Best Radio Station of your High School Years?

[Zomby Woof]

For me it was FM99-WNOR in Norfolk, VA. It replaced the once-great K-94 (WMYK broadcasted with 100,000 watts from Moyock, NC) as THE station providing the soundtrack of our youth.

FM-99 ran a typical early/mid-80's AOR format, but also once ran a 'jazz in the afternoon' feature, Dr. Demento on Sunday nights, entire CD's on Saturday nights, and featured an adventurous weeknight DJ named Carol Taylor who introduced bands then-unheard of outside college radio, like REM. She was ahead of her time.

In the age of XM Radio, internet downloads, and iPods, I hereby fully admit my old fart status by posting this thread. :D

[Maddy McCall]

1. WRNO. The Rock of New Orleans.

Was a great rock station until the late nineties. They played cutting edge rock, as well as classics. You were never disappointed when listening to WRNO. They were on the air as a rock station for almost 40 years...until...

November 13, 2006, 4:00 AM, WRNO played their sign-off song: The End, by The Doors. Clear Channel had acquired WRNO...and on the morning of November 13, they shifted to freakin' talk radio.

It was a day of mourning for rock fans in the MissLou. Although many stations are trying to fill the void, none ever will. :(

[pdx_prog]

141. RNO used to be the only one in NO!

I used to love listening to WTUL also (from Tulane broadcasting majors). You never knew what was going to be on.....It was completely up to the stutent that was broadcasting for that hour or two hours. You could turn it on and some guy would be playing nothing but Johnny Winter for a whole hour or it could be an hour of stuff you had never even heard of.

[KamaAina]

145. Bet you can't guess who used to do some Saturday mornings at 'TUL around 1990!

If you said "that guy who now posts as KamaAina", you're right! I played local music, sort of like what WWOZ plays when it's not playing jazz. The highlight was when I received a request from the famed F&M Patio Bar on Tchoupitoulas St.! (yes, I know it was 10 in the morning, but that's N.O. for you...)

[Broken_Hero]

2. KRBD, fm, 106.7

but I'm biased, cause me a few of my buddies had a late radio show on fri/saturday nights....:D

[Shakespeare]

3. Good old Q102 in Dallas--AOR format.

The only way to rock out. And their TV commercials were hilarious, too.

[nini]

4. 1580 KDay - Los Angeles

:D

R&B in the old days was the best. Lots of Earth Wind & Fire - which you know is my favorite.


:loveya:

[Zomby Woof]

7. In your socks?

On a hardwood floor? :bounce: :loveya:

[nini]

15. Maybe... Leon could dance up a storm let me tell you!

though I think we may have had a Barry White LP for that one :D

:hug:

[maveric]

5. WBCN, Boston.

One of the nations first "cool" FM Rock/Progressive stations.
Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band was a DJ there early on.

[Kat45]

9. 'BCN for me too.

It's sad to see what that station has become.

[YankeyMCC]

20. Another BCN fan here

I remember coming back to Boston in the late nineties and being sorely disappointed in what the station was like when I got back.

[maveric]

82. I remember Maxanne, Charles LaQuidera, Darryl Martini...

And "Duane Glasscock".
This station paved the way for thousands of other non-top-40 stations.

[jpgray]

6. Did they play a lot of Eagles?

:hide:

[Dervill Crow]

8. KINK, 102 FM

On a.m. there was KVAN. No Eagles that I recall. Actually, I don't think the Eagles were around when I was in high school. I graduated in 1972.

[Zomby Woof]

10. I am waiting for the inevitable

"Big Lebowski" quote. :D

[Dervill Crow]

18. Am I the only person in the world who hasn't seen "The Big Lebowski"?

I do fuckin' hate the Eagles, though. (Google is my friend.) :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

11. 93 WXRT Radio Chicago

Still going strong...

RL

[Zomby Woof]

13. Was that "The Loop"?

Or is that another Chicago station? I spent some time there in '83 and remember a few stations all over the dial. That's the only one I remember by name.

