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What call sign/frequency/COL combos do you miss that you grew up with?

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ixnay

For example, who in Philadelphia wishes 1210 am were still "WCAU" (and 98.1 fm, still "WCAU-FM"), issues of format aside?

I'm not looking for discussion of formatics necessarily, just nostalgia for call sign/frequency/city of license combinations that are no longer. Include dropping (or adding) suffixes in calls if you want.

The mods can move this thread where they want. Maybe it belongs on Classic Radio. ???

ixnay
 
I never heard this station live, but on airchecks, "WKNR AM FM Dearborn. Offices in the Sheraton Cadillac, Detroit".

And of course "CKLW.....The Motor City"
 
WZTA 94.9 (As "Zeta 4")
WTMI 93.1

I wasn't even alive to hear this one, but WBIG Greensboro "Big 1470" is one that would be nice to hear on the air again.
 
The NBC O&O's in NYC

660: WRCA; 97.1: WRCA-FM; TV, Channel 4: WRCA-TV
660: WNBC; 97.1: WYNY; TV, Channel 4: WNBC-TV.
Today, it's just Channel 4: WNBC and WNBC-DT.
WRCA calls are in Waltham, MA at 1330.
 
In Indianapolis/Bloomington: WFBM 1260, WIFE 1310, WTTS 1370, WIRE 1430, WGEE 1590, WTTV-FM 92.3, WNAP 93.1, WAJC 104.5
 
KeithE4 said:
In Indianapolis/Bloomington: WFBM 1260
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Made famous worldwide, of course, by the movie "Hoosiers". The station was featured in the movie broadcasting the state championship game between the Hickory Huskers (our heroes in the film) and the South Bend Central Mighty Bears.

(As if I have to give anyone a spoiler as to who won.)
 
Re: Indianapolis Radio

I'll go farther back...WIGO 810, WXLW 950, WFBM-FM 94.7, WIFE-FM 107.9, WIBC-FM 93.1, WIBC 1070. (Is WIBC still the same? I'm in Phoenix is I don't know.)

Of course, in the movie, "Hoosiers," there was Tom Carnegie at the PA mic. He always did PA announcing as well as on air work at WFBM.

In Phoenix: KXIV 1400, KBUZ 1310 and 104.7, KUEQ 740, KPHO 910, KOOL 960, KCAC 1010, KRDS 1190, KRIZ 1230, KRUX 1360, KDOT 1440 and 100.7, KHAT 1480, KYND 1580, KFCA-FM 91.5, KRFM 95.5, KTAR-FM 98.7. (gotta stop, memory is fading).

Mike
 
Hilliard Gates was the primary Play by Play person in the movie "Hoosiers". He did the championship games for many years. He started at WOWO, later becoming VP GM of WKJG-TV (a former combo: WKJG AM, FM and TV; radio spun off to WMEE and WMEF).

more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilliard_Gatesre (note Wikipedia has it wrong about WOWO being 100,000 watts).
 
Mike said:
Re: Indianapolis Radio

I'll go farther back...WIGO 810, WXLW 950, WFBM-FM 94.7, WIFE-FM 107.9, WIBC-FM 93.1, WIBC 1070. (Is WIBC still the same? I'm in Phoenix is I don't know.)
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Yep. WIBC is still on 1070 and WXLW is still on 950 (and I'm in Phoenix myself, but I grew up in Bloomington).

If you want to go waaaay back (1947-51): Bloomington's WTTS 1450 (or 1400, I forget which Class IV frequency they originally used pre-1370), WTOM 1490, WSUA 1010 & 103.7, W9XHZ 87.7, WFIU 90.9. In Indy: WISH 1310, WXLW-FM 94.7

Of course, in the movie, "Hoosiers," there was Tom Carnegie at the PA mic. He always did PA announcing as well as on air work at WFBM.
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He was also chief sportscaster at then co-owned Channel 6. I believe he stayed with them after they were sold to McGraw-Hill. IIRC, he retired sometime in the late '70s.

