I created an article about Magic 104.1 KMGL History from Oklahoma City and it's Transtar Format 41 in the mid 80's on the Oklahoma board here. Based on this topic about Transtar Format 41 that was created back in Fall 2009 on this board about Easy Listening/Adult Standards, I believe someone here knows the answer to one of my question on the topic I just created about KMGL History and Transtar Format 41 in the mid 80's.
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KMGL History and Transtar Format 41 in the mid 1980's
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All I know is that WJQY 106.7 "Joy 107" was the Format 41 station for Miami-Ft. Lauderdale. It was a good station, I felt. I believe they were live and local in the mornings.
In fact, 41 was so slick that I didn't even know that they were satellite. What I remember was how the DJ, before a commercial break, would give a little tidbit from the newspaper (as in "Did you read the newspaper today? I found this....")----the newspaper *always* being USA Today!
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In fact, 41 was so slick that I didn't even know that they were satellite. What I remember was how the DJ, before a commercial break, would give a little tidbit from the newspaper (as in "Did you read the newspaper today? I found this....")----the newspaper *always* being USA Today!
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I loved Format 41. i was living in Wichita, Kansas in the mid and late 1980's. A small makret station in Winfield, Kansas carried the format, as well as Am 1430 out of Tulsa, and I could pick it up from time to time on KMGL (Magic 104) out of Tulsa.
It was a great format, well produced. It was a soft AC with music from the early 1960's to the 80's. I don't remember any standards being part of the playlist. There were also little to no currents. I wish the format was still around, because it sounded good and it was softer than most ACs at the time.
As for KMGL, I remember them running the format all the time except maybe in morning drive. I remember they had local news cut-ins. I remember hearing a npoon newscast.
It was a great format, well produced. It was a soft AC with music from the early 1960's to the 80's. I don't remember any standards being part of the playlist. There were also little to no currents. I wish the format was still around, because it sounded good and it was softer than most ACs at the time.
As for KMGL, I remember them running the format all the time except maybe in morning drive. I remember they had local news cut-ins. I remember hearing a npoon newscast.
jimford1973 said:
I remember AM 1430 in Tulsa. It was KSKS, "Kiss". I used to be able to hear it at night in AL a good bit of the time. I was even able to record one of their station IDs one time...about 10 seconds worth. ;D
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"I remember AM 1430 in Tulsa. It was KSKS, "Kiss". "
Yes! those were the call letters. I could pick it up in Wichita during the day. Ironically, KSKS' FM station was running a locally produced soft AC during this same time. By late '87, KSKS switched to a satellite delivered Country format. By the summer of '89, it was airing a "motivational" format before simulcasting its FM sister station.
Yes! those were the call letters. I could pick it up in Wichita during the day. Ironically, KSKS' FM station was running a locally produced soft AC during this same time. By late '87, KSKS switched to a satellite delivered Country format. By the summer of '89, it was airing a "motivational" format before simulcasting its FM sister station.
From perusing David Eduardo's radio history website, it seems that Arbitron classified Format 41 stations as "Vocal Easy Listening" rather than Soft AC.
In Detroit, our Format 41 station was 93.1 WLTI, which switched from Urban WDRQ in April 1985. At the time Detroit's adult-music field was crowded, with three stations splitting the mainstream AC listening pie (WNIC, WOMC and WMJC) and two beautiful music stations, the very highly-rated WJOI (Bonneville format) and the nearly invisible CKEZ (former CKLW-FM) in Windsor (KalaMusic). If memory serves, "W-Lite" didn't have much ratings success until they dropped the satellite feed and went to local personalities with a locally programmed mix similar to Format 41 around 1987 or so. During the early '90s it was often the top-rated AC station in town as the music slowly became more contemporary.
In the summer of 1996 it became WDRQ again, with a rhythmic AC format that evolved into rhythmic leaning CHR over the next couple of years. It's been "Doug FM" (a Jack FM clone) since April Fool's Day 2005.
In Detroit, our Format 41 station was 93.1 WLTI, which switched from Urban WDRQ in April 1985. At the time Detroit's adult-music field was crowded, with three stations splitting the mainstream AC listening pie (WNIC, WOMC and WMJC) and two beautiful music stations, the very highly-rated WJOI (Bonneville format) and the nearly invisible CKEZ (former CKLW-FM) in Windsor (KalaMusic). If memory serves, "W-Lite" didn't have much ratings success until they dropped the satellite feed and went to local personalities with a locally programmed mix similar to Format 41 around 1987 or so. During the early '90s it was often the top-rated AC station in town as the music slowly became more contemporary.
In the summer of 1996 it became WDRQ again, with a rhythmic AC format that evolved into rhythmic leaning CHR over the next couple of years. It's been "Doug FM" (a Jack FM clone) since April Fool's Day 2005.
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