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104.9 WAQB, WJNJ Question

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

After looking at the yearbooks I have seen that WAQB was on the air from July 1967 to October 1970, would anybody know what the format of the station was? There was no format listing in the yearbooks.

And I know WJNJ 104.9 was on the air from October 1970 to 1980 when it became ROCK 105. I saw in the yearbooks that WJNJ's format was MOR the same as the AM. Could anybody tell me if it was an AC type of MOR or more standards type of MOR for the FM? Did the AM simulcat on the FM?

Thanks for your help on this one guys!!

T.J.
 
As far as I know, WJNJ-FM 104.9 was more of an MOR Standards format... I believe it did simulcast the WJNJ-AM 1600... WJNJ-FM 104.9 class A became WFYV-FM 104.5 C in 1980 when Regan Henry, President of Broadcast Enterprises Network Incorporated (BENI) who also owned WPDQ-AM 1460 acquired WJNJ-FM 104.9 and petitioned the FCC to subsitute unused 104.5 C Saint Augustine for 104.9 A Atlantic Beach. This is when 105.5 A was dropped in at Saint Augustine to replace 104.5 C which never went on the air in Saint Augustine...Ironically, what had later become WSOS-FM 105.5 A Saint Augustine moved to 94.1 C3 to take advantage of a power increase. This opened up 105.5 A to be reallotted to Saint Augistine Beach later which eventually upgraded to a C3...

Mark Tillery
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I have a copy of the application requesting the FCC allow 104.9 Atlantic Beach to move up to Fernandina Beach to the now-WVOJ 1570 Tower at 707 Dade Street Fernandina Beach, FL. They were going to put the FM ant on the 187' (now) WVOJ 1570 stick. This proposal was circa 1964 if memory serves. 1570 was then WPAP I think. 1570 Originally was a 1kw daytimer built by Marshall Rowland... playing country music. I don't know if this was 1953 or 1955 when it commenced operations. WFBF was called "We Feed Bull Frogs", perhaps refering to the stick being on-site at a salt water marsh.

Somewhere even deeper in the files I have a copy of the application for a new 105.3 be assigned to Fernandina Beach, this was around 1980-ish. 3kw antenna mounted across the street from the Fernandina Beach Denny's, Sadler Road.

WFBF, WPAP, WYHI, WHOG, WQAI, WYHI, WGSR, WNNR, WVOJ should be the call sign progression. Around 1980 WHOG went 5kw days. Around 1986 they added 30 watt night service. in 1999 they went to 10kw days, 30 watt nights. I think they have something under 500 watts till two hours past sunset... a series of drops in power.
 
WJNJ started when two radio men from up north bought 1600AM and I think activated 104.9FM. Their names were Jack and Jerry (JnJ). Don't remember their last names.

Jack and Jerry ran the morning show with an MOR simulcast. Somewhat more up than Jones College but not a lot.

I think they bailed out in the mid 1970s.
 
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