Help: History of Utica radio Questions.

[geneseejoe]

Hey where does one get the history of ur radio book?? let me know. thanks for all the above info. this is great. I remember hanging out at my dads shop and listening to the music of your life 1550. wich then became wutq country. with pistol pete hirsch!

[therealjm12]

Hey where does one get the history of ur radio book?? let me know. thanks for all the above info. this is great. I remember hanging out at my dads shop and listening to the music of your life 1550. wich then became wutq country. with pistol pete hirsch!

I don't think there is actually a written down history of Utica Rome radio book. Just the fading memories of old timers, which I guess I have become.  Besides how many copies would be sold?  Here is a link to a website that Lou Barile put up a few years ago. It's mostly about the history of WIBX but there is a little about other stations, and personalities that worked at other the stations -long before my time.

[therealjm12]

Doh!

http://www.uticaamradio.org/history.html

[BrotherBrian]

Such memories!  Even as a pre-schooler, I wanted to be a radio announcer, and I fondly recall listening to WALY Herkimer and WLFH Little Falls when we visited grandparents in the Mohawk Valley.  I could also get WIBX and WTLB from the big city!  I still have some 45s I won in a WLFH call-in in the 50s.  Also have a reel-to-reel tape of the WIBX sign-off including the song "From the First Hello to the Last Goodbye"!  Jeff Hunt - Roanoke VA