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=[ WHAT RADIO STATION WOULD YOU BRING BACK???]=

Here is mine:

Power 95 Kenosha. Best Top 40 station as you were driving between Milwaukee (Hot 102) and Chicago (B 96). Probably in my mind most underrated too. Loved those trips with my parents to Chicago for the weekend. Best era of Top 40 was the early 90s.

Party Radio B 96 (mid-90s format). The station would always put you in a good mood. And crazy how they played songs like Roula "Lick It" early in the morning.

The Bus (WBUS)
Y 108 (Great Hot AC mix)
106 Jamz (950 AM too)
 
WSTI, Stickney, Illinois 750Khz. It was my pirate station as a teenager. I would then go about the task of changing a few things in my life. :)
 
EnbyCee said:
TR1992 said:
Another station I would like to see comeback would be AM 1570 WBEE in Harvey, from a few years back. At that time
they were "classy blues and jazz", from 5 AM to 9 PM, and brokered religious programming at night. They played
everything from Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra. They had very few commercial's(which unfortunately is the reason
the station was sold), just long set's of music with host's that really loved the music they were playing. They were
not afraid to play a song that was 12 or 13 minutes long. It was run out of building the size of a garage at 157th
and Campbell on the border of Harvey and Markham. They still transmit from there, but have moved the studio
to somewhere on the southside of Chicago. They run all religious programming and Gospel music now.
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Yeah, WBEE was AWESOME! They played REAL jazz, not that elevator music "new age" yuppie crap WNUA played.
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Have you checked out WNTD between 6PM and 5AM? They've gone to a format that I understand mildly resembles that of the old WBEE. It uses the handle "Avenue950 and the website is: http://www.avenue950.com/
 
"The Great 98" G-98, WGCL in Cleveland
HANDS DOWN......CKLW..."The Big 8"
and 96.3 Jamz, WHYT, Detroit.
 
WNUA of course, also the Beautiful 96 WKKD FM from the mid-late 70's. And what was the station in the 70's they called jazzed up rock?
 
gr8oldies said:
WCFL in the 1970s, with all jocks being in their prime. By doing that, I would make myself a teenager again
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In 1965 I heard the first new sounds of CFL at night when they grabbed everybody from KYC in Cleveland. Of course I was a college kid at the time.
 
WZZP, ZIP 106
I'd also make WMMS like it used to be. With the Buzzard & no other cookie cutter Buzzards around the country. There is & always will be one Buzzard- WMMS-101fm, Cleveland.
 
radioaircheck said:
BBM-FM before they went to crap!!!
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WBBM FM The Killer B was a dance format? If that was the case, they need to bring back dance music 100%.

I agree that they are now a crappy radio station.
 
This really brings back some fond old memories .. WVON was one of the pioneers of Black radio in those days .. a post mentioned Purvis Spann, Butterball, and Herb Kent .. but failed to mentions the other "good guys" that made WVON the "voice of the Negro" in the early days .. lets not forget E Rodney Jones, Bill "Doc" Lee, Joe Cobb, Lucky Cordell, and Bernadine C. Washington. There was a productiton guy at WVON named Tony Gozsman (sp) that was a front runnere in production at that time. Down the hall from WVON was the studios of WSDM and the legendary Yvonne Daniels .. Yvonne later went on to work at WLS. WVON did infact take the ratings from WLS at one tiime. The stations were known as L&P Broadcasting which stood for Leonard and Phil Chess who also owned Chess Records on 21st street. I have left out a few people but at my age ..... ! Many of these legendary people have passed on but left their mark.
 
nuffsaid said:
This really brings back some fond old memories .. WVON was one of the pioneers of Black radio in those days .. a post mentioned Purvis Spann, Butterball, and Herb Kent .. but failed to mentions the other "good guys" that made WVON the "voice of the Negro" in the early days .. lets not forget E Rodney Jones, Bill "Doc" Lee, Joe Cobb, Lucky Cordell, and Bernadine C. Washington. There was a productiton guy at WVON named Tony Gozsman (sp) that was a front runnere in production at that time. Down the hall from WVON was the studios of WSDM and the legendary Yvonne Daniels .. Yvonne later went on to work at WLS. WVON did infact take the ratings from WLS at one tiime. The stations were known as L&P Broadcasting which stood for Leonard and Phil Chess who also owned Chess Records on 21st street. I have left out a few people but at my age ..... ! Many of these legendary people have passed on but left their mark.
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Me (this white guy) couldn't agree with you more.

Not enough has been written about stations such as WVON (and their story should be told!), or WAOK in Atlanta, or WDIA in Memphis as well as the other early R & B, later soul stations without whom many artists would not have been given exposure given how tough it was to get black records on mainstream radio way back when.

I am webmaster for the website for our local broadcast hall of fame here in Ohio. Not long ago, I went to great lengths to tell the story of our local R & B station which went on the air...on FM...in 1964. And they were late comers to the R & B format for sure.

I also teach radio broadcasting and am amazed at the number of radio textbooks who try to suggest Urban Contemporary radio never came along until the early 1980's, completely missing the fact that this great music was on the air 30 years before.

People like those you mentioned deserve their place alongside the Alan Freed's, Dick Clark's and Cousin Brucie's of the world.
 
i agree to bring back a station like WSDM it would be like a oasis on the radio dial. as far as WVON i had it on alot of times .also there was WGES i390 befor WVON . p would put it on after WJJD went off at 10pm. during the summer hour's. the real r&b sound of the late 50's. chuck berry bo diddley and so on. hey have a GREAT DAY bobby. blue eye soul brother.! !
 
I'd bring back "Realoldies 1690" with a much better signal on FM this time. Would love to hear Lujack & Edwards in the morning and the music was great.
 
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