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LibraOnTheCusp t1_j7k8h2y wrote

Do you mean when did they switch from contemporary to oldies music?

I’m 45. WOGL used to be Hot Hits WCAU FM when I was a young child in the early 80s. It was my favorite station. I can still hear the jingle with their old call letters in my head!

My mom was an ER nurse at PCOM across the street from the station then and once took care of DJ Bill O’Brien. Back then they played current Top 40, not oldies.

I think the format change happened in 1985ish? Because then I remember switching to Eagle 106, and then Q102.

here is a link to the music 98.1 was playing in 1985. According to a comment in this link, the format changed from Top 40 to oldies in Nov 1987.

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thaboognish t1_j7kg6a6 wrote

Not sure how they missed the golden opportunity to re-brand as Hot Hits and play all the songs they used to play from that time. They were playing most of them anyway, why not bring back the Hot Hits format for the sake of nostalgia? They could've even hired some of the old DJs, at least for a short time. I believe Barsky worked there and Terry Young was still on the air in Florida as of 2017.

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LibraOnTheCusp t1_j7khapl wrote

I agree!

I vaguely remember the day the switch happened. I was about 11 and turned on tbe car stereo and heard a Four Tops song and was like WTFF??? It felt like a cruel trick.

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kjstech OP t1_j7khq6m wrote

Wow I never knew they shared the same call letters as channel 10. I guess that’s legal because there’s a KYW news radio and KYW CBS 3 TV. Were they owned and operated by the same broadcaster than? Fun fact, back then channel 10 was CBS and channel 3 was NBC. They swapped sometime in the 90s.

They are playing some of those 80’s songs now. Maybe not as energetic/ enthusiastic as they were when it was considered top hits. There’s a good mix 70s-90s.

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LibraOnTheCusp t1_j7kli2o wrote

I remember the absolute confusion when CBS and NBC switched. 😂😂 I sometimes still have trouble remembering which is which now.

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LibraOnTheCusp t1_j7kmkk1 wrote

There have been a lot of format changes in the Philly radio market.

104.5 has changed formats so many times that I can’t keep up. It used to be Sunny 104.5 when I was a younger kid, then it was Star 104.5 (I listened to the nightly Between The Sheets program with Christopher Knight religiously as a teenager). Then it changed back to Sunny easy listening. Now it’s something else. I think an alternative rock station?

100.3 used to be KISS, playing basically elevator music, before it became Y100.

Similarly, 101.1 used to be Eazy 101. Now it’s B101, much more upbeat stuff.

105.3 has been Smooth Jazz/adult R&B for as long as I can recall. And 102.9 has been classic rock for as long as I remember too.

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