Prior to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and maybe even for a few years after, people used to listen to the radio much more than they do now. What stations did cool people listen to back in your day?
Around here, the big station was Q-102 (WKRQ), but they became such an overblown spectacle that they weren't that interesting anymore after about 1984. They got to have a very narrow playlist. So my favorite station in middle school was WCLU (CLU 132). Then later, I actually listened to Lexington's WLAP-FM (Power 94.5) a lot. It was an out-of-town station, but I lived far south enough that they usually came in pretty well back then.
When I was a kid in grade school (late '50's/early 60's) the "hot" radio station (AM) that was always playing on playground portable radios -- at least in my L.A. suburb -- was KFWB, "Channel 98" (980 Khz). Elvis (about every 5 songs or so), Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers, even some early Motown -- played around the clock. But FM took over in the later '60's for the "cool kids"; KFWB changed to an all news/traffic format by about 1973.
Oregon's top rock station during the Boss Radio era was 91 KISN (910 AM). They had an 85% share of the PDX metro area radio market. It was the very definition of mass market. Today the callsign goes to a very low power FM transmitter broadcasting classic rock that cannot even be heard in the entire metro area.
Moving into the Seventies saw FM explode. KPAM and KGON dominated in PDX. KZEL was the big dog in Eugene. You could now drive the entire Willamette Valley with great rock on your car radio. The PDX signals were strong enough heading north that when they began to fade, you could pick up Seattle. Driving along I-5 was fun in those days!
For us on the South Coast, there would be no FM until the 1980's. On AM in Coos Bay we had KYNG, 1420, King Of The Oregon Coast, when it came to the Top 40. It was only on-air during the daytime. If you parked on the highest points of land here you could pick up a signal from KZEL in your car but it wasn't the best. One friend put up a large yagi antenna in a tree, aimed it toward Eugene and added a preamp. That let him get KZEL on his home stereo. The rest of us depended on the cable company to bring in out of the area FM stations into our home.
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Growing up in CT in the 1980's, the cool kids listened to a few stations. The kids who liked Top 40 type music listened to WKSS (KISS 95.7), while those who liked rock either listened to WHCN (105.9), or WCCC (106.9). WKSS switched from the Beautiful Music format to Pop around 1984, and remains the same format to this day. I actually went to school with the former owner of WKSS's daughter, and I still keep in touch with her (ironically, both our musical tastes are the polar opposite of what the station plays). WHCN was sooooo much better in the 80's with the AOR format; you wouldn't hear the same 100 songs on continuous loop like you do today with the corporatization of terrestrial radio. WKSS and WHCN are now both iHeart stations, and WHCN was emasculated in 2002 when it went from hard edge classic rock to a soft contemporary format (The River). WCCC, the original home of Howard Stern's morning show, remained a great rock station until a little over 3 years ago when it flipped to Christian music. Howard even made a cameo on the old format's last day. WTIC-FM was somewhat popular, while those on the fringes of the area tended to listen to WPLR or KC-101 in New Haven.
I was crazy for WTIC-FM 96.5 of Hartford, back when it was CHR/Top 40 "96 TIC-FM". The T.O.H. station ID was voiced by the late Ernie Anderson (the voice of ABC television in the 1980s). It all went sour once they became HOT A/C "96.5-TIC" in 1994.
WKSS-FM 95.7 of Hartford/Meriden was so much better when they were locally owned as "95.7 KISS-FM", after switching from that format above in 1984 until they modified the name to "KISS 95.7" in 1989. A great example of a station that Clear Channel/I-Heart Media ruined.
WHCN-FM 105.9 of Hartford was much better as a classic rocker and with Picozzi and The Horn in the mornings. Today, it's sappy female leaning Classic Hits "The River 105.9", owned by I-Heart Media.
I haven't listened to WCCC-FM 106.9 of Hartford since it became contemporary Christian "K-Love". The last year or so between the prior active rock format (much better) and today's CCM format made me take that preset off my Walkman.
