First Radio Station you remember listening to

[LynneSin]

Me - I'm not sure which was first but it was either WHP 580am talk Radio (Ron Drake in the mornings) or WKBO 1230am (local rock station).

My mother actually worked for McDonald's and had gotten this AM radio in the shape of a Big Mac box so we'd listen on that radio

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. I have no clue, but there exists home movies of me...

singing along to Bruce Springsteen videos on MTV when I was two or three. I had good taste in music, even back then.

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. WSB Radio, Atlanta, GA---Your Clear Channel Voice of the South!

:rofl: Mom and Dad had that station on all the time. It was what we now refer to as "The Old Fart Station." :P I first remember hearing it when I was around 2 or 3.

[Left Is Write]

3. KDWB 630 AM and KS95 (KSTP FM) - both Minneapolis.

[Radio_Lady]

4. First radio station was WQAM in Miami, Florida.

I was a guest on a show called "Quizdown" which involved teams from schools answering questions. I don't remember if we won or not!

But a close second was WIOD "Wonderful Isle of Dreams" with their studio on the North Bay Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach.

[SteppingRazor]

5. KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles...

"The ROQ of the '80s!!"

B-)

[Nicole]

6. KOMA 1520 AM in OKC

I still listen to it but it's now KOMA 92.5 FM. Or I listen on the web.

[Whoa_Nelly]

58. I like to catch the Friday song on streaming when not in OKC

The FULL version of OKLAHOMA! :bounce:

[Nicole]

60. I love the Friday song

and the 5 O'Clock Jam.

[spacelady]

69. I remember KOMA, Excellent station in the 70's.

[Nicole]

106. Yes it was n/t

[Pendrench]

7. Both AM stations: WCBM and WFBR (in Baltimore)

WCBM used to be a pop/rock station...WFBR had a mix of talk in the morning, and then (if I remember correctly) music in the afternoon...then they became all talk/news...WFBR also had the late Johnny Walker (who, in his day, was considered a "shock jock"...very tame by today's standards)...as for WCBM it has become EXTREMELY rightwing...even worse than WBAL.

Tim

[KamaAina]

13. Aw crap! Johnny Walker died?

Remember the time he bailed on the station for no apparent reason, only to come back a couple of weeks later? I was absoultely inconsolable! Mom could barely get me to go to school -- grade school. (Precocious little urchin, I was.)

Meanwhile the 1300 frequency is now yet another sports talk outlet. Most of the good B-town stations seem to have bit the dust. Mom would pull the car over so we could listen to "One WAYE" 860 -- and now it's a fundie station! :puke:

[Pendrench]

15. Yes - I think he died in March of 2004.

He was great - do you remember his Saturday Special shows? Without a doubt, some of my best memories were listening to him, Chicken Man, Harry Horni, etc.

Tim

[GalleryGod]

95. WCBM had an AWFUL "wrestling talk" show in the Early 90's

I used to listen to it while working the late shift at Goucher College ! So bad it was UNavoidable!

[XNASA]

8. WLS 890AM - Larry Lujack

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. You don't remember Dick Biondi on WLS??

I remember listening to him and his Silver Dollar Survey in the mid-60's. I think Dick Biondi moved over to CFL after Larry Lujack showed up at WLS.

Actually the first radio station I remember listening to was WGN. My mother was a Cub fan and she always had their ball games on the radio if the Cubbies were playing.

[yellowdogintexas]

50. WLS was the only rock station I could get at night, back in the day

I loved listening to Dick Biondi, Silver Dollar Survey, Treasure Tunes from the Vault, The Registered Fungus Club

etc
etc

[ikojo]

100. Remember when one of the Chicago mayors moved into

Cabrini Greens (complete with security detail)? I think it was a DJ on WLS who did a parody song to the AC/DC song Dirty Deeds...

All I can remember is this part:

Cabrini Greens and the rent's dirt cheap

[greatauntoftriplets]

56. On top of a pizza, all covered with cheese....

I saw my first meatball, till somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table, and there it was smashed.
It changed from a meatball...to a pile of hash.

I LOVED Dick Biondi.

Edited for memory lapse, due to long years of not hearing this little ditty.

[yellowdogintexas]

91. OMG, what an earworm you just gave me and I love it

I had so forgotten about that little tune.

the guy couldn't sing either, but man could he shout!