[RetroLounge]

28. No, The Loop was 97.9, I believe, WLUP

Great T-Shirts



RL

[Zomby Woof]

35. That's right!

I knew a guy in high school who wore one of those. :-)

[dysfunctional press]

102. the Loop definitely had the best line-up for awhile, dj-wise...

brandmeier in the mornings(he's back, btw)
kevin matthews middays(he turned into a ted nugentesque rightwing nutjob)
steve & garry in the afternoons(before too much success had swelled steve dahl's head too much)

it was the golden age of chicago radio.

[liberalpress]

121. With all due respect...

the golden age of Chicago radio was personified by 89 WLS

LArry Lujack'Little Tommy Edwards

then later

John Records Landecker
Bill Bailey
Kris Erik Stevens

The Beat Goes On

[dysfunctional press]

122. i was around for both...

and the loop's line-up was MUCH better.

[datasuspect]

138. check out the airchecks at the bottom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Records_Landecker

[driver8]

34. That is a great radio station.

I spent some time in Chicago and listened to that station all the time. This was in the mid 80's and they played everything!

[borlis]

134. I've been listening to the Loop since the 80's.

It's still my favorite radio station.

[texas1928]

12. ROCK 108, or KIXY

Those two played the good stuff.

[ornotna]

14. WRPI 91.5 Troy N.Y.

http://www.wrpi.org/

Still going strong after all these years.

[Auggie]

16. WMMS, Cleveland

[WCGreen]

58. Kid Leo and Murry Saul and Born to Run.....

[Auggie]

83. And Matt the Cat

[WCGreen]

105. The guy who over nighted, I can;t remember his name...

But he always played Magot Brain at 2:00 in AM on Saturday night...

I worked at a bar Called the Jigsaw Saloon and this guy would come in all the time...

[u4ic]

17. CHUM, Toronto

[Awsi Dooger]

19. WIOD in Miami

I've always been purely an AM guy, talk radio. WIOD in the late '70s had a great lineup including sports and politics. Larry King had a latenight show before leaving for the Mutual network and Bill Calder was hysterical in the afternoon. Big Wilson was another memorable character on that station. WIOD carried the Dolphin games and early evenings were sports talk all year.

[Nicole]

21. KOMA 1520 in OKC

Now it's KOMA 92.5, they play 50's & 60's music.

[SPKrazy]

41. No Way KOMA!

KATT!

:P

[Nicole]

51. Yes way KOMA!

:P

I like The KATT but that was later, I was already out of high school by then.

Thanks for reminding me I'm older than you! :mad:

[SPKrazy]

56. Yeah, but you aren't but a few years older than me...

:P

I can't remember KOMA

I might have listened to them too.

you sure have a lot of :mad: thingies for me tonight :hide:

:hug:

[Nicole]

62. True but

the OP asked for the radio station during your high school years. It wasn't The Katt!

I'm in a :mad: tonight.



:pals:

[SPKrazy]

64. Okay...

My high school was the Katt, and a Stillwater station that was OSU 105.7?

But the Katt was the Katt's meow!

;)


:hug:

[Nicole]

69. Agreed.

The Katt was the Katt's meow! :headbang:

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

71. LOL Right ON!

:hug:

I remember them as being really cool, and :headbang: that meant REALLY COOL!

:rofl:

[Aristus]

22. KZOK, Classic Hard Rock.

Stones, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Led Zep, Deep Purple, etc.

[Zomby Woof]

23. 102.5

I used to listen to Robin & Maynard on my morning commute back in the 90's. That and KISW. :-)

Post-college years for me, lol.

[bigwillq]

24. 97.1 out of NYC

was all we listened to during HS.

[supernova]

25. WQDR Raleigh - 94.7 FM

Some amazing DJs Pat Patterson, Daniel Brunty, Tom Guild (pronounced "Geye-eld"). I lisented to more Led Zepp and David Bowie in my youth than I can remember. :-) I fell asleep listening to it and waking up to it too.

Daniel Brunty had a soft kind of whispery voice. My mom just thought he was stoned. (Perhaps! :rofl: )

They even have their own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQDR-FM">Wiki page.

Sadly, it's a crappy new country station now.

[enigmatic]

26. WMMS 100.7, Clevo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMMS

BLF Bash coming on every night at 2am and playing Funkedelic's "Maggot Brain" is one of my enduring High School memories...

