30 Years Since Eagle 106 Ended

[teaneck]

Pretty sure that Eagle 106 was top 4 in mornings when they switched.
They were one of many chr stations that should've transitioned into a strong hot ac with excellent adult women demos.
Q102 at this time was doing hip hop and rnb, they got a nice lead over Power 99 until they properly adjusted and Q went back to 4 share bliss, supposed to be a dance lean yet it took literally a year for them to play the songs that were already hits in the clubs. When KTU came on Q got better by copying many of the hits that defined KTU.
Q could never duplicate that feeling good upbeat sound which is what so many people found at KTU, a fun feel good radio station, in contrast to the negativity that held chr back. The chr stations who sounded fun, dance, adult, rock or mainstream, if they got back to the key principles of the format they did well.
All of the failed Philly adult top 40 attempts were hilarious.

Remember there was one book where Eagle 106 was #1?

 

[DOB]

Remember there was one book where Eagle 106 was #1?

I think that was the Fall 88 book.
It goes to show that past performances of a format don't mean that a differently executed approach won't do better.
Eagle 106 was able to get to #1 with adult females, something that 98 CAU never accomplished.
I loved CAU but they were never able to advance upon being the teen station.
In the 80s we witnessed the most perfectly executed format in Philly history with WMMR. They simply dominated everyone until Stern gained his followers on WYSP.

 

[John1]

The Top FM 106 still had the WWSH calls until it became WZGO Z-106 As celebrated by Randall & Cooke, the clever morning team (from Hawaii) with the Hiney Wine ads, character voices & game show type features. When WZGO decided to replace them with Ross Britain from WABC, they moved them to 12 midnight, and they did overnights ( with all the features gone) until they worked out their contract. Dan Cooke left town & became a tv weatherman & Kely Randall was on local radio until announced he was becoming a lawyer.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

The Top FM 106 still had the WWSH calls until it became WZGO Z-106 As celebrated by Randall & Cooke, the clever morning team (from Hawaii) with the Hiney Wine ads, character voices & game show type features. When WZGO decided to replace them with Ross Britain from WABC, they moved them to 12 midnight, and they did overnights ( with all the features gone) until they worked out their contract. Dan Cooke left town & became a tv weatherman & Kely Randall was on local radio until announced he was becoming a lawyer.

Umm…ok….

 

[wibgradio99]

still don't know how they competed signal wise with all the big boys from the farm with a cheap 3 bay on a small rickety tower some distance from the others....does extra brute power really help out that much....

 

[cingram]

still don't know how they competed signal wise with all the big boys from the farm with a cheap 3 bay on a small rickety tower some distance from the others....does extra brute power really help out that much....

There's nothing particularly wrong with that signal. If you fault them, you must also fault 102.1 and the others at Roxborough with lower height.

Also, fewer bays tends to result in greater and stronger coverage.

C.

 

[wibgradio99]

I always thought the more power the more bays, but I guess its not true with 50kw'ers PST-3, JBR-6....