What Detroit radio stations from yesteryear do you miss?

[Matt8650]

chrocket, the Edge was kinda like that too. there was so much music that I heard on the Edge that once they went away, it took years for me to find. 89x plays active rock to compete... somewhat with 101.1 WRIF because their sister station 93.9 the river is an Adult Album Alternative station, and that station took a lot of the classic alternative that 89x played. and 89x added more Active Rock tracks. I don't think 89x and the 'RIF compete to be honest. both stations have their thing. finally, in defense of 89x, the CanCon regulations that they follow-which help them in some of the artists that they play, hurt them in that they can't play every single new artist because of the Can-Con regulations.

[rpkrmr]

WXYZ am 1270 with dj's like Lee Allan , Dave Prince ,any body remember Chicken Man on xyz? WABX in late 60's and other early "progressive" rock stations in the late 60's early 70's when they would play everything from Rock to Jazz to blues the only thing that came close to that was when WDET used to play music.

[jry]

WXYZ am 1270 with dj's like Lee Allan , Dave Prince ,any body remember Chicken Man on xyz? WABX in late 60's and other early "progressive" rock stations in the late 60's early 70's when they would play everything from Rock to Jazz to blues the only thing that came close to that was when WDET used to play music.

WXYT when Mark Scott and David Newman were there.

Definitely WABX, the original WRIF and WWWW....

You are spot on about the progressive thing. You'd hear Joni Mitchell and Iron Butterfly, back to back..... then, there's the
famous Janis Jophlin interview where the S word made it on the air.

[jt1120]

I miss Martha Jean the Queen (RIP), I miss the Electrifuying Mojo, I miss Smooth Jazz, and I miss Disco 93!

[nuffsaid]

Does anybody remember The Big D with Deano Day and Tom Dean?

[ChrisInMI]

The comment about Martha Jean the Queen above brings to mind another station that I wasn't too happy to see disappear - 1400 WQBH.  Right up to the end, and even after Martha Jean's death when they were still replaying her old talks on the air, they stayed a full-service voice for the black adult community, with urban AC and oldies music, gospel, and talk - sort of like the black version of '60s-'80s WJR.  Then Salem took over and flipped it to neocon talk (including that one personality, whose name I refuse to utter, who told a gay caller to get AIDS and die), and I haven't visited the 1400 spot on the dial since.

[umfan]

I second jry on the old 1270 WXYT.

CKLW in the early 80s was pretty good too. This would be the last years of Dick Purtan there and when Tom Ryan took over mornings.

[ChrisInMI]

UMFan - in the Billboard issues on Google Books is the issue from 1982 to commemorate CKLW's 50th anniversary.  It's an interesting read and insight as to the state of one of North America's legendary radio stations in its twilight years.  A little over two years later, the Big 8 would be gone for good.

[umfan]

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

By 1982 they were already on a downward slide, ratings wise. They just couldn't match the great fidelity of FM. They spent a lot of money to adopt AM Stereo in a poorly timed investment.

Ratings aside, the station was still very well programmed right until the end. It went to standards for a few years and then to the talk format that exists now.

[Human Numan]

I miss 106.7 THE BEAT OF DETROIT. 106.7 THE D SUCKS, and I pray that 106.7 THE D fails.