One of America's Two Great Radio Stations?

[yugoidar]

Maybe Tom Woods or one of you early WARM fans can answer this. Did WARM ever use the phrase "one of America's Two Great Radio Stations" in the late 50s or early 60s?

There's a discussion underway on the Buffalo/Niagara Falls board where Jeff Kaye of WKBW Radio is credited with coming up with the line. I seem to remember hearing well before Kaye got to KB. My memory's a little foggy, but I thought maybe WARM is where I heard it first.

Can anyone help? Thanks!

 

[ThomasCarten]

If it did, then it was so far distant from NYC's legendary WNEW-AM that you couldn't see it with the Hubble telescope.

 

[Tom Woods]

Not that I can remember. If we ever did use it..it would have been Art Carlson's idea and he would have been refering to Susquehann's Flagship station WSBA ........and WARM

 

[yonkstur]

I thought that was WKBW out of Buffalo. CKLW was the big 8, WCFL was the Voice of Labor. WARM was the Mighty 590, then in 65 became the Station of the Stars, then somewhere along the line became The Station of the Year, that was around 1983 when they had a jingle package proclaiming it.

Yonkstur

 

[amfmxm]

I'll attest that the slogan was used back in the early seventies (?) at both WKBW, Buffalo and WJR, Deitroit when both were owned by Cap Cities. Don't know if they were also using it at WROW, Albany or other Cap Cities stations of that era.

At the time both WJR and KB were kicking ass and taking names. Though it may have been a bit of a stretch (WLS & WABC weren't exactly slouches back then), it wasn't much of a stretch...