Re: Tight Play Lists

[Barry Scott <barrys@pop.tiac.net>]

Thanks for the mention of "The Lost 45s." As one who worked at both WKKT and WZLX,
I can tell you KKT was on the air for a little less than a year, until September
1985 when ZLX started. "The Lost 45s" was there until 1992.

'A. Joseph Ross' wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
>
> > Lou wrote:
> > .  I've been a fan of "The Lost
> > 45s" since I first heard it on WZLX in 1983-ish.
> >
> > Heavy on the "-ish", I guess..
> >
> > Lou, at the risk of being a nitpicker, ZLX wasn't on the air in 1983, it was
> > still WHUE (-FM?)
> >
> > After WKKT (born Jan 1985) failed (or at least appeared to fail) in late
> > 1985, WZLX was born as "classic hits"
>
> It was WHUE-FM.  The AM was 1150, which was sold in early 1985 and, by
> March had become WMEX, with oldies programming.  I always assumed that
> WKKT was simply a transitional format and callsign, to keep the station
> going until new ownership took over with a new format.  The station had
> previously been WTTK, sometime in the 70s.  I assume they probably wanted
> the WTTK calls again but couldn't get them.
>
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