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MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)in Milwaukee.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)WRIT later on.
LeftInTX
(34,067 posts)
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)At night I would listen to oldies from a station out of Los Angeles..oldies then were hits from the 50s 60 s.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
True Dough
(26,332 posts)
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
BlueKota
(5,248 posts)Especially the episode where Johnny and Venus had a cop administer the drunk test, and Herb dressed up as a giant carp, and did battle with the PIG pig. My favorite was Venus when he says, "cops got a hat, I want a hat, and when Mr. Carlson lends him his ridiculous fishing cap," he says "thanks for the lid Art." I loved the whole cast but Johnny and Venus were my favorites.
Tree-Hugger
(3,379 posts)93.3 WMMR Philadelphia. Still exists.
KYW Newsradio 1060 for an AM channel. Still exists.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Listened to him on my drive to the Navy Yard in the 80s. Not a kid then but enjoyed the rock and roll.
DinahMoeHum
(23,525 posts)". . .don't take any wooden rhetoric. . ."
I remember John de Bella when he was with WLIR-FM (Long Island, NY) back in the 70s.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Good advice in the morning coming from the radio.
Glorfindel
(10,174 posts)It was rumored that WSB stood for "Welcome South, Brother." It played a bit of everything. I especially enjoyed listening to "The Lone Ranger" and "Sergeant Preston."
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
Permanut
(8,267 posts)The Lone Ranger, with Brace Beemer. Loved that show, and Brace Beemer always sounded like the coolest name.
Ocelot II
(130,114 posts)KDWB based in Minneapolis and WDGY broadcasting from St. Paul - competing Top 40 stations. I think KDWB, AM 630, is now an FM station. I think WDGY was at 1140 AM.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
JPPaverage
(634 posts)When I was pre teen it was KSTT in Davenport, IA. Then when I discovered music outside top 40 stuff it was KFMH in Muscatine, IA. Not to mention the "Mighty 1090 KAAY" in Little Rock, Arkansas. Beaker Street and Beaker Theater real late at night and early am. Loved them all.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
GP6971
(37,884 posts)Home of Cousin Brucie
FalloutShelter
(14,375 posts)Remember “Live from Palisades Park”?
GP6971
(37,884 posts)And went there a few times.
FalloutShelter
(14,375 posts)I grew up in North Jersey.
IcyPeas
(25,316 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,375 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,375 posts)
dan ingram in the afternoons. he had an excellent sense of humor.
-90% jimmy
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)"Say has anybody seen my sweet gypsy rose"
Eventually, WABC became right-wing trash talk radio.
IcyPeas
(25,316 posts)WMCA were supposedly the first US radio station to play I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
The WMCA "Good Guys" 1964: Joe O'Brien, Harry Harrison, Jack Spector, Dan Daniel, B. Mitchel Reed, and Johnny Dark
From Leonia NJ
DinahMoeHum
(23,525 posts)and on Sunday nights he had a show "Speaking of Everything" which covered other things outside of sports.
jdadd
(1,320 posts)
Boomerproud
(9,252 posts)Great memories!
Boomerproud
(9,252 posts)High school WNCI.
rsdsharp
(11,936 posts)came in like a local in northeast Iowa. I thought Rock Robbins sat at the right hand of God when he announced schools in Little Rock were cancelled tomorrow because they might get a half inch of snow, while I knew I was going to shovel six inches before going to school in the morning.
But then I found WLS.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)moniss
(8,949 posts)The Big 89 in Chicago. When WCFL (The Voice of Labor) came along in Chicago I used to crank the dial back and forth at lightning speed.
bahboo
(16,953 posts)always in search of The Beatles haha....
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,851 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 23, 2023, 12:20 PM - Edit history (1)
The switch was extra fast when "Animal Stories" with Uncle Larry and Little Tommy came on. I loved that segment!
moniss
(8,949 posts)back when real DJ's could be inventive and get some production money.
yellowdogintexas
(23,655 posts)down in rural Kentucky. I think I found it in 1961 or 1962. I think it was one of those Clear Channel after 6pm AM stations like WSM in Nashville. (home of The Grand Ole Opry)
I listened to it nightly until FM Stations in Nashville started playing rock.
walkingman
(10,671 posts)LeftInTX
(34,067 posts)But they sounded off at night. WLS would then come through.
