What Radio Station Did You Listen To When You Were Growing Up?

[KittyWampus]

New York had WNEW 102.7FM back in the 60's-70's-80's.

Progressive Rock. It was pretty Independant then.

It had excellent DJ's and I pity youngsters today who might not have such mainstream access to good music.

Scott Muni
Alison Steele (Nightbird)- she pioneered New Age way before it even was called "New Age". Beautiful voice and spirit.
Pete Fornatale
Dennis Elsas- has done and still does outstanding interviews
Vin Selsa- Idiot's Delight.. really eclectic mix.

WNEW died a long death and I haven't even bothered to check what's there now.

But Fornatale, Elsas and Selsa all are on WFUV, Fordham University's radio station.

Now I pretty much only listen to College Radio on the Left side of the dial.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. KMET and KLOS

Jim Ladd
Elliot Mintz
Jeff Gonzer
Mary Turner
and loads of other great radio personalities

[KittyWampus]

2. Do You Know If Any Of Them Are Still Around?

Kind of curious to see how DJ's got along with the advent of Clear Channel and canned radio.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Jim Ladd still is

[KittyWampus]

9. What A Great Bio! Just Read It On Wiki. He Refused To Use Playlist

Jim Ladd (born January 17, 1948), an American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, is the last remaining freeform rock DJ in United States commercial radio.

Unlike his contemporaries, Ladd personally selects every song he plays. He combines music with atmospheric sound samples and social commentary, often inviting listeners to participate on the air. Most of his music sets center around a theme or storyline, such as Wild West outlaws, beautiful women or fast cars. He often adds appropriate listener requests to his themed sets; sometimes a request will inspire an entire set. His repertoire combines classic rock standards by artists like the Beatles, the Doors and Led Zeppelin with songs and artists not normally heard on commercial radio. As was once standard in radio, most of his broadcasts end with a long song, such as the Doors' "When The Music's Over," Neil Young's "Cowgirl In The Sand" or even Pink Floyd's 23-minute-long "Echoes."

Ladd served as an inspiration for the 2002 Tom Petty album The Last DJ and its title track. In his career, he has become friends with many rock legends such as Petty, John Lennon, and Jackson Browne, along with original MTV veejay J. J. Jackson and filmmaker Cameron Crowe. (He played an all-night DJ in Crowe's 1989 film Say Anything.) Ladd appeared on Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters' fourth solo album Radio K.A.O.S. as "DJ Jim," joined Waters on the tour that followed, and appeared in the three music videos for the album.

Ladd began his career in 1967 at KNAC, a small Long Beach rock station. After two years there, he moved to Los Angeles station KLOS. In 1974, he moved to KMET, or "The Mighty Met," where he would remain for most of the 1970s and 1980s save for brief stints on syndication and on KLOS. He finally left KMET in 1987, when it phased out on-air disc jockeys and switched to a smooth jazz format. For several years, he did not work as a DJ because he refused to follow a playlist, as most station owners demanded. He currently plays free-form rock music on KLOS weeknights from 10 p. m. to 2 a.m. His show routinely leads its timeslot in Arbitron ratings.

Ladd's daily radio show is available only in the Los Angeles area because it is not syndicated and KLOS's audio stream is not available on the Internet as of 2005. However, he has produced, written and narrated a number of nationally syndicated programs, including interviews, concert specials and album premieres. National audiences probably know him best as the host of Innerview, an hour-long interview program that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ladd received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard on May 6, 2005.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

69. Same one I listen to now

except then (1966) it was top 40 and now its "oldies." :o

[datasuspect]

4. wls

wvon

[benddem]

15. me too n/t

[datasuspect]

18. larry lujack

"animal stories"

live remotes from "olde chicago" mall/amusement park (http://www.negative-g.com/OldChicago/OCIndex.html) in bolingbrook. etc. etc.

[KittyWampus]

19. An Indoor Amusement Park? Guess It Was Just A Matter Of Time Til That

happened :)

[datasuspect]

21. it went out of business in the late 70s.

went there as a kid.

they had a haunted house.

