Wow Mustatine....you really tripped me back to the old Top 40 days in Milwaukee. I worked at B97 when Madonna & Cindi Lauper were duking it out with their first albums, and we were taking on WKTI...
I got a better offer to do afternoons in the Quad Cities and a couple of years later Hearst flipped 97 to dentist office music.
I haven't heard Beertown radio in a while.
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B97?? don't know your age but do you remember:
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i was listening live when QFM played "God Gave Rock and Roll" then the next song no warning went smooth jazz!! I called Marilyn Mee on Lazer on my cell and she was literally pooping bricks
You mention B97, then "light 97", they became "The Brew"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQBWhttp://www.973thebrew.com/main.htmland threw a huge monkey wrench into Lazer, and KLH's programming... I was invited to be a part of the focus group for the former "Lazer 103". I begged and pleaded them to play less "Ozzy", in fact my words were directly to the programming director "please dear Lord never play ozzy again"
yet they became the ozzy poster station:
http://www.1029thehog.com/Bob and Brian still are the best morning show in the world, finally syndicated across all WI, they always win, beating the snot out of Dave and Carol, oh BTW Riteman and Miller QUIT!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKTI-FMbut in all that 102.1 has remained the station of my life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLUMback when I was a wigger it was the schizznit, then when I discovered real music it was there again for me, now it is a bit more for youth, but still the best station in Milwaukee