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Music Of Your Life in NYC?

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bobperry

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I was listening to Mark Angell on the MOYL stream interviewing Denise Brigham and he mentioned that they were adding Music Of Your Life to "an AM/FM in New York City" and mentioned a tie-in with Les Brown, Jr. producing a concert series for them (as well as his weekend show). Any idea which stations are joining?
 
I know WVOX 1460 AM in New Rochelle, which covers part of the market, airs MOYL as part of the broadcast day, and I think their FM sister may too (though I'm not sure). WVOX streams at www.wvox.com.

On the subject of WVOX, I remember seeing Detroit phone books from the mid-1980s in which WVOX was listed in the White Pages for some reason. I have absolutely no idea why.
 
To the best of my knowledge, the closest we had to a "New York City" station carrying MOYL for any length of time was the old WLUX AM 540 out on The Island.
 
Thanks, Bub...WLUX 540 did very well with "MOYL" (Al Ham's little joke) as did 1100 WHLI which was the second Music Of Your Life station back in 1979.
 
bobperry said:
Thanks, Bub...WLUX 540 did very well with "MOYL" (Al Ham's little joke) as did 1100 WHLI which was the second Music Of Your Life station back in 1979.
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I believe WHLI preceeded WLUX on MOYL. I miss Dean Anthony (Dino on your radio) and Jack Spector. I believe a Bridgeport, Ct. station was the pilot station for MOYL followed by WMAS in Springfield, Mass. when Bob Lappin ran it.
 
bub said:
bobperry said:
Thanks, Bub...WLUX 540 did very well with "MOYL" (Al Ham's little joke) as did 1100 WHLI which was the second Music Of Your Life station back in 1979.
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I believe WHLI preceeded WLUX on MOYL. I miss Dean Anthony (Dino on your radio) and Jack Spector. I believe a Bridgeport, Ct. station was the pilot station for MOYL followed by WMAS in Springfield, Mass. when Bob Lappin ran it.

How did WMCA "Good Guys" wind up playing MOYL?
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MsMusicRadio said:
How did WMCA "Good Guys" wind up playing MOYL?
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WHLI ran MOYL with live jocks out of the studio. They probably used MOYL's playlists and music cuts and incorporated the live jocks in the studio. Thing was, WHLI did not brand themselves as MOYL. Jack Spector's last ever air shift occured on WHLI. In fact, he died in the studio during his shift.
 
ChrisInMI said:
I know WVOX 1460 AM in New Rochelle, which covers part of the market, airs MOYL as part of the broadcast day, and I think their FM sister may too (though I'm not sure). WVOX streams at www.wvox.com.

On the subject of WVOX, I remember seeing Detroit phone books from the mid-1980s in which WVOX was listed in the White Pages for some reason. I have absolutely no idea why.
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According to Wikipedia it's part of the broadcast NIGHT. And weekends. Though WHLI can't broadcast at night.

If any market should have this format it's New York City.
 
WHLI was the second Music of Your Life station, period. (WLUX came later.) WHLI flipped from Top 40 (more like Hot AC but it wasn't called that back then) in April 1979. They ran live jocks with the MOYL library on tape. Later, under PD Dean Anthony, they carted the library and added to it - which, since Al Ham could hear the 10kw station at his house in Connecticut, meant that he and Dean had a number of discussions on music choice. (!)
 
bobperry said:
WHLI flipped from Top 40 (more like Hot AC but it wasn't called that back then) in April 1979.
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Around that ime a newspaper where I live listed the radio stations. The adult contemporary station and the top 40 station were both listed as top 40. And the adult contemporary station was relatively conservative, a lot like soft rock just a few years ago.

The next year they called both stations adult contemporary. Huh??? That top 40 station was still top 40.
 
bobperry said:
WHLI was the second Music of Your Life station, period. (WLUX came later.) WHLI flipped from Top 40 (more like Hot AC but it wasn't called that back then) in April 1979. They ran live jocks with the MOYL library on tape. Later, under PD Dean Anthony, they carted the library and added to it - which, since Al Ham could hear the 10kw station at his house in Connecticut, meant that he and Dean had a number of discussions on music choice. (!)
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Probably because Al Ham couldn't understand why Dino would play Fats Domino after Percy Faith. In NYC or LI, it works. Heck, at an Standards station I used to jock at, I used to play Booker T and the MG's "Hang 'em High" and I was #1 in the market. ;)
 
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