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Favorite Oldies Station (Gone or Still Around)

> What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
>

Favorite of all-time is WMJI, circa 1990-1998. It was the best mix of 50s, 60s, and 70s; kller promotions (the Cash Bribe Oldie is pure genius: "with the best listeners money can buy"); even more killer jocks (Lanigan, Webster, Miceli, Howitt, Sanders, Norm N. Nite, Becker, Heggs, Ken Morgan, Jim Shea, Sandy Bennett, Mike Valentine, Chris Quinn); great management (Hirsch, Thacker, Gorman); and a fun presentation for The Comeback City.

Now, since WMJI was killed of all "majic" and is bland now, I'm going with WJPA/Washington, PA. Second place: 620/(W)KHB--Irwin, PA.
 
> > What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> > favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> > Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
> >
>
> Favorite of all-time is WMJI, circa 1990-1998. It was the
> best mix of 50s, 60s, and 70s; kller promotions (the Cash
> Bribe Oldie is pure genius: "with the best listeners money
> can buy"); even more killer jocks (Lanigan, Webster, Miceli,
> Howitt, Sanders, Norm N. Nite, Becker, Heggs, Ken Morgan,
> Jim Shea, Sandy Bennett, Mike Valentine, Chris Quinn); great
> management (Hirsch, Thacker, Gorman); and a fun presentation
> for The Comeback City.
>
> Now, since WMJI was killed of all "majic" and is bland now,
> I'm going with WJPA/Washington, PA. Second place:
> 620/(W)KHB--Irwin, PA.
>
WOLX Madison (94.9) Still around and going strong
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All time favorite, WCBS-FM The Golden 101 (1975-1980). They have been gone since around 1998 but officially dropped oldies (formerly Solid Gold) on 6/3/05.

WLNG Sag Harbor, LI is going strong. Now with Sock Hop Saturday Night. An all pre-1964 show.

WCAU-FM Phila. Gone since 1976.

WMOD-Washington-Gone since around 1974.

Oh well, at least I can hear good music on the net.


> What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
>
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WROR, Boston which began as an automated WRKO-FM in the late 60's.

The early "Drake format" of "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" had a "big" sound that really enticed you to listen.

However, another oldies show that I used to listen to in Boston was weekday afternoons on 1600am, WUNR, with Jack Diamond.

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95PEN 1975, WPEN Philadelphia, with Loren Owens, Geoff Fox, Mike St. John, and a great belnd of 50's to early '60's oldies, great jingles, good uptempo presentation. Today I like WMTR/WWTR and WOGL's Sunday night Hy Lit & Harvey Holiday programs.
 
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WCBSFM Oldies 101.1 was my favorite oldies station all the way. Best Djs and best jingles especially in the old days between 86-95. now i listen to different stations for oldies but it's not the same, no one will ever come close or as good as cbsfm was.
> What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
>
 
> What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
>
It has to be a tie:

WWMG-FM Charlotte, NC (Magic 96.1 now known as 96.1 the Beat. Flipped on 9-2-04) Magic 96.1 was the best for oldies down south, especially during their Oldies Radio days and the last few months before the flip. In between was just OK. I had never heard such talent besides up in NYC! Boomer, Shafer and the Eggman, Bobby Lane, Brother Dave and others. Boy what a lineup!!

WCBS-FM New York, NY: It had to be right up there. The greatest personalities in the business were on this station right around 1997. The station will go down in history as probably the most well-known oldies station of all time. Although they still sounded pretty good before Jack stepped in, nothing can compare with CBS-FM circa '97-'02.

WWMG Shelby/Charlotte and WCBS-FM New York! The Greatest Oldies Stations of ALL Time!
 
KAKC-FM Tulsa (1972-6) running the Drake automated oldies format during the day and then simulcasting with the Top 40 AM at night. Had a huge 100K signal that covered most of NE Oklahoma. Introduced me to a lot of great music as a teenager. (became KBEZ, flipped to Beautiful Muzak in 1977, now Hot AC)

KGTO-AM Tulsa (1978-80?), a short lived oldies station that suffered due to being a weak 1K daytimer, but I remember it being a great sounding station. (flipped to standards for a long time, now Urban AC)

KQAM-AM Wichita (1980-88) A super-wide homegrown playlist with many Wichita veteran jocks from KLEO and KEYN. In 1988 KEYN-FM dropped CHR after 20+ years to become "Oldies 103.7" and most of KQAM's airstaff was transfered over there. Simulcasted with KEYN-FM for awhile, then flipped to Sports, then became standards KMYR in the mid 90's, and now back to sports as KGSO. The KQAM calls are now on 1480 (the old KLEO frequency) running Radio Disney.

Dick Bartley's "Solid Gold Saturday Night" - 1984-6 when it sounded like he could play anything he wanted to. Lots of hits but many rare stereo oldies and rarities thrown in.

