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Here's my "Rev". He's actually morning and early afternoons now. He used to be later. Great DJ. Also a drummer in a band (or two). "The Reverend of Rock and Roll". super nice guy too. But I don't live that close anymore, so I don't listen to him much. ☹️ Which shouldn't matter.

Cousin Brucie WABC NY

I HATED when my brother HAD to listen to Howard Stern!!! Yuk.

99X Atlanta with Banes, Leslie, and Jimmy. I had a 99X freeloader card that I mailed in my form from the back page of Creative Loafing to get, and I got to get in to free concerts in downtown Atlanta with all the other grunge nerds. Then clear channel fucked ATL radio up. We lost fox97 too. Tragedy.

Yup. Sunbathing with the baby oil & iodine mixture and lemon juice in the hair.

I often went out to the studio and hung out with him with my girlfriend...great guy!!!

Or opening a program you've opened a million times and know inside and out and starting to work and up pops the "Meet Bozo the AI! Do you want me to help??"

I grew up on KLOS, KMET and KROQ.

Try streaming using free apps.. all have live DJs... WXPN Philly, KUTX Austin, WFUV NY, WERS Boston, KEXP Seattle, KCRW LA.. etc etc

Me too. Woody “with the goodies” was the first radio voice i heard here and by the time he retired he was like an old friend. Now you need a Pay-treon to communicate w/ media folk.

In NYC back in 60s we had Cousin Brucie and Murray the K.

Well, now you might know when your favorite podcast comes out with a new episode, or when your favorite youtuber uploads. Not that much different imo

I used to listen to Dr Dimento.

Pierre Robert. Such a loss 💔

I used to be one of the DJ's on the other side of the dial.. good times..

Ahhh, Jonathon Brandmeier in the morning, Steve and Gary in the afternoon. Nothing better.

Growing up outside Chicago, it was Dick Biondi on 104.3. If you heard his voice anywhere in the neighborhood, you better get home now because the streetlights were about to turn on.

I always preferred alternate college/;university stations who played "alternative" or genre specific segments i.e. reggae, blues or innovative rock and roll etc.

I don't. Not even a little. Commercials, stupid DJs, the same stupid "hits" over and over? Nah. Finding amazing and diverse music was WAY harder.

John "Records" Landecker, the boy in the box who is I. Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooh, aah. And of course Ol' Uncle Larry Lujack and little snot nosed Tommy 👍 It was all WLS wen I was a kid with that little white battery operated transistor radio and the single earphone.

I miss the days of sitting in traffic in la and coming up on a car blasting the same station and having dance/sing offs til the traffic moved again.

have you checked out uncertain.fm? might find what youre missing 💗

I remember when Q104.3 switched formats. That was a sad day.

Steve and Gary. WLS Chicago AM 890 Mornings

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I miss "Cousin Brucie"!!!

Richard Blade and Poorman then Kevin and Bean, and Doug the Slug, and Jed the Fish, and Rod--- Sorry, got swept up in a tornado of memories, TY ☺️

For some reason the other day I was thinking about a DJ from the 1970s, Dennis Erectus, wondering whatever happened to him. San Jose, KOME 98.5 FM, “the KOME spot in the middle of the dial”. Anyone remember his show?

I remember 30 minutes of songs, with both the first and last 10 second cut off, bled into another song, or screamed over. 20 minutes of commercials, and 10 minutes of questionable sexist/racist "conedy" material per hour. Is that what you're referring to?

Yeah, and a lot of stations had a direct line into the broadcast studio, where you could talk directly to the DJ.

3:00 PM and The Real Don Steele on 93 KHJ. “Good afternoon, Boss Angeles!!

B. Mitchell Reed Jim Ladd Mary Turner Boogie wit' da Wolfman, BABY !!

The Smash. DC 1O1. Afternoons.

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You mean back before Clear Channel and iHeart, when there were still local ownership caps? Yeah, those were the days. KBCO in Boulder is unrecognizable now

My faves retired in 2019 after 30 years on air. Great times

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And it was AM!!!

Started listening at 10 y/o. Opened the door to the best of rock n roll. 10cc, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Frampton, CSN, ........ KSAN Radio: 1968-1980 The Jive 95 Years San Francisco, California

Murray the K and the swinging soirée on WMCA in NYC…..yes, that is how old I am. He also called himself the 5th Beatle

Brother Wease 96.5 WCMF!

