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What Detroit radio stations from yesteryear do you miss?

chrocket, the Edge was kinda like that too. there was so much music that I heard on the Edge that once they went away, it took years for me to find. 89x plays active rock to compete... somewhat with 101.1 WRIF because their sister station 93.9 the river is an Adult Album Alternative station, and that station took a lot of the classic alternative that 89x played. and 89x added more Active Rock tracks. I don't think 89x and the 'RIF compete to be honest. both stations have their thing. finally, in defense of 89x, the CanCon regulations that they follow-which help them in some of the artists that they play, hurt them in that they can't play every single new artist because of the Can-Con regulations.
 
WXYZ am 1270 with dj's like Lee Allan , Dave Prince ,any body remember Chicken Man on xyz? WABX in late 60's and other early "progressive" rock stations in the late 60's early 70's when they would play everything from Rock to Jazz to blues the only thing that came close to that was when WDET used to play music.
 
rpkrmr said:
WXYZ am 1270 with dj's like Lee Allan , Dave Prince ,any body remember Chicken Man on xyz? WABX in late 60's and other early "progressive" rock stations in the late 60's early 70's when they would play everything from Rock to Jazz to blues the only thing that came close to that was when WDET used to play music.
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WXYT when Mark Scott and David Newman were there.

Definitely WABX, the original WRIF and WWWW....

You are spot on about the progressive thing. You'd hear Joni Mitchell and Iron Butterfly, back to back..... then, there's the
famous Janis Jophlin interview where the S word made it on the air.
 
I miss Martha Jean the Queen (RIP), I miss the Electrifuying Mojo, I miss Smooth Jazz, and I miss Disco 93!
 
The comment about Martha Jean the Queen above brings to mind another station that I wasn't too happy to see disappear - 1400 WQBH. Right up to the end, and even after Martha Jean's death when they were still replaying her old talks on the air, they stayed a full-service voice for the black adult community, with urban AC and oldies music, gospel, and talk - sort of like the black version of '60s-'80s WJR. Then Salem took over and flipped it to neocon talk (including that one personality, whose name I refuse to utter, who told a gay caller to get AIDS and die), and I haven't visited the 1400 spot on the dial since.
 
I second jry on the old 1270 WXYT.

CKLW in the early 80s was pretty good too. This would be the last years of Dick Purtan there and when Tom Ryan took over mornings.
 
UMFan - in the Billboard issues on Google Books is the issue from 1982 to commemorate CKLW's 50th anniversary. It's an interesting read and insight as to the state of one of North America's legendary radio stations in its twilight years. A little over two years later, the Big 8 would be gone for good.
 
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

By 1982 they were already on a downward slide, ratings wise. They just couldn't match the great fidelity of FM. They spent a lot of money to adopt AM Stereo in a poorly timed investment.

Ratings aside, the station was still very well programmed right until the end. It went to standards for a few years and then to the talk format that exists now.
 
I miss 106.7 THE BEAT OF DETROIT. 106.7 THE D SUCKS, and I pray that 106.7 THE D fails.
 
chrocket87 said:
I'm 24 and from Toledo, so I obviously don't know as much as many of the posters here, but I miss 93.1 DRQ the most. It was a station I was honestly excited to listen to when I got home from school. It played so many (mostly European dance) artists that everyone else wouldn't touch or wouldn't touch until months after DRQ was done with it. I never heard the Edge, but I liked The Bone when it was around, as 89x is too active rock for me and they played the indie artists x would never touch.
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That is right Chrocket87 im 22 from also from Toledo 92.5Kiss was always boring as hell it was so nice to slide the dial up a little to 93.1 DRQ and get all the great music!
I also don't remember 105.1 The Edge but I do remember Wheelz 98.7, Planet 96.3 ,89X and Buzz 106.5!
89X was the station I would go crazy it I couldn't get 89X when I was a little shit!
 
Human Numan said:
I miss 106.7 THE BEAT OF DETROIT. 106.7 THE D SUCKS, and I pray that 106.7 THE D fails.
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Exactly why the hell doe's Detroit need another DINOSAUR classic rock station?
Let me repeat 93.1,93.9,94.7,some what 101.1,104.3 and now drum roll PLEASE
106.7 The DINOSAUR! :p
The next generation of classic rock NOT it's the some stuff that any other
classic rock station plays!
 
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