[orleans]

88. me too. wls and wcfl

both a.m.

and when i got a bit older i added wxrt to the list

[BamaGirl]

5. In Atlanta

I listened to 96 Rock and Z93. I don't remember who the DJ's were lol. I'm home about once every 3 months or so and mostly channel surf when I'm there. The old stations just aren't the same.

[arwalden]

6. WGH

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. KOMA 1520 on your AM dial

Oklahoma City--back in the '60s

[Floogeldy]

12. What about WKY?

Ronnie Kaye, Dale Wehba and Danny Williams. ;)

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. And don't forget Foreman Scotty!

Nixo Billy!

(I know that was on the WKY-TV, but just had to say those magic words...) :)

...and Woody the Horse!

[Floogeldy]

29. I love it!

Thanks for sharing the memories, Nelly.

:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

44. ..and let's not forget Ho-Ho the Clown/ KOCO

Met him many times at friends' b-day parties

[Whoa_Nelly]

48. ...and just a few more

For old times' sake

[Floogeldy]

51. Wonderful!

Okay, while we're at it, here is Bazark at the grand opening of Wedgewood Village Amusement Park. :)

[Whoa_Nelly]

53. I grew up living across the street from

Maurice Woods, the owner of Wedgewood. Every Christmas he would have either a kiddie ride or an elaborate Santa display. Our street was made into a one-way, police controlled area due to the high volume of traffic.

I loved going to Wedgewood Village....ooooooh...Riding the Tornado and the Hammer were my favs!

[Floogeldy]

63. What great memories you must have!

You didn't by any chance make it to this show, did you? (I didn't).

[Whoa_Nelly]

65. Gosh, no

Missed that one...that was 1968...was only 14...damn!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

70. WKY

was the first station we got in Braman when we got our first TV, that and KAKE out of Wichita.

[Moochy]

8. KQAK then KITS LIVE 105

SF new wave / modern rock / whiney nasal emo crap rock stations. I'm a bit biased against the current formula for alt.rock.success, just a bit. :)

[Wapsie B]

10. Several.

KOEL Oelwein, Iowa
WHO Des Moines
WCCO Minneapolis
WMT-The Voice of Iowa-Cedar Rapids


and the biggies from Chicago too, WLS, WGN, WBBM

[6000eliot]

11. WFIL in Philadelphia

Back in the '60s. The Beatles, The Supremes, The Rolling Stones, etc.

[Redstone]

17. WFIL? Holy shit! Do you remember WIBG, too?

The only one of the DJs I remember, though is Don Cannon, and only because I was friends with his wife in the 1970s.

Redstone

[6000eliot]

41. Wibbige!

Yes I do indeed. They had cool contests. I guess they were the main competition?

[Redstone]

43. They were the only two R&R stations in Philadelphia. WIBG-FM

was really good for a couple of years, with the cutting-edge rock and psychedelia and all that. Oddly enough, the FM studio was off Fairmount Ave in the city, and the AM studio was in the suburbs (Whitemarsh, off Ridge Pike).

Redstone

[DBoon]

13. krla, kmet/klos, kroq

roughly from middle school to high school then college

KRLA tried to emulate the free-format "underground" FM stations of the time. Jimmy Rabbit was my favorite DJ then. Played lots of neat psychedelic garage bands.

KMET and KLOS were bastions of early and mid 70's progressive rock

Then this pipsqueak of a station in Pasadena started playing real interesting stuff in the late 70's (KROQ)

[billbuckhead]

14. KDKA

then WDVE

[China_cat]

28. Were you around in the Rege Cordic days?

[billbuckhead]

83. Yeah Cordic and Company, Ed and Wendy King

A long time ago.

[tjwmason]

16. B.B.C. Radio 4 from the age of about 13

Yes - feel free to make rude comments. It's the B.B.C. speech network - I get the impression rather similar to N.P.R. in the U.S.

