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Post by chrisinmi on Jul 29, 2012 21:35:29 GMT -5
Here are the stations in the Detroit area that aired AT40 during the Casey and Shadoe eras, to my knowledge.
- W4 (WWWW 106.7) was one of the first stations to carry the show, way back in 1970. Its format was a Top 40/oldies mix at that time (they called it Solid Gold but played current product too). Once the station switched to Album Rock, AT40 was gone. Now classic rock WDTW-FM and owned by Clear Channel. - WDRQ (93.1) from 1980 to sometime in '82(?) - now 93.1 Doug FM, a Cumulus station - WMJC (Magic 95, a Greater Media-owned AC at 94.7) from 1982 to sometime in '83(?) - has been Classic Rock WCSX since 1987 under the same ownership - WHYT (96.3) from 1983 well into the Shadoe Stevens era. The former beautiful music WJR-FM had switched to Mike Joseph's Hot Hits format in September '82, but apparently didn't pick up AT40 right away. I guess with Watermark being an ABC property by then and WHYT owned by Capital Cities/ABC, it was only a matter of time before ABC wrested the show away from WMJC and onto its own property. I know for a fact AT40 was on WHYT by June 1983 at the latest. Now WDVD, a Hot AC under Cumulus ownership. - I believe WDFX (99.5 The Fox) carried Casey's Top 40 in the early '90s, but don't quote me on that. Now CBS-owned country station WYCD.
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Post by chrisinmi on Jul 29, 2012 22:15:41 GMT -5
Here are the station mentions from 07/30/83:
WDBQ - Dubuque, IA KOWL - South Lake Tahoe, CA Radio Kansai - Kobe, Japan
WRKY - Steubenville, OH WPUB - Camden, SC KSET AM & FM - El Paso, TX
WLAP - Lexington, KY (I assume this was WLAP-FM, which was TM Stereo Rock in 1983, as opposed to WLAP-AM which was Full Service AC - but maybe I'm wrong) KLMS - Lincoln, NE Armed Forces Radio - worldwide
WILE - Cambridge, OH KTDY - Lafayette, LA Commercial Radio - Hong Kong
No new stations welcomed.
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Post by chrisinmi on Jul 31, 2012 22:03:16 GMT -5
[/li][li]K-Lite 95FM Grants, NM - Well...I have absolutely no idea. There's a few stations in New Mexico that have a frequency at or near 95, or that are licensed to Grants, that I can rule out due to not having signed on yet in 1986, but due to a lack of callsign in the ID given, I can't pin this down to any one. And oh, by the way, there isn't a station close enough to 95 on the dial licensed to Grants today. This is KLLT, licensed to Grants, NM. It operated on 95.3 FM in 1986-87. The format in the 1986 Broadcasting Yearbook was listed as Country (sign-on year listed as 1980), but in 1987 it is listed as AC, meaning the station probably changed format to AC sometime in '86. The last year it is mentioned in the Broadcasting Yearbook is 1991, meaning it probably went off the air in the early '90s. The calls are now in Spencer, IA. *EDIT* - I see from reading through the thread that someone already commented on this. Sorry for the redundancy.
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Post by chrisinmi on Jul 31, 2012 22:04:40 GMT -5
11/28/81: WGCL. This was the station home to one Townsend Coleman. Name sound familiar? He's the guy who hosted his own version of AT40 on the week of July 7, 1979 on WGCL, rather than the station playing the Top 40 Disco Songs special, them being an anti-disco station and all. He also plays the character of "Jason Whittaker" on the Christian kids' radio drama "Adventures in Odyssey."
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Post by chrisinmi on Aug 7, 2012 1:08:35 GMT -5
Station mentions for August 3, 1985:
Q100 - Allentown, PA (WQQQ) KOFM - Oklahoma City, OK Radio Independencia - Montevideo, Uruguay
Fly 92 - Albany, NY (WFLY) KTDY - Lafayette, LA Armed Forces Radio - worldwide
KMBQ - Shreveport, LA KICS - Hastings, NE (at first I thought he said KICX, which is in McCook, NE, but a look at the 1986 Broadcasting Yearbook shows KICS at 1550 in Hastings with an AC format) Z106 - Philadelphia (WZGO - later an affiliate station as WEGX Eagle 106, after the format change at WCAU-FM which resulted in them dropping the show)
KTQM - Clovis, NM Q92 - Canton, OH (WDJQ) 95X - Hato Rey, PR (WGSX)
No station welcomes this week.
