Updated March 26, 2002.

Answers:

  1. Was known as easy-EZX, before becoming “Your 24-hour Rock concert.”
    B. WEZX-FM 107.1 FM (now 106.9)
    In the mid 1970's, WEZX changed its format from easy listening to rock. Some people were upset. They even wrote letters to the editor of the Scranton Times (owner of WEZX).
  2. Became WKRZ-FM.
    E. WBRE-FM 98.5 FM
    Around 1980, WBRE-FM, an all news station became WKRZ-FM with a Top 40 format. This was the first top 40 FM station in the area. The other FM stations were classical, easy listening, or adult contemporary, and WEZX was Rock.
  3. Studios in the Williamson Building on Lackawanna Ave. in downtown Olyphant.
    A. WWAX 750 AM (now WAAT)
    WWAX, was founded by Mid-Valley English teacher, and former WGBI radio personality James Emmel.
    Mr. Emmel was also the voice for "WDAU TV 22" (now WYOU) station identifications.
  4. Broadcasted easy listening/beautiful music in Quad-stereo.
    H. WYZZ-FM 92.9 FM (now WMGS)
  5. Was a Disco station.
    J. WICK 1400 AM
    In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s mornings had a talk radio format for senior citizens. Then they’d complain about the awful racket in the afternoon. Not Top-40 music, but totally Disco.
  6. Was all request.
    K. WARD 1540 AM (now WITK 1550 AM)
    About 1978 through 1982, teens and pre-teens called the station while a song was playing, and would tell the DJ what current Top-40 song they wanted to hear. The caller would be put on hold, then when it was time for the next song, the DJ would talk to the caller on the air, requesting the song. Then the song was played. Then the cycle repeated. This station was on the air from dawn to dusk.
    This station was owned by Jim Ward. Jim Ward once hosted Bowling for Dollars on WNEP-TV.
    This station was once WPTS (for Pittston).
  7. Round blue bumper stickers with “13Q”.
    C. WBQW 1320 AM
    The morning show was hosted by Bob Woody, “the Woody Guy” (formerly of WARM, then WICK during the Disco years). The midnight show was hosted by Bobby Gunther Walsh (currently does the morning show on WAEB, Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton).
  8. Became WBQW.
    L. WSCR 1320 AM
    There is no longer a station in Scranton at 1320 AM.
  9. This stations brings the country to cities.
    G. WGBI 910 AM
    Through out the 1970's and early 1980's "WGBI on 9-1-0_Oh_Oh" was the local station that played both kinds of music, country and western.
    * This is the station I used to have to listen to when I was in the car with my parents (unless WCDL or WICK was playing Polkas). When I was a kid there was three kinds of music: country, western and Polkas.
  10. “Your Stereo Island”
    I. WWDL-FM 104.9 FM
    In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s when most FM stations in NE PA were playing the Andre Kostelanetz Orchestra and the Ray Conniff Singers, WWDL also played more progressive artists such as the Carpenters and Neil Diamond.
  11. The Mighty Five-ninety
    D. WARM 590 AM
    In the 1970's, this was THE station to listen for school cancellations.
    On one snowy morning before reading the cancellations, Harry West told the listeners, if they do not hear their school mentioned, and they think that their school should be cancelled, call their school principal or superintendent, not the station. The station does not determine which schools are closed.
  12. This “light-n-lively” station had at least one hour of Polka programming every day of the week.
    F. WCDL 1440 AM/94.3 FM
    Located “high atop Melody Mountain” in Carbondale. On week days, WCDL had a “wake-up” show, then at 9 AM, there was an hour of Polkas (expanded to 2 hours in the late 1980’s, early 1990’s), then an hour or two of easy listening, then country, then Top 40 when the kids got home from school. Then when the AM station signed off, there was easy listening.
    On Sunday's there was a syndicated program, The Bill Flynn Contemporary Polka Review.
    WCDL AM and FM simulcasted the same programming until the mid 1980’s when the FM station took on the call letters WLSP-FM and a County format.

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