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Favorite Radio Stations of Atlanta

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RadioFreeAtlanta

If you had to name them what would be your all time favorite radio station of Atlanta, as well as the all time worst.


Mine would be:

Favorite: Power 99
Worst: 104.7 when it was a very lite-AC in 1990 (this used to be Q105 in Athens).
 
Favorite station a while back

Star94 in the morning in the 90's with Steve and Vikki and Friday night 80's ... now they are both no longer

worst station.... WGST
 
best stations- 99X & The Buzz

Worst stations- everything on the air 2day specially project and rock 100., cuz the PDs r sellouts to corporate bs and they only play aging songs cuz they r aging 2

have some guts, play new bands. play some ALTERNATIVE bands
 
Best ever FM: The Buzz (I'm listening to Project 961 but could do without the classic rock)
Worst ever FM: the "takeover" of Air America by that Spanish station on 105.3

Best Ever AM: Air America (I'm sure I'm the only one in Atlanta who listened)
Worst Ever AM: any misc "jesus" station on AM

Loved Air America, and LOVED Scott Farrell when he was on the radio...
 
Best Ever: 96 Rock, early 1980s. Wake Up Crew, Up Yours Friday (a G-rated version of the FU Line), Poetry Corner, Mr. B and the B-Team, Bachelor Cookbook, Helium Monday, Rock & Roll Preppy t-shirts, Album Hour (RIAA won't let you do that anymore), Electric Lunch, 96Rockards (still have mine).

This was prior to the "cool it with the heavy metal, give us 'Pure Rock & Roll'" classic rock era of the mid-80s, which resulted in a fallow period for 96 Rock before Z-93 showed them the right way to do classic rock and 96 Rock went back to the straight-ahead AOR that made them famous.

Honorable Mention: 96 Rock and Z-93, late 80s/early 90s when they both worked hard as heck to grab the same AOR listeners. Lake 102. Fox 97 and Wide 107 before they moved in to Atlanta and dropped Top 40 for AC (and then oldies and country, respectively). Me and my radio geek friends would try to DX Fox and WWID from any radio we could--much broader playlists than Z-93. Star 94 and B98.5 with their 70s/80s nights on Friday/Saturday. Power 99 late 80s, expanding what a Top 40 station could do.

Worst Ever: 99X, after the first couple years and their format got set in their ways, and when "alternative new rock" became a contradiction in terms.

Dishonorable Mention: Star 94 except when doing 70s/80s nights. Heave & Ikki. Z-93's "churban" era (late 80s prior to classic rock). 94.9 Lite FM. 95.5 The Beat.
 
The Z-93 of the early/mid 80's was pretty damn solid. I'm talking John Young as PD, Steve McCoy Mornings, Randy Reeves in midday, Chris Thomas in PM Drive, Lindsey and Steve Mapel at night.

I don't know if I could pick a "worst." Maybe the failed 95.5 The Beat?
 
Favorite: Power 99(Older) / Q100(Now) 99.7

Least: Fox 97
 
jabba17 said:
This was prior to the "cool it with the heavy metal, give us 'Pure Rock & Roll'" classic rock era of the mid-80s, which resulted in a fallow period for 96 Rock before Z-93 showed them the right way to do classic rock and 96 Rock went back to the straight-ahead AOR that made them famous.
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That's a good point and I wasn't sure others saw that change in 96rock. There aren't many specific things said on air that I remember from years ago but one stood out. Around 1984(?) a jock, possibly a PD, lamented on air that they were being forced to play modern music when they(he) really wanted to just play classics. It was really odd to hear that and made me feel like what I might have enjoyed on 96rock was a mistake. Things did go downhill from there.

BTW, the all time Atlanta station for the history that was firing on all cylinders: 99x in the 90's. Nothing else was so much a part of the community and times as 99x was at that time.

CuteZ3, your 'list' reeks of bigotry and anger.
 