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Post by chrisinmi on Aug 13, 2012 16:04:26 GMT -5
Mentioned on August 11, 1984:
Previously mentioned here- WNOK KICS (an AC station in 1984, now an ESPN Radio affiliate) KACI (this time the AM station only was mentioned, as the FM didn't sign on until February '85) KKCK (as "KK100") KTQM KJR
Others: * KFAR Fairbanks, AK (Broadcast Yearbook listed format in 1984-85 as "MOR/Top-40" so I guess it could be called Hot AC; it's now a News/Talk station. Add this to the list of legendary full-service stations that carried AT40 in the mid-'80s, including WBZ and WHAS.) * WABI Bangor, ME (a contemporary station through most of the '70s and all of the '80s, later went to adult standards in the late '90s, then to a short-lived talk format, then back to standards and then to its current sports format in '08. It's now WAEI, having changed its calls in '09. It's Maine's oldest currently operating radio station. They would, however, apparently lose AT40 by the end of the year, as WMLI - listed in Broadcasting Yearbooks for '84 and '85 as a Music of Your Life station! - would be named as a new station on 12-22-84.) * CKBK(?) London, ON - Not having Pete's book (yet) I'm going to assume this was a misread of CJBK, which was a Top 40 station from the early '70s until 1987 (named after WJBK, a legendary Top 40 station in Detroit during the late '50s and early '60s). It's now News/Talk. London had two AM Top 40s at that time, the other being CKSL, which aired AT40 during the Shadoe era, so the misread may have been a portmanteau of CJBK and CKSL. * KFMZ Columbia, MO - Listed as a Top 40 station at the time in Broadcasting Yearbooks. It apparently has been silent since 2001. * WSTO Owensboro, KY - CHR in '84 (per Wiki the format dates back to '82) and CHR today, although it's had some ups and downs in the past 28 years, including a low-rated move to Hot AC for a couple of years (per the Wiki article). Despite being CHR today, it does not have the current AT40.
Two station welcomes, both for Australian stations, as was the third station mention in hour three.
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Post by chrisinmi on Aug 13, 2012 16:33:50 GMT -5
As a bonus, these stations were mentioned in the December 22, 1984 show, posted (with songs scoped out but network commercials intact!) on YouTube: Previously mentioned here: WGSX (95X) in Puerto Rico KKFM WKTI WRQX Also mentioned: * Q96 Goldsboro, NC - WEQR. At the time it aired the show it was either a Hot AC or CHR, depending on whether you believe the Broadcasting Yearbook or Wiki. The original frequency for WEQR flipped to country in 1989 and is now WYMY, a Mexican station. The WEQR calls and Hot AC format migrated to another frequency with that change and today rest on 97.7 known as "Q97.7," as a CHR (but not airing Seacrest's AT40). * Q102 Big Rapids, MI - WAAQ, an AC station carrying the show. Today it's known as WYBR "Y102", a Hot AC station, which it has been since 1994; prior to that, it was CHR WPZX "Power 102" for a few years in the early '90s. * KDKD Clinton, MO - this was an AM/FM simulcast at that time. The AM is today Oldies, the FM Country. * KCAP Helena, MT - another AC station carrying the show, interestingly the AM sister station of CHR "Z101" KZMT. The show apparently migrated to the FM within a year. KCAP is News/Talk today. * 69 XTRA GOLD San Diego, CA - the legendary border-blaster XETRA out of Tijuana, which (read its Wiki article) had a long history of trying to be a southern California station serving San Diego and Los Angeles and never quite succeeding. Apparently the station had dropped its "Mighty 690" Adult Top 40 identity by this time and was continuing to air AT40 as an oldies station. Now XEWW. I'll let the Wiki article do the rest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEWW-AM * WDEB AM & FM Jamestown, TN - seems to have been a "full service" hodgepodge radio station in 1984, as the Broadcasting Yearbooks list the format as "Country, Religious and Top 40." The FM was mostly in simulcast with the AM then. Today the FM is Country and the AM runs the True Oldies Channel. * KLEO Wichita, KS - Wichita's legendary Top 40 station apparently softened to an MOR format by then. Now KQAM, a talk station. Welcomed as new stations: * AM 1250 WMLI Bangor, ME - if the Broadcasting Yearbook is to be believed, this was a Music of Your Life station carrying AT40! WGUY, their sister FM CHR, would seem to be a better place for the show, but I digress... perhaps the WMLI mention was in error? Whatever the deal with this station was, it seems to have switched back to its heritage WGUY-AM calls and switched frequencies not long afterward. It's listed at 1200 licensed to Brewer, ME, as WGUY in 1987. Today WGUY is on 1230 with an oldies format and ANOTHER city of license (Veazie, ME). * 106 WECM Claremont, NH - Apparently this was the station that later became WHDQ, mentioned here previously on two 1987 shows. * KG93 Pierre, SD - KGFX-FM at 92.7. Casey misread the city as "Pierce, South Dakota" - a pretty conspicuous mistake, given that Pierre is the state capital! Still KGFX-FM today, but it now has an AC format and also per Wiki had a spell as classic rock in between the CHR and AC eras.
