20 TH Anniversary of Oldies on WSNY-FM Sunny 103/106.5

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

Hard to believe that this month marks 20 years of Oldies Radio on Sunny WSNY 106.5/103.1. Ar they having any celebrations? I was there in 1990 when te switch was made from AC to Oldies!

 

[squarehead]

Please don't quote me on this, but the rumor I heard is that negotiations are under way to bring Connie Francis in for a concert.

There is some concern that there is no venue large enough to handle the show.

Sorry, I could not resist

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

Actually, there was a recent report on CNN about well Conie Francis is doing these days!! She was even on Larry King recently. She hs tackled her mental illness problems of te past and is busy touring all over the U.S. I do think thatit is wrong to pick on a lady like Connie who has comeback from her personal demons. And yes, she could very well be coming to the Grand Strand area soon.

 

[FeedJake]

Wow...20 years already? Sunny 106.5 was my first radio gig back in September of 1990. I worked there for probably 2 months, before getting fired for falling asleep during my airshift. Good times. ;D ;D ;D

 

[pbf1]

Hard to believe that this month marks 20 years of Oldies Radio on Sunny WSNY 106.5/103.1. Ar they having any celebrations? I was there in 1990 when te switch was made from AC to Oldies!

Hmm...WSNY has been an AC station in Columbus, Ohio, since 1982....

 

[charlestondxman]

He meant WSYN, not WSNY.

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

yES, SORRY ABOUT THAT... wsyn-fm Sunny 106.5 (then 103.1) has now been Oldies for over 20 years! Went Oldies in May of 1990!

 

[thatwasradio]

What ever happened to all my compadre's who worked there before 1990? B.J. O'Brian, Buddy Womack, and Spencer trent are the only one's I've been able to keep in touch with.

 

[BobbyV]

Weren't Tom Brockway, Rusty Price, and Shadow Summers are on the air in the early days?

 

[thatwasradio]

Tom Brockway was with us at sign-on, Rusty and the other guy must have came along later. The line-up when I was there was Brockway on mornings, B.J. on Mid-days, me on afternoons, Nicki Thomas or Thompson on nights, Tom Kelly (later "Jammer" with us at Power 98) on overnights, and part timers on the weekend were Robbie Gates, Treva Ellis, Spencer Trent (later "The Waxman" on WKZQ and Power 98), the consultant was Tom Collins, and the engineer was Buddy Womack.

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

The lineup changed some after WSYN went Oldies in May 1990. I know that by early 1991, C.J. Quick was doing mornings for a short while. Remember all of he "Juan Moore" Beer ads that aired on Sunny during this period? Remember the Judy`s House Of Music Beach Music show on the weeknights?

 

[thatwasradio]

I knew Mark Mitchell that worked there after it went Oldies, I think he was the only one they held over, he did the traffic reports in the afternoons when Sunny was CHR.
Those Juan Moore Beer T-Shirt spots were great, all the stations in Myrtle Beach aired them at that time, I think they aired once EVERY hour on Power 98 for two summers!
I did the "BUDWEISER SHAG SHOW" on Saturday nights on Sunny live from the Landmark Hotel in 1990 and the early part of '91, but I worked for The Landmark, not the station. It was fun 'cause in the DJ booth at the Hotel they had a Marti Unit to send the signal back to the station, and a couple of triple-decker I.T. Cart machines and they made a jingle with "Kahuna Budweiser Shag Show" on it, but when my good friend John Kilgo took over the show after I took a job in New Orleans, that cart with the jingle disappeared, I would love to be able to find it again.

 

[nuffsaid]

Kahuna you are da man! Your post brought back some old memories of the early day of Sunny 106.5. I remember hearing the station when it moved from Georgetown to Surf Side. There was a good team on board and the consultant put together are really good format and team, including you! Think the biggest obstacle the station had was enough financial backing to make it work in the area. I seem to remember there was one announcer that came to the station from The Wave, was that the Rusty guy you mentioned. The engineering guy did an excellent job with the processing of the station. Sunny was refresning when it hit the airwaves!

 

[thatwasradio]

Nuffsaid;
Awwww... thanks for the kind words, we did have a good time putting Sunny on the air and running around town in that Sazuki Samuri we gave away the first summer, I think Tom Brokway almost flipped it a dozen times, I was afraid to ride in it with him!
I think Beach Coast Broadcasting had enough money, it just got sucked up into the signal problems they were having at the time, that went on for a year.
I don't know if the Rusty guy came from Wave or not, but Brockway and Nicki Thomas/Thompson did.
Tom Collins was the consultant, he knew (and still does) his stuff, he kept it tight back then.
Buddy Womack did a superior job on the processing, he later did the same for us at Power 98 after Claude Balls retired. Claude used to always complain that Barry Richards wanted everything pre-set and all the settings to do everything for him so he wouldn't have to do anything extra, and I used to look at Claude and say "Yeah, so?" he would bite on his cigar and say 'You damned DJ's!"

 

[BobbyV]

Rusty and I left WYAV about the same time in the Summer of '88, so I'm not sure where he was between then and the time he joined Sunny. By then, I think all the original WAVErs had gone. The radio landscape in MB certainly has changes since then.

 

[thatwasradio]

Hey, Bob, why did you guys leave Wave? If you would rather not discuss it here, send me a note on facebook.
I have a stack of pics from the construction days of the Wave Studios when they left the WLAT location and started running it out of the Industrial Blvd. location. Did they have that big WIDE four-track/ 1/2 inch tape reel-to-reel when you were there? I was the only one using it when I was there, it was neat because it was like my own little production room (the one right beside the on-air control room), that was also the studio where I recorded Chris Ling's voice for the sweepers we did for other stations.

 

[BobbyV]

I had a blast while I was at WYAV, and worked with and for, some great people. When I was a kid, I worked for Jack Hawley at the old WLAT-AM in my hometown. I really enjoyed working for Jeff Kelly though, and when he offered me a spot with WBBG in Youngstown, I went. Growing up in Horry, it was a chance to see something different, and Youngstown was a Top 100 market at the time, so I thought it was a big deal!

Yes, we had the four track. It was my first time remixing songs, my last too. I sucked.