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[acheron1982]

I need to be schooled here since I am only 30... **rubs that in some**

I remember Z93 as a damn good classic rock station back in the 90s. I see some say they want to see it come back and those same people are the oldies/AM Gold fanatics. Was Z93 classic hits (pop)/oldies back in the day before it was classic rock?

Oh and the classic rock Z93 that I remember runs laps around The River. Z93 would played the lesser known titles and really hit hard with the progressive rock bands like Kansas, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Yes. Our two jokes of a station that claim to be classic rock/hits play the same tired playlist.

Side Note: Yes, I am familiar with the deep cuts on the River on Sunday nights. Yes, I love it. Hate its only two hours long though.

 

[amos]

i know i'll get flamed for saying this for saying this...

but Z93 good as a classic rock station? give me a break, they sucked. they came into town with a "cooler than the audience" additude, and were horrible. plus, they had part timers on the air (weekends and overnights of course) that didn't know the music they were playing, and it was very obvious.

no, they weren't classic hits before classic rock. they were previously a mainstream CHR, that had morphed into a CHuRban. they weren't at the top of their game prior to the flip. Power 99 had come to town and had given them a run for their money.

as roddy has stated: "After PD John Young left, new management managed to fix what wasn't broken."

i got the impression they were a bunch of new jerseyans that came down here to show redneck rubes how radio was supposed to be done.

epic fail.

 

[jabba17]

I remember Z93 as a damn good classic rock station back in the 90s. I see some say they want to see it come back and those same people are the oldies/AM Gold fanatics. Was Z93 classic hits (pop)/oldies back in the day before it was classic rock?

Oh and the classic rock Z93 that I remember runs laps around The River. Z93 would played the lesser known titles and really hit hard with the progressive rock bands like Kansas, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Yes. Our two jokes of a station that claim to be classic rock/hits play the same tired playlist.

Z-93 used to be a top 40 station from about 1972-1973 until about 1989, when they flipped to classic rock (and dropped the hyphen).

If memory serves me they were WGKA-FM classical until c. 1968, then flipped to MOR, which lasted until the Z-93 Top 40 flip.

Z-93's heyday as a Top 40 station was from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s, when AC Warm 100/99.7 flipped to CHR Power 99 in 1986, which clobbered a faltering Z-93 and forced them into their infamous "Hot New" (churban) format. This time period (70s and 80s) is, coincidentally, the time period that a lot of us would like WZGC to go back to playing, this time as a Classic Hits station and not (obviously) as a CHR station.

And I do agree with your assessment of Z93 in their Classic Rock days...probably the best classic rock station this city ever had.

 

[BarryATL]

Z-93 was my station growing up. I graduated high school in 1980, so I was there throughout their heyday. Ross and Wilson... with Mother Nature. The School Spirit Contest... I went to Paulding County High School and we won the Z-93 Spirit Contest. We got a free jukebox for the lunchroom that Z-93 stocked. We signed tens of thousands of those petitions. I wonder if anybody really counted them or if they just took our word for it?

 

[BIGSTICK]

Z-93 was my station growing up. I graduated high school in 1980, so I was there throughout their heyday. Ross and Wilson... with Mother Nature. The School Spirit Contest... I went to Paulding County High School and we won the Z-93 Spirit Contest. We got a free jukebox for the lunchroom that Z-93 stocked. We signed tens of thousands of those petitions. I wonder if anybody really counted them or if they just took our word for it?

Those were the good ole days, radio will never be like that again, too much greed...Greed = Bad product.