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Tag: WIFI
Philadelphia Radio Jingles Through The Years – In Alphabetical Order – 1950s-2010s
Philadelphia Radio Jingles Through The Years – In Alphabetical Order – 1950s-2010s This recording features radio jingles used by many Philadelphia area radio stations through the years. Some of the radio staions include: KYW, WCAU, WCAU-FM, WDAS, WDAS-FM, WEAZ, WEJM, WFIL, WGMP, WHAT, WIBG, WIFI, WIOQ, WIP, WKSZ, WLLC, WMGK, WOGL-FM, WPEN, WPGR, WRCP,…
Hy Lit on 92.5 WIFI Philadelphia | 1973
WIFI 92 Philadelphia – Hy Lit – 1973 In Philadelphia, there is one name that stands out at the dawn of Rock & Roll… Hy Lit! Hyski was the man who brought Rock & Roll to the Delaware Valley, and played it uptown, downtown, cross-town, here there, almost everywhere. Hy Lit became an…
KYW Reports the Passing of Radio Legend Hy Lit | November 17, 2007
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Hy Lit (May 20, 1934 – November 17, 2007) was a legendary Philadelphia area radio personality whose career spanned several decades. This aircheck was recorded from KYW Newsradio 1060 in Philadelphia the afternoon of Lit’s death from complications after knee surgery. Hy Lit had been suffering from Parkinson’s Disease for much of his final 10…
“Long” John Wade on FM 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia | August 1973
Radio Station: Golden 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia Frequency: 98.1 MHZ Format: Oldies Golden 98 WCAU-FM was one of the first Oldies stations in the U.S. It was automated it’s first few years, and by 1973, the station had live jocks. The Oldies format lasted until 1976, when the station flipped to Disco. This aircheck features…
Terry “Motormouth” Young, Hot Hits 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia | May 1983
If you grew up listening to Big Jack Armstrong, on one of the many stations where he worked, you may have thought… “I can do that!” But we all discovered, we could not. As a boy Terry Young thought he could be like his radio hero Jack Armstrong. In Terry’s case, he actually COULD…
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…
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 performed fairly well for many years. When 98.1 WCAU-FM debuted its Hot Hits format in October 1981, which caused WIFI’s ratings to fall as WCAU-FM quickly grabbed most of…
Don Cannon, WIFI 92 Philadelphia | 1981
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 performed fairly well for many years. When 98.1 WCAU-FM debuted its Hot Hits format in October 1981, which caused WIFI’s ratings to fall as WCAU-FM quickly grabbed most…
