Post here - First radio station you remember listening to and the name of the first DJ you remember

[LynneSin]

WHP out of Harrisburg 580AM. Ron Drake in the mornings. He played some music.

Today 580 is a right-wing news screed with some of the biggest blowhards in the industry.

[Boom Sound 416]

1. Rock 105

"Lock it in and rip the knob off"

(So dated)

[LynneSin]

2. Rock 105 from where

[Boom Sound 416]

5. Jax, Fl

[Tom_Foolery]

3. Boss Radio, KHJ in L.A. in the '60s...

The Real Don Steele was my inspiration; I grew up and became a radio DJ.

[malthaussen]

16. At WOLD?

-- Mal

[Tom_Foolery]

36. Great song...

I felt like I did in my later years.

[PasadenaTrudy]

95. Same here...

93 KHJ and K-EARTH 101!

[Iggo]

98. ...and KRLA and KEZY...

[Frank Cannon]

115. Yup, KHJ with Robert W. Morgan.

God, I miss Boss Radio.

[Tom_Foolery]

116. It was the best...

From the music to the jocks to even the spots, it all mixed so well. Radio today is just blah.

[UncleYoder]

4. WCOL (before they wimped out)

out of Columbus, Ohio.

Late in the evenings they would play album sides.

Daddy Wags was my goto guy.

[Boomerproud]

54. Yes, I must be older than you. I listened to WCOL on my transister

every night at bedtime. Bob Harrington was the DJ's name back in the 60's when they played EVERYTHING from Dean Martin to the Doors and everything in between. I think it's a sports station now-a step up from the 80's and 90's when it was HateRadio 24/7.


BTW I went to school with Daddy Wags. I miss him on QFM.

[idendoit]

148. 'COL used Sunshine of Your Love as theme music.

And would turn into a Christian station late at night. I remember Barbara Keith's version of All Along the Watchtower and Legend of the U.S.S. (according to the song) Titanic by Jaime Brockett, but no DJ names.

[Lars39]

6. WLS out of Chicago with Wolfman Jack.

Yeah, getting older than dirt here.

[GoCubsGo]

37. Same here, only with Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards.

Sad that they now carry only right wing talkshit.

That was the first station I listened to by choice. Otherwise, it was WGN radio, probably Wally Phillips, who my grandma listened to every morning. They also still carry the Cubs, which were frequently on air.

[rurallib]

75. you guys remember Dick Biondi?

[GoCubsGo]

84. Yes.

Not as well as Larry and Tommy, but yeah, I remember him.

[HereSince1628]

111. Stay outta trees, dickybird!

As I remember it, his show came on at 9pm.

Compared to am radio today...so very different. Enough time between commercials for the DJ to do skits -and- spin hits off the Silver Dollar Survey.

[yellowdogintexas]

142. WLS came into my life a little later than WSM and WRUS..Biondi at 9 pm every night

it was the only station I could pick up at night that played rock and roll.

[Hula Popper]

123. Dick Biondi

playing Freddie Boom Boom Cannon......Then I got cool and started listening to
Herb Kent the Cool Gent. Damn I miss them both.

[rurallib]

124. My vagure memories recall Biondi

doing some outrageous stuff on the air (for those days) and eventually serving a couple of suspensions. I think he finally got fired in the end, not sure.

[Hula Popper]

130. "Lets play baseball1"

" I'll kiss you on the strikes, you kiss me on the balls! "
goodbye Dick

[HereSince1628]

136. Folks with WLS memories might enjoy this site...particularly the section call Bright New Sounds

Which covers the late 50's and 60's

http://www.wlshistory.com/WLS60/

[hobbit709]

145. Yep. Back in the old days.

[malthaussen]

7. WFIL Philly, George Michael

WFIL was a top-40 radio station when it was good to be top 40. Now it's just another RW Christian evengelist station.

George died in 2009, after a long career as a sportscaster.

Another great WFIL DJ was Doctor Don Rose, but he did the Morning Drive and since I was in school I rarely got to hear him. George had the evening show, he got me through a lot of homework.

