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Wasn't 100.3 FM referred to as "FM-100" in the 90's?

Pardon my ignorance, but I was in and out of Chicago alot... before June of 1991 I have no clue what it was by memory, but in 1991-1992 I know for sure that it was AC as THE POINT,, A bit hotter than Lite FM 93.9..... 1993 Onwards I have no clue.... but I do remember for a very short time, no one has mentioned that after 99.9 WBUS THE BUS flipped to Spanish then 100.3 went with like a Dance-CHR hybrid to try to go after B-96 and the former WBUS listeners,, as I recall this didnt last long, but im almost sure that they were called WINDY 100.3 Chicagos hit Music Station,,,, before they went with the more recent Windy 100.3 AC Format... As far as I know 100.3 has been an AC of some sort for all its life except for the brief CHR-Dance stunt...... I have no clue how long the CHR-Dance stunt lasted,, sometime between 6 months and 2 yrs... IDK....????????
 
Prais said:
O yes. The NEXT tenant after WJJD was AC Gilbert Co (who made Erector Sets).

WJJD moved to a small bungalow house on Ballard Road in Des Plaines. The 50kw transmitter was in the basement. They played records when they were top 40.
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Was their transmitter always on Ballard Rd even when their studios were downtown?
 
I believe the transmitter was always on Ballard. That brown brick house was small but very functional. They had 1 studio w/2 mics at a table, a control room (that had the outside door) w/engineer that had 2 turntables. The office was located downtown.

I'm not 100% positive about the "pre-rock" days when they were a "hillbilly" format w/Randy Blake (the guy who did the Behren's motors commercials on WGN-tv). Lots of banjo and that kind of thing w/alot of religion.
 
Prais said:
I believe the transmitter was always on Ballard. That brown brick house was small but very functional. They had 1 studio w/2 mics at a table, a control room (that had the outside door) w/engineer that had 2 turntables. The office was located downtown.

I'm not 100% positive about the "pre-rock" days when they were a "hillbilly" format w/Randy Blake (the guy who did the Behren's motors commercials on WGN-tv). Lots of banjo and that kind of thing w/alot of religion.
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Yeah, my first memories of WJJD were from their rock & roll days in the late 50s.
 
Jocks were Ernie Simon, Del Clark, and othjers. Newsman was Reese Rickards and others, News was very "authoritative", LOTS of police news. Very "immediate."

Owned by Plough Inc., there were many St. Joseph aspirin and Coppertone ads.
 
Prais said:
Jocks were Ernie Simon, Del Clark, and othjers. Newsman was Reese Rickards and others, News was very "authoritative", LOTS of police news. Very "immediate."

Owned by Plough Inc., there were many St. Joseph aspirin and Coppertone ads.
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I remember the St. Joseph aspirin ads and they also had ads for Penatro cough drops which were another
Plough product.
 
Prais said:
Ok kiddies, gather 'round as old Uncle Tom tells you young'ins about the first radio station he ever visited - (when he was about 12 years old) - 1962.

WFMF was on the top floor of the Carbide and Carbon Building (now the Hardrock Hotel) on Michigan Ave (WOW! what a great view of the city!!) and baclk then, was quite interesting as it was 100% on reel to reel tape; music, liners, and commercials. The commercials and lilners were on individual 3 inch reels and the music was made in-house on 7 in. reels. They had 8 Magnecord machines on 2 tables. Their transmitter was up there too, in an adjacent room.


Some machines (the decks that they used to play commercials) ONLY fed the air signal. Some decks fed BOTH the air signal and the "background music" channel. The background music was called "Functional Music Inc." When ads ran on WFMF there was silence on the background music channel.
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WFMF and WAIT were both owned by Maurice Rosenfield. They moved the WAIT studios out to the transmitter site in Elmhurst and would hire a college kid to be the courier, shuttling mail and commercials back and forth between the offices on Michigan Avenue and the transmitter. From 1965 to 1968 I was that college kid. I remember WFMF as described above, except it was at 188 W. Randolph Street. I also had a summer job at Dominick's in Elmhurst, and they subscribed to the Functional Music, Inc. service which served as the soundtrack for my dreary existence behind the deli counter.