I was able to get WLS one time on a radio in San Antonio. It was in 1984. I heard "Turn, Turn Turn" by the Byrds.
LeftInTX
(34,067 posts)Way up in Wisconsin, when all the other stations signed off, we had WLS.
We could get them during the day on some radios, but not my car radio. But at night, WLS ruled the airwaves!
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)Every Friday night we kick off with Mory Saul, I think it was at 6pm.
https://m.
Diamond_Dog
(40,308 posts)with my sister yesterday.
And Maggot Brain every Friday night at midnight.
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)I kind of feels like AM to me nowadays; playing more of the top 40 type music. At least that’s what it felt like.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,688 posts)
CrispyQ
(40,876 posts) 
highplainsdem
(61,377 posts)fierywoman
(8,554 posts)
Hstch05
(232 posts)WIRQ in Irondequoit, NY, just outside of Rochester. It was 93.3 back then, but it has since moved to 90.9. It was an alternative rock station that operated out of Irondequoit High School. It the late 80's it played groups like R.E.M., New Order, Depeche Mode, The Cure and Oingo Bingo. I was briefly a volunteer there in 1988.
KT2000
(22,082 posts)best DJs - Lan Roberts!!
PittBlue
(4,770 posts)
Deep13
(39,157 posts)Then in 1984ish, it went from album rock to top 40. So, I listened to WBCN, the rock of Boston. Mostly, though, it was my cassette tapes.
House of Roberts
(6,468 posts)1000 khz until dark, then when the air quieted down, move just a touch to 1020 khz and pull in KDKA Pittsburg's John Cigna until I fell asleep.
stonecutter357
(13,028 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)They both had their weekly hit lists available in the record stores and each had various promotions going on (like the "WCFL Sunball" car antenna topper. Some of their jocks like Larry Lujack and Bob Sirott moved back and forth between the two stations.
Like most areas, FM took off at the end of the 60s.
moniss
(8,949 posts)"Boogie Check".
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)John 'Records' Landecker. He's currently doing evenings on WGN-AM. And Bob Sirott's doing morning drive. Chicago broadcasting likes to stick with its familiar voices and faces.
Permanut
(8,267 posts)Tom Murphy rock and roll - best DJ on the planet.
k55f5r
(514 posts)I then discovered KVAN and truly progressive rock and roll... unfortunately just between dawn and dusk.
Thunderbeast
(3,805 posts)In the middle of the drum solo...
...in order to carry a live broadcast of the nightly Rosary from a local Catholic church.
padfun
(1,892 posts)There were two AM stations you could hear. One was KOMA Oklahoma City. That came from over 1000 miles away. And the second one was from El Paso, XROK-80 I think. I mostly heard these at night when driving from Phoenix to San Diego or LA.
LeftInTX
(34,067 posts)BlueKota
(5,248 posts)They had this bit called the Marching Weathermen. It was done military style, one call started, "today is Monday back to work even if your boss is a jerk." They also did General Hospital Updates. This was actually back in my college days, but now that I am 61, I consider age 21, as relatively still a kid. 🤣
mike_c
(36,996 posts)
moniss
(8,949 posts)I listened to WZMF from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin just a 'burb of Milwaukee. Played lots of complete albums etc. Ads for Suburpia Sub Sandwiches and JOB Rolling Papers. You get the idea. Maybe one of the coolest FM stations I used to get if I was close to Madison was WORT which was/is Community radio and the playlists were open to everything. Volunteer DJ's just walking in off the street etc. Beautiful vibe. You would get "Purple Haze" followed immediately by Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" which would be followed by an old Celtic tune. Then maybe a 15 minute program with a guest talking about saving the bees etc. Still going strong today.
odins folly
(581 posts)KEWI Topeka, KS
Then once I got a car and could pick up FM, KY102 from KC, MO and Max Floyd’s Rock and Roll Army! 1979
mucifer
(25,639 posts)
BunnyMcGee
(482 posts)1960's through mid-1970's my Mom played this station which played country music, such as Johhny Cash. Other days would go to WTAQ LaGrange, Ill for Polish music.
WTAQ 1300am became WRDZ in the 1980's, and became Spanish programming.
