Did you grow up with Top 40 radio? Do you remember

[Oeditpus Rex]

the call letters and frequency of the station(s) you listened to, and the names of any of the DJs?

I listened to KDON, "The Big 1460," and KMBY 1240. Guys like Pat O'Shea, Jim Steele and Johnny Morgan.

You can listen to old tapes of some of the big names here, like Dr. Don Rose, The Real Don Steele, Larry Lujack and Charlie Tuna: http://www.reelradio.com/

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. WPRO. But can't remember the frequency.

:popcorn:

[Archae]

2. WOKY out of Milwaukee.

Station is still around, but now they changed format to Big Band tunes.

"Mighty 92."

[RevCheesehead]

3. WLS, Chicago.

That sucker had power, and reached all the way into Wisconsin. It was the station played at the pool during the summer, too. That's how I got to know all the classics of the 60's and 70's. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. I picked up WLS one night

"Eight-nine-oh in Chi-ca-go."

Dunno if Lujack was there then. And even if he was, he was probably morning or afternoon drive.

That same night, I picked up WWL in New Orleans and some station in Lexington, Nebraska that had a half-hour farm report.

[RevCheesehead]

10. I believe that.

When I was in 5th grade, we went to California for a family vacation right after Christmas. I brought along my brand new "toot-a-loop" radio. And while we were driving through Flagstaff, I picked up the call signal "WLS" and screamed with delight.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. It was a 'boomer'

50,000 watts, and probably with monster antennas.

During certain times of the year and certain atmospheric conditions, radio signals "skip" pretty well — bounce off the lower layer of the atmosphere. With enough power behind 'em, they can skip several times. Think of it as a ping-pong ball being bounced in a box.

[yellowdogintexas]

110. Dick Biondi, every night way down in far southern Kentucky

damn near Tennessee...back in 1961, 62

[hfojvt]

6. that does not sound very far

I used to listen to Wolfman Jack from Chicago way out in South Dakota. A few years back when I was in Iowa the Vikings were playing the Cowboys and I could not find a Minneapolis station, but some station in Texas must jumped up their voltage because they were coming in loud and clear.

[RevCheesehead]

15. Back then, there weren't that many stations clogging the air, either.

And most of the stations signed off sometime in the evening.

My hometown is about 150 miles from Chicago. Before FM radio became popular, WLS was THE station to listen to. Whenever I hear the oldies, I swear I can smell chlorine in the air. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

66. If they signed off, it was at or around midnight

Much more likely there were many "sundowner" stations — those required to cut their power (or change their antenna phase, which has the same effect) at sundown, giving "clear channel" status to boomers such as WLS. There are still many "sundowners" on the AM band.

If you live anywhere west of the Rockies or in them, you can probably pick up KNBR 680 out of San Francisco at night. But it's a sports-talk station, so...

Here's a good site for looking up station info, including maps with antenna radiation patterns: http://www.radio-locator.com

[Spider Jerusalem]

113. Yeah...high-wattage clear-channel stations have protected frequencies...

in a radius of 750 miles at night. I can pick up WLS and WBBM and KMOX here in Atlanta. And WFAN and WCBS in New York come through on occasion, but faint (no surprise, at a distance of near 900 miles).

[terrya]

46. Yeah...I remember WLS.

Same thing...that's how I got to know the songs from the 60's and 70s.

I remember the djs...Larry Lujack, Fred Winston, John "Records" Landecker, Bob Sirott.

[xmas74]

77. My dad was a big WLS listener.

I remember them quite fondly, especially this.



Had to listen to the story of Mike the Headless Rooster all the time.

[Rabrrrrrr]

79. That's what we listened, too! Then WIBA out of Madison.

And Rockford had a cool station for a couple years that played good rock that others weren't playing, like early Cheap Trick and Scorpions and the Doors before they became real popular again, and they carried King Biscuit Flower Hour. Great, great station, but sadly, only lasted a couple years then went elevator music. God, I remember a series of Friday nights they played Janis Joplin concerts. Fucking amazing. Thought that might have WIBA, now that I think about it.

I don't even remember the letters of that one from Rockford.

by the time I hit Junior High and my music tastes had evolved to a more enlightened level, I stopped listening to WLS.

[Heidi]

100. It reached into Oklahoma late at night, too.

I loved WLS. :)

[ProfessorGAC]

104. Both WLS & WCFL

Two 50,000 watt clear channel AM stations that played every form of pop music 24/7 with high personality DJ's.

