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What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey?

I am older so my radio stations of influence were in their prime during the British invasion and many, many American singers and groups.  
The stations I listen to the most were WLS out of Chicago, KIOA out of Des Moines, KAAY out of Little Rock, Arkansas and KOMA  out of Oklahama.  When I was in the Air Froce I had a few stations near the main base I was stationed at outside of Rapid City, S.D.  
Of course systems and better and better systems and FM became the dominate source for broadcast/online music.  I did learn much of what I liked and eventually purchased through early radio listening.
I still listen to radio mainly for Jazz stations and NPR news. 

jusam
mei
20 posts
 
In NYC, it was WNCN, an all-classical station that competed with WQXR.
In those days, you could listen to the Met Opera on Saturday afternoon via WQXR, hear a full opera recording that evening on WNCN, and hear a recorded opera on Sunday evening on WQXR. Both stations had a policy of playing only complete works. After WNCN died, WQXR started avoiding vocal music except for the Met broadcasts and began to play individual movements from symphonies. End of a Golden Age of NYC radio.
brskie
67 posts
 
WRPI; Troy NY 1970s
WNEW; NYC 1980s - 1990s
WFUV;  Bronx NY  1980s - 2020
WBGO; Newark NJ 1980s - 2020

Scott Muni, Dave Herman and Dennis Elsas were some of my favorite DJs

Pete Fornatale's "Mixed Bag" and Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" Saturday evening shows on WFUV were always popular in my circles of friends.

Bruce
60decibels
6 posts
 
Mid-late 60’s…WPOP & WDRC both AM stations in Hartford CT. As a youngster at the time, the many DJ personalities also added color & drama to the listening experience. One example here. http://www.wdrcobg.com/griffin.html
What seemed absolutely scandalous to the teenaged me is just so ho-hum.

Then to FM!!!!!!!! WPLR in New Haven. Coincidentally, have a 50 year old city bus cardboard advertising placard (fluorescent orange w/black script) that hangs on my garage wall:
“WPLR 99 rock - up your FM dial…”

Sweet memories!
robshaw
252 posts
 
I grew up in the suburbs of NY. The station,  if I remember correctly was WNEW FM. Allison Steel was referred to as the Night Bird. She came on around 11PM nightly. She had a sultry voice that just drew you in!  Her program was so orchestrated  that she would almost literary take you away.  All of her songs blended into a theme. One  song seemed to take you right into the next so smoothly. Not like so many  other DJ's that would put you into a frame of mind and then on the next song  rip you totally out of where you were. This all w/o the fanfare of the funny cigarettes.  Going back almost fifty years. Robert TN
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tunehead
166 posts
 
CFNY 102.1 - The Spirit of RADIO
First started as a pirate radio station broadcasting from a boat on lake Ontario. Then moved to a little house/shack in Brampton Ontario... and onwards from there. Was the best damn alternative to EVERYTHING station.
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