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What's your "most-missed" station(s)?

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oomboppamaumau

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My most-missed stations:

WEEI-590 (news-talk)

WSSH (mid-1970's "elevator music")

WVBF (mid 1970's-great album rock)

WCGY (Rock Garden-automated great rock)

and WJIB (from Commercial wharf-more "elevator music", which I found strangely comforting/relaxing ).

Those were my radio "good old days".

What are yours?

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I'll add a few...

94 1/2 WCOZ
93.7 WCGY
One of the old WBOS days (early 80's)

WBET
WCAV

Honorable mention..

WKKT (the Cat)


The old pirates in the Braintree/Brockton area. Not like todays, good stuff. They had fun!
 
Cueburn said:
Honorable mention..

WKKT (the Cat)
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Are you talking about the mid-80s CHR that became WZLX? Curiously, what did you like about them? I always thought they were kinda boring...absolutely no energy. No wonder they didn't last very long with Kiss, WZOU & WHTT to compete with.

Of Boston's mid-80s CHRs I preferred Kiss (though they played a lot of stiffs) and WHTT. Didn't particularly like WZOU in their "Zoo" days, but once they became Z-94 I thought they smoked.
 
AM
WHDH Boston "is where my friends are"
WXKS 1430 Standards - It was, what is was and did well.. Si ?
WITS 1510 (First radio station I ever visited) Used to have to disguise my once youthful voice to get onto the talk shows in my youth..
WNCG 1450 Newburyport (First radio station I ever worked at)(Honorable mention)

FM
94.5 WCOZ - Still have some original bumper stickers around.. Kick Ass rock n roll
96.9 WCDJ - I thought Jazz would have worked better in Boston
103.3 Enjoying all the format flips before becoming very successful at Oldies, I guess the same applies for 100.7 before becoming the successful WZLX in which WBCN used to call the "Classic Copycat Station" before common ownership..
104.1 WBCN - 1970's 80's, early 90's.. When the station had a pulse
107.9 WXKS-FM Anytime was great before Evergreen and CC bought it, could never imagine middays being voice tracked on a station like this in Boston...
 
I also miss Kiss 108 when it was owned by Pyramid, and WKKT... maybe it's because I only discovered and listened to them for a few weeks before they flipped to WZLX. I also LOVED WHTT, during the days when they'd simulcast the "Hot Hit Video" show that was being broadcast on TV (either Channel 5 or 7... I can't remember).
 
Another honorable mention even though it's not quite radio would be... "V66".. Since there were a lot of local radio people as "Vee Jays" !
 
My most-missed stations..... hmmmmmmm......

AM:
680 WRKO "Now Radio 680" (1967)
1150 WACQ "1150, The Q" (1977-1979)
1410 WOKW (a great local station from 1962-1973, started as a rocker)
1460 WBET Brockton
1510 WMEX

FM:
93.7 WCGY "The Rock Garden" and the oldies format "Blue Suede Radio"
94.5 WCOZ "Kick and Roll and Roll, Stereo 94 and a half"
97.7 WCAV "The FM Cave" (the rock format)
98.5 WROR "The Golden Great 98!" (oldies)
98.5 WRKO-FM "R-KO, The Shy But Friendly Robot" (Top-40/oldies, automated with Sonovox jingles)
100.7 WCOP-FM "Total Gold 101" (oldies 1973-74)
105.7 WVBF "EEEEEEE-lectronic Mama!" (Top-40/rock)
106.7 WBZ-FM "Rockin' Stereo 106.7"
107.3 WAAF during the free-form days in Worcester (1971-1975)


The weekend Brockton/Braintree 'boots (pirates) were truly original back in the 1980's and early 90's. I especially liked 'HDL (102.1). Eventhough they were semi-legal, they were fun to listen to.
 
B-Rock said:
I also miss Kiss 108 when it was owned by Pyramid, and WKKT... maybe it's because I only discovered and listened to them for a few weeks before they flipped to WZLX. I also LOVED WHTT, during the days when they'd simulcast the "Hot Hit Video" show that was being broadcast on TV (either Channel 5 or 7... I can't remember).
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"Hot Hit Video" was on Channel 7 in 1984 with Bill Smith as host (then an 'HTT jock, later on 'KKT/'ZLX)
 
pre-1995 WBCN.
pre-1988 WAAF.

most of all, Eagle 93.7. I was always more a WBCN and WZLX fan but this station had upbeat jocks, great imaging, and though the music was all over the place it was usually a fun listen.
 
WVBF--"Stereo 105"--circa 1973 may be the best personality hit station I've ever heard. Air staff was amazing: Magic Christian, Ron Robin, Austin in Boston, Charlie Kendall, Bud Ballou, Chris Kane, Jo Jo Kinkaid and the list goes on and on. What an amazing radio station. And the jingles still stand as among the best ever.
 
Nash-WILD-AM 1090, Urban 740 WCAS , Star 93.7 , 96.9 Smooth Jazz , PD Sunny Joe White ( R.I.P. ) Kiss 108, Short live Urban A/C 1150 am The Touch , 24 hours Hip Hop on 104.9 WRBB , V66 , Preview and Starcase .
 
The Touch was great! Now if they could just do that on FM as well?

Also miss WFNX during the 80'.s Kisss 108 during the 1987-1990 era. (That would be when Jerry Mckenna was the MD and the late Sunny Joe White was still at the helm.)
 
Oldbones said:
Cueburn said:
Honorable mention..

WKKT (the Cat)
Click to expand...

Are you talking about the mid-80s CHR that became WZLX? Curiously, what did you like about them? I always thought they were kinda boring...absolutely no energy. No wonder they didn't last very long with Kiss, WZOU & WHTT to compete with.
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Yes I am talking about the same 100.7 station. Can't really put a finger on what I liked about it, however it is only an honorable mention.

I talked to someone way way back in the real early days of WZLX (the Bill Smith days)who worked at the station. According to him (can't remember who he was, I think he was either a board-op or one of the road crew) claimed that "The Cat" was never meant to last, it was just a bridge to Classic Hits.
 
Perhaps the most interesting thing that WKKT did was when they were playing a tape relay of 12" versions of songs just before the switchover to ZLX.
 
the old 94.5 WZOU was everywhere back in the late 80's. I loved listening to that, it beat Kiss 108 hands down in my opinion. But, having the competition made both sound pretty sharp.

I miss Star 93.7 too :)
 
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