Edition #1367 |
Talent: DAVID S. ARROWOOD
Station: WIFC Wausau, Wis.
Date: October 5, 1971
Time: 30:22
(unscoped)
10:42 (scoped)
No Top 40 on FM? That's the way it was entering the second half of the 1960s.
Changing all that was a 1964 FCC edit forcing FM stations to devote at least 12 hours of original content every day, apart from their AM parent. This opened the door for so-called freeform radio, which featured deep album cuts from rock acts that AM stations would'nt touch. Before long programmers got the idea to put the Top 40 format on FM - the same songs, the same presentation, but now in stereo.
An early convert to this format was WIFC, which in August 1969 switched from Beautiful Music to Top 40. In 1971, they were celebrating their second anniversary as a hit parade station. David S. Arrowood was music director, and also appeared on air at the Big 95.5.
Enjoy David S. Arrowood on
WIFC (UNSCOPED) here. 
Enjoy David S. Arrowood on WIFC (SCOPED) here.
(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)
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