[Left Is Write]

27. Two of 'em - KQ92 (KQRS) and Stereo 101 (KDWB) in Minneapolis.

Both were album-oriented rock stations at the time.

[CatholicEdHead]

29. Old 93X out of the Twin Cities, KRXX-FM 93.7

Good independent rock station.

[Marrah_G]

30. WCOZ Boston

Ten pm every night "Stairway to Heaven" would lull me off to sleep! (I am hoping I have the station right, my memory isn't what it used to be)

[MedleyMisty]

31. 106.5 The End - Charlotte, NC

But it came in clear in Mount Airy, 100 miles north of Charlotte.

A bit after I graduated, it was bought by Clear Channel. It sucks hard now.

I did go to the last good Weenie Roast, though. Papa Roach was the last band, and the second that Last Resort ended everyone rushed for the parking lot. It was amusing.

[lildreamer316]

152. It's still the best of Charlotte..

Husband listens to it every day since he drives down there from here in HP.
The other Charlotte stations suck harder; trust me.

[rockymountaindem]

32. KYZX: 103.9 *The Eagle!* (CAAAAAaaaawwww)

It still is the best radio station in the Springs. I switch between them and Classic Rock 98.1.

[Zomby Woof]

53. I wonder if Stephen Colbert knows that one

:D

[opiate69]

33. WPLJ New Haven

A good mid-80's AOR station.

[driver8]

36. CHEZ 106 Ottawa, Ontario

Where I first heard U2, XTC, Split Enz, B-52s, Lene Lovich, Marianne Faithful, Kate Bush and a lot of other great artists!!

[Pithlet]

37. WHFS 99.1 out of DC, late 80's.

I don't think it's on the air anymore.

[Zomby Woof]

38. On the occasional trip to northern VA

I would catch a few of their stations, but the only one I remember was DC-101. :hi:

[Patsy Stone]

68. Before 99.1 it was 102.3

WHFS was the first station which came to mind, although that was college, not high school -- and a different state. :)

I loved WHFS. I remember sitting in a car listening to it go off the air on 102.3 for the last time. When it moved to 99.1, I couldn't get it in my dorm room anymore. :(

Good times.

[mike_c]

85. yep-- utterly agree-- that was an awesome station....

I listened to it for years. They were actually in Alexandria, I think.

[smtpgirl]

96. WHFS 99.1 (or HFS) offices

ended up on Cordell Ave. in Bethesda, MD.







Damien & Weasel were the DJ's



WHFS are the call letters for the FM radio station transmitting on 105.7 MHz, licensed to Catonsville, Maryland, and broadcasting from studios in suburban Towson, Maryland. They originally stood for "Washington's High Fidelity Stereo." That station and its predecessor are owned by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting). WHFS has broadcasted in the Washington, DC/Baltimore, Maryland markets on various frequencies for over 40 years, usually referred to as 'HFS. Jake Einstein was the prominent partner during the station's heyday of progressive rock when it was located in Bethesda, Maryland. His sons David and Damian were members of the air staff.

From the late 1960s until January 12, 2005, WHFS broadcast a progressive/alternative rock format. The station's target demographic was listeners aged 18-34. For many local residents, it was the first place to hear such bands as R.E.M., Pixies, and The Smiths. David Einstein, the program director for 20 years, was the first in the area to play "new music" from then unknown artists such as U2, REM, Simple Minds, the Cure, New Order, and Depeche Mode. In the 1990s, it featured a specialty show called "Now Hear This", hosted by Dave Marsh, that highlighted indie and local music. WHFS has also been the host of the HFStival since 1990.