Dean and Rog were the only reason my hour long Houston morning commute was doable back in da day.

Me too!

I never really had a favorite DJ but at one point louisville, ky had an afternoon guy and his traffic reports were hilarious. And he gave us Marilyn Manson tickets.

I feel that way about my local public radio station WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH. They have a blues program, a celtic music program, & the "book nook" program that interviews authors. We met one of their DJ's by accident at a store when my then young daughter recognized his voice (30 yrs ago)!

John Records Landecker!

there is literally only one radio station in my area that I can listen too, and it’s NPR, if I want to listen to music I have to use iTunes

WWOZ in New Orleans is publicly funded. It's like that. Friday nights with DJ Black Mold is ritual in our house.

Boom Boom Branigan, Cousin Brucie

Ann Arbor 107.1 Martin Bandyke. Played Roxy Music for me on my way home from midnight shift

Public radio still @wfuv.bsky.social

Radio Luxembourg …

They're not gone. If you listen to radio enough you get to learn who is who. I know most of the DJs at one of my favorite stations.

Me too. Local station in Grand Rapids Michigan on the morning show use to have a morning feature artist. Played songs of that band 5 or 6 times and were not the ones you heard much. This was 50 years ago and I still miss it.

WKZE in NE Connecticut. Right after 9/11.. the banned list of songs was played by the Hal the DJ in the morning. I won multiple sets of concert tickets from them as well. Got to see Arturo Sandoval from them. Good stuff. Great times.

If you haven't seen it you gotta watch FM. It's a love letter to rock music in the 70s and captures the feel. Live concerts mainly in the Houston Summit and LA. Interesting to see WWWW Detroit in Howard Stern's "Private Parts". They *exactly* recreated a studio of the era. Even to ITC cart machines

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The days of AM radio with clear channel broadcast stations. I remember listening to KOMA, at the time a rock music blowtorch, in OKC on a "transistor radio" (what you called them) on the beach in Acapulco. A whole lot has changed And Danny Williams on "duddley kay wye" (he couldn't pronounce "W"

Did the radio make the music or did the music make the radio? It's an era that will never return. "As we celebrate mediocrity All the boys upstairs want to see How much you'll pay for What you used to get for free"~Tom Petty, "Last DJ"

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I do too.

Lee Alan in Detroit and KEENER radio in Canada!

When I was 14 a life guard at a local pool where I was on a swim team told my to listen to his show on 106.3 WHTG Eatontown NJ the Shore’s alternative rock station and it changed my life forever

Remember Tom Donahue, the father of underground radio at KMPX then KSAN in SF with Richard Gossett and a great cast of others.

And the playlist was chosen daily by the DJ.

91.1 WRVU would let each DJ pick what music they wanted to play. You’d hear bluegrass for a few hours on Sunday morning then 60’s-70’s jazz while the night before you had European dance music and industrial followed by talk. They had one guy playing ambient overnight.

Patti Schmidt - CBC Brave New Waves Legendary alternative music and culture show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Ran from 1984 to 2007 If you are not familiar, you owe this to yourself. There are session albums. Make the effort. I assure you it will be worth it x100.

Uncle Joe Benson on KLOS in Los Angeles. Sadly, he passed away in Feb of this year. Masterfully deep knowledge of Rock history and impeccable taste. RIP Uncle Joe.

And you could call the DJ and have a conversation and then get free tickets and meet up at the concert …or was that just me 😆

There was only one radio station, The Only One, cfny 102.1 The Spirit of Radio, and all DJs were awesome. Such a great station R.U.S.H. wrote a song about them.

Those days still exist. I routinely listen to my favorite DJ’s at KRFC, independent listener-supported radio in Fort Collins. They all have their quirks and their eclectic musical tastes, and it’s wonderful.

there is a dj called the rev on housefm who does the wake up to shake up morning show. and he is excellent

Additionally, I was in a rock band way back when, and sometimes at our gigs those favourite DJs would emcee.

WVAM, One forty....threeeee! And it's the Dugger at 9!! Seventies in central PA.

Listen to KEXP - it’s still those days there. They have an app. I’ve been exposed to so many cool bands via KEXP!

