AM radio?
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grendelkhan — 11 years ago(September 15, 2014 03:37 PM)
I grew up near Decatur, IL, and if you wanted rock, you listened to WDZ AM (though it changed formats once or twice) or tuned in WLS, from Chicago (which could be heard across most of the state). My mother had an FM-capable clock radio and the station played easy listening, with stuff like Ray Coniff, Andy Williams, the Carpenters, and the like. It would be a few years before Y103 (the FM version of WSOY AM radio) would switch to rock.
The ironic thing is that Gordon Jump was once a DJ in Decatur (I believe it was at WDZ).
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Doug-Oh — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 07:52 PM)
In the mid-1980s, WLS was a combo of music and talk.
It was music until later in the evening, say around 9 p.m., when the station aired local talk programs like advice shows.
I vividly recall hearing the station play Toto or other artists in the evening and then moving to talk.
Later, like most other prominent AM stations, it went totally talk. -
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snelling — 10 years ago(October 25, 2015 08:14 AM)
8-tracks were a continuous spool of tape usually with an entire album on it. I never cared for this format because you could not rewind it. For more information, see Wikipedia. They go into detail and show diagrams of how it works.
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Doug-Oh — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 06:23 PM)
Yes, the cheap Ford Pinto I drove in my pizza delivery job in high school (1978-79) only had AM.
My mom had an AM-FM in her late 70s Plymouth, but FM was mono.
My own used car in high school, an AMC Hornet, was AM only.
I purchased an AM=FM cassette stereo which I mounted on the bottom of my dash board, just above the carpet floor (screwed into that part of the car). -
asherp — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 05:40 AM)
Back n the day WNBC 66 AM in NY was the biggest thing around.you wouldn't have really heard about FM at all.
I accept the premise that FM was doing more of an AOR format back then.which would have been high school and college age listening.Jethro Tull.GenesisBTOetc.progressive stuff.But WKRP was timed perfectly in that the world was changing and AM/FM was becoming equally acceptable.
so depending on the market and the year the biggest station could have been am AM or an FM