pop RnB FM 94.3 - 64Kbps Galliano - Louisiana , United States - English Suggest an update Get the live Radio Widget Leave a comment Leave a review View comments View reviews Guest 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. 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.. And dont even get me started on Watermark and their Documentaries. and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in 88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in 79), but in 73 or 74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM SM95 (I dont know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashvilles AC stations of the past. It was a crazy idea. Have you heard it? 94.3 WTIX-FM is a broadcast Radio station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, providing Oldies, Classics Music, News and Weather programs. 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). document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You have entered an incorrect email address! Sorry. 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. Listening from Toronto. Peter Gabriel 1675326418. Who Will You Run To. (Thats three Drake stations in the top 4.) If youre so inclined, send me an email so we might get in touch. Heart 1675326183. Instead of debating was KB the greatest, on has a tendency to wonder what the other station is! Enjoyed working together in syndicated 24/7 formats as well. Including two that are in The National Radio Hall Of Fame. Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), 20/20 Newscast, with David Lawrence and Jon Reed 5/20/70, St. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, on September 16, 1964. The reason is KHJ, Drakes first RKO project, was huge news and sent Top 40 radio on a new trajectory that would eventually affect virtually every station in the format. WMEX started in late 50s. TiIX is the only station I listen to. 70006 (504) 454 9000 Website: http://wtixfm.com/ Email: questions@wtixfm.com Stations WTIX-FM New Orleans' Oldies Station Shows American Top 40 - The 70's For the first time ever, these digitally remastered are now available to terrestrial radio. I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. Our playlist stores a 94.3 Rewind track list for the past 7 days. WABC carried the Yankees during its final years, and I vaguely remember WMCA caring one of the teams in its final rock/talk years. 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. It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. But, it was my child and teen years listening to CKLW that had the lasting impact on me. It may be 1pm here but it is Noon Chime Time on my radio. Seeing Lees List recognizing Big WAYS as a Top 20 Station and Randy Michaels actually listing 15Q, WAYS, and the Funky Monkey WAPE, gave me some warm fuzzies 13. When Metro Traffic came to Nashville, Marc put a Dumpster in the station parking lot and asked listeners to donate scrap metal so Y107 could buy a plane. (And!, heres some *trivia*!! U of Ps WXPN also did a good job with that format. When WNBC went CHR in the 70s, that ranked up there, too. Save peace in the world. These were stations worth traveling to hear. Randy, get over yourself. WTIX - May 20, 1972 Michael Green. Really? How good is that? Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Bart Prater (sp?) I worked at WCOG Greensboro during the short lived revival of the station under PD Phil Valentine now doing talk in Nashville, TNit was a Mann Media owned station then which included WGLD, and WKIX Raleigh..The Flying Dutchman started out in Mornings, only to leave and Steve Early movin in thereafter!!! November1969, It's a Robert Mitchell Morning - July 22 1969. Login here. 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. Michael Green, Robert Mitchell & Bob Walker. 94.3 Rewind playlist United States Michigan Monroe 94.3 Rewind 94.3 Rewind playlist 94.3 Rewind playlist Don't know what song's been playing on the radio? John Box gave Gordon McLendon fits and forced KLIF to be even better. The website cannot function properly without these files, they can only be disabled by changing your browser settings or by using our website in "Incognito" mode. 3.) I agree, Scotty. If you are looking Kodi Addons, please use IPTVMate Repository! It was top 40 while I was there, after I left they adopted an AOR format and changed the call letters from WAJR to WVAQ. KSFO was MOR, not Top 40. They did the impossible and stayed there for years, despite the signal handicap. 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. It's funny, when people are with me they always get confused about the time. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. It was worth driving 500 miles each way to hear live. 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. The glory days of CKLW were only five years long, but the Big 8s influence reverberates today. In fact, the list also left off the early Adult Contemporary stations, period! Side note- thanks to Randy Michaels for seeing what I saw- that great radio isnt necessarily only in great cities. 1. KB proved that great talent, not great equipment, make great radio. . Owned by Hugh Holder, then Henderson Belk, Southern Broadcasting and Mann Media. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? Years later my wife was changing gates at DFW Airport when she spotted Wolfman Jack sitting against the wall in a bar. Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. Many stations saved money on jingles by getting names cut during a session or by recycling house names. Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. Suitcase Simpson, Chuck Boo Baron, Eddie Beacon the Swingin Deacon, and others have never sounded better. Yes, you were the last DJ on Wins, and , yes,Out in the Street (pun intended?) Today, tune in any format and 5 minutes later, you turn it off! Or maybe KSFO went all-soft rock later on in its years as a music station? KDU was a great station in 1978 under P.D., Santo Canone, also very professional. WLS and WCCO are now news talk stations. The studios were in a former carriage house with a false front to make it look taller and a mirror at the end of the long single hallway to make it look bigger when you walked in. Using the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and splicing the banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlighted the WTIX DJ's of 1962 instead of the Clampett family. WJET-FM debuted at number one. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch. We are very proud of what WVAQ has meant to West Virginia over the years. PLAYLIST lets you make playlists from your Apple Music library. Great to see WHB from KC and KXOK from St. Louis on the list. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. the Mighty 1190, KLIF. Talk about versatility!) Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. 11. Id like to thank Randy. One of the WTIX classic Time Chimes, New Orleans Radio Shrine All Rights Reserved, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie. I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. With Johnny Randolph as PD, WAKY played one black and one country record every quarter hour. GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. Im blessed to have been taught by the best. IMNSHO I felt WLS hit their pinnacle right about 1981-2 when they segued to a Rock-40 format. 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. Enjoy Music Playlist! I listened to CKLW from the early 60s to the mid-70s and it is a shame that more people could not have experienced the glory of an astounding presentation radio. Even the commercials are so redolent of Nawluns. TALK! WLS was vanilla in most respects, but it was consistently excellent. Whats easy to forget (especially if all the history happened before ones time) is that top 40 stations had strong loyalties akin to ball teams. And everyone remembers Yours Truly KOMA and the kissing tone. This was definitely an era where radio was fun. CK had yourself Mike (did you know that? 2:22am 02/25/2023 Classical Through the Night (HD-2) Doing a great job! Before there was Drake, there was Storz and McLendon. Listen To 103.3/95.9 Earth FM WRTH From Greenville And Get All Your Favorite Radio Stations On The Go With The Audacy App. WBZ, WPTR, WRKO, WMEX..in the 60 led the way in our part of NE for those of us just coming in to the business. You can find more than 80 country list with total of ~3500 IPTV channels! (504) 454 9000. I'm a 79 year old and love your line up. WHB710. Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. Ron is one of the true radio savants (alongside Zapper, Dan Vallie, Bill Richards, Nick Bazoo, etc.). WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. WDSU had number one afternoon show called The Top 20 on 1280. Or you don't come in at all. I would agree with how great WRKO was. My point is whatever station you grew up listening to.. The Brennans engineering genius and home-built transmitter pumped 50,000 daytime watts from Daytona to the North Carolina beaches. However you guys have to increase your power. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. Boogie) devised an audacious plan to go head-to-head with market-owning KCBQ. WasntKXOL in Fort Worth Top 40 back in the day? With the good guys. Shows WTIX 94.3 - WTIX-FM is a broadcast station from Galliano, Louisiana, United States, playing Classic Rock, Oldies, Pop music. Redeem Now Pause PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 546 7 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. WGLI Babylon, LI, NY ); WKIX Raleigh, NC. Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. 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. Do your next 20 stations in the comments! Well said. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. >: >:0. Makes my Beer brewing on my deck a pleasure. Boogie himself. WTIX Appreciation Night at Pontchartrain Beach Promos (Free Concerts): 1961 (Full) | 1961 (Short) | 1962 (Full) | 1962 (Short) | 1963 (Full), *New Orleans Singers Say "Hi"on the WTIX Original Oldie Hour at Noon with Bob Wallker - 1981 (1:11). 17. As a result, the signal to the Northwest started to die around Norristown, 5-10 miles away from the towers in Lafayette Hill, PA. WIBG started as a 25 watt station in a church in Elkins Park, PA, probably in the 1920s. Hal Moore and great newsman/dj..Phil Thomas to KMIN in Denver. Wonderful memories from my days of driving my 61 Chevy with the radio volume pegged listening to tunes during my Air Force hitch. 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. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) WVAQ/Morgantown, WV. He outgunned WABC within a year and made history for bringing FM into the 20th century. you played a song today between 10am and noon, the lyrics were You don't have to come home, you can rome because I don't love you and you don't love me. A lot of people went to bed and woke up with the Good Guys at KIOA. KOIL Omaha was the first Top Forty station thanks to Todd Storzdont they deserve a mention? The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. 