-- Mal

[LynneSin]

9. The first station I would actually want to listen to is now Christian

WKBO out of Wormleysburg, PA. Back in the day they were a rock & roll station and we'd fight my dad to switch our radio from WIP to WKBO.

Now WKBO is a Christian Station. I guess there are no more good rock stations on AM radio.

[malthaussen]

13. The first *station* I remember is KDKA, Pittsburgh...

... but I don't remember any of the DJs. The first song I remember from radio was "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport."

KDKA is one of the few stations (radio and TV) east of the Mississippi with a K call sign.

Lots of Top 40 stations have been bought by RW and Christian broadcasting.

-- Mal

[Art_from_Ark]

19. A bit of trivia about KDKA

It was the first US radio station to go on air.

[Jenoch]

70. There were many radio stations on the air before KDKA.

KDKA claims to be the first commercially 'licensed' radio station.

[PRETZEL]

23. My mon always had KDKA on all the time

so that would be the first station I remember,

The first station I really listened to was 'DVE, but really don't remember any of the DJ's.

[pintobean]

8. Jack Buck and Harry Caray calling Cardinals games on KMOX

in St. Louis. That's my earliest memories of listening to the radio in the sixties. It seems that everybody listened to the games back then. For music, it was KXOK AM 630 top 40, followed by KSHE-95 and KADI-96 for AOR and progressive rock.

[LynneSin]

10. I remember in the late 70s listening to Marty Brennamen and Joe Nuxhall do the Reds game

out of 700AL WLW. If the weather was just right I could pick up the Reds games in Harrisburg on the radio.

I still remember Joe Nuxhall's 'rounding third and heading home' sign-off line.

[No Vested Interest]

151. Waite Hoyt announcing Reds games and interspersing his stories of

baseball when he played for the Yankees.

When there was a break for rain, he filled the air with tales of those legendary players he'd known.

When Babe Ruth died he stayed on the air for hours with tales of the Babe, as only Waite could tell.

When Waite Hoyt retired, a recording was released compiling his tales - Great listening.

[JohnRogan]

14. Me also, pintobean!

[steve2470]

11. wlof 950 am

first DJ Doug Van Allen

[JohnRogan]

12. KXOK St Louis Mo, cant remember DJ but he had a voice character Bruno j. Grunion

Bruno was the flying purple pizza eater (not to be confused with the One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater) this was in the early 60's, i was about 7 at the time. Later FM rock stations started, my first fave was KSHE also in St Louis. Later in life I worked engineering at WPIK & WXRA simulcast AM & FM in Alexandria Virginia in the early 70's and WINX on air shifts in Rockville Maryland up to the mid 80's.

[pintobean]

139. Did you ever go to K-she's window.

I did a few times.
http://www.stlmediahistory.com/index.php/Radio/RadioArticles/the-window-to-kshes-world

The rest of that site might interest you. There's also this:

http://www.hectv.org/video/11635/something-in-the-water-a-st-louis-rockumentary/

[JohnRogan]

143. Yes for tickets and various other winnings!

Thanks!

[antiquie]

15. LA radio

XERF? Wolfman Jack
KRLA Casey Kasem?

[pinboy3niner]

49. KRLA also had Bob Eubanks

Its rival station was "Kayyy Eff Doubleyou Bee, Channel 98!" or so the jingle went. I forget which one had the "Boss Jocks."

[antiquie]

51. Fun times

sigh

[pinboy3niner]

88. Our loss that we didn't have WKRP and Dr. Johnny Fever

And Venus Flytrap!

[antiquie]

91. We got Dr. Demento and Bill Ballance, instead.

I don't remember their stations, though.

[LibDemAlways]

106. KRLA in Los Angeles. DJ was Dave Hull aka

The Hullabalooer. He was so popular in the mid 60s there was a song written about him which was recorded and played frequently on the station.

[LiberalEsto]

17. WABC-AM in New York City; Cousin Brucie. nt

[mainstreetonce]

38. Loved Cousin Brucie

And Muuray the K

[mysuzuki2]

133. Cousin Brucie is still on the air - XM Sirius sattelite radio!

I think he's about 120 years old.