1960s
WHFS began broadcasting on November 11, 1961, on a frequency of 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland. It was the first station in the Washington, DC, area to broadcast in FM-stereo. It was originally located in a 20 × 20 foot space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with antenna on the roof. Its original format was a combination of MOR and classical, with jazz after 10 p.m. The original owners were considerably underfunded, and the station was sold in 1963. The station was initially moved to Norfolk Ave. in Bethesda and later to Woodmont Ave. All these locations are within a 3-block distance. Its studios, on the second floor of a luxury condo on Woodmont Avenue, were located directly across the street from the Psyche Delly, a venue for live performances by bands playing the club circuit, and many musicians, famous and not yet famous, traipsed across the street to do interviews and perform live at the station. Many cut WHFS-specific IDs. One classic example of a legal ID done by a bass-vocal centered rhythm & blues group went, "Of all the stations we like the best, it's W - Hhhhh---F-Sssss; we'll be rockin', we'll be rollin', on W - Hhhhh---F-Sssss - - - 102.3 - Bethesda." The enthusiastic and knowledgeable interviews by such deejays as Jonathan "Weasel" Gilbert, who held down the drive-time afternoon weekday slot - about the time that bands setting up across the street were ready for a dinner break before a performance - provided fascinating details about the artists' experience, as well as providing plugs for the upcoming appearance. Weasel's obvious friendship with many of his guests elicited striking candor from them.


1970s
During the 70's, WHFS would broadcast music other FM Rock stations normally would not, including cuts as long as 20 minutes. Artists like Frank Zappa, Yes, Genesis, Roxy Music and other non-commercial artists, at that time, would be the normal format. The station made a policy of never playing a "hit" and unprecedently left the playing lists strictly up to the DJs. Once in a while the DJ's would, as a joke, throw in a Top 40 hit just to throw the listeners off.

In addition to the station's progressive rock and alternative music, jazz, and even bluegrass was prominently featured on their format. One of the show's features was "Thor's Bluegrass" hosted by DJ Thor. Local bluegrass band The Seldom Scene would sometimes perform live from the station.

Fans of the station came to expect certain "regular" features. Listeners were treated to Weasel playing "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones every Friday towards the end of the work day. Weasel also filled his playlist with requests like local DC near hit "Washingtron" by Tru Fax & the Insaniacs. Weasel actually answered the telephone himself when requests were called in. WHFS made Root Boy Slim's "Christmas at K-Mart" a holiday standard.

According to the Washington Post, the 1978 DJ lineup at WHFS was: Damian Einstein, John "Weasel" Gilbert, David Einstein, Bob "Here" Showacre, Diane Divola, and Tom Grooms.

[mike_c]

104. just hearing Weasel's name takes me back....

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the correction. I knew they weren't in DC-- for some reason my memory was northern VA rather than the Maryland 'burbs.

[gbate]

114. They play Spanish hip hop now. Hey, remember Weasel?

[SeattleGirl]

39. KZEL 96.1 in Eugene, Oregon

Great rock 'n roll station.

[SPKrazy]

40. Rock 100.5 the KATT, Oklahoma City

was the best rock station when I was in High School

:woohoo:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

155. Sweetie, it still rules!

And it's always been the best!
Duckie

[havocmom]

42. KRLA Rock

Los Angeles

KWIP Orange County for oldies

[Zomby Woof]

44. Nini says she remembers KRLA!

She wants to know where you grew up. She's a Wilmington kid. :hi:

[havocmom]

45. Across the (dry) river bed from her: Long Beach

3 blocks from the LA River (:rofl:), between 9th and 10th (well, actually where they met in a circle back then - Drake Park swallowed the block I lived on)

Then, Garden Grove for Junior High & High School, O.A Peters Jr & Bolsa Grande High... then off to Ventura County where I missed my buds but enjoyed the cleaner air.

[Zomby Woof]

46. She was born in Long Beach

Grew up in Wilmington, went to St. Peter & Paul until 8th grade, then high school at Banning nearby.

You weren't too far away. :D

[havocmom]

49. When you post pics of you and Teena around there,

I get pretty homesick for the coast.

[Zomby Woof]

50. You're welcome to come back anytime!

We'll all go out and raise hell. :evilgrin:

[havocmom]

54. Raise hell? Not me!

But, Wayward Daughter gets out to the coast from the Baked Apple if certain Aussie performers are in the area. She is much better at hell raising anyway. Think Teena ... with RED HAIR.

[MsKandice01]

59. I grew up in Carson..

I know a lot of people who went to Banning. I moved to the bay area about 3 years ago but boy am I homesick right now.