WDRC-FM 102.9 of Hartford was better off as a classic hits station. After the oldies but before today's "102.9 The Whale" and classic rock. Picozzi in the mornings and Miss Klonk on middays are the only ones left from active rock WCCC-FM. Rob Ray is the only one left from WDRC-FM's classic hits format.
WPLR-FM 99.1 of New Haven is quite similar to WDRC-FM...classic rock. They were sister stations until a few months ago. They even simulcasted the Chaz and A.J. morning show from WPLR-FM.
Today's WMRQ-FM 104.1 of Waterbury, a.k.a "Radio 104.1" is OK...but the first go around as a modern rock station from 1994 to 2002 was a lot better. They were owned by Clear Channel, then sold off. Today, their current owner also operates WDRC-FM 102.9 and the low-power chain of Kool Oldies stations, such as WNTY-AM 990 Southington and low-power 96.1 of Meriden.
KJR, Seattle. Channel 95! They played AM Top 40 into the 80s, until MTV came along in April 1982 and I abandoned them. When I went back to radio a few years later, it was to new wave KYYX.
You don't know what you've got til it's gone, but I realize now how many DJ tricks KNBQ did. For instance, one time one jock timed an announcement at the end of "Ghostbusters" like this: "KNBQ." Ray Parker Jr.: "Louder!" DJ: "KNBQ!!
Another time they were playing "Thriller," and at the end of the horn crescendo they took a call from a listener who said she was tired of the tricks they're playing with the end of "Thriller" The DJ promised they would not play tricks with the end of "Thriller" any more. Cue the Vincent Price laughter. Now everything's automated and you don't have fun things like that any more.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act allowing multiple ownerships is not the only thing that killed fun radio. The death of the vinyl single and the lack of a viable alternative lead Billboard and stations to disregard single sales as a basis for song airplay. Now everything became an echo chamber of what consultants and researchers thought would least offend advertisers. This lead to "I Will Always Love You" being number one for weeks on end, rather than anyone having the courage to circulate more songs. It was that song and "Everything I've Done, I've Done For You" (the themes for two Kevin Costner movies :banghead:) that drove me away from radio. That and I was a few years out of college, when you start to put away childish things. I volunteered at KZUU, Washington State University's student radio station, which opened up a world of better music to explore.
When I was in HS, the cool people didn't listen to Top 40 radio; they listened to WHFS 102.3, with studios high atop the Triangle Towers.
In Atlanta, 99X (which had just changed formats from Power 99 when we moved there in the summer of 1993).
In the Philly area, around the 80's and 90's: Q102 (102.1 FM, still lives on) and Eagle 106 (106.1 FM). Both played a Top 40 format, although Q102 was more into dance and clubbing type music. Eagle 106, while still being a strong station, decided to drop the format for something that have a very niche audience (I think it was Jazz or something) and was never the same since. People still miss that station.
In San Francisco I remember KMEL was the stations Cool kids listen to in the 1990's when Tupac was big.
Anyone who was anyone listened to WKFR circa 1996, but some people also listened to WBCT (B-93) which is a country station, and WRKR which is a classic rock station. I listened to all three, as my musical tastes varied. The only station I still listen to today is WRKR.
When I lived in Baton Rouge (1999-2000), the station was called 98.1 the Eagle, and they had this awesome morning show that I forget what it was called, but it was raunchy and funny.
WKQQ-FM in Lexington was the album rock station when I was in high school in college. But I always liked traveling far enough north or west that I could hear WQMF out of Louisville, or WEBN in Cincinnati. Both played harder rock than WKQQ, and WEBN was frequently praised by my classmates at Morehead State that were from Ohio.
Even though I hated the station, Chicago's B96 (WBBM) was what all the "cool" kids (people I didn't want to emulate,) listened to.
I called the station B Ninety Sucks.
In the Twin Cities, it was 101.3 KDWB. For a time there was also competitor Drive 105, but that flamed out. Wasn't my cup of tea so I listened to the old fogey stations like classic rock KQRS, sports talk KFAN, and WCCO.
