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Before we forget about All Hit 98.9

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djbridge

I'm wondering...when Power 98.9 changed to All Hit 98.9 back in 1995, was it just an "overnight" seamless change of call letters and on-air moniker? Does anyone know the reasoning back then behind the change in calls and on-air moniker?
Also, to Tim and Chris, thanks for posting all of the audio so those of us outside the QC could hear the final minutes. Certainly a wonderful ending to what I feel is one of the best Top-40 stations to ever hit the airwaves in the Midwest. It's only too bad a different broadcasting company could not have come in and bought the station and let things remain the way they were.
 
I know that in 1995 Roth Broadcasting went belly up and had to sell off, and that is when Power became Allhit, and moved to the studios on Kimberly RD from downtown Rock Island. I did the first over night shift when it did flip, they were jockless that weekend and Im not sure how long they were jockless for (maybe for that weekend)! I ran the first Allhit 989 jingle...woo hoo...hahaha...I still love to listen to that aircheck!!!

shawn
 
> I know that in 1995 Roth Broadcasting went belly up and had
> to sell off, and that is when Power became Allhit, and
> moved to the studios on Kimberly RD from downtown Rock
> Island. I did the first over night shift when it did flip,
> they were jockless that weekend and Im not sure how long
> they were jockless for (maybe for that weekend)! I ran the
> first Allhit 989 jingle...woo hoo...hahaha...I still love to
> listen to that aircheck!!!
>
> shawn
>

They took on the WHTS call letters in July '95 and in August 1995 (it was on a Saturday) they ran a loop of Pat Benatar's "Hit me with your best shot" for quite sometime and then about 4 or 5 o'clock that afternoon AllHit came on the air. I think they had "go between" like jocks in the closing months of Power, after the Roth jocks were let go when it was overtaken. I'm trying to rememember their original set of jocks when it became AllHit. I remember Chuck O'Brien (mornings), Cori Stone (mid-days) and Red Hot (evenings)were there, but I don't remember who did afternoons.

I even remember back in the day when WHBF-FM became Power in 1987. Same thing. For months they went jockless with board-ops from some of the local radio schools running sweepers and jingles until they got their air staff in place.

And if I'm not mistaken, Roth Broadcasting was actually owned by a relative of VanHalen's David Lee Roth.
 
> And if I'm not mistaken, Roth Broadcasting was actually
> owned by a relative of VanHalen's David Lee Roth.

This topic came up during Red Hot Brian Scott's show on Friday. You're right, but at the moment, I can't remember what they said the relation was.
 
David Lee Roth's uncle (David Roth was his name) did own WPXR and WKBF and a handful of other stations. Roth Broadcasting aka Cape Media. He went bankrupt and had to see off his stations but I do recall we kept 2 of his stations some where on the upper East Coast. He was from Boston and was a Brain surgeon.
 
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