old T40's

[tanner]

Remember
WVWB
WMBL
WKVO
WOOW
WEED
WAPE
WKIX

 

[tothedj]

And to add toward the list...

WRMT
WJNC
WHSL(When it was AM in Wilmington)
WKLM
WVOT
WNCT-AM(Back in the 1970's)

 

[viper452]

LOL, I only remember WRMT as an oldies station.

 

[viper452]

What was WCEC's main format?

 

[tothedj]

WCEC was considered a "variety" station for many years, they never were a "Top 40" outlet.

 

[N4GBK]

WGAI Elizabeth City was Top 40 when it was a Radio Smiles station. 1971-1974. Programming for tourists at OBX in warm weather. 560 directional covered Outer Banks day and night. -Bill

 

[Time Traveler]

Remember
WVWB
WMBL
WKVO
WOOW
WEED
WAPE
WKIX

I used to travel through your area in the late 60s and early 70s and clearly remember WKIX, WAPE and the old WPDQ-600 too....

 

[stevations]

Here is what WCEC sounded like in 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxIny9ud6c

 

[viper452]

Some guy told me WCEC played big band music from the 40s

Anyway Im still waiting for some WEED airchecks.

 

[cjunkielover]

In the late 60's, WSMY 1400 (Weldon) and WYAL 1280 (Scotland Neck) were Top 40 Stations. WSMY also called itself "Radio Smiles" and used Drake Jingles.

 

[N4GBK]

Radio Smiles was a group that owned several stations in NC and VA. I worked for them at two stations in the 1970s. Might be good topic for another thread. -Bill

 

[XTalker]

WGNI, Wilmington (AM 1340) was Top 40 for part of it's life.

WCEC was probably one of the last block formatted radio stations in the region. In the 1980s, morning show was lots of news and chit-chat. Music was secondary. Maybe ahead if its time for a morning show - with very little music. FM was WFMA - Country format and mostly automated in the day. FM was later sold and move to Raleigh (became WTRG).

 

[unitron]

And to add toward the list...

WRMT
WJNC
WHSL(When it was AM in Wilmington)
WKLM
WVOT
WNCT-AM(Back in the 1970's)

I don't think JNC was ever exactly top 40, more AC, unless you count Shadeed's old NightBeat show in the late '60s. But that's what BBS was for all of Kelso's reign.

 

[firecop947]

On the Rocky Mount stations, WFMA, 100.7 moved to Raleigh in 1989 as WTRG, I was the last guy on WFMA the night they switched over. I remember playing a little goodbye tape that the then owner Joe Warner taped, said goodbye and then around a minute of dead air, our engineer shut us down and in a moment, WTRG was born playing the UNC/NC ST/DUKE fight songs that entire weekend.

WCEC still was on the air and the former WFMA staff stayed on WCEC which we played classic country. Joe Warner and Gordon Finney (WRMT fame) got together and put WSAY on the air as "Say 98.5" in 1990.

I don't remember the date , late summer 1990, we had a farwell party at the station because WCEC was going dark with the arrival of WSAY.

 

[w00t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVsYqOukhZM

^video aircheck of "The New 100.7 WTRG" in 1988. Sounds like AC. Where were the studios located for this incarnation?

edit: I guess Raleigh, listening to this I just noticed he gave the studio number as 860-1007

 

[vchimpanzee]

On the Rocky Mount stations, WFMA, 100.7 moved to Raleigh in 1989 as WTRG, I was the last guy on WFMA the night they switched over.

I hate to dispute someone who actually worked there, but it was 1986.

Where I was living at the time, I didn't move until 1987.

I called the WTRG 800 number and asked who had set the distance record?

The DJ asked, "Why, do you think you've got it?"

Then when I described where I lived I was told there were people in Virginia farther away who were listening. I don't think so, but it's possible.

 

[w00t]

100.7 blasts into VA so that was probably correct. It's listenable in almost 2/3 of NC - OBX to Greensboro.

 

[carrington]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVsYqOukhZM

^video aircheck of "The New 100.7 WTRG" in 1988. Sounds like AC. Where were the studios located for this incarnation?

edit: I guess Raleigh, listening to this I just noticed he gave the studio number as 860-1007

IIRC, their studios were in Highwoods. They signed on with their oldies/classic hits format in late 1986.

 

[MaxGM]

'86 is correct. I went to work there in '89 and the station was several years old then. It did sign on as oldies but pretty quickly morphed into an AC station taking on WRAL. It then changed back to Oldies in late '88 or early '89. I went there in October to do 7p-12m, shifted to mid-days in the Spring of '90. Stayed until December of '94. The studios are still in Highwoods I believe.

On the Rocky Mount stations, WFMA, 100.7 moved to Raleigh in 1989 as WTRG, I was the last guy on WFMA the night they switched over.

I hate to dispute someone who actually worked there, but it was 1986.

Where I was living at the time, I didn't move until 1987.

I called the WTRG 800 number and asked who had set the distance record?

The DJ asked, "Why, do you think you've got it?"

Then when I described where I lived I was told there were people in Virginia farther away who were listening. I don't think so, but it's possible.

 

[firecop947]

You are right! 1986 was the year WTRG went on the air. As time goes by it becomes more of a blur. I worked at WFMA from 1983-1986 when it became WTRG. It was my first full-time gig and I learned a lot. Enjoyed my time with Rob Lynn and Joe Warner. Rob went to WTRG and worked overnights for a time when it first went on the air.