Quote from: inkyatari on December 26, 2018, 03:06:59 PM
Even though I hated the station, Chicago's B96 (WBBM) was what all the "cool" kids (people I didn't want to emulate,) listened to.
I called the station B Ninety Sucks.
Just having "BM" in your call letters should be enough.
Quote from: inkyatari on December 26, 2018, 03:06:59 PM
Even though I hated the station, Chicago's B96 (WBBM) was what all the "cool" kids (people I didn't want to emulate,) listened to.
I called the station B Ninety Sucks.
Agreed. For me during my late teenage/early adult years years I liked the Loop98 (WLUP-FM 97.9) and 105.9 (I think the call letters were WCKG-If its too loud, you're too old). Late 70'S /early 80's I had WLS-AM 890 locked in on my clock radio.
I don't know any cool people.
Here in Rochester, NY back in the late 70's and throughout the 80's that would be 96.5 WCMF which was/is a rock station. Currently WCMF plays classic rock so they're basically the same now as they were back then. For the cutting edge people we had WUWU 107.7 that played New Wave. That station was in East Aurora but came in strong in Rochester. 107.7 FM is now WLKK and currently is a modern rock/alternative station.
For the Greater Boston area from 1975 through 1982; it was WCOZ 94.5 FM which featured album-oriented-rock. The station adopted the Kick-Ass Rock-and-Roll slogan circa 1977 and lived up to it.
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Even though I hated the station, Chicago's B96 (WBBM) was what all the "cool" kids (people I didn't want to emulate,) listened to.
I called the station B Ninety Sucks.
Agreed. For me during my late teenage/early adult years years I liked the Loop98 (WLUP-FM 97.9) and 105.9 (I think the call letters were WCKG-If its too loud, you're too old). Late 70'S /early 80's I had WLS-AM 890 locked in on my clock radio.
I remember listening to Music Radio 89 WLS back in the 80s, but unfortunately, it flipped to News/Talk before my senior year in high school.
I remember picking up WLS here at nights in the late '80s. I don't think it was top 40 anymore, but it still played music then. It sounded like it was only oldies by then.
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I remember picking up WLS here at nights in the late '80s. I don't think it was top 40 anymore, but it still played music then. It sounded like it was only oldies by then.
Wikipedia confirms that WLS-AM was playing oldies in the late '80s.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 07, 2019, 11:14:14 AM
I remember picking up WLS here at nights in the late '80s. I don't think it was top 40 anymore, but it still played music then. It sounded like it was only oldies by then.
On vacation we once got it at Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia.
Occasionally, I'd come across a Billboard magazine and look at the articles on radio. Back then, Billboard printed the music surveys compiled by a few major top 40 stations. I remember in 1987, WLS still had a survey of current music and apparently still reported to Billboard as a top 40 station. But I don't think WLS was top 40 for much longer.
In fact, WLS might not have been real top 40 in 1987. I seem to recall that the music on the survey overlapped top 40 and AC.
KITS 105.3 ("Live 105") in SF was fantastic circa 1990. Alternative rock right before grunge, ska, and 3-chord punk lite -- meaning Depeche Mode, NiN, a lot of Manchester bands, Pixies, New Order, Violent Femmes, etc. Basically a college station with professional DJs, and very much a local station. Morning show (Alex Bennett, Lori Thompson) was not syndicated.
A few years later, alternative rock took off (Nirvana, Green Day etc.) and Live 105's playlists adapted (and seemed to shrink). They got acquired, added the Howard Stern show; by the late 90s I had stopped listening. Every once in a while I'd stumble across Live 105 and they sounded a lot like Mix 106.
I do remember an April Fool (or Pride weekend) gag (around 1999?) where they claimed they had changed format and call letters to K-GAY -- and the music changed to all clubby britpop dance, with a lot of (now-retro) alternative rock mixed in. It sounded better than their current playlist.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 07, 2019, 11:39:12 AM
Occasionally, I'd come across a Billboard magazine and look at the articles on radio. Back then, Billboard printed the music surveys compiled by a few major top 40 stations. I remember in 1987, WLS still had a survey of current music and apparently still reported to Billboard as a top 40 station. But I don't think WLS was top 40 for much longer.
