dont insult the true wibg with this wanna be garbage

[oasisrulz]

I was in the range of WIBG 94.3 today, are they kidding, their playlist is nothing like WIBG Radio 99...their list is 90 percent Soul, R&B and Motown, where is the other music. WIBG 94.3 is far from WIBG 99, which played all the hits, including BI, Surf, Singers, Folk, Soul and anything hot, plus a great variety of oldies, you name it. WIBG 99 was where new music broke first, long before WABC, WMCA and the others even knew about it. This joke on 94.3 plays nothing that WIBG 99 spun, what a bad imitation.....The only good thing they offer is Sunday night 9-12, the doo wop stop with Bobby B, when I am not near my Satellite radio....its just another Blavat Clone wanna be format...

 

[oasisrulz]

Just heard, Get Dancin' Disco-Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes from 1975..I sure don't remember Hy, Joe, Bill, Jerry or Dean playing that on WIBBAGE...Maybe it was played on Wizzard 100 but not WIBG-Radio 99.

 

[qtpieislit]

Actually 'Get Dancin' was in programming on 1490/Atlantic City in 1975 when Hy launched 1490 as "The Mountain of Soul on WLDB/WUSS". However we have tested the song at HyLitRhythm.com and without question it is one of the worst testing songs this decade. {94.3 Spring ARB's prediction .7 (+/-.2)}

 

[oasisrulz]

Wasn't Hy with 1490 when he called it United States Soul USS...I remember some problems with the owner or former owner back then...or maybe I am thinking something else...I think they were housed in a trailer and the tower was this very short, unlit, unpainted unit, near the back bays...off of route 30, thanks for the info on Get Dancin', dont know why it was played on the "so called" new WIBBAGE....now wouldn't the Sidekicks, Kitkats and Chuck Troy and the Maze be more appropriate because they were WIBG-99 staples and true Philly WIBG only favorties...

 

[qtpieislit]

1490 & 100.7 in southern New Jersey were sister stations operated as WBAB AM/FM, owned by the Press-Union newspaper company. In the early 50's press union began to divest and 1490 was subsequently acquired by Leroy & Dorothy Bremmer, who changed the calls to reflect the initials of their name, WLDB.

Leroy Bremmer was the station engineer and Dorothy Bremmer was the station manager. Together they built a new broadcast facility on the eleventh floor of the Senator Hotel overlooking the Boardwalk. A new transmitter and tower were constructed on salt marsh land off of Absecon blvd, an ideal location for an AM transmission facility. Over time power was increased from 250 to 1000 watts daytime and 250 watts at night. The 1/4 wave antenna tower required no tower lights as it was below FAA regulation specifications.

See pictures here mcnally.cc/wldb.htm

Generally WLDB thrived through the years as a block programming formatted station. Later it would switch to country as consistency in programming was expected by the general listening public. By the 70's the prosperity of the station and Atlantic City was in decline and WLDB lost their lease at the Senator Hotel. The station was moved into a trailer at the transmitter site. Business continued with scaled down expenses. Dorothy had her treasured cat's in the trailer. When Leroy died in the early 70's the station began to fall into disrepair as the cat hair was getting into the equipment and knocking the station off the air.

This happened on such frequent occasion that the FCC notified Dorothy that she would loose her license as the station remained off the air for protracted periods of time. Before the FCC could revoke the license she petitioned to put the station up for sale to a minority business group. In mid 1975, the FCC granted the license transfer under a distress sale and WLDB was acquired for $250,000 by group of black Atlantic City community businessmen who formed The Atlantic Business & Community Development corp... (The ABCD corporation) solely for this acquisition.

The first thing the ABCD corp did was hire Hy Lit and with a loan from a local bank acquired a motel on Absecon blvd right down the street from WMID/WGRF and converted it to a brand new broadcast facility with state of the art equipment under Hy's direction. In September of that year the station returned to the air as 'The Mountain of Soul on 1490 WUSS Atlantic City'. New call letter's were petitioned and on January 1st 1976 the call's were changed to WUSS. The station was an immediate overnight hit with a new rhythmic sound that was just emerging. It was called disco.

I transferred to the 11th grade at Atlantic City High school in 1975 and began my professional broadcast career at WUSS. Needless to say I was the focus of the student body as 1490/WUSS's dance sound was all the rage.

 

[amfmsw]

Disco-Tex was indeed played on WIBG Radio 99. I was there. We added it Thanksgiving Week of '74. It was on Chelsea Records. Don Cannon was PD, and we added several Chelsea releases early, including "Sky High" by Jigsaw.

One morning, a limo pulls up with NY plates and parks at the entrance steps. 3 unspeakably beautiful young women slither out, followed by Joe Montanez in a pink and green suit with feathered cap. Like a scene from a movie. Music Director Sandi Mirzeoff had a heads up call from Bob Crewe who recorded the song. Joe is known as Monte Rock III. He owned a chain of hairderssing salons I believe. It was quite a promotion on the record, but was out of rotation in a few weeks. It had a really short fuse.

 

[sethjamz]

As a Philly transplant to Ocean County who travels the Parkway South quite often, it's true that some of the playlist crosses over, but this "new" Wibbage is a world apart from the original. I think more of the "problem" is it's talent...very sub-par. I have heard better on college and high school radio. Just an old radio fart's opinion.