KOMA-AM/FM Oklahoma City (1988-now) still going strong with a great legendary DJ lineup, but it's glory days to me were in the mid-late 90's when musically they had the right mix of 50's to mid 70's oldies and were blasting on the AM side too - now its mostly mid 60's-70's and the AM has became KOKC running syndicated talk. Ratings have slipped due to the onslaught of a classic hits station.

KDOK-FM Tyler, TX (2000-now) the best sounding station in my area. Still locally owned/operated and hanging in there.

Billy G.
http://listen.to/jangleradio
 
> KAKC-FM Tulsa (1972-6) running the Drake automated oldies
> format during the day and then simulcasting with the Top 40
> AM at night. Had a huge 100K signal that covered most of NE
> Oklahoma. Introduced me to a lot of great music as a
> teenager. (became KBEZ, flipped to Beautiful Muzak in 1977,
> now Hot AC)
>
> KGTO-AM Tulsa (1978-80?), a short lived oldies station that
> suffered due to being a weak 1K daytimer, but I remember it
> being a great sounding station. (flipped to standards for a
> long time, now Urban AC)
>
> KQAM-AM Wichita (1980-88) A super-wide homegrown playlist
> with many Wichita veteran jocks from KLEO and KEYN. In 1988
> KEYN-FM dropped CHR after 20+ years to become "Oldies 103.7"
> and most of KQAM's airstaff was transfered over there.
> Simulcasted with KEYN-FM for awhile, then flipped to Sports,
> then became standards KMYR in the mid 90's, and now back to
> sports as KGSO. The KQAM calls are now on 1480 (the old KLEO
> frequency) running Radio Disney.
>
> Dick Bartley's "Solid Gold Saturday Night" - 1984-6 when it
> sounded like he could play anything he wanted to. Lots of
> hits but many rare stereo oldies and rarities thrown in.
>
> KOMA-AM/FM Oklahoma City (1988-now) still going strong with
> a great legendary DJ lineup, but it's glory days to me were
> in the mid-late 90's when musically they had the right mix
> of 50's to mid 70's oldies and were blasting on the AM side
> too - now its mostly mid 60's-70's and the AM has became
> KOKC running syndicated talk. Ratings have slipped due to
> the onslaught of a classic hits station.
>
> KDOK-FM Tyler, TX (2000-now) the best sounding station in my
> area. Still locally owned/operated and hanging in there.
>
> Billy G.
> http://listen.to/jangleradio
>
WAXY, Miami-in the early '70s.
WQXI, Atlanta-morphed into an oldies station in the early '80s, stayed oldies until about '90-'91.
WVCG, Miami-'82-'83. It was about the best '50s/'60s station I ever heard. It was my overall favorite.
WBSS-98 gold, Pompano Beach. Good music variety, lousy signal in Miami area, but I listened anyway.
WXTR-Xtra 104, Washington DC. Another really great sounding station, but it had a signal problem in parts of the city.
WBIG-Oldies 100 (not the "Big 100" it became in '03) It came to Washington in '93 and competed with XTRA 104 with a strong local signal and aggressive programming. It had great ratings immediately. XTRA switched to all '70s in 1995 then failed a year later. Oldies 100 then trimmed its playlist and started down hill in my opinion.
WARX in Haggerstown, MD was another really good '60s station, and seemed to have a big internet following.
I currently like WRLL and WLNG on-line.
Some of my favorite oldies shows were Dick Bartley's "Solid Gold Saturday Night" from '82 to '86, "SuperGold" from '86 to about one to two years ago.
and "Rock, Roll, and Remember".
 
> WROR, Boston which began as an automated WRKO-FM in the late
> 60's.
>
> The early "Drake format" of "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" had a
> "big" sound that really enticed you to listen.
>

If I'm thinking of the same format, the "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" that WROR ran was at least 50% current...almost what we'd call Hot AC today. Wasn't it basically a syndicated version of what Drake was doing on KHJ-FM/KRTH? A fair number of the oldies were not very well known..mid-charters at best (though they may have been S. Calif. hits). I don't think ROR went full oldies until '73.
 
I listened to sister station (RKO) WAXY in Ft. Lauderdale, while visiting South Florida. In 1973 and then after 1974 when Top 40 bombed on WAXY, they did not play any song newer than six months. I remember a promo where someone requested a current top 40 song (Disco Duck) and she was laughed off the air.

> > WROR, Boston which began as an automated WRKO-FM in the
> late
> > 60's.
> >
> > The early "Drake format" of "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" had a
>
> > "big" sound that really enticed you to listen.
> >
>
> If I'm thinking of the same format, the "Solid Gold Rock &
> Roll" that WROR ran was at least 50% current...almost what
> we'd call Hot AC today. Wasn't it basically a syndicated
> version of what Drake was doing on KHJ-FM/KRTH? A fair
> number of the oldies were not very well known..mid-charters
> at best (though they may have been S. Calif. hits). I don't
> think ROR went full oldies until '73.
>
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95PEN was a great station. GREAT!. It is too bad, I did not move into town until 1977. Geoff Fox was still doing mornings and Mike St. John had a good Saturday night oldies show with the jingles until the end of the seventies.

