June 1st 04, 07:43 PM
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In article ,
says...
New York's WABC-AM (770 kHz) will sound different next Monday, Memorial Day,
between 6am and 6pm local time (1000-2200 UTC). The station will present its
annual "Rewound" special, 12 complete hours of original programming from the
60's and 70's when WABC was America's, and the world's, number one Top 40
station.
It was awesome! Wish I could have heard it over the air but since
I'm in Houston I have to settle for Internet reception. What I heard
was great....It's the type of format that got me interested in radio to
begin with.
I remember listening to Harry Harrison on the rare occasion my
family traveled to New York. I couldn't name the other jocks, but I
could occasionally pull in WABC on my transistor radio...It was usually
overpowered by 760 WJR.
Thanks to Johnny Donovan and crew for putting it together and thanks
to WABC for putting it on the air.
I wish WLS and CKLW would do something similar.
These were the two big-time signals I listened to growing up in
Dayton Ohio (along with local favorites WONE (before it switched to MOR
then Country now MYOL-type clone), WING (before switch to sports) and
WTUE (in its top 40-days before AOR).
As I recall WTUE was automated during the day and simulcast with the
WONE-am top-40 at night. Dave Michaels then did nights before it
switched to live top 40 and WONE-am switched to MOR for a very short
period of time..then Country.
WONE Jocks I remember: Tom Campbell (nights) (My all-time
favorite), and Dave Dayton (mid-days?) Johnny Midnight (you guess the
time slot).
WING Jock: Steve Kirk (am drive) (couldn't stand him but he was
around forever)
WTUE Jocks: Gregg Mason (am-drive with Phil Easily doing news)
(Mason is my second-favorite "local" jock -- now doing country in
Dallas), Dave Michaels (nights). Corny promo---"50-thousand watts of
stereo music power-power-power" -- with power alternating between right
and left channels)
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Paul Van House
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