That was a good time for radio, because then, if we went to the FM band and hear "underground" music, we heard tons of absolutely wonderful stuff that wasn't intended for Top 40 release. We had the best of both worlds up until about 1976.
The Professor

[u4ic]

4. CHUM,

CKFM and CKOC.

The first, out of Toronto; the other two, Hamilton.

[Canuckistanian]

9. CHUM, more music....

And "Jungle Jay" Nelson. Some of the best memories of my childhood. Bob McAdorie (sp?), Bob Lane.

CHUM Charts - remember those? Used to pick them up every week down at the Woolworth's store.

Wish I'd kept some, they're worth a fortune now.

[u4ic]

11. I still have my CHUM card somewhere

CHUM charts are worth something now? Wow, I had no idea!

Those names I do remember!

Do you remember when the DJ from CKOC made his own record? Beach Bum. I still have that on a single somewhere. Got lots of airplay.

"went down to the beach,
gonna get some sun
took offa my hat
gonna have some fun
when all of a sudden
from outta the west
came a blonde bronze beauty
she was the best"

I think I remember at least 3/4 of the lyrics.

:wtf: do I remember that? It's been over 20 years since I've heard it. :rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

17. CKOC? Nah, that was a Hamilton station

I had total devotion to CHUM. Did you know they were the first major AM station to play Motown?

Also, CHUM was so influential, Dick Clark once considered working there.

It's funny what you remember. I remember the "Johnson's Baby Oil" commercials.

Tell you what, look up "Dan Haber" on google, you'll probably find some old clips of CKOC.

[u4ic]

24. I will do the latter

should be interesting.

What were the baby oil commercials? My memory may need to be jogged some more.

I lived in Mississauga (which didn't have its own radio station), so I enjoyed the variety from the two other cities. I was a hopeless switcher, and still am; if I don't like the song, I'll find another station where I do. Will listen until a song I don't like comes on.

Rinse. lather. repeat.

[Canuckistanian]

26. I'm from Etobicoke, so we we're practically neighbors

And Dan's site will have the commercials. And probably a few surprises for you.

[u4ic]

30. I look forward to it. Thanks! n/t

[Parrcrow]

28. I was an out of control

car radio button pusher. Whatever had the best song on, and I was always searching from CHUM to CKCO and CHAM (before it went country) and CHML for my parents. There must have been a couple of other stations but I can't remember which ones.

[u4ic]

29. CFRB

was all my father listened to. x(

[Parrcrow]

31. C-F-R-B Radio is......

blech; even the commercials were awful.

[In_The_Wind]

7. WREK 91.1

I don't remember any of the DJs.

:hi:

[Initech]

8. KISS 1027, Los Angeles

Quite possibly the lamest Top 40 station ever, former home of Rick "Disco Duck" Dees and current home to demon spawn of television and Clear Channel ass-kisser extrodinaire Ryan Seacrest. :scared:

[shanti]

12. yep, 93 khj in the 60's

from L.A.

"had a date with a pretty ballerina..."

[Archae]

13. That station has been immortalized.

The intro to Everclear's "AM Radio."

[shanti]

19. really!

i did not know that. i used to listen to "i'm a believer" by the monkees on khj while washing dishes as an 11 yr old in so cal. what a memory! khj was THE station back then.

[Wapsie B]

14. KWLO, 1330 AM Waterloo, Iowa

KFMW, 107.9FM Waterloo, Iowa

WLS Chicago

KIOA Des Moines

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. 1520 KOMA Oklahoma City

Had the longest reach of all the stations in it heyday.

Used to be able to listen to it at night on my little pocket transistor radio during summers up in the Minnesota woods.

[Nicole]

20. KOMA for me too

I still listen to them via the web sometimes.

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. Wow! Streaming KOMA! That's pretty new!

Found the site...thanks!

Now I can listen to the Friday 5 o'clock song!

[KatyaR]

35. There was KOMA and WKY--

WKY had Danny Williams, Dale Wehba, Ronnie Kaye.

It wasn't top 40, but I also used to listen to a Minneapolis-St. Paul radio station at night that had a DJ named Franklin Hobbs--his show was called "Hobbs' House," and he played big band music, people like Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, that type of thing. There were no recorded ads--he read all of them, and he had a beautiful voice. I used to listen to him every night until I fell asleep. It was gone when I woke up the next morning, but that night it would be back again--it was like magic.

[Whoa_Nelly]

42. Good ol' Danny Williams

And WKY-TV Channel 4, too!

