New york's WPLJ power 95.5

Bobby valentine on power95.5 . with a call change to wwpr in 87 then back again a year later to the much loved wplj, thus no confusion to listeners.

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[Blinkfm1]

There is a good sweeper and jingle somewhere. A new name for an old friend.... now you can call us WWPR..... Power 95

[DBR00]

@RobynWatts Thanks! :)

[RobynWatts]

@DBR00

It was because they wanted to totally break away from their past image as a Album Rock station. Although they were finding some success with their then-current Top 40 format, management had felt their call letters WPLJ evoked memories of their past life to the average New Yorker. The WPLJ call letters went to some station somewhere in Pennsylvania, IIRC.

After about a year as WWPR with little change in the ratings, the station got the WPLJ call letters back in early 1989.

[Rach84]

@retroguy1976 yeah, it's too bad. 80s music is soooo much better than anything that's come out in the last ~15 years. I wish there was a station in NY that played 80s 24/7. other cities have it.

[retroguy1976]

its funny how all these songs are played on saturday night at the 80's my how times flew by

[DBR00]

Hmm, perhaps did they change from PLJ to WWPR and then back to WWPR and finally back to PLJ?

[psycboy]

@DBR00 Actually it's the other way. WWPR Power 95 became 95 5 PLJ. That was when they shifted from CHR to HAC in the early 90s.

[DBR00]

I always wondered why Plj changed to WWPR