TlalocW
(15,674 posts)Whichever one had the Dr. Demento Show. It tended to get dropped and picked up by various stations as its ratings weren't that good. No accounting for taste in the Midwest. 
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)
elleng
(141,926 posts)
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Shep.
I would arrive at my home, stop the engine and sit in the car; listening until the end of the program.
The bear missed the train and now he's walking.
underpants
(195,933 posts)WNOR Norfolk. Zep Bad Company Ozzy etc.
That day when they played Nirvana, it seemed like everyone I knew was listening and we all said, out loud, THANK….FUCKING….GOD!!!
The hair bands were over.
Drum
(10,622 posts)(Circa mid 1960s-1980s)
Sneederbunk
(17,412 posts)Covered the western states.
Doc Sportello
(7,964 posts)KOMA's reach at night went all the way to Cali. If you remember Ronnie Kaye, a DJ since the 60s, was on air on KOMA up until a couple of weeks ago when he got fired at age 84,
patphil
(8,940 posts)Also, WKBW AM out of Buffalo, NY. But I could only get reception at night when the conditions for AM were better. Same top 40 format.
wcmagumba
(5,993 posts)I think it was KFH for the Wichita State Shockers basketball (my dad was a fan so I listened too)...also as another poster mentioned I liked the Doctor Demento show, I think it might have been on public radio, not sure....
Emile
(41,831 posts)
WmChris
(695 posts)Could only pick it up late at night on skip off the ionosphere in northern Illinois.
IowaGuy
(788 posts)going to sleep at night while listening to 21st Century Schizoid Man....probably explains a lot about me. Was talking with friends the other nite about the Millard Fillmore memorial hour....
Q1305
(2 posts)Dick Biondi and Art Roberts
rzemanfl
(31,309 posts)Congrats on your first post.
MasonDreams
(777 posts)In Huntsville Alabama
Get Me Outta Here
(97 posts)It taught me Spanish in my sleep. (Scant traces remaining with my few remaining cranial neurons struggling to retain professional currency in Japanese and Korean.)
Walleye
(44,412 posts)montanacowboy
(6,700 posts)WWVA Wheeling WVA
duckworth969
(1,343 posts)DJ Larry Lujack
DBoon
(24,876 posts)Before I got an FM radio, it was the best
Srkdqltr
(9,652 posts)There was a station that I could get from time to time. Not sure the call letters. Maybe WBZ? . anyway they played "Itsy, Bitsy, Teeny Weeny' Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" all day. They would announce other songs and play Bikini. The disc hockey was protesting something.
Fichefinder
(412 posts)West Palm Beach FLA
petronius
(26,695 posts)I grew up in Orange County (CA) in the 80s...
Aristus
(72,017 posts)It was a Top 40 station. When I was in high school, I used to fall asleep at night with the radio on. Sometimes, in the wee hours when no one was listening, the DJ’s would occasionally break format and play some classic rock or some offbeat novelty songs.
I woke up very early one Saturday morning, around two or three, to the sound of “Abracadabra”. Not the greatest song in the world, and a lot weirder than what I was used to. I remember feeling disoriented for a few minutes as a result.
Like so many things about my high school days, KNBQ is long-gone.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)I occasionally have an earworm that is a snippet of a jingle they did to promote a contest. To the tune of Norwegian Wood:
Aand if I could win
Hawaii for two,
You know I’d take you.
‘Cuz I’ve found it’s true,
I always win with KNBQ.
(Circa 1980 or 81)
lapfog_1
(31,835 posts)but they played Dr. Demento and the National Lampoon Radio Hour... as well as George Carlin (bleeped of course).
and Pink Floyd, ELO, etc.
SmittyWerben
(830 posts)This was the station I listened to from the mid 70's to when I joined the USAF in '83. They used to play entire albums late at night as well. Played a bit of everything...except disco .
FM123
(10,353 posts)She's only rock and roll! Man, I loved FM radio.....
Kali
(56,779 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 23, 2023, 12:51 AM - Edit history (1)
krazy dog krazy boy
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/08/09/phoenix-free-form-radio-dj-bill-compton-kdkb/10205755002/
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Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Warren_Pointe
(339 posts)It could be heard all over the northern hemisphere at times. We could listen to our local station late at night while on vacation in Florida. People in Cuba had to speak in whispered tones about the music they heard from Little Rock, Arkansas. They regularly got letters from as far away as Winnipeg.