[mnhtnbb]

50. Me too. 1963?

[westerebus]

99. Allison Steele.

The Nightbird on 102.7 FM in NYC.

You listened to Brucie in the am and got high with Allison at night.

[LiberalEsto]

100. I listened to Cousin Brucie when I was a kid

and Allison Steele when I was in college. Although my favorite on WNEW-FM was Pete Fornatale.

[lame54]

18. I don't know about first - but first significant...

Jim Ladd - KMET - LA

[antiquie]

28. You are correct.

Definite mold breaker.

[Iggo]

114. Little bit of heaven, ninety-four point seven.

KMET.

Tweedle-dee.

[Sweet Freedom]

20. WGR 55 Buffalo, NY

"Stan Roberts. The corny DJ. Floats the jokes right down the drain."

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

21. WWJ in Detroit

I think. I was 5. The DJ was named Fred Wolf.......... on edit- WXYZ

[HERVEPA]

22. WIBG - Phila. - Joe Niagra and Hy Lit (Hyrum Litman)

[malthaussen]

24. Both of the Philly stations were great during the Top 40 wars

My brother and I used to fight constantly over which station to listen to. Then they died and we fought over the FM stations.

-- Mal

[HERVEPA]

25. WIBG (990) and WFIL (560) both became Christian stations I believe

Rumor was that WIBG stood for I Believe in God.
I think other jockey on WIBG at the time was Jerry Stevens.

[malthaussen]

27. Yep, WIBG started as a Christian station and has gone back to its roots.

http://www.phillyradioarchives.com/history/wntp

-- Mal

[HERVEPA]

33. Thanks for the history Mal. Interesting. I vaguely remember them broadcasting the Phillies.

[Tripper11]

26. CKLW ... Windsor/Detroit

in the 70's.
they played the best rock and roll. ...
this was when Detroit was at the time one of the worst cities in America. I think it's nickname back was murder city.
when they did the news the always added siren and gun shot effects because in a way I think they just needed to take the edge off they needed gallows humour to get through any given day.

*edited call letters...damn you auto correct phone!

[kwassa]

57. BYRON MCGREGOR WITH 20-20 NEWS!!!

50,000 watts the only AM station we could get in rural northern Ohio at night in the late 60s. News every 20 minutes.

They played everything, all kinds of music. I was listening in the late '60s.

[Tripper11]

110. Yes! Thank you.

I remember Byron McGregor now!

Bob Moody

[Blue_Tires]

132. Wow...Pure awesomeness

Sadly before my time, but my dad used to tell me about the nights as a kid in rural VA he'd sit in bed and listen to all the far away big-city stations when their signal came through...

[LumosMaxima]

60. I was going to mention CKLW, too! nt

[MissMillie]

29. WGAW in Massachusetts

It was an AM station out of Gardner


And the DJ was "Mad Man" Bob Maddox

[Glorfindel]

30. WSB from Atlanta and WFLI from Chattanooga (I grew up halfway between)

The first DJ I remember is Big Hugh Baby on WQXI from Atlanta around 1964. All of these were AM stations. At night, when the local stations cut their power, we'd listen to WLS from Chicago and (sometimes) WCKY from Cincinnati.

[Adsos Letter]

31. Dr. Don Rose, 610 KFRC, out of San Francisco n/t

[The Second Stone]

34. Me too, early 70s

he also did kid's afternoons on UHF Channel 44. Sometime in the 90s I represented as a legal client one of his lady colleagues (I can't name her for ethical (and senility) reasons). Dr. Don had just died, and she told me he was just the sweetest guy to work around.

[malthaussen]

92. We had him in Philly first! n/t

[bobduca]

129. Dr. Don Rose !!

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dr-Don-Rose-king-of-KFRC-radio-in-70s-2718849.php

[blueamy66]

32. 98 KUPD in Phoenix

Dave Pratt in the morning

[distantearlywarning]

72. I was just about to post this one!

KUPD with Dave Pratt. Late 80s, early 90s.