I do remember. Had favorites in the morning going to work and coming back home in the evening.

Often the DJ would answer the studio line, take requests, play them if they were any good, send out a tune to a friend. Also they would give out free concert tickets. Saw literally dozens of shows this way.

Yes. And they’d play album sides and live concerts sometimes.

Wolfman Jack

Radio still that way ( sort of), one just gotta move between FM and AM. AND, find your radio people.

Me and my local npr station now.

Me too.

Our local DJs would talk to you on the phone. I remember I was 8 and called in (on the rotary phone, long distance ... omg I'm old) and the DJ put me on air. Radio was magical. More important in my imagination than any TV show I watched.

WDVE Pittsburgh, Jimmy and Steve in the morning, sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're boring

I grew up in SoCal. KRLA was my station. Among others, Casey Kasem was a DJ. At times, I'd shift to pick up the huge signal of XERB out of Tijuana to listen to Wolfman Jack.

I remember calling in and getting on the air as a little kid requesting Beatles songs. Had to answer the phone with the radio stations call letters in case they randomly called you and you would win $100. Cut to years later and I was doing interviews and guest DJ on pirate radio stations. The best.

Nights with Alice on Rebel FM. Worth staying late at work to get some quality time on the drive home.

Jeff and Flash (morning drive) and Kid Leo (afternoon drive) from WMMS in Cleveland. In the 90s, Michael Stanley during drive time on WNCX in Cleveland. ❤️

“The Night Bird”…

Me too I remember Frankie Crocker was weaned on the great Bill Payne “Payne plays music beckoning yee to long rooms ago were memories lie” Eddie O Jay had more soul than a shoe factory,not only was the music good but the DJ’s were good 👍🏿

Sports talk radio is still like that.

I still have my favorite radio station and DJs. wdarefm.com

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Me too. In college, Sunday morning post-party recovery wasn’t complete without listening to Casey Kasem’s America’s Top 40 Countdown’s music lineup and trivia.

For me it was John Clark at KNAC and Jim Ladd at KLOS

One of my favorite DJs was Casey Kasem. I loved his long distance dedication shows. Never missed them. The best.

WIBG and WMMR in Philadelphia.

One station I used to listen to played "I smoked 2 joints" every Friday at 5:00 pm.

They all got bought up by clear channel. america only has one FM station now.

Johnny Fever or Venus Flytrap?

WMSE 91.7 student radio! Eclectic, local, global, underground — where I first heard many bands including Public Enemy

Yes! And Sunday nights, they’d play an album side start to finish, no interruptions. “Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy” side 1 was so awesome I bought the LP that following week!

Quinn and Banana, B94 in the morning, Pittsburgh, PA. 1986-89ish. Danny Bonaduce, Eagle 106 Philadelphia 1989-1992?

Kitchen radio playing all day, from breakfast until time for supper, softer during Mom's "stories". AM stations playlists covered everything out there, at least ours did. Then FM started growing up. I had WSBT/ South Bend & WLS/Chicago. I loved my music life, 1960's-70's. Then STL, KXOK+KMOX. 🤩

Just listen to WFMU. The radio is still there! The morning show is the best. Great old music. Great brand spanking new music. Callers, contests, weird skits. Free. On the air. wfmu.org

Life was simple then.

A lot of the SiriusXM channels are still that way, if you're willing to cough up $100/yr for a subscription.

The Burner Mary Turner on KMET in Los Angeles

Dr. Don Rose, KFRC! I still remember the days before he started, KFRC doing a promo to say, "On this day we'll deliver a rose to every listener." I puzzled for days over how they would do that.

Young people will tell you the exact same thing with twitch streaming today.

WORTFM.org is still that station…

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I remember listening to The Greaseman (Doug Tracht) on DC101 every morning. I had to take 270/495 and it was a looooong commute, but I laughed the whole way into work!

I would try to fall asleep listening to my transistor radio under my pillow so I wouldn’t annoy my sister.

Friday’s at 6:00 the fish report with a beat, KMET 94.7, Pat “Paraquat” Kelley handing off to Mary “The Burner” Turner. Whoooah!

I still do that. Check out BBC Radio 6 Music.

I miss so much about those days!