This was mostly for mornings as I got up - then when I was about 16 there was a strike which shut down the Today Programme (the flag-ship news-commentary morning show) and so I tried Radio 3 (classical music, plus a dash of jazz and world-music at times) and have never looked back since.

[Taverner]

20. KSJO, KOME and KLIV (back in the heady days of AM radio)

These pics should bring back some bay area memories...

[Moochy]

55. Don't touch that dial!!

It's got KOME on it! (that was one of their radio spots)

Do you also remember the old KMEL camel? the cartoony lookin skinny freek brothers looking camel? :)

[skygazer]

57. And KSJO has now switched over to a Mexican format

I knew nothing about it - one day, I had it on in the car listening to rock and roll and the next day, I started driving and La Cucaracha or something was playing. Thought my radio was messed up.

[Deja Q]

22. KJJO 104.1 FM, alternative rock.

Lasted for about a year and then it turned country; but the owners of that station are now known as changing their format every 1~2 years because they can't seem to keep a steady audience...

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Stephen King's WZON

[Lady Effingbroke]

24. KLOL (101 FM) and KSRR ("97 Rock") -- Houston.

Also KILT AM when they were a top-40 station in the 70s.

[Saphire]

52. We didn't have FM stations back there, but when I moved to Houston

at 18 it was KLOL..Crash Craddock..KLOL is Tejano now, though. The passing of an era.

[hippiechick]

25. WIXX for 'Top 40': WAPL for 'album rock'

:scared: YIKES.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. WPRO

[CBHagman]

30. When I was small, it was "Rambling with Gambling" on WOR.

My mother tuned in to John A. Gambling almost religiously each morning. I can still hear in my mind the news broadcast that ran on the program the day after JFK was shot.

For those of you who want to hear the voice one more time, here's a link with audio:

http://www.radiohof.org/newstalk/johngambling.html

When we lived in Ohio, I used to listen to WING and stations of that sort. LOTS of '70s pop, plus some classic rock.

[johnnie]

31. WMMS The home of the buzzard

They won the Rolling Stone poll for best rock station for like 10 years. Then they were busted for stuffing the ballots..lol.

[shanti]

32. 93 KHJ, los angeles BOSS RADIO!

back in the 60's it was THE top 40's radio station. it was AM, before FM became popular. after that it was KLOS in the 70's.

robert w. morgan and the real don steele were a couple of the dj's i remember best.

[bertha katzenengel]

67. OMG, Robert W. Morgan

A blast from the past.

:hi: Shanti :bounce:

[WCGreen]

33. WIXY 1260 when really young... WMMS when I got older...

WIXY was the Clevelands. top 40 station although we could get the Windsor Station CKLW

Then. WMMS came along, a lot of the jocks from CSU's radio station librated over there and man was that a great station for a long time....

But they jumped the shark when they started playing Silly Love Songs......

[enigmatic]

91. Kid Leo being one of them

Don't forget WNCR, too; the predating MMS by a couple years..

[MrScorpio]

34. WJLB, WGPR, WJZZ and WWWW (W4)

Ah, Detroit in the good old days

[Suich]

35. KISN in Vancouver, WA. I lived across the river in Portland, OR

[Catshrink]

36. KJR Seattle, Channel 95

[hyphenate]

37. I don't really remember

but I know one of them was WRKO, which, if memory serves me, turned into a talk radio channel. Boston had a lot of pop channels through the 60s and 70s, but I watched TV more than listened to the radio.

Although there was that summer in '67 when I was in Cape Breton, missing the Monkees (alright, I was 11, okay?) and my grandmother only had a radio which I could listen to on Sundays only. I tried to keep up on the pop songs while I was there. I used to spend more time at the neighbor's watching The Saint, because it was the only thing on.

[KittyWampus]

38. I loved Monkees and still do. Why aren't they on TVland?

[hyphenate]

39. I don't know

perhaps it has something to do with the syndication licensing.

