When WGCI in Chicago was doing R&B oldies in the 1990s, it called itself "Dusties 1390".
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What was the first radio station you grew up listening as a kid?
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Way back then, I wished that RKO or whoever it was that owned 93 KHJ also owned what was then KNX-FM so that the FM (93.1) could simulcast with 93 KHJ. It would have been the perfect pair. Instead in earlier times 93 KHJ would simulcast with their FM on 101.1, which of course would later become K-Earth (KRTH) 101.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You are far from the first person to have that fantasy, Tomás.
I don't doubt it for a second!
Born in ‘92 so I don’t have much old memories for Charleston, SC. Remember around ‘97 my dad listening to Oliver North on WQNT 1450 (news/talker at the time). He usually listened to WXLY 102.5 for oldies music.
One time we were going to Myrtle Beach for something and my dad realized he could get WFAN 660 for a Giants football game. We listened to it the whole way from Charleston to MB and back.
I got a Walkman radio when I was 7 years old (one of those big, old, yellow 80s style Walkmans), and when I got it I tuned through the local bands looking for stations. The band was much less crowded on FM at the time so I could hear several different markets actually.
Remember WHLZ 92.5 (now a local station) playing country, and it was weird hearing ads and everything for Florence on there, which felt so far away (about 2.5 hours from me at the time).
I went to AM one night, tuning my local WTMA 1250. I didn’t know any better, and moved the dial over to 1210. WPHT came in blasting from Philadelphia with a Phillies game and Harry Kalas. I had been to Philly for a Yankees/Phillies game earlier that summer (1999) and I was amazed I could hear something from that far away.
I also had another early experience, tuning into my local on 96.9 and amazed that the Jacksonville station was cutting in completely. Eventually the next year (2000) I got a shortwave radio and I was hooked from there.
One time we were going to Myrtle Beach for something and my dad realized he could get WFAN 660 for a Giants football game. We listened to it the whole way from Charleston to MB and back.
I got a Walkman radio when I was 7 years old (one of those big, old, yellow 80s style Walkmans), and when I got it I tuned through the local bands looking for stations. The band was much less crowded on FM at the time so I could hear several different markets actually.
Remember WHLZ 92.5 (now a local station) playing country, and it was weird hearing ads and everything for Florence on there, which felt so far away (about 2.5 hours from me at the time).
I went to AM one night, tuning my local WTMA 1250. I didn’t know any better, and moved the dial over to 1210. WPHT came in blasting from Philadelphia with a Phillies game and Harry Kalas. I had been to Philly for a Yankees/Phillies game earlier that summer (1999) and I was amazed I could hear something from that far away.
I also had another early experience, tuning into my local on 96.9 and amazed that the Jacksonville station was cutting in completely. Eventually the next year (2000) I got a shortwave radio and I was hooked from there.
My earliest memories are hazy, but the earliest stations I distinctly remember hearing, in no particular order, were KGO, KFRC (AM and FM, depending on which had the better reception), KCBS, KABL, KFGY (Froggy 92.9), KYCY (Young Country 93.3) and Radio Disney 1310 (KMKY). KFRC, KYCY and KABL are gone, but most of the rest still exist in some form, although they've changed and I've lost interest in them.
I also listened to a smattering of Spanish stations off and on, but I never knew their call letters, and I don't remember the frequencies.
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I also listened to a smattering of Spanish stations off and on, but I never knew their call letters, and I don't remember the frequencies.
c
I remember listening to WXLY in '87 after Broadcasting Magazine said the Greenville station that became WMYI was going to have a stronger signal. It was "classic hits" even then but the format was really oldies. "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper was the one song I remember.
When I was living south of Charlotte I could hear a rock station called WKTM on that frequency.
I used to hear Rush Limbaugh in Myrtle Beach of WOKV Jacksonville at 690.
In the stations' beautiful music days, WPAT and WPAT-FM (Paterson, N.J.) were known as Easy 93 owing to their respective frequencies of 930 kHz and 93.1 MHz.
Sixty-Four KFI in the 70's... Lohman & Barkley in the mornings and John Rook programming the music during the day.
The Mighty Six-Ninety XETRA was always there no matter where my family bounced around California (sometimes via skywave sometimes booming in like a local).
Bill Balance at night via KFMB San Diego.
My dad was a big Robert W. Morgan fan so KMPC was a constant too, it just wasn't mine.
Visiting my grandparents in Wisconsin during Summer vacation... WLS was required.
Also in the seventies we did a lot of driving between Las Vegas and the Southland so "The Highway Stations" were also a fond memory.
The Mighty Six-Ninety XETRA was always there no matter where my family bounced around California (sometimes via skywave sometimes booming in like a local).
Bill Balance at night via KFMB San Diego.
My dad was a big Robert W. Morgan fan so KMPC was a constant too, it just wasn't mine.
Visiting my grandparents in Wisconsin during Summer vacation... WLS was required.
Also in the seventies we did a lot of driving between Las Vegas and the Southland so "The Highway Stations" were also a fond memory.
I grew up along Colorado's front range, so...
Pueblo - 1230 KDZA and 1350 KKAM
Colorado Springs - KKFM 96.5 and KEDI, later KIIQ 102.7 ... to me, for a long time the "big" AM top 40 station in the Springs, 1460 KYSN, sucked
Denver - 950 KIMN, 1280 KTLK, 105.9 KBPI, 106.7 KLZ-FM
Then at night, the world opened up with stations like KOMA 1520 Oklahoma City, WLS 890 Chicago, KSTP 1500 Twin Cities, XEROK 800 El Paso/Juarez...and on a good night (or maybe it's because they forgot to go directional sometimes) XERB 1090 with Wolfman Jack.
I ended up on air at three of the above, including the one in Colorado Springs that I dissed! (Hey I tried to help make it better...)
Pueblo - 1230 KDZA and 1350 KKAM
Colorado Springs - KKFM 96.5 and KEDI, later KIIQ 102.7 ... to me, for a long time the "big" AM top 40 station in the Springs, 1460 KYSN, sucked
Denver - 950 KIMN, 1280 KTLK, 105.9 KBPI, 106.7 KLZ-FM
Then at night, the world opened up with stations like KOMA 1520 Oklahoma City, WLS 890 Chicago, KSTP 1500 Twin Cities, XEROK 800 El Paso/Juarez...and on a good night (or maybe it's because they forgot to go directional sometimes) XERB 1090 with Wolfman Jack.
I ended up on air at three of the above, including the one in Colorado Springs that I dissed! (Hey I tried to help make it better...)
Did you ever listen to Alan Berg or Tom Martino?
Wow Alan Berg now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. His assassination made national news. I never heard him though.
When I discovered AM in 1999-2000 Rush was on WOKV, along with WBMQ 630 in Savannah (which is now off the air) plus our local at 730 WSCC.
And WKTM was the call letters before it went to WXLY as a country station at first (trying to compete with WEZL). Late 80s it went oldies and it stayed that way until 2005.
I hope that either Asesores or Arbitron contacted you!
(WPRM is the lead station for the Cadena Salsoul in Puerto Rico. From 1986 to 2006 it was an absolute #1 in that over-radioed market which has over 130 stations).
XERB was built by Ing. Wilkins as a directional station aimed at LA. It never was operated non-directionally.
I don't think my father ever signed onto one of those things. But I don't think Gangster or Sunshine ever needed our help to be successful!
What about Peter Boyles on 6 thirty khow?