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96.7 west palm beach question??

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys and Gals:

Does anybody remember 96.7 being AOR, a rock station playing "only album cuts." It was between WIXI top 40 (True-fm) and beautiful music KOSY 97 WKSY. Does anybody know what the calls were??

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys and Gals:

Does anybody remember 96.7 being AOR, a rock station playing "only album cuts." It was between WIXI top 40 (True-fm) and beautiful music KOSY 97 WKSY. Does anybody know what the calls were??

T.J.
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I don't believe there were any calls between WIXI-FM (which btw to my knowledge borrowed the "96-X" slogan from the Miami station and was not True FM), and WKSY.

You may be referring to WKTQ?? which were the calls before WIXI-FM.

True FM (WTRU) came after WKSY, and was one of the first (maybe even the first) thing the station was known by when it was on 99.5.

That Jupiter station has gone through a whole bunch of calls, formats, and even frequencies. Its' AM (1000) was dark for a good long while in the early 90s.
 
Hey Radio Sanchez:

Thanks for the reply. They were calls between WIXI nad WKSY because the WIXI calls were granted for a station on 105.5 in Naples on 10-23-86 and the calls WKSY were granted for 96.7 on 1-1-87. So they had to be calls for that station. True fm (WIXI-FM) was the top 40 station before WKSY beacuse I know someone who was the PD of that station for a short time. The 96 X slogan I will ask him about that. He might know and I will give feedback when I know. I do know WTRU 99.5 was a spanish station for a while but I don't know the slogan of the station. Very Starnge in my book. You are right, many changes but none recorded.

Thanks again

T.J.
 
Hey Radio Sanchez:

Forgot to ask you this: Do you remember the format of WKTQ 96.7 and would you remember 96.7 when it was WVSI and WCEZ AOR Z-97

Thanks

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Radio Sanchez:

Thanks for the reply. They were calls between WIXI nad WKSY because the WIXI calls were granted for a station on 105.5 in Naples on 10-23-86 and the calls WKSY were granted for 96.7 on 1-1-87. So they had to be calls for that station. True fm (WIXI-FM) was the top 40 station before WKSY beacuse I know someone who was the PD of that station for a short time. The 96 X slogan I will ask him about that. He might know and I will give feedback when I know. I do know WTRU 99.5 was a spanish station for a while but I don't know the slogan of the station. Very Starnge in my book. You are right, many changes but none recorded.

Thanks again

T.J.
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Hmm.....Interesting....I seem to recall seeing the Broadcasting Magazine "Call Letter Changes" page that showed WIXI-FM changing directly to WKSY-FM (in fact, I think both AM 1000 and FM 96.7 changed at the same time, from WIXI to WKSY, respectively). I know instances have occurred of FCC data not being 100% correct, for example, they list Miami's 94.9 as once having the WSST calls (I think this shows up on www.fccinfo.com), and this was to my knowledge never true.

WTRU was definitely AC "True FM" in the Fall of 1989, and on 99.5...One of the jocks was Billy Brown, who later hosted a New Age show on Love 94 in Miami...I heard this myself and have tape...By early '90, they had flipped to Standards (just calling themselves "WTRU"), and I think they had a lady on there by the name of Donna Marie.

Later on in '90, there ended up being a "Spanish War" in Palm Beach, of sorts, with 99.5 flipping to Spanish as "Radio Triunfo" (one of the jocks went by the name of Jaime Garza), WPOM/1600 dumping R&B for Spanish also as "Latinisima", and Jorge Arroyo's WOEQ/1190 also signing on somewhere in that period as "11Q".
 
t.j. said:
Hey Radio Sanchez:

Forgot to ask you this: Do you remember the format of WKTQ 96.7 and would you remember 96.7 when it was WVSI and WCEZ AOR Z-97

Thanks

T.J.
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A Broadcasting Yearbook listing I had showed WKTQ as having an "Adult Contemporary" format.....WVSI-FM was a simulcast of WVSI-AM 1000, the format being MOR/Standards.

My records showed WCEZ's format to be "Progressive".
 
Hey Radio Sanchez:

THANKS MAN!! Your info has been a great help on the frequency for me!! I did not know that WTRU went AC first then standards, then spanish!! Would you know what kind of spanish it was on WTRU? Was it Music or talk?
Thanks for the second post. Would you know what years each one (WKTQ-AC, WVSI-Standards) happened? Would you know what year WCEZ started with there progressive format? That is one I do not have. I have been trying to find that out for a while. I do know that 96.7 signed on as WRYZ Beautiful music in 1971 and was still there in 1977.

Thanks!! You have a great help on this one!! I talk to my friend and he says there definalty was a call letter change after WIXI and before WKSY, the only problem is he can't remember what they were.

T.J.

P.S. Do you remember what year the 96-X slogan was used on 96.7
 
t.j. said:
Hey Radio Sanchez:

Would you know what kind of spanish it was on WTRU? Was it Music or talk? Would you know what years each one (WKTQ-AC, WVSI-Standards) happened? Would you know what year WCEZ started with there progressive format?

P.S. Do you remember what year the 96-X slogan was used on 96.7
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WTRU was Spanish music as far as I remember when I heard it......Pretty much a little bit of everything that I can recall...As for exact years of exact formats, it's really tricky with that one....That station really changed it seemed about every year, until they got to Jukebox 99.5 in 1994, which lasted a record it seemed, until Fall of '01 (into the move to 106.3 and then the change to cover Mix's last months when they moved there from WMBX), and then B-106.3, which they've had from Spring of '02 to now).

Don't know about the 96-X slogan but it must've been around the time it was WIXI-FM.
 
Worthy of mention, also, is the AM sister, on 1000...As I said, they were not only dark for a very long time (at least late 1989, if not earlier, until about 1996 or 97), but also went through a long list of call letters.

What's also interesting is that 1000 went through quite a few call letters it never used as far as I know, because the changes took place during the long time it was off the air: at least WZIP, WEXI, and WMLZ that I know of were never used. It finally came back on as WJBW-AM, simulcasting first 99.5, and then as WDBE, simulcasting 1420 out of Delray when Rubenstein/Silvers bought Jukebox. I may be wrong, but I believe only in the last couple of years or so has 1000 begun originating programming in and of itself and not simulcasting another AM or FM, for the first time in a looooong while.
 
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