Danny Williams as Xavier T. Willard on Foreman Scotty.

Here's a site that's all Danny, beginning in the 1940s, and paging through his career:

http://www.dddynamo.com/DW1940.html

[KatyaR]

83. I had SUCH a crush on Xavier T. Willard!

And I loved the Circle 4 Ranch because I won a brand-new Huffy three-speed bike in a My-T-Fine Pudding contest when I was 12.

Danny and Foreman Scotty actually made a movie in OKC--I've been tiny bits of it on TV. I wish someone could get hold of that and show it sometime--I'd love to see it.

It's hard to believe that Danny's still on the radio a few days every week--he's starting to sound really old, but he just keeps pluggin' along!

Let's see--Ronnie Kaye had a dance show on Channel 4 that was similar to American Bandstand. One year a couple from OKC won American Bandstand's National Dance Contest. I remember being so excited because I sent in a postcard to vote for them. I think their names were Deitrich and Davida, maybe?

[bmbmd]

41. Hot summer nights and that catchy little jingle

"Koma-Oklahoma City" made it all the way to Lubbock.

[Ptah]

93. Whoa.. Hey Nelly,

When I was a youg one in northern Montana, I used to
listen to KOMA.

Transistors were the bomb.

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

96. I used to pick it up late at night

on my little transistor in the mountains of Colorado.

[castiron]

21. WRIF "The Rif" in Detroit, and the Rockin' Fox in Toledo: W.... um,

I forgot those letters.

[Theres-a]

36. Yes, and WABXWho was that DJ that always said "Baby!"

Arthur P?

[5thGenDemocrat]

97. Arthur Penhallow

Here in Saginaw, we listened to Flint's WTAC (WeeTac) with Peter C Cavanaugh and Saginaw's WSAM 1400 (Big Sam). Don't remember the names there (hey, I'm almost 50), but they all started with "Sam."
John
The very first song I remember liking was the Everly Brothers' "Little Latin Lupe Lu."

[6000eliot]

22. WFIL and WIBG in Philadelphia.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. WFIL was huge

Wasn't Dr. Don Rose on that one before he moved to KFRC in San Francisco?

[6000eliot]

27. Yes, I think so.

But we're talking a long time ago here.

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. Yup

I think he came to KFRC in '75 or '76.

[Clintmax]

33. KWTO 98.7 Rock 99...

KHOT 106.7 (Hot 106.7), KGBX 105.9, all in Springfield Missouri.

[LaurenG]

34. It was KELP am

With Johnny somebody. I don't remember.

[LostinVA]

37. WCAU -- Philly station

[RetroLounge]

38. WLS and WCFL in Chciago

AM Top 40 at its finest...

RL

[Left_Winger]

39. WCOS, 1400am

[samplegirl]

40. 100.7 WMMS Cleveland

http://www.wmms.com/main.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

69. The Buzzard

The self-proclaimed no. 1 rock station in the U.S. for... what, seven consecutive years?

I used to have an MMS bumper sticker, courtesy of a friend from Cleveland.

[July]

43. WKBW, "KB," Buffalo. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. WKBW did an 'updated' version of War of the Worlds

in 1971. Excellent stuff.

http://www.reelradio.com/gifts/wkbwwotw71.html#wkbwwotw71

[Left Is Write]

44. WLOL - Hines & Berglund in the morning

I remember more jocks from the album rock and classic rock stations, though. I remember KQRS in the days before Tom Bernard. I remember KDWB when it was "Stereo 101" with Chris Edmonds in the morning.

Edited to add Knapp & Donuts from KS95.

[KitchenWitch]

55. Yes!

Both of those stations!

Chuck Knapp is now at KTIS (the fundie nutbag station) x(

Did you know that Wally Walker is still with KQ?

[Left Is Write]

61. Wally Walker will be at KQ until they have to cart him out.

[KitchenWitch]

62. pretty much

I like his voice though.

That said, I hate Tom Bernard.

[Left Is Write]

64. I like Wally too.

His voice is comforting...probably because we've been hearing it for so many years.

I was never a big fan of Tommy B.

[KitchenWitch]

65. I feel sorry for Terri Traen

She has to put up with and suck up to that hack's ass every morning.

[catmandu57]

45. 7100 WHB

Kansas City Mo, my favorite was Johnny Dolan. I got a transistor radio for christmas 1966, the first song I heard was For what it's worth.

[Nye Bevan]

47. (In England) 247 Metres-- Radio 1!

I still remember the jingle!

