WYTZZ95FM: This has to be without question, one of the most authoritative posts you have written. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

WYTZZ95FM, I, too, remember the early days of AOL. Recall those AOL CD-discs in every store you could imagine. Their dial-up was slow and often unreliable. Trying to call friends was impossible because they were online. I think AOL had a host of radio stations way back in the day.

The research for WLIT-FM doesn't seem to be working. I'm in agreement with you, the entire iHeart cluster has to be aligned for billing and revenue success.

Regarding research, it does appear to be working for Todd Cavanah over at WLS-FM.

Back in the day, I spoke to a couple of jocks at Z95. One was Brant Miller, the well-known weatherman on NBC5. Very nice guy and he took the time to talk about Z95.

During the mid-1980s, I had the opportunity to speak with Scott "True Oldies Channel" Shannon. I mentioned WYTZ-FM "Z95."

Scott, the architect of the world-famous WHTZ-FM 100.3/Z100 licensed to Newark/New York City and owned now by iHeartMedia. When Z100 was created, Malrite owned it. At any rate, Scott said there were many clones of Z100 around the country. There is a Z100 in Portland, Oregon. Those of us who follow radio with a microscope already know this. Z95 used Ernie Anderson as did New York's Z100 as the voice of their station. Also, the weather sweepers and others were exact duplicates with the exception of the dial position and the city. Nevertheless, Z95 was a great station...right up to the point where it was mismanaged into "Hell 95." The handwriting was on the wall, but I digress. The Killer Bee, B96 owned Chicago in those CHR/dance music wars.

Z100 and Z95 aside, many other power stations were duplicated such as WLS-AM, WABC-AM, KHJ-AM to name three. Yes, there was the Drake format and others.

Thank you for allowing me to take this trip down memory lane and thank you again, WYTZZ95FM for a brilliant post.