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Will Someone Please Explain........

Re: legendary AMs. DC?

>
> WEAM at 1390 and WEEL at 1310. BOth were in Virginia and
> had crappy signals at night. Also WINX in Maryland

WEEL was not CHR. It tried oldies 1970 to early ´71, but that was it.
 
Re: BUFFALO,NY Legendary Stations

>>
> on 1400 especially from 1966 until the mid 70's.....WYSL
> gave kb a run for their money........WYSL was a McLendon
> Station......and Gordon McLendon is one
> of many given credit for the top 40 format

There is only one credit for the first Top 40 Format, and that is KOWH in Omaha, debuting in August of 1952 under owner Todd Storz and his PD, Bill Stewart.

"Storz, it's generally agreed, invented Top 40. The other broadcaster credited with pioneering the format is Gordon McLendon, who did his thing in Texas. But even McLendon, Fatherley notes, has conceded that Storz was first, and, in Radio's Revolution, Fatherly quotes a WHB PD recalling how McLendon visited the Kansas City station once. "He came in and sat on my wastebasket and listened...and went back to Dallas and picked it up."
 
Re: KAKC Was The One

Yes, KAKC.

Scooter was down in South Florida in the mid seventies. Was he on the short lived WAXY-FM when they were top 40 in 1974? Or was he somewhere else?

That is a name that is hard to forget.


> KAKC was one, Drake cousulted for a while, PD was Scooter
> Seagraves.
>
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Re: legendary AMs. DC?

Yes, WEAM is what I was thinking about.


>
> WEAM at 1390 and WEEL at 1310. BOth were in Virginia and
> had crappy signals at night. Also WINX in Maryland
> <P ID="signature">______________
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Re: legendary AMs. DC?

> >
> > WEAM at 1390 and WEEL at 1310. BOth were in Virginia and
>
> > had crappy signals at night. Also WINX in Maryland
>
> WEEL was not CHR. It tried oldies 1970 to early ´71, but
> that was it.


Weel was too in the sixties
>
 
Re: legendary AMs. DC?

> > >
> > > WEAM at 1390 and WEEL at 1310. BOth were in Virginia
> and
> >
> > > had crappy signals at night. Also WINX in Maryland
> >
> > WEEL was not CHR. It tried oldies 1970 to early ´71, but
> > that was it.
>
>
> Weel was too in the sixties
>
Wel, it was MOR prior to going All Gold in 1970, and I believe it had been MOR and community stuff for most of that decade. When would it have been Top 40?
 
Re: KAKC Was The One

> Yes, KAKC.
>
> Scooter was down in South Florida in the mid seventies. Was
> he on the short lived WAXY-FM when they were top 40 in 1974?
> Or was he somewhere else?

Possible. WAXY-FM was also consulted by Drake at one point, I believe.
 
Re: legendary AMs

> > > > KBLA----Burbank
> > >
> > > When it was a 250 watter on 1490? NO, it was a 10,000
> > wattdays and 1,000watts night on 1510
>
> That was Ontario, CA. Burbank was 1490 and moved to 1500.
>

Super 15 KBLA!

Reelradio has Dave Diamond's last snow on KBLA, before they changed to country KBBQ (right?), and later as KROQ (great staff, great station--absolutely no signal and absolutely no money).<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Johnny Morgan on 01/29/06 02:24 AM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: legendary AMs

> > > > > KBLA----Burbank
> > > >
> > > > When it was a 250 watter on 1490? NO, it was a 10,000
>
> > > wattdays and 1,000watts night on 1510
> >
> > That was Ontario, CA. Burbank was 1490 and moved to 1500.
> >
>
> Super 15 KBLA!
>
> Reelradio has Dave Diamond's last snow on KBLA, before they
> changed to country KBBQ (right?), and later as KROQ (great
> staff, great station--absolutely no signal and absolutely no
> money).

I can see the old 1550 towers from my office, sitting on top of the Verdugos. This is the most bizarre AM and AM directional I have ever seen. First, putting it on a maountain meant the coverage would be horrible. second, the pattern was incredibly critical, and they had to dig a hole in the rock mountaintop to put the transmitter in, so the building would not distort the pattern.

Now, the towers hold the KROQ FM antanna, and the KXOL antenna too.

I am told the 1 kw day 250 night on 1490 covered more.
 
Madame Tussaud's WAXY Museum--Wm. Drake, Dir.

> "An RKO General Radio station."
> >
> > Possible. WAXY-FM was also consulted by Drake at one
> point,
> > I believe.
> >
>

There ya go. It was, I believe, one of Drake's syndicated service stations in the late 60s/early 70s. He was gone from RKO in 1973, so I doubt they'd retain him to consult when WAXY-FM went Top 40 in 1974, as you recall.
 
Re: legendary AMs. DC?