[nini]

72. Banning rules!

Just as long as you're no Colt!! :-)

[MsKandice01]

73. Nah, I would have gone to Narbonne had we not moved to Chino...

But everyone in my neighborhood was a Colt. :)

[nini]

95. it was a long time ago for me.... class of 75

I wonder if we know some of the same people? small world and all :-)

[AshevilleGuy]

43. Several, all AM (mid-1960s): WLS, WCFL, CKLW, WOWO, WBZ.

After sundown we could pick them here up on our AM sets, and while not stereo, they came in fine!! Ahh... the old days...

[av8rdave]

47. WHOT, Youngstown, Oh

Better yet was my college years. KILO FM, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sunday night album nights..they would announce the album, play samples of each track (so you could adjust your recording levels) and cue you to the start of the whole album play through.

You can't top that. I got my original recordings of Rust Never Sleeps and Stormwatch that way.

[likesmountains 52]

48. KIMN Denver was the best AM station...then came KLZ- FM...

[madrchsod]

52. WLAC- Nashville Tennessee!

http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/wlac/wlacdex.html

and of course the powerhouses of the midwest----AM 1000 WCFL and AM 890 WLS in Chicago Il....

1960`s radio rocked-"Top 100" and "Top 40"

oh yes, actually hearing wolfman jack in northern il during the early 60`s...that was a trip

[madrchsod]

55. am kaay out of little rock .arkansas in the 60`s

was another very good rock and roll station

[qnr]

57. WPLJ and WBLS in NYC, back in the early 70's n/t

[Wapsie B]

60. KWLO, AM 1330, Waterloo, Iowa

[redwitch]

61. WMMR Philadelphia.

Eons ago!

[BuddhaGirl]

63. kROQ - the rock of the 80's (L.A.) 106.7 fm

got me into alternative rock! :-)

[petronius]

77. Me too! Other stations called KROQ or broadcasting on 106.7

are just a bunch of posers...

:yourock:

[Cobalt-60]

65. KXOK - 630 in St. Louis

it's true that some FM stations were up at that time.
But FM wasn't allowed in my home. My father had been informed that only communists listened to FM.
And I only had AM in my first two cars.
KXOK was pretty cool though, top 40 with lots of overlap between the charts.
I listen to all those commie FM stations now.
Today the whole AM band drips with Republicon hate shows.

[graywarrior]

66. WBCN in Boston where there was lots of dead air time due to stoned dj's

First underground FM station on the east coast. A real acid trip.

[Oeditpus Rex]

67. Did they advertise 100,000 watts?

If so, they were either lying or talking about ERP (effective radiated power), which gets into all kinds of math I don't really understand involving antenna gain, with decibels and cosines and other stuff we need to protect our children from.

The FCC limit has been 50,000 watts since (I think) 1934, which is why stations like XERB and XERF put their transmitters just across the Mexican border, so they could pump up to 100,000 watts or so and boom Wolfman Jack and Reverend Ike all over North America.



Anyway, to finally get to the question, until I was a senior it was KDON, "The Big 1460" — a Top 40 station. There was one DJ, Pat O'Shea, who was freaking nuts. One night he put a waste basket on his head (he said) and was beating on it until... something. Might've been until management let him play a certain record. He got fired from KDON, then rehired, then fired again. He went to a station in Bakersfield, then to one somewhere in Arizona. Then he killed himself.

When I was a senior, I discovered first KERR, an "underground" FM station that played all kinds of stuff other stations didn't (I heard my first Cheech and Chong on KERR), then KLRB in Carmel and KSJO, "EarthRock 92" in San Jose. Both were AOR, but KLRB also played some stuff that was considered avant-garde at the time, especially late at night. They also carried the King Biscuit Flower Hour, which was great.

Don't ever get me started talking about radio. :D

[gemdem]

70. WTUE - 104.7 in Dayton, Ohio

It's still THE rock station in town, although it's more "classic" any more. They play some of the current stuff, but they know that their audience is mainly those who grew up in the 70's so they cater to us.