[blueamy66]

89. Did know that he ended his radio career with a country station in PHX?

nt

[woodsprite]

35. WNRK (Newark, DE), Dan Casey

Dan Casey did some DJing, but also did a show called Swap Shop. It was a call in show, precursor to eBay and Craigs List. I can remember hearing people saying they had a "bed available, complete". It meant it came with a mattress, because you couldn't trade/sell mattresses on the air.

WNRK is where I followed the news from Vietnam, Nixon's resignation, heard about school snow days (Newark school district then, not the huge Christina district), called in for an online trivia game called "Mind Bender". I won tickets to the Ice Capades Christmas show when I was caller number 3 and was able to name all of Santa's reindeer (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen). I also won when I knew Delaware's official state colors - not blue and gold, but Colonial Blue and Buff.

I also remember Patrick Downes doing a show, Newark Schools On Parade. I can remember our chorus group singing on that show.

When I was growing up, WNRK would be on in the kitchen from the minute Mom woke up in the morning until dinner was served.

[spiderpig]

39. KYW (Cleveland)

Jerry G
Jim Stagg (Stairway to the Stars)
Jim Runyon
Jay Lawrence (John's Other Bagel)

[LynneSin]

42. I tought KYW was out of Philly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYW_(AM)

[spiderpig]

87. The Cleveland/Philly stations swapped call letters in the 60s

KYW Cleveland became WKYC. In its Beatles heyday, it was still KYW.

BTW, I Googled the DJ list & they're all dead now.

[vanlassie]

40. KYNO. Fresno CA. DJ was "Sam" something.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

41. WETA, Maryland Public Radio

It was on my parent's clock radio by their bedside every morning. They'd play classical music mixed with NPR programming. On Sundays when we'd drive to Baltimore, we'd listen to two British game shows called "My Word" and "My Music", followed by a rerun of the previous night's "Prairie Home Companion" (which I still love.) In the evenings, they'd have opera programming called "Opera Et Cetera".

The morning "DJ"--if you could call it that--was someone named Don Serre (sp?). He was French and insisted on playing the French national background as much as possible.

So yes, I grew up in a public radio household. And yet I'm still functioning today.

[Broken_Hero]

43. KRBD fm 105.3

I cannot remember the dj's name, but it was a two hour special, first hour was pirates, the second hour was a space/alien drama.

[Kingofalldems]

44. WDON AM Wheaton, Md. DJ was Don Dillard

[csziggy]

45. Gulf 104 in Tallahassee, Florida

First station I remember really listening to. It's still operating, still plays the same music.

When I worked at a horse barn in the Apalachicola National Forest we'd leave the radio on in the barn. I'd go on trail rides at night and it was eerie hearing their call sign through the woods - the call sign was whale calls followed by the station ID.

They still use that same call sign sometimes and it brings back memories.

[KamaAina]

46. Probably WCAO, Baltimore

then top 40, now a religious station. DJ might be Johnny somebody-or-other from WFBR, one of the pioneering shock jocks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. KDWB, AM 630 (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

Can't remember any of the DJs, though.

[Skittles]

48. Radio Caroline

mmmmm.....I was so young and that was long ago

[liberal N proud]

52. WOW before it went country

Can't recall any DJ's

But we would listen to WOW out of Omaha until about 11:30 at night when a little Christian Station out of Little Rock Arkansas would switch over and play Beakers Street, we could pick it up clear up in Northern Iowa. I can't recall the station letters, just it was a great source for music late at night, when we were supposed to be in bed. It was the early 70's

[sakabatou]

53. I don't remember

It was a jazz/classical station when I was driven by my parents.

[GentryDixon]

55. KOMA out of OKC in the 60's.

Living in Utah and pulling Oklahoma City at night.

http://www.komaradio.com/komainfo.aspx

[KatyaR]

65. Mine was either KOMA or WKY.

Danny Williams and Ronnie Kaye on WKY. KOMA's radio signal at night was one of the most powerful in the country, it could reach pretty much everywhere.

Good times....

