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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
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
243 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
160 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.
merlinguy
7 posts
 
I’m surprised no one has mentioned WKRP in Cincinnati 
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