[DBoon]

74. KMET, KLOS, KPPC

KROQ didn't really get going until I was in college, but when it did it was a true inspiration

[grannylib]

75. Used to listen to KQ92 in Minneapolis and Beaker Street out of New Orleans,

I think it was

KQ has totally degenerated; the music is all canned playlist and repetitive and unoriginal and just bad; the KQ morning show used to be pretty funny but Tom Bernard, the head asswipe, is just obnoxious and arrogant and worthless and I haven't listened to that station in decades.

[Bzzzz]

76. Indianapolis Q95...

and the Atom Smasher.

[trackfan]

78. 93 KHJ

[K8-EEE]

80. Yes!! TINA DELGADO IS ALIVE, ALIVE!!

I have such happy memories of Boss Radio KHJ!

[bertha katzenengel]

131. if only i'd kept reading i'd've known you beat me to it

:7

[bertha katzenengel]

130. Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

79. WVSH 91.9 FM in Huntington Indiana

...actually, it was only good because I was a weekend DJ there- it was our tiny high school station. :rofl:

The best REAL station I guess was WGN in Chicago.

[liberaltrucker]

81. The Mighty 690 WVOK-Birmingham

Now WJOX-sports :puke:

It's FM successor, WRKK K-99 is still on the air in classic rock format.

:toast:

[elfrangel]

84. B 98.5

Back in the day it had Craig o'Neil as a DJ, but that was WAYYYYY before they turned it into talk radio.

[buddhamama]

86. WAAF 107.1 out of Boston

my favorite radio station http://www.weru.org/

:hi:

[Mrs.Matcom]

124. Hey, Mine too!!!

Kick ass rock and roll!!! And they would 'try' to bleep out the word 'ass' back then! hahaha!!!! The good old days!! :hi:

[Deja Q]

87. KJJO 104.1FM - modern rock. RIP, 1994, when it moved to country music.

:puke:

[Arugula Latte]

88. I loved "The Quake" (a San Francisco station that played alternative music)

The Quake was when I was in college in the mid-80s.

When I was a kid, I listened to KFRC San Francisco. Looking back, it was a typical bad Top-40 station, but I liked it at the time (anyone remember Dr. Donald D. Rose?).

My dad was a DJ for a country station, but I rarely listened because I didn't like country.

[ChoralScholar]

89. FM 104 KKYK

With Craig O'Neill in the mornings.

Great station - It eventually became just top 40 crap, then talk radio.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

90. Late 70s in Chicago: WBBM-FM. Their hook was all female jocks.

And I think they ran National Lampoon and King Biscuit on Sunday nights.

[TheBaldyMan]

91. John Peel on Radio 1 in the late 70s - I count myself very lucky

I think John Walters was his producer back then.

[dembotoz]

92. wtos and wzmf in milwaukee

they were good

[hippiechick]

98. what about WLPX?

:yourock:

[thefool_wa]

93. KNDD 107.7 The End in Seattle - 1990-1992

THE birthplace of the grunge movement and the first place ANYONE heard Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, et al!

[Zomby Woof]

106. Do you remember KGRG FM89?

That was Green River College's station in Auburn. I did a show on there in 1989 and 1990. I played Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Mother Love Bone (pre-Pearl Jam) back then. We had good range... could be heard all over the Puget Sound area. The End picked up the college format and ran with it. :-) That was a great era for new music.

[thefool_wa]

110. Yes I do

but we couldn't pick it up well up here on the peninsula until after I got out of high school.

Ah, thems was the days....

[Debbi801]

94. WLPL 92.3 in Baltimore and WPGC 99.5 DC (nt)

[gbate]

115. Hey Debbi. I know you! Check your PM. Remember WIYY, 98Rock?

[hippiechick]

97. WAPL - 106.something ...

Appleton/Fox Cities WI ... when I think back on what qualified as 'rock' in the early 80's ... omg.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

101. *snort*

did they play "70's rock" as if it was oldies stuff?

;)

:hi:

[hippiechick]

103. no, actually it's a pretty blue-collar station...

... so mixed in with the Led Zepp and Foreigner and Who etc ... was stuff like Genesis, Stevie Nicks, Pat Benatar ... but rarely anything "metal" like Sabbath or Judas Priest, etc. Odd, considering it was supposed to be the hardest station around at the time.


:loveya: How's my flirt buddy, by the way ? ;)

[SPKrazy]

107. I guess that

there just wasn't that hard a station at the time :P


Doing okay!