[madamesilverspurs]

56. KIMN in Denver

Back in the 1950s. Don't recall any DJs, though.

[kwassa]

58. The first FM station, when FM was new and radical: WMMS

Cleveland, and it became a powerhouse.

I ended up in the mid 70s having a drink at a bar next to The Wilde Childe, one of their famous DJs. We talked music.

[hopemountain]

59. art bell - kdb am radio, santa barbara

in the 50's. he was a news announcer long before he had his late night program. i was pretty young -7ish - but i had my trusty little transistor radio.

[whistler162]

61. Ed Murphy - WSYR - Broadway music late at night

on a transistor radio in bed.

[Ahpook]

62. Ohh crap

Probably DC101 with Howard Stern.

I think the Greaseman was around as well.

[mike_c]

63. WHFS, Bethesday MD -- little john, Murray the K, Weasel....

Good times, good times.

[JohnRogan]

144. Indeed they were, WHFS lasted a long time!

[peacefreak]

64. WPOP--1410 in Hartford.

Early 60's with Ken Griffin. He had characters, Fats Fontoon & her boyfirend, Rocky. If you were cool enough, you could be a member of the Order of Black Socks.

[Sherman A1]

66. Knox

The Arthur Godfrey show, but I recall some of the soap operas on later in the day.

[Hangingon]

67. KRLD Dallas. American Airlines Music Til Dawn

Hugh Lampman and a great theme, "That's All". Early '60s.

[Kaleva]

68. WLS with John Records Landecker

[SkatmanRoth]

69. WABD - Clarksville, Tennessee

I called in once and won a record from a DJ called 'Shotgun'. Shotgun had this deep voice and gave the audience the impression he was six foot four with biceps the size of dinner plates. When I got to the station to get my record (which turned out to be some no name 45 that was mono on one side and stereo on the flip side), Shotgun was this little guy with glasses and a short mustache.

[LynneSin]

73. I once won a Foghat album from a local station

I still have that album

Slowride JAMS!!!

[Jenoch]

71. I'm not going to name the station or the name of the first radio

announcer I can remember, but it was my local, hometown radio station and the first announcer I remember hearing was my father who was the GM and later the owner.

[CrawlingChaos]

74. KOME (SF Bay Area) -- Dennis Erectus (nt)

[elleng]

76. WPAT, Jean Shepherd.

[No Vested Interest]

150. Cincinnati was one of Jean Shepherd's first stops

and I was a teen - quite taken with his talk.

[rurallib]

77. this old guy with his radio in the middle of a summers night

in the 50s could get all sorts of 50,000 watters from all over the country:
KIOA was the "local" R&R out of Des Moines, Iowa - we listened to that during the day

WLS in Chicago along with KOMA fro Oklahoma City were the two main ones.
Station from Little Rock I can't recall call letters, KDKA in Pittsburgh - can't remember them all

The two DJs I can still recall were Dick Biondi and John "Records" Landecker both from WLS - can't remember if they were contemporaries.

[GReedDiamond]

78. WLS, Chicago, early 1960s...

...with DJs Dick Biondi, Larry Lujack and Art Roberts, the three I most remember.

When I was about 8, WLS was the first radio station in the U.S. to play The Beatles, and I listened to the great music of the British Invasion era and up to the beginning of the psychedelic period on a six transistor Zenith radio.

By '68 or so, FM "underground" rock stations, playing through my new Zenith stereo radio receiver/record player and its "Circle of Sound" speakers, drew me away from the Top 40 at WLS.

You see, my step father was an engineer for Zenith, so I had all the radios and stereo systems I wanted, plus a "Space Command" color TV in my bedroom. My friends were quite impressed and liked to hang out at my house!

Unfortunately, WLS is now a hate radio outlet, featuring Hillbilly Heroin Limbaugh, Hannity, and the like.

[Skinner]

79. WSTW Rock 93.7

[femmocrat]

80. WARD -- Herb Ruth

He played the latest hits in the 1950s and 60s and had a local teen dance show like "American Bandstand."

[RebelOne]

81. I am 75 years old and all I can remember

is listening to WINZ in Miami when I was a teenager.

