That's our dinner music!
What a sucky day! The market looks like sh!t and our romantic dinner station was scrapped. I hate the world.
I thought someone had changed the smooth jazz station on me at work -- this morning I listened to smooth jazz and then out of nowhere the 60's and 70's rock. I'll miss the smooth jazz format. Geez. Everything's going to h3ll.
Washington D.C. radio used to be quite the kaleidoscope of formats, flavors and tastes, I remember when that evil thing called ‘Rock n’ Roll’ came to life at 1600 AM on WINX in Rockville Maryland, the building had a giant neon winking ‘eye’ where Rt 355 and Rt 28 intersected, you couldn’t miss it, day or night.
And friends I have in Bangor Maine tell me they can still pull in WTOP @ 1500 AM in the early morning hours, and WMAL (630 AM) used to have a signal that could be picked up all the way in Miami if atmospheric conditions were right.
And of course WRC-AM at 980 was the broadcast home for a while for noneother than Willard Scott, who resurrected the ‘Joy Boys’ theme with Ed Walker, that was good clean fun the whole family could enjoy.
Other notable personalities I recall are Johnny Holliday (WWDC) and Eddie Gallagher (WASH), I used to be able to do a fair imitation of Gallagher’s voice, and my high school friends and I used to select numbers at random out of the local phone book, and call up the unsuspecting victim and I would pretend to be Eddie Gallagher calling to see if the person knew the “exact amount in the WASH Cash Call Jackpot?”, and no matter what amount they guessed, I would tell them they “missed it by 10 cents!” - it’s a miracle we didn’t cause somebody a heart attack, lol
And of course there is the one and the only Doug Tracht aka ‘The Greaseman’ who took over at the WWDC (DC-101) morning gig after Howard Stern took off for New York, The Grease (IMHO) had 100 times the talent of Stern, but he didn’t have to be filthy or obscene to have you laughing yourself silly.
Washington-Metro has to be one of the most unique radio markets anywhere in America.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I actively avoid Citadel Radio Stations, and will not listen to them after they deep-sixed John Batchelor in September of 2006.
Anyone up for buying a small radio station to do conservative talk and surf music?