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Post by chrisinmi on Aug 19, 2012 20:18:09 GMT -5
August 15, 1987:
Q98 - Chadron, NE - KQSK. AC in '87, Country today. KOYE - Laredo, TX - According to the Wiki article it's played format musical chairs over the last five years, and is currently KQUR "Digital 94.9," a Spanish CHR station that plays both English and Spanish hits. Fly 92 - Albany, NY WHYT - Detroit, MI
103 CIR - Beckley, WV - WCIR was an AM/FM combo carrying the show in 1987. The FM is still CHR today; the AM is a Southern Gospel station as WBKW. QUH-FM 103.1 - Defuniak Springs, FL - WQUH was an AC station in '87. Later moved to Valparaiso, FL and became a Fort Walton Beach market station; today it is WZLB, a rock format. KKWZ - Richfield, UT - an AC station airing the show in 1987. Today KLGL, a Classic Hits station. KKBQ - Houston, TX
WJRI - Lenoir, NC Z100, The Hot FM - Hopkinsville, KY - WZZF. Today WVVR "The Beaver" with a country format. KACI AM & FM - The Dalles, OR FM Hokkaido - Hokkaido, Japan (strange... Hokkaido is an island and a prefecture of Japan, not a city, but Casey announced it as if Hokkaido were a city.)
Big Wolf 97 FM - Waycross, GA - WWUF. Currently a Hot AC station using Cumulus' satellite format, but it's had a few different formats in the years since. KPQ - Hornell, NY - WKPQ was an AC station in 1987 and apparently kept that format (adding Hot to the AC along the way) until October of last year, when it flipped Country. Sly 96 - San Luis Obispo, CA CKXL - Calgary, AB - Welcomed as a new station on 7-19-86. The station would interestingly drop its CHR format just a few weeks after this show aired to go AC as CISS. Moved to the FM dial in 1996 and today is a Jack FM format (one of the first such stations actually) as CJAQ.
New stations welcomed: * WBVI - Fostoria-Findlay, OH - "Findlay's new lite rock station." Has pretty much stuck to the same format and calls since, though it added Hot to its AC several years ago and is today known as Mix 96.7. * KROC - Rochester, MN - CHR today, as in 1987, but I see they're owned by Cumulus so how close they actually are to CHR is probably debatable. * CKPR - Thunder Bay, ON - Thunder Bay's heritage station, which has had an AC format for eons (and of course did in '87) although it's added Hot to the AC in recent years. Left its longtime 580 AM frequency in the summer of 2007 and now operates on 91.5 FM. * Fourth welcomed station was one from Norway; not even going to attempt that one.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Aug 19, 2012 21:01:10 GMT -5
Boy, TWO mentions from one of my territories, Allentown! This is where I wish I had Pete's books...
WKAP (July '82), as I said a while ago in the 70s-this-week thread, flipped to talk in the mid-80s as WTKZ, with the old calls revived a few years later at another station which switched from country to 60s/70s oldies. The latter station took another local-heritage callsign, WSAN, and both have sports formats today.
WQQQ (August '85) is one of the closest stations to my family's house; I never knew they had Casey till listening to that show. The call letters are in upstate New York today, and the station plays 70s-and-80s rock hits as WODE (99.9 The Hawk).