[marzipanni]

82. Does anyone who listened to radio in 1965 remember this?

A radio sketch and jingle written by Stan Freberg. The jazzy jingle sung by Sarah Vaughn, and arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, starts at 0:44.

When my friend and I were 14 we used to sing it together.

[HeiressofBickworth]

83. Early 1960's

KJR Seattle, Pat O'Day. He was huge with high schoolers. I recall he played records at my class's graduation party held at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle. After that party, we all moved by Monorail to the Seattle Center and finished the all-night party on the observation level of the Space Needle. It's our 50th reunion this summer. I'm sure we'll discuss what a great party we had graduation night.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

85. Q107 from Toronto, right from the begining.

Was the first Real rock station I remember tuning into in the late spring of 1977. I was 7 years old, and I'm pretty sure that the first song I remember them playing was "more than feeling". I was hooked for years, though I admit I don't bother listening to any radio now.

Doh.. on edit, I thought the question was first rock station. Prior to Q, I grew up listening to overnight jazz on CBC radio, and an oldies station from Buffalo.

[ashling]

86. I remember listening to KILE

Galveston, Tx on a crystal radio in about 58 or 59 but I don't have any idea who the DJ was

later in the 60s we listened to Weird Beard on KILT in Houston Tx

[Iggo]

90. 93 KHJ

The Real Don Steele.

I listened to radio before that, but that's the first one I remember.

[warrior1]

93. I don't remember the first ones,

but I remember this one for the late 60's.

KZAP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZAP_%28defunct%29

KZAP was an album rock formatted radio station based in Sacramento, California, which broadcast between 1968 and 1992 at 98.5 on the FM dial.

The beginning

In the spring of 1968, Lee Gahagen (California Talking Wireless Company) was approached by some students from Sacramento State University who worked at campus radio station KERS (90.7). They convinced Gahagen to run a “free form” radio station, similar to KMPX and KSAN in San Francisco.

Gahagen agreed, and, on November 8, 1968, radio station KZAP made its debut. After hearing a montage of the new station’s announcers and “Revolution” by the Beatles, listeners were treated to the song “Cristo Redentor” by Harvey Mandel. The station had the slogan “K-ZAP…Free Form Stereo at 98 and a half.” Initially, the station broadcast from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday. Within a few months, the station was on 24 hours a day, six days a week. A year after the station made its debut, it was on the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It was located on the top floor of the Elks building in downtown Sacramento.

The station was truly free form. The air talent hand picked their music, and one could conceivably hear a classical piece followed by a psychedelic rock track followed by a jazz or blues tune. The station’s emphasis was on the “art” of mixing music, rather than company profit.

The station continued in this mode until late 1971 or early 1972. At that time, KZAP placed a certain amount of control on the musical presentation, but not enough to make a significant difference to the average listener. The station changed hands in 1972, following the sudden death of owner Lee Gahagen. The new owners, New Day Broadcasting, were supportive of the format and the air talent working at the station.

[warrprayer]

94. KDKA Pittsburgh

Ed and Wendy Party Line - one of the first call in shows

[Miles Archer]

96. Charles Laquidara, WBCN, Boston

Along with San Francisco's KSAN, WBCN was probably THE single greatest "free form" FM rock station in the nation.

Charles is still with us, retired and living in Maui at age of 75.

[Little_Wing]

97. Lee Alan on WXYZ in Detroit (very early 60s)

He used to sign off with a Sinatra song "I Can't Get Started." Listened on my trusty transistor radio.

CKLW was the other station I listened to and where I heard my first Beatles song "Please Please Me" in 1963, because they were on the Canadian side of the river and had access to the English hits. It was quite a few months later before the U.S. stations started playing the Beatles... and even then Motown so dominated Detroit radio that it was very frustrating for those of us who were into the British Invasion as it was referred to then.

Tom Clay was a DJ there who championed the English groups and held "Beatle Booster Balls" at the fairgrounds on Woodward. Terry Knight was also a DJ at CKLW, and he went on to be the manager for Grand Funk Railroad.

