If you had one wish....

[EZway2go]

Wasn't it back in the Atlantic days when they came out with those red balls everybody stuck on their car antennas? I don't remember what they were supposed to signify, though.

 

[bossjock 56]

You would get them at Atlantic service stations with a fill-up. They were used to promote "Red Ball Service".

 

[John1]

John Carlton was a traffic announcer at the time of the Atlantic Go Patrol, too. At one time in the early '70's WIBG gave out a red foam antenna ball, too, I have one somewhere...

 

[doowopvault]

What a choice, hmmmmmm WFIL, WIBG, WDAS they all had great on-air personalities.Wouldn't piss on terrestrial radio today.

 

[rickie1204]

Thanks for the kind words my friend!!! It's Rickie Ricardo from WBLS. Only one mistake in your statement, it wasn't "Fast Eddie" commercials, they were the classic "Crazy Eddie" commercials done by Dr. Jerry Carroll!! I'd love to bring that station back also bro!! Let's share some tapes!!

 

[qtpieislit]

John Carlton was a traffic announcer at the time of the Atlantic Go Patrol, too. At one time in the early '70's WIBG gave out a red foam antenna ball, too, I have one somewhere...

I remember them. They were really cool. You would mount them on your automobile exterior antenna. (Remember exterior antenna's?). WIBG had millions of them manufactured. (I think we has boxes and boxes of them in the basement). IIRC WIBG did the promotion with Atlantic Gasoline and they were handed out at Atlantic Stations with every fill up.

Anybody remember the WIBG '66 GTO that was given away in a contest?

 

[athegymtday]

Would be WIBG, WNAR (1967) WIFI early days of playing "Rock" on FM (1967). I know I am dating myself and I actually worked at WNAR and WIFI.

 

[stevations]

Atlantic slogan was? Atlantic keeps your car on the go. (if I remember correctly) They also had the red superballs for 39 cents with a fill up. It was over two bucks to buy a regular superball back then so it was a great deal. Don't know if they even sell them at stores anymore, haven't checked out toys in years. As for all time stations it was incredible that WBLS/WKTU/WRKS in NYC during the early 80s were all great stations in their own right and happening at the same time. As WBLS used to say "All Happening Now!" Long live Frankie Crocker, out Chief Rocker!

 

[Fakeem]

My wish would be for RJ to stop spamming this site with attempts to get listeners.

 

[stevations]

In theory if you go out far enough in space you can catch all of the radio signals from the last century as the reach outside our solar system right now. And if Albert Einstein is correct that the universe is curved maybe they will boomerang back some day. And if you believe in reincarnation you may be alive in a future life to hear them.

 

[Bill_W]

My wish would be for RJ to stop spamming this site with attempts to get listeners.

Again, who is this RJ? I've been listening to Philly radio since 1978 and still don't know who he is or what station he has ever been on.

 

[rca8497]

I would bring back WOGL as the great oldies station it once was, before it decided that only 70's music mattered, and before they gave Hy Lit flack as he got older and ill. 'OGL was truly a great oldies station - now I've departed to listening to WVLT, Vineland, when possible.

 

[MikefromDelaware]

I don't like WOGL's music, but they've got great ratings, so why mess with it.

 

[8638]

I would bring back WOGL as the great oldies station it once was, before it decided that only 70's music mattered, and before they gave Hy Lit flack as he got older and ill. 'OGL was truly a great oldies station - now I've departed to listening to WVLT, Vineland, when possible.

Today's music mix on WOGL doesn't please me, either, but it does seem to please the masses, which is basically what it's about. And they do tend to do a 60's tune at the TOH, which does please me.

Buy SatRad, on there you can hear what WOGL doesn't play.

 

[Stuart]

WUSL 98.7 "Your're on US 1" (circa..1978)

How about Walt McDonald for the ARCO Go-Patrol and Sandy Starobin-Harrisburg (If these were already said, my apologies to the poster(s)).

 

[MikefromDelaware]

That was a great station, the old "US 1" on WUSL. Haven't listened to 98.7 since they dropped that format. I guess the problem with most of these requests we all are posting, is that we're all "older" and the advertisers don't care if we listen and the younger demo generally doesn't like these formats, so any of these great formats like the WIP era with Ken Garland, Wee Willie Webber, etc; WCAU-FM; WOGL as a real oldies station; WPEN being the station of the stars, etc, will never happen, unfortunately. So for those of us who want that sort of programming there's internet radio (Boomer radio has much of this type of music) and for those willing to pay, XM radio. Philly/Wilmington area radio will never bring any format back like these, other than possibly a non-comm college or NPR type station. Sad, but true.

 

[imhomerjay]

And many of those formats replaced something (or someone) that came before them, who weren't going to be brought back, either. Circle of life and all that.

 

[MikefromDelaware]

imhomerjay is correct. Cool marches on.

When "Uncle Spunky" was king at WIP, probably folks from the previous generation were bemoaning the fact that WIP's MOR format wasn't as good as the "Big Band" format, or whatever format they had prior to Ken Garland and company coming to Metromedia's WIP or whatever format was at WCAU-FM prior to Oldies (may have been elevator music for all I know) or when WFIL became Famous 56 playing Top 40 Rock and Roll that us Baby Boomers loved to hear (probably had been playing Perry Como, Patti Paige, and Dean Martin music prior to that format change). Just as some day, today's prized demos will no longer be prized and will be discarded like the Baby Boomers have been. They won't like the next cool thing any more than we like what is today's cool thing. Time marches on, or as someone once said, Time and Tide wait for no man. So thank God for CD's, NPR, internet radio, and for those who aren't as cheap as I, XM radio.

 

[imhomerjay]

I had XM in a rental car while mine was in the shop. Lots of fun, but I, too, am way too cheap to pay for a nostalgia fix at that price, when I can download songs and create my own station (that would put so-called trainwrecks on "Jack"...er, Ben...stations to shame). Or use Pandora and similar services. Great for XM if they make a go of it--more power to 'em.