Representing the younger generation, apparently: Elementary/Middle School: Q95, WJOI, WNIC, WQRS High School: 93-1 DRQ, 93-9 The River, Q95-5, Planet 96.3, V98.7, WNIC, WOMC, WQRS (I also listened to The Edge some after WQRS died) College (Grand Rapids): 95.7 W-Lite, I-96, 98.7 WFGR (then classical)...

Didn't Rick also work at WKQI for a while? According to back issues of R&R on Dave Gleason's site, Rick Gillette programmed Q95-5 from December 1997 to July or August of 1998. I guess that explains why the station started sounding a lot more staid and conservative musically by that fall (i.e. getti...

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," recorded in 1958 when Brenda Lee was 13 (she's now about to turn 79), has reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, her first #1 hit since "I Want to Be Wanted" 63 years ago. The first time it charted (in 1960), it peaked at #14. It's recharted and climbed as high as ...

CHR is in such a rut that it's drawing from Country - probably more than at any time since the early '80s (even the Faith Hill/Shania Twain crossover era in the late '09s/early '00s wasn't this big). Look at the crossover success of Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs this year. A year ago at this time, i...

I once picked up WUGN on a hot summer afternoon in Sandusky, Ohio. My mom was with me at the time and couldn't believe it when I told her the signal was coming from Midland, Michigan. They also have a translator in Lansing on first adjacent 99.9 (technically translating daytimer 1110 WUNN). 99.7 act...

The outer contours receive cochannel interference in some areas from CHYR-FM, WRGZ, and other stations on 96.7, and translators in the Detroit Area on 96.7. But if you are on the right side of the hills, you can hear it, and quite quickly change over to the other 96.7 facilities as you get to the o...

CHR is in such a rut that it's drawing from Country - probably more than at any time since the early '80s (even the Faith Hill/Shania Twain crossover era in the late '09s/early '00s wasn't this big). Look at the crossover success of Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs this year. A year ago at this time, if...

For the second time in as many months, a Soft AC station in a major Canadian market is going Country. First, Toronto rimshot Lite 88.5 (formerly The Jewel) became Hot Country 88.5. Now Winnipeg's Peggy @ 99.1, currently in all-Christmas mode, is slated to flip to Country 99 after Boxing Day. https:/...

I like Whitney, but her version of I Will Always Love You misses the mark. It's all about her flexing her vocal muscle and not about finding an appropriate interpretation of the lyric. Dolly's 1982 version is the best one IMO. On my list of legitimately horrible songs/recordings: Michael Bolton's ve...

Once in a blue moon I used to listen to WKEZ 96.1 from Holland. I could tolerate it in small doses; stationality was nowhere nearly as bland as WJOI. WKEZ used to play quite a few instrumental remakes of mainstream hit songs as part of its music mix. Some airchecks I heard of the old 93.1 WLTI were...

I don't know how anyone could stand listening to that boring, sleepy stuff. :x :x :x The death of the B/EZ format might be the best thing to have ever happened to FM radio. With all due respect, I don't know how anyone can stand having their eardrums blasted by heavy metal. But we're all different....

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Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:28 pm

STER-E ER-E ER-E O ISLAND (WKNR FM).

Later cloned by 99.1 WFMK in Lansing.
"Stereo Island is brass on the left, brass on the right, rhythm in the middle..."

I don't know how anyone could stand listening to that boring, sleepy stuff. :x :x :x The death of the B/EZ format might be the best thing to have ever happened to FM radio. With all due respect, I don't know how anyone can stand having their eardrums blasted by heavy metal. But we're all different....

Is this 101 Strings or Bert Kaempfert music? If so, that’s cool. I would guess this music that is being played is royalty free music. Just a guess. It would be neat if it were, but it's not traditional "beautiful music." Remember on CD singles in the '90s where they'd have a "karaoke" mix of the so...

Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" was banned or censored by a number of radio stations in 1981. The video changed the theme of the song from sex to exercise, but created its own controversy when two of the guys ONJ is lusting after in the gym walk off holding hands, and that bit was often cut in TV br...