" Thank You " , Disco 92 ktu for fulling my teenage life with Disco music , Brooklyn ,Williamsburg , N.Y.C. I graduate from High school in 1976 , and I was 18 , I knew were was all the discotheque in the city , my teenage crowd gone to there own discotheque . The loft , Paradise Garage , When you were a teenager in those years , if you were not going to a discotheque . Than , You belong on the moon . We all had smiles , understanding and Disco in own hearts . We call us , Disco Babies because we were born for this music . If I had time machine , I would go back and do it all over again . For all you Disco Babies , out there , love , peace , and party . MADONNA , CAN YOU DANCE ! album rules ,
I remember on my birthday, going with Carlos De Jesus & John Jellybean Benítez to see Madonna’s first performance at the Paradise Garage. Her first song Everybody, she was not famous yet. One year later she had ballon’s all over Madison Square Garden reading dreams do come true, her first concert. It’s pretty cool!
I always knew Donna Summer Last Dance was the 1st sing at 6 PM July 24 1978. Never dreamed I would actually hear the transition. Thank you so much. This is history as it’s the start of the highest rated FM radio station in the US to this day and will never be surpassed…… This station changes my life. Thank you for sharing this. Amazing this exists.
Admittedly, I wasn't listening at 6 PM on 7/24/78. It wasn't until a few days later I discovered Disco 92. My favorite club was Fokos in West Hempstead, Long Island where everyone was talking about the new disco station they had just discovered. Once the word was out, Disco 92 took off like a rocket! That was such an exciting time!
I remember that summer when KTU hit! I was young and we hung out in the Village and on the Christopher St piers frequently. Various people would bring their boxes and all tune to the same station. BLS was still a popular choice, but on the weekend evenings KTU was a real competitor! Hot summer nights. So much fun!
WOW...Amazing! I caught the Disco 92 bug when I moved to Brooklyn in August 1978. My first day of high school, I was in the pool taking a swimming class and someone brought a boombox into the pool area to play music while we swam. In The Bush by Musique was on and I was hooked! I was a loyal listener until the Live Aid concert in 1985. KTU was the soundtrack of my youth and it''s great to have clips like this to take me back!
This was the station that ended WABC's dominance as a music station. It also proved that FM was beginning to take over as the preferred frequency for music and sent WABC on a four year ratings decline that resulted in a switch to talk in May 1982.
FM had been making inroads since the late 60s. WABC averaged 5 million listeners a week through 1975 despite FM upstarts WOR-FM (98.7) as a top 40 station and WPIX-FM (101.9) as an adult top 40 station. WPIX was the first station to play disco music around 1974. From 9 PM to 12 mid, the station was Disco 102. PIX went rock in 1977, WXLO (98.7) went to a rock heavy top 40 in '78. Only place to hear R&B and disco was WBLS. KTU had its opening and seized its opportunity. The rest is history!
It was all rock and roll by me until I found 92 and a new Pioneer SX-780 to over power the sound of rock I was happy girl and I still enjoy the music on a Pioneer SX- and 10.5 reel..
Lamar Renee, Vy Higginson, Frankie Crocker & epic tunes by Barry White, Desafio by The Fania All Stars, Salsoul Rainbow by The Salsoul Orchestra, Always Another Girl by The Silver Convention and many, many others; seems like a different time, a different place…oh the memories…
Funny thing; I drove from Atlantic City to North Jersey two days earlier (the 22nd) and, listening as I headed up the Garden State Parkway, I thought KTU's "soft AOR" was sounding great. Little did I know, that within 48 hours, it would all be gone.
wow i just came across this post today on the exact date and day of the anniversary and it's very likely that my household was listening in on this very day 45 years ago! long live disco and the lovely rhythms ktu put out on the airwaves.....
