[NJARC] Philadelphia Radio

Sun Nov 19 16:54:53 EST 2006

As good old Ed McMahon used to say, "You ARE CORRECT,
Sir!" My mistake... I used to listen to it quite a bit
when 95' 'PEN switched to Sinatra and such in the late
70's, from 50s, 60s, 70s music.(I stil can recall the
opening lines of most Bobby Vinton songs!) That was a
few years after Joe Niagra "The Rockin' Bird" came to
the station. I remember spending hours waiting to meet
him at the Echelon Mall when I was just a kid.
Remember when they called 560 WFIL "Solid Gold Radio"?
I may still have the autograph of two of the mid 70's
DJs on a WFIL Gold sticker from an appearance.

And with 97.5 PST, I wonder whatever happened to Kim
Alexander who used to do the overnights, and had a
side  bit called "Alexander's Greats" the usual pick
of popular music at the time... I used to have such a
crush on her- and I've never seen a picture of her!
That great a voice...

Scott

--- TrainBee at aol.com wrote:

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> Scott,
>     Just a minor correction, WFIL was at 560,
> (Famous  56 WFIL).  I actually 
> preferred them over WIBG.  I grew up in  NE Philly
> and always had a tough time 
> getting WIBG.  Maybe it was the  orientation of the
> antenna or the transmit 
> power.  Anyway, they are gone  and are so many
> others.  At least we have 770 
> WABC on Saturday  evening.  
>     WFLN also had a AM signal that matched the FM 
> signal.  They dropped the 
> AM sometime prior to the FM change.  What a  waste. 
> WRTI 90.1 FM at Temple U. 
> now does 50/50 broadcasting of Classical  and Jazz.
>     I also came across 850 AM somewhere in 
> Connecticut.  Weak signal here 
> and dependent on conditions to hear.   Another
> oldies station that is simulcast 
> with one of the satellite  services.
>  
> Joe
>  
> In a message dated 11/19/2006 5:38:58 AM Eastern
> Standard Time,  
> ng19delta at yahoo.com writes:
> 
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> The  Philadelphia market has gone nuts recently:
> Within
> the past 10 years(much  of this recent) weve lost or
> changed as follows:
> 
> WFLN 95.7 went from  decades of Classical, to newest
> pop 40 overnight, then to something else,  now a
> great
> range of classic 70's-90's rock.
> 
> WWDB 96.5, went from  decades of talk radio
> (Remember
> Irv Holmer, Dr. James Corea, Frank Ford?)  overnight
> to
> pop 40, then classic rock, back to pop 40.
> 
> 
> 1210  WCAU news radio went to all sports, as did 950
> WPEN- I used to listen to  rock on '95 P..E..N' as a
> kid- I remember when Joe Niagra came  back...(Shades
> of
> WIBG)
> 
> 540 WFIL Gone
> 
> 97.5 WPST went from  original current rock(in 70's &
> 80s) to pop 40s, to classic rock. As of  last
> Thursday,
> 97.5 is now what 106.1 is, and carries smooth
> jazz...
> And  106.1 took WPST call sign, and the classic
> rock-
> right after I said "Wow!  'PST is back carrying the
> music I used to listen to on it when the music  was
> new!" and decided to listen to an old favorite
> station
> for a while.  D'OH!
> 
> And what the hell happened to Sunny 104.5? After
> decades of  elevator rock, and bop along office
> chippie
> music, it is now all-Latino....  Moy Loco.
> 
> There are more, but I gotta  run...
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> --- Robert Flory  <robandpj at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
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> > Personality radio is  not dead.
> > 
> > Pierre Robert has been celebrating his 25th
> >  anniversary at WMMR lately.
> > Many of his contemporaries are still  around but
> have
> > moved around the dial
> > as stations come and  go.
> > 
> > I kick myself for not holding on to some 
> cassettes
> > that I found in the
> > attic of a house I lived in back  in the 80s. 
> They
> > were tapes that a
> > soldier's wife  recorded for him while he was in
> Viet
> > Nam.  Most of them
> >  were off-air recordings of WNEW FM and had such
> > great period pieces  as
> > promos for the upcoming Three Dog Night concert
> and
> > the new  Black Sabbath
> > album.  Many of the recordings had a female  disk
> > jockey whose name escapes
> > me now but who many would  recognize.  That was a
> > novelty in the 70s.
> > 
> > I  think that some recordings of that era would
> make
> > an interesting  bridge
> > for some young people into our world.  Many
> >  teenagers appreciate classic
> > rock music and might be interested to  hear what
> it
> > was like to listen to
> > the radio when that music  was new.
> > 
> > Yesterday I heard that the Library of  Congress,
> > which adds 25 historically
> > significant recordings  per year to its
> collection,
> > included Jimi Hendrix's
> > "Are You  Experienced?" this year.  I thought I
> > pushed the wrong button  on
> > my car radio when I hit NPR and heard Jimi surfing
> a
> > wave  of feedback.
> > 
> > Rob Flory
> > robandpj at earthlink.net
> >  www.home.earthlink.net/~navyradio  WWII Navy
> Radio
> >  www.home.earthlink.net/~robandpj    Les Flory
> > Television and  Electronics
> > 
> > 
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