19. WSB (read: WSB-AM)s full-service format had, musically, reformatted to Adult Contemporary by circa early 1980s, that is. (3:00), June 1970 during the Bill Murvin show. Thats a fact. I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. . THATS! By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, I listen from Ponchatoula. 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. Where is our favorite station ,Thibodaux is waiting ,,we miss it !! And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. Sign up with Facebook Not just morning drivers, but the whole day. Will ALWAYS love radio. The "singer" is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. Favorite part is the commercial for the Barracuda (or Baccaruda as the Plymouth man said). WROV in Roanoke deserves a mention On the market for close to five years with more listeners than all other Roanoke stations Bert Levine, who owned the station, believed very much in developing personalities without exception all the personalities on the station became major celebrities in Western Virginia. It's FREE! ***HELL***!! (3/30/2018 @11:15p: ) To find your playlists, go to the Guide and click Library. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. During my formative teens I was highly inspired by several including: WNOE, WTIX, KOMA, KBOX, KLIF, KONO, KNUZ, KILT, KXOK and WHB. WHAT ABOUT WPGC Morningside, MD/Washington, DC!?! Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. 1) Your Web Site or Podcast address -- WTIX.com 2) Your Email addresses -- (anything)@WTIX.com 3) Your social media ID -- WTIX 4) Your Cell / Message Texting # -- Key people in your company can be assigned any available area code and any available prefix code PLUS your company name/number. KLIF with Ron Chapman, Hal Martin (Michael Spears, who gave me my first job at 14), Michael OShea (who gave me my first tour of a radio station), Jimmy Rabbit, Dave Van Dyke (who kicked me out of the building when I sneaked up the fire escape), Paxton Mills, Jim Taber and Rod Roddy (I was his call screener when Gordon gave him an evening talk show). ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. My decades of respect for Lee Abrams has increased thanks to his 15 Characteristics of the Great Top 40 stations and his selections are 85% perfect. At the very beginning of 1980, as Disco was rapidly dying, we went Top 40. The personality line up was one heavy hitter after another. What you guys have done is incredible, if only Radio today was like it was in its heyday of top 40 with those stations you mentioned. WVAQ is a giant in North Central West Virginia. Also, Randy Brown, who commented just before me, is right. WABC won where they could no WMCA competition. Comments: I hate to call this 'sloppy', but there are numerous pauses between elements in this format. 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. WRKO, KLIF, KCBQ. Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest 89 WLS to the west, and The Big 8 CKLW, to the east. Call sign: WTIX-FM Frequency: 94.3 FM City of license: Galliano, LA Format: Oldies Owner: Fleur de Lis Broadcasting Area Served: New Orleans Sister stations: Z-104.5 WMZ FM Contact In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. Gene Chenalt was a gentleman who was always good to me. Even as a kid, I remember, by the mid-70s, WLS wasnt quite as exciting as CKLW, but still a wonderful experience. WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) Or WTAE Pittsburgh-ONE OF THE PIONEER ACS! The Storz stations ruled for many years. 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. Todd Storz introduced a tight pop music format on KOWH in 1953. And in Charleston, SC it was WTMA / 1250 for many years. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): As does WICC Bridgeport, CT belong on not only my list of the greatest Top 40 stations in the New York suburbs, but also one of THE greatest Top 40 stations, PERIOD. another Top 40 station of all time that was left out: WKNR Detroit. JD the DJ follows with the Rock and Roll Flight to Midnight. (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.). PAT ODAY! The Drake and Drew format there tore my ears off! However you guys have to increase your power. Toledo also had a lot of great talent. I knew what I wanted to do forever. At the time, the AM was still number one! Johnny Holiday on WHK was awesome as well as when he was on 250 watt WRVM in Rochester in the fifties. The voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. I had WFIL at #15. Toast. Like the stations you name-dropped (call letter-dropped? I listen from Ponchatoula. KFM-BFM San Diego was, IIRC, the first major market FM Top 40 to be #1 in all demographics 12+ and all day parts, in Fall 1977. From a site south of Dallas they beamed north. I have listened to this channel since I was a teenager! 18. see more @Phil Dirt I just moved back and cant believe how great this station has got. 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. CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. Only later was the format extended to WHB and the other Storz stations in larger markets. WQXI was promotionally crazy at times (Rambling Raft Race) and very localized to the market musically. His stories were fascinating especially told in that booming authoritative voice. In my teen years, I remember calling in and winning prizes. 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