:D

:loveya:

and you?

[hippiechick]

108. ... not in our area, anyway ...

...I'm well. No drama for this mama. :evilgrin:

How's You? :pals:

[SPKrazy]

109. Trying to

avoid drama

gotta go do some work (blah) for a bit here in a minute

:pals:

;)

[Penndems]

99. WPGC AM and FM in Morningside, Maryland; WEAM in Arlington, Virginia; WINX in Rockville, Maryland

and two "underground" stations: WHFS in Bethesda, Maryland, and WHMC in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

We had a lot of choices in the Washington, DC metro area in the 1960s and 70s.

[Catshrink]

100. KJR Seattle, channel 95.

:hi:

[dajoki]

111. WMMR-Philadelphia

Classic rock all the time, before it was classic.

[hippywife]

112. WCOL Columbus, Ohio

During the 70's it played rock. Before we made the jump to FM it was WCOL AM for rock with DJ Wes Hopkins.

I think both stations have changed their formats. I don't live there anymore so I'm not sure what they play now. I think it's country.

[jmowreader]

113. There were two

You had KHQ-FM (don't remember the frequency, sorry) and KJRB 790.

KHQ was an automated radio station. KJRB had authentic Disc Jockeys. Now it's a sports talk station, but they play Tom Leykis.

[judaspriestess]

116. 99.5 KISS FM San Antonio

home of the Godfather, the late Joe Anthony.

[GOPisEvil]

117. This was my station growing up, too!

I listened to Lisle and Hahn on my to school every morning. :headbang:

[shawmut]

118. WFNX 101.7 Boston

This was around 1990.

[Redstone]

119. WMMR, 93.3, Philadelphia.

Redstone

[B3Nut]

120. 96.3 WROV in Roanoke VA (ca. 1989)

Classic rock...an oasis of real music in a sea of pop and country. They came on the air in my last couple years of high school (Salem HS, Salem VA, class of 1990). I knew I had found my station when I tuned in and they were playing "Yours Is No Disgrace" by Yes. Rawk!

I also loved from childhood through high school listening to 1190 WOWO out of Ft. Wayne, IN at night...mainly because it was close to Michigan (my birthplace) and when my dad would drive us to MI at night he'd often tune in WOWO. They were a 50,000 watt "clear-channel" (not the corporation, but the original legitimate technical term that CC hijacked) station that could cover a buttload of the country at night. That was back when "clear-channel" meant the station had that frequency allocation to itself.

Ah, memories...

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[mac56]

123. WYOO-FM Super U 100 in the Twin Cities!

How's your boogie?

[Kali]

125. KDKB - Krazy Dog Krazy Boy 93.3 fm 1510 if you am, and I am..

(something something) in the tri cities - that's try as you can you can't get out. (promo recorded by the guys from firesign theater)

[bertha katzenengel]

126. Here's the station's jingle. Can you guess the genre?

Country? Rock? Pop? Classical?

"Little bit o' heaven, ninety-four point seven. K-M-E-T - tweedle-dee!"

[Critters2]

127. WLS The Rock of Chicago

What was weird was that my mom told me she listened to it as a kid too--in Kentucky. She liked something called the WLS Barn Dance!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

143. Mom was right...

It was a country station long, long ago with a 50,000 watt clear channel that you could pick up just about everywhere east of the Rockies. In 1960 it became a rock and roll station -- I used to call it "Radio Free Illinois" for those of us growing up in farm country -- then (sadly) became a conservative talk station sometime in the late eighties.

Superjock Larry Lujack, John "Records" Landecker, Tommy Edwards Bob Sirott: A regular "Murder's Row" line-up of on-air talent. Animal Stories, Boogie Check, The Tooth Fairy, Americana Panorama, and the Cheap, Trashy Showbiz Report.

It was a great time.

[eauclaireliberal]

128. WQFM, Milwaukee

Which I am guessing was shut down years ago, probably replaced with that soft-rock shit.

There was also WLPX which got buried from the soft-rock crap too, and the name changed.

last time I recall, the rock station was "Laser 103." My guess is that it is playing shit like Steeley Dan or even worse, Toby Keith.