[Melynn]

46. I listen to WLS and Larry Lujack back in 1969 too.

Lujack was hilarious back in the day!

[borlis]

64. Me too! On a radio just like this one......

I thought I was so cool.

[Jokerman]

88. WLS & Larry Lujack Rocked!

It was one of the only rock stations you could find in the sixties down on the farm in nowhere Indiana.

[buddhamama]

9. 107.3 WAAF out of Boston

they played rock/punk.

[devilgrrl]

10. WYSL in Buffalo, NY

Don't know what it is these days.

[tigereye]

11. sadly the one here where Rush was a DJ

an early FM music station.

prior to his incarnation as a total political fuckwit.

or was it KDKA?

[LibertyLover]

12. WINS

1010 WINs, an AM station out of New York City. When I listened to it, it was a music station, but then changed to All News, all the time - give us 20 minutes and we'll give you the news. So I changed to WABC AM and WMCA AM.

[Radio_Lady]

43. One of my first jobs in the 1960s was with WMCA. I spent about

three months working for Barry Gray, one of the founders of talk radio.

[NanceGreggs]

62. WINS for me, too!

Home of Murray The K & his Swingin' Soiree. (ah, I was just a teenager, and easily amused in those days ...) Also listened to WABC's late night with Cousin Brucie, who always had the latest Brit singles from Chad & Jeremy, Peter & Gordon, Dave Clark Five and Gerry & The Pacemakers.

[NightNurse]

14. WFIL and WIBG in Philly

On the cutting edge.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. KDON 'The Big 1460'

Got my first transistor radio for Xmas in 1968. I still have it. :D

First song I heard when I turned it on the first time was "Snoopy and the Red Baron."

There was also KMBY 1240 in Monterey, but they had the disadvantage of being a "sundowner" — the FCC required them to cut power at sunset to 250 watts so as not to interfere with other stations in the area on or near the same frequency. Pity, because they actually had a better playlist than KDON.

Before that, though, I'd hear KSFO 560 on the kitchen radio or my dad's transistor. They carried Giants games back then. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the announcers.

Folks who wanna re-live those days can do it here: http://www.reelradio.com/ They've got hundreds, if not thousands, of archived tapes with jocks like Larry Lujack, The Real Don Steele, Charlie Tuna, Scott Muni, Robert W. Morgan...

Hey, LIW — they've got one up "Hitbound" with The True Don Bleu on KDWB in 1968. :bounce:

[catmandu57]

17. WHB 7100 Kansas City Mo

It was a top forty station back in the day, I got a transistor radio for christmas 1966, the first song I heard was For what it's worth buffalo Springfield.
I stayed with WHB until I graduated to progressive FM around 71 I believe.

[Xipe Totec]

18. XEW Mexico City

Forgot to mention, this multi-megawatt puppy could be heard across the entire Latin American continent.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. WCOZ FM Boston

All Rock and Roll, All the Time

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. WTIC AM 1080, Bob Steele Show

of course that would be true for most everyone growing up around Hartford back then. Bob Steele is a local legend there and that was the height of his career.

[peacefreak]

27. I remember waiting for the "no school" announcements.

When I got a little older it was WPOP & WDRC. Were ypu a member of the Order of Black Socks?



edited for dropped word.

[One_Life_To_Give]

102. Don't remember the Order of Black Socks

But remember the story of the Chinese Boy with the impossibly long name who fell down a well.

Nikki Nikki Tembo ...

[libnnc]

21. AM 1400 WHCC

It was our little radio station in Waynesville sun-up to sunset.

They played top 40 pop and rock. I remember listening to Gordon Lightfoot and The Eagles. The morning DJ would read the school lunch menu every weekday and the obits every afternoon at 3

Simple times.

[MissB]

22. KOMO out of Seattle

at least, I think it was out of Seattle.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. KEWB San Francisco bay area

I certainly listened to radio before, but when I discovered a radio station that played rock and roll exclusively, well, it opened my world. I even remember the first song I heard: 'She Can't Find Her Keys' sung by Paul Petersen.

[Love Bug]

24. CKLW - The Motor City

AM station in Windsor, Canada, right across the river from Detroit. Played top 40 hits.

[Pacifist Patriot]

25. Armed Forces Radio in West Germany

When there was a West Germany.

[SeattleGirl]

28. Don't remember the station, but it broadcast the Grand Ol' Opry.

My dad's favorite station.

