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RADIO Lights HOT WARM LINE LINE City 00 00 "I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I'M DOING By KAREN HUNTER-HODGE Daily News Staff Writer endy most among the hard Williams to clutter is find al- of music and commercial tape cartridges, mikes and machines. Then she opens her mouth. "You're on Kiss-FM." she says as she pulls on the earphones and tugs the mike closer to her hot-pink lips. "I can't help smiling when I say that," says Williams. "It's like, I still can't believe I'm sitting here doing this." This black Valley Girl from the Jersey Shore who so much that an entire interview can be conducted without asking a single question is, like, doing really, really well.

Williams is the most listened-to jock in the evening drive (6-10 p.m.). Her "Top 8 at 8," an 8 p.m. countdown of the top eight songs, is the highest rated hour in all of local radio. And Williams' success has carried WRKS-FM, 98.7-Kiss, to its sixth straight No. 1 finish in the ratings.

In her years on the air full-time, 10 of 12 ratings periods have found WRKS on top. "I got a lot of criticism when I decided to put Wendy on full-time," says WRKS program director Vinny Brown of his deejay, who started -time doing weather and gossip for the station's morning show. "She didn't have that much experience." Brown says he was also warned about putting three women Yvonne Mobley, Carol Ford and Williams on the air in a row. "But I didn't let her gender get in the way of my decision," Brown says. "I knew she could handle 98 RE Wendy From comes Williams brings diss-mistress, style that is to ers what Howard Don Imus are to males.

But her mall spandex tights, and white Keds white Kiss-FM gives her away. wears the jewelry the lingo with them, she cannot Williams of Kiss-FM is the most listened-to deejay in her time slot. C.J. ZUMWALT ATOP the lips the to the job a in-your-face hip hop listenStern and middle-class attire black oversize shirt with red and shoelaces Although she and kicks the best of hide her Wendy's early influence? 'I grew up listening to she says. suburban upbringing in predominately white Ocean Township.

"I was Tootie on 'Facts of she says. "I grew up listening to because that was what was happening in my school. That's probably why I'm so into hip hop now and so attracted to ruff-necks and homeboys. I didn't have it growing Williams won't give her age, because still young HIP of deejay Wendy Kiss of the drive-time enough so it doesn't matter, but in 10 years I would like to be able to lie about my age, okay?" But she does admit to having a younger brother who's 25 and an older sister who is an attorney. Tom and Shirley Williams knew there was something different about their middle child.

She was so hyperactive as a child that doctors suggested her parents put her on medication, but they refused. "Instead, they developed a code for me when we went out in public if I started to embarrass them," Williams says. "They would say 'Wendy, or 'Wendy, or And from there I would tone it down." TL meant too loud; TM, too much; and TF, too fast. Now Williams is using TL, TM and TF to make LM lots of money. (Although not top dollar.

"Isn't that a shame?" she says. "Make sure you mention One of Williams' attractions is her unpredictability: A discussion with a lis- HOP Williams woman tener about contraception one recent evening is followed by some banter about her "chopped" fingernails; Williams was expecting 'Sometimes I have to reel her says WRKS' program director. Hung-Li, who does her nails on the air every other Monday, but on this day she was sick. Williams carries on despite the hardship. "Hi, you're on Kiss," says a bubbling Williams as she motions for Kevin Haynes, her 25-year-old intern, to get her a commercial for the next break.

The Williams glossary Mac: To talk, i.e. "Mac among yourselves." "Good maccin' with you." On the DL (down low): Inconspicuous, secret. Ruff-Neck: A homeboy; gangsterlike fellow from the neighborhood. Pow, boom. "My version of Whoomp, there it is! See Pid-ap! "How old are you, Williams asks a female caller.

"Are you dating? When did you get your first kiss 13?" Before the caller can answer, Williams starts a twominute monologue about her first kiss, when she was only 13. "But I lied and told the guy I was 17," Williams tells her listeners. "When he kissed me, I just started to fill out, youknowhatImean. I felt, like, like I was just well, ya know, I felt like, like a Haynes blushes and bursts out laughing. Williams just shrugs and says, off the air: "I really wanted to say I felt like my breasts were growing, but I caught myself." When Williams gets a call on her hotline, she just looks into the air as if to say, "I know, I know!" Program director Brown frequently calls his star jock when she gets too "Sometimes I have to pull off the road when I'm listening to her on the way home." Brown says.

"I just can't believe some of the things she says. Sometimes I have to reel her in. But most of the time, I just let it go. Because that's just Williams says she has had discussions about going into television she has appeared on "Martin" as herself but she won't go into detail because "I don't want to jinx it." She and Brown recently began co-hosting Top 30 USA, a national weekly countdown of urban-contemporary music. And she is the spokeswoman for MachineGear, a popular hip hop clothing line.

"Yes, I do have it going on," Williams says. "And I can talk about it because I know it can all be taken away tomorrow. So. I might as well enjoy it now, youknowhat mean?" SMEN ATIVO 45.