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WXYZ 101.1 History

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

Would anybody know did WXYZ go to a rock based Top 40 format called Big Boss Radio 101?

And would anybody know when did WXYZ-FM start its LOVE Progressive Rock format?

Thanks

T.J.
 
Big Boss Radio 101 didn't last very long, as I recall. Wikipedia says 1966. This was the first of many changes from 1966-1971 that ended with the WRIF call letter change.

It was so short lived that I believed at one time that I had actually heard WNOE on E-Skip and mistook it for WXYZ-FM.

I was about 40 miles from the WRIF transmitter and I did indeed hear WNOE-FM at times. I believe that WNOE-FM was once a simulcast of WNOE(AM), and followed a similar format path to AOR as WRIF.

The Love Progressive Rock format had some connection with the new ABC FM network, perhaps the network feed carried the format? That is my recollection without referring to Wikipedia or other sources. It was carried on the same stations also in my recollection.

The simulcast era may have seemed like a waste of spectrum, but look how AM talk formats are turning up on FM now. It gets inside buildings, is usually omnidirectional or close to omnidirectional, and gets into areas beyond NIF contours of AM stations.
 
In Lee Alan's book he mentions programming an MOR format on XYZ-FM around that time. Would that have been before or after Big Boss Radio?
 
I remember WXYZ 1270 having what we would now call a Hot AC/Soft CHR format in 1970, and in the years after into the late 1970s. They didn't play hard rock groups until they mellowed out. One example was they didn't play Grand Funk Railroad until "Bad Time", and the DJ commented that even though it was Grand Funk Railroad, it wasn't hard rock. But they did also play mellow R&B like "Love On A Two Way Street" by The Moments, which wasn't tradional MOR fare either.
 
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