In Phoenix: KXIV 1400, KBUZ 1310 and 104.7, KUEQ 740, KPHO 910, KOOL 960, KCAC 1010, KRDS 1190, KRIZ 1230, KRUX 1360, KDOT 1440 and 100.7, KHAT 1480, KYND 1580, KFCA-FM 91.5, KRFM 95.5, KTAR-FM 98.7. (gotta stop, memory is fading).
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How about: KJJJ 910, KUPD 1060, KLFF/KNNS/KGME/KFDJ/KCTK 1360, KONI 1400, KPOK 1440, KTYL 1490 & 104.7, KALF/KMND/KDKB/KJAA 1510, KXTC 92.3, KOY-FM 95.5, KMEO 740 & 96.9, KNNN 99.9, KHEP-FM 101.5, KWAO/KONC 106.3, & KSTM 107.1.

There have been so many call changes in Phoenix it's easier to state the only ones with original calls: KASA 1540, KOOL-FM 94.5, KUPD-FM 97.9, KNIX 102.5, and KMLE 107.9. Not even KOY and KTAR are original callsigns (originally KFCB and KFAD, respectively, until 1929).
 
"Its fun....with the fun fraternity...-
Kappa Chi Omricon Kappa, Saint Louis!!!"

"The happiest Station....for you and me
....is 13-forty, W-R-I-T"

Honorable Mention

"Dial 71, WHB" (World's Happiest Broadcasters)
KIOA 940
WCFL "The Voice of Labor"
"One-thirteen" WDGY (Weegee)
KOIL 12-90
WIRL 12-90
CKY 580

.....To name just a few from the heartland
 
WXLW was on FM? I never knew that. I haven't researched the Indy newspapers prior to 1960-ish, and it wasn't mentioned in the book, "WFBM: From Crystal to Color." I always thought of 94.7 as being owned by WFBM.

I try not to think to hard about it, but had I bought shares of Time-Life back in the sixties growing up in Indiana, what would they be worth today?

Had I really been into the stock market in my youth I'd probably be a broker today. Or, not. ;-)

Mike
 
Mike said:
WXLW was on FM? I never knew that. I haven't researched the Indy newspapers prior to 1960-ish, and it wasn't mentioned in the book, "WFBM: From Crystal to Color." I always thought of 94.7 as being owned by WFBM.
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WXLW-FM is listed on Jeff Miller's broadcasting history site as being on 94.9 in 1948, 94.7 in 1950, but not at all in 1958. I don't know exactly when it went dark but it was off by '57 according to this schedule from Broadcasting101.ws. WFBM-FM signed on in 1959 and became WFBQ in '72.

If you want to go back as far as the early '20s, Indy had WLK, WOH, WBBZ, & WCBN in that era. All are long gone now.
 
KFMH 99.7 muscatine-quad cities.....lg73 Vancouver...CKXL 1140 Calgary WOPA (both 1490 and 1200) Chicago and lets not forget WGCI 1390 and WMAQ 670 Chicago...I'll have to second KIOA 940 Des Moines....CFCF 600 Montreal....the list goes on...
 
WTAR-TV /Channel 3/Norfolk,Va.
WGH-AM/Famous 1310/Newport News,NorfolK,Va.
WNOR-AM/Music Go Round/NorfolK,Va.
WHIH-AM/1400/Norfolk,Va.
WAVY-AM/1350/Portsmouth,Norfolk,Va.
WTID-AM/Norfolk,Va.
WRAP-AM/Norfolk,Va.
WLOW-AM/Norfolk,Va.
WLPM-AM/Suffolk,Va.
 
WBZ, Boston---WBZA, Springfield.

WEAN plus WPJB-FM, Providence.

Those are not just the calls...they're the way the stations did their legal IDs.
 
In the Chicago market, I miss these stations:

94.7 WLS-FM & WYTZ Chicago
99.9 WBUS Kankakee IL
100.3 WPNT Chicago
101.9 WCLR Skokie IL
103.5 WFYR Chicago
103.9 WWJY Crown Point IN
107.9 WAUR & WYSY Aurora IL
 
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