[yellowdogintexas]

51. That would be WSM in Nashville ...they pumped that signal

to the moon on Friday and Saturday nights.

That was without doubt the first station I remember. I grew up about 55 miles from nashville and WSM was the Big Gun..first TV station too. My mom always had her clock radio tuned to WSM and it came on blasting in the morning. Flatt & Scruggs, The Waking Crew and every damn morning Marty Robbins' "El Paso" at the same time every day. For years I hated that song because if I was still in bed when they played it I was almost too late for school


WSM stood for We Shield Millions...the owner of the station was National Life Insurance ...which was bought out by AIG.

[lizziegrace]

29. WSAI - Cincinnati

:)

[Sanity Claws]

30. WABC in New York

There was a DJ named Cousin Brucie and we would listen to the top ten hits on a certain night every week. This is about 40 years ago.

[deadparrot]

31. KMOX 1120 in St. Louis.

Listened to Jack Buck call Cardinals games for years.

[ikojo]

101. KMOX....the home of Rush Limbaugh in St Louis

Boy do they suck!

Used to have the Cardinals games
Used to have the Blues games

Now they have neither but they have Oxyrush!

[hippywife]

32. WCOL-AM

in Columbus, Ohio. It was the AM "rock" station when I was a pre-teen. Only 250 watts! With our favorite DJ, Wes Hopkins.

[Trailrider1951]

83. Hey Hippywife, I grew up in Gahanna

and I used to listen to WCOL too! They used to play a couple of hours of Beatle music on Saturday? nights and called it "The Beatle Bash", circa 1964. Yes, I'm that old! :P

[Broken_Hero]

33. KRBD

public radio, from my hometown...

[u4ic]

34. CHUM, Toronto n/t

[GOPisEvil]

35. K59 in Honolulu

I think it's news/talk now, but back in the late '70s it was Top 40.

[elfrangel]

36. KARV Radio

Russellville, Arkansas


Played oldies, but goodies type music. I will always remember the times when we had storms and we'd listen to KARV. There was always a beep in the background from "KARV Regional Radar". HA!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

37. WGH in Old Virginia

Late sixties, AM station, top forty, golden oldie weekends...those were the days, my friend :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[KatyaR]

38. WKY and KOMA in Oklahoma City--two great radio stations.

When the weather was just right, I could listen to an AM Minneapolis-St. Paul radio station at night. I can't remember the name, but there was a show called "Hobbs House," and the DJ was Franklin Hobbs. He played big band music and read all his commercials--it was awesome.

I miss those days . . . .

[Whoa_Nelly]

55. Used to listen to KOMA on my little transistor radio while in MN during summertime

Grew up in OKC. KOMA and WKY!

Remember Foreman Scotty and the Circle 4 Ranch on WKY-TV?

[KatyaR]

81. I LOVED Foreman Scotty!

I won a Huffy 3-speed bicycle through a My-T-Fine (sp?) Pudding contest on Foreman Scotty--I was over the moon! I never got to be on the show, but my cousins did (pout).

Did you know that Danny Williams, who played Xavier T. Willard, is still doing radio a few days a week here in OKC? The man will never stop until he drops, I swear.

And someone, somewhere, has an old black-and-white Foreman Scotty movie that was made here in town back in the 60s. I'd love to see that.

[nykiera]

39. WOWO, 1190am, Ft. Wayne, IN

Used to hear the following every weekday morning while getting ready for school:

"In a little red barn on a farm down in Indiana,
Let me lay my back on a stack of new mown hay.
'Round the barnyard where the farmyard folks are pal-ly,
Let me dilly-dally all the live-long day.
I'm a Hoosier who's blue, thru and thru, and my heart is pining
For the sycamore trees where the Wabash breezes play.
What's more, I'm pining for a yellow moon that's shining
On a little red barn on a farm down Indiana way."

[Dulcinea]

40. KDKA, Pittsburgh, 1020 AM.

They carried Pirate games, so my dad always had it on at night, plus my mom liked the morning show: Jack Bogut, Art Pallan, & someone whose name escapes me now. That was before talk took over AM radio; I remember hearing Gordon Lightfoot, the Rolling Stones & the early morning school closings on KDKA.

[ornotna]

41. WRPI 91.5 out of Troy N.Y.

Radio station for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

[kath]

42. WIXY 1260, Cleveland OH.

[Taverner]

44. KLIV or KFRC in the SF Bay

Still remember those old 70's era hand holding a ball KLIV stickers....