I also remembering WBZ in Boston coming in loud and clear late at night, they had a great DJ on then, whose name I do not recall but who had a fantastic show.

[mrmpa]

101. KQV in Pittsburgh...............

Jim Quinn was the DJ. You could watch him as he DJ'd on a street level huge window at the studio. I think he is now a right wing radio DJ.

[doc03]

128. You know that is where Rush Limbaugh worked as

Jeff Christie?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

102. Porky Chedwick: 'The daddio of the radio'

link

[femmocrat]

104. R.I.P., Porky.

Rock in Peace!

[Blue_Tires]

134. That might have been one of the people my dad mentioned

he'd said the Pittsburgh station was one of his favorites (on some nights he said he could hear Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York, iirc)

[Brother Buzz]

103. KSFO Russ "Bye-Bye, Baby!" Hodges calling the games

[Manifestor_of_Light]

105. KILT-AM (the Big 610) and KNUZ. Later KILT-FM 100. Houston.

KNUZ was on the corner of Caroline and Blodgett. It was the other Top 40 AM station.

They had a dj on I think KILT-FM named Alex Bennett who first went by the name "James Bond" and later as Alex Bennett. Both KILTs were owned by Gordon McLendon who had KLIF in Dallas. I think now he's in San Francisco.

There was some publicity stunt about two DJs rowing down "the Mighty Trinity River".

This is before all the dams went up to make recreational lakes in Texas, and the Trinity was navigable from Dallas to the Gulf Coast.

They had various teams named Hudson & Harrigan.

For classical, the other ear was listening to KLEF, which was a commercial classical station.

Now we have classical KUHF 88.7 FM which is the University of Houston station.
Back in the 1980s they were a jazz format and known as Jazz 88.

By the 70s when FM and whole sides took over we had KFMK, which mysteriously went off the air and changed formats. And the really weird rock station was KLOL, K101.

And Pacifica Houston, KPFT-FM, was bombed off the air TWICE in the late 60s or early 70s by The Klan.

I had a guy tell me he was there volunteering when one bomb got thrown in the basement of the building they were in (the Atlanta Life Bldg.) by some terrorist driving by.

KPFT is still trucking along.

[Codeine]

107. KUGR, an awful country station in southwest Wyoming.

I don't remember any of the DJs, however. The first DJ I can recall knowing by name was Richard Blade from KROQ in Los Angeles.

[Systematic Chaos]

108. Name any big rock/pop FM station in the NYC area from 1971-1976 and I listened to it.

First call letters I remember for sure are from WROV AM in Roanoke, VA in the late 70s. They covered all the pop bases from ELO and the Stones to all kinds of disco stuff.

I really don't remember the names of the DJs from any station or format I listened to frequently. It was all about the music to me.

[Rhiannon12866]

109. WPTR, Albany, New York

And the DJ was Boom Boom Brannigan. He's still quite famous in these parts...

http://blog.timesunion.com/chuckmiller/remembering-am-1540-wptr/11705/

[sendero]

112. KFJZ...

... with Mark Stevens. I would tell you what I think of him but I prefer not to speak ill of the dead

[MrScorpio]

113. Donnie "The Lovebug" Simpson WJLB

I used to call him up all the time with a fake voice and request songs on the radio

[Initech]

117. KROQ 106.7

Still listen to it now. I remember back in the day when they played all the great 90's music and Jimmy Kimmel was the executive producer of the Kevin & Bean Show.

[Blue_Tires]

118. Two come to mind

WOWI 103FM, and WNVZ 104FM, both in Norfolk -- Both are still on the air today with the same format:
http://www.103jamz.com/main.html
http://www.z104.com/

Even 30+ years ago, Z104 was known as "Z104", lol...103 JAMZ back in the day called themselves "wow-ee"...

Don't remember any DJs from my childhood, though...

[ok_cpu]

119. WZAK in Cleveland FM 93.1

Can remember listening to Lynn Tolliver with my mom while we cleaned house.

Particularly the day Marvin Gaye died.

