Previous Format: CHR “Q100” WQQQ
New Format: Dance CHR “Hot 99.9” WHXT
Date & Time Of Change: August 24, 1989 at 5:00pm
More Info: Wikipedia, Allentown Morning Call
Q100 Becomes Hot 99.9
Previous Format: CHR “Q100” WQQQ
New Format: Dance CHR “Hot 99.9” WHXT
Date & Time Of Change: August 24, 1989 at 5:00pm
More Info: Wikipedia, Allentown Morning Call
Marc
Great to hear Q100 switch over to Hot 99.9 25-years-ago last month. I have a lot of memories listening to Hot 99.9 and wish the name would return back to Lehigh Valley. Unfortunately, the hot fm station only lasted 2 more years before switching formats. If there are more Hot 99.9 sweepers, please feel free to include them on the website! Thanks.
Adam Jacobson
Oh the Lehigh Valley Top 40 war of 35 years ago! I vividly recall the summer of 1987 at Dorney Park, when Lazer 104.1 and Q100 were battling song-for-song and “I Want Your Sex” was edited to “I Want Your Love” because of that Amish sensitivity, it seems. By 1988 Q100 had a technical issue and their booming signal was compromised. That ultimately killed Q100, while the WHTZ jingle package was burnt to a crisp. By August 1989 hit music was shifting, and the Philadelphia influence couldn’t be denied. Mark Driscoll is the voice heralding the new “Hot 99.9” and the music includes some freestyle a la Q102, which Driscoll signed on earlier in the year and proved popular at Hot 97 in New York, which had a fringe signal in the Lehigh Valley. Alas, by the time Oldies came on in 1991 Top 40 had fallen apart due to disposable acts, Milli Vanilli, MC Hammer, NKOTB burnout and an audience done with the “Zoo” crew silliness that had become largely unfunny. Laser 104.1 would become B104 and beat Q100 at its own game … and B104 remains today!
Rich
dang…i remember hearing that heartbeat they played for a while and waited for the flip. I recorded it on tape to back then.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Speaking as a Jock who worked there at the time, cutting the throat of a Great Station like Q-100, for this Horrible, Phoney-Jock Staffed Kids Station, was the biggest Crime in Lehigh Valley Radio, that could have ever happened! Hot 99.9 was so BAD, Nobody advertised, bought airtime, listened, that the entire company near-Bankrupted in under 2 years! The damage was so bad, the station couldn’t even turn-around back to a CHR, and, had to go Oldies 99 to pay bills, show a profit, and, become sellable to another company….I have spoken!
Rich
Very interesting to read that. I forget, I guess Uncle Bob was no longer the morning radio show once Q100 went to Hot 99.9?