In fact, WLS might not have been real top 40 in 1987. I seem to recall that the music on the survey overlapped top 40 and AC.
At that time, WLS was doing top 40 and some AC. I remember they'd play something off of Genesis' Invisible touch, followed by Badfinger's "Day After Day"
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I very, very, very rarely heard 97-X. Once in a while it would slip in, but most of the time it was jammed by WAXZ.
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Quote from: kurumi on January 07, 2019, 11:47:35 AMI do remember an April Fool (or Pride weekend) gag (around 1999?) where they claimed they had changed format and call letters to K-GAY -- and the music changed to all clubby britpop dance, with a lot of (now-retro) alternative rock mixed in. It sounded better than their current playlist.
99X in Atlanta did something similar in the mid-90s, where their morning-drive hosts swapped with Sean Hannity, who was either only on the radio in Atlanta or nationally syndicated from there (I don't really give a shit either way), ostensibly because of format changes at their respective stations.
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In my days in High School it was WPLJ. Of course back then WPLJ had a Rock format instead of what it is now. Most everyone in my town listened to Led Zeppelin, The Who, Tom Petty, Springsteen, Black Sabbath, etc. and that was the place for us.
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Quote from: bandit957 on January 07, 2019, 11:39:12 AM
Occasionally, I'd come across a Billboard magazine and look at the articles on radio. Back then, Billboard printed the music surveys compiled by a few major top 40 stations. I remember in 1987, WLS still had a survey of current music and apparently still reported to Billboard as a top 40 station. But I don't think WLS was top 40 for much longer.
In fact, WLS might not have been real top 40 in 1987. I seem to recall that the music on the survey overlapped top 40 and AC.
At that time, WLS was doing top 40 and some AC. I remember they'd play something off of Genesis' Invisible touch, followed by Badfinger's "Day After Day"
I'd like to retract my earlier comment about the flip occurring before my senior year in high school. I graduated in 1988, and the actual format change occurred in the summer of 1989 (with the closing song being Just You 'n' Me by Chicago), while I was preparing for my sophomore year at UCLA, so I was two years early on my original comment.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on December 26, 2018, 12:15:31 AM
Growing up in CT in the 1980's, the cool kids listened to a few stations. The kids who liked Top 40 type music listened to WKSS (KISS 95.7), while those who liked rock either listened to WHCN (105.9), or WCCC (106.9). WKSS switched from the Beautiful Music format to Pop around 1984, and remains the same format to this day. I actually went to school with the former owner of WKSS's daughter, and I still keep in touch with her (ironically, both our musical tastes are the polar opposite of what the station plays). WHCN was sooooo much better in the 80's with the AOR format; you wouldn't hear the same 100 songs on continuous loop like you do today with the corporatization of terrestrial radio. WKSS and WHCN are now both iHeart stations, and WHCN was emasculated in 2002 when it went from hard edge classic rock to a soft contemporary format (The River). WCCC, the original home of Howard Stern's morning show, remained a great rock station until a little over 3 years ago when it flipped to Christian music. Howard even made a cameo on the old format's last day. WTIC-FM was somewhat popular, while those on the fringes of the area tended to listen to WPLR or KC-101 in New Haven.
I miss the AOR format. I would switch between WHCN, WPLR, and WAQY out of Springfield. I was class of '86, so I remember WHCN mixing in some Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran with The Doors and Jethro Tull. At some point around 1990, Classic Rock came around (I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY then) and the playlists became tighter. But that's mainstream.
There was a station out of Northhampton, MA (WRNX) that had an adult alternative format before it switched over to bro-country. That one was about the coolest non-college station I ever found. In the college division, I dug WWUH's mix of jazz, folk, and classical.