They must have been #1 on South Ninth Street (The Italian Market) because the sound of WPEN was everywhere then.

> 95PEN 1975, WPEN Philadelphia, with Loren Owens, Geoff Fox,
> Mike St. John, and a great belnd of 50's to early '60's
> oldies, great jingles, good uptempo presentation. <P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Favorite Oldies Station (Gone-Albany, NY)

Albany, NY had an amazing Oldies station from September,1990-October, 1991. They played everything that charted from around 1956-1973. They truly represented what was played on Top 40, during those years. I used to hear them play songs that I hadn't heard since they were on the charts, and I haven't heard since they signed off. 98.3WSHZ/103.5-WSHQ "Super Hit Oldies-SHO-FM", as they called it....


What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
>
 
Wowzer! I'm honored to be mentioned in the same breath with Boomer. But you left out Harriet Coffey who is one of the most upbeat and classy female jocks ever to have cracked a mic anywhere! For more about Magic96.1 FM everyone is invited to visit the "Unofficial Non-Corporate Endorsed" tribute site at http://www.tragic96.com ! See ya there maybe!

Interesting that there isn't yet another 50's-60's-70's Oldies station in Charlotte, but not surprising. Like WCBS, Magic was a tough act to follow.

Keep the faith!
Brother Dave

> >
> Magic 96.1 was the best for
> oldies down south, especially during their Oldies Radio days
> and the last few months before the flip. In between was
> just OK. I had never heard such talent besides up in NYC!
> Boomer, Shafer and the Eggman, Bobby Lane, Brother Dave and
> others. Boy what a lineup!!
>
> WWMG Shelby/Charlotte and WCBS-FM New York! The Greatest
> Oldies Stations of ALL Time!
>
 
Thanks for mentioning Harriet! Can't forget her!! She was definitely Magic's best midday personality. Magic just didn't sound the same once the voicetracking came in. The TRUE Magic 96.1: OLDIES RADIO Magic 96.1. Those were the days! Those great personalities, music, and I loved that weather bed! It's strange how some sounds like that will never leave your memory!

> Wowzer! I'm honored to be mentioned in the same breath with
> Boomer. But you left out Harriet Coffey who is one of the
> most upbeat and classy female jocks ever to have cracked a
> mic anywhere! For more about Magic96.1 FM everyone is
> invited to visit the "Unofficial Non-Corporate Endorsed"
> tribute site at http://www.tragic96.com ! See ya there
> maybe!
>
> Interesting that there isn't yet another 50's-60's-70's
> Oldies station in Charlotte, but not surprising. Like WCBS,
> Magic was a tough act to follow.
>
> Keep the faith!
> Brother Dave
 
Re: Favorite Oldies Station (Gone-Albany, NY)

> Albany, NY had an amazing Oldies station from
> September,1990-October, 1991. They played everything that
> charted from around 1956-1973. They truly represented what
> was played on Top 40, during those years. I used to hear
> them play songs that I hadn't heard since they were on the
> charts, and I haven't heard since they signed off.
> 98.3WSHZ/103.5-WSHQ "Super Hit Oldies-SHO-FM", as they
> called it....

Sounds like true classic top 40 radio!

> What was or is your favorite oldies radio station. My top
> > favorite is WOGL. I also enjoy WMTR and WNNJ. WMXJ in
> > Florida was good and I liked CBS FM in its old days.
> >
>
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> Thanks for mentioning Harriet! Can't forget her!! She was
> definitely Magic's best midday personality. Magic just
> didn't sound the same once the voicetracking came in. The
> TRUE Magic 96.1: OLDIES RADIO Magic 96.1. Those were the
> days! Those great personalities, music, and I loved that
> weather bed! It's strange how some sounds like that will
> never leave your memory!

Don't you just love the good old days of radio, before voice tracking was used a lot?

> > Wowzer! I'm honored to be mentioned in the same breath
> with
> > Boomer. But you left out Harriet Coffey who is one of the
>
> > most upbeat and classy female jocks ever to have cracked a
>
> > mic anywhere! For more about Magic96.1 FM everyone is
> > invited to visit the "Unofficial Non-Corporate Endorsed"
> > tribute site at http://www.tragic96.com ! See ya there
> > maybe!
> >
> > Interesting that there isn't yet another 50's-60's-70's
> > Oldies station in Charlotte, but not surprising. Like
> WCBS,
> > Magic was a tough act to follow.
> >
> > Keep the faith!
> > Brother Dave
>
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