Comments on: PM Drive on 99-5 WRNO "The Rock" | October 1987 http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987 Where Classic Radio Lives Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tim http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-17114 tim Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:44:48 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-17114 99.5 played 'Rock N Roll' back to back for 2 days straight sometime in the early 90s, I think after it had become "The River" playing all 70's AM Classics. I always kinda liked the River, but it wasn't really 'The Rock of New Orleans.' Anyway, they played 'Rock N Roll' because it had been a long time since they had rock n rolled...and then switched to the Classic Rock Radio format. Also around this same time B97 had gone all talk. That was weird, too. 99.5 played ‘Rock N Roll’ back to back for 2 days straight sometime in the early 90s, I think after it had become “The River” playing all 70’s AM Classics. I always kinda liked the River, but it wasn’t really ‘The Rock of New Orleans.’ Anyway, they played ‘Rock N Roll’ because it had been a long time since they had rock n rolled…and then switched to the Classic Rock Radio format.

Also around this same time B97 had gone all talk. That was weird, too.

]]> By: matthew http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-16894 matthew Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:29:26 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-16894 PLEASE DON'T EMAIL ME ANYBODY ACCEPT AARON HANDY lll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND PLEASE OLD DJ'S EMAIL ME !!!!!!!!!!! ONES THAT WHERE ON THE AIR IN NEW ORLEANS SO NO ONE ACCEPT THESE EMAIL ME AT matthew6715b@hotmail.com PLEASE DON’T EMAIL ME ANYBODY ACCEPT AARON HANDY lll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND PLEASE OLD DJ’S EMAIL ME !!!!!!!!!!! ONES THAT WHERE ON THE AIR IN NEW ORLEANS SO NO ONE ACCEPT THESE EMAIL ME AT matthew6715b@hotmail.com

]]> By: matthew http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-16830 matthew Sun, 17 May 2009 04:06:12 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-16830 PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR MAKE IT COME BACK PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR MAKE IT COME BACK

]]> By: matthew http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-16829 matthew Sun, 17 May 2009 04:05:41 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-16829 YOUR RIGHT ONE YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD EITHER BRING WRNO 99.5 BACK OR WTIX 690AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR RIGHT ONE YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD EITHER BRING WRNO 99.5 BACK OR WTIX 690AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: matthew http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-16828 matthew Sun, 17 May 2009 04:03:55 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-16828 HEY YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS BUT I'M A TEENAGER AND WHEN I GROW UP WANT TO BRING BACK WTIX 690AM AND WRNO WE'RE ROCK OF NEW ORLEANS AKA 99 WRNO AND I ALSO AM AN AUDIOPHILE I HAVE A RECORD COLLECTION I GOT A 15.99 BEATLES REVOLVER ALBUM FROM THE MUSHROOM ON BROADWAY (ABOVE THE BOOT) IT'S WROTH THE TRIP AND MAYBE BRING BACK THE TUBE MUSIC NETWORK LOOK UP ABOUT IT YOU WILL LIKE IT REMEMBER AT THE BEACH AT THE BEACH AND K&B AND MORE OLD STUFF WHEN EVERY THING WAS MADE IN USA PLEASE EMAIL ME TO CHAT WITH ME AT matthew6715b@hotmail.com PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS BUT I’M A TEENAGER AND WHEN I GROW UP WANT TO BRING BACK WTIX 690AM AND WRNO WE’RE ROCK OF NEW ORLEANS AKA 99 WRNO AND I ALSO AM AN AUDIOPHILE I HAVE A RECORD COLLECTION I GOT A 15.99 BEATLES REVOLVER ALBUM FROM THE MUSHROOM ON BROADWAY (ABOVE THE BOOT) IT’S WROTH THE TRIP AND MAYBE BRING BACK THE TUBE MUSIC NETWORK LOOK UP ABOUT IT YOU WILL LIKE IT REMEMBER AT THE BEACH AT THE BEACH AND K&B AND MORE OLD STUFF WHEN EVERY THING WAS MADE IN USA PLEASE EMAIL ME TO CHAT WITH ME AT matthew6715b@hotmail.com

PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: SteveSeeADoor http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-16760 SteveSeeADoor Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:47:27 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-16760 DO YOU REMEMBER THIS-- PLEASE-- ANYONE IN NEW ORLEANS? SOMEWHERE IN THE 80'S--- A RADIO STUNT-- ADVERTISEMENT--GIMIC-- WHERE WRNO 99.5 F.M. IN NEW ORLEANS--- PLAYED LED ZEPPELINS'S--- "ROCK AND ROLL" NON-STOP---BACK TO BACK FOR 2 STRAIGHT DAYS! CAN ANYONE HELP ME? WHEN OR ABOUT WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? AND WHY? DO YOU REMEMBER THIS– PLEASE– ANYONE IN NEW ORLEANS?

