WHTZ Z100 New York - 3rd DAY ON AIR - 1st Day New Transmitter & Jingles - August 4 1983

[@C_Holloway]

Used to listen to Z100, growing up in NYC. Great memories! 😊♥️♥️

[@droneworldbrasil]

I'm from Brazil and I love your channel. When I was a kid, I travel to NY with my father and I listen to Z100 it was 1987 OMG, I got crazy. At least in Brazil in the 90's We have a Radio Station called Jovem Pan 100.9 FM in Sao Paulo, which bring Kid Kelly to play some days in the radio. It was so great.

[@EllisFeaster]

So glad you enjoy it.

[@draff1662]

Amazing to hear this I remember listening after the transmitter change, what an accomplishment in 74 days. Also a great period for music. Scott Shannon is a legend. Thanks for posting this!

[@EllisFeaster]

D Raff You’re welcome.

[@LennyLibitz]

A large portion of my childhood was spent listening to Z100. I was about 6 when this broadcast happened and listening to this brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for posting this!

[@Ramoscomics]

Wow! what a fantastic flashback! Thanks!

[@johnathanlewis2049]

I remember this!! We had just moved to New Jersey! Z 100 Rocks!!

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

I remember when Z-100 premiered, in Summer 1983...I was 9...the playlist was GREAT. Many a song of that Summer were well-promoted, and loved. Remember hearing Top 10 hits playing 3 times each, inside of 12 hours. I'd love to hear a broadcast of the first 2 hours of Z-100's radio play, with the (now classic) hits that played then...

[@fansports5]

Great memories Z100! Thanks for the info and trip down memory lane

[@periwinklenigel]

3:17 - JAM's Flamethrower Cut 15. Also, did they ever use TM's Airpower?

[@manfredmann2766]

Right before 99 Z 100 luftballoons 😊 1983 was a great time for music.

[@josephtisdale5262]

Ii listened to this in Barrington, RI periodically, until WOTB (Now WKKB) came on.

[@craigcolahan]

thanks for sharing!

[@EllisFeaster]

My pleasure!

[@ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1]

Too darn cool! A station I would listen to!

[@Zickcermacity]

Who remembers this wake-up song Z-100 used to play during their first 1-2 years on air?.. "your hands are sure to shake hands with someone whose hands are sure to be clean. your hair is where your face begins and your face is the the very first place to be seen"

[@adamjacobson2449]

Holy sH!t -- this is the first time we have ever heard this, and we started listening on about Day 9 of Z100. Absolute gem Ellis ... and it is really the beginning of the Flamethrower. "Slow Hand" by Pointer Sisters fading, along with the putrid West Orange tower. You really, really had to try hard to get that signal north of Rockland County where I was. From the Empire State Building, Z100 reached to just south of Newburgh. On cable (yes, CATV to a FM stereo) it reached most of Kingston. Jingles? The original B96/Chicago package, used for more than a year before JAM created Flamethrower

[@EllisFeaster]

It sounded like Z100 was holding back until they got the new transmitter fired up.

[@VBaskin2010]

The official introduction of The Z-100 New York Morning Zoo!

[@8_pz]

passed by the station before. where i live we have lite rock 96.9 WFPG as our top 1.

[@EllisFeaster]

I remember it. I competed against it when I worked at WMID, WUSS, 99.3, WOND, & WMGM.

[@8_pz]

@@EllisFeaster ooooooh

[@jcdjmac]

I love this aircheck!! Z100 rocks!! got any air checks with some n2effect jingles? N2Effect is my favorite jingle company. oh, and pleasure to meet you. my name is JC, and I'm a huge Radio freak!

[@EllisFeaster]

Hi Juan! What year did WHTZ use those jingles?

[@jcdjmac]

@@EllisFeaster actually, they did not use N2Effect at the time. They only used jam creative productions, then they used real world productions both in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2005. now, they are using ReelWOrld One CHR.

[@EllisFeaster]

@@jcdjmac Gotcha! I have none of their jingles in my collection. Sorry.

[@tonymarzocco8962]

Z100 came from WVNJ-FM Newark, True story,,,VNJ was instrumentals, standards & jazz. When Z100 came along they put ALL the old records outside the door & let people dumpster dive! Could you image the vinyl treasures beautiful music & jazz fans could have found...like a free-bee estate sale!

[@musiclist4792]

This could be why Z100 is licensed to Newark?

[@davidsaraza8298]

Awesome...

