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Tag: Rock
Ellis B Feaster on 98 Rock WIYY Baltimore | Spring 1992
WIYY 98Rock Baltimore – Ellis B Feaster – 1992 Back in 1977, WBAL-FM Baltimore switched its call sign to WIYY, and began its rock music format as 98 Rock.. It has used the 98 Rock branding since the flip, and is still going strong today, through it’s sixth decade. The station had lots of attitude…
Jim Kerr, Trip Reeb, & Jimmy Fink on 95.5 WPLJ New York | October 18 1976
WPLJ 95.5 New York – Jim Kerr, Trip Reeb, Jimmy Fink – October 18 1976 Courtesy: Mike McCann Tauss Here’s a sample of 95.5 WPLJ New York when it was playing “New York’s Best Rock. Heard on this aircheck, in order: Jim Kerr, Tripp Reeb, & Jimmy Fink. In short, this is part of…
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, Culture Club, . Rick Caroll, Program Director at KROQ Los Angeles, introduced a new Rock format called “ROQ of the Eighties.” Carroll’s approach was to…
Carol Miller, 95.5 WPLJ New York Carol Miller | Fall 1982
Carol Miller is one of the longest-running New York radio personalities. Miller’s professional journey began in 1971 at Progressive Rock WMMR in Philadelphia. She quickly got the attention of New York’s Rock powerhouse 95.5 WPLJ in 1973, where she first became a New York radio icon. Miller says, at a very young age, while working…
KFOG 104.5 San Francisco, Format Flip From Beautiful Music to Rock | Sept. 16 1982
KFOG first went on the air in 1964 as an easy-listening station, and its trademark fog horn sound quickly caught on. By the early 1980s, the easy listening format was drawing an older audience, & management saw a hole in the market, and they thought KFOG should fill it. On September 16, 1982,…
Dave Charity & WPLJ’s Transition from ROCK to TOP 40, 95.5 WPLJ New York | July 1983
In early 1983, longtime Rock stalwart, 95.5 WPLJ, began a slow transition from Album Oriented Rock station to a Top 40/Contemporary Hit Radio format. When word started spreading around the market that a Top 40 format was coming to 100.3 WVNJ-FM in New Jersey, WPLJ decided to move further in a CHR direction. Though the station…
Pat St John, Power 95 WPLJ New York| July 1987
Pat St. John was a New York City radio fixture for 42 years. on the air with WNEW-FM, WAXQ and WCBS-FM, and for many, they remember him best for his days at WPLJ. He was a teenager when he started in radio, at small stations around his native Detroit. His first shift in New York…
KFOG 104.5 San Francisco Format Change From Beautiful Music To Rock & Roll | September 16 1982
For almost 20 years, starting in the early 1960s, KFOG 104.5 played Beautiful Music. Lots of instrumentals, with a few show tunes mixed it. The station did fared well for most of that period. However, as the 1980s were rolling in, things were changing. KFOG decided it needed to change with the times also.…
