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

[HHH]

AM Stations:

WEEI 590 -- In the early-mid 1960s when they still ran some CBS Radio shows, like Arthur Godfrey, Art Linkletter's House Party, etc.
Also: They had a weatherman named E.B. Rideout, who was with the station since the 1920s!

WNAC 680 -- In the early and mid-60s. An interesting blend of pop standards and heavy personality-information, with lots of cross pollination from WNAC-TV (Channel 7) like Gus Saunders, Louise Morgan, etc. Plus Yankee Network news. Outdated by the time they switched to WRKO (1967) and closed the Yankee Network, but still kind of charming in an old fashioned way.

WHDH 850 -- Jess Cain. What can you say? Great, just great.

WBZ 1030 -- In the top 40 days (about '61-'68). Bruce Bradley was outstanding, and Dick Summer's "Subway" Show was amazing (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band on that big AM signal!).

WILD 1090 --- Jimmy "Early" Byrd's morning show was ultra-cool!

WCOP 1150 -- They were Top 40 for a few years, and I have fond memories of the "Pepsi Dance Party" (live from The Surf Nantasket)...
...later heard on WMEX when 'COP dropped Top 40 in about 1963.

WMEX 1510 -- Anyone who was born before 1960 knew that 1510 was THE young-person's radio station in Boston in the late 50s through
the early 70s. Arnie Ginsburg was timeless (he played local bands like Teddy and The Pandas, The Rockin' Ramrods, etc). His Sunday night oldies show was pretty early for playing oldies (this is how I first heard some of the great 50s songs). Always uptempo. Great production. Mac Richmond, the owner, was impossible to work for, but kept this station a market leader for many years despite a crappy signal in many suburbs.

WNTN 1550 -- In their free-form progressive days around 1970-1971. Played some amazing stuff. Originally home of John Gorman and Denny Sanders, later two major players at WMMS in Cleveland. I think Howard Stern worked there at one time, too.

WBOS 1600 -- If only to hear Norm Ruby's pipes ("WBOS 1600 AM....92.9 FM....The Music Theatre").

 

[jacobr]

"CGY!!!!

 

[Garrett]

The Exxon station on Washington Street in Brighton Center ;D


I have three, (and these should be no suprise to anyone):
Power103-WHTT, Z-94 and Star 93-7.

 

[Channel Surf]

From a long time ago....

103.3-WEEI-FM-"The Young Sound" era...
105.7-WKOX-FM

 

[jake1966]

From my early days, WRKO with Dale Dorman. Then I started to listen to WBCN then WCOZ (Kick ass rock n roll) then to WFNX when it first came out. A bit of WHTT for the New Wave. Then after coming home, in the late 80s, from the service I'd listen to Charles, Ken and Mark on BCN followed by Tammi if I was still listening. Now, no one.

 

[radiorama1]

The Exxon station on Washington Street in Brighton Center ;D


I have three, (and these should be no suprise to anyone):
Power103-WHTT, Z-94 and Star 93-7.

Curious Garrett, what is it about the "Power 103" incarnation of WHTT that you miss...

And, you don't by any chance have any airchecks, do you? 8)

 

[Garrett]

The Exxon station on Washington Street in Brighton Center ;D


I have three, (and these should be no suprise to anyone):
Power103-WHTT, Z-94 and Star 93-7.

Curious Garrett, what is it about the "Power 103" incarnation of WHTT that you miss...

And, you don't by any chance have any airchecks, do you? 8)

Well I lump Power 103 together with the "Hit Radio 103, WHTT" incarnation, since to me I really don't remember a difference. I did not start listening to FM until after 103.3 changed their name from WEEI FM.

Indeed, I do have some airchecks but none that I recorded myself. I even have one of WEEI. They are all from a gentleman I exchanged email with back in 1996. A few of them are at http://www.airchexx.com .

As for what I missed about it? Great Jingles for starters, just the right amount of reverb. Nice solid rotation, very disciplined. Same for Z-94, but no reverb at that point, and I didn't really start listening to Z-94/WZOU until after WHTT was gone. Also when WHTT was around, (1983-Spring '86), Kiss 108 seemed a bit too urban for me at the time. Of course, my tastes have changed since then.

 

[Retro]

Kiss didn't start to streamline a little bit until Jerry McKenna ended up being the music director back in '87.

Well I lump Power 103 together with the "Hit Radio 103, WHTT" incarnation, since to me I really don't remember a difference. I did not start listening to FM until after 103.3 changed their name from WEEI FM.

Under Power 103, 'HTT had a much tighter playlist, only having 35 songs, as opposed to 50 with the "Hit Radio" moniker. They really didn't sound as good although I still preferred them to 'ZOU at the time.

 

[radiorama1]

The Exxon station on Washington Street in Brighton Center ;D


I have three, (and these should be no suprise to anyone):
Power103-WHTT, Z-94 and Star 93-7.

Curious Garrett, what is it about the "Power 103" incarnation of WHTT that you miss...

And, you don't by any chance have any airchecks, do you? 8)

Well I lump Power 103 together with the "Hit Radio 103, WHTT" incarnation, since to me I really don't remember a difference. I did not start listening to FM until after 103.3 changed their name from WEEI FM.

Indeed, I do have some airchecks but none that I recorded myself. I even have one of WEEI. They are all from a gentleman I exchanged email with back in 1996. A few of them are at http://www.airchexx.com .

