BJ 105 in 1988 or XL 1067 in 2008? Pick your poison

[GeekGoddess]

Hey Bill, the Y-106 line-up of yourself, Jeff Cohen, Rick Stacy, Jim Steel, Jaime, and Bobby Sharp was 100& kick-ass..so was the BJ-105 line-up of yourself, Alan Spector, Tracy Young, Keven Casey, and Jon Summers.

You guys were great and I listened a hell of a lot...

Any top 40 radio station from the eighties is 100& better thatn any top 40 station of today...

Cool of you to say that. I LOVED that line-up also! I'm Jaime and it was SOOOOOOOO much fun being on the radio in those days. I still chat with Jimmy sometimes and posted a bunch of pics from my Y106 days on my Facebook page.

 

[DIZ Guy]

I believe that you were on Late-nights on Y-106...

Didn't you also go over to BJ-105 in the summer of 86' when WHLY fired everybody and totally went downhill????

 

[GeekGoddess]

I believe that you were on Late-nights on Y-106...

Didn't you also go over to BJ-105 in the summer of 86' when WHLY fired everybody and totally went downhill????

Rick Stacy hired me as the night jock, initially. I started there doing 10p-2am following Jimmy Steal. I went through several PDs during my 5 years there, but my last shift was doing middays ... 9a-12N, I think. It was a split shift with Shadow Stevens -- he was either on before me, or right after me. I can't recall which anymore. I'd have to look at some of my radio paraphernalia to see! But no, I never went to BJ105. They offered me a job doing weekends when I was just starting out in radio (and was still doing weekends at my first station), but when I told that station (WLOQ) I was going to quit to go work at BJ, they offered me a full-time shift, so I stayed. I was friends with a bunch of people at BJ though. In fact, Terry Long (mentioned earlier in this thread) was a very good friend and early mentor to me when he was doing nights there. I ran into him again here in Chicago when he came in to do some work on our RCS system at the station. It was fun to reminisce with him!

 

[DIZ Guy]

Whatever happened to "JJ Walker"....

 

[RobynWattsV2.0]

Whatever happened to "JJ Walker"....

Is that the same JJ Walker that worked at Y-103 Jacksonville and Y-100 Miami, then later at WFLZ Tampa as Spyder Harrison?

If so, he's now owns his own production business.

Getting back to BJ-105 of 1988 vs. XL-106.7 of 2008, I'd go with BJ-105 of 1988, primarily because they had live DJs 24/7 in that time. XL can no longer claim it's live around the clock.

 

[Eor36]

Aaaaahhh...

Harry Valentine. So HE is the one responsible for crap like "Drunky The Bear"...

Back to the topic of BJ or XL, anybody here remember a station out of Ocala in the late 80's called Z-93????

Hey Diz Guy,

I live in Ocala and remember Z 93 very well. I was the one who came up with the concept of "Z 93" and taking the former WFUZ (93.7) from adult conetemporary to CHR. Our call letters were also changed to WMMZ while a new 1,400 foot stick was constructed just North of Ocala so we could hit Gainesville with a city grade signal. That was a fun station while it lasted (1986 - 1994). Barry Michaels from BJ 105 also did mornings for a while.

Mark Tillery,
WMMZ Z 93 Alumini (1986 - 1989)
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]

Long live Z93! I worked there part time and did middays for a while with Dave and Heather in the morning, Chris VanDyke and The Birdman. I was also part time there with Lori Knight, Dreamweaver, Kemo (I think that's how he spelled it) and then when they flipped to K-Country.......Whatta sad day that was
It was a great place to work and good times were had by all there