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REMEMBER STATIONS FROM THE 70'S

you forgot 1450 whit,which in it's day was one heck of a building and studio...then the top 40 days...hitam..with the hit men..ed seeger,bill lester,eriic oday.richard taylor and rick kincade that went on to the name rick stix
 
Sure, I remember - along with 1340 WGNI, 1490 WHSL, 630 WMFD, 890 WKLM (all Wilmington).
 
Just a reminder to Mike, WKLM was at 980, but other stations i remember from
the 70's was the "original" WAAV at 102.7, the "original" WWIL at 97.3(both
went on the air in Wilmington back in the early 70's) but others i recall were
WRNC 1240 in Raleigh, WAIR in Winston-Salem, WKBQ 1000 in Garner, WBMA
1400 in Beaufort, and here's one which was on and off the air, mainly for
financial reason, WVSP 90.9 in Warrenton, which had studios in Rocky Mount.
 
You are right about KLM. WAAV 102.7 went on the air in 1971 using a Schaffer automation system. Beautiful Music format and a license to print money until about 1980.
 
Big WISE in Asheville.Programmed by the late, great Bob Kaghan (the guy who put John Boy and Billy together, BTW), Then later by Mark St. John, who went on to program WAVA in Washington in the 80's and by Ray Wildman Williams by the end of the decade.

WOOW in Greenville,which at one time was the home of Jack Daniel, ,a long time Charlotte legend, Henry Hinton, who later went to WGH in Norfolk and is now an owner in Eastern Carolina. Marc Mitchell who later worked in Boston and Detroit. The station was programmed by Carl Davis who made his fame in the engineering world.

WSFL in New Bern which I think was one of the first FM Top 40's NC.

WXQR in Jacksonville, which started out as a Top 40/Progressive Rock hybrid.

WQDR in Raleigh, the station that brought FM Rock radio to critical mass, here in NC.

There are so many more. Of course, we can't forget WAYS, WBT, WKIX, WFLB in Fayette-nam, WAIR and WTOB in Winston
 
Bill Lester worked at WRQR in the early to mid 80's..Great jock..What a voice..He was hell on a piece of vinyl because of his eyesight but a nice guy.I wonder what he's up to...Erick O'Day where do i start..one of the funniest,most off the wall,talented guys ever...The best splicer I ever saw..He tried to teach me and I never was as good as him..He lived close to me from 1996-2000 and did some work for Wolfman Jack's Company after wolf died in 1995...He worked some for Pitt Co. 911 and used to hang with me some at WRQR and he also sold a little at BOB 93.3 in 2000...He worked for a few months in the spring of 1984 at WGHB in Farmville...I have one of those airchecks..He moved up around the DC area in 2001 and I lost touch with him..I can see him on his lawn mower mowing his grass with pipe in hand...To quote the great Bruce Mayo.."Hey boy don't be doin' no monkey downers" Erick O' Day is a great example of real personality radio and he is a legend to me...

Allen
 
fortmill said:
Please note---WBT was NEVER a top 40 station. Adult Contemporary yes, NEVER top 40!
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It's a gray area. I remember in the late 70s the Observer printed a guide to the area (I think they still do this annually for newcomers, but it's no longer in my paper like it was then) which listed both WBT and WAYS as Top 40.

Another year they were both adult contemporary. WAYS? I don't think so.

Even WBCY was listed as adult contemporary in 1981, but that was when they were advertising it as being mellow.
 
mobley said:
Big WISE in Asheville.Programmed by the late, great Bob Kaghan (the guy who put John Boy and Billy together, BTW), Then later by Mark St. John, who went on to program WAVA in Washington in the 80's and by Ray Wildman Williams by the end of the decade.

WOOW in Greenville,which at one time was the home of Jack Daniel, ,a long time Charlotte legend, Henry Hinton, who later went to WGH in Norfolk and is now an owner in Eastern Carolina. Marc Mitchell who later worked in Boston and Detroit. The station was programmed by Carl Davis who made his fame in the engineering world.

WSFL in New Bern which I think was one of the first FM Top 40's NC.

WXQR in Jacksonville, which started out as a Top 40/Progressive Rock hybrid.

WQDR in Raleigh, the station that brought FM Rock radio to critical mass, here in NC.

There are so many more. Of course, we can't forget WAYS, WBT, WKIX, WFLB in Fayette-nam, WAIR and WTOB in Winston
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Back in the '60s when there were few FM radios in Jacksonville, WXQR was an elevator music/easy listening type format, very likely automated.

I think it was spring or early summer of '70, they went to an AOR-flavored T40-type format, and within a day or so every FM radio in Jacksonville had been bought up.
 
Also WVBS 99.9 licensed to Burgaw went on the air in April 1973 playing Top 40 for Wilmington and a good part of Eastern NC.
 
DaveArnold said:
Yes WHIT-New Bern was country during 1972.
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Wasn't that about the time a country FM (I think it was FM) went on the air around New Bern?

Remember "Don't flick the Bic"?
 
DaveArnold said:
Also WVBS 99.9 licensed to Burgaw went on the air in April 1973 playing Top 40 for Wilmington and a good part of Eastern NC.
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It was a sister station to Jacksonville's 1290 WBBS.

Or at least I think that was supposed to have been the plan.

I remember a 'BBS salesman, Lloyd Jackson, telling me about it in early-ish '74 and got the impression it was just then going on the air.

Did the Brown Brothers put it on the air or just buy it from somebody else?

(This was back when I was a listener working in a stereo store and hadn't actually gone over to the dark side as I did 3 years later when I got my first on-air gig at BBS. I may have been Kelso's last hire there, since he was out soon after)
 
Brown Brothers purchased it from Pender Broadcasting the old WPGF.
Format and call letters changed in April of 73.I was the PD.
 
DaveArnold said:
Brown Brothers purchased it from Pender Broadcasting the old WPGF.
Format and call letters changed in April of 73.I was the PD.
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Did they hold onto and sell off both stations at the same time, or did they sell VBS first, and to whom?
 
Not sure as I had moved on by then.Of course 99.9 VBS
is now Jammin 99.9.Many years passed from the days of WBBS and WVBS.
The original concept was to have VBS be the FM conterpart of BBS.
 
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