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Today's WMRQ-FM 104.1 of Waterbury, a.k.a "Radio 104.1" is OK...but the first go around as a modern rock station from 1994 to 2002 was a lot better. They were owned by Clear Channel, then sold off. Today, their current owner also operates WDRC-FM 102.9 and the low-power chain of Kool Oldies stations, such as WNTY-AM 990 Southington and low-power 96.1 of Meriden.
WMRQ was probably the second coolest commercial station I listened to; especially when it first came on without DJs. I still remember Soul Coughing's "Screenwriter Blues" being in heavy rotation.
The leading AOR in Cincinnati was WEBN. But in the late '80s, it sounded like a decrepit old dinosaur. They played all these songs that were really old and really boring. I don't know if they even played any new wave at all by then.
I was born in Joliet in 1981 and lived in the outer suburbs of Chicago from then until 1990. During the mid- to late-1980s, the cool radio station was Q101 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKQX_(FM)).
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I was born in Joliet in 1981 and lived in the outer suburbs of Chicago from then until 1990. During the mid- to late-1980s, the cool radio station was Q101 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKQX_(FM)).
Damn. I was in Jr. high then.
In the Hampton Roads area in the early 1980's, it was FM 99--WNOR. The station played the current rock hits at the time and had the best DJ's in the area: Reeger and the Bull mornings, Mike Arlo and the Electric Lunch middays, Les Wooten afternoons, and Carol Taylor (and her own offbeat records she brought from home) evenings.
I wasn't much into radio until I hit puberty, when I got an earful of rock. Q 104.3, 94.5/97.5 The Hawk (RIP), 102.9 WMGK, 93.3 WMMR, 104.5 Philadelphia, 101.9 WRXP (RIP), 92.3 K-Rock (RIP), 99.9 The Hawk (not sure if they flipped away from that), 105.7 The Hawk (not sure if they flipped away from that), etc. I also got some soft rock and r&b/disco in addition to talk radio and smooth jazz in the form of 98.3 WMGQ, NJ 101.5, 102.7 which used to be r&b/disco and has been soft rock for some several years now (used to be rock back when my parents were younger) and Smooth Jazz CD 101.9 plus WJJZ (RIP). Of course got a whiff of top 40 and classic hits in the form of 101.1 WCBS and 98.1 WOGL in addition to WPST and one other station I forget the callsign of that's top 40.
Jp: Picozzi is still around? Gary Lee Horn now does traffic reports in the New London area.
Generally the ones that played the worst music
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Jp: Picozzi is still around? Gary Lee Horn now does traffic reports in the New London area.
Yeah. Picozzi does mornings on DRC. I was wondering what happened to The Horn. I heard him do some freelance once on WTIC 1080 under the name "Gary Morris". The voice was unmistakably that of The Horn.
http://www.1029thewhale.com/picozzi/
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Jp: Picozzi is still around? Gary Lee Horn now does traffic reports in the New London area.
Yeah. Picozzi does mornings on DRC. I was wondering what happened to The Horn. I heard him do some freelance once on WTIC 1080 under the name "Gary Morris". The voice was unmistakably that of The Horn.
http://www.1029thewhale.com/picozzi/
He looks healthier now than the last time I saw a pic of him.
I forget if Hartford now has an oldies station after WDRC became The Whale. New London lost Kool FM for a while, but it's back on a different frequency. WKNL is now exclusively 80s, it seems. (I don't like the idea of an oldies format anymore because it is amorphous. Madonna doesn't mix as well with Motown as, say, the Beach Boys or other contemporaneous music.)
I've never been to Hawaii, so I didn't get to enjoy a radio station there called Radio Free Hawaii. But I read about it once when I was in high school or college. This station compiled its music selection from ballots filled out by listeners. These ballots also surveyed listeners about what songs they didn't want to hear, and these votes were subtracted from the song's total. The result was a station that played all different types of music, but not all of it was stuff that was played on pop radio at the time.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 11, 2019, 08:01:44 PMThe leading AOR in Cincinnati was WEBN. But in the late '80s, it sounded like a decrepit old dinosaur. They played all these songs that were really old and really boring. I don't know if they even played any new wave at all by then.
