Who were you listening to?

[wnytaxman]

For many of us the radio, particularly AM, was our constant companion when we were kids. We had our "portable" radios which weighed about 20 pounds I think with their dry cell batteries and then eventually the transistor radios that got really small compared to what we were used to. In the car we were always tuned in and turned to the latest in our music long before that music became "The Oldies".

So what stations had your ear? For me it WKBW and on a clear night maybe WBZ, or WABC, or WCFL. When I got to college at Bowling Green State U. it became CKLW in Windsor, ON. When a summer job took me to Lewiston, ID, it became KJRB in Spokane. How about you?

[Half Dimes]

WLCY in St. Petersburg or WALT across the bay in Tampa. AM radio might have been tinny and staticy but it had a whole lot more character than the homogenized packaged stuff on most FM stations today.

[Wizard]

At night it was WLS out of Chicago and whatever the one out of New Orleans, was called the trucker station.

[Podivin]

Originally Posted by Wizard

At night it was WLS out of Chicago...

Exactly the same for DW (then DGF) and I.
WLS wouldn't come in during the day, but it came in loud and clear at night, and was better than any of our local stations.

[G.G.]

Originally Posted by Half Dimes

WLCY in St. Petersburg or WALT across the bay in Tampa. AM radio might have been tinny and staticy but it had a whole lot more character than the homogenized packaged stuff on most FM stations today.

OMG..I remember WLCY. I would've never remembered had you not posted.
Blast from the past.

[saddlesore]

Ran a wire (hay baling wire) out bedroom window to top of chimney, just to listen to Wolf Man Jack late at night

[sd75mac]

Originally Posted by saddlesore

Ran a wire (hay baling wire) out bedroom window to top of chimney, just to listen to Wolf Man Jack late at night

On XPRS out of Tijuana. Ahhhhh, those were the days.

[RCCFleetwood]

One that I remember was WTRY 980AM... I just found a clip of Ric Mitchell doing his last show on that station! I remember him like it was yesterday!

https://airchexx.com/2013/07/28/ric-...ruary-16-1979/

I'm trying to remember what FM station, if any, I listened to then, but I'm thinking it was mostly 8-tracks and cassettes by then. Whoa...

[ronjhall]

WXYZ 1270 AM Detroit, MI and CKLW 800 Windsor Ontario, Canada. Both rock and roll in the 50's and 60's.

[LarrytheBear]

WTIX and WNOE out of New Orleans... Rock and roll in the 50's and 60's.
Many hours of innocence and ignorance lost between those two push buttons on the car radio...

[scenic route]

Listened to WKKO, Cocoa, Fl. 'til midnight's sign off... aired "Wonderland by night" by Burt Kaempfert. During the day, every 15 or 30 minutes, the DJs would announce to beach goers: "Time to turn".

[RCCFleetwood]

I came up with the other big one that I listened to back in the 70's and 80's... WFLY 92.3 FM out of Albany, NY. They're still on today but, sadly, not music I listen to any more.

Of course, in Bennington, VT, we only had a tiny AM station, WBTN 1370 am back then, but Bob Harrington was the "voice of Bennington" for years!

[Hammer bird]

89 WLS and Super CFL both Chicago stations. I remember traveling as a kid and being so happy the WLS traveled with me! The station still exists today but it's all talk/sports no more "rock-n-roll"

[saddlesore]

Originally Posted by sd75mac

On XPRS out of Tijuana. Ahhhhh, those were the days.

Yup Indeed! (For the life of me... I could not remember the call sign !)