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Post by chrisinmi on Aug 27, 2012 22:06:58 GMT -5
Being on vacation and without Internet access (and out of listening range of a station airing AT40 80s) prevented me from getting the station mentions from August 28, 1982, until today, but here goes:
Two mentions from my home state this week! - WUPM, Ironwood, MI: In 1982 this was essentially a Hot AC station, and it has stuck to that format ever since. - WTRX, Flint, MI: During much of the '70s and '80s, "Trix" was Flint's premier outlet for what would be called Hot AC today. Today it's a Sports outlet. As an interesting aside, its competitor in the AC format for much of the mid/late '80s was none other than current AT40 '80s affiliate WCRZ (Cars 108). Also, WTRX was one of the AM stations that aired the syndicated Z-Rock format (circa 1990, accompanied by a call letter change to WDLZ); it didn't last. Also: - WXAM Charlottesville, VA - now Sports WKAV. - KACI The Dalles, OR - KSET AM & FM El Paso, TX - WFJA Sanford, NC - Format listed in 1983 Broadcasting Yearbook as "Top 40/MOR," whether this was block programming or a Hot AC hybrid I don't know. In any event it currently runs Cumulus' Classic Hits format. - WEAI Jacksonville, IL - In 1982, WEAI was a Top 40 station at 100.5. Today it's an Adult Hits station at 107.1, and the original frequency is WYMG, a classic rocker serving the Springfield market. - KJMB Blythe, CA - KNOG Havre, MT - a college station carrying the show in 1982. Has been KNMC since 1985. Other mentioned stations this week were from Australia and Cali, Colombia, and an American Forces Radio station at Nuremburg, Germany.
Six new stations welcomed, five from the U.S.: - WNOK Columbia, SC - KITY San Antonio, TX - WNVZ Norfolk, VA - the legendary Z104 (which had just launched earlier that month), though the calls were misread by Casey as WNVX. This became one of Mike Joseph's Hot Hits stations the following year, which lasted about two years. Became a Rhythmic station in the early '90s and has remained so since. - KMXL Logan, UT - an AC station carrying the show in 1982. Today it's CHR as KVFX, but they carry Rick Dees instead of Seacrest's AT40. - WVJS Owensboro, KY - listed in Broadcasting Yearbooks as an MOR station. Today it's oldies. Their sister station was legendary Top 40 outlet - and future AT40 affiliate - WSTO. The fifth welcomed station was RMI in Milano, Italy (Radio Milano International).
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Post by chrisinmi on Sept 2, 2012 22:36:28 GMT -5
Another busy week for station mentions, as SEVEN new stations were welcomed on September 5, 1981. I'll only concern myself with six of them as the seventh is an Australian. * WEAI Jacksonville, IL - mentioned on last week's 1982 show * WCHL Chapel Hill, NC - mentioned in this thread previously * KVLV Fallon, NV - Casey didn't specify but this appears to have been the FM station, which is listed as a Top 40 station in the BY, as opposed to the AM which was country. Now on a different frequency as KKTU, format is Hot AC per Wiki. The station apparently just dropped the KVLV-FM calls last year. * WLEM Emporia, PA - a full-service variety station then, country today. * KMYO Tulsa, OK - actually licensed to Broken Arrow, OK. Anyone know the truth about this station? According to the Broadcasting Yearbook this was 100% simulcast with KTOW-AM Sand Springs, a country station. In any event, it's CHR today - well, more accurately, Rhythmic CHR - as KTBT, "The Beat." (Sixth will be added later, I missed it)
And here are the regular station mentions from hours two through four - will get hour one tomorrow on WMXY as well as the one missing American station welcomed (I missed it on both WQSR and KEGK) unless someone beats me to it: * WCPA/WQYX Clearfield, PA - Per BY, the AM was MOR, the FM Top 40. Today the AM is news/talk and the FM Hot AC (per Radio-Locator - the stations do not have a website and different sources say different things). The FM also switched frequencies sometime between 1981 and today. * KDBQ Aberdeen, SD - Top 40 in 1981, but it would change call letters and formats the following year, becoming Country KGIM. It's still KGIM today but is now Sports. * WIBV Belleville, IL - Although in the St. Louis market, the station super-served the Illinois side of the metro for years. Today it is WSDZ, STL's Radio Disney affiliate, and has been since 1997. * WENK Union City, TN - Listed as MOR in BY. Today it's Oldies. * WFMO Fairmont, NC - Now a Regional Mexican station per Wikipedia. * WHVL Hendersonville, NC - According to Wiki, this was a Top 40 station until 1987, then Oldies (introducing the current calls, WTZQ), then beautiful music and then adult standards, which remains the format today. Third station mentioned in each of last three hours was Australian. That's what I have right now; will fill in the blanks tomorrow.