> > > >
> > > > WEAM at 1390 and WEEL at 1310. BOth were in Virginia
>
> > and
> > >
> > > > had crappy signals at night. Also WINX in Maryland
> > >
> > > WEEL was not CHR. It tried oldies 1970 to early ´71, but
>
> > > that was it.
> >
> >
> > Weel was too in the sixties
> >
> Wel, it was MOR prior to going All Gold in 1970, and I
> believe it had been MOR and community stuff for most of that
> decade. When would it have been Top 40?

I thought they a WEEL memories website and it was TOP 40------and I was there
>
 
Re: legendary AMs. DC?

> > >
> > Wel, it was MOR prior to going All Gold in 1970, and I
> > believe it had been MOR and community stuff for most of
> that
> > decade. When would it have been Top 40?
>
> I thought they a WEEL memories website and it was TOP
> 40------and I was there
>

I was OM for WEEL in 1970, while waiting for the Richmond station to be FCC approved where I went as GM. I never heard any reference to it being Top 40 previously. That is why I asked when it had been Top 40.
 
Re: Madame Tussaud's WAXY Museum--Wm. Drake, Dir.

WAXY was Top 40 for less than six months. From around March until April, 1974. I have their six weekly surveys. I also have two Beatles tenth Anniversary WAXY tee shirts. Same shirts issued by other RKO stations.

After October, the automation machine was turned on for another three or four years

The same format was used on WROR-Boston. It may have also been in use on WFYR Chicago.


>
> There ya go. It was, I believe, one of Drake's syndicated
> service stations in the late 60s/early 70s. He was gone
> from RKO in 1973, so I doubt they'd retain him to consult
> when WAXY-FM went Top 40 in 1974, as you recall.
>
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Re: Madame Tussaud's WAXY Museum--Wm. Drake, Dir.

>> > There ya go. It was, I believe, one of Drake's syndicated
>
> > service stations in the late 60s/early 70s. He was gone
> > from RKO in 1973, so I doubt they'd retain him to consult
> > when WAXY-FM went Top 40 in 1974, as you recall.

As an automated station, 'FYR was always oldies--first the Drake Classic Gold format, then an RKO in-house format after Drake left them. When they went all-live in 1977, it was as an AC, not an oldies or Top 40.
 
Re: Several good ones.

> My absolute favorites... Ams only.
>
> WLS all through the 60's
> WABC in same period
> WIXY '65 to 70
> KHJ 65 to early 70´s.
> KCBQ in early 70´s
> KLIF late 50's to early 70's.
> KIMN in the 60's.
> KFRC under Tom Rounds.
> WQXI early to mid 70's.
> KOMA all through the 60's.
> WQAM with Rick Shaw (that was where I met todd Storz)
> XERC Mexico City 63-1970
> WKBW in the 60's
> WGH all through the 60's... complete with WABC chime. Great
> jocks for medium market.
> WSAI Cincy and, for a while, WCPO there.
> WMAK Nashville late 60's to early 70's under Sullivan and
> Scott Shannon.
> WDGY in Mppls. in early to mid 60's. and KDWB after that.
> KTSA San Antonio, except for the KAKA call change fiasco.
> A couple of smalle rmarket ones... KQEO Albuquerque, KERN
> Bakersfield and KRIG in Odessa as well as KELP in El Paso.
> And, of course, HCRM in Quito Ecuador.
>

While driving at night in northern Wisconsin in my Ford Pinto back in the 70s, I would listen to KAAY in Little Rock! Great Top 40 station, tough call letters to say! It was fun to hear a jock trip up on them once in awhile!!

Regards,
Ken Clark
 
WNOR"Music Go Round" Norfolk,Va.
WGH "Famous 1310" Norfolk,Va.
WLS Chicago
KJR Seattle
KHJ LA.
WFIL
KNUS Dallas
 
WLS Chicago
CKLW Detroit
WCFL Chicago
13Q Pittsburgh
WTAE Pittsburgh
WKBW Buffalo
WABC New York
Small Market WJET Erie, PA
 
My AM faves? how 'bout...

"High Flying" WING,Dayton (loved the PAMS jingles... Kirkie and the late Gene "By Golly" Barry rocked the Gem City!)
CKLW Windsor/Detroit
WIZE Springfield(John Hall (God rest his soul)made that station what it was...not the greedy manager who replaced Steve Joos and oversold it and runined it in the 80s.)
WCFL Chicago
WLS Chicago
WLAC Nashville(Spider Harrison picked up where John R left off when he retired..The Hossman was a legend even with his graveyard shift black gospel show....miss the 'ol dude)
WERK Muncie(a 250 watt mini-brute daytimer that sounded like a milion in the 1970s...if only I had a voice like "Super Shirk" or "Marvelous Mark" McClure)
 
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