Q orgulloso me siento q esa emisora fue al aire un dia como hoy 24 de julio de 1977 y yo llego a los estados unidos el 11 de agosto de ese mismo año 1977 me la difrute completita con mis dj favoritos paco roscco carlos de Jesus wiw q epoca la mejor la escuche por 10 años consecutivos the hot one WKTU DISCO 92 WE HOTTER THAN EVER
Hola Rubén, tu orgullo y alegría por haber disfrutado esa época Disco y esta radio se transmiten en tus palabras. Tengo 44 años (yo nacía 1 año después de esta grabación, en Julio del 79). Y mira, a esta altura de la vida he conocido WKTU DISCO92, Paco'sSuperMix y otros programas este año 2023. Realmente estoy fascinado con la labor y el legado que ha dejado esta emisora para la cultura Disco. Cada grabación que aparece en RUclips o CloudSound la disfruto como si estuviera allí, en NuevaYork en esos años 78,79, 80. Vivo en BARCELONA ESPAÑA. Saludos y Vida Eterna a la Disco. 🕺🪩
I'll always remember driving on Bay Parkway in Brooklyn on a warm fall evening in October 1978. My car radio was tuned to Disco 92 and while stopped at a red light, I could hear every car tuned to Disco 92. By that time, WKTU was getting an 11 rating and was #1 in NY and the US. WABC had met its knockout punch!
Back in late 1974 WPIX launched WPIX disco 102. Soon after that Frankie Crocker of WBLS came up with the brilliant programming idea broadcasting commercial free disco music Saturdays from midnight to 4 am. The music mixes were provided by the then disco DJs of that era. Most of that music was somewhat underground and was not part of the music programming of WBLS. Same with WPIX. But KTU was New York's first radio station with a disco format 24/7. Then about 3 months after KTU made it's debut on the airwaves, Studio 92 a Friday/Saturday night program of 3 hours of mixed disco music from 11 pm to 2 am. And the DJ who provided those recorded dico mixes was Ted Currier.
There's not many of Ted's mixes on the web, but he was amazing and setting new trends. He would later leave WKTU and work for Frankie Crocker. RIP Ted 🙏🏽
CHANGE FROM THE OTHER SIDE -My career was in radio sales in the DC / MD / VA area. I was working for the Gospel AM when the Hard Rock FM called a meeting in the conference room for EVERYONE on the FM staff. Only the corporate headquarters in New York new. At 12 noon I believe they changed the FM from Hard Rook to Spanish Music. (Programming that weeks playlist from New York;). It was like a scene from a disaster movie when they announced it. The hallways were filled with crying, upset people running. The change meant that, first anyone on-air that did not speak Spanish had just lost the job that provided for their family.. Second, anyone in sales with a list of current advertisers had just lost out - All their previous commercials were void because it was a Spanish' language station. NO ONE locally knew this was about to happen and their were lots of people who had to tell their families that they lost their jobs because of the change. Regardless of the format their are plenty of people who suffer when a radio station changes format.
I like the transition. Both songs. Last Chance's (D Summer) intro was mellow but transitioned to Disco. very good. I'd love Kelly Rowland to play D Summer in a movie.
I just looked up WKTU-FM, and the station has since moved from 92.3 to 103.5 while retaining its format as a hot adult contemporary station. They are licensed to Lake Success, a suburb of New York City, with studios in the AT&T building and transmitter facilities in the Empire State Building.
The station sounded very good. I would be interested to know what the air chain consisted of. I visited their studio -it was very small. The big station was WHOM (Spanish) down the hall. It sounds like they still had the "lite FM" jocks on WKTU when the format flipped.
@@92WKTU I was in high school then, class of 1978. The hard rock and early disco my classmates listened to just did not appeal to me. WKTU turned me on to singer-songwriters and folk music. After the switch I prowled the college stations at the low end of the FM dial. Later I listened to WFUV in the CityFolk era. Sadly WFUV is unlistenable for me now. Today I'm a big WNYC fan for news and information.