After the stations were sold to Century Broadcasting and the time came to drop beautiful music and create The Point, they fired the announcing staff. Several of them, including Jack Taylor and WAIT veteran Ralph Rowland, won age discrimination lawsuits over the firings.
 
188 E. Randolph was the building where WKFM was located. Was WFMF there before they moved to Carbide and Carbon? The Hancock was where they were when Century owned them.
 
Barefootom said:
Prais said:
Ok kiddies, gather 'round as old Uncle Tom tells you young'ins about the first radio station he ever visited - (when he was about 12 years old) - 1962.

WFMF was on the top floor of the Carbide and Carbon Building (now the Hardrock Hotel) on Michigan Ave (WOW! what a great view of the city!!) and baclk then, was quite interesting as it was 100% on reel to reel tape; music, liners, and commercials. The commercials and lilners were on individual 3 inch reels and the music was made in-house on 7 in. reels. They had 8 Magnecord machines on 2 tables. Their transmitter was up there too, in an adjacent room.


Some machines (the decks that they used to play commercials) ONLY fed the air signal. Some decks fed BOTH the air signal and the "background music" channel. The background music was called "Functional Music Inc." When ads ran on WFMF there was silence on the background music channel.
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WFMF and WAIT were both owned by Maurice Rosenfield. They moved the WAIT studios out to the transmitter site in Elmhurst and would hire a college kid to be the courier, shuttling mail and commercials back and forth between the offices on Michigan Avenue and the transmitter. From 1965 to 1968 I was that college kid. I remember WFMF as described above, except it was at 188 W. Randolph Street. I also had a summer job at Dominick's in Elmhurst, and they subscribed to the Functional Music, Inc. service which served as the soundtrack for my dreary existence behind the deli counter.

After the stations were sold to Century Broadcasting and the time came to drop beautiful music and create The Point, they fired the announcing staff. Several of them, including Jack Taylor and WAIT veteran Ralph Rowland, won age discrimination lawsuits over the firings.
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Didn't WIND move into those studios on Michigan Ave after they moved out of the Wrigley building?
 
radioman148 said:
And if I remember correctly didn't WSEX call it self "The Bear" when the Bears won in 86?
Didn't they then use the calls WCBR?
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And does anyone else remember when the brokered "Cyber Radio 92.7" ran a Dance-CHR format on WCBR (and online) during weekends for a few months in 1997? It was one of the most talked about subjects on Zecom Communications' CROWbar (Chicago Radio Watch), which was essentially the predecessor to this board.

I LOVED that Cyber Radio name, since it was a perfect fit for the WCBR calls.
 
radioman148 said:
And if I remember correctly didn't WSEX call it self "The Bear" when the Bears won in 86?
Didn't they then use the calls WCBR?
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And does anyone else remember when the brokered "Cyber Radio 92.7" ran a Dance-CHR format on WCBR (and online) during weekends for a few months in 1997? It was one of the most talked about subjects on Zecom Communications' CROWbar (Chicago Radio Watch), which was essentially the predecessor to this board.

I LOVED that Cyber Radio name, since it was a perfect fit for the WCBR calls.
 
Didn't WCBR also try Country Music very briefly and it's slogan was Chicago's BeaR?
I still think that WEXI was the most fun station of all on the frequency...it was Top 40.
 
stormy01 said:
Didn't WCBR also try Country Music very briefly and it's slogan was Chicago's BeaR?
I still think that WEXI was the most fun station of all on the frequency...it was Top 40.
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And then there was the "Top 10" format from the late 80's (when the station was WSEX). Did it really play the same 10 songs over and over and over? How long did this last?
 
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