What was your favorite radio station?

KPEN(100.3) in SFRAN which changed call sign in late '68 to KIOI (K-101). "Excursions in Sound", later to become "Excursions in Stereo" was my all time favorite growing up. I managed to tape a bunch of 7" open reels back then but only one has survived numerous moves, and over-recording by my dad. I still have that tape and play it occasionally.

Today, no real favorites, but the selector is more often than not on WZBA (100.7),"The Bay" in Baltimore.

Larry
 
In the St. Louis area KSHE was THE station to listen to in the '70's. Great D.J.'s and music. They had an "Album of the Week" feature on Wednesday or Thursday IIRC. Always a new release. I remember Rush "2112" being one of them. They would cue an album up and say "Start recording now" as they dropped the needle.

In the late '80's I began to listen to Classical music on occasion. KFUO's demise makes me sad.

I rarely listen to FM anymore. It just isn't what it once was.
 
pmsummer said:
AM (1310)

FM (101.1)
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Thanks so much my friend, PM!
Yea, KNON is a nice station.

AM (1310) I listen to the Musers every morning to get my heart rate pumping. They know me as Don "The Nubian Truck Driver." This is my signature when I send in emails. I get a lot of replies & George expressed over the air waves for me to get well while going through my kidney surgery.

What a nice mix of talent, indeed!

FM (101.1) Indeed this is a wonderful classical station that I listen to occasionally. Also heard some vintage Chopin on there once. Just great & my JBL 2600s are a match for the sound.

Rome
 
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I've had a few favorites over the years.

WFMR in Milwaukee (96.5, if memory serves) helped get me hooked on classical music. Sadly, they fell victim to a format change and no longer broadcast the classics.

WKAR (90.5 from East Lansing, Michigan) is an NPR-affiliate station that still programs at least some classical music from its own library rather than relaying syndicated material. My tuner rarely left WKAR's frequency during my undergrad years at Michigan State. I tune WKAR in whenever I'm driving in its listening area.

WQRS (105.1 in Detroit) was a great commercial classical station until Greater Media bought it. The Visigoths tried two format changes that failed -- one to alternative rock and one to classic soul -- before finding a combination of oldies and banal chatter that brings in enough money to pay the bills.
 
In the 70's, Cleveland's WMMS "The Buzzard" 101 FM ruled the airwaves!
A great rock station that won the Rolling Stone readers choice poll numerous times. I couldn't believe how fast this station turned into absolute trash in the early to mid 80's though.
 
I grew up in India and some of my favorite English radio stations were:

1. Radio Ceylon - The Ceylon Broadcasting Corpn - "CBC" for short - they'd broadcast all over India and south Asia on 13,16,19 mtr ShortWave bands in English. Their English Service in the 1960's and 1970's was superb, and on prime time. Their broadcasts from 7-10am and 6-10pm were popular with the younger generation and catered to rock & roll, pop and easy listening hits of the time, mixed with local and international news. They were also a launchpad for a local Ceylon Rock band called "The JetLiners" who were popular in South Asia in the 70's. This commercial service of radio Ceylon sold airtime to many commercial products which was their main source of income. The Country of "Ceylon" to those who remember is now called "Shri Lanka"

2. The BBC world service broadcsting from London in Shortwave showcased a lot of popular radio shows, music, news, game shows and my favorite - "The Goon Show" a half hour radio comedy series with none other than John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin etc. of "Monty Python" fame. The BBC although quite well known in the Area were only second to "CBC" in popularity, at least to the younger crowd.

3. Radio Australia, Voice of America (Breakfast show), Radio Kuwait and Radio Pakistan were also some of the other competing popular music ShortWave radio stations of the time. "FM" radio broadcasting did not come to that part of the world until the early 1980's and till then "AM and SW were the only popular radio Broadcast bands.
 
Was, KQRS through the late 70's. They had a program called the Windowpane Aceteate Hour. Played a complete album uniterupted, so listeners could record it.
Now, KBEM Jazz from MPLS public schools
 
Being an L.A. guy (Los Angeles) who was born in the 50's... it all started with KFWB AM, one of the three stations nationally that played "black" rock and roll and DooWop in rotation with "White" hits. The big guy there was Bill Ballance. Richie played a concert at the Vets hall 5 doors down from my house... I was on the lawn. later 60's there was KRLA 1110 AM, Casey Kasem's original gig. I delivered papers to him at the station (Huntington Hotel Pasadena) at 5am for a year. I remember lots of other "personalities", Dave Hull, the Hullabalahoo'er, I remember Ray Bream too.. Dick Bionde, .. I can think of more in time.

