92.5 WIFI Progressive Years 1966-1970 (WI-FI ROCK)

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

Here is my Timeline for 92.5 WIFI Progressive Rock Years. (WI-FI ROCK) Most of my info is from Billboard Magazine articles.

January 31, 1966 WIFI Progressive Rock (Mon-Sun 9PM-1AM) Ron Diamond

May 2, 1966 WIFI Progressive Rock (Mon-Sun 7PM-1AM) Johnny Devereaux 7PM-10PM, Ron Diamond 10PM-1AM

March 4, 1968 WIFI Progressive Rock (Mon-Sun 3PM-5:45PM, 7PM-1AM) Johnny Devereaux 3PM-5:45PM, 7PM-10PM, Ron Diamond 10PM-1AM

Now was there a jock that came to WIFI 92.5 doing Progressive Rock named Scott Jay that did a 1AM-6AM Shift?

I found a newspaper radio log from December 4, 1969 that had Johnny Devereaux on WIFI from 8PM-1AM and Scott Jay on 1AM-6AM.

Is my timeline correct? And when did Scott Jay begin at WIFI? Guess this is when WIFI went 24 hours. Feedback from you guys is greatly appreciated. Please correct any mistakes.

Thanks
Tommy C.

 

[John1]

In the late '60's WIFI was run pretty much as a local Norristown station. I remember listening to Bux-Mont league high school football & basketball games live on Friday nights sponsored by Genaurdi's supermarkets. ("Remember, be sure to stop in tomorrow & tell the Genaurdi brothers you heard their commercial on W-I-F-I!") Then in 1970 they were sold and went to the all syndicated "Hit Parade '70 and '71 format. In a couple years they worked back to the top 40 WIFI most people remember with high-energy personalities.

 

[Big Weed]

Lol high energy jocks indeed. I used to record em. Still have em. Shotgun Kelly, Bill Foster, Steve Rivers, Bobby Walker, and the one and only Jerry Cain ( Kane). There were more.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Ah, WIFI memories .....

Around 1979, in their Top 40 years, I remember the nighttime jock, Don Marino, promoing Bill Gamble's show with 'he's got a lot of loves songs for ya'. We had some fun with the name on Long Island, because a pal of ours was named Don Marino ....

I had made a tape of WIFI, untelescoped, and would pop it in the car's cassette deck on occasion. One night (after I carefully had coincided the time as best as I could arrange) I had the tape loaded and all set to 'tune in'. I even had the FM's analogue dial set to 92.5. My girlfriend and I were driving all over Nassau County listening what I told her was 'strange reception' that night.
She enjoyed this station from Philadelphia. She also said 'WHAT?!?' when a contest they ran implored entrants to count all the Beatles songs they would hear 'between now and February'. It was August when we were driving around .....

Who can forget those round, transparent WIFI 92 window stickers? They once sent me a package of them, maybe twenty. I may have a few left, buried in boxes of 'radio $#!+' -- coverage maps and record surveys -- huddled somewhere in the confusion, 40 years and numerous home moves later .....

And on coverage : Ditto, John 1. On Long Island in the car at an abandoned Lynbrook train station during a foggy 'tropo' night, I was able to log every Philly FM station --EXCEPT WIFI. I even heard WWSH despite the big-signalled WBLI also being on 106.1. WYSP 94.1, a faithful 'tropo alert' station, at least on Long Island, was easily the loudest ......