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WFIL, WIBG and What was that other station???

J

joshzz

Growing up, I remember listening to both WFIL and WIBG on our clock radio and also on my transistor radio.

In 1968 I was 12 years old and remember going out with older friends that listened to another station in the car. It also was pretty good. Can't remember the call letters or frequency other than it was to the right of WIBG on the dial.

Anyone know of this mystery station?
 
If you were listening at night, it might have been an out of town station, too.

WKBW 1520, WOWO 1190 and WKYC 1100 would be such stations. They had good nighttime coverage. FM had not gotten much of an audience footing yet back then. WKAP 1320 and/or WSAN 1470 Allentown are dark-horse candidates. As Stevations says, it depends on where you were and what time of day.

@Stevations : I could be wrong, but I don't believe any NYC AM station higher on the dial than 770 was playing modern pop music at the time.
Atlantic City stations -- New Jersey AM stations period --did not have much range. Regionals such as WARM 590, WAEB 790 and WSBA 910 may have put some signal that way, but I doubt any of the three were regular car buttons in Philly proper (and they don't fit Josh's specifications).

Slightly off-topic, but since moving to here twenty years ago I've casually been asking the folks my age what stations they listened to at night. Where we live now had no big-signal regional Top 40 in the 60s. Indeed, kids in this area (Schuylkill County, about 85 miles north of Center City) seem to've been served well by WLS 890, WABC 770, CKLW 800, WOWO, and .... of course .... WKBW.
 
Directly to the right was top 40 AM 1000 WCFL, "The Voice of Labor" from Chicago, competitor to WLS Chicago, longtime home of WIBG's John 'Records' Landecker. WCFL was hard to pick up where Wibbage was strong but boomed across the east & midwest otherwise - I used to pick it up clearly most nights in an East Stroudsburg dorm room.

Guessing a 'mystery station', would need to know what era of WIBG-WFIL (60's, '70's?), area where listening, & day or night. As noted, there was a wonderful full spectrum of top 40 stations at night from across the country, all live & local & unique. During the day were fringe top 40's & even some dayparted top 40 - back in the 60's even WBUX had Bob Hamilton playing top 40 early in his career & WNAR had "Super Lou".
 
I lived in Camden County about 6 miles from Philly. It was a station that offered pop songs similar to what was being played on WIBG and WFIL. It wouldn't come in on a transistor radio and I couldn't pick it up with a clock radio in the home but heard it in the car.
 
John1-I knew Bob Hamilton at WIOO in the late 60's when he was PD. Always programed at great station during his reign and I had lots of respect for his talent. It was his programming that made 1000 watt WIOO a truly great station and I always wished they didn't have to protect WCFL at sundown on 1000kc.

God bless radio back then-------
 
Josh - if it was really good, I'm pretty sure you were listening to me on Lehigh University's carrier current campus station, 640 WLRN....or, possibly, not.
 
Possibly WNAR radio one-eleven-o Norristown. The station was just a daytimer but very popular in Montgomery county and put a weak signal into New Jersey.
 
GATESYARD said:
John1-I knew Bob Hamilton at WIOO in the late 60's when he was PD. Always programed at great station during his reign and I had lots of respect for his talent. It was his programming that made 1000 watt WIOO a truly great station and I always wished they didn't have to protect WCFL at sundown on 1000kc.

God bless radio back then-------
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Bob Hamilton went on to have a great career & answered a post I made here about the WBUX years, years ago. They did a remote from the Abington Hospital June Fete in the mid-60's & as a kid it was fun watching them (he & country dj Hugh Clinton, who later owned WCTX 92.1 Palmyra, Pa.) on remote in a tent with a microphone, a pile of 45s & a turntable - not knowing then Bob Hamilton would become one of the great top 40 dj's & PDs. Hamilton played top 40, Clinton country on the dayparted station (also ran religious shows like Carl McIntire at 7:30 am live weekdays & a Mennonite homemaker show from Virginia at 10am daily).
 
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