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Guess the mystery Miami control room / 1968 ?

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I'd say the hint is on the turntables, given the year. The fact that he's playing music off LP limits the stations to a few.
 
Not WKAT, the consoles they had were HUGE.

My guess...very wild guess is WOCN.
 
TheBigA said:
I'd say the hint is on the turntables, given the year. The fact that he's playing music off LP limits the stations to a few.
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Hmmm. Album music in the late 60's. Maybe WVCG and its "good music" format. Or similarly formatted WOCN "Miami's got a new Ocean" as you mention. Or maybe even WRIZ with its soft music offering.
 
The 77-DX was an old microphone, even in '68.
I would guess that was a fairly small, maybe signal challenged station.
Are those transmitter meters on his right?
That could rule out a lot of stations.
 
ai4i said:
The 77-DX was an old microphone, even in '68.
I would guess that was a fairly small, maybe signal challenged station.
Are those transmitter meters on his right?
That could rule out a lot of stations.
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This is a very young Jim Kelly in the picture at a station that was on Miami beach in a hotel.
He told me a friend let him sit there for the picture but he did not work there.
I have a copy of that picture that he gave me years ago. He told me the station but I
forgot the call letters not sure which but for sure but not WOCN or WMBM.
 
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The only station in a hotel
on Miami Beach was:
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BINGO!
 
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Sorry I was wrong by one letter call letters were WAEZ at 94.9 which had the owners name in the calls. Later did become WOCN FM and then WINZ FM (Zeta) but also was at one time for a very short time WQAM FM.

I worked at WOCN for many years and saw many LP's with the calls on them.

It was many years ago.
 
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The station signed on in 1962, with 81,000 watts under the WAEZ calls. It was the first station in Miami to broadcast continuously in stereo. It played easy listening music "from the beautiful Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach." The station was owned by Arthur E. Zucker, hence the "AEZ" in the station's calls. A few years later, it changed its calls to WOCN-FM to reflect its sister station WOCN-AM, which it was now partially simulcasting. It continued to play its format, and even began an attempt at Spanish language romance music. For a brief moment during the mid 70's, they were known as " Stereo 94".
 
TheBigA said:
The station signed on in 1962, with 81,000 watts under the WAEZ calls. It was the first station in Miami to broadcast continuously in stereo. It played easy listening music "from the beautiful Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach." The station was owned by Arthur E. Zucker, hence the "AEZ" in the station's calls. A few years later, it changed its calls to WOCN-FM to reflect its sister station WOCN-AM, which it was now partially simulcasting. It continued to play its format, and even began an attempt at Spanish language romance music. For a brief moment during the mid 70's, they were known as " Stereo 94".
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Funny years later we used tower on top of the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach for Love 94 at 93.9 when we started it. Which was the old WBUS before Love 94, later we moved Love to the new tower downtown and the rest is radio history.
 
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Someone suggested WMBM. That reminded me that station was where Larry King got his start when he was 23. The long story is he left Brooklyn after the Dodgers went to LA. He went to Miami and got a job at WAHR, a small station that later became WMBM. It was there that the story of him getting seduced by a listener happened. It was an early version of Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty For Me." Larry often told the story on his show, but PBS animated it into a cool video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yD8PzFFNFU#t=226
 
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