[sakabatou]

40. KidStar Radio

I don't know what station it was.

[stlsaxman]

42. Aside from hearing Harry Carey calling Cardinal baseball games on KMOX...

the main stations we listened to was KXOK AM 630 Top 40 and KWK AM 1380 Soul Radio and KATZ AM 1600 Soul as well. Then FM discovered rock, or the other way around...

Up to about 1974 K-SHE was THE rock station. Then they sold-out. Pig motherfuckers...

At that time there was also KDNA FM which was all weird and underground.. 20 minutes of dead air and stuff like that... after 10 years or so of absence it's back as KDHX 88.1 FM Community Radio and plays any/everything.

oh- this is St. Louis, MO i'm talkin' 'bout!

[Mr Creosote]

45. Radio Caroline

from the MV Mi Amigo until it sank in 1980 - and by the time it came back I had grown up.

[lpbk2713]

87. I remember that

Radio Luxembourg was another one I listened to regularly.

[bonito]

46. wmex, wrko, boston

[Kat45]

76. I remember those stations!

[El Fuego]

47. WSHE - "SHE's only rock and roll"

and WHYI "Y-100"

[KittyWampus]

68. Great Tagline F/ WSHE.

and i love the dancing banana

[Tripper11]

49. CKLW - Windsor/Detroit in the 70's

Classic, classic, classic radio. Balls to the wall music, news and everything in between.
This is the station where I heard everything that would eventually become "classic rock".
On top of that, this was a time in history when Detroit was known as one of the most violent cities in America.
When they used to do the news, I remember the news jocks would have sounds of gunfire, squealing tires and the like in the background. When it was that bad, the only thing left was to make fun of it!

The Classic CKLW Page!

[swag]

50. KSTP Minneapolis, KOMA Oklahoma city. Could hear both quite

clearly in Havre, MT in the evening on my brother's Panasonic ball-shaped AM radio. This was the early seventies. They played a lot of pop hits and seemed to connect us to the outside world that we left when we moved back to Montana.

[skygazer]

54. WAAF out of Springfield Mass. (I think)

Good station back in the 70's - played "album rock" rather than the cauterized versions that so many stations played. They used to play an entire new album on (I think) friday nights which was a great way to hear new music. Had some fun morning DJ's.

Also listened to WAQY - can't remember where that was but I think maybe Worcester, Mass? It was okay but more top 40 oriented and always had dorky and trendy promos and stuff. WAAF was a music lover's station.

[Placebo]

56. WXRT 93.1

here in the windy city

[vogonjiltz]

62. Me too

[AwakeAtLast]

58. 96.1 - WSTO - Evansville, IN

Sucked then, sucks now. If there were better stations there, I would have tuned to them, but they did not, and still don't, exist. :grr:

[qnr]

59. Mostly WPLJ and WBLS up until about the mid-'70's

:hi:

[KittyWampus]

60. PLJ, Yes Indeed! That Was The Other Radio Station Along W/NEW

that was the radio station I was listening to when Lennon died.

[Kire]

89. It used to be called Power 95

that's what I listened to in the 80's

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

61. WJFK, Washington DC area.

[OrwellwasRight]

64. KPRI in San Diego. In addition to Rock, it had a 5 minute morning soap

about Sammy Surfer and his girlfriend Joanna Anna.

Another dead San Diego station (and this goes way back so it is AM): Magic 91. A dream station for a pre-teen in love with disco and other top 40 hits of the late 70s and early 80s.

[bertha katzenengel]

66. 93 KJH, Los Angeles (AM) n/t

[Orsino]

71. WRVQ Richmond, VA

It's still there, and still looks to be top 40ish, thirty years later:

http://www.wrvq94.com/main.html

[Clintmax]

72. KWTO Rock 99 (98.7 FM) Springfield, Missouri

I got into country for a while and listened to KTTS, then got tired of country and onto the stage stepped KHOT HOT 106.7! Boy, those were the days!

