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What station would you bring back?

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ALRocker

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I stole this idea from the Chicago board, I thought it would be interesting. Since this is a statewide board any station within Alabama or one from another state that puts a good signal into the state can qualify.
 
I've got three:

"Continuous Jams" K-104.9 (later K-104.1) WYOK

Magic 100.7

Oldies 96.1 The Wave WAVH
 
My picks are:

WENN 107.7FM (late '90s) and 107.7FM The X, obviously.

However, both 107.7s can't co-exist so one of them would have to be on another blowtorch frequency.
 
Several choices:

1) WHHY-AM 70s / early 80s Montgomery

2) WHKW-FM early/mid 80s Fayette/Tuscaloosa (now WTXT)

3) WRFS-FM in the days before south and rooster 106 (WSTH-FM) <what a waste of a potential great monster station frequency now>
 
Arrow 100.7 WWRO Pensacola / Mobile!
Arrow 100.7 WLXY Tuscaloosa
92.5 Rock - WAZK in Huntsville
107-7 The X
98.3 WINJ Pulaski TN "J-Rock-N-Roll"
WVNA-FM on 100.3, back in Tuscumbia
 
My picks would be from the BHAM area- K-99, 95-Rock, Stereo Rock ERC, Planet Rock 92.5, and the Big 610 WSGN.
 
I would bring back all the birmingham stations the way the were in the 60 s and or 70s......... the way they were before the damm dell and the sat and the f - - - ing a-- big corp radio crap that killed real radio, Back then radio was great. Great to be a dj and great to just turn on the radio and and hear real radio ,and that 's all we had real radio WSGN, WVOK WYDE WATV WERC THE OLD WBRC WAPI WAQY WENN WYAM LATER WSMQ AND LIKE 1966 ON FM , 93.7 W--- NOW WDJC WAPI WBRC AND WJLN Everyone did there thing and radio was a happy place for all.
 
My Huntsville area picks: AM 1000 TAK (AOR days), 92.5 Rock, the short lived Stereo Rock 14 (WMSL). Although I couldn't get 1450 WFIX, I understand they played some good stuff in the early to mid 80s. I have to throw in WAAY, also a great station.
 
No question about it. I'd bring back the five Top 40 stations that defined Birmingham in the 60's, 70's, and 80's: WSGN, WVOK, WERC, Kicks 106 and I-95. I'd also bring back K-99 while I was it.
 
One more that I would bring back: WYDE-AM as an oldies station. It was the first oldies station in Birmingham, and it may have been the best.
 
ALRocker said:
My Huntsville area picks: AM 1000 TAK (AOR days), 92.5 Rock, the short lived Stereo Rock 14 (WMSL). Although I couldn't get 1450 WFIX, I understand they played some good stuff in the early to mid 80s. I have to throw in WAAY, also a great station.
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Hello, my brother from a different mother. I worked at WFIX during the Summer of '85. Some of the most fun I ever had in radio. We were a cross between AOR and Classic Rock (before Classic Rock became Classic Rock). I also worked a couple of times at WMSL, but mostly at WAJF in Decatur. Radio is just not at all the joy it used to be!
 
I'd bring back 5 stations. 1) WJOR 101.5 St. Joseph TN. It was a hybrid format; Country all day and Southern Gospel all night. It was bought by CC, then sold to Urban Radio, and flipped to R&B in 2006. 2) WFMH 95.5 Cullman. My favorite station, great music, and there will never be anyone else like The Flyin' Dutchman Radio Show. 3) 103.1 WXKI in Moulton. Don't remember much about this station, but I believe it may have carried ABC's "America's Best Country". It got sold to broadcast one and flipped to WEUP in 2000. 4) 97.7 WEZZ Clanton, small town station with the small town sound, flipped to the peach in 2006. 5) 97.7 WKLD Oneonta. My other most favorite station. one of the last examples of small town FM radio, now reduced to a small translator.

Travis
 
Easy answer, 107-7 The X (WRAX Birmingham) in its hey day, late 90's early 2000's. They always had killer large market sounding talent and set trends for ALT stations nationwide. My PD in Milwaukee came from being MD/APD at Q101 in Chicago. He told me they were always looking at WRAX playlist when deciding what to play.

As for others...maybe WQEN and WZYP...back when they werent puppets of corporate programming. I know that's kind of breaking the rules, but they aren't the same stations.

Those 3 were a big part of why I got into radio. I can't imagine being a youngster scanning the dial now though. There's no talent out there. Nobody leaving a lasting impression...except for maybe Fish on Rocket 95.1. That's real radio.

Dylan Paul
 
radiogooob said:
As for others...maybe WQEN and WZYP...back when they werent puppets of corporate programming. I know that's kind of breaking the rules, but they aren't the same stations.

Those 3 were a big part of why I got into radio. I can't imagine being a youngster scanning the dial now though. There's no talent out there. Nobody leaving a lasting impression...except for maybe Fish on Rocket 95.1. That's real radio.
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I also agree about WQEN and WZYP. In fact, those two were the very first Huntsville stations I've ever listen to. My main issue with Rocket is about their Nickelback-heavy playlist. Perhaps I could put up with the other bands that I don't care for if Nickelback was gone. On the other hand, Creed would just wind up being overplayed again. I believe The Vulcan had the same problem.

Yeah, The X had a great playlist back then which is probably why I reference it to the ground in my posts. Sorry about that.
 
i-95 circa 1985-1990
mark and brian
captian jack
scott blow- hannon
robbie raggs
jeff kelly
danny wright
andy spinosi
coyote
JIMBO WOOD!!!
holly stone
chuck hamilton
jon michaels
boomer
shannon stevens

mark st. john
bernie barker
and a young john yuhas TRYING EVER SO DESPERATELY TO GET A JOB THERE....:)

4 hour shifts- "10 songs in a row, a better variety and the best new music off compact disc- birminghams ALL HIT I-95!!!"
 
I would definitely bring back WWSF "The New 98 Surf FM," which was a Ft. Walton Beach, FL station but was licensed to Andalusia. Their top-of-hour was "The New 98 Surf FM reaches the beaches and rocks the docks from Pensacola to Panama City with 100,000 watts of power, loud, clean, and clear!" They were around in the late '80s and early '90s... they played CHR with a more rock-oriented playlist and did not play as much urban and R&B artists. They also played lots of older hits especially from the early and mid '80s.

Back then you had a really good selection of CHRs... WABB 97.5 in Mobile, WWSF 98.1, WJLQ 100.7 in Pensacola, and even WKSM (Kiss FM) 99.3 and later 99.5 in Ft. Walton Beach in their pre-rock days.
 
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