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missingthebigdog

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136. WOKI in Knoxville

Mon Oct 23, 2023, 09:52 PM

Oct 2023

I could tune it in on my bedside clock radio at night to listen to mostly top 40. Heard “My Sharona” for the first time late one night, and the DJ was scandalized by it, lol.

Could also sometimes get WOWO from Fort Wayne, Indiana (Woe Woe, dubya oh, dubya oh, Fort Wayne!) They had a pretty impressive signal, considering I was in Tennessee.

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Your favorite radio station when you were a kid? [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 OP

WOKY MOMFUDSKI Oct 2023 #1

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #2

+1 rzemanfl Oct 2023 #32

Mighty 92! LeftInTX Oct 2023 #147

Can't remember the call letters. It played The Jackson five, Osmonds, bubble gum hits over and over Demovictory9 Oct 2023 #3

😃 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #7

WKRP! True Dough Oct 2023 #4

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #8

My Favorite Sitcom Ever! BlueKota Oct 2023 #35

WMMR Tree-Hugger Oct 2023 #5

☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #9

Da Bella in da morning BOSSHOG Oct 2023 #23

". . .buy bonds, say chicken fat, join the WACs. . ." DinahMoeHum Oct 2023 #131

"Put out your can, here comes the garbage man" BOSSHOG Oct 2023 #134

WSB Atlanta Glorfindel Oct 2023 #6

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #11

There's a trip down memory lane.. Permanut Oct 2023 #57

There were two of them that we listened to: Ocelot II Oct 2023 #10

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #12

I had a few JPPaverage Oct 2023 #13

☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #14

WABC 770 AM, NYC GP6971 Oct 2023 #15

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #17

Me too! FalloutShelter Oct 2023 #26

Sure do. GP6971 Oct 2023 #30

I was there a couple of times too. FalloutShelter Oct 2023 #59

This jingle is etched into my brain: IcyPeas Oct 2023 #66

Now that takes me back. FalloutShelter Oct 2023 #69

Now that takes me back. FalloutShelter Oct 2023 #70

also 90-percent Oct 2023 #48

+1 In the early to mid 1970s when it played music. Earth-shine Oct 2023 #58

Also the NY area had WMCA with the Good Guys IcyPeas Oct 2023 #62

Yup Nittersing Oct 2023 #99

Howard Cosell "Speaking of Sports" DinahMoeHum Oct 2023 #132

CKLW ... Detroit/Windsor jdadd Oct 2023 #16

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #19

On summer nights we could get them in central Ohio. Boomerproud Oct 2023 #91

WCOL-only matters if you lived in Central Ohio. Boomerproud Oct 2023 #92

KAAY, Little Rock. The Mighty 1090's 50,000 watt figure 8 nighttime pattern rsdsharp Oct 2023 #18

☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #20

WLS moniss Oct 2023 #21

exactly the same here.... bahboo Oct 2023 #61

😃📻 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #87

Me, too. GoCubsGo Oct 2023 #94

That was great stuff and moniss Oct 2023 #100

Definitely WLS & Dick Biondi - the only rock & roll I could get at night yellowdogintexas Oct 2023 #103

Same here - WLS clear channel - we could get R&R in my little country town that only played country. walkingman Oct 2023 #115

We had day time R&R up in the Fox River Valley, (WI - Oshkosh, Appleton) LeftInTX Oct 2023 #149

Me too! LeftInTX Oct 2023 #148

More like a teen; WMMS Cleveland ( the Buzzard) captain queeg Oct 2023 #22

I was just talking about this exact thing Diamond_Dog Oct 2023 #33

Yeah those were the days. I've listened to it a couple times when visiting OH in more recent times captain queeg Oct 2023 #71

