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1971 Radio

Hockeyfan said:
I'm just a "fan" and not a personality or production person and not sure how I even stumbled onto this site but thanks for sharing. I remember WQAM back in the Roby "The Big Kahuna" Days Yonge, and listening to "77 WABC, Super Hit 1, hit 1, hit 1" at night when you could pick it up. And Cousin Brucie from Palisades Park. Sorry to bore you all but Radio seemed much more alive and vibrant back then.
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Not boring at all. There are so many inside types here it's good to know how an actual listener feels.

I was in Chicago about a year ago and hear Dick Biondi on WLS-FM doing a remote on a Friday night. It sounded good, the man has been doing radio forever!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Ed Salamon said:
"The Musicradio 7000 format was the brainchild of Storer corperate PD Ed Salamon. "
Thanks for the credit.
"I asked one time why 7000 and Arnie told me they wanted a number that was higher than Y-100, which didn't make sense to me...?"
Nor to me. Maybe it was our creative guy Dale Pon's (later of "I Want My MTV" fame) idea. I still have a Fleetwood Mac bus poster with the slogan. I'm happy to take credit for the format, but not the 7000 part of the slogan, since I can't recall its origin. This was the last rally of the AM music startons; at the same time, Dale and I were doing Top 40 10-Q in Los Angeles, which ultimately beat legendary KHJ. Later we would call Chicago's WCFL Musicradio 1000. "Musicradio" was a tribute to WABC.
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You're welcome...I think! Dale Pon , now there is a name I haven't heard in awhile, and I do remember him.

The Fleetwood Mac poster was good, so was the Linda Ronstat one. WGBS kinda missed with Elton John though, his career was at the bottom around that time. I remember we played his song "Ego". I haven't heard it since. Paul McCartney had "With a Little Luck" out around this time (1978)

I can look back fondly at WGBS today but my time there was a bit bumpy. I didn't get the new format since I had been doing free form MOR radio previous to working at WGBS. Two hours into the new format my confidence was shot and you probably thought I was dumb as a post. If that had happened today I would have tossed you out of the studio....<grin>.

The whole "Musicradio 7000 the NEW WGBS" was a bit like putting a miniskirt on grandma, to make her look cool, it just didn't work. The kids had gone to FM years before. WGBS should have gone personality intensive with more talk or maybe Country, but hey that's easy to say now.

All this seems like a lifetime ago!

They even know me here. "Grandma in a miniskirt"=========Dead on!
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I recall that 940-WINZ flipped to Top 40 back around 1971, going into competition with WQAM and WFUN. They had a good signal too...much better than WFUN and sounded good at the time as well.....
 
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