Inside your head said:
best stations- 99X & The Buzz

Worst stations- everything on the air 2day specially project and rock 100., cuz the PDs r sellouts to corporate bs and they only play aging songs cuz they r aging 2

have some guts, play new bands. play some ALTERNATIVE bands
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Good idea, go against what the corporate heads are telling you to do, that'll get the PD's REAL far in their jobs.
 
CuteZ3 said:
Best ever FM: The Buzz (I'm listening to Project 961 but could do without the classic rock)
Worst ever FM: the "takeover" of Air America by that Spanish station on 105.3

Best Ever AM: Air America (I'm sure I'm the only one in Atlanta who listened)
Worst Ever AM: any misc "jesus" station on AM

Loved Air America, and LOVED Scott Farrell when he was on the radio...
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Faves: WQXI am 79 of the 70s. Z-93 of the 80s,
Worst of's... Air America... Air America... AIR AMERICA... Hate radio to the fullest.
 
Worst of's... Air America... Air America... AIR AMERICA... Hate radio to the fullest.
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"Hate radio" is a term perhaps better applied to all the hosts who freaked out about this upstart network on a couple of dozen high-end, low-power stations and used their 600-station microphones to attempt the radio equivalent of strangling a baby in the crib.

The "cuckoo bird" station on 1690 STILL hasn't equaled the ratings it had with Air America.
 
smedge2006 said:
Worst of's... Air America... Air America... AIR AMERICA... Hate radio to the fullest.
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The "cuckoo bird" station on 1690 STILL hasn't equaled the ratings it had with Air America.
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1690's ever had ratings (Air America or otherwise)? :D

WMLB's a neat station, too bad there's other things to listen to...
 
FAVORITES--WQXI WHEN IT WAS MUSIC, FOX 97 IN the eighties, WWID in the late 70's, Z93 in the eighties, and of course Power 99.

Worst--WGST---really sad that this use to be a legacy station, WSB is becoming stale as well.
 
Barbapapa said:
CuteZ3, your 'list' reeks of bigotry and anger.
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Why - because I was probably the only person in Atlanta who listened to Air America??

To be fair - I can stomach listening to Neil Boortz and Herman Cain (both are very thought provoking), but can't stand listening to Sean Hannity! Loved listening to Chris Krok, too. I'm waiting to see where Krok turns up because I'll be listening when he returns!

Does anyone actually listen to 95.5 The Beat? I forgot about that station, and didn't realize it was still around!
 
I listened to Air America some.....Al Franken could *sometimes* be entertaining when he stuffed his elitism and bigotry inside his jacket. Randy Rhoades was the lady who was rumoured to be able to make smoke come out of her....er...ears. Mike Malloy......well.....Mike has a beautiful wife and daughter. It was fun to watch them on the radio.(Mike has just started 6-9PM on KTLK in LA)
I agree with cuteZ3 regarding Hannity. What a idle brained twit he is! Why do we need a Republican shill on the air every day? After all....we have Rush....at least he has some intellectual capability.
 
Full disclosure: I am a conservative Christian libertarian (when I'm not indulging anarcho-capitalist fantasies).

I've gotten tired of Hannity. Same stuff every day. Boortz is good unless he gets stuck in a topic rut. Herman Cain is excellent. Walter Williams subbing for Rush is a treat. While I generally don't agree with her, Randi Rhodes is a good listen.

I'm somewhat surprised that one of the low-power AM talkers hasn't picked up Air America. Then again, the Dickeys probably don't want AA on their talkers (WFOM/WALR), and Salem surely doesn't want them on WGKA 920 due to the general conservative/Christian nature of their stations. What about some others? Surely AA would draw more than whatever's on WGUN (now that would be funny--AA on WGUN! :D).

Speaking of Salem, I wonder why they don't pick up Chris Krok. He's religious enough where they could get away with putting him on WNIV 970/WLTA 1400, not just 920. He's better than some of the brokered garbage they put on on the weekends. Does Salem want to stick with syndicated content so they don't have to produce a live show?
 
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