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Classic Rock in South Florida?

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No Classic Rock FM station in South Florida right now. There used to be three stations years ago.

At least there is still Classic Rock with Sonny Fox, Corey James, Randy Thomas and more local DJ's like Gnarly Charlie, "The Boomer" and Alan Michaels on South Florida Rock.

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She Radio said:
No Classic Rock FM station in South Florida right now. There used to be three stations years ago.

At least there is still Classic Rock with Sonny Fox, Corey James, Randy Thomas and more local DJ's like Gnarly Charlie, "The Boomer" and Alan Michaels on South Florida Rock.

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I don't remember those stations. The only Rock station I remember in this market was 93 ROCK on WHDR but they haven't aired Rock on that station since 2010 when it became Easy and WFEZ.
 
itsRoly4266 said:
I don't remember those stations.
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She Radio might be going way back to a time when classic rock was modern radio.
If we go back further, there was a time when there were several nineteen-thirties music stations around here.
 
ai4i said:
She Radio might be going way back to a time when classic rock was modern radio.
If we go back further, there was a time when there were several nineteen-thirties music stations around here.
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Understand your view since it only goes back a few years. Zeta 4 was on twice for over 20 years and the other was the Rock leader for over 30 years in South Florida Radio.
 
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90.5 WVUM
The Magic Bus
ζeta-4 (the last word in quad)
Mother (WMUM)
WEDR
Surf & She
WGBS (overnights)
 
Classic Rock Radio said:
Zeta 4 was on twice for over 20 years and the other was the Rock leader for over 30 years in South Florida Radio.
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I remember when Dade county was called the metro, but Dade and Broward were called the TSA (total survey area).
Zeta was on One Biscayne Tower in downtown Miami and often did better in the metro, while WSHE was the lowest station on a TV tower, well below WWOG, Y-100, WAXY & WGLO, and did better in the TSA.
 
ai4i said:
Along with WSRF, WIRK, WPOM, and for short periods, WCKR & WINZ.
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Very true but WFUN & WQAM were the market leaders in the AM days. WINZ and WGBS played much less rock.
WIRK was in Palm Beach and Surf only covered part of Broward. WEDR was one of the first FM's to play rock.
But none of them had the history of 30 years of Rock in South Florida with great DJ's like Sonny Fox and Randy Thomas (Voice of ET) Glad they are still around and on www.SheRadio.com
 
Alan Michaels said:
Thanks Frank for bringing them up also. I worked at WFUN and we played our share of Rock too.
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I always admired the job Jerry Starr did with WFUN, with a lesser signal than WQAM. Eventually, WFUN beat WQAM but both were wonderful radio stations.
 
DavidEduardo said:


I always admired the job Jerry Starr did with WFUN, with a lesser signal than WQAM. Eventually, WFUN beat WQAM but both were wonderful radio stations.
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David, I think you mean Dick Starr who was the youngest PD of a major market station in the USA at the time. I spent time with Rick Shaw a while back and even he recalls the times WFUN beat WQAM.

Picture attached in this post that I call WQAM and WFUN together one more time.
 

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David, I think you mean Dick Starr who was the youngest PD of a major market station in the USA at the time. I spent time with Rick Shaw a while back and even he recalls the times WFUN beat WQAM.

Picture attached in this post that I call WQAM and WFUN together one more time.
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Yes, I did mean Dick Starr. I somehow inserted the name of the long-time WHOT-Youngstown production manager in my post.

I was a member of an "idea exchange" group that also included WFUN and Dick wrote the monthly WFUN submissions. I met him one one of my many trips up to Miami, and we both laughed about being Top 40 PDs who were very very young (I was 18 when I became a PD).
 
DavidEduardo said:


Yes, I did mean Dick Starr. I somehow inserted the name of the long-time WHOT-Youngstown production manager in my post.

I was a member of an "idea exchange" group that also included WFUN and Dick wrote the monthly WFUN submissions. I met him one one of my many trips up to Miami, and we both laughed about being Top 40 PDs who were very very young (I was 18 when I became a PD).
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Congrats on being PD at 18 I'm glad you got to meet him. We from WFUN miss him very much as he passed years ago.
I was lucky to be on the air at WFUN at 17 and WINZ at 16 so those days were very special to me.
 
Alan Michaels said:
Congrats on being PD at 18 I'm glad you got to meet him. We from WFUN miss him very much as he passed years ago.
I was lucky to be on the air at WFUN at 17 and WINZ at 16 so those days were very special to me.
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Anecdote time: I had wanted to meet Dick early on but I was so young that I was not able to rent a car because I could not get a credit card. And I could not figure out how to get a bus from the LeJeune area hotels to WFUN. But I had visited WQAM, even getting to meet Todd Storz just before his death. And that was because, at the time, it was easier to get a bus to Biscayne and Flagler and then just walk up to the mezzanine at the McAllister!
 
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Anecdote time: I had wanted to meet Dick early on but I was so young that I was not able to rent a car because I could not get a credit card. And I could not figure out how to get a bus from the LeJeune area hotels to WFUN. But I had visited WQAM, even getting to meet Todd Storz just before his death. And that was because, at the time, it was easier to get a bus to Biscayne and Flagler and then just walk up to the mezzanine at the McAllister!
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Wow what a love for radio. No wonder your posts are right on all the time. You were lucky to meet Todd Storz it was sad when we had to give him a hard time about the WQAM DJ that was going thru our trash at WFUN looking for our memos. Great talking to you.
 
Alan Michaels said:
Wow what a love for radio. No wonder your posts are right on all the time. You were lucky to meet Todd Storz it was sad when we had to give him a hard time about the WQAM DJ that was going thru our trash at WFUN looking for our memos. Great talking to you.
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I was in Miami waiting for a flight back to Quito where I was building what would be the first Top 40 station in the nation. I had over 12 hours to kill, so I visited WQAM. Here was this 18-year-old kid who wanted to get a tour of WQAM and who said he was building a station in a country most people could not spell.

The receptionist checked with the GM and told him my story. Out comes Jack Sandler, who asks me more about what I am doing. He gave me a tour, and then says, "There is someone here who I think you should meet." I was taken to an office and introduced to Todd Storz. He had been a hero of mine from reading Broadcasting and Sponsor back from the late 50's, so I was thrilled. Mr Storz asked more about my project, and then he said "how long have you got" and I mentioned I had about 8 hours before I had to get back to the airport. He proceeded to give me a three or four hour course in Top 40, from music rotations to promotions and jocks. That was perhaps the most important few hours of my career.
 
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