FM was KHJ FM, and the aforementioned KPPC FM, starting about 1965, we had FM Multiplexed on our living room Magotvox console. There were other stations too.

I was lucky enough to be a sometimes DJ on KIQO radio 104.5 in San Luis Obispo Ca, an oldies/classical rock station. It was computerized with a wall of Pioneer magazine 5 disk players with serial computer connections driven by a 286 PC. The Owner and I "took it live" when we wanted to have fun, or when the system crashed.

Now I live in a desert town where radio is an afterthought. Nothing decent at all after sundown. The Local "classic rock" FM runs about 900 watts... yup 900. I wouldn't have though that was possible, and in reality it isn't.

I miss radio. The computer radio stations ustaren't the same.
 
in the 70s in Houston it was KLOL-Runaway Radio, FM 101.1, KILT 100 (until it changed to Country format) and KPFT Pacifica Radio.

In the 80s-90s in Austin, KAZI, KMFA, KUT, KGSR.


Now, it's Bluesville, Real Jazz, Deep Tracks, Willie's Place, et al. -all on XM-Sirius.
 
michaelhigh said:
KSHE 94.7FM St. Louis, MO had a similar format with entire albums played daily, called The Side Show, at 6 pm every day. In the heyday of AOR it was very popular, and to this day, although dropping the daily feature, they consider themselves the longest-running classic rock-formatted station in the entire nation, not deviating from that format since 1967. They still do complete long players on Sunday from 6-12 midnight on the "7th Day" show, devoted to playing 5 or 6 CD's a week. In a world of ratings and even public radio adhering to strict daypart programming, it's still nice to see stations like KSHE and the Atlanta station in its day taking calculated risks to bring different and varied programming ideas to the table. It's a shame the Atlanta station folded some time ago. Stations like KSHE, while never fully embracing the alternative format, are a breath of fresh air as it stands alone as the longest-running rock-formatted station in the country, and for the world, for that matter.
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:thmbsp: that was about the only station that i listened to as a kid, KSHE 95, i occasionally tune it in, but that's only if the delilah show 102.5 isn't on, lol it sucks to get old.
 
After-school toolin' around meant The True Don Bleu (still on the air in SF now) followed by the incredible Robb Sherwood on KDWB. They went to 500W at sunset...I lived in far-rural Western MN...so that meant a button was reserved for The Big 89 WLS. Early on it was jocks like Clark Weber, Ron Riley & Art Roberts...a few years later their teen Pied Piper was John "Records" Landecker. KOMA got some nighttime action as well...but for LATE at night there was always a button reserved for The Mighty 1090 KAAY & Clyde Clifford's "Beaker Street"...the ONLY source of album rock for us deprived rural youth.
 
Ah, somebody finally mentioned the great "Beaker Street" out of Little Rock. I used to listen to that almost every night from the late sixties on.

Also KQRS out of Minneapolis when it would come in down here or while I was up there.

Doug
 
Alas, Grants Pass in the 60s had few radio options other than your typical country or pop stations and I didn't hear good radio until I got a little older.

62 KGW (AM) outta Portland, OR was a great Top-40 station with a few DJs that were fun and interesting. Its glory days ended in the early 70s when it went the way of so many and became yet another franchise radio station. It's now a talk-radio station.

KSAN in San Francisco was the best station I've ever heard, with Tom Donahue and friends, in the late 60s thru the early 70s it was a cultural and musical oasis.

The best radio I heard when I was a kid all came in at night over the AM. There was mighty KGO outta San Francisco and Wolfman Jack outta (first) Mexico then LA. Great stuff!

When I was 10 I had a short wave radio and did a lot of night-time shortwave listening whenever I could. Otherwise, I had a cheapo Motorola tube-model AM radio that got fantastic reception. After that was lost in a move I got another of the same model and it was not nearly as good. I guess I had been lucky.


Now, the only thoroughly interesting radio I hear is KBOO-FM outta Portland. It's a community station that plays EVERYTHING. I don't always like what I hear but it's never dull.
 
Wabx

" ....then we heard the Detroit station,couldn't believe we heard it at all...startin' dancin to that Rock and Roll music,my life was saved by Rock and Roll......:music:

When I was in high school, for a brief period Detroit had 3 Rock and Roll stations.
WABX,WRIF, and WWWW ( W4 ) W4 went country, WABX sold, WRIF is still around and now my everyday listening station is WCSX Classic Rock both stations are still located in the Detroit area...we also have Doug FM ( " we play everything " ) but it's pretty much a shuffle station that is based somewhere else...
 
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