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WGLY?

Anyone know why the FCC records show WRTO beginning as WTHM in 1984 with no mention of WGLY (Where God Loves You) which occupied the frequency for several years prior?
WGLY had 1,100 watts at 460 feet on the same tower when 98.3 could only support class A assignments.
COL was then and has always been Goulds.
 
FCC records say?? I know Wiki said it, but FCC? I think WGLY were the calls from 1976-84.

In '84 they even had Chicago Cubs baseball!

I even remember the studio....2nd floor of an office building around the intersection of SW 112 Av. (Allapattah Rd) & US 1.

cd
 
ai4i said:
Anyone know why the FCC records show WRTO beginning as WTHM in 1984 with no mention of WGLY (Where God Loves You) which occupied the frequency for several years prior?
WGLY had 1,100 watts at 460 feet on the same tower when 98.3 could only support class A assignments.
COL was then and has always been Goulds.

You can always check the Broadcasting Yearbook issues; I see references to WGLY Goulds back in, for example, the 1976, 1977 and 1978 books.

From the 80's... 1982 Broadcasting Yearbook to be precise...

WGLY(FM) —February 1976: 98.3 mhz; 1.1 kw. Ant
460 ft. Stereo. 20938 S. Dixie Hwy., Miami (33189).
(305) 253-4393. Fine Arts Bcstg Co. Net: UPI. Format:
Contemp Christian, Gospel. • Fred C. Jacob, VP & gen
mgr; Paul Olson, stn mgr; Paul Barzler, chief engr. •
Rates: $7.50; 7.50; 7.50; 7.50.
 
DE, I was expecting that you would know the reason why.
Do I hear jmtillery out there?

BTW, CD...the Chicao Cubs do(es?) not sound very Christian.
 
ai4i said:
DE, I was expecting that you would know the reason why.
Do I hear jmtillery out there?

BTW, CD...the Chicao Cubs do(es?) not sound very Christian.

You didn't know the half of it....

cd
 
ai4i said:
DE, I was expecting that you would know the reason why.
Do I hear jmtillery out there?

BTW, CD...the Chicao Cubs do(es?) not sound very Christian.

I suspect that the reason is the conversion to a computerized database as well as the move to The Portals.
 
btw, 1975 Yearbook lists 98.3 as "WOOA", although only as a construction permit.

Ironic how what was once the only Class "A" in the market is now the only full "C".
 
WHMS, (or WQX_) Hialeah - Miami Springs was also a class A.
They moved from 92.1 to 92.3 and upgraded the same night that Magic moved from Tamarac to County Line Rd (102.7-92.1=10.6).
 
Per usual Dave Eduardo is absolutely correct about WGLY. Clearing the air completely, WGLY upon signing on in early 1976 billed themselves as the first commercial FM gospel radio station in the U.S. and that was what management was touting at the time.

Ai4i is correct too, somewhat, they were licensed to Goulds at 8 KW, however their tower was bolted on at the 800 ft. level of Chanel 6's tower in Homestead off of Coconut drive and U.S. 27 with studio's located in a tiny 3 room office building on U.S. 1 and 117th Avenue in Cutler Ridge right across the street from McDonald's. The rooms included a small front office, control room and production room, two ten pot RCA Boards in both control and production, two turntables each, and two ITC triple-decker cart machines one in each room and a single deck ITC recorder in production with gray carpeting on both floors and wall's.....

Their corporate office's were in Coral Gable's right directly behind the Biltmore hotel in an equally small but somewhat plush office building operated by the individual's Dave Eduardo indicated and there you have it.

For the sake of tooting my own horn I can say I know for sure.....
 
^ Not US 27, but rather the ex-State Road 27, now SR 997 (Krome Avenue), likely renamed so as to avoid confusion.

If I am right, 997 now ends at Mile Marker 127 of US 1, but a few turns in Florida City, and you get on to SR 9336 (which AFAIK was a continuation of the ol' 27), continue on that road, and you end up n Flamingo at the end of Everglades Park---a great DXn place if you have bug repellent & sunscreen.

cd
 
FCC records say?? I know Wiki said it, but FCC? I think WGLY were the calls from 1976-84.

In '84 they even had Chicago Cubs baseball!

I even remember the studio....2nd floor of an office building around the intersection of SW 112 Av. (Allapattah Rd) & US 1.

cd
Fine Arts Broadcasting, the owners, were based in Chicago
 
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