Still like that a bit here in Seattle. I definitely have my favorite Kexp shows

I remember keeping my transistor radio nearby so I could listen to Cousin Brucie.

They still do

The Sirius XM channels that have DJs are still like that. For example on First Wave (classic alternative), late afternoon is always Richard Blade time. Love his shows.

I miss that, and album oriented rock stations.

Yesterday (Monday) at 4:00pm The Reverend Riz Rollins came on KEXP, as he does every Monday. If you're looking for that radio station, it exists in Seattle and on the Interwebs.

In Tronna in the 80s and 90s it was CFNY FM 102.1 and Alan Cross and Chris Sheppard. @alancross.bsky.social

Community radio has entered the chat 📻

Sadly I grew up with BBC Radio 1 and it was more a case of x was on, don't bother. We knew the brief times of listenability -especially 2200 - 0000 when John Peel was on.

Yeah- I remember the AM radio DJs in Chicago. We had WLS on most of the time. Dick Biondi was on late until midnight and beyond.

Not here. For all of my 51 years the radio has sucked shit.

KLOL: "This is Crash." I lived to listen to Crash. He was a fixture on Houston radio for decades. During the album oriented rock days he was a DREAM.

Sly Stone was a DJ in the Bay Area before he made it big. I listened with a 10 transistor radio under my pillow.

Local AM radio stations in the DFW area were great in the 60s. KFJZ had “Mark E. Baby” in the afternoons—Mark Stevens was an icon in Texas radio.

We had one that would play whole albums

I worked for our local "oldies but goodies" station in Socal in the late 70s-80s. All of the djs I grew up with became friends.

In 1967, when I was 13, I used to sneak into the living room to listen to KPPC on my parents gigantic hifi. The first time I found the station, which broadcasted from a church basement in Pasadena, B Mitchell Reed played Suzanne and I was hooked.

I miss late night art bell...‼️

in SF Bay Area in mid-60's, "Emperor" Gene had the Sat. morning slot, and did the weekly top 20? or 40? countdown. Can't remember how early the show started but remember it ended at noon when he always said "put on the coffee Bubbles I'm coming home." (Bubbles being his wife).

I listen to @KEXP every day. I know my favorite DJs and schedule. You can still have this experience.

Back in the 60's I'd bike down to the WPGC (AM radio in D.C.) studio and hang out with the other kids. They were cool and they played the music of the day. Great memories.

The Morning ZEW on KZEW Dallas.

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Cousin Brucie!

I miss them too

One favorite DJ lived three houses down from me. 18 years later, a different DJ is part of my poker group. Those were the days.

Capital District, New York State.... WPTR (Albany) & WTRY (Troy)!😃

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Totally understand this. Most of the DJs from my youth have died off, but I still remember and love all the DJs from my teenage years. Radio “personalities” was a term for a reason. It took not only a pleasant voice, but also an inviting attitude that they conveyed through that voice. Artists.

I was missing that, too, then found 88.5FM in LA. I have favorite DJ’s & love public radio again. Nic Harcourt is my favorite, but all their DJ’s are good & have their own styles. Makes me so happy to have that connection again

And you could call and win concert tickets, tshirts, and CDs!!!

I love our local KGAY radio here in Palm Springs. They play global music and it bangs.

"Der Ball ist rund" with Klaus Walter Hessischer Rundfunk 1984 - 2008. Sound of my soul.

Larry Lujack in the morning, Dick Biondi in the evening.

In my childhood back in the early 50s I remember sitting on the front porch and listening to Fibber McGee and Mollie and other programs.

And you could call the DJ while on the air to make a request!!

Alison Steele. WNEW FM NYC 10pm weekdays.The Nightbird.

I used to call the DJ at the local FM station and they answered almost every time to take my requests. I do miss those days.

Yo I miss driving home after a long shift, black outside, no cars on the highway, cranking my favorite radio station. Now I work from home, have no car, and there's no radio.

Used to have the on air studio number on the kitchen wall by the phone.📞🎸🥁🎷

I still do that. Of course I have to pay to stream it since I live nowhere near it but yeah, otherwise it's EXACTLY like that for me. KPIG, out of the San Luis Obispo area in CA.