🤗📻 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2023 #89

95 KIMN, Rocks the Rockies!! CrispyQ Oct 2023 #24

WLS and KAAY. highplainsdem Oct 2023 #25

10-10 WINS NY fierywoman Oct 2023 #27

WIRQ 93.3/90.9 Hstch05 Oct 2023 #28

KJR KT2000 Oct 2023 #29

KQV....Pittsburgh, PA PittBlue Oct 2023 #31

YES debm55 Oct 2023 #60

94.5 WCOZ, Boston Deep13 Oct 2023 #34

WVOV - Huntsville, Alabama's Voice of the Valley, top 40 rock n roll, House of Roberts Oct 2023 #36

i95 radio Birmingham ! stonecutter357 Oct 2023 #37

Chicago in the 60s was either WCFL or WLS. Both "Top 40" AM stations. Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2023 #38

I still remember moniss Oct 2023 #90

"Ooh! Ahh!" Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2023 #113

KISN 910 Portland, Oregon.. Permanut Oct 2023 #39

I first heard the doors and jefferson airplane on KISN in the sixties. k55f5r Oct 2023 #117

KVAN once intrrrupted InaGadaDaVita Thunderbeast Oct 2023 #129

In the 1970's, in the Arizona desert... padfun Oct 2023 #40

XEROK was a border blaster from Juarez, MX LeftInTX Oct 2023 #152

92 MJQ BlueKota Oct 2023 #41

WHFS near DC. mike_c Oct 2023 #42

When FM took off moniss Oct 2023 #43

Top 40 odins folly Oct 2023 #44

WXRT Chicago mucifer Oct 2023 #45

WJJD 1160am Chicago BunnyMcGee Oct 2023 #46

Wichita, KS... TlalocW Oct 2023 #47

WOR with Jean Shepherd TreasonousBastard Oct 2023 #49

YES!!!! elleng Oct 2023 #76

Me Too but I was past being a kid. I was 18 at the time and when I was driving home from work (10 pm) I would listen to MichaelSoE Oct 2023 #105

FM99 underpants Oct 2023 #50

WKWK 1400 AM, Wheeling WV Drum Oct 2023 #51

KOMA in Oklahoma City Sneederbunk Oct 2023 #52

Yes, Linda Ronstadt was a fan growing up in Tucson Doc Sportello Oct 2023 #142

WPTR - AM radio out of Albany, NY. Played top 40. patphil Oct 2023 #53

In the Wichita area I listened to KICT (T-95) in HS for the music, when younger wcmagumba Oct 2023 #54

WLS Chicago Emile Oct 2023 #55

KAAY Little Rock WmChris Oct 2023 #56

yup....same in central Iowa IowaGuy Oct 2023 #157

WLS-Chicago Q1305 Oct 2023 #63

I could get that station at night. rzemanfl Oct 2023 #67

Only late @ night WLS Chicago MasonDreams Oct 2023 #82

Mexican AM radio crossing the Gulf at night Get Me Outta Here Oct 2023 #64

XERB, deejay Wolfman Jack? Walleye Oct 2023 #154

KDKA Pittsburgh montanacowboy Oct 2023 #65

WLS Chicago AM Radio duckworth969 Oct 2023 #68

KRLA Los Angeles DBoon Oct 2023 #72

WKNR Keener. WXYZ Detroit. Srkdqltr Oct 2023 #73

WIRK-AM 1240 Fichefinder Oct 2023 #74

KROQ 106.7 petronius Oct 2023 #75

FM97 KNBQ, Seattle-Tacoma. Aristus Oct 2023 #77

I remember KNBQ! missingthebigdog Oct 2023 #133

I don't remember the station in Kansas City lapfog_1 Oct 2023 #78

This may have been KY102 SmittyWerben Oct 2023 #108

WSHE 103.5 in Fort Lauderdale FM123 Oct 2023 #79

KDKB Kali Oct 2023 #80

WQKI, Atlanta 60s music. In 70s the college stations WREK and WRAS. Silent Type Oct 2023 #81

