WLTI RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WLTI-FM 93.1 * 1996 * DAN MARTIN
DAN MARTIN WLTI aircheck date: FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1996
— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our latest website contributor, Dan Martin, of Ann Arbor, MI., for recently donating this WLTI-FM radio aircheck (he personally recorded in 1996) with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
THE DAN MARTIN COLLECTION
WLTI 93.1 FM
–‘LITE MUSIC‘–
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Formerly WDRQ (1971-1985) and beginning in April, WLTI and their ‘Lite Music‘ format was lauched and was heard on the 93.1 frequency on the Detroit FM dial from 1985 to 1996.
By late summer of 1996, the station, then owned by Viacom, dropped the lite music format (easy listening) for a “rhythmic adult contemporary” format. The station’s call letters were also dropped. Once again, reverting back to the call letters the station held previous before the change, WDRQ.
WLTI’s decade run on the FM dial came to an end when the new changes were effectively implemented on Sunday, August 11, 1996. Viacom fired the entire air-staff, including station programmer, Brad Waldo, some fifteen days after this WLTI aircheck was recorded.
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(Source: Detroit Free Press archives)
