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Anyone remember WILZ 1590?

RMarino

RMarino

I was just listening to an old "American Top 40" from August 1973 on XM Radio, and that week Casey Kasem welcomed new affiliate WILZ Tampa-St. Petersburg. I have never heard of this station before! Anyone remember this one? Jeff Miller's page has WILZ listed on 1590 at some point. I'm guessing it was Top 40... how long did it last before becoming WRXB?
 
rich...


Used to be a big band / MOR daytime station back in the 60's and or 70's...studios were located in the Tierre Verde Complex that Guy Lombardo built in I think the early 60's...

I could be wrong, but my faded memory seems ti recall that there was even a comic strip in the paper about the station that I'm sure was actually a paid ad...


later...

walt
 
RMarino said:
I was just listening to an old "American Top 40" from August 1973 on XM Radio, and that week Casey Kasem welcomed new affiliate WILZ Tampa-St. Petersburg. I have never heard of this station before! Anyone remember this one? Jeff Miller's page has WILZ listed on 1590 at some point. I'm guessing it was Top 40... how long did it last before becoming WRXB?
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I remember seeing a WILZ bumper sticker on the back of the WRXB transmitter when I worked there in '92.
 
Very interesting.

I just listened to XM's rebroadcast of AT40 from September 1976 and Casey mentioned that AT 40 can be heard on "WLCY St. Petersburg, Florida." So I'm guessing that by 1976, WILZ was no longer Top 40. Anyone have any other recollections of WILZ?
 
I remember hearing them ID as Z16 in about 1974, playing the rock, top 40 format. Q105 FM came on about that time and think that was end of it.
 
As I recall, WILZ advertised their location as St. Pete Beach. They were a daytimer, and went off the air at sunset. Although during the daytime their signal was receivable throughout the Bay area, reception of their last few minutes of broadcasting at sunset was spotty and weak in Tampa. It is my understanding that a short (2-minute) 1973 aircheck of WILZ will be posted on www.radioyears.com/ sometime in early December 2007.

dw
 
WILZ was, indeed, a popular-music station for a time in the mid-1970s, and the station had that format (as a 5,000-watt daytimer) until the summer of 1975.
 
Bumping up this topic because someone recently brought up the subject of WILZ. Lots of good info here.
 
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