I think I'd go with WSB-AM from the Bobby Harper/Kathy Fischman days... put Scott back in the copter with the Kimmer providing the news. One of the better mixes of a news station that was actually enjoyable to listen to instead of today's 30 minute cycle/recycle -- sort of like the original incarnation of CNN's headline news.
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IF YOU COULD BRING BACK AN ATLANTA RADIO STATION....
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Agreed on 'SB!
And, I'd like the vintage 96 Rock to come back. Worked there briefly in 1986-1987 and had a blast!
And, I'd like the vintage 96 Rock to come back. Worked there briefly in 1986-1987 and had a blast!
I would say 99x from about 1994 - 2000, but mainly because I associate the music that I listened to on 99x with some pretty great memories during that time frame. Loved Yvonne Monet's Beat Factory, Resurrection Sunday, House of Retro Pleasure/Retroplex...pretty much the entire concept they sold was pretty solid.
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assing the dead horse on to the next guy:::::Newsradio 92 all the way. Back when they kicked butt and took names and cleaned up while WSB snoozed.
Nobody does stuff like "60 at Six" any more. The news. For an hour. Imagine that concept today. It would never fly. Hell it hardly works on TV any more.
It IS nice hearing Mr. O'Hayer on WABE these days. Still as superb as always.
Nobody does stuff like "60 at Six" any more. The news. For an hour. Imagine that concept today. It would never fly. Hell it hardly works on TV any more.
It IS nice hearing Mr. O'Hayer on WABE these days. Still as superb as always.
Put me down as a News Radio 920 WGST fan. Dennis O'Hayer days were the best.
WABE has put together some awesome local programming with Goss and O'Hayer -
WABE has put together some awesome local programming with Goss and O'Hayer -
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For me it would have to be POWER 99 and WQXI-AM when they were either top 40 or oldies in AM STEREO. Might as well bring back the "Video Music Channel" on channel 69 too.
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Regarding the Video Music Channel on channel 69 - didn't Channel 17 do a thing called "The Now Explosion" in it's early days! No music videos, instead music with folks dancing....
gravelgertie said:
The Now Explosion actually has a website and a Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Now_Explosion
http://www.thenowexplosion.net/
The VMC was Prime Cable's (later GCTV, later MediaOne/AT&T, now Comcast) attempt to make a homegrown, ersatz MTV to avoid having to pay Warner-AmEx (back in the day) the fees for MTV. Most Prime Cable subscribers hated it and wanted their MTV. We had Scripps Cable in North DeKalb, so we got the real thing from day one.
When Prime Cable relented and put on MTV alongside the VMC, they let Channel 69 pick up the VMC for over-the-air broadcast. Channel 69 had just ended their scrambled, over-the-air pay movie channel, called VEU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEU , hence the calls WVEU) or alternately SuperStar TV, and needed programming quickly.
Remember, this was the era of Channel 17's Night Tracks, NBC's Friday Night Videos, and USA Network's Radio 1990, so everyone was airing videos to try and get a piece of MTV's success.
IIRC the VMC had a small playlist of videos, a lot of repetition, and no VJs. Kind of like MTV today.
There was only one! WQXI 790, Quixie In Dixie! I was smart enough to run tapes of the station when I was in my teens and have donated them to reelradio.com. Maybe I'm just one of the oldest ones on this board, but the mid and late 60s was a great time in Atlanta for radio, but no one could beat WQXI
More nostalgia about Atlanta's Video Music Channel:
http://downhometraces.com/2010/01/27/vmc-vs-the-radio-star/
http://downhometraces.com/2010/01/27/vmc-vs-the-radio-star/
Just found this board when the Google web creeper located something about The Now Explosion and sent me an email. I'm the guy who dreamed up the show ten years before MTV and put it on Channel 36 (WATL). After 13 weeks, we took it over to Ted Turner's Ch 17 and syndicated it nationally. I noticed the discussion between 'gravelgertie' and 'jabba17'. I live in California and put together the Now Explosion website a few years ago. The marathon program turned 40 last week. (Started on the air for entire weekends March 14, 1970.) I was in Atlanta last week and took a picture of the old Channel 36 building which is about to be torn down to make way for an office building. The picture is on the website. Thought you might be interested. (I notice you are online, jabba17, at the moment.) Do you live in Atlanta? Did you ever see The Now Explosion? What's new??? Regards.. See you at http://www.thenowexplosion.com or at the new Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83259817525 which some Atlanta people started and it quickly got 200 members.... Ciao
I remember Now Explosion from my days in a very rural area of SC, about 65 miles SE of Charlotte NC. We recieved the program on WRET/36, now WCNC. Everyone under 30 already had their outside UHF antenna (necessary for reception there) as WRET was already very popular with the younger set. NE made quite a splash--all the teenagers were talking about it. I thought it lasted longer than 13 weeks, but I guess its been a long time...
I would bring back Fox 97. They were a great oldies station in the 90s, and were a lot of fun to listen to. Another one would be WSB-AM in the 80s. Could you imagine a full-service news/music format on the radio now? Cool 105.7 was also a very interesting station to hear. They had some good personalties and a good music mix.
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