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Your place in the sun hun, wonderful, just for fuh hun, WARM".
"Ninety eight, Wilkes Barreeeee, WILK".
"It'sssssssssss speakup time on radio channel 12, man your telephones...WBAX radio channel 12".
"The hottest brand in town, WGBI, on 9 1 ohhhhh".
"1540, WPTS!!!"
"Wilkes Barre, Wilkes Barre, Wilkes Barre, WBRE AM and FM too".
"WWDL............Stereario Island".
now hold your nose a bit, open up a mike with some noise, let some dead air lapse and say, "this is WYZZ, W Y Z Z, Wilkes Barre. Now stay tuned for a message from Harry Hollock's Trucksville Pharmacy".
yonkstur
 
"The home of...the country gentlemen...WGBI-I-I...on 9-1-Ohhh"
 
"WRKC, Wilkes-Barre. No other station can make that claim." (I did this from time to time.)

"This is quad stereo center, this is WYZZ, W-Y-Z-Z, Wilkes-Barre, 50,000 watts from high atop Penobscot Knob." (Ok, we all knew it was 4,500 TPO, 7,500 ERP, but the old man liked to add what I called "WYZZ Watts," imaginary output.)
 
"Pennsylvania's Best... KRZ-FM"
"W T L Quuu FM Q102!"
"Hot 97... (sonovox 97)... today's hiiiiits"
"WARM radio 590... W A R M! Rob Neyhard!"
"Hot Hits! W I L Kaaaaaaaay!"
"Mix 106.5 W H L M"

...and the long Christmas jingles on WICK and WWDL.
 
Hi, I'm new to this board! One ID I remember for WYZZ is: "Serving 16 million people in 6 states". Did they really have that coverage?
 
HA! I forgot all about that wonderful piece of b.s. No, they didn't really have that coverage.

Here's what the deal was: Old Dick Evans (not to be confoozed with young Dick Evans) somehow figured out, or assumed, or dreamed that WYZZ was/might/could be picked up by cable companies in six states. Those cable companies had the capacity for 16 million subscribers. They would, of course, be listening to WYZZ because it was the greatest station the FCC ever licensed and God created the electromagnetic spectrum just for it.

btw: WYZZ also had some sort of network it joined at midnight. I forget the name of it, but it was also just some more blather. What the dj would do was announce that WYZZ had now joined the Whatever network "already in progress," and then fade in to some record. I called up one night in my best "oh, golly, I'm talking to a real live radio disc jockey" voice and asked about this wonderful network and how many stations were on it.

The dj said, "Well, actually none."
>Oh, gee, I said, then how can you have a network when there aren't any stations?
He said, "It's actually cable companies."
>Oh, gee, I replied. How many have actually signed up to be network affiliates?
"Well, actually none."
>Oh, I said, sounding disappointed. So you faded into a record to announce you were joining a network that's actually only you playing music over your station. By the way, I work at another station. Bye.
 
I will never forget the first time I visited the WYZZ studios. I was all of 17 and they were going to let me watch a guy (Leonard Brozena) run a board. It was a Saturday afternoon in March and I went down the basement. I watched the guy do his thing, then Mrs. Evans came down the steps with a turkey sandwich on rye, chips and pickle and huge glass of milk for Leonard. While he muched, I ran the board. I met "Spike" the cat then too. Leonard was a little bit of a rebel too, sneaking in Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" in between the Ray Conniff and the Longines Symphony cuts. Years later when I was at Citadel, I took my sales manager from Salt Lake City to Prospect Street to show him where the Magic 93 frequency began. He was amazed.
Yonkstur
 
Here's a classic slogan for ya... "RADIO ACTIVE W-M-L-P, We're Music Lovin' People"

Funny note about WMLP, when we were having some issues with automated programming and the station would go silent, I would contact our engineer with a note titled, "Radio In-Active W-M-L-P" --- for what it's worth :)
 
HOT HITS!! .... 98 ... WILK


Joe Montione Decided To Start Using The Phrase "Hot Hits" Without The Permission Of Mike Josephs

Who Owned The Rights. The Morgans Were Sued, But I Think They Settled By Buying The Rights To

Use The Jingle Package. Ahhhhh ... Back When Radio Was Fun!
 
How about this...

"Double You Double You...Deeeeeeeee Elllllllllllllllll Effffff Emmmmmmmmmmmm!!!"

This was during the Doug Lane/Lite 105 era in the mid 90's. ;D

Other notable jingles during the period were:

  • Cool 94..(shout: All Oldies!!)Coooooollll Ninnetttyy Fouuurrrr....
  • The Best Variety(shout: of soft rock!) Magic 93!
  • Ninety Eight point Five.....KRZ!!!!!
  • (sonovox start: Serrvvinggg the Greeat Northeast....) (DJ read: WBHT Mountain Top, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, with today's hits...etc.) Hot Ninety Sevennn....Today's Hits!
  • Today's Hits!!! Hot...Hot....Hot......Ninety Seven!!!
  • Kiss One-Oh-Two point Three!


The "Serving the Great Northeast" part resurrected sometime in 2003 with a voiceover giving the station ID, but it did not sung "Hot 97", it went with the then current "97 BHT!" closing.
 
All Hit Music... W-I-L-K

Music Radio... W-I-L-K

W-I-L-K... Rocks Wilkes-Barre (the Valley, Berwick, Scranton, Bloomsburg, Hazleton, the Back Mountain)
 
i have those jingles somewhere, i'm trying to get all of my old audio tapes converted to cd but the bear is trying to find the stuff, catagorize it and then get it transposed. it's turning out to be a bigger project than my book. when i find them, if you want a copy of the wilk jingles, i'll be happy to oblige.
yonkstur
 
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