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1360 WCGL Question from 1975

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thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

I got another blank I need some help on: would anybody know what the format was of 1360 WCGL between 1975 (formally WOBS) and when it went gospel in 1978?

Thanks for you help on this one!!

T.J.
 
WCGL-AM 1360 was beautiful music, owned by Ed Winton. The station was co-owned with Winton's Saint Petersburg stations WWBA-AM 680 and WWBA-FM 107.3, both Tampa Bay beautiful music stations...

Mark Tillery
General Manager
WELE-AM 1380
Ormond Beach - Daytona
[email protected]
 
In between the beautiful music format where they were known as "The Seagull" and up until they switched to gospel, they were briefly an R&B station known as "Super Soul C-G-L." I remember it was a canned format where the song titles were recorded by a generic announcer on the end of the song cuts, and there were no live jocks. I don't remember how long this lasted, maybe a year or so.
 
jmtillery said:
WCGL-AM 1360 was beautiful music, owned by Ed Winton. The station was co-owned with Winton's Saint Petersburg stations WWBA-AM 680 and WWBA-FM 107.3, both Tampa Bay beautiful music stations...

Mark Tillery
General Manager
WELE-AM 1380
Ormond Beach - Daytona
[email protected]
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If I'm not mistaken; Ed Winton also owned WOCN 1450 Miami and WOCN fm as well; at least they did cross promotions for each other, so I assumed they were co-owned; WWBA was the Bay (Music too beautiful for words) and WOCN am/fm was The Ocean; both sets of stations were instrumental beautiful music.

drt
 
jaguar922 said:
In between the beautiful music format where they were known as "The Seagull" and up until they switched to gospel, they were briefly an R&B station known as "Super Soul C-G-L." I remember it was a canned format where the song titles were recorded by a generic announcer on the end of the song cuts, and there were no live jocks. I don't remember how long this lasted, maybe a year or so.
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That's interesting to say the least. I had no prior knowledge that WCGL programmed an R & B format... Also, I think I now know what the the original WCGL call letter combination stood for, that being Sea Gull or "C" "GuL". I often wondered about those call letters... AM I correct on that one? That seemed to make sense after you said the station was known as Sea Gull. Lastly, do you happen to know the year WCGL switched to Black Gospel? I'm thinking it may have been sometime in the mid '80s.

Mark Tillery
General Manager
WELE-AM 1380
Ormond Beach - Daytona
[email protected]
 
Yes, I'm pretty sure the call letters WCGL were applied for to accompany the "Seagull" identifier. I remember the TV commercial for the beautiful music format showing Seagulls at the beach, with waves crashing on the shore. And I think I remember a logo that had the outline of a seagull in flight, but I'm not sure. As far as the date they switched to Black Gospel, I am not really sure. You are correct that they were a gospel station by the mid 80's, I'm not sure of the year.
 
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