[liberalpress]

48. And many know

Rush Limbaugh used to be a disc Jockey by the name of Jeff Christie back in those days.. before he got hooked on drugs and went nuts

[TheMightyFavog]

49. 101.1 WIXX, Green Bay, WI

We had Murphy in the Morning. When i was a kid I thought he was funny as hell.

Then I grew up and listened to Len and Rick on 105.7, WAPL, the Classic Rock station out of Appleton. I've had instances where I've had to pull over I was laughing so hard.

[Arugula Latte]

50. In the 70s, I listened to "KFRC, San Francisco"

The jingle went "Kaaaay -FRC ... San Fran-ciiis-coh." Dr. Donald D. Rose was the most famous voice of that station and he had many a sound effect. It's funny how back then we tolerated hearing the same songs rotated over and over and over again ... LOL. Those were the days ...

[Oeditpus Rex]

68. Do you remember when Dr. Don broke his leg skiing

and did his show from his bedroom?

There's quite a bit of KFRC stuff here, including a "history" montage and a tape of their jingles through the years: http://www.reelradio.com/

[Arugula Latte]

72. Oh, yeah. I remember that.

He lived in Danville or San Ramon, as I recall .. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out!

[DainBramaged]

51. 77 WABC (LONG before it became the Reich-wing trash can of today)

http://www.musicradio77.com/

Herb Oscar Anderson

Harry Harrison

Charlie Greer

Dan Ingram

Ron Lundy

And the one and only Bruce "Cousin Brucey" Morrow

[NeoConsSuck]

87. And then most of those DJs

went on to WCBS oldies (101 FM?). I use to love the Don K Reed show on Sunday nights, the Doo-Wop night.

[DainBramaged]

92. CBS FM is now dead too.

Was #8 in NY. Now some lame-ass JAKS stupid canned crap playlist shithole.

[bikebloke]

52. DC area

A smaller station. I can't remember the call letters.
Murphy in the Morning. A good guy who took on the greedy corporates like Pepco (power company) for over charging.

WASH
John Dowling

Triple M - Sydney

[Digit]

57. WPGC DC area

Ah! Just thought of another one....WEEM or was it WEAM...
my brain hurts.

[seemunkee]

67. WINX

Can't remember any DJs though

[lizziegrace]

53. WSAI in Cincinnati

and WHBG in Memphis. I think that was the station Rick Dees started on.

[KitchenWitch]

54. WDGY - and the True Don Blue

[EstimatedProphet]

56. KMOX, KSD, KXOK-St Louis

they've all changed formats a number of times though

[meegbear]

58. WCOZ 94.5 Boston MA

Played all the good AOR stuff in the 70's and early '80. Now they're JAM'N 94.5, playing hip hop and pop.

[Bridget Burke]

59. KILT AM, at 610 on your dial....

I definitely remember Russ Knight--"The Weird Beard."

He's got 3 tapes on your link. Thanks!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

60. 77 WABC with Cousin Brucie, Dan Ingram, Scott Muney

[GalleryGod]

91. You Bet, TG ! Meanwhile..Down in PHilly !

[TallahasseeGrannie]

98. Yep

I went to the University of Delaware and spent a lot of time in Philly. My sister lived there 20 years, working at Episcopal Hospital. Wonder if that still exists? She lived on Society Hill in one of three big high-rises.

[madinmaryland]

63. CKLW out of Windsor, Ont.

It was the only consistant top-40 radio station that we could get in northwest, ohio in the 70's. We could not get the fm stations of the larger stations in columbus, cleveland, cincy, toledo, or ft. wayne.

It is now apparently a new/talk radio station.

[kwassa]

71. CKLW! Byron MacGreagor with 20-20 News!

50,000 watts!

http://www.thebig8.net/

Jo-Jo Shutty MacGregor in the traffic helicopter

This was pre-FM, late '60s, the only station we could get at night! I grew up near Oberlin, also northwest Ohio.

It also played everything, and was not carved up into formats like today.

On some nights we could pick up WABC in New York, over 750 miles away.

[Skittles]

73. Radio Caroline

yes INDEED

[SaveElmer]

74. KDWB in Minneapolis

AM station to show you how old I am!!!

[Left Is Write]

75. AM 630...

Top 40 station for a long time, and for a while its FM cousin was "Stereo 101", the album rock station.

[SaveElmer]

76. That;s right...my most vivid memory...

Was an entire summer of listening to "Seasons in the Sun," seemed like every other song!!! WHat was that 1973 or so?