@@ChristopherPlatt Thanks for sharing your great story! As Mellow 92 influenced you to become a singer-songwriter, Disco 92 did just the same to inspire thousands to become mix-jocks and even air personalities. Its ironic that 92.3 has now become 1010 Wins / 24-hr News Channel.
![[WKTU] 92.3 Mhz, 92KTU (1980-11-21) Studio 92KTU with Johnny Allen & Ralphie Dee](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yi_0is7M3EQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![[WKTU] 92.3 Mhz, 92KTU (1981-10-08) This is Rosko! with William Roscoe Mercer](/img/1.gif)
" Thank You " , Disco 92 ktu for fulling my teenage life with Disco music , Brooklyn ,Williamsburg , N.Y.C. I graduate from High school in 1976 , and I was 18 , I knew were was all the discotheque in the city , my teenage crowd gone to there own discotheque . The loft , Paradise Garage , When you were a teenager in those years , if you were not going to a discotheque . Than , You belong on the moon . We all had smiles , understanding and Disco in own hearts . We call us , Disco Babies because we were born for this music . If I had time machine , I would go back and do it all over again . For all you Disco Babies , out there , love , peace , and party . MADONNA , CAN YOU DANCE ! album rules ,
I'm also from Williamsburg Brooklyn born there.
Thank God I was around to listen to the greatest musical Era..DISCO ! non of these singers today could hold a note to this music ! Period !
U got that right j
The #1 station in the nation. Listened to it 24/7
I remember on my birthday, going with Carlos De Jesus & John Jellybean Benítez to see Madonna’s first performance at the Paradise Garage. Her first song Everybody, she was not famous yet. One year later she had ballon’s all over Madison Square Garden reading dreams do come true, her first concert. It’s pretty cool!
I always knew Donna Summer Last Dance was the 1st sing at 6 PM July 24 1978. Never dreamed I would actually hear the transition. Thank you so much. This is history as it’s the start of the highest rated FM radio station in the US to this day and will never be surpassed…… This station changes my life. Thank you for sharing this. Amazing this exists.
Thanks Mike! You should share your wonderful blog with many fond memories of 92KTU
It’s so old and I haven’t looked at it for a long time. Don’t even know it’s url
@@MikeRadioNY
rememberdisco92.wordpress.com/
It was the perfect song to have at the transition! It starts out like a soft ballad and then....wham! Disco, baby!! 😂
Admittedly, I wasn't listening at 6 PM on 7/24/78. It wasn't until a few days later I discovered Disco 92. My favorite club was Fokos in West Hempstead, Long Island where everyone was talking about the new disco station they had just discovered. Once the word was out, Disco 92 took off like a rocket! That was such an exciting time!
I remember that summer when KTU hit! I was young and we hung out in the Village and on the Christopher St piers frequently. Various people would bring their boxes and all tune to the same station. BLS was still a popular choice, but on the weekend evenings KTU was a real competitor! Hot summer nights. So much fun!
Great memories, thank you for sharing 💯
greatest radio station ever
Love that Donna Summers song was the first song on here AWESOME ❤️💃🏼🕺🏻
Best of times! Wish I could go back - everyone hanging in Carroll park with the boom box blasting and dancing!
Are you speaking of Carroll Park in Brooklyn, NY?
Wow that is amazing.
WOW...Amazing! I caught the Disco 92 bug when I moved to Brooklyn in August 1978. My first day of high school, I was in the pool taking a swimming class and someone brought a boombox into the pool area to play music while we swam. In The Bush by Musique was on and I was hooked! I was a loyal listener until the Live Aid concert in 1985. KTU was the soundtrack of my youth and it''s great to have clips like this to take me back!
This was the station that ended WABC's dominance as a music station. It also proved that FM was beginning to take over as the preferred frequency for music and sent WABC on a four year ratings decline that resulted in a switch to talk in May 1982.
