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Hot Hits WCAU FM tribute station

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erwin33

I found a tribute station on Live365, with 80's and the old imaging of this station complete with the heavy processing. A bit to heavy though with lot of artifacts or bad mp3 files.

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The audio is great and no commercials …(well I haven’t heard any). Good selection of music.
Thanks for posting the link. And if you have a Roku with your tv, you can listen there too with the Live365 app.
 
Yes, they fix their audio. It sounds very 'big' and in your face like back in the day with these type of radio.
 
This station has been modern-leaning 80’s pop the past hour or so. You’re missing out on something great if you aren’t listening! Holy crap…..better than SXM 33. ❤️ it.
 
erwin33 said:
I found a tribute station on Live365, with 80's and the old imaging of this station complete with the heavy processing. A bit to heavy though with lot of artifacts or bad mp3 files.

live365.com

Live365 - Listen to Free Internet Radio

Live365 is the easiest and least expensive way to create a legal internet radio station as well as the best place to discover and listen to thousands of free stations from every genre of music and talk.
live365.com
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I've listened about three times today, for about 20 minutes each time, and I haven't heard any imaging at all.
 
It was repetitive after a while…I thought wait a minute you just played that 45 minutes ago! I have an old Aiwa boombox from the mid-90’s and the sound is really good and clear. I have it hooked up to my tv. Trying to find a way to listen on my phone or iPad so I can listen in the car but no luck with the Roku or Live 365 apps.
 
erwin33 said:
I found a tribute station on Live365, with 80's and the old imaging of this station complete with the heavy processing. A bit to heavy though with lot of artifacts or bad mp3 files.

live365.com

Live365 - Listen to Free Internet Radio

Live365 is the easiest and least expensive way to create a legal internet radio station as well as the best place to discover and listen to thousands of free stations from every genre of music and talk.
live365.com
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LOVED THE STATION!!! I was there in the mid 80's! Just a wild time for radio!
 
The Hot Hits format was just amazing. Top 40 on steroids! Only 40 or so current hits repeated over and over with the top 3 heard every hour. No gold, no recurrents. They'd play one, two or three jingles per break. Even at 3 in the morning, the DJs were high energy. They often would promote a local high school or another DJ on the station.

Often the DJ wouldn't talk over the song intros. After a jingle, the intro played without interruption. The DJ would then talk over the ending of the song.

Some other Hot Hits stations: WBBM-FM Chicago, also owned by CBS, and WNVZ Norfolk. Hot Hits even went on a couple of AM stations, 1400 WFEC Harrisburg and WFBL 1390 Syracuse.

And some years later, Mike Joseph brought it back, not as Hot Hits but as Electric. On 106.1 Philadelphia (with Ben Franklin's kite as the tie-in to Electric). And on WGY-FM 99.5 Schenectady-Albany. (There's a big General Electric plant in Schenectady, another tie-in for Electric.)

Several folks have put clips of Hot Hits on You Tube. One, playing WTIC-FM Hartford, features a young Bill Lee, currently on WCBS-FM NYC.
 
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The ratings weren't very good. It lasted less than a year: May 1986 to March 1987. The station still was Top 40 at that point but more adult-friendly, no longer "Electric." WGY-FM Schenectady lasted a bit longer as "Electric," 1987 to 1990.
 
microbob said:
They are no longer on Tune in or live 365
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pjc1961 said:
The associated website with the now-dormant Live 365 link -
(no other Listen Live links available):
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It's possible there were funding issues. When I saw someone say "there are no commercials," that was a red flag.

Live 365 has to pay the music royalties, and they usually insert commercials in the feed to do that. Same with TuneIn. It's possible this was a trial period, and were dropped at the end of the trial. Or that they were paying for the time and ran out of money.
 
Gregg. said:
The Hot Hits format was just amazing. Top 40 on steroids! Only 40 or so current hits repeated over and over with the top 3 heard every hour. No gold, no recurrents. They'd play one, two or three jingles per break. Even at 3 in the morning, the DJs were high energy. They often would promote a local high school or another DJ on the station.

Often the DJ wouldn't talk over the song intros. After a jingle, the intro played without interruption. The DJ would then talk over the ending of the song.

Some other Hot Hits stations: WBBM-FM Chicago, also owned by CBS, and WNVZ Norfolk. Hot Hits even went on a couple of AM stations, 1400 WFEC Harrisburg and WFBL 1390 Syracuse.
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The first Hot Hits stations that Mike created was WKAQ-FM in Puerto Rico, which was based on the heritage dating to 1968 of WKAQ (AM) which became all news in the 70's when WZNT badly beat them (31.5 share to about an 11 share). Mike redesigned the WKAQ format for FM with the same formula of multiple jingles in a break, about 40 songs in total and very high energy jocks.

At a Billboard convention many years later, there was an old guy in the first row when I was on the Spanish language station panel. When we were over, he walked up to me, said, "I'm glad I only had to compete with you in one market" then turned around and walked out of the meeting room.
 
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