Posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:52 PM PDT by nanetteclaret
WLS was mentioned in a post the other day, and several FReepers mentioned listening to it at night. Although WLS was located in Chicago, the range seemed to be across the country. I listened to it, here in Dallas, many nights (when the weather cooperated). How about you? Did any of you listen to WLS? I did, on my patent’s hi-fi in the living room - when I was doing my homework. 😉
I remember when Dick Biondi was fired for an on air joke. A few years later I saw him on a TV news show in northern California.
When I lived in Carlsbad, NM, at night all radios were turned to .”Yours truly KOMA” out of Oklahoma City. When dad dragged us kicking and screaming back to the Ozarks we found we could no longer get KOMA as it was a direction signal to the western states. Same reason we could not pick up a Roswell NM station that plastered the Mountain range.
I was a kid who always had the radio on in Chicago in the late 1960s. It was fairly recently that I found out that Larry Lujack was not on the air every minute of every day.
The, I grow up and find out that Larry was a loudmouth libtard.
My WLS story: back in the ‘70’s, off at college in a school on the Atlantic Seaboard, somehow the idiots I was partying with got onto the subject of the pop song “Me and Mrs. Jones”, a piece we absolutely loathed, made worse by the fact that it seemed to play continuously out there.
One of us (and it might have been me) suggested that if we could tune in to WLS, even they would probably be playing the damn thing. Well, we were 20 stories up in a party room in someone’s apartment building, maybe 600 miles east of Chicago, late at night when LS was clear channel, so for the hell of it, we took the room’s sound system, dialed the AM to 890, and sure enough, barely audible through all the static we heard “ . . . and Mrs. Jones, we got a thing going on . . .” Damn near died laughing.
For those interested: http://www.wlshistory.com/home.htm
All of the GFs on camera were svelte. Amazing...
Did your 8 track come with the folded empty matchbook that you jammed next to the cassette to keep it seated properly so it would play?
Mine did.
Others we got were WWL New Orleans, WOAI, San Antonio, KAAY Little Rock. Those 1960s were the good days...
Wilmington Delaware late at night on a car AM.
WLS The Voice of Labor in Chicago. One of my favorite night time Top 40’s channels.
I’m wondering if we should have an American Bandstand thread?
I remember WLS with Dick Biyondi (not sure I spelled that right)
Ah yes. XERF in Ciudad Acuna and XEG in Monterrey Mexico. After the preaching, it would be time “to light up with a good King Edward Cigar!” Then came truck driving music at midnight.
Yes to WOWO my other night time Top 40’s station in the 60’s.
Remember the Coho report, and the world famous fire escape weather reports?
WOWO was the station that had the Emergency Broadcasting System False Alarm back in 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I
WCFL, "the voice of labor," was named for the Chicago Federation of Labor.
Another I listened to in NW New Mexico was KVOO out of Tulsa OK. It accompanied me many a night on I-40.
In Farmington NM, 1974, it was 98 degrees with 12% humidity. On KVOO they mentioned, in Tulsa, it was 98 degrees, 75% humidity the same day.
Yep. WEEK was channel 25.
Everyone in flyover country had two buttons set on their car radio...one on 1520 KOMA, and the other on 890 for WLS.
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