Original upload date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:32:03 GMT
WXLO 98.7 New York - Launch of 98.7 Kiss FM - Charlie Burger / Mary Thomas - July 31 1981
From the collection of Rob Frankel.
WXLO FM 99 dropped it’s AC format in 1981, and flipped to Urban, as FM99
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. The station needed it’s own identity, a new identity. So on July 31, 1981, FM99 was dropped, and the new name 98.7 Kiss was adopted. This aircheck features the end of FM 99 (Which is now being called 98.7 FM) & the launch of 98.7 Kiss.
Listen carefully when the name of the station changes to 98.7 Kiss, the old calls, WXLO remain. The new calls, WRKS came along a short while later.
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