Is this station back in operation? If so what is it programming? Thanks!
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Bring back 14K!!!
jmtillery said:
"Eclectic Rock" is was called. What we had was a card file. You played the song at the front of the file and rotated it to the back. If you thought the transition between the current song and the next one was going to be bad, you could skip one song, but then it had to be played next. The playlist was severely hampered by the fact that the station had no money to buy music and record companies gave terrible music service to an Am daytimer with poor ratings. I think there were about 500 songs in rotation.
We had more fun with it when we went to all top40.
I remember when the transition from beautiful music to soft rock took place in 1978 when WAKA 1390 first became 14K. In the beginning, if I remember correctly, it was called "Album Music, 14K', consisting of a blend of soft rock, hit based, album cuts with a few non-hits thrown in the mix. As I remember, former WMFQ Operations Manager Shawn Smith was the PD who flipped it to 14K. I think it may have been around 1980 when 14K morphed into Top 40 before reformatting as "Adult Rado AM 14, WKGR" in 1981. Urban/Jazz "Magic 1390" emerged when Sunshine Wireless, WYKS, acquired WKGR and flipped it to WMGI. I believe you when you say it was a fun radio station because it sounded fun anytime I tuned in.
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All this talk of WRUF-FM going country, what CHR is serving the Ocala market well? WYKS has a poor signal there, is XL 1067 breaking thru in Slocala? Already two country sticks in Ocala, 93.7 used to brag about it's signal "from I-4 to I-10", blah blah blah....
XL is so-so in Ocala-- but with such a large concentration of older folks in Ocala-- is a Marion only CHR even viable? If so, on what stick??
Ok, that answers one half of the question. Other half is, how viable is it?
WOGK'S PREDECESSOR WAS Z-93 AND THEY DID OKAY IN THE RATINGS BUT THEY REALIZED COUNTRY WOULD BE A BETTER LONG TERM FIT SINCE WTRS COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER PROGRAMMED.
WHEN PEOPLE SAY ON THESE BLOGS THAT SIGNALS ARE WEAK ARE THEY REFERRING TO IN BUILDINGS OR CARS? WHEN I LIVED IN OCALA I PICKED UP MOST OF THE ORLANDO STATIONS FINE IN THE CAR-SUCH AS XL106.7 - AS WELL AS 103.7 AND 105.3 OUT OF GAINESVILLE.
WHEN PEOPLE SAY ON THESE BLOGS THAT SIGNALS ARE WEAK ARE THEY REFERRING TO IN BUILDINGS OR CARS? WHEN I LIVED IN OCALA I PICKED UP MOST OF THE ORLANDO STATIONS FINE IN THE CAR-SUCH AS XL106.7 - AS WELL AS 103.7 AND 105.3 OUT OF GAINESVILLE.
radiobum said:
It's clock radios that count. If you can pick up a signal on a walkman or clock radio without static, then you have good coverage. Car reception is usually much better than home or portable reception, so car reception isn't the standard since it's who you wake up with that's considered most important.
As for the format of choice, I-100 used to keep a salesman in Ocala named Don Wolfe. Don would bring in about $50,000/mo out of Ocala and I-100 just barely had a 60dBu over the town. You can draw your own coclusions based on that, but consider that the station wasn't targetting Ocala. It was after Daytona Beach.
radiobum said:
A very good friend of mine, Greg Caliguiri, and I are indirectly responsible for Z 93 going on the air on the former WFUZ when it did. Greg and I used to talk and plan how we would transform WFUZ into a CHR powerhouse as Z 93 years before it happened.
Originally we had planned to present a business plan to former owner Jim Kirk, but those plans were scrapped when it was learned Kirk sold WFUZ to current owner Dix Communications. I had applied for the GM position with Dix, but the job went to Reynold Hawk from Roanoke, Virginia. Hawk called me in for an interview as program director. During the interview in May 1986, I laid out the whole plan and concept behind the proposed Z 93, using the current call letters (at the time) WFUZ. Ultimately, Mark Levy from WMKR Baltimore was hired as PD, and in September 1986, Z 93, under the new call letters WMMZ, debuted with a full compliment of hard core CHR.
Greg was in Pittsburg when the flip took place, but soon returned to Florida. Greg had told me when he heard Z 93 for the first time, he was convinced I was involved somehow since everything that he heard on the air was everything to the "T" that he and I had discussed and planned a few years earlier.
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Hot rockin, flame throwin I-100. I knew the wolf man, we partied at papa's on 27 in Ocala and would drive back to Ormond/Daytona on that God awful Hwy 40. Good times and that hot rockin CHR could bill real well. Not to mention a GREAT sounding CHR back in the day.
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The world's greatest Legal ID.....Used to love cracking the mic and blaring....
WNFI, Palatka, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando. Florida's Hot Rockin, Flame Throwin IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-100!!
Mammoth stick in Bunnell (Espinola). On the weekends I helped out Timmy the engineer keep the tower site nice and spiffy.
WNFI, Palatka, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando. Florida's Hot Rockin, Flame Throwin IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-100!!
Mammoth stick in Bunnell (Espinola). On the weekends I helped out Timmy the engineer keep the tower site nice and spiffy.
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If only he'd let me "fine tune" that Orban Optimod.... ;D
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