Beeker Street with Clyde Clifford was the best AOR show ever.
LiberalLoner
(11,467 posts)
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,710 posts)“Ninety-four point seven, KMET…tweedle-dee!”. Great Los Angeles rock station with amazing DJs. Long-gone now.
Before that, as a kid, listened to a station that played 60’s and early 70’s soul and funk. Middle-class white boy, I just loved that stuff. Still do.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)I spent many cool evenings snuggled up with my (to be) wife in my '65 Fairlane. Even 50 plus years later I remember the DJs, Kris Stevens and Chuck Buell. When the station went back to a C&W format, it broke my heart.
My next favorite was WGLF. "Now, in this, the capital city, a new hour begins on WGLF." (Tallahassee)
malthaussen
(18,530 posts)... but we moved to Philly when I was 10, so then it was WIBG. My brother liked WFIL, so naturally I had to go with the other guy.
Neither Philly station does pop music anymore.
-- Mal
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)KLIV in San Jose, California. Can't remember where it was on the AM dial.
Later, when rock music hit FM, it was KSAN in San Francisco or KSJO in San Jose.
Doc_Technical
(3,751 posts)Later on KSJO
Sogo
(7,139 posts)But, sometimes, we could pull in WLS from Chicago and KAAY from Little Rock, AR!
yellowdogintexas
(23,655 posts)we were just north of Nashville after all. Nashville had NO AM stations that played top 40 and could be picked up where we were.
WestMichRad
(3,166 posts)Great station for Motown music.
CJOM-FM (again, in Windsor) in the early 70s. Deep cuts R&R and prog rock, stuff not played on hits-centric stations.
onethatcares
(16,979 posts)in the late 50s to early 60s when the sky was clear I could pick up a station from Buffalo NY at nite.Top 40 and the DJ was a Wolfman Jack clone.
From Buffalo NY to Reading PA,.
Just noticed it upstream the call letters were WKBW. Spent a lot of time under the covers with a transistor radio back then.
moniss
(8,949 posts)when they would have the "Chicken Man" bit?
rsdsharp
(11,936 posts)Orkin voiced the male parts. Jim Runyon, morning man at WCFL was the narrator.
Dulcinea
(9,968 posts)WDVE still exists, I think. WYDD is long gone. I loved rock & New Wave music as a teen. Still do!
Jilly_in_VA
(14,257 posts)WOKY in Milwaukee and WLS in Chicago. We couldn't always get WLS though, depending on the airwaves or something.
gay texan
(3,196 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,655 posts)The best one was 1300 WMAK in Nashville; they were great in the daytime, but their signal got weak after 6. They had some fairly entertaining DJs. After FM began to spread, they went country. I would venture that if they are still around they are a right wing talk radio station.
Our local station, WRUS (which did not broadcast at all after sundown) gave us a couple of hours of top 40 before the final news and sports broadcast.
OAITW r.2.0
(31,960 posts)were king. 
But in college, it was WBCN-FM. Charles Laquidara and his "Big Mattress Show" were tops. Danny Schecter, the News Dissector, had a great news show, too.
rogerballard
(4,017 posts)Motown Sound baby
applegrove
(131,616 posts)rock & roll radio when I did homework though.
if..fish..had..wings
(880 posts)
retread
(3,908 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,655 posts)Tower (at the time Nashville's tallest building)
My aunt worked for L & C and could get me passes to the tower.
I took my boyfriend up there one night during that program. The DJ was so cool. He even played "Harlem Nocturn" by request.
zanana1
(6,475 posts)WKBR was mostly bubblegum rock. WGIR had the real stuff.
rurallib
(64,647 posts)in the 1960s and I can sure remember them.
WLS and Dick Bindi was my favorite but I wasn't wed to them. All were rock stations back then:
KOMA in Oklahoma
KAAY in Little Rock
KDKA in Pittsburgh
WABC from NYC
One station from Toronto and I think it was 740 from Denver - all AM stations - it was the 60s
During the day it was KIOA in Des Moines but that was a daytime station
rsdsharp
(11,936 posts)It also had a very tight directional pattern at night, which is probably why you couldn’t hear it.
rurallib
(64,647 posts)which is what you said there. We could get it up until sundown - and of course we couldn't get any of the 50,000 watters until sundown except WLS which we could usually get if were a bit away from WSUI at 910.