[Tripper11]

45. CKLW Detroit/Windsor

http://www.thebig8.net/

Back in the mid 70's when Detroit was known as MUrder City and it was hell and brimstone I grew up listening to all the top hits on CKLW...great personalities, great music.
If I recall correctly, during news breaks, it was so violent in Detroit that the only way to present the news was tongue in cheek. They used to run gunshot sounds, sirens and other "fun" fx to try and make it a little easier to take.
It was awesome.

[Love Bug]

92. Wow, Tripper, thanks for that link!

I grew up listening to CKLW during the 60s so I'm looking forward to reading that site! It was a great station with great personalities and contests.

[kwassa]

103. Byron McGregor with 20-20 News!

50,000 watts! I grew up in Northern Ohio, it was the strongest signal we could get, especially at night. Late '60s was when I was listening.

It played ALL kinds of music, unlike today's single-formatted stations.

[LTR]

47. Growing up in Cleveland: Either WGAR or WMMS

This was back in the '70s.

WMMS 101 was the badass rocker back in the day. Nothin' beat The Buzzard!

Today of course, it's a piece of shit.

WGAR 1220 was your typical AM Top 40 station. John Lanigan was the wacky morning guy. Also vaguely remember pulling in distant AM rockers like WLS and CKLW. WGAR is now an FM country station, and 1220, last I heard, is a bunch of Salem crap.

[WCGreen]

67. Wixy 1260.. And WHK 1420.... Here in Cleveland...

I called up and won a set of Ringo Rings back in 1964 when I was about 6 or 7....

[enigmatic]

76. Remember WNCR?

My older brother listened religously so I listened, too; a true free-form station..

[kwassa]

104. WMMS was a free-form "underground" radio station at first

one of the first FM rock stations.

years later I ended up having drinks in a small-town bar with the DJ formerly known as Wild Child.

[book lady]

48. WOKY-Milwaukee

Our high school actually won a sock hop dj'ed by WOKY for eating the most bags of Mrs. Howes potato chips.

[baldguy]

49. Danny Nevereth on WKBW

The 50,000 watt monster is now WWKB "Buffalo's Left Channel" with Bill Press in the morning slot.

[livetohike]

52. KDKA in Pittsburgh. Definitely remember hearing the Pirate games

and my Grandma having it on during the day (we lived with her until I turned six).

[Whoa_Nelly]

53. KOMA Oklahoma City!

Yee Haw!

[greatauntoftriplets]

54. WLS in Chicago.

Dick Biondi. What a hoot he was.

[bluethruandthru]

57. KCPX Salt Lake City

Top 40 AM. Back then, the only thing on the FM band was classical...and most people didn't even have FM radio in their cars. Geez, I'm old!

[ChoralScholar]

59. FM 104 KKYK - Little Rock

With your host, Craig O'Neill.

This guy truly had a face for radio, but he was as funny as hell. And you know how funny hell is.

[yellowdogmi]

61. WCER Charlotte, Mi

Then WVIC Lansing MI.

[hickman]

63. WJR "From the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building",

and later "The Great Voice of the Great Lakes". My father had it on every morning at breakfast. On my own it was CKLW.

[Capn Sunshine]

65. KRLA in Los Angeles in the 50's

Pop radio. I loved my Sony transistor radio.


I remember one clear night in like 1959, visiting my grandma in Upper Peninsula Michigan, and getting WLS from Chicago clear as a bell. Dick Biondi. "Running Bear and Little Whitedove" "Battle of New Orleans" and "Wild Weekend" were hot tunes that Summer. I think.

[karmaqueen]

66. KDKA Party line talk radio in the 50's

Hi Lounge people! I always look here before I go to bed. This brought back so many memories I just had to add my 2 cents. I always enjoy you guys!

The radio was always on, pirates during the day & Ed & Wendy King at night. The first talk show I ever called was Perry marshal's overnight office. I talked about women's liberation,seems like yesterday!

[spacelady]

68. WOW in Omaha - credited with playing the Beatles first in the USA

I think Jimmy Walker from Good Times is working there now.

[doc03]

70. WWVA 1170 am Wheeling WV

The Jamboree on Saturday night.

[Swamp Rat]

71. WTIX - AM 690 New Orleans

They played rock, blues, and funk until some assholes bought it and changed the format in the early-mid 70s.