[Left Is Write]

78. '74.

I was just a kid then, but I remember that song being on all the time too.

[Liberalynn]

80. 92 MJQ

out of Rochester, NY.

They had Don Miachel Gerrad and Dave Luzack in the morning.

They were hysterical. Don used to give General Hosptial updates that were a riot. He used to call Rick Springfield the General Hospital Traitor, because he left the show, but then Don would sing along to all Rick's songs, and would say he was not ashamed to admit he loved his music. Which made Don cool with me cause I was a Rick fan. They also did SNL takeoffs of "landshark," and then Don would yell at the top of his lungs "don't go in the water." I used to work at our beach as a gate attendant collecting admission fees, and was listening to Don once when he was yelling that, and I actually had a visitor come up and ask me why they couldn't go in the water? They thought there was really something wrong, and then when I explained it was just the DJ screwing around, the visitor laughed and said, "I listen to him too. Enough said."

Then they also had the adventures of Henrietta, Fairport, and their neighbor Pitts Ford. All suburbs in the Rochester area. And also the adventures of Weg Man which is a take off on the name of a major local supermarket.

Also they did a segement called the Marching Weathermen which included this partial little diddy:

"Today is Monday back to work, even if your boss is a jerk."

Ah the good old college days in the eighties.

[DancingBear]

81. Try "The Sixties" channel on XM

They will sometimes run large portions of the actual broadcasts from certain stations. We were listening one day and scruffy (Mrs. DB) heard about two hours worth of WING out of Dayton, Ohio from (we think) 1965.

She remembered it well...

[DancingBear]

82. New Haven, CT - WAVZ - "Lucky 13"

Which is now the home of progressive talk radio, BTW -it's where I stream Stephanie Miller from.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

84. Kay-Dee-Double-U-Beeeeee... Channel Sixty-Three!

Minneapolis-St.Paul.

[donheld]

85. Denver's KIMN

[NeoConsSuck]

86. WABC, 77.0 AM, NYC

I believe on Tuesdays they use to put out their top ten list. I'm talking 1962, just before the Beatles.

[oregonjen]

88. 62 kgw, 620 AM Portland

Craig Walker was the morning guy. It turns out, I think, he is a GOP'er. Oh well. Now it's 620 KPOJ home of Air America.

[Orsino]

89. It was WRVQ in the mid-to-late seventies...

...with Tim Watts as the late-night DJ.

[madrchsod]

90. WLAC Nashville Tennessee

the station that changed my life...http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/wlac/wlacdex.html

WLS and WCFL in Chicago....when dj`s ruled the world

[yellowdogintexas]

112. I loved WLAC late at night, they had the studio at the top of the

L&C tower and once I was up there late at night with a date and we got to talk to the dj, he played Harlem Nocturne for us...cool.

[madrchsod]

114. that-- is--- cool

hell all i did was ride around on gravel roads drinking beer. i listened to an interview with robbie robertson of the band and he said that was one of the greatest influences of his life listening to lac up in canada.

[yellowdogintexas]

118. this was probably in 1968 or maybe 1967..back when my ex

and I were still in college together and just dating..
driving over to Nashville for a dinner out and a movie or something was always a good thing to do when he came down to visit me from Lousiville.

My aunt worked for L & C and gave me some free passes to the Observation Tower so I used to go up there just for fun. So this one night we got lucky.

LAC went everywhere...I think they are a right wing talk station now

Now this may have been the FM guy I don't quite remember, but it is possible. They had both frequencies back then.

my daytime rock station was WMAK 1300 ..the Mighty Mak. Which eventually went country.

[SmileyBoy]

94. 93.7 The Edge in Minneapolis (Alternative)

Also REV 105 in Minneapolis.

[Left Is Write]

106. But....

he said "Top 40".

:)

The first radio station I ever worked for was 105.1 - it was based in Cambridge at that time and using the call letters WLOL (after 99.5).

[Tikki]

95. KRLA, KHJ, KTNQ.....Los Angeles area...

KTNQ really did try to put a few 'out of format' sounds out during those days... circa mid-70's.
A couple years later KROQ came along with the introductions.


Tikki

[DBoon]

103. Do you remember the KRLA "Credibility Gap"

Their version of the news, featuring a protest song?

[Pendrench]

99. In Baltimore...WCAO, WCBM, and WFBR

Now I believe WCAO is a gospel station, WFBR is an ESPN station, and WCBM has become a right-wing station. If I remember correctly, WBAL has pretty much always been a news/talk station, but now they are right-wing as well (ever since Alan Prell left).