FM had been making inroads since the late 60s. WABC averaged 5 million listeners a week through 1975 despite FM upstarts WOR-FM (98.7) as a top 40 station and WPIX-FM (101.9) as an adult top 40 station. WPIX was the first station to play disco music around 1974. From 9 PM to 12 mid, the station was Disco 102. PIX went rock in 1977, WXLO (98.7) went to a rock heavy top 40 in '78. Only place to hear R&B and disco was WBLS. KTU had its opening and seized its opportunity. The rest is history!
Major Edwin Howard Armstrong would be proud. The irony is that 92.3 is a spoken word format now, in the form of a simulcast of 1010 WINS.
It was all rock and roll by me until I found 92 and a new Pioneer SX-780 to over power the sound of rock I was happy girl and I still enjoy the music on a Pioneer SX- and 10.5 reel..
What great music 🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼
Yes indeed. Disco rocks. Frankie Crocker was the greatest of all time on WBLS.
Yes he was !
Lamar Renee, Vy Higginson, Frankie Crocker & epic tunes by Barry White, Desafio by The Fania All Stars, Salsoul Rainbow by The Salsoul Orchestra, Always Another Girl by The Silver Convention and many, many others; seems like a different time, a different place…oh the memories…
What great memories, wish i could go back in time Disco era
Funny thing; I drove from Atlantic City to North Jersey two days earlier (the 22nd) and, listening as I headed up the Garden State Parkway, I thought KTU's "soft AOR" was sounding great. Little did I know, that within 48 hours, it would all be gone.
I’m here for the Puerto Rican all stars 🔥🔥🔥😝
👍
Andy Monatez ....!!!!!
wow i just came across this post today on the exact date and day of the anniversary and it's very likely that my household was listening in on this very day 45 years ago! long live disco and the lovely rhythms ktu put out on the airwaves.....
Amazing times
Q orgulloso me siento q esa emisora fue al aire un dia como hoy 24 de julio de 1977 y yo llego a los estados unidos el 11 de agosto de ese mismo año 1977 me la difrute completita con mis dj favoritos paco roscco carlos de Jesus wiw q epoca la mejor la escuche por 10 años consecutivos the hot one WKTU DISCO 92 WE HOTTER THAN EVER
Hola Rubén, tu orgullo y alegría por haber disfrutado esa época Disco y esta radio se transmiten en tus palabras. Tengo 44 años (yo nacía 1 año después de esta grabación, en Julio del 79). Y mira, a esta altura de la vida he conocido WKTU DISCO92, Paco'sSuperMix y otros programas este año 2023. Realmente estoy fascinado con la labor y el legado que ha dejado esta emisora para la cultura Disco. Cada grabación que aparece en RUclips o CloudSound la disfruto como si estuviera allí, en NuevaYork en esos años 78,79, 80. Vivo en BARCELONA ESPAÑA. Saludos y Vida Eterna a la Disco. 🕺🪩
Great stufft...thank you for posting this...
Thank you for posting. Sounds EXCELLENT!
Thanks Mike!
ohmygod, that was awesome! thank you for uploading and sharing. hopefully there's more where that came from.
This album is hot❤❤❤❤❤
I'll always remember driving on Bay Parkway in Brooklyn on a warm fall evening in October 1978. My car radio was tuned to Disco 92 and while stopped at a red light, I could hear every car tuned to Disco 92. By that time, WKTU was getting an 11 rating and was #1 in NY and the US. WABC had met its knockout punch!
Brooklyn KTU. Best station ever
What were you driving then??😊
@@chrisolsen7679 1976 Olds Cutlass Supreme
Boy what memories
Back in late 1974 WPIX launched WPIX disco 102. Soon after that Frankie Crocker of WBLS came up with the brilliant programming idea broadcasting commercial free disco music Saturdays from midnight to 4 am. The music mixes were provided by the then disco DJs of that era. Most of that music was somewhat underground and was not part of the music programming of WBLS. Same with WPIX. But KTU was New York's first radio station with a disco format 24/7. Then about 3 months after KTU made it's debut on the airwaves, Studio 92 a Friday/Saturday night program of 3 hours of mixed disco music from 11 pm to 2 am. And the DJ who provided those recorded dico mixes was Ted Currier.
