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WVSL 1970-1972

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

I know WVSL went Progressive Rock in 1972. Was the format of WVSL from 1970 to 1972 Top 40 or was it R&B? In the broadcasting yearbook for 1971 it says WVSL's format
was "Soul".

Thanks for your help.

T.J.
 
Slidell.

With a thanks to Bob Walker's great NOLA Radio history site for jogging my memory ( www.walkerpub.com/radio_frequencies.html ), I recall the progressive format of WWOM "Mother Radio" (98.5 New Orleans) moving over to WVSL (105.3 Slidell). The station then became WXEL, then WAIL. Bob takes the history of 105.3 from there.

I could be scrambling call letters and the order of transition. All of my listening was done some 200 miles in Jackson, MS via a big Channel Master FM antenna mounted on a rotor. Memphis/Birmingham/Atlanta/Mobile/New Orleans/Houston -- and that's just the regular signals to be pulled in -- it was a great time to DX for "big city" FM.
 
WVSL was soul at one time, but on a 350 ft tower in Slidell, so it didn't have a really great signal in New Orleans. It was also WXEL at one time. Ed Muniz owned it for much of the 70s.
 
Thanks...and most, if not all, of the history of frequencies on my site came from my friend (above), J. Alex Bowab, former Mobile radio magnate! :)
 
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