I don't miss the obnoxious commentary, ad nauseam ads, or the commercial pabulum the industry foisted upon us. I switched to satellite radio 25+ years ago and never looked back. I hear old tracks from artists like Bowie, the Stones, etc., almost daily that I never once heard back in the day.

I remember when terrestrial radio didn't play the same fucking playlist every goddam day. Some stations were AOR! Google THAT, kids!

I remember! Rob Sherwood at U100 was a fav. I still have that experience with 89.3 The Current. Link if you’re interested in checking it out. www.thecurrent.org

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"Jimmy and Steve in the morning (sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're boring)" WDVE 102.5 Now I'll be singing that jingle in my head all day

Steve Wright in The Afternoon for One... Kenny Everett... another... and the master Alan 'Fluff' Freeman... I miss 'em.

I grew up listening to Steve Kirk on WING in Dayton. I later got to be on the other side, starting at WVUD. Great memories.

I actually now listen to two 70s stations on the Radio Canada app every night while settling for bed. I flip between them depending on the song playing (that horrible night last week when they were BOTH playing "You're Having My Baby" though. 🤦‍♀️😅)

When they would announce that they were going to play the new single from a band you liked and you sat there with the cassette ready to record...finger hovering over the pause button. Then you spent the next hour on the dual cassette trying to fade in and out to remove their talking over it.

KMET LA, 1970s. Paraquat Kelley used to sign off with, "too hip, gotta go." I use it all the time.

Wolfman Jack!

KEXP Seattle! It’s that kind of radio station .

WYEP-FM, 9.13. Go online and you can play it over your phone or computer. Saturday nights are great. Blues bloc--First Big-Town Blues, 5-9. Then Rollin' and Tumblin', 9-12M.

Still do but they’re not music and chatter shows.

Before FM, before stereo I would fall asleep every night to Dick Biondi on WLS.

Dane the Stain on 106.7 Z-Rock. The things we remember after all these years.

Look up Preston and Steve 93.3 in Philly even on the YouTube's. Every day Monday through Friday. 🫡

In the Seattle area in the late 70s and early 80s, they had KXRX. It was Robyn and Maynard in the afternoon. Miss those days.

They’re still here. We are the ones that changed. I listen to the radio when I drive. The Kidd Kraddick morning show is still on even though he passed away in 2013. Coast to Coast AM is still late night scares, its just with George Noory now & Delilah is still taking requests in the evening.

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The Real Don Steele

If you miss those days, check out www.reelradio.com.

Lisa Miller during afternoon rush hour on KQRS, I'd listen to her show on the way to my night job during undergrad.

Dr. Demento

Try KEXP in Seattle. Wicked diverse and all real djs

Hell yes, before I got married, my roommate was the Roadrunner on KJOY

Calling in for song requests and prizes for their games!

Yes.

Remember Beekerstreet theater? Out of New Orleans I believe. It was broadcast in Iowa @ like 11pm. I was a kid at the time.

93 KFJ

WMMR and WPRB

Dr Demento, Sundays at 8 pm.

I had the local college Station here at the U of I and worked I a little gas station booth back in the 80s so I'd be calling the one guy every night with requests and I had the luck of usually being the 3rd or 5th or whatever caller they wanted for free concert tickets and albums. Good old days!

Art Roberts show on WLS when I was in high school in the 1960's. Would listen for hours when I was supposed to be sleeping.

I do too. I don't miss the heartbreak of radio stations changing. Had an oldies channel that played 50s n 60s and I swear every a couple of years they would play newer and newer music 😞 I bet today it plays 90s even 2000s

🕯RIP Jim Ladd-I have a tank top that he gave out to his Long Legged Ponies - driving on Mulholland down to the beach at night listening to the magic he would weave was my soul medicine

My first career was on the radio.

I live in the Buffalo area but listened to Canadian radio. 97.7 CHTZ FM, I used to know all the DJs and would get upset when one left.

Brother William on WFIU every Friday 3-5 pm FOREVER!!!

Deni LaRue KTCL 93.3 Fort Collins. Lisa Catalona KFMH 99 Plus, Muscatine, IA.

Free-form, 70’s WABX has an army of former listeners that can still tell you that, despite brain damage.

Max, Tanna, and Moffitt on KY102 in Kansas City. Man, those were the days…

The Rev is still on at ten, Saturday nights on wioxradio.org with Merideth KG.

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