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93.9 history Timeline 1948-1976

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

Here is my complete timeline for 93.9 FM

Dec 1, 1948 WED 6PM WLRD Backround Music (Continental FM Network)

Mon Dec 3, 1956 WAHR Backround Music 9am-2am

May 6, 1957 WAHR simucasted AM 1490 WAHR

May 19, 1958 WMET simulcasted AM 1490 WMET

April 3, 1962 WMBM All Jazz 24 hrs

Dec 10, 1962 WMVJ All Jazz 24 hrs

Sat Sept 21, 1963 WMVJ Gospel 5AM-9PM

Sun Sept 22, 1963 WMVJ SIM 1490 ALL DAY AND NIGHT.

Mon Sept 23, 1963 WMVJ Gospel M-F 8AM-9PM sim AM 9PM-8AM, SAT 5AM-9PM sim AM 9PM-12 mid SIM AM SUNDAY

Fri Nov 8, 1963 5PM WMBM Gospel M-SAT 8AM-9PM sim AM 9PM-8AM, SUN 5PM-9PM sim AM all other times.

March 14, 1966 WGOS Southern Gospel "Gospel 93.9" 5am-12mid Sim 1490 12mid-5am(jazz show)

_________1966 WGOS Country "The Wild Goose"
(Note:WGOS was doing gospel in April 66 and was doing Country in Sept 66 so somehwhere between April and Sept WGOS went from Gospel to Country)Any idea's?

July 1, 1968 WBUS Business News M-F 9AM-6:30PM MOR/STDS M-F 5AM-9AM, 6:30P-12MID, SIM 1490 12MID-5AM

Nov 6, 1970 WBUS Buisness News M-F 9AM-6:30PM Progressive Rock M-F 9PM-9AM SAT SUN ALL DAY AND NIGHT Jazz M-F 6:30P-9PM

Dec 1, 1970 WBUS to STEREO Progressive Rock 24/7 "The Magic Bus"

Aug 27, 1973 WBUS Jazz "The Musical Bus"

Oct 28, 1976 12mid WWWL Rock AC (Mellow Rock) Love 94

The only date I need is when WGOS went Country.

Enjoy

T.J.
 
T.J., as always, you're doing great research here...but it really needs to be shared somewhere where it's readily available to your fellow broadcast historians. Just posting it on R-I discussion threads, which come and go quickly and aren't easily searchable, doesn't do your work justice.

I know David Eduardo reads these boards...maybe he could make some space available to you on his server to make sure your work's available for posterity?
 
I know this is nit-picky and I apologize ahead of time---

WBUS 73-76 (I take t.j.'s word of the years) was "The Music Bus," not "musical."

Back to our reguarly scheduled thread....

cd
 
I remember that they used to braodcast (WBUS) from the Deauville Hotel. When they switched from BUS to WWWL in '76 the transition was made by the sound of a bus crashing!
 
Hey Scott:

Love your transmitter sites!! Are you stilll doing that? I agree. Have any ideas? If David E want to use my info to put on his site he has my blessings. To bad, I tried to get in touch with the guy who owns the South Florida Radio pages site but no reply yet. Do you know who I am talking about? I have more to come. Stay tuned. T.J.

Hey CD:

You are not being nit picky. Any accurate info you can give is great. I am trying to be accurate as possible. Thank you very much for the correction.

T.J.
 
T.J. nice work and CD we'll clear the air, WBUS was not the musical bus or the music bus, It's moniker....

"The Magic Bus" referencing Miami as the Magic city.....!
 
Footnote to my previous comment, for the sake of sticking my foot in one's mouth, I don't recall WBUS calling themselves the musical or music BUS, please correct me on this.......Thanks!
 
I came in when they were the "Wild Goose". I guess GOSpel was their original call letter branding.
BTW...another use for that call-sign was used during their early monaural Magic Bus years: "We GO Stereo".
Their constantly played "jungle" or "theme" was a brief section of Magic Bus performed by The Who.
During the early jazz years, they were the Jazz Bus. Certain call-signs lend themselves to broad versatility.
 
@Stormychuck,

It may have been the Magic Bus at a time when I didn't listen to FM......but,

In 1975 during their jazz/blues regime, their TOH featured a jingle, "This is the Mu-sic Bus", then spoken-word "Quad (or Quadraphonic, they used both) 94, WBUS, Miami Beach" (or a variant), over musical voices like a la-la-la or pa-pa-pa, than IIRC into TOH AP news with three big notes (which I cannot describe here) for the AP theme, then what sounded like a soft xylophone with a "ting" (like played on a triangle) over and over.

There's gotta be someone here who remembers this! By all means, hop on here.....

cd
 
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