KAAY 1090, 50,000 watts Warren_Pointe Oct 2023 #83

KGMY, Missoula, Montana. 1972. LiberalLoner Oct 2023 #84

"Little bit o' heaven. " The Unmitigated Gall Oct 2023 #85

During the Winter, here in North Florida, we could sometimes get: 89 WLS...Chicago! (late 60s) Chainfire Oct 2023 #86

When I was a kid, KDKA... malthaussen Oct 2023 #88

Radio was really good in what is now Silicon Valley in the 60s-70s. Mr.Bill Oct 2023 #93

KEWB radio channel 91 Doc_Technical Oct 2023 #95

KIOA, Des Moines, IA!! Sogo Oct 2023 #96

I probably could have picked up KAAY since I could get WLS yellowdogintexas Oct 2023 #106

CKLW (Windsor ONT) in the 60s WestMichRad Oct 2023 #97

I don't remember the call letters or station numbers but onethatcares Oct 2023 #98

Anybody remember on WCFL at night moniss Oct 2023 #101

Chickenman ran in all day parts on CFL. It was the brainchild of production director Dick Orkin. rsdsharp Oct 2023 #111

WDVE 102.5 & WYDD 104.7 in Pittsburgh. Dulcinea Oct 2023 #102

There were two Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #104

KATT Oklahoma City n/t gay texan Oct 2023 #107

I could only get top 40 in the daytime (aka before 6 pm) yellowdogintexas Oct 2023 #109

AM - WRKO and WMEX (Boston) for AM back in the late 60's when transistor radio's OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #110

CKLW The Motor City rogerballard Oct 2023 #112

CBC Radio. My parents had it on all the time. I liked AM applegrove Oct 2023 #114

WMZK if..fish..had..wings Oct 2023 #116

WLAC Nashville. Late at night I could hear Howling Wolf, Little Richard, Slim Harpo, James Brown and many, many more. retread Oct 2023 #118

I had forgotten that. SIlly me. The studio was on the top floor of the L & C yellowdogintexas Oct 2023 #120

WKBR and WGIR zanana1 Oct 2023 #119

In eastern Iowa at night we could get a slew of 50,000 watters rurallib Oct 2023 #121

rurallib, KIOA wasn't a day timer. It was 10,000 watts in the day time, and only 5000 at night. rsdsharp Oct 2023 #122

daytime stations had their biggest signal before sundown rurallib Oct 2023 #123

No, daytime stations actually went off the air at sunset, rsdsharp Oct 2023 #124

WMEX-AM, Boston/WABC, New York ificandream Oct 2023 #125

Yes, I was an intense fan of WMEX, back in 66 or 67....and Cousin Brucie was in the programming. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #126

I listened to WMEX in early '60s and I don't recall Cousin Brucie there. ificandream Oct 2023 #143

Could have been WRKO, I guess. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #146

Rinse FM, pirate radio in London. Grime and dubstep pioneers. Celerity Oct 2023 #127

CKLW out of Windsor, Ontario catbyte Oct 2023 #128

KLOS and KMET Jerry2144 Oct 2023 #130

WCBS Throckmorton Oct 2023 #135

WOKI in Knoxville missingthebigdog Oct 2023 #136

Let's see... OldBaldy1701E Oct 2023 #137

KKDZ and KCSN sakabatou Oct 2023 #138

WYNY 97.1FM in NYC choie Oct 2023 #139

WPLJ in NYC MyMission Oct 2023 #140

WAKY up until about '73 Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #141

Dude... LudwigPastorius Oct 2023 #144

WHS in KC Darwins_Retriever Oct 2023 #145

Looks like WLS is the thread winner!!! LeftInTX Oct 2023 #150

WKNR... MiHale Oct 2023 #151

Boss Radio 93KHJ ! calimary Oct 2023 #153

Great playlists AltairIV Oct 2023 #155

WKBW Buffalo, NY Walleye Oct 2023 #156

Anyone remember 'Murray the K'? NY City area in early 60s... Jrose Oct 2023 #158

The Grape Ape - 95.1 WAPE Jacksonville, FL Phentex Oct 2023 #159