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[QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 2724558, member: 2500"]
Back when there was only AM radio and even the biggest media market only had two stations playing rock n roll (WABC & WMCA), I could see this. But once FM was established and you could switch from WNEW to WPLJ to WCBS (before it was oldies) and later WLIR, then 2-3 college stations like WFUV, there was no reason to put up with schmaltzy stuff or anything else you really didn't like. Or top 40, for that matter.

My issue was the damn vans at the Stamford Advocate mostly only had AM radios. So I would spend most of my shift delivering papers avoiding Tony Orlando. Which was harder than you'd think.

And the Carpenters completely ruined "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", which is in my top 5 for best use of a song by a TV show.

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Thinking about starting a thread on late 60s/70s FM radio, specifically WNEW-FM. It was a great time for radio, maybe the best time ever. DJs with freeform playlists acting as curators did so in a way that Pandora, et.al. just can't duplicate. I got most of my musical education from Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Dave Herman, Alison Steele and co.
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