Man, I love this stuff. Philadelphia radio, circa 1973, a bandscan checking some of the major stations of the time:
Remarkable, isn't it, that KYW sounds pretty much the same today. WFIL was the typical Top 40 of the era, with legend Dr. Don Rose (who lingered on in Philly as the voice of Channel 48's cartoon block long after he decamped to San Francisco). WIBG sounded sluggish by comparison, and did until the end; by the time they tried to reinvent themselves as Wizzard 100, the handwriting was on the wall for AM Top 40. It's interesting to hear WIP and WPEN, middle-of-the-road stations that were all over the dial, all over the country in that time, and are now practically nonexistent, replaced by "adult contemporary," which has slowly mutated into more of an adult Top 40 as tastes changed and audiences aged. You couldn't do now what Ken Garland was doing back then -- the appeal is too old, the pace too slow. For its time, though, that was a dominant form of radio.
The YouTuber who posted this, stevations, has a bunch of airchecks posted from that era. I could listen to them all day.
