What used to be on your car radio presets?

[Charles1]

Related to another post I made...do you remember what was on your preset list 20 years ago? 30 years ago?

1982:

FM:

94.5 WAPI-FM
99.5 WRKK
103.7 WQEN
106.9 WKXX
107.7 WENN-FM

AM:

610 WSGN
850 WYDE (after they flipped to oldies)
960 WERC (until May, when they dropped music and went to news/talk, replaced then with 900 WATV)
1070 WAPI
1400 WJLD

1992:

FM1:

94.5 WAPI-FM
96.5 WMJJ
99.5 WZRR
102.5 WZBQ
103.7 WQEN
107.7 WENN (until the fall, when it was replaced with WODL 106.9)

FM2:

91.1 WVSU
93.7 WDJC
95.7 WFFX
98.1 WTXT
104.7 WZZK
106.9 WIKX (moved to FM1 when they dropped country and went to oldies, replaced with WENN)

AM:

690 WJOX
900 WATV
960 WERC
1070 WAPI
1320 WAGG
1400 WJLD

[Zach]

I was not into listening to the radio in 1982 because I was still a kid. 

But by 1992 I didn't have a car or 'presets' but did listen to a few stations regularly:

96.5 WMJJ
95.7 WFFX
106.9 WODL
94.1 WZBQ
1260 WCRT (that may be a few years back, I forget when it was oldies exactly, but I listened to it more than anything else during that time.)

[R.D.P.]

In 1982 I too was a kid. 

Just in the fourth grade. 

Remember listening to Stereo 101 WALX, at the time, on my portable radio.

(This is right after they dropped Beautiful Music and went Top 40)

When I was riding in the car, had no choice but to listen to WBAM AM 740 from Montgomery.

Didn't have FM in our car and my parents were not into the Top 40 music.

Country was their cup of tea.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. Over the years, I got high off of WALX and learned their musical playlist.  Around 1989, I was introduced to a new style of music.  It was in the summer that a friend turned me on to Mylon and Broken Heart.  Started listening to their music and got high off of it.   Then that same person turned me on to Petra and the rest as they say is history. Since 1989, my love for all things Contemporary Christian only grew and became more addictive.  Was listening to the radio at the time too, while learning more about CCM.  After the 1990s came around, I started to avoid the radio and get high off the CCM. I still listen to the radio some but not as much as I once did.  My musical collection tends to keep me entertained on a regular basis now. 

[TALLRED]

Back in the old days.... (cough, 6 or 7 years back)...
Country
95.5 WFMH Cullman... Moved to Hackleburg in 2005
97.7 WKLD Oneonta... Signed off in January 2009 (now WZZN)
103.1 WXKI Moulton... Signed off 2000 (now WEUP)
AM 1190 WHIY Moulton.... 2002 (now WEUV)
101.5 WJOR St. Joseph, TN 2006 (now WMXV)

There was a time I thought my love for radio was cursed, as every heritage station I listened to bit the dust , such as my most recent loss: WZRR 99.5

-Travis

[jay]

6 or 7 years back, hah, 15 years back, i was on that 95.5 frequency when it first launched in 1996. worked saturday and sunday mornings until leaving for college (ok, real college) in Mobile in September 1997.  It was an oldies channel....oh, how i missed those sonic drive in Saturday remotes....and oh, did we have a football program during those years, too.  I was always more of a band guy, but we worked up a pretty good sports program on Friday night for a year or two on the FM...

I started in September 1994 as a senior in high school on the 1340 am frequency run up at Brantley Avenue ; by where Corr built their tower.

From there, WZEW/WAVH (Mobile) (my favorite life, ever) - from 1999-2000
WQLT (Florence) - from 2006-2007.

we could say the gas prices got me on that last one....but they dropped more of the 80's too and were more about classic rock - it got old, fast.

i still prefer the WZEW format.  If I had a million dollars...(que the bare nakkid ladies), i'd be loading up the gang at the zew and lightning 100 to program the WYDE 101.10 frequency with AAA just cause the ham, huntsville, florence, and the rest don't have it....

Then again, you'd have to SELL to those markets to pay the bills - something no one has been able to figure out, apparently.

[jay]

oh, and do i really have to do this?  I mean, i change the presets like bi-monthly now.

THEN:

OK - i liked the X, although it happened pretty much when i was in mobile.  I listened when i was home ; but it wasn't any good by the time i got back.  Cried when it moved to 100.5  I did love the vintage vault.  Tuned in daily for that (and on Saturdays).  Much like I tune in for Lightning 100's acoustic sunday morning....

Liked 94.5 for a bit before it went talk...when it was a weird mix.  What can I say.

Listened some to WQLT before i worked there - a lot actually - i worked there, they screwed it up.

Same with Star 99.1 - it was really good from about the time I left WQLT (2007 time frame) until about the time Jimbo Wood moved back in.  Then, well ya'll know, i have no clue what they did with the format.

For the record, right now, birmingham mountain radio's on.  90% of my home listening is internet radio.  I am trying sirius/xm again, but i find myself going back to internet more.

What else, what else, first moved back to Cullman in 2000.  Had 93.3 on my radio presets-  that was very similar to what WQLT played back then too (not to mention QLT's funkadelic Friday)!

Everything else just has a "space" for me to flip by.  It changed reguarly - depending on how often i find something i like - which isn't often now-a-days.

have caught myself listening to WZRR more and more with the new format - or should i say stopping there more.  Between them and ZYP  - - i don't think 103.7 is even on my presets anymore.

I'm such a pain...

I think that post about taking over WYDE and making it one big AAA station just for me was for my benefit, cause i'm on the road around this part of the state so much... lol

[Nate Wesley]

Near L.A.:
WYOK @ 104.9 and 104.1  (Moss Point, MS and Atmore, respectively) as urban "K104".  This station used to be a Mobile-targeted rimshotter on what's now the Biloxi-targeted WBUV 104.9--and once it moved to the bigger 104.1 I was hooked as a high schooler.  It was the last direct challenge to WBLX...and I liked it better than 'BLX, too. 

WQUA 102.1 (Citronelle) as "Jammin Oldies Q-102"

WWSF 98.1 (then Andalusia, targeting North Florida) as hot AC "98 Surf", and as WTKE  "Sports Radio 98.1 The Ticket". 

In my Birmingham days:

WENN 105.9 (then licensed to Trussville), both as "Jammin' Oldies 105.9" and  "V-105.9, Today's Jams and the Best Old School"

WRRS 101.1 (Cullman) as modern/hot AC "101.1 The Spot"

WRAX 107.7 as alternative "107-7 the X".

[StrayKats]

30 years ago  (split between Montgomery and Tuscaloosa)

AM

950  WLSQ  (Montgomery's 95 Rock - "finally some good rock on AM"
1150  WJRD  (Tuscaloosa's AM country - great for crossover requests)
1230  WTBC  (Tuscaloosa's original top 40)
1280  WNPT  (Tuscaloosa's "other" hit station, more AC)
1440  WHHY  (Montgomery's last AM top 40)

FM  (no FM 2 back then)

94.1  WAQT  ("serving Reform, Gordo, Columbus, and Macon, this is Q 94  WAQT  Carrollton/Aliceville")
95.7  WUOA  (was beginning its branching out from softer AC)
98.1  WHKW  (oh if we only had this station back today)
98.9  WBAM-FM  (99 FM, upbeat adult contemporary, after foregoing the WBAM-AM simulcast)
106.9  WKXX  (the almighty Kicks 106)