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All the singles and albums of YES, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news. And as for the aforementioned KFI Los Angeles, that also belongs on the list of the greatest Top 40 stations of all time, as it was a Top 40 station from the mid- or late ’70’s to about the mid-’80s. This is where the Greaseman was at his best. Hope you’re doing well, Lee! Remember you well from Toronto and would have loved to work some those famous stations you did…but then again, you were one of the smoothest jocks ever!!! The lyrics sprang from Rabin’s frustrations dealing with record executives while a solo artist. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. Another great station that should have made the list. Pat’s right, Radio Ink, your damn input DOES!! I sent him an audition tape about 20 years ago. Holy. 11. With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. What about my all time favorite? WOW! It was great. Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest — 89 WLS to the west, and ‘The Big 8’ CKLW, to the east. And consequently I think that's when that song started coming to me. The greatest Top 40 station of all time? CKLW/Windsor-Detroit. Top of the charts. Love your show! WPRO AM & FM Providence, RI were outstanding Top 40 stations. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. DAMN!!!!! WTIX was a great station, but I felt WQAM was a better example of Storz. Delighted to hear from you, Jim and Andy. Yes, WABC had more listeners and more attention. I think it says something that I remember all those *personalities*. If you worked at Top 40 Radio in North America, chances are your station aired a CHUM Documentary. Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. Of WLTH fame? (Willard “The Rat” Scott) rode the drive time shift. What you guys have done is incredible, if only Radio today was like it was in it’s heyday of top 40 with those stations you mentioned. Early Feb., 1980, the station management purged us all. The “WAKY” shout was created by Johnny and a group of girls he met out just after the bars closed. And who could forget Arnie Ginsberg at night! Yes is a British progressive rock band which formed in London, United Kingdom in 1968. Storz owned WHB but invented the format at KOWH. I would say, with certainty, that it was ‘The Big 8’ that stirred my interest and music, and then, eventually, a radio career of my own. With separate board ops for the jocks and the newsroom, intro times to the quarter second, including commercials, no station was ever tighter. Later WOV and WNEW switched frequencies. Hit 40. Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. Didn’t happen, but the writing was on the wall. He was an absolute perfectionist and the people who worked at KHJ like Betty Brenneman said the same thing about him. 181.fm - UK Top 40 Waynesboro Charts, Hits, Pop. Yes, you were the last DJ on “Wins,” and , yes,”Out in the Street” (pun intended?) Hits für Kids Eure Lieblingshits zum Spielen, Lachen & Spaß haben. Great contemporary, traditional country, and rock and roll, are gone. Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30’s to mid 40’s. Use our service to find it! Entertainment, and 5 are owned by SPH Radio.In Singapore, listeners are able to tune into BBC World Service as the station is essentially treated as a domestic broadcaster, easily available 24/7 through long-term agreement with Mediacorp Radio. Consider the voices who worked the window on Burnside at NW 10th… Tom Murphy, The Real Don Steele, Roger Hart, Sam Holman, Dick Sainte, Mike O’Brien, Tom Michaels, Roger W. Morgan, Dave “Records” Stone, and the all-night “Preacher,” Pat Pattee. Sure, The Gates Of Delirium is the focus of the Yes album on which Patrick Moraz did such a great job that Rick Wakeman felt left out and returned. 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. WROV in Roanoke deserves a mention… On the market for close to five years with more listeners than all other Roanoke stations … Bert Levine, who owned the station, believed very much in developing personalities without exception all the personalities on the station became major celebrities in Western Virginia. Its atmosphere blissfully completes what Melody Maker then called “one of the most satisfying Yes albums”, and one whose reputation only grows. I can still hear Roger Klein’s growling delivery. Louis, WTIX/New Orleans and WQAM/Miami (or at least one of them) can’t be taken seriously. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLW’s success. The Big 8 will NEVER be forgotten! Radio Ink recruited two of the best programming minds in the business, Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels, to answer this question: “What are the greatest Top 40 stations of all time?” Here’s how they stacked them up … and your lively debate, comments and disagreements on how they did. I’m surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. WABC had 10 times more power. As a result, the signal to the Northwest started to die around Norristown, 5-10 miles away from the towers in Lafayette Hill, PA. WIBG started as a 25 watt station in a church in Elkins Park, PA, probably in the 1920s. Star FM - Manila. As an engineer, I was lucky enough to work along side many of them, and even heard Humble Harve and Bill Drake cutting IDs and voice-overs in the early 70s. In stereo! WCFL was occasionally a better station. His stories were fascinating especially told in that booming authoritative voice. 18. How about the Middle of the Middle West… Not WHO in Des Moines. the jocks, the music, the contests..they created the magic that made your station the very best! Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. And, ironically, WINS might have carried the Yankees at one point in its history as a Top 40 rock ‘n’ roll station, but WMGM definitely did so. Hell, I even got to work for Les Garland for a day years later during the Return of The Million Dollar Weekend! The 70s was a golden decade for Yes, one where they produced some of their finest music and redefined prog's template. Glad to see the two stations I grew up with listed here. This is where they have a point. I did. Never missed him, as he made R & B come alive. #16 on one List and no mention on the other? “I wouldn’t leave out KEWB Oakland, where such notables as The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, and Casey Kasem played DJ before any of them became nationally known. It’s hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. KOWH went off to other call letters and other formats. It's kind of a melancholy song.”. ON AIR NOW 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Jo Valentine Jo Valentine is on 96.7 YES-FM. Top 40 Eure Lieblingshits der Woche. WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. Drama may not have the most prominent place in many Yes fans’ hearts, but this album closer did much to help evolve the post-Anderson Yes identity, as Buggles duo Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes made a surprise entrance to the fold and the vocals of Horn and Squire proved fully capable of filling the gap at centre-stage. Does anyone remember the station? CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. WERA Plainfield, NJ (went dark in 1997 due to WWRL New York’s then-impending wattage boost) U of P’s WXPN also did a good job with that format. As we were next to WIFI on the dial, people were tuning us in by accident and said they liked us better! WMEX Boston should be on this list and one minor market station that sounded and programmed like a major market WAVZ New Haven, CT. 100 HIT Radio New York City Hits, Top 40 & Charts. Look, I am a total Drake disciple (and in my early years, I had the privilege of working for Gordon McLendon…twice). . was one of my childhood heros. Chris Roberts, @Phil Dirt LISTEN LIVE STATION PROFILE. 9. Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. ), all air talent/music driven Top 40 stations. So was WVAQ, I am the person that changed it from beautiful music to Top 40 in 1976. WRKO, KLIF, KCBQ. PLEASE! When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. Recorded at Advision, it was written in 1969 by Jon Anderson and David Foster, his old mate from Accrington band The Warriors. LOL) at WTOD. 107-7 YES FM online at: http://www.1077yesfm.com Twitter: @1077YESFM KY102 was AOR not Top-40. Entertainment Headlines "Hunky" at 90? KILT Houston? It was owned by Pacific Broadcasting Systems (a wholly owned subsidiary of Manila Broadcasting Company) in the Philippines. Then the Canadian govt. WJET 1400. WGRC was purchased by Gordon McLendon and went Top 40 in 1958, debuting by playing “Purple People Eater” for a week. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. Its been fun reading everyones passions for their picks for the best Top 40 Station. WEAM 1390…..WPGC….1580….WEEL….1310 and one of my favorites WRC…The Great 98. That’s a fact. 5. They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. all Air Talent/Music Driven Top-40s , and oh yeah all live people 24/7, when radio was fun to do and to listen to. You patiently answered them for this 17 year old radio freak. WMCA/New York. You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOB’s LOL!! HAMBA NAYE CICI FT MAFIKIZOLO. DWYS, currently operating as YES! WDGY and WQAM were purchased in 1956, KOMA in 1958 and KXOK in 1960. Long Roadtrip Music ... Just Dance 2021. By Sid Smith 02 September 2016. They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. I completely agree. ), I personally would ALL of the early or present AC stations mentioned above. 10. As a kid I surfed the dial nightly from my Guelph Ontario backyard on one of the first 6 transistor Sony battery radios … from Dick Summer on WBZ Boston to Cousin Brucie at WABC NYC, from Quixie in Dixie to WOWO Ft.Wayne to WLS & WCFL Chicago. Wrapping up the day with Ontario and New York's hit music station! Currently, WDGY is based in Hudson, WI and is back to playing hits from the 60s and 70s. Tough duty but Lee and Randy did an amazing job — Me? I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. The studios were in a former carriage house with a false front to make it look taller and a mirror at the end of the long single hallway to make it look bigger when you walked in. IDLOZI LAMI OPENMIC GROOVES FT DJ OBZA. I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. With respect. I lived in Buffalo and the Miami area and with kudos to WQAM and WFUN there was nothing like KB anywhere! 5FM Top 40 Filtr. My God!, you namechecked KJR AND DIDN’T THE HELL EVEN MENTION *PAT O’DAY*?? and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in ’88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in ’79), but in ’73 or ’74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM “SM95” (I don’t know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashville’s AC stations of the past. (I still haven’t forgiven the Dodgers for leaving.) “MEX had Dan Donovan and “Fenway”. While WBZ was more “sophisticated” in many ways, WMEX played to the city (where their somewhat limited signal was best) so they had a grittier, earthier, more high-energy city sound. 4. 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