[Pithlet]

73. 105 FM WWCK. Flint's Best Rock.

Turned into CK105, top 40 hits in the 90's :(

[sasquatch]

74. 104.7 WTUE, Dayton, Ohio

It's now a classic rock station though.
:(

[enigmatic]

75. A few

WIXY 1260 in Clevo; King Kirby was da man.

WMMS 100.7; Denny Sanders and Kid Leo were the best, and BLF Bash played "Maggot Brain" every night at 2am..

CKLW out of Windsor; the last blast of great AM radio w/ top 40 music..

WWWM (M105) Clevo; T.R. was my favorite DJ..

[njdemocrat106]

77. A big kick here...

:kick:

I'm only 24, so the stations I listened to were of more recent vintage. I can honestly say I started paying attention to music when I was around 13 years old. My parents would have on the aforementioned 102.7 WNEW (in the mid-early 90s, it started getting more alternative, much to the consternation of my parents), 92.3 K-Rock when it was still a classic rock station, and 101.1 WCBS-FM, which just went through a controversial format change to the Jack-FM format back in June. On the bus to and from school, the bus driver played 95.5 WPLJ, and they played a mix of the 70s, 80s, and 90s (they dropped the 70s for quite a while, but brought them back into their playlist recently). I think these radio stations directly influenced my taste of music, as I don't have much taste for any post 90s music.

[SmileyBoy]

78. 93.7 The Edge in Minneapolis

Now it's shitty 93X, the All Metallica All The Time Station.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

79. WLS and WCFL in Chicago

AM rock n roll radio. That's all we had back then on our crackly transistor radios. The DJs were loud and corny, the reception faded if you turned your radio the wrong way, and we liked it! We loved it! {/grumpy old man}

Then the "underground" FM radio stations started up and there was one really good one. I can't remember the call letters but I know The Magistrate remembers - WSDM, maybe? They played whole albums without breaks.

WXRT 93.1 was the best in the 70s and 80s.

The Northwestern University station plays some interesting music when they're not broadcasting sports.

[maveric]

80. WBCN, Boston. The original cool FM station.

The first couple of years it was non-commercial. Then Mr.Hastings discovered how much it was costing him.

Maxanne
Charles La Quirdara
Darryl Martini
Danny Shector

[maveric]

81. Self delete. Dupe.

[SKKY]

82. WLRS 102 in Louisville, Kentucky...

especially "The Morning Sickness" show with Ron Clay and Terry Minor.

[RandomKoolzip]

84. WHCN, Hartford, CT.

Picozzi and the Horn in the mornings, nice diverse rock-based playlist during the day, Dead Zone on Saturday nights, Comedy Hour on Sunday nights....this is what a radio station should have remained.

FUCK CLEAR CHANNEL!

[sundog]

85. whfs in dc

[Ptah]

86. KSEN

From Shelby Montana.

I listened because they broadcast my
high school teams, weather and crop reports.

Football, Basketball, County Fair.

They missed my trip to band camp.

slackers.

On Edit: On a good prairie night we could
listen to KMON in Oklahoma City

[Love Bug]

90. "CKLW -- the Motor City"

Grew up in Detroit, listened to rock and roll on a Canadian station! Watched CBC TV, too -- "Hockey Night in Canada!"

[Heidi]

92. WLS (Chicago) at night; KMOD (Tulsa) during the day. (nt)

[Floogeldy]

96. What are you, some kind of Yankee?

[uppityperson]

93. KFYR , AM out of Bismarck, ND, all the way to Fargo

boy it is flat back there. That's what, 200 miles? wow.

[LiveWire]

94. KROQuuuuuueeeee!!!!

KROQ, Los Angeles new rock alternative.

[Initech]

95. 106.7 KROQ

And I still listen to it. Even though the music they play has been on a vast decline since I first started listening to it (FUCK CLEAR CHANNEL!!!).

[Skittles]

97. Radio Caroline

it was on a barge that rounded Britain