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Retro Dial: Detroit, September 1980

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From The Detroit Free Press; format descriptions are taken verbatim from the paper, cities of license are added in by me

On the AM dial:
540 CBEF French/Variety (Windsor)
560 WHND Oldies (Monroe)
580 CKWW Contemporary/Pop (Windsor)
630 CFCO Middle of Road (Chatham, ON)
710 CHYR Contemporary (Leamington, ON)
760 WJR Personality (Detroit)
800 CKLW Personality/Pop (Windsor)
870 WKAR Talk/Variety (East Lansing)
950 WWJ News/Views (Detroit)
1050 WPAG Middle of Road (Ann Arbor)
1090 WCAR Ethnic/Talk (Garden City)
1130 WCXI Country (Detroit)
1270 WXYZ News/Talk (Detroit)
1310 WNIC Contemporary/Pop (Dearborn)
1340 WEXL Inspirational (Royal Oak)
1400 WJLB Black/Variety (Detroit)
1430 WBRB Middle of Road (Mount Clemens)
1440 WCHB Black/Variety (Inkster)
1460 WPON Country (Pontiac)
1480 WSDS Modern Country (Ypsilanti)
1500 WLQV Inspirational (Detroit)
1550 CBE Canadian/Variety (Windsor)
1600 WAAM Middle of Road (Ann Arbor)

On the FM dial:
88.3 WSHJ Pop/Rock (Southfield)
88.7 CJOM Easy Listening (Windsor)
89.1 WEMU Jazz/Variety (Ypsilanti)
89.9 CBE Canadian/Variety (Windsor)
90.5 WKAR Cultural/Variety (East Lansing)
91.7 WUOM Cultural (Ann Arbor)
92.3 WTWR Golden Hits (Detroit)
93.1 WDRQ Top 40/Pop (Detroit)
93.9 CKLW Country/Western (Windsor)
94.7 WMJC Contemporary/Pop (Birmingham)
95.5 WCZY Easy Listening (Detroit)
96.3 WJR Beautiful Music (Detroit)
97.1 WWJ Easy Listening (Detroit)
97.9 WMZK Multi-Lingual (Detroit)
98.7 WLLZ Rock (Detroit)
99.5 WABX Pop/Rock (Detroit)
100.3 WNIC Contemporary/Pop (Dearborn)
101.1 WRIF Pop/Rock (Detroit)
101.9 WDET Public (Detroit)
102.7 WLBS Disco (Mount Clemens)
102.9 WIQB Rock/Variety (Ann Arbor)
103.5 WMUZ Religious (Detroit)
104.3 WOMC Pop (Detroit)
105.1 WQRS Classical (Detroit)
105.9 WJZZ Jazz (Detroit)
106.7 WWWW Pop/Rock (Detroit)
107.5 WGPR Black/Variety (Detroit)

Omitted: 90.9 WDTR Educational/Variety (Detroit) as well as most lower-powered high-school stations except for WSHJ
 
AOR was a lot more eclectic in those days. WRIF was not a strictly "hard rock" station in that era. They played the Bee Gees and Donna Summer at the height of disco era, because they were big selling album as well as single artists. You'd just hear the long LP versions of their hits instead of the single edits. WRIF was part of the ABC chain at the time and I believe WPLJ in NYC and WDAI in Chicago were similar.
Really, if you go through the old playlist reports of Walrus magazine on David Eduardo's site, you might be surprised at some of the stuff AOR stations were playing then. WMMR and WNEW-FM even playlisted the first Muppet Show album!
 
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