[TimeChaser]

72. Pittsburgh's WDVE

With my daddy

[saged52]

73. KXOK in Saint Louis -

Johnny Rabbit and Bruno J. Grunion (I was a member of his fan club)

[enigmatic]

74. WIXY 1260 Cleveland

My first favorite DJ was Lou "King" Kirby. One of the great AM Top 40 Stations in it's time..

[phrenzy]

75. KSAN ('Jive 95') - San Francisco

Well, I'm assuming it must have been because my dad was a DJ there when I was born and for the first 10 years of my life...

Being a "free-form" radio format (I think it was the last one) I got to hear all kinds of crazy stuff. I particularly liked when my dad would play music from the Star Wars soundtrack after playing Bethoven, Jazz or some top 40 song of the day ...

[The Straight Story]

77. 610 WTVN here in Columbus, Ohio. Still listen to it. (nt)

[sakabatou]

78. Kid Star Radio

[Anarcho-Socialist]

79. BBC Radio 1

[Thegonagle]

80. WLOL, "Ninety-nine and a half FM."

"From the top-top-top-top-top-top of the IDS tower!" in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were the pop music station of the day. Eventually, MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) bought the station and put their classical music service on that signal.

[Blue_Tires]

82. two that are still playing today:

102.9 WOWI (aka 103 JAMZ)

104.5 WNVZ (Z-104)--I was a terrible sleeper as a kid, so I used to listen to this one all night on my clock radio...I have great memories of hundreds of early-mid 80s hits that i listened to out of sheer boredom...

and while i'm remembering great stations, up until 1990 my area had 1350 AM WRAP---a full-time, 24-hour rap station long before it ever became mainstream....no soul, no reggae, no quiet storm, just rap music every minute of every day...(sadly, some big-time preacher had to buy it out and turn it to gospel)

:cry:

[LostinVA]

84. WCAU -- Philly, and our local station in Bridgteon, NJ

[GalleryGod]

86. Was that 1210 WCAU (oldies)

Didn't know Bridgeton had a station?

[LostinVA]

87. Bridgeton was W something SJ -- for South Jersey

They did then... I moved from there in 1982.

WCAU was top 40 when I was in HS... I think it was oldies when I was little.

[GalleryGod]

85. WIBBAGE- WIBG 99-AM Philly.

Joe Niagara and Hy Lit !

BTW is anyone around here giving up their LAST WEEKEND to help in a Democratic campaign ?

Just wondering ?

Nightnurse & I are doing Bobby Menendez this Weekend!
The final Push!

:patriot:

[CBHagman]

89. WOR out of New York. John A. Gambling.

My mother used to have the program "Rambling with Gambling" on during breakfast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Gambling

[bigwillq]

90. KC 101.3

out of Hamden, CT.

[buddhamama]

93. ahh yes,

good old KC. It was good listening on Saturday nights; if you liked oldies style dance (disco) music, which i did. :) :hi:

[av8rdave]

94. WJTN...Jamestown, NY

Station still exists, I believe.

[Bridget Burke]

96. KPRC AM in Houston

We listened to Tim & Bob, the morning DJ's, during breakfast. As the NBC affiliate, it ran actual Radio Programs--especially on weekends. Now, it's a News/Talk station.

KILT AM was one of the first Top 40 Stations. The Weird Beard was my favorite DJ. www.reelradio.com/jay/index.html

I don't know the call letters of the first radio shows I remember, in South Dakota. The creaking door sound of "Inner Sanctum" made an impression. When we moved to Texas & got TV, I remember thinking that The Lone Ranger did not look as I'd pictured him; there were cowboys in South Dakota, but they didn't wear white...

[FarLeftRage]

97. WNBZ

1240 on your AM dial... It's still broadcasting news, weather and music of all styles.

[Arugula Latte]

98. KFRC -- San Francisco.

Dr. Donald D. Rose was their spotlighted DJ, and very popular in the 70s in the Bay Area.

[ikojo]

99. It was some top 40 AM station in Springfield Illinois.

WCVS. I think it was 1400 on the AM dial. I don't even know whether it is still in business today.

A few years later when I was a teenager I got a better quality radio and could pick up WLS AM 890 out of Chicago and LOVED It...this was when Larry Lujack was on and had animal stories. Gold absolute gold!

[Burma Jones]

105. WLS in Chicago.......

well, I was living in Gary.