Tim

[El Fuego]

101. WSHE - "SHE's Only Rock n Roll"

[patcox2]

102. AM Radio, WNBC, WABC, in New York, 770, 660

Cousin Brucie, used to do the "ZZZZip" thing, do women still wear dresses with the zipper in the back? Harry Harrison I remember too.

The Ramones song "Rock-n-roll radio" hits it.

[trackfan]

105. KFWB 980; KHJ 930; KRLA 11??; KTNQ 10??

[redqueen]

107. KTXQ Q102

I used to love their morning guys... but their names I can barely remember... Long Jim White? maybe? and ... someone else... I'm sad I don't recall. :(


BO ROBERTS! :D

That's the other guy!

*feels better*

[mac56]

108. Oh man, are you kidding?! I live for this.

WEBC channel 56 in Duluth, MN. Doctor Don Rose, Robin Hood, Dave Gordon.
WAKX "House of WAKX" 1320 in Superior, WI. Tac Hammer.
KDWB channel 63 in St. Paul. Rob Sherwood, True Don Bleu, Earl J. Traut.
WDGY 1130 in Minneapolis. Johnny Canton.
WYOO "U-100" "Super U" in Minneapolis. Rob Sherwood, Masa Kincaid "The Fox That Rocks", Jerry St. James, Jo Jo Gunne, Chucker Morgan.
WWTC 1280 in Minneapolis. "The Golden Rock". BJ Crocker, Ugly Del Roberts, Records Ryan, Dick Driscoll.

And in 1974 on KCMR 1200 at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, I was Brook Traut.

Add on edit: I also used to really like Buck and O'Connor, the morning drive team on 101.3 KDWB in the 80s.

[chieftain]

109. WHB at 710 0n the dial in Kansas City. The World's Happiest

Broadcasters included Don Armstrong who had the city in an uproar one night as listeners called in troll spottings during a troll doll fad.

[DawgHouse]

111. KAAY - 1090. I miss Beaker Street!

[madrchsod]

115. shit i forgot all about that station!

i could get that station most nights up here in northern il.

[DawgHouse]

117. I lived in Little Rock

and picked it up easily but I have met people from as far away as Wisconsin who remember hearing Beaker Street on KAAY. Beaker Street was the first underground music program broadcast on AM in the US. It came on really late at night and I wasn't really old enough to stay up that late but I did anyway :)

[dbt]

120. KAAY! Thank you, DawgHouse!!

I've been watching this thread for a couple of days, just waiting for those call letters to show up! My first Big Radio Gig was at KAAY when I was all of 20 years old. Airmen in Minnesota would call in at night. We'd get postcards from Cuba wanting to hear more Elvis. DX'ers in Italy would send letters complaining of interference from Radio Moscow on 1089.

We had to use a three-tower directional array to keep the signal out of the coverage areas of XPRS in Tijuana and WBAL in Baltimore, which is why the KAAY signal would reach from parts of South America on one end to the North Pole and beyond on the other.

THE HIGHLIGHT of my summer was getting to fill in for Clyde Clifford on Beaker Street. Part of the appeal of that program might have had something to do with the fact that the KAAY transmitter site in Wrightsville AR (about 13 miles southeast of Little Rock) was built on a GRAVEYARD. All the graves had been relocated--except for that of little Glaspie Dillard, who died in 1929 IIRC at the age of five. His tombstone remains under the guy wires of the west tower. Beaker Street was broadcast from the transmitter building, which is quite haunted.

Beaker Street is alive and well. Clyde Clifford hosts the show on KMJX (Magic 105) out of Little Rock on Sunday nights, 7-Midnight Central time. You can hear it at www.magic105fm.com/pages/newstreaming.html Clyde also maintains a website at www.beakerstreet.com.

Please note that the Beaker Street site contains an outdated link for online audio. This is my bad for not getting the new information to Clyde!

Thank you again, DawgHouse, for your mention of The Mighty 1090!

:smoke:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[DawgHouse]

121. Thanks for the link!

I definitely remember Clyde! :)

[last_texas_dem]

116. KKMY (Beaumont, TX)

It's an FM radio station; I'm too young to remember AM stations that actually played Top 40. KKMY still exists now, but it's basically an "adult contemporary" station. Oh yeah, and until now I never noticed its call letters could be pronounced "Kick My". hehe

[datsafact]

119. KBAL- San Saba, Texas