Great rock radio stations no longer around

[SolidGold16]

In the Tampa Bay area:

WFSO-AM (five-seven-oh) Pinellas Park (St. Pete) FL ... the only "underground" AM I am aware of in FL during the early 70's. While everyone else was listening to WLCY (Top40), this 500w daytimer blew me away with their playlist - and I was only 15 years old at the time. ;D There was nothing like it on Bay Area AM or FM in those days, the closest thing to it was WDAE-FM 101 in Tampa, but they didn't have the deep cuts like 'FSO did.

WQSR Sarasota (Quad-Sound Rock) "Quad 102 1/2" came along with the first quad prog-rock for Florida in the mid-late 70s.

WRBQ-FM (Q105) Tampa, in the early days. When they showed up, that was the death knell for WLCY-AM 1380.

and here in Southern California:

KEZY-FM Anahem, in the 70s played a pretty deep playlist along with some familiar popular tracks. Was my favorite station for several years.

and of course, the aforementioned legendary KMET-FM 94.7. What a sad day in LA radio history when they flipped to the "Wave". Arrrrgggh. :'(

 

[upstate29651]

^ You left out 'YNF!!?? ???

G

 

[radiobum]

KPRI in the early 70's in San Diego

WORJ in the early/mid 70's in Orlando

 

[SolidGold16]

^ You left out 'YNF!!?? ???

G

Hmm...I thought the thread topic was "Great rock radio stations..." IMHO, WYNF (Y95) doesn't qualify ;D

I still have some of their old charts lying around here, which I found in the bottom of an old box of stuff I carted out here to CA when I moved west in 1977. I think "Disco Duck" was the chart topper in one of them, that alone disqualifies Y95 from this category ;D "Disco Duck" was the only song in my entire lifetime that would make me get up and change the station. Thank God that isn't played anywhere now (not on oldies stations anyway)

Hell, I liked the station much better when they were still WLCY-FM playing "Hit Parade" or later when they became "Stereo Rock". When they went Top 40, well...not so much. There was already Q105 for that. Not that the Q was much better, but among the friends I had, it was "cool" while Y95 was not.

 

[SolidGold16]

^ You left out 'YNF!!?? ???

G

Sorry, I should add to the above that I confused Y95 with what later became 95YNF, which apparently was a great rock station...long after I left FL ;D ;D ;D

During the time I was living there, Y95 sucked. I never heard "95YNF" since I had moved away. Apologies to upstate on this topic, my history with Tampa Bay radio begins in 1967 and ended in 1977 when I left FL forever. It's possible there were other great rock stations there I have never heard of past that time, up until today. :-[

 

[boombox]

KLAY-FM Tacoma.

 

[Terry63]

WSLQ Q99 in Roanoke,Va went album Rock in the early 80's,after K92 out of Roanoke started up 1/1/80,Q99 was great!!

 

[thelegacy]

I haven't read the entire thread (I'm Legally blind) but WILS FM Lansing Michigan played Great Progressive Rock from around 1973-April 1984.

WWWW Detroit's W4 was a great Album Rock station which died around 1979.

WRIF 101.1FM Detroit (which use to be The Best Album Rock went to mainstream Rock after around 1984 (folks in Michigan rill really miss that one).

WABX 99.something can't remember in Detroit Great Album Rock

WLLZ 98.7 Detroit (Great Album Rock) went up around 1979 and died after 1984.

WLAV 96.9 Grand Rapids, Mi (Great Album Rock) now is just Classic Rock. They even Rocked out well beyond 1984 and stayed Album Rock until the late 80s (have to give them credit for that).

I read someone mentioned 94.9 in Tampa Fla Yea buddy that was a great Rock station in the 70s and so was 98 Rock which was 97.9 in Tampa Florida. I looked forward to visiting Grandma and listening to that station as they rocked it out till around the late 80s and was a real treat. They played stuff that no one else played.

Glad to see lots of people wanting this stuff back. This is why I created my Internet Radio station The Legacy which is a mix between 94.9 and 97.9 in Tampa Florida in the 70s or WRIF and WJXQ in Michigan.

 

[DToTheJ]

As of today, 92.3 FM is officially no longer "K-Rock," with the WXRK callsign now WNOW-FM matching its current "92.3 Now" format. CBS also abandoned the WYSP and WHFS calls but they still use WNEW on their FM news station in Washington, D.C.