Ohio 60s/70s Top 40 roll call

[gr8oldies]

I've seen similar threads of the Tennessee and Virginia boards and was just trying to think about Top 40s in Ohio (especially outside the bigger markets). Some that I can remember:

Toledo-WHOT and the 1230 facility
Lima-WCIT (live until the early 70s, and for a time carrying TM Stereo Rock, which could be heard on FM from Ft. Wayne). Lima had nothing on FM other than country and BM until the mid 80s
Celina-WMER (94.3). Automated with Hit Parade from 1968 through about 1971, then self-automated with a couple of live shifts, including a request show on Thursday nights. I remember them broacasting live from the Mercer County fair, bringing turntables, cart machines and even the phone).
Dayton-WONE (until 1970) and WING, WTUE until 1975
We know all about the legendary Cincy and Columbus stations
Marion-WDIF (what a little station at the time!)
Bellefontaine-WTOO AM/FM, later just Stereo TOO-98
Ottawa-WPNM when they first signed on, and daytparted at night in the early 80s
Youngstown-WHOT
Sure there were plenty more. Interesting stories, anyone?

[kirkiefan]

Don't forget:


"High Flying" WING-That vintage PAMS jingle for "the Dayton station" still plays in my mind over forty years later! Gene "By Golly" Barry made that station for what it was...local talent with a one on one rapport...sadly missed in radio these days.

WTOO 1390 AM in Bellefontaine picked up the contemporary hits in the late 70s,then moved it over to the FM as Stereo Too 98.

92-X..it in my opinion made WNCI look lame. "Stereo Quad" Susie Waud was a hoot!

Z-93- King and Dorsey,Dr.Dave and WIld Bill,Kim Faris..what more can I say?

I also have an appreciation for WSAI although my little transistor on the farm couldn't pick it up but what can I say? Dusty Rocks!

CKLW..Although Bill Drake's 30 song playlist and repetition sometimes caused annoying boredom..it's jingles,imaging and Big 8 jocks made it tolerable...yet exciting. God rest the soul of newsman Byron McGregor.

WIZE... John Hall was the hometown boy there and is sadly missed...like Limp73 said..."it needs to come back home."

Gordy Price on WCIT,WTOO and WMVR...."how's 'yer boogaloo situation?"
(where in the dickens are you now Gord???)

WIXY-1260. Never heard of it until the 70s since it's out of my range on account of the direction pattern but the airchecks I've heard on its tribute site...Better than CK with a 60 song playlist and lots of personality to spare.

WDJX Xenia/Fairborn/Beavercreek. Cindy Spicer,Bill Lyons,Libby Fox,Chad Hunt...was excellent before Charlie Butcher dropped the F bomb on it after "Who Are You"(unedited) by The Who was aired on one Sunday evening in '81.

WAXCeee 92(later 92 Zoo now Star 92.1)- Big market jingles,big sound, local jocks from Wapak and vicinity...but John Bulmer was an arrogant self-centered jerk!

[ChrisInMI]

When were the WHOT calls in Toledo?  Or did you mean 1470 WOHO?

I wasn't born until 1980 but I have heard that 1520 and 1560 in Toledo also ran Top 40 formats at one time.  When was WCWA Top 40? 

On FM, Cleveland also had WGCL-G98 and 106.5 WZZP in the late '70s.  And there was WQIO in Canton.

There are some WDIF airchecks from 1977 up on YouTube - the station sure had a good sound for such a small market.  How long was WDIF Top 40/CHR?  I picked them up early one morning in suburban Detroit in about 1994 but the presentation sounded Soft AC-ish... but maybe that was just the morning show. 

[gr8oldies]

Did mean WOHO for Toledo and WHOT for Youngstown

[VODood]

Cleveland....50s/60s/70s Top 40

WJW (Mad Daddy and Alan Freed)
WIXY
WHK
WGAR-AM
WKYC
KYW
 


And CKLW was often #1 in Cleveland blowing in from Windsor.

[gr8oldies]

Also thought of WHLO and WCUE

[Jason Roberts]

I've seen similar threads of the Tennessee and Virginia boards and was just trying to think about Top 40s in Ohio (especially outside the bigger markets). Some that I can remember:

Toledo-WHOT and the 1230 facility
Lima-WCIT (live until the early 70s, and for a time carrying TM Stereo Rock, which could be heard on FM from Ft. Wayne). Lima had nothing on FM other than country and BM until the mid 80s
Celina-WMER (94.3). Automated with Hit Parade from 1968 through about 1971, then self-automated with a couple of live shifts, including a request show on Thursday nights. I remember them broacasting live from the Mercer County fair, bringing turntables, cart machines and even the phone).
Dayton-WONE (until 1970) and WING, WTUE until 1975
We know all about the legendary Cincy and Columbus stations
Marion-WDIF (what a little station at the time!)
Bellefontaine-WTOO AM/FM, later just Stereo TOO-98
Ottawa-WPNM when they first signed on, and daytparted at night in the early 80s
Youngstown-WHOT
Sure there were plenty more. Interesting stories, anyone?

Gr8t:

     I'm not taking you to task here, but WONE changed format from top 40 in 1967...they went "MOR" until around 1969, when they went country.  WONE-FM began broadcasting, part-time as a Top 40 station around 1970 (perhaps a bit earlier) and around 1971 or 1972 became "WTUE", staying Top 40 until around August, 1975.

     More on this coming soon at the Dayton Broadcasters Hall Of Fame Website.

[gr8oldies]

I wasn't sure on the time line for WONE, thanks for the info. I've always noticed WTUE uses 1976 for their AOR anniversary, but I do remember the flip in August of '75.

[txrad]

Several more....WREO 970 in Ashtabula was Top 40 starting in the mid-sixties (albeit often more of a "chicken-rock"), WCUE 1150 in Akron (PD was ex WIXY jock Bobby Knight), WNIO 1150 Niles (with their studio in a glass booth at Niles Mall), and WWOW 1360 Conneaut, which launched as Top 40 in 1959 and remained thus until well into the '70s.

[gr8oldies]

How about 15 WinW and WQIO in Canton,  WFAH in Alliance and WMOH in Hamilton.