Long Island listeners find 1520!

[LexLuthor]

I was impressed by the number of long distance requests from Long Island I heard last night on the "Saturday Night All-Request Party" on 1520AM. It's a great station for 50s/60s oldies and they must be picking up many of the disgruntled WCBS-FM faithful. Too bad the station is in Buffalo and can only be heard after dark. KB is doing real radio with personality, classic jingles and commercials. Isn't there a single station in the tri-state area - AM or FM - that could make money with this format?

 

[lalumia]

> I was impressed by the number of long distance requests from
> Long Island I heard last night on the "Saturday Night
> All-Request Party" on 1520AM. It's a great station for
> 50s/60s oldies and they must be picking up many of the
> disgruntled WCBS-FM faithful. Too bad the station is in
> Buffalo and can only be heard after dark. KB is doing real
> radio with personality, classic jingles and commercials.
> Isn't there a single station in the tri-state area - AM or
> FM - that could make money with this format?
> I used to listen to WKBW AM in Buffalo at night when I was a little teeny bopper in the mid to late 1960s, out of my basement in Suffolk County with a tiny transistor radio,Beatles,Supremes,etc. great stuff!
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by lalumia on 01/08/06 10:25 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Kevin411]

Now this brings back memories for me. After I got my drivers license back in 1976, my uncle gave me his old car, a 1964 Ford Galaxie. It had a 6 preset AM only radio. WKBW was number 5, and IIRC the others were. 1)770-WABC 2)660-WNBC 3)540-WLIX 4)740-WGSM and 6) 800-CKLW. Any of you other old farts out there remember what the presets were on your 1st cars radio?

 

[nd2023]

> Now this brings back memories for me. After I got my drivers
> license back in 1976, my uncle gave me his old car, a 1964
> Ford Galaxie. It had a 6 preset AM only radio. WKBW was
> number 5, and IIRC the others were. 1)770-WABC 2)660-WNBC
> 3)540-WLIX 4)740-WGSM and 6) 800-CKLW. Any of you other old
> farts out there remember what the presets were on your 1st
> cars radio?
>
Maybe 'KB could show up in the Long Island book. Perhaps more people listen to 1520 for 'KB rather than WTHE which is right from Long Island.<P ID="signature">______________
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[LexLuthor]

> Now this brings back memories for me. After I got my drivers
> license back in 1976, my uncle gave me his old car, a 1964
> Ford Galaxie. It had a 6 preset AM only radio. WKBW was
> number 5, and IIRC the others were. 1)770-WABC 2)660-WNBC
> 3)540-WLIX 4)740-WGSM and 6) 800-CKLW. Any of you other old
> farts out there remember what the presets were on your 1st
> cars radio?
>
I drove my Dad nuts by changing his pre-sets to my
favorite 50kw rockers:
(1) 770-WABC (2) 800-CKLW (3) 890-WLS
(4) 1000-WCFL (5) 1030-WBZ (6) 1520-WKBW
There was (is) something special about hearing that
faraway station on an old AM radio. Still works for me!