There's not many of Ted's mixes on the web, but he was amazing and setting new trends. He would later leave WKTU and work for Frankie Crocker. RIP Ted 🙏🏽
@@92WKTUSome of Ted Currier's mixes recorded off of WKTU is on Mixcloud.
@@92WKTU You can hear mixes from TC recorded off KTU on Mixcloud
CHANGE FROM THE OTHER SIDE -My career was in radio sales in the DC / MD / VA area. I was working for the Gospel AM when the Hard Rock FM called a meeting in the conference room for EVERYONE on the FM staff. Only the corporate headquarters in New York new. At 12 noon I believe they changed the FM from Hard Rook to Spanish Music. (Programming that weeks playlist from New York;). It was like a scene from a disaster movie when they announced it. The hallways were filled with crying, upset people running. The change meant that, first anyone on-air that did not speak Spanish had just lost the job that provided for their family.. Second, anyone in sales with a list of current advertisers had just lost out - All their previous commercials were void because it was a Spanish' language station. NO ONE locally knew this was about to happen and their were lots of people who had to tell their families that they lost their jobs because of the change. Regardless of the format their are plenty of people who suffer when a radio station changes format.
Thank you for sharing this important note. Hopefully everyone found other work in due time.
@@92WKTU Your Welcome!
I like the transition. Both songs. Last Chance's (D Summer) intro was mellow but transitioned to Disco. very good. I'd love Kelly Rowland to play D Summer in a movie.
Yes, great suggestion 👍🏽
Old School Original Remembrance Presentation👍
Wow. Had no idea, or forgot that Donna Summer launched WKTU.
I rolled a 92 on dice today and i remembered 92 WKTU.
🎵🪩🎵 good memories !
Disco music is good
I miss this New York, never knew it would change to this plastic s***!
Big change happens every 100 years, some for better, some for worse.
NEVER AGAIN will be So RAW...!!!!
I just looked up WKTU-FM, and the station has since moved from 92.3 to 103.5 while retaining its format as a hot adult contemporary station. They are licensed to Lake Success, a suburb of New York City, with studios in the AT&T building and transmitter facilities in the Empire State Building.
Oh yeah, the original WKTU is nothing like 103.5 ktu
Genial
The station sounded very good. I would be interested to know what the air chain consisted of. I visited their studio -it was very small. The big station was WHOM (Spanish) down the hall. It sounds like they still had the "lite FM" jocks on WKTU when the format flipped.
I brought all donna records
I have the LAST BREAK ever in WKTU before it went to Krock. Only copy that exists…. Where can I upload it? What’s the email
Would love to hear that…
It's funny it launched on the 24th '78 and then demolition day was held a year later on the 12th. Hmm.
Not everyone celebrated this change. Some listeners were heartbroken...
@ChristopherPlatt
What made Mellow 92 special for you ?
What dial did you land on after the switch?
@@92WKTU I was in high school then, class of 1978. The hard rock and early disco my classmates listened to just did not appeal to me.
WKTU turned me on to singer-songwriters and folk music. After the switch I prowled the college stations at the low end of the FM dial.
Later I listened to WFUV in the CityFolk era. Sadly WFUV is unlistenable for me now. Today I'm a big WNYC fan for news and information.
@@ChristopherPlatt Thanks for sharing your great story! As Mellow 92 influenced you to become a singer-songwriter, Disco 92 did just the same to inspire thousands to become mix-jocks and even air personalities. Its ironic that 92.3 has now become 1010 Wins / 24-hr News Channel.
Satterfield Mill
the late-1970s WKTU was the BEST KTU! none of that JUSTIN BIEBER fucking nonsense they turned into now..
😁👍
If you want to hear the voice of God listen to Donna Summer.