What Hot AC stations from years past do you miss?
the golden boy said:Star 100.7 San Diego. I moved from San Diego before they flipped to Jack, but I thought it was a really good station. It was also a rather unpredictable station too, since they could play a song at any moment that was like, wtf?
I also liked 88.7 the Mix in Windsor, Ontario (now 88X).
I never listened to him but I heard about him. He was on WAYS and WROQ in Charlotte. I suppose WAYS would fit this topic because, while the term "Hot AC" didn't exist, it was the legendary Top 40 station back then, and yet The Charlotte Observer for some odd reason classified it as adult contemporary. Same for WBCY, which was similar but was promoting itself at the time as a more easy-going alternative to the hard rockers. WBCY is now called WLNK "The Link", but it has mostly stayed in that range of formats between Hot AC and Adult CHR.Q101 in Chicago before it's Alternative days. Mainly from about 1985 to early 1991. A great morning show with Robert Murphy (who's back in Chicago now on WILV), and one of the earliest Hot AC/Adult CHR stations in the country. They made Hot AC fashonable long before the format came into existence.
Come-in-last seems to have a talent for destroying every station that they get their hands on. They did likewise with Star 97 here in Nashville (early 2000s). There are still those here in Nashville who claim that we cannot support a hot AC station, but it has never been tried on a strong enough signal, hosted by a corporation committed to actually supporting it! So self-fulfilling prophecies do not count.My nominees:
--"Star 105" WWWM-FM Toledo from the late 90's thru mid 2K's (Unfortunately, Cumulus has mismanaged this station in recent years. About 2 years ago, they flipped it to CHR/Pop, only to get killed by WVKS in the ratings. In recent weeks, Cumulus has evolved the playlist into more of an Adult CHR sound).
--Mix 107.3 WRQX in Washington: Yet another station Cumulus has ruined. Didn't sound that great during its last year or two under Disney/ABC ownership, either, but after a not-so-successful fling with a hybrid Hot AC / Variety Hits sound, the station got its footing back (only to have Cumulus trash it several years later).