As Anybody Remember WPLJ: New York's Best Rock?

[musicradio77]

Allan Sniffen made his audio response on this week's "Board Reflections" talking about remembering WPLJ as "New York's Best Rock". Let's all listen carefully and hear what Allan has to say about WPLJ.

http://musicradio.computer.net/other...ons3-24-06.ram

[TJL]

Ah yes, I remember when WPLJ was a rock station.

[Brian Damage]

Originally Posted by TJL

Ah yes, I remember when WPLJ was a rock station.

For some reason, I don't remember that.

[musicradio77]

There is also a thread about WPLJ from the New York's Best Rock era courtesy of the New York Radio Message Board. Here it is.

http://musicradio.computer.net/wwwbo...es/282391.html

[Steve M.]

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

For some reason, I don't remember that.

I do, and I was upset when WPLJ went Top Forty in 1983. Don't sk me what their current format is supposed to be, because I don't have a clue!

[musicradio77]

Originally Posted by Steve M.

I do, and I was upset when WPLJ went Top Forty in 1983.

That was the same year where Scott Shannon started Z-100. Remember him? One of Scott's favorite motto was "From Worse to First". Z-100 came on the air that the first rating period, Z-100 was #1 and it was also a top 40 station. Those were the two stations competing against WPLJ when it was also a top 40 station. Over the years it became the CHR wars, Z-100 Vs. WPLJ. By the mid-80's, it became "Power 95" until the late 80's. Here is the history about the station in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLJ

[Mr. Stefani]

are we talking about 95.5? i never knew it use to be a rock station.

..i miss the rock/alt station 107.1..i think it might've been only a long island station tho.

[Steve M.]

Originally Posted by musicradio77

That was the same year where Scott Shannon started Z-100. Remember him? One of Scott's favorite motto was "From Worse to First". Z-100 came on the air that the first rating period, Z-100 was #1 and it was also a top 40 station. Those were the two stations competing against WPLJ when it was also a top 40 station. Over the years it became the CHR wars, Z-100 Vs. WPLJ. By the mid-80's, it became "Power 95" until the late 80's.

Before 100.3 FM (Z-100) became WHTZ-FM, it was WVNJ-FM, a station thaat was "joy by day, jazz by night." In other words, it played easy listening music in the daylight hours and the kind of overorchestrated Big Band music that passed for jazz in Wichita or Omaha during the evenings.

Hence, the "worst to first" claim from Shannon.