[geardaddy]

120. WDGY 1130 AM Minneapolis.

Minneapolis. Don't remember the DJ's but it was a top 40 station.

[UglyGreed]

121. Ron Lundy

WABC 77 music radio

[Still Blue in PDX]

122. Pat Pattee on KISN.

Kissin' radio, ninety-one-derful.

I remember listening to songs about a girl who wore a yellow polka-dot bikini and a guy who wore tan shoes with pink shoelaces and a big pan of ma with a purple hatband.

[Doc_Technical]

125. KEWB channel 91 AM Oakland California

First DJ I remember is "Emperor" Gene Nelson on KYA 1260 AM
San Francisco.

[riderinthestorm]

126. Terri Hemmert on WXRT in Chicago. I have 2 older sisters who were rock savvy

so I was introduced correctly to rock radio!

http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/personality/terri-hemmert/

[Jamaal510]

127. 106 KMEL, Chuy Gomez. nt

[Tribalceltic]

131. In the early 70s

WTHD (had to look it up) AM 93 in Milford, DE
I Don't remember the DJ's but they had a Great format.
Top of the hour: National news, Local news and weather.
Weather every 1/4 hour
recap of the news at the bottom of the hour.
Time was announced at every ID
played top 40 format
Local Volunteer fire department would announce type of fire and location every time they went out. If you heard the siren you switched the radio on and could find out what and where the fire was.

First FM station I heard was in Rehobeth Beach. In the summer they had a gimmick of telling the sunbathers to turn over every 10 minutes when they ID'd. The sound effect was bacon sizzling, followed by a timer "ding", then a voice saying "you're done on that side time to turn, don't burn" very popular station at the beach

[treestar]

135. 1380 WAMS

I knew the entire DJ line up and schedule.

Somebody named "Bobby Dark" and "The Mighty Quinn."

Dave Somebody - Dave Banks, I think?

[LWolf]

137. Robert W. Morgan, 93 KHJ

[av8rdave]

138. WJTN, Jamestown, NY

Jim Roselli was the DJ. His son and I were childhood friends.

Funny thing is, I now listen to WKTN in Ohio. They have ALL the same jingles and sound effects that WJTN used in the 60s. It's like going back in time.

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[DFW]

140. WEAM 1390 on your AM dial

It was a top 40 station in northern Virginia (Arlington, maybe?). It competed with WPGC located, predictable enough, across the river in Prince George's County, Maryland. After a couple of years, word of mouth spread that an FM station had just started playing progressive rock. I found it and the first thing I heard was the opening chord of "Morning Dew" from the first Grateful Dead album, and I knew I was home for a while.

Of course, I had to wait until 1984 to hear 6 tunes in a row by Leo Kottke on a radio station. It was during a fund-raising drive for a community radio station in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I couldn't believe it. SIX Leo Kottke tunes in a f****ing row? I called up the number they gave and asked who ARE you people? Well, I promised them a few hundred bucks and came over to play a few tunes live, and have been doing it once a year ever since. That is MY kind of radio station!

[yellowdogintexas]

141. toss up WSM in Nashville woke us up every morning with "The Waking Crew"

which was an early morning talk/music/comedy/local silliness with some truly funny guys Host was Dave Overton.

The hilarious musicians also appeared on TV in later years on Ralph Emery's Early morning show and "The Noon Show" .


The other first station was WRUS in Russellville KY just up the road. We got 2 hrs of current top 40 every afternoon and the DJ was Lon Sosh.

This was where you listened to get the local school closings, funeral info, crop and livestock prices, Methodist Conference Appointments in June, high school basketball scores, statefair winners.... and the sports show was introduced by the UK fight song. True rural radio.

[JohnRogan]

146. KAAY LIttle Rock Arkansas, from StLouis Mo. AM Skip wave dont you know

The show Blieker Street at Midnight.

[Blue_Tires]

147. From the archives: Wonder how many answers have changed since then?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5788979

[applegrove]

149. CBC News and programs played all the time at our house when we were kids.

I remember "Quirks and Quarks" (a science show) and "As It Happens" (Call in news show).