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could hear in DALLAS TEXAS NIGHTS LIKE IT WAS A LOCAL STATIION

Grew up with KAAY in LR. Parents would take us to south florida on vacation where we rocked out to Beaker street like we were still in LR.

Remember this show well it was so cool along with Beaker Theater, in Fort Scott Kansas

A lot of announcers on WQIV/Q4 worked on WLIR 92.7 and WNEW-FM 102.7.

Precious soul, Scoop!

What a sign of utter disrespect to not wait another ten seconds for the Mozart to be over with before beginning the new format. And to then start the new format with "Roll Over Beethoven" was the ultimate F-U to the heartbroken listeners of WNCN. If you believe in karma, then having WQIV bite the dust just nine months later and replaced by the format which preceded it, was exactly that.

Fabulous. Love your sound and your story. You are echoing the early lives and careers of probably thousands of us, from that era.

Kmpx and ksan was a eye opening experience for a kid like me in the sf bayarea I was born in 55

takin a hit right now in memory of Beaker Street, KAAY...c0ugh! r0ck0n Cliff....

KAAY would come in at Midnight. I couldn't stay up to listen on school nights but on the weekend, oh wow! For a week solid in 1969, , they played "The Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic" by Jamie Brocket starting at midnight, lasted 29 minutes. Epic!

Wncn and waxq have been at 104.3 on FM

It was December 18th 1993 when wncn went off the air and waxq went on the air.

Wncn 104.3 FM

Great tribute to Radio Caroline but Caroline continues and is now on the internet.

Lived in Harrington Park, NJ & began listening to WQIV in late 74. It was my senior year in HS and this was the best station in the NYC area at the time. It had a Free Form Format like WNEW-FM but was a notch better. On Saturday nights summer of 75 I remember being at graduation parties & they would be playing live Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Marshall Tucker & New Ryders of the Purple Sage. The station also featured “Roll Away the Stone News”, which told you what was really going on, a bit on the radical side for the government at the time. So it’s no wonder when the WNCN Listeners Guild was formed & filed a petition with the FCC that the station was forced off the air & returned to its classical format. I tried tuning in WQIV later in the day they were forced off the air, there was dead air so I tuned in WNEW-FM. After a few minutes the news came on & the top headline was “Classical Station Returns to NY”, I was pissed. For several days after that WQIV was silent but every few minutes a very soft message would play saying “WQIV a Legend in Our Own Time”. That was the end of an era.

They shoulda had someone else who was smoking POT. Comparison would speak volumes.

Wao thank you 🙏

I think Rufus Thomas brought Elvis on stage with him during the 1956 WDIA Goodwill Revue, where he thanked BB King for his lessons.

IF YOUR KNOT OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE "BEEN THERE/DONE THAT"?.....you would'nt believe me, if i told you what we did in the 60s and 70s??? *****

My sister and I listened to this back in the mid seventies from Illinois.

1090 KAAY - LITTLE ROCK / the ALLMAN BROTHERS band @ "a warehouse" NEW ORLEANS, LA. / 12-31-70 / a Beaver Production / i was listening to this show, two night's before or i would have missed out on HISTORY~!!...i had recently got out of the U.S. AIR FORCE, and was ready too blow off some steam & raise a little HELL??...so i did it, standing 10 feet in front of "DUANE ALLMAN" *****

Bevor elvis started in WDIA 1954 thats all right Mama🙃👍

When I was a boy in 1958-1960 I know bless my bone Wade did gospel and I think Ford Nelson but I thought Nat D Williams did a gospel program on sunday evening about 5 pm ,im I right? Someone tell me I'm on the right track.

WNCN WAS A CLASSICAL STATION BUT WAXQ IS A CLASSIC ROCK STATION.WNCN AND WAXQ HAVE BEEN ON 104.3 ON FM.

THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER RANDY BONGARTEN SPOKE TO THE LISTENERS ABOUT THE DEPARTURE OF WNCN AND THE ARRIVAL OF WAXQ AT 11.59 AM ON DECEMBER 17TH IN 1993.

I LISTENED TO THIS STATION.

NO MORE WNCN .IT.IS GONE.

on december 18th in 1993 at 12.00 am midnight it went off the air and waxq went on the air.

wncn 104.3 fm

The psycho back round was used to mask the cooling fans for the outrageous 50K watts . Always thought that was so incredible...

Is there are front side to this documentary?

Maxie Jackson sure showed that idiot. Grace Aaron is an opportunistic scumbag, bleeding dry the shared public investment and public service of Pacifica radio for her own financial benefit. She's a usurious, corrupt, self-dealing AMATEUR!

Amen amen amen

Ottumwa Iowa

What's with the Warehouse photo in the preview? You never mention it in the video.

Ken I don't know what possessed you to create this audio montage narrated by Johnny (Johnnie) Walker, because it is one long diatribe of just about every myth that was ever created about Radio Caroline. I hope this was not something you sold to NPR or PRI or any other station in the USA (or anywhere else.) See: radiocaroline.info

Good memory 1970 !!

What was amazing was the amount of work that went into these edits. It was almost all 'razor blade' work. KSAN had no multi track recorders at the time. The program of a thousand cuts.

Decades driving big rigs with only KOMA to fill the lonely nites

I have that poster with the Beaker street street sign

WNWS (97.1 FM) is now Hot 97 and plays urban contemporary. From 1987 until (I'd guess) sometime in the early '90s, it was WYNY, which replaced WHN as NYC's country music outlet.

It was radio utopia and it was being taken away...more/less. Most Public Radio stations have embraced more consistent programming. KUNM still tries to appease the crowd and still block programs but that is a trend that most public radio stations are moving away from.

Listened to it almost every night in North Iowa in the 70's great memories. No radio voice compares to Clyde Clifford and Beaker street

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Cut my rock and roll teeth on Beaker Street when I was 15 or so. That's why I couldn't get up and go to school. Made a very large impression on me as this was the only place I could hear the underground stuff that I loved so much. Northwest Iowa was a pretty tough row to hoe for the hippies. Never ever thought I would hear this stuff again. Thanks for the post.

I'm searching for the CELLO THEME. It was fantastic. Hard to find. Please post if you can. NIS sure beats the wussy NPR voices.

This was the coolest program. I listened to it on a transistor on school nights from elementary school through high school when my parents thought I was asleep. Long live Beaker Street......

Beaker St. was one of the best shows ever and not to mention it was on AM. KAAY the mighty 1090.

I was a weird kid back then, hooked on NIS via WCAR, Detroit and WRIT, Milwaukee.

Thanks for the upload.