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wrej 1973

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I was stationed at Camp Pickett near Blackstone about 50 miles west of Petersburg in 1973, my main station was WRVQ which was called the super Q and played real tight top 40. Songs on heavy rotation, Smoke on the Water and I'm doin fine now, powerful signal and first top 40 station I ever heard on FM. Before I forget the original topic I also enjoyed an oldies station on 1540 which played great "oh wow" tunes like Leader of the Laundramat, it was fairly weak and a daytimer. Does anyone remember this station on 1540 and the original calls, this was the summer of 1973, I am in Philly PA and have not been down that way since then. On another note WLEE number one again was plastered all over the buses but I never heard them, the Q was the station for top 40 back then....
 
WLEE/1480 was Richmond's heritage AM top 40 from the 50s into the 70s. You probably would not have been able to pick them up in Blackstone---1480 was never known to have a very good signal anywhere outside of the metro area--even Petersburg was a stretch. When Q-94, a 200000watt powerhouse, came along in the early 70s, the writing was on the wall for W-LEE and other AM Top 40s in Richmond. Sure enough, Q-94 was at the top of its game with excellent jocks and music. WLEE finally switched to Big Band, then finally disappeared altogether (that a whole other sad story). 1540AM, a ten thousand watt daytimer, had a much stronger signal and covered most of southside Virginia. They operated as WRGM with AC music until the early 70s, when they were sold and renamed WKIE. I think they tried a number of unsucessful formats, including one of the nation's first all rap formats in the early 80s. Nothing worked until they settled into gospel, at which time they renamed themselves WREJ. WRVQ continues as a top-40 to this day, though as a Clear Channel station they are a ghost of their former self.
 
Thats for the fantastic information. I do remember the Q and its powerhouse signal, great jocks and tight music list. They did dig back and play some older tunes mixed in with the top 40, or should I say top 20, in fact in the summer of 73 they had a promo called "summer rerun time". It was a great station just like 1540.
 
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