Lexington Top 40, AC, and Rock history

[Mid West Clubber]

Does anyone on the board remember when 100.1 was a top 40 called X-100???? I dont remember their name before that but X-100 was in like 90-92 and played a mix of mostly Dance music and hard rock,, which was on the charts at that time..

Also on 94.5,, when it first became Mix 94.5, they had an all Soft AC format at night called Lexington After Dark...

Also,, Remember when 98.1 was a rock station as 98 Double Q,, before it went to 100.1 and went country..

 

[radiorob2.0]

Does anyone on the board remember when 100.1 was a top 40 called X-100???? I dont remember their name before that but X-100 was in like 90-92 and played a mix of mostly Dance music and hard rock,, which was on the charts at that time..

Also on 94.5,, when it first became Mix 94.5, they had an all Soft AC format at night called Lexington After Dark...

Also,, Remember when 98.1 was a rock station as 98 Double Q,, before it went to 100.1 and went country..

Bud Walters sold WFMI to an New York outfit around 1988. The new company jettison most of the staff and changed calls and name to WLFX "Fox 100". The morning show was "Grinn & Barrett", I think one of the two is still in market. They added Ernie Anderson liners and the music was Hot AC. The CP was in place for the upgrade to 25k but the station had to use the existing facility which barely covered Lexington. Fox 100 tried to make a splash but failed. About a year or two later, they dropped "Fox 100" and became WLFX playing soft AC, it too failed. The owners were running out of money and Bud purchased the frequency at a bargain basement price. I believe it was under Bud's ownership "X100" was born. Bud sold 100.1 to Trumper and they upgraded the signal and the station became "Young Country". Jacor purchased Trumper's staitons and Villiage and under their control the Country/KQQ frequency swap occured.

Feel free to add, subtract, divide and multiply as it has been almost twenty years.

 

[NoWayNoCC]

Trumper also ruined both of Lexington's top 40's within about a year of each other in the early '90s. Lexington was forced to go without a top 40 from 1992 to 1996.

I wonder if 94.5 would have returned to top 40 if WLKT hadn't come along.

 

[oxford777]

Does anyone on the board remember when 100.1 was a top 40 called X-100???? I dont remember their name before that but X-100 was in like 90-92 and played a mix of mostly Dance music and hard rock,, which was on the charts at that time..

Also on 94.5,, when it first became Mix 94.5, they had an all Soft AC format at night called Lexington After Dark...

Also,, Remember when 98.1 was a rock station as 98 Double Q,, before it went to 100.1 and went country..

Bud Walters sold WFMI to an New York outfit around 1988. The new company jettison most of the staff and changed calls and name to WLFX "Fox 100". The morning show was "Grinn & Barrett", I think one of the two is still in market. They added Ernie Anderson liners and the music was Hot AC. The CP was in place for the upgrade to 25k but the station had to use the existing facility which barely covered Lexington. Fox 100 tried to make a splash but failed. About a year or two later, they dropped "Fox 100" and became WLFX playing soft AC, it too failed. The owners were running out of money and Bud purchased the frequency at a bargain basement price. I believe it was under Bud's ownership "X100" was born. Bud sold 100.1 to Trumper and they upgraded the signal and the station became "Young Country". Jacor purchased Trumper's staitons and Villiage and under their control the Country/KQQ frequency swap occured.

Feel free to add, subtract, divide and multiply as it has been almost twenty years.

100.1 switched from "X100" to Young Country in 1992 or early 1993. Tighe Barrett was still there doing mornings solo at X100; Skip ("Grinn") Eliot had moved on and today is on 96.9. ( I think) Barrett then worked at 103.1 a little bit, but has been off the air 10-15 years in Lexington. Others at X100 until they turned out the lights included Dennis Dillon (now at WKQQ) and Lee Cruise (now on CHannel 18).

 

[NoWayNoCC]

100.1 switched from "X100" to Young Country in 1992 or early 1993.

I thought they were actually standards or easy listening between X-100 and young country. They simulcast an AM station for months.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

Its possible,, i never lived in lexington and couldnt really hear the station in louisville,, though 98.1 92.9 and 94.5 where no problem reception wise......

I didnt hear x 100 from Jully 92 till June 93,, so they did something, and switched to country in that time... They may have had a standards format between then, but it obviously didnt work.. I think Double Q is all thats worked on 100.1 since they changed from the original top 40 Dance direction in the 80s.... aye????????

I do know that Double Q was more Active Rock when on 98.1,, and that power 94.5 used to play some dance music at night..... The jock on the thread below verified my thoughts of the original 94.5 and 100.1 formats....

Its too bad,, maybe im just old, but Power 94.5 and both Top 40s on 100.1 where way better than 104.5 the Kat, and Hot 102.3....... Yeah I know power 94.5 WLAP was only top 40 after dark,,, i was in School during the day so i didnt notice,,, and 100.1 played alot of Hard Rock and Dance, without much urban and AC to fill in the gaps,,, 100.1 was like WOKI 100.3 in Knoxville... im glad to be outta Kentucky now days, cause radio now days isnt like the old days... Indianapolis radio is boring too, but we have a good top 40, and a good AAA...

Thanks much guys,, if anyone wants to add more, or correct any of us,, feel free...

 

[Scrappy]

In late '90 Power 94.5 played some dance - dayparted heavily - only late afternoon and nights. I can remember going from Def Leppard to Sweet Sensation. Then you could get away with that...........I also seem o remember introducing Sweet Sensation for a for "concert". If I remember correctly - it was at a former topless club?????.....there were like 7 people there and the girls were pissed because no one was dancing!!! God I'm getting old!!!!!