As for what I missed about it? Great Jingles for starters, just the right amount of reverb. Nice solid rotation, very disciplined. Same for Z-94, but no reverb at that point, and I didn't really start listening to Z-94/WZOU until after WHTT was gone. Also when WHTT was around, (1983-Spring '86), Kiss 108 seemed a bit too urban for me at the time. Of course, my tastes have changed since then.

I agree with you... there's just something about hearing Top 40 Radio with reverb... I doubt that we will ever hear that kind of sound in Boston again. (I mean with current records)

I remember Power 103, however the only airchecks I have been able to find online thus far are the WEEI and the "Hit Radio" days... would it be possible for you to post your "Power 103" airchecks someplace? I would love to hear them!

Thanks in advance 8)

 

[radiorama1]

Oh, and here's a thought: How long will it be now before we start hearing Men At Work and Kajagoogoo on "Oldies 103?"

 

[Retro]

The Exxon station on Washington Street in Brighton Center ;D


I have three, (and these should be no suprise to anyone):
Power103-WHTT, Z-94 and Star 93-7.

Curious Garrett, what is it about the "Power 103" incarnation of WHTT that you miss...

And, you don't by any chance have any airchecks, do you? 8)

Well I lump Power 103 together with the "Hit Radio 103, WHTT" incarnation, since to me I really don't remember a difference. I did not start listening to FM until after 103.3 changed their name from WEEI FM.

Indeed, I do have some airchecks but none that I recorded myself. I even have one of WEEI. They are all from a gentleman I exchanged email with back in 1996. A few of them are at http://www.airchexx.com .

As for what I missed about it? Great Jingles for starters, just the right amount of reverb. Nice solid rotation, very disciplined. Same for Z-94, but no reverb at that point, and I didn't really start listening to Z-94/WZOU until after WHTT was gone. Also when WHTT was around, (1983-Spring '86), Kiss 108 seemed a bit too urban for me at the time. Of course, my tastes have changed since then.

I agree with you... there's just something about hearing Top 40 Radio with reverb... I doubt that we will ever hear that kind of sound in Boston again. (I mean with current records)

I remember Power 103, however the only airchecks I have been able to find online thus far are the WEEI and the "Hit Radio" days... would it be possible for you to post your "Power 103" airchecks someplace? I would love to hear them!

Thanks in advance 8)

I think there is one at the MIT/Radio-Locator site.

 

[Retro]

Ok, there used to be on at http://www.bostonradio.org however, it is not there anymore for some reason though.

 

[BZFM]

I miss Larry Glick.

I also miss all my old fave stations too, but Lorenzo Glickiano somehow sticks out. No one's ever been able to do a show like his, dunno why.

 

[WVCAfan]

Most missed? The easy answer, only 2: WKBW, 1520 and of course WVCA-fm, the man not the station

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

WRKO, when they first came on with top 30...

 

[FPB]

WJDA
WMEX (When they played music)
WADN (Walden 11200)
WCRN (Swing 830)
WFNX (In their first couple of years)
WBUR (Tony C. in the morning)
WCAS (As already mentioned)

>Another honorable mention even though it's not quite radio would be... "V66"..
>
I'll second that.

 

[spt87]

1 - 1190 WOWO - "Chris Underwood and the all night, nationwide request party"
2 - 84 WHAS - Joe Donovan overnights and the great weekend jocks who used to rock the eastern US
3 - 10-9-0 WILD - The people's station

Also, all the other stations that used to broadcast in analog AM stereo.

 

[Dick's History]

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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Was a time when it seemed like every third station on the FM dial ran Beautiful Music. There was so much of it we just thought it would be around forever. We were wrong. I listened to WSSH FM from when it went on with Beautiful in March 1971 until they went AC in 1982, or was it '81? And yes I miss it very much. As well as WJIB FM which was a better station, though my own fave was WLKW FM from Providence which Tony Rizzini programmed. For AM Beautiful Music I liked WBOS in the mid 60s because they would verbally enthuse over the music. WBUR FM I thought had the best jazz selection though did not care for some of the personalities. And in the 60s they ran Ed Beach's Just Jazz program from WRVR in NYC. For Classical Music I liked Lurtsema's morning show on WGBH, and I still listen in the car to WHRB Harvard. Peter Ross, who I went to college with, on WCRB FM in the 80s was had excellent taste. Jonathan Schwartz was on WNAC AM with MOR music in 1964 and I used to enjoy him as I later did on WNEW AM NYC. Sometimes I would enjoy WBCN late 60s and early 70s and on and off into the early 80s when the music got beyond me. I was a fan of Jean Shepherd on WGBH late 60s and WBUR in the mid 70s. They ran tapes, of course, of his WOR programs evenings which ended when he was fired by that station in 1977. I miss them all and more.

 

[frankberry]

I run a private Beautiful Music stream ... available only to me and my family, so I can listen to it when I want to relax ... no matter where I am.

 

[Dick's History]

I run a private Beautiful Music stream ... available only to me and my family, so I can listen to it when I want to relax ... no matter where I am.

Yes? Many of us who essentially grew up with instrumental music listened to Beautiful the way we listened to Classical Music. Though I can remember times I put on Beautiful stations to help me get to sleep (WSSH FM early 70s) it was for me more of a listening format and I looked for the excitement in it - the color, drama, motion of lines. Listening to radio - and of course this is true of ANY radio! - there were always selections loved and things I would not so much care to hear. So many of us , at least who could afford it, acquired LP. tape, CD libraries of our own. This began well before downloads and streaming. I still play and enjoy some of the things I was listening to back in the late 1950s.