[@donmccullen1973]

but why use two different packages???? JAM's Creative inconic, Flame Thrower and TM's Airpower...or did JAM only had a few cuts for WHTZ at the time , and The Flame Thrower has a 1984 copyright. Sounds like the TFT package was incomplete at the time. Granted certain JAM cuts did not make the official package, like the top of the hour from the Warp Factor sessions. I wish that one made the package. Another question. Someone else did the Z Morning Zoo jingles, and those would also be used on John Lander's Hit Music U.S.A. syndicated program.

[@VBaskin2010]

Actually Don JAM Creative Productions, Incorporated's "The Flame Thrower" was introduced in 1983 and it was officially made for WHTZ, while TM's "AirPower" was already made its big debut on WBBM-FM A.K.A. B96 and somehow other stations wanted that new jingle package so bad TM has no choice but to do the resings of this rockin' new jingle package, and WHTZ-100 was one of them!

[@donmccullen1973]

@@VBaskin2010 I still think that TFT was incomplete at the time. You just hearing a few shot guns. I know these jingles backwards and forwards as you do. My speculation was that they had TM do a resing for Z100 and those would be heard more doing the fall of 1983, as JAM completes the first custom for WHTZ.

[@EllisFeaster]

I don’t know for sure, but I suspect both TM & Jam were both courting the new station to get them buy jingles from them. Both companies know that if the can get this new CHR in NYC to purchase their jingles, they will sell those jingles to radio stations around the world. Both companies may have recorded jingles samplers for them to give them a taste of of the packages, because they don’t seem to be complete. I also remember hearing a cut or two of PAMS jingles in Z100 in the first 6 months.

[@donmccullen1973]

@@EllisFeaster I heard those cuts too. At the time PAMS was not under Jon Wolfert's ownership.

[@Newsystuffs]

@@EllisFeaster Thing is, it's clear they had every intent on using JAM, considering the package was custom made and one of the acapellas from it was the first proper jingle that aired. Sure, it's not impossible to rule out that they planned to use TM initially, but considering how JAM's work quickly became the sound of the station. Airpower might very well have just been a stopgap until the musical jingles on The Flamethrower were done. Really, until someone who was there that day can confirm what the initial plan was, all we can do is speculate as to what happened.

[@mikeh497]

Remember the morning Zoo and Skinny Bobby.

[@PaulKardas]

Z100 40th coming up!!!!!!

[@user-dh4mi6ir2m]

What's that song in the background? 2:21

[@EllisFeaster]

Slow Hand, Pointer Sisters. 1981.

[@user-dh4mi6ir2m]

@ 11:41, @ 20:44, & @ 22:23?

[@DiamondJoe]

@@user-dh4mi6ir2m 1. Larry Graham "One In A Million" 2. Patrick Hernandez "Born To Be Alive" 3. Sergio Mendes "Never Gonna Let You Go"

[@user-dh4mi6ir2m]

What are they singing to the tune of? 14:47

[@RustyMuck]

"On Top of Spaghetti", which was a novelty song by Dick Biondi

[@user-dh4mi6ir2m]

What's the tune that borrowed?

[@musiclist4792]

@@user-dh4mi6ir2m On Top of Old Smokey.

[@NoName-zb1gm]

Was this the first day they didn't sign off at night?

[@sald4976]

WABC was still a mainstream CHR throughout the '70s, so only 4 years before this aircheck it had the same format as Z100 but their sound/presentation compared to this was much mellower. It was upbeat and lively no doubt with friendly jocks and jingles but it sounded more like WYNY, nothing like Z100, which in this aircheck has much more attitude with exploding sounds, etc. and it's a lot more energetic and modern (for the time). WABC lost its ratings due to its being on AM but you have to admit even its sound was becoming dated for a CHR in the late '70s.

[@EllisFeaster]

Many AM top 40 stations, between 1978 & 1982, were moving in a direction to attract more adults. There was a common belief among many radio programmers that Top 40 was a dying format. The resurgence of the format in 82-83 shows that the format was not dead, but that it needed to move to FM, and it needed music younger people could get excited about. That was hard to do with all of the AC & Yacht Rock tunes on the chart until 83.

[@sald4976]

@@EllisFeaster Yes, I did notice a resurgence of the "product" in '83 as a format is only as good as the product that's out there & the early '80s pop charts were filled with soft rock tunes like Air Supply and Christopher Cross. '83 also turned out what I considered the new British Invasion with bands like Eurythmics, Culture Club, Duran Duran, etc.

[@EllisFeaster]

Sal D that’s right. MTV played a big part in fueling that 2nd British Invasion.

[@videoman4363]

This was about the FM frequency and disco. The disco stations in NY were on FM and surging. The legacy Top 40 stations were on AM and moved more toward disco since other stations were having success. IMO top 40 never went out of fashion, it just needed to move to FM. ABC sounded great during the 60’ and most of the 70’s.

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