After listening to the interview Saturday night with Malibu Sue, I started thinking of what stations I used to listen to growing up.
My hometown of Wellsville had had (and still has) two stations. One was WLSV, which used to play To 40. My Dad was a DJ there, which was cool. He used to bring home a lot of LPs and he was Santa Claus every Christmas. Now WLSV is a country music station. There was also WJQZ, which used to be adult contemperary, but now is an oldies station. I worked there one summer as a receptionist, which was great. Maybe this influenced my love of DJing and how I have so many friends who are DJs. *lol*
I also used to listen to CFNY from Toronto. I only could get it on those nights where the atmosphere was right and it was late at night. They used to play some great tunes. It was kind of like what WLIR used to play.
Another radio station I listened to was WFNX from Boston. I would listen to that station whenever I went to Boston. I even have a couple of audio tapes from the station. It was around 1990 when I taped them and I recently listened to them and some of the songs I wonder what was I thinking taping them.
So what stations did you listen to growing up? Do you remember anything interesting about the stations? And are the stations still around?
Molly_From_Buffalo
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When I was a kid and dividing my time between NJ and Virginia I listened to your usual top 40 fare. I can still recall listening to Z100 out of NYC on the very first day they began broadcasting. They only had about 10 songs but I wasn't too picky. I alos listened to the (long gone) WAPP in NYC which was more of a hard rock station. In Virginia I listened to K92 out of Roanoke and WGOL (where my Dad had a religious show on it's sister AM station WLLL). I would go with him to the station, located high atop a hill in Lycnchburg, VA. I thought the radio station was the coolest place on earth actually. We always went at night and you could see the whole town from there. From my room at home I could see the antennae and imagine what those guys were doing up there all night long, drinking coffee, playing records, answering phones. Why I thought this was the greatest job in the world is a mystery but I did! Later on Lynchburg got it's own Z100 franchise so I felt connected to NYc in some weird way. I also spent a lot of late night time looking for AM stations from all over the country. I listened to WBZ out of Boston with with host Larry Glick religiously. Later on when my tastes drifted away from the mainstream, I listened to WLIR based out of Long Island and then later on when it became WDRE. I have fond memories of my friends and I driving around all night listening and commenting on what was being played. We considered WLIR/WDRE and MTV's 120 Minutes basically a lifestyle guide.
-Ghosty
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