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WRC-FM History dates

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Hey Guys:

I was wondering if anybody would know the exact dates of these format changes on WRC-FM:

1. from simulcast WRC-AM to classical.

2. from classical to Auto Beautiful Music

3. from Auto Beautiful Music to Auto Jazz.

4. from Jazz to Progressive rock (Acid rock)

5. from Progressive rock to Beautiful Music as WKYS (Soft as a Kiss)

Thanks for your help

T.J.
 
Re: WRC-FM History dates, 107.7 HISTORY

Hey Steve:

I e-mailed Skip last week and no reply yet. What should I do next? By the way would you know or anybody else know was WMJR 107.7 at anytime and AC station before going oldies or was it straight oldies from 84 to 92?

Thanks

T.J.
 
The only thing I remember about WMJR was that Celeste Clark had worked their prior to Q107 and she went by the name of Candy Clark. I think that Seth Warner of WMZQ may have worked there too. As for WRC, I think that if you could locate any former NBC engineer you might be able to get information.
 
Thanks Steve for those links!!! Great info!! YOU ROCK!! Looks like to me the info on the WRC-AM tribute site might have been wrong. Or maybe the acid rock format was only part time (nightime) in 1972.

T.J.
 
FM was still experimental in the early 70s. I remember all the beautiful music stations, WGAY, WEZR, WTOP (The Young Sound), WRC and WJMD. I think WPGC-FM and WASH-FM were the only 2 non-beautiful music stations on FM that really had listeners. In those days, 100.3 was WFAN with Spanish, 98.7 WMOD with oldies, 101.1 simulcast of WWDC 1260, 107.3 was WMAL-FM doing (I think) progressive rock, 102.3 was legendary WHFS, 103.5 was still classical WGMS and all-news WAVA 105.1.
 
All quite true... A few more details...

The other FM pop/rock station was WLPL 92.3 from Baltimore, which covered most of the region fairly well, except for the out VA suburbs.

WRC-FM was definitely easy-listening, with the WRC calls in 1973. It then kept is format with the WKYS call letters, and the name "Kiss". Then around 1974 WRC and WKYS did a charity radiothon, simulcasting and breaking both formats for several days. Afterward, they simulcast the Top40 format with and ID mentioning WRC and Kiss-FM. Sometime between one and six weeks later, they announced the WRC would soon a have new sound -- that was the all-news format from NBC's "News & Information Service" (a network also heard locally on WBAL-FM 97.9 when it dropped classical). WKYS then quickly transitioned to a disco-oriented and later full disco format as Disco Stereo 93 KYS. I always found it strange that 93.9 would be called "93" rather than "94", but in the days of analogue dials, the idea of "94" belonged to 94.7 WJMD. WPGC, however always was "95 5", rather than "95", perhaps to avoid confusion with WJMD.

...Sam



stevewillett said:
FM was still experimental in the early 70s. I remember all the beautiful music stations, WGAY, WEZR, WTOP (The Young Sound), WRC and WJMD. I think WPGC-FM and WASH-FM were the only 2 non-beautiful music stations on FM that really had listeners. In those days, 100.3 was WFAN with Spanish, 98.7 WMOD with oldies, 101.1 simulcast of WWDC 1260, 107.3 was WMAL-FM doing (I think) progressive rock, 102.3 was legendary WHFS, 103.5 was still classical WGMS and all-news WAVA 105.1.
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Hey Steve:

Thanks for that info. I caught that as well from my research that I am doing from past billbioard magazines. Thank you for posting the link. I was going to do that but you beat me to it.

I love those format breakdowns. They seem to do this for all diffrent cities around the country.

T.J.
 
Hey Guys:

I found this by accident in the billboard article from Dec 17 1966. It says that WNBC-FM in New York and all O&O NBC FM'S have decided to go a Classical format part time on Dec 11, 1966. So it looks like I have one offical date.

1. from simulcast WRC-AM to classical: Dec 11, 1966

2. from classical to Auto Beautiful Music: around 1968

3. from Auto Beautiful Music to Auto Jazz.

4. from Jazz to Progressive rock (Acid rock) I think it was Progressive rock part time.

5. from Progressive rock to Beautiful Music as WKYS (Soft as a Kiss)



T.J.
 
I remember WRC-FM being beautiful music before they switched the call letters to WKYS. I think the call letter change was more of a branding change. It seems that many FMs did fragmented formats part of the time. Like when WWDC did the MOR simulcast during the day and album rock at night before becoming DC101.
 
If magazines like "Forecast" or the newspaper radio section were printing special programming back in the day, an FM station could do special programming like jazz or progressive rock and find listeners.
 
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