Radio after dark in the summertime was my life - that and skip signals on TV - even got Seattle a few times.
rsdsharp
(11,936 posts)and came back on the air at sunrise, or at 6:00 AM if they had pre-sunrise authority. I worked for a time at a day timer at 1250 kHz in Cedar Falls.
Other stations reduced power, and/or changed their broadcast pattern at night. This was done to protect stations on the same frequency, or on a nearby frequency.
Some stations, like WLS, were clear channel stations. They broadcast at 50,000 watts, day and night, and with the same pattern. They went farther at night because of the night time sky wave, and because there were fewer stations on the air or operating at reduced power at night. Other stations, such as KAAY, or WCFL in Chicago, continued to broadcast at 50,000 watts at night, but with a directional pattern to protect other stations from interference.
ificandream
(11,828 posts)http://musicradio77.com/images/wabcbeatleslive8-28-64.mp3
http://musicradio77.com/images/brucelive.mp3
OAITW r.2.0
(31,960 posts)Just realizing now that the show was syndicated, LOL.
ificandream
(11,828 posts)I do remember him on WABC, though.
OAITW r.2.0
(31,960 posts)Pretty sure I didn't get WABC on my little transister radio,
Celerity
(54,095 posts)
catbyte
(38,997 posts)When I was a kid, it came in after dark on my little AM radio and it was awesome. I could hear groups like Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Who, etc. that no local northern Michigan stations played. Imagine being 12 years old and hearing "White Rabbit" for the first time. Mind blown.
Jerry2144
(3,251 posts)occasionally KIIS FM
I still remember the frequencies 95.5, 94.7, and 102.7
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)News radio 88 on your AM dial.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)I could tune it in on my bedside clock radio at night to listen to mostly top 40. Heard “My Sharona” for the first time late one night, and the DJ was scandalized by it, lol.
Could also sometimes get WOWO from Fort Wayne, Indiana (Woe Woe, dubya oh, dubya oh, Fort Wayne!) They had a pretty impressive signal, considering I was in Tennessee.
OldBaldy1701E
(10,909 posts)Where I lived it was usually WPTE (K-94) out of Va. Beach. They were FM. Then, late at night, I would turn on my AM radio and listen to either WBT out of Charlotte, or, depending on the 'skip', WGAR out of Cleveland. All were rock stations. But, K-94 was a great one. In addition to being my fave station, several of the DJs and staff worked on this little show that came on WAVY-TV 10 on Saturday nights... Dr. Madblood! That just made me like the station even more.
sakabatou
(46,040 posts)
choie
(6,856 posts)Especially Sunday nites at 10 when Dr. Ruth was on! Then the following day at school my friends and I would be all a twitter going over what she had said the night before!
Also, WMCA for Long John Nebel’s show. He was great!
MyMission
(2,010 posts)FM radio
It was the rock station I listened to in the early 70's.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,523 posts)
and
Darwins_Retriever
(949 posts)My older brother won tickets to the Beatles during their first tour of the US from WHS
LeftInTX
(34,067 posts)
MiHale
(12,885 posts)Detroit radio till CKLW overtook it.
calimary
(89,657 posts)And KRLA and K-DAY, for good measure.
But the Boss Jocks were just absolutely IT.
A few of them hosted afternoon teen dance shows on local TV. Sam Riddle comes to mind. Casey Kasem too.
And there was Lloyd Thaxton, who didn’t have a radio show but his “Lloyd Thaxton Hop” was big on local TV on weekday afternoons.
It blew my mind in later years - I wound up working there, as a midday and then morning news anchor.
AltairIV
(1,023 posts)While I was no longer a kid, I have some great memories from the late 70's, early 80's while stationed at Fort Ord California. There was a radio station that broadcast out of San Jose, KSJO 92 FM. One of my favorite disc jockeys of all time Tawn Mastery.
Walleye
(44,412 posts)Jrose
(1,528 posts)Forgot which station he was on, but remember his unique shout to all the kids ... Played lots of Motown, Beatles, Beach Boys.
Phentex
(16,698 posts)I just looked at their site and they still use the ape logo