Day: April 25, 2013

FLASHBACK THIS DATE: WKNR 13 FADES INTO HISTORY

WKNR Music Guide, first issue, November 7, 1963 (mcrfb)

(Above WKNR survey image property of Keener13.com. Courtesy Scott Westerman and keener13.com).

ON THIS DATE: LEGENDARY WKNR FADES OUT IN 1972. For more on closing the book on this storied Detroit radio chapter, MCRFB takes you back one year ago today with this story, April 25, 2012. (Above: the very first WKNR Music Guide issued; November 7, 1963)

WKNR Bill Phillips

WKNR-AM FLASHBACK: Keener all-nighter Bill Phillips (audio; 12/27/64) all smiles behind the microphone and the music on the No. 1 rated Top 40 radio station in Detroit, 1964.

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WXYZ-AM 1270 * THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY * APRIL 25, 1966

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB archive files:

THE TOP 35 HITS ON WXYZ ON THIS DATE IN 1966

 

WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey; No. 02 issued April 25, 1966 under Lee Alan, Program Director; WXYZ

 

 

wixie138

wixie175(WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey for April 25, this date 1966; survey courtesy the Jim Heddle Collection. For the previous weekly WXYZ April 18, 1966 survey click here).

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