ATLANTA'S GREATEST STATIONS--FROM THE PAST

[MRFLASHPORT]

I thought the Franklin Rd site is WFOM's home.

Their studios were at 835 South Cobb Dr, which is now a flophouse dump fleabag extended stay hotel known as Cumberland Lodge. CCPD ZN 3 18 beat spends most of their time, as does Metro hauling meth addicts to Kennestone from there.

Anyway, IIRC the FOM transmitter was on Franklin, near what used to be Preston Chase apartments, another fine living establishment that the city of Marietta finally took out of it's misery a couple of years ago doing a controlled burn for the MFD. They need to do that with all of Franklin road from one end to the other IMO.

Not sure about WBIE's FM before they were on Shepherd's in DeKalb, that was before my time on earth.

[RoddyFreeman]

WFOM's current tower is off Franklin Road behind an apartment complex.  It was way before my time in Atlanta, but I was told that the original 1230 tower was next to the studio building on South Cobb Drive.

[BarryATL]

Roddy is correct.  The original tower was on South Cobb Drive behind the studio.  At some point they moved to the Franklin Rd site.

[NightFlyer]

I thought the Franklin Rd site is WFOM's home.

Anyway, IIRC the FOM transmitter was on Franklin, near what used to be Preston Chase apartments, another fine living establishment that the city of Marietta finally took out of it's misery a couple of years ago doing a controlled burn for the MFD. They need to do that with all of Franklin road from one end to the other IMO.

Agreed.  But leave the Quiktrip. 

[RadioFreeAtlanta]

Power 99 upped the game and took it from Z-93.  Power 99 wasn't afraid to make their own hits instead of relying on indies and trades and other stations.

That is the truth.  Do you remember when Power 99 played "Situation" by Yaz? It was not a hit yet they felt it matched their sound at the time; then a few weeks later Z-93 started playing it.  (Situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D3udbawA1Q)

Gawd, Power 99 was such a great station; we didn't know what we had at the time.  Z-93 was good but don't think it ever matched Power 99 in terms of being larger-than-life.

Another great station will always be 99X, though.  Their imaging, energy and sound, especially when they switched on were second to none.

I wonder if today's teens and 20-somethings are passionate about today's stations: V103, Star, Hot107.9, Q100, etc., like we were with X, Power, Fox, etc.