It was 10 years ago this week that WPBM (originally at 94.3), a Hudson Valley giant has pulled the plug its Top 40/CHR format under the name B94. The station was owned at the time by Roberts Radio (before it was Clear Channel for a brief time which is now Cumulus) where the station flipped it's format from Top 40 to Jammin' Oldies under the name "Rhythm 94.3". Prior to the flip, they played a loop of these two songs during the weekend before the station kicked off are Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" until the station finally launched. I used to listened to that station all the time, it was one of my favorite stations ever put out, just like the one in New York City where they used to have WTJM's "Jammin' 105" there.
I used to listened to "Rhythm 94.3" all the time where they played Michael Jackson, the Four Tops, the O'Jays, Aretha Franklin, Evelyn Champagne King, Rick James, the Commodores, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, the Jackson 5, KC & the Sunshine Band, Gladys Knight and the Pips and many other greats artists that are on that station back then. That lasted about 3 years until the station flipped to oldies as "Cool 94.3" for 3 years and then flipped to what is now country music where it is now "The Wolf" where they changed call letters to WKXP (while the WBPM calls now stands at 92.9). I listened to "The Wolf", all the time, but it's a good station than WRWD where it also carries Yankees baseball in FM quality, just like the one you will hear on WCBS-FM's HD3 channel in NYC where they carries the Yankees in the same quality as "The Wolf" does. The station also carries Jets football during the fall. "The Wolf" both carries two sports teams during the season, Yankees baseball and Jets football.
To get back to WBPM's original B94, I used to listened to that station back when I was in my school where they used to play Blues Traveler, the Cranberries, Real McCoy, Stevie B, Celine Dion, Boyz II Men, Tevin Campbell, Shane, Whitney Houston and other great artists that are part of B94's history when it was on that frequency at 94.3 on the FM dial over the years. The station started around 1974 or 1975 when they first changed it's call letters to WBPM when the call letters originally known as WGHQ-FM when it was playing elevator music back in the late 60's and early 70's before it went Top 40 running jockless until around 1984 or so where the station called it's name B94 and it stayed on that station for 14 years.
The jocks lineup includes Downtown Lou Brown where he was on that station at the time and then he was on afternoons on "Rhythm 94.3" now he is doing afternoon drive on "Lite-FM", he was previously on K104 before he joined B94, CJ McIntyre, was a great afternoon drive guy when he was on that station for years. He was on that station when it became "Rhythm 94.3", he used to do mornings as the host of the "Morning Rhythm Show", he is now doing his "Playhouse" show on "Kiss-FM". Mike Vincent was on that station for many years and so does Carl Dayton where he did mornings on that station.
B94 was a great Top 40 station for many years during the 80's and the rest of the 90's. After that, things changed over the years. Where is B94's moniker now? It's in Pittsburgh, PA where WBZW now carries the moniker as B94. And there you go.
Any thoughts about the demise of WBPM's original B94 10 years ago?
I used to listened to "Rhythm 94.3" all the time where they played Michael Jackson, the Four Tops, the O'Jays, Aretha Franklin, Evelyn Champagne King, Rick James, the Commodores, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, the Jackson 5, KC & the Sunshine Band, Gladys Knight and the Pips and many other greats artists that are on that station back then. That lasted about 3 years until the station flipped to oldies as "Cool 94.3" for 3 years and then flipped to what is now country music where it is now "The Wolf" where they changed call letters to WKXP (while the WBPM calls now stands at 92.9). I listened to "The Wolf", all the time, but it's a good station than WRWD where it also carries Yankees baseball in FM quality, just like the one you will hear on WCBS-FM's HD3 channel in NYC where they carries the Yankees in the same quality as "The Wolf" does. The station also carries Jets football during the fall. "The Wolf" both carries two sports teams during the season, Yankees baseball and Jets football.
To get back to WBPM's original B94, I used to listened to that station back when I was in my school where they used to play Blues Traveler, the Cranberries, Real McCoy, Stevie B, Celine Dion, Boyz II Men, Tevin Campbell, Shane, Whitney Houston and other great artists that are part of B94's history when it was on that frequency at 94.3 on the FM dial over the years. The station started around 1974 or 1975 when they first changed it's call letters to WBPM when the call letters originally known as WGHQ-FM when it was playing elevator music back in the late 60's and early 70's before it went Top 40 running jockless until around 1984 or so where the station called it's name B94 and it stayed on that station for 14 years.
The jocks lineup includes Downtown Lou Brown where he was on that station at the time and then he was on afternoons on "Rhythm 94.3" now he is doing afternoon drive on "Lite-FM", he was previously on K104 before he joined B94, CJ McIntyre, was a great afternoon drive guy when he was on that station for years. He was on that station when it became "Rhythm 94.3", he used to do mornings as the host of the "Morning Rhythm Show", he is now doing his "Playhouse" show on "Kiss-FM". Mike Vincent was on that station for many years and so does Carl Dayton where he did mornings on that station.
B94 was a great Top 40 station for many years during the 80's and the rest of the 90's. After that, things changed over the years. Where is B94's moniker now? It's in Pittsburgh, PA where WBZW now carries the moniker as B94. And there you go.
Any thoughts about the demise of WBPM's original B94 10 years ago?
