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What were best Philly stations in 1960's?

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RadioDuffer

What were the most popular Philly AM radio stations in the 1960's?
Can anybody post some links with airchecks for these stations?
I've been searching through airchecks during the Summer of Love 1967
trying to find commercials that aired. Maybe they aired in Philly.
Thanks :)
 
That is a good site as I've been there before. They have but one aircheck
from the summer of 1967 and it didn't help me. Any others?
(I've been to Reel Radio website also, even they were of no help) :-[
Thanks.
 
amfmsw said:
The early '60's was kinged by WIBG...no question most popular. The late '60's was kinda shared by WIP, WFIL and KYW. But all were AM.
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Some would say WDVR (101.1) scored a top spot long before FM dominance. One or two books in the late 60's, no? Also, I know it was about 1975 when KYW became the top station in Philly. Did they score some big doggie ratings (if not, a foreshadowing of things to come) back in the 60's?
 
Indeed, in terms of straight cume, WDVR was regularly one of the few FMs in the country to hit the top ten by the late 1960s... Add to that the fact that the audience itself was a very desirable one, it becomes even more evident just what an amazing accomplishment the station's efforts were... While the measurement methodology was somewhat different then, a 1970 report I saw years ago (ARB?) had WDVR in the number four position overall-- again, amazing... When thinking of FM in Philadelphia during the late '60s, everyone talks of WMMR as the outlet that put the band "on the map" here-- but the Kurtz and Lee team of WDVR was the one making all the real money!

All-news KYW was regularly in the top five by the late '60s-- during most of its time as NBC-owned WRCV (1956-65) it was a big-budget, 50,000-watt also-ran outside of a few programs... The other '60s-era station to regularly score well that hasn't been mentioned yet was WCAU, during its golden era of talk radio...
 
Thanks for all the links guys, but unfortunately, no airchecks from the small window
of Summer 1967. :mad: That is my problem. I was in Balt/Wash area and there are
practically no airchecks during that timeframe from there either.
If anybody has anymore links I can check, please post them. Thanks.
 
Oh well, the Summer Of Luv. The Airplane, Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Big Brother & The Holding Company...I guess there's no audio record of it because "some" of us were too high to figure out how to thread a Revox A-77!
 
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