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Originally posted by justamom
Delt Alum, you may appreciate this!
I remember one moment in particular when I felt so darn stupid.
I asked someone-"What's FM?" HAHAHAHAHA! Can anyone beat THAT!
The BEST radio station we could get-had to be a cloudy night-was out of OK 101. Otherwise, we got the Farm Report and Lawrence Welks' greatest hits!
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JAM,
Damn, I loved 1960's AM Rock Radio.
Don't know if this is the same station, but one of the really legendary rockers of the 60's was "KOMA in Oklahoma" out of OKC.
This is from the history section of their current website:
"Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. With the big 50,000-watt signal and the relatively few rock-n-roll radio stations across the plains, KOMA was the main station for the hits. KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit (DA edit: in my opinion, CKLW was the greatest station/format in early rock and roll); and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home."
We could sometimes get KOMA in Ohio when the atmosphere was just right. In addition, I would have to add a couple more stations to their "legendary list" including WBZ, Boston; WOWO, Ft. Wayne; KFWB and KRLA, Los Angeles; WKBW, Buffalo; and a few others.
These were the 60's "hitmaker" stations and home to some of the greatest rock jocks of all times.
There were other, lower power, stations that were local hits, but not big enough to be national powers. These include WMCA, NYC; KQV, Pittsburgh, WSAI, Cincinnati, WTVN, Columbus; WKNR, Detroit; KIMN, Denver and many, many more.
Then, of course, there was the always famous WATH, Athens, Ohio, "The Voice of the (Hocking River) Valley," where yours truly worked part of his way through college "playing the hits." I'm sure you all remember that. Right.