Your favorite radio station. Remember radio?

[Naphtali]

I too grew up in St. Louis (been gone a couple decades now) and remember K-SHE quite well, lol.

I also loved KMOX and was fortunate to be able to hear the legendary Jack Buck call Cards games.

Great memories, thanks.

Am I alone in the universe to remember Harry Carray as the Cardinals' prime announcer on KMOX, Jack Buck being secondary and "color" man?

Dave Levitt and I were in the right field stands on the last day of the 1964 season. Listening to Harry - and the evil Gussie Busch going insane - when Bob Gibson came in to pitch the ninth inning - moments like those occur in life seldom. And radio made it possible. To the sound of Harry shrieking, "The Cardinals win the pennant," over and over, we jumped from the stands of old Sportsman's Park aka Busch Stadium aka Old Busch Stadium to the playing field.

Through the evil Gussie Busch's personal publicist (the reason few people knew how evil the evil Gussie Busch was), my dad and I had first base box seats for two of the World Series home games.

As you wrote, "Great memories, thanks."

 

[yaktamer]

93 KHJ (AM) Los Angeles -- The Real Don Steele and M.G. "Machine Gun" Kelly.

 

[loknload]

Back in the day your dial was set to......

And if you were lucky to have FM it was....

 

[bigride]

Am I alone in the universe to remember Harry Carray as the Cardinals' prime announcer on KMOX, Jack Buck being secondary and "color" man?

Dave Levitt and I were in the right field stands on the last day of the 1964 season. Listening to Harry - and the evil Gussie Busch going insane - when Bob Gibson came in to pitch the ninth inning - moments like those occur in life seldom. And radio made it possible. To the sound of Harry shrieking, "The Cardinals win the pennant," over and over, we jumped from the stands of old Sportsman's Park aka Busch Stadium aka Old Busch Stadium to the playing field.

Through the evil Gussie Busch's personal publicist (the reason few people knew how evil the evil Gussie Busch was), my dad and I had first base box seats for two of the World Series home games.

As you wrote, "Great memories, thanks."

A bit before my time, but I know that Harry was the Cards announcer...but being as he was the Cubs announcer for the majority of my lifetime, I have no warm spot for ol' Harry. And I agree that Gussie ruined some potentially great teams in the '70's because he was such a tightwad. Who can ever forget the infamous trade of Steve Carlton to the Phillies...or Jerry Reuss to the Dodgers...and Bake McBride to the Phillies...or Reggie Smith to the Dodgers. Oh well...

 

[4barrel]

I could get KLIF and WBAP in Dallas--WNOE New Orleans--and WLS in Chicago in my 1949 Plymouth in Texas late at night in the early 60s.

 

[nachogrande]

OUT OF THE LOOP FOR A WHILE.

In my ute it was WNEW's Allison Steele "the nightbird" on the headphones lulling me to sleep with that sexy voice, & WPLR from New Haven during the day. Up in Peterborough NH 1975-80 there was a small station (the folkway?) I can't recall the call letters, that didn't play just folk music. I doubt their signal traveled far.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...back in the summer of 1976...when I was 23...I drove tanker trucks at night over the high passes into northwest Colorado and south central Wyoming...

...my dear future wife was living near Omaha Nebraska...late at night 50,000 watt KFAB in Omaha would come in loud and clear on the truck radio...I knew my future fiancee (we were engaged that fall) was listening also...and it made me feel a little closer to her...

...now days I could just call her on the cell phone from the truck...cell phones weren't even a fantasy back then...back home I would call her and discuss what was on KFAB that night...then listen to the Denver Rock and Roll station...KIMN...

 

[walkin jack]

KOFF.....Channel 0 on your dial. And I don't like it very loud either....

 

[31FordA]

I remember WWBD well, as it was where I first heard Rush Limbaugh!

Growing up in NEPA I also remember my father listening to 77 WABC out of NYC (among other stations). I remember listening to Bob Grant, where/when I probably got my love for talk radio!

WWDB is also where I first heard Rush back in '92. I started listening to talk radio as a kid in the 80's. WWDB had a great line up of local hosts, such as "Evil Irv" Homer, "the Saucy Aussie" Susan Bray, Dr. Jim Corrie, Russ Miller, and others. The only local WWDB talk host still on in Philly now is Dom Giordano. Philly in the 80's had so many great topics for talk radio: the inept Mayor Wilson Goode, the MOVE stand off and bombing, the sinking homes of Logan, the odyssey of the trash ship Khian Sea, the cast of characters known as City Council. The way things are now makes me miss the old days.

 

[DWalt]

Back in my school days in the 1950s, we had only three radio stations in Portsmouth Ohio, all AM - WPAY, WNXT, and WIOI. I don't think there were any FM stations then. WIOI was the most popular with the high school set - Top 40, News, Weather, and Sports format at that time. Elvis, Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, etc. I think they are all still on the air.

 

[Joe in SC]

13/14 years old back in 67/68 and when the sun went down in upstate SC all us cool kids listened to WOWO Ft. Wayne IND. Don't remember the night dj's name but the music was good old rock and roll.

By the time I hit high school it was all FM and WFOX, The Fox, Toccoa/Gainesville. Again good old early 70's rock and roll.

 

[Ron M.]

KLOK, in San Jose. Had to share a bedroom with my high school age brother...now I am a 60's era music fan. Who can resist to waking up to "Wake up, Little Susie?" Glad my sister moved out in 1970 and I got her room...still listened to KLOK. 1170 on the dial.

 

[Lt JL]

WLS in Chicago with Ron Riley, Dick Biondi (he moved around a lot) and Larry Lujack. Later, when I moved to Ohio, it was CKLW in Windsor Ontario. They had a news guy named Byron McGregor, famous for things such as "a three year old girl was strained through the grill of a buick" I don't know what the wattage of that station was, but it pretty much blew everything off of half of my AM band.

 

[DWalt]

Surely, some must remember the Mexican Border Radio stations. Their broadcasts covered much of the USA from super-powerful transmitters across the border. Where Wolfman Jack started. BORDER RADIO | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)

 

[Bert Man]

See WHBQ and WMPS in Memphis have been mentioned. Growing up in the northern part of the Mississippi Delta in the 60s, we listened to both of these. I too remember George Klein and Rick Dees. It been a few years since I have listened to WHBQ, but I think they now have sports talk programming. Also listened to clear channel WLS (890 AM) at night. WWL (870 AM?) New Orleans was another clear channel. They went to a country format in the 70s (I think), and I believe now have a news talk format.

Yep, WWL AM 870 clear channel in NOLA. Listened to Charlie Douglas Road Gang when patrolling on night shift in the early 70's.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

WEBN in Cincinnati in my high school and college days, now the EAGLE in Houston.

 

[TAROMAN]

KOMA Oklahoma City

 

[Gamecock]

10-4 on WLS. Loved it when winter came and I could pick it up at night in SC.

 

[ladder13]

Then: Cousin Brucie WABC hanging out at Orchard Beach in the Bronx

Today: Sirius/XM ch 49 Soul Town, all day.

 

[nachogrande]

SORRY COUSIN BRUCIE FANS.

AS I RECALL (60's-70's) he was the pits. The kind of DJ that comedians like George Carlin & Bill Murray made fun of. A play list of maybe 25 out of the current top 40 that they would play the same songs every 20 minutes or so, between tons of commercials. FM was a Godsend.