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Post by mct1 on Sept 9, 2012 0:54:44 GMT -5
* AM 1250 WMLI Bangor, ME - if the Broadcasting Yearbook is to be believed, this was a Music of Your Life station carrying AT40! WGUY, their sister FM CHR, would seem to be a better place for the show, but I digress... perhaps the WMLI mention was in error? Whatever the deal with this station was, it seems to have switched back to its heritage WGUY-AM calls and switched frequencies not long afterward. It's listed at 1200 licensed to Brewer, ME, as WGUY in 1987. Today WGUY is on 1230 with an oldies format and ANOTHER city of license (Veazie, ME). FWIW, Brewer and Veazie are both suburbs of Bangor. Veazie is interesting because it isn't that large of a place; IINM, while it is located in a fairly densely populated area by Maine standards, it is one of the smallest municipalities in the state in terms of land area.
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Post by chrisinmi on Sept 9, 2012 15:08:18 GMT -5
Hmm... interesting! Thanks
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Post by chrisinmi on Sept 9, 2012 15:10:52 GMT -5
By the way, the new station that I forgot to mention last week was KBIX in Muskogee, OK. Listed as an MOR station in 1981, it's Sports today.
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Post by chrisinmi on Sept 9, 2012 16:04:29 GMT -5
September 10, 1983, station mentions from hours one, three and four (will add hour two after listening online to WQSR this evening):
KICS Hastings, NE WINC Winchester, VA - an AM/FM AC simulcast then. Today the FM - an apparently-now-former-AT40-The '80s affiliate, as the page on their website that mentioned the show now displays as a 404 "file not found" - is an AC/hot AC hybrid (having switched from straight-up hot AC in April 2011) and the AM is news/talk. WCRE Cheraw, SC - an AC station airing the show then, now oldies. KGMT Fairbury, NE - see WCRE, same thing. WTPR Paris, TN - yet another then-AC, now-oldies station carrying the show. But there's an interesting twist here... WTPR is now in simulcast with WENK Union City, which was mentioned on last week's 09/05/81 show. Plus, the frequency that was occupied by country-format WTPR-FM in 1983 is today WAKQ, a CHR station which is in simulcast with another of AT40's "great radio stations" from the '80s - "KF99" WWKF Union City. Small world, isn't it! (By the way, today's version of WTPR-FM simulcasts the AM.) KOYE Laredo, TX WIFI Philadelphia, PA - another interesting story here. WIFI was the only Top 40 station in the City of Brotherly Love for a time in the late '70s and early '80s, between WFIL's switch to AC and WCAU-FM's explosive launch with Hot Hits in September '81, and was fairly successful though it didn't have the monster ratings of the stations that came before and after in the format. Once CAU-FM's Hot Hits started sweeping Philly, WIFI went downhill fast and tried a new wave "rock of the '80s" type format in '82. The 9/10/83 show apparently aired as WIFI was literally on its deathbed, as just a few days later, WIFI became WXTU and adopted an urban format in imitation of New York's WKTU. This proved a failure (the station dropped COMPLETELY out of the Philadelphia ratings - I'm talking a 0.0 share) and just a few months later, on March 1, 1984, the station went Country, which it has remained ever since.
Two new stations welcomed: KNGT Jackson, CA - An MOR station in 1983. Today it is KGRB, airing the syndicated "La Gran D" regional Mexican format. CHPQ Parksville, BC Canada - The 1984 BY lists the format as "Gold," but according to the Wiki article, the station was founded in 1973 as a semi-satellite of CHUB Nanaimo, BC, which was listed in BY as MOR. Assumedly the semi-satellite arrangement was still in place until 1995, when CHUB and CHPQ moved to FM as CKWV and CKWV-FM-1 respectively, with the Parksville station then becoming a 100% relay of Nanaimo. The heritage CHPQ calls were restored on 2/11/05 when CKWV-FM-1 fully separated programming from CKWV and switching to adult standards, which continues today as "The Lounge."
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