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TC Talks wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:00 am
WLBS the only station that matters...
That was an incredible station. The Disco Era and the New Wave Era of WLBS. Mike Halloran was there during the New Wave format.
I liked Mike, used to be a club jock and he would get me import ep's.
Tinsley and Gerald McBride were my favorites...
For Kristian Trumpers are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
-Romans 16:18
TC Talks wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:00 am
WLBS the only station that matters...
That was an incredible station. The Disco Era and the New Wave Era of WLBS. Mike Halloran was there during the New Wave format.
I liked Mike, used to be a club jock and he would get me import ep's.
Tinsley and Gerald McBride were my favorites...
I loved Tinsley. I was exposed to so much great music from WLBS, I remember hearing “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers for the first time in 1979 and can’t forget “Now That I Found You” by Al Hudson and One Way from 1978, Wow the memories. When WLBS changed to the New Wave format, again that station had the “Wow factor” It’s a shame that radio has lost that today.
WLBS enabled so many concerts in the Detroit area from what are now considered ground breaking and influencing bands...
I saw U2 in 1983 at The State. That station was the only one playing October and War.
For Kristian Trumpers are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
-Romans 16:18
TC Talks wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:27 pm
WLBS enabled so many concerts in the Detroit area from what are now considered ground breaking and influencing bands...
I saw U2 in 1983 at The State. That station was the only one playing October and War.
I loved hearing the station play “How Soon Is Now” by The Smiths then segue into “Killing Moon” by Echo and the Bunnymen and then segue into “Hyperactive” by Thomas Dolby. Those were the best days for radio in Detroit. Can’t forget The Art of Noise, hearing their music on WLBS was the first time I ever heard that group. Did Inner-City Broadcasting own WLBS along with New York’s WBLS during the New Wave format? Also one of my cousins married a Disc Jockey from WLBS they’re divorced now, but the guys radio name was Kim Travis.
TC Talks wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:00 am
WLBS the only station that matters...
That was an incredible station. The Disco Era and the New Wave Era of WLBS. Mike Halloran was there during the New Wave format.
I liked Mike, used to be a club jock and he would get me import ep's.
Tinsley and Gerald McBride were my favorites...
I loved Tinsley. I was exposed to so much great music from WLBS, I remember hearing “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers for the first time in 1979 and can’t forget “Now That I Found You” by Al Hudson and One Way from 1978, Wow the memories. When WLBS changed to the New Wave format, again that station had the “Wow factor” It’s a shame that radio has lost that today.
Did Inner-City Broadcasting own WLBS along with New York’s WBLS during the New Wave format?
Yes, Tinsley headed to NYC when WLBS went COOL Oldies.
For Kristian Trumpers are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
-Romans 16:18
I can't remember who else what on air. Kim replaced Gerald I think. Tim was mornings?
For Kristian Trumpers are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
-Romans 16:18
That brief period when 99.5 The Fox was Rock 40. I think it ran from about 1989 to 1990. In 1988 they were mainstream Top 40, and that is what they returned to later on.
One thing that was big about that short period of time is that WRIF was not only being beat by 98.7 WLLZ, they had that version of The Fox and 94.7 WCSX to deal with. They almost didn't make it. By 1991 The Fox was no longer Rock 40 (overall not everyone liked it as much as I did) and Drew Lane joined WRIF mornings.
How about DAT or Digital Audio Tape? Which lasted about 2 years.
I only utilized that format for some voice tracks and remember it being kind of a pain in the ass and not really working with my edit controller. If I got something on DAT I would just dub it to digibeta and edit it from there.
DTX was rock 40 around 1987. No wimpy funk, no metal junk. The New 99.5FM WDTX. That was my favorite format. They flipped to the Fox late July of 1988. I recorded the first station ID as WDFX at midnight. Roll with the changes by REO speed wagon kicked off at both midnight and 6am when the format launched. Andy Savage and Steve Courtney hosted the morning show.
I was also a fan of the Arrow 93.9. Believe they used the CKLW calls. This was around 1993/94? Before the River
Rich S wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:39 pm
DTX was rock 40 around 1987. No wimpy funk, no metal junk. The New 99.5FM WDTX. That was my favorite format. They flipped to the Fox late July of 1988. I recorded the first station ID as WDFX at midnight. Roll with the changes by REO speed wagon kicked off at both midnight and 6am when the format launched. Andy Savage and Steve Courtney hosted the morning show.
I was also a fan of the Arrow 93.9. Believe they used the CKLW calls. This was around 1993/94? Before the River
The Arrow was a cool station. It was similar to The Arrow 93.1 in Los Angeles, The Arrow stood for All Rock’n Roll Oldies, 93.9 tried to compete with WCSX but it was short lived.
Marcus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:44 pm
That brief period when 99.5 The Fox was Rock 40. I think it ran from about 1989 to 1990. In 1988 they were mainstream Top 40, and that is what they returned to later on.
One thing that was big about that short period of time is that WRIF was not only being beat by 98.7 WLLZ, they had that version of The Fox and 94.7 WCSX to deal with. They almost didn't make it. By 1991 The Fox was no longer Rock 40 (overall not everyone liked it as much as I did) and Drew Lane joined WRIF mornings.
Speaking of Drew before there was Drew and Mike there was Drew and Zip.
Zip was hired as I think the PD at that time and was turning WRIF into more of a progressive rock station than the hard rock Riff fans were accustomed to and it was nearly the demise of the home of rock and roll.
Zip was fired and Mike Clark took his spot. As Mike was already doing the Mr Stress character.
