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Wow! At that time in ‘83 I was at WLBS playing R&B just before ‘LBS switched to New Wave but that was at a time when Detroit Radio was really cooking. It’s to bad we can’t go back to a great time in broadcasting.

windsor wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 6:55 pm

Steve Korvette wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 6:52 pm Not me, I can’t even do my own voice anymore

Steve heres one for you the Doc from 1983 on the original WLLZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jM_LZjimz8

You're welcome

I have a few WLLZ airchecks on my YouTube. Some other stations as well. Bee Kay 5150.

That is a good aircheck ,during those days I was mostly a Z Rock listener with my metal militia dogtag.

You know, That was a time when the Jocks and the Audience where excited to do and hear radio, Everyone loved radio, It was a cool time just exactly where did it get lost. It’s not fun listening to it anymore.

Steve Korvette wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:03 pm You know, That was a time when the Jocks and the Audience where excited to do and hear radio, Everyone loved radio, It was a cool time just exactly where did it get lost. It’s not fun listening to it anymore.

As soon as 4 companies started owning everything............and the anti trust laws came off the books and they just monopolized everything.

When competition is stifled, creativity is abandoned in search of more and more profit for the select few.Thats what happened here in Canada.The Big8 was the first to fall and CKLW tv.

America was built by people with ideas and creativity.

If radio doesn’t go back to what it once was, Than radio is in it’s endgame as far as a music platform.

America was built by Freemasons*

MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:47 pm

Is M. Dung still around? Here's a great aircheck! I love how they played Train of Consequences by Megadeth!

Nope,

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/arch ... ung-passes

What was the reason that 98.7 WLLZ changed from Rock to Smooth Jazz was it bad ratings, And since I was in The Northwest at the time, Who were the owners of 98.7 was It Infinity Broadcasting. I know the format changed in ‘95.

Steve Korvette wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:06 am What was the reason that 98.7 WLLZ changed from Rock to Smooth Jazz was it bad ratings, And since I was in The Northwest at the time, Who were the owners of 98.7 was It Infinity Broadcasting. I know the format changed in ‘95.

Word on the street was that Infinity wanted to blow out WLLZ to get the smooth jazz format before anyone else. Idk how much truth there is to that. It very well could have been ratings.

I have to admit disappointment. Each time that I've tuned in, I've been greeted with Green Day. This has happened four times.

I'm cool with it. The Original WLLZ introduced me to Green Day and thus, by proxy, introduced me to the East Bay punk scene. I will be forever grateful.

Okay, here's a good question....


At what point do the classic rock selections mixed with the newer rock selections put them into an "active" or "mainstream" lean? Riff still has the hold on things like Zombie and Linkin Park. So what groups/artists/time frames are a good cutoff point? Hellbilly Deluxe is 21 years old now. How is Green Day okay (I don't think I've heard anything post Insomniac [1995]) but Korn and Zombie aren't?