SOMEWHERE IN THE 80′S— A RADIO STUNT– ADVERTISEMENT–GIMIC– WHERE WRNO 99.5 F.M. IN NEW ORLEANS— PLAYED

LED ZEPPELINS’S— “ROCK AND ROLL” NON-STOP—BACK TO BACK

FOR 2 STRAIGHT DAYS!

CAN ANYONE HELP ME? WHEN OR ABOUT WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? AND WHY?

]]> By: Aaron Handy III http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-12693 Aaron Handy III Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:33:12 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-12693 WRNO was one of 2 of my favorite haunts on New Orleans Radio (along with WTIX-AM [The Mighty 690]) during my high-school years in the late 1980s. I mean, with such gems as The Out-Of-Control Morning Show, The Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame and The '60s At 6:00, how can you beat that?! On Monday, November 13, 2006 at 4:00 AM (CST), the original Rock Of New Orleans became another card in the "aint dere no more" file; having signed off with The Doors' "The End," WRNO-FM gave way for all-Talk radio format as the "The New 99.5FM.com"...going the exact same way of radio flesh as WTIX-AM 690 did in 1998! :-P It's not like the end wasn't expected, anyway. For me, the end came when in 1990 it instituted that abysmal "Z-Rock"! Fortunately, that dog of a concept was soon abandoned, but the damage had been done; WRNO had "jumped the shark." It had been limping along ever since until it was finally put out of its misery. It moved to a new position on the dial, 104.1 (the former placing for KHOM-FM) and is now known as simply "The Rock of New Orleans," but I don't think anything will ever be a proper subtitute for WRNO-FM, the once-mighty home for classic rock. :-( WRNO, you continue to be bitterly missed to this very day. To absent friends... <:-( In Memoriam WRNO-FM 99.5 The Rock Of New Orleans October 17, 1967 - November 13, 2006 WRNO was one of 2 of my favorite haunts on New Orleans Radio (along with WTIX-AM [The Mighty 690]) during my high-school years in the late 1980s. I mean, with such gems as The Out-Of-Control Morning Show, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame and The ’60s At 6:00, how can you beat that?!

On Monday, November 13, 2006 at 4:00 AM (CST), the original Rock Of New Orleans became another card in the “aint dere no more” file; having signed off with The Doors’ “The End,” WRNO-FM gave way for all-Talk radio format as the “The New 99.5FM.com”…going the exact same way of radio flesh as WTIX-AM 690 did in 1998! :-P It’s not like the end wasn’t expected, anyway. For me, the end came when in 1990 it instituted that abysmal “Z-Rock”! Fortunately, that dog of a concept was soon abandoned, but the damage had been done; WRNO had “jumped the shark.” It had been limping along ever since until it was finally put out of its misery.

It moved to a new position on the dial, 104.1 (the former placing for KHOM-FM) and is now known as simply “The Rock of New Orleans,” but I don’t think anything will ever be a proper subtitute for WRNO-FM, the once-mighty home for classic rock. :-( WRNO, you continue to be bitterly missed to this very day. To absent friends… <:-(

In Memoriam
WRNO-FM 99.5
The Rock Of New Orleans
October 17, 1967 – November 13, 2006

]]> By: Aaron Handy III http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-12490 Aaron Handy III Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:19:17 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-12490 Hey, Dan...I LOVED YOU ON FUNLOVIN' WTIX 690! :-) Hey, Dan…I LOVED YOU ON FUNLOVIN’ WTIX 690! :-)

]]> By: Don Banks http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-7066 Don Banks Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:35:34 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-7066 WRNO is now news/talk as "The New 995.com". WRNO is now news/talk as “The New 995.com”.

]]> By: Dan McKay http://airchexx.com/markets/new-orleans/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987/comment-page-1#comment-6675 Dan McKay Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:53:17 +0000 http://www.airchexx.com/airchecks-by-year/1987/pm-drive-on-99-5-wrno-the-rock-october-1987#comment-6675 The talent is "Weird" Wayne Watkins, who later went to Biloxi, MS to program rocker WCPR-FM. Savor the Corvette promo from the station owner's brother Mike Costello. (Must be the only way he made it on the air with THAT voice!) Mikey went on to program (if you want to call it that) WTIX-FM. The talent is “Weird” Wayne Watkins, who later went to Biloxi, MS to program rocker WCPR-FM. Savor the Corvette promo from the station owner’s brother Mike Costello. (Must be the only way he made it on the air with THAT voice!) Mikey went on to program (if you want to call it that) WTIX-FM.

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