WEBN was once one of the greatest rock stations of all time. Now, it's just living proof that "I Heart Radio" does NOT "heart" radio.
Depending on your musical tastes in LA in the 70s and 80s, it was KROQ (106.7) for modern/alternative rock, KLOS (95.5) for hard rock/classic rock and underground rock was KMET (94.7) ... the mighty Met with the catchy jingle "little bit of heaven, 94.7 KMET ... tweedle dee!".
WJR for me. 50,000 watt station out of Detroit that when I was growing up had the best local talent anywhere to be found from J.P. McCarthy, Jimmy Launce, Kevin Joyce, Warren Pierce, Mike Whorf, Jay Roberts, Jimmy Barrett, Dan Streeter, Gene Fogel, Dick Hafner, John McMurray it was basically an endless list of a great radio station. For some reason I wanted to hear J.P. McCarthy's voice tonight and went and searched for some clips of his show. J.P. died in 1995 and the station really lost it's luster after his passing, Jimmy Launce left around 1996 and Jimmy Barrett hosted J.P.'s show for about a year until Paul W. Smith took over the morning slot. Paul W. isn't a bad radio host but he's no J.P., nobody is.
I went and looked for a clipping of the J.P. McCarthy show and found the entire show one morning in April 1994 that was actually televised on CSpan that day. Listen from about 18:30 for about five minutes to get the picture of what an opening of J.P.'s show was like.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?55849-1/jp-mccarthy-radio-talk-show
In Charleston, SC all the cool folks listened to 96 Wave (alternative rock). They flipped in about 2007 to their iteration of Jack FM (Chuck). They were hugely popular Kong the teens and early 20s set. You still see their bumper stickers a lot around Charleston.
All of those clear channel AMs have seen better days. You can go from one frequency to another and hear the same show on 10 different stations. And all the iHeart stations have the same imaging. No distinctive top-hour IDs or imaging.
I remember when WLW was simulcast on XM (2006-2007). It was still very distinctive, and had interesting talk shows that couldn't be heard anywhere else. Scott Sloan was great at night, and they had that all-night truckers show they still have.
WWL 870 was also really distinctive New Orleans. You could hear the accent, they had lots of local shows, and unique programming. I remember when I was young waking up and listening to WWL's early morning show getting ready for school. It always came into Charleston (still does now).
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 21, 2019, 10:01:40 PM
I went and looked for a clipping of the J.P. McCarthy show and found the entire show one morning in April 1994 that was actually televised on CSpan that day. Listen from about 18:30 for about five minutes to get the picture of what an opening of J.P.'s show was like.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?55849-1/jp-mccarthy-radio-talk-show
I actually watched that clip just now.
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Quote from: Flint1979 on April 21, 2019, 10:01:40 PM
I went and looked for a clipping of the J.P. McCarthy show and found the entire show one morning in April 1994 that was actually televised on CSpan that day. Listen from about 18:30 for about five minutes to get the picture of what an opening of J.P.'s show was like.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?55849-1/jp-mccarthy-radio-talk-show
I actually watched that clip just now.
That's awesome. I loved listening to that guy and his voice was very unique and great for radio. Probably the best interviewer I have ever heard. He basically walked in, sat down and talked into a microphone with just his coffee and maybe a newspaper nearby. From 1965-1995 he owned Detroit's airwaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfCU3cr2_bw
KLOS Los Angeles would have been seen as a cool station back in the days of FM Radio.
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/15/radio-station-klos-fm-95-5-to-be-sold-to-meruelo-media-owner-of-kpwr-and-kday/
Now Meruelo Media is named to take over KLOS Los Angeles soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jii7VUmaKgk
Rick Chase KMEL San Francisco the cool people would listen to him in the 1990's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRxsVY7NCk
Rick Chase KWIN.