[SmileyBoy]

129. 93.7 THE EDGE in Minneapolis

Had the best mixture of alternative and rock.

[eauclaireliberal]

132. The Edge is still up and running, right?

I'm usually listening to CD's when in the area, I keep forgetting that The Cities has REAL radio stations...whereas W. Central Wisco is all country.

[CatholicEdHead]

148. No, The Edge, KEGE went off the air in 1997 or 1998

It turned back to the new, corporate 93X, KXXR-FM, it is a Disney/Capital Cities station.

[puerco-bellies]

133. KMET, and KNAC in Los Angeles

Also KLOS which is still broadcasting.

[underseasurveyor]

136. Member of the KMET Immoral Minority here

KMET was da bomb. I was so bummed out when I moved back to So Cal to find out KMET was no more. I have an "Immoral Minority, Aw Shut Up" KMET button from 30 years ago. KNAC was a good station too.

[mountainvue]

135. WAAF circa 1980 out of

Worcester MA. Good times.

[MissMillie]

142. yep... God used to do the weather in the morning

don't care much for AAF these days.

[mcscajun]

137. WNEW 102.7 -- they pioneered Progressive Rock in the late 60s

and introduced a lot of us to truly great music and musicians.

Rosko (he had the greatest raps between tunes), Jonathan Schwartz, "the Professor" Scott Muni, Alison Steele (the Nightbird, who I always referred to as "the Night Vulture" - I never liked her or her poetry much) were the disc jockeys in the early days. Dave Herman, Pete Fornatale, Vin Scelsa with his "Idiot's Delight", and of course, Zacherle were favorites in those days, too.

WNEW 102.7: Where Rock Lives. (well, it used to, anyway)

[pdx_prog]

139. HIgh school years

it was WHBQ out of Memphis (rick Dees got his start there). The best FM station in the country is WEGR Rock 103 out of Memphis. Red Beard and several others got their starts there.

[ceile]

140. 91.7 Rice Radio

University station that played everything. Even heard "Cop Killer" on there once before it was banned.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

144. Z-100 (back before it jumped the shark)

splash!

[LynneSin]

146. I just heard the saddest news about my favorite station - WTPA 93.5 out of Harrisburg

I would listen to WTPA out of Harrisburg - first it was on 104.1 but that turned into "Wink 104" which was an awful station. A month later WTPA appeared at 93.5 and for their entire first 24 hours they played nothing but 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Anyhow, one of my favorite shows was Coffey & the Jammer in the morning. They played some great jams and was a good morning team. I just found out this weekend that Jeff "The Jammer" Kauffman had died of a heart attack about a month ago and he was only 57

:cry:

BTW - I listen to WXPN 88.5 out of University of Pennsylvania!

[Arkansas Granny]

147. WLS, Chicago. After dark it came in loud and clear where I lived

in Southwestern Missouri.

[friendly_iconoclast]

149. WZTA Miami

Long gone now, but definitely the best we could sometimes get in the northern part of Palm Beach County. WSHE a close second (but came in better) WHYI "Y-100" we scorned as junior high school music.

[u4ic]

150. Welcome to DU, friendly_iconoclast!

:toast:

[lildreamer316]

151. Rock 92.

I graduated in 1991. Strangely enough; in our high school; you were not cool unless you listened to 92-Classic Rock, all the time. NOT "redneck" classic rock, but the cool stuff-Zep; Rush; Floyd; etc. They did full album sides late nights on the weekends, and played the WHOLE songs--ya know, the whole 12 min. of Nugent; SRV; etc.
Dj's were cool and funny and laid-back. Lots of two for Tuesdays and rock blocks and etc; too.
As the 90s progressed they ventured into the grunge a bit, and today are still going strong with all kinds of just damn good rock from the 60's through the 2000's.
I learned my rock history there, day in and day out. Can't thank them enough.
Now I'm a dj's wife..... ;)

[michreject]

153. WABX

Dave Dixon and the rest of the deep voiced crew. All underground music. 68/69

[MistressOverdone]

154. 77 WABC

Cousin Brucie, Scott Munie, Dan Ingram. The best!