Philadelphia
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WFIL 56 & WIBG 99 Philadelphia Through The Years | 1969 -1983
If you grew up during the glorious days of AM radio in Philly in the 60s and 70s, there were 2 AM radio stations that you probably listened to for […]
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Joe “Butterball” Tamburro Tribute on 105.3 WDAS-FM Philadelphia | July 29, 2012
In Philadelphia, WDAS AM & FM was the R&B powerhouse. From the 1950s, on AM 1480, & from the early 1970s on 105.3 FM, WDAS was the place to go […]
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Jerry Blavat, WCAU-FM Solid Gold 98 Philadelphia | 1972
In 1960 when starting his broadcast career at WCAM in Camden N.J., across the river from Philadelphia, Jerry Blavat was already a local celebrity. Blavat was one of the teenage […]
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Richard Hawkins, Hot Hits 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia | July 1984
Before the birth of what’s known today as WOGL, 98.1 was home to a heritage set of call letters and a trademarked hot Top 40 format which graced a dozen […]
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Lee Paris, on Rock of the 80s i92, WIFI Philadelphia | June 1983
Back during the early 1980s, mainstream Rock acts dominated Album Oriented Rock (AOR) radio, leaving very little room for the emerging New Wave & Punk Rock artists, like Depeche Mode, […]
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Terry Young, Valley Girl Stunt on WCAU-FM 98 Philadelphia | July 1982
Back in 1982, Hot Hits 98, WCAU-FM in Philadelphia, was the number 1 music station. Terry Young, “The Motormouth,” owned teens around Philly. One night, he played the song “Valley […]
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WXTU First Day On Air, 92 WXTU Philadelphia | September 12 1983
In 1973, Philadelphia’s WIFI 92 instituted a high-energy Top 40 format known as the Boogie Format with the slogan “Let’s Boogie.” It Philly’s first live FM Top 40 station. It […]
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Barbara Sommers, 99FM WUSL Philadelphia (KISS 99/Power 99 FM) | Dec 27 1982
Here is a rare aircheck of WUSL Philadelphia, before it had become Power 99 FM. The station flipped from Country, to Urban in Oct. 1982, with the new name KISS […]
