Which FM station were you listening to in the 70's?

I'm from Philadelphia, and our cool radio station was WMMR. We had the late Ed Sciaky, who introduced the Phila area to Bruce Springsteen. We also had the quirky Michael Tearson,as well as Dave Herman's Marconi Experiment. Anyone from that era will remember the beginning of that show- "Arise my heart, and fill your voice with music. For he who shares not dawn with his song, is one of the sons of ever darkness",intoned over The Beatles "Flying". Great stuff. Lots of progressive rock, but also what is now considered "classic" rock. Ed Sciaky was big on early Billy Joel too. You could also hear some comedy back then, and I really miss that about today's radio. No sense of humor.
"Quad 94,WYSP" was popular too, but MMR was the one to beat back in the seventies. I also loved WIOQ, which was THE progressive rock station in the late seventies. All so much better than the pre-digested pablum we are being fed today.

My first real FM experience was KQV in Pittsburgh in the early 70s, which truly eschewed commercials in favor of music and introduced me to such non-commercial artists like The Incredible String Band, Lothar and the Hand People, and Blodwyn Pig, but held mainstays like Jethro Tull and Grand Funk Railroad and broke ground for Harry Chapin--who couldn't get airplay for "Taxi" because it was too long for AM formats and mentioned getting "stoned." Back then, there was no such thing as "heavy rotation" in FM.

Later on that decade in Cleveland it was WMMS, probably mirroring Philly's WMMR for music content. Fridays would have the faithful gathered around the tuner to hear Murray Saul's weekend-starting "Get Down" rants that would last from 60 seconds to 5 minutes, sometimes escalating into unintelligible mutterings and asphyxiated gasps followed by silences that made us think he was having a seizure. It was an integral part of the atmosphere before ubiquitous CDs and iPods--party rock, stoner rock, weekend concerts at the stadium, National Lampoon, and the Get-Down Man.

KKDJ Fresno CA.

Late '70's/Early '80's:
WSEZ-FM, Z-93 (formerly WAIR-FM) -- Winston-Salem, NC

I listened to KMET (94.7) in Los Angeles. The "mighty MET" was the L.A. area's best rock station. Frazier Smith was the one personality that I can remember listening to. It's hard to believe that it's gone. It went under late '80s/early 90s and was transformed to smooth jazz (Yuck!!, at least it could have been authentic Jazz.).

I listened to KMET from afar. I lived in Palm Springs and strained to listen to KMET in the early morning hours. Palm Springs was a one radio station town that had KDES 92AM as its only rock outlet. It was great in the late '60s as it mixed top 40 with album selections. The DJs had such a reign of influence, they were the ones that introduced us to obscure but valuable, interesting music that wasn't Top 40. Then September '70 (our own Black September) came around and they went to formatted radio, playing only Top 40 in an endless loop. Album music was only heard at night and even that was eventually scrapped. Apparently, the marketing end of the business discovered that part of the audience switched channels when popular music wasn't played. I can't imagine being a DJ under such circumstances.

Charlotte, NC 95 WROQ, and WBCY 108.

I've got a strong urge to fly,
but I've got nowhere to fly to.

San Diego it was either, 101.5 KGB,,where the Famous Chicken got his start. Or KPRI which I think was 103.6

In the early 70s I listened to KHJ-AM in Los Angeles. They had the great DJs Robert W. Morgan and The Real Don Steele, among others. Later on, I listened to FM top 40 stations in L.A., KKDJ which later became KIIS-FM, and one that was called Ten-Q (I think the call letters were KTNQ).