Clear Channel Blowout Update?

[MaskMan]

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I think the complete history of the above mentioned stations would be the following:

WVBZ = WGLD = WNOS-FM = WGBG-FM
98.7 Simon = WKSI = WRQK = WPET-FM = WMDE

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You left out a few it was more like
WVBZ = WHSL = WFXC= WGLD=WNOW=WGBG
WSMW (Simon) was also The Point at one time. Can't remember the calls.

 

[carrington]

And Bob's still around - running WKBC

According to the FCC database, Robert B. Brown owns 100% of the shares of Wilkes Broadcasting Company, which owns WKBC AM & FM. IIRC, Mr. Brown's mother once owned WKBC. Mr. Brown also owned WORD (910 AM)/Spartanburg during its glory days as a Top 40.

 

[BIG APE]

And Bob's still around - running WKBC

According to the FCC database, Robert B. Brown owns 100% of the shares of Wilkes Broadcasting Company, which owns WKBC AM & FM. IIRC, Mr. Brown's mother once owned WKBC. Mr. Brown also owned WORD (910 AM)/Spartanburg during its glory days as a Top 40.

If I remember correctly they also owned WGGG-AM 1230 in Gainesville Florida a rocker back in my college days 1970!

 

[ncradioeng]

They also had a station in Harrisonburg, VA and put WATA, Boone and WDSL, Mocksville on the air.

 

[ncradioeng]

They also had a station in Lakeland, FL and Bob put WTLK, Taylorsville on the air.

 

[RadioDaze]

When 98.7 was the point (from 1995-2002), the did so under the WKSI call sign from the "98.7 Kiss FM" and "98.7 Kiss Country" days. When the station became "98.7 the Zone" in 2002, they changed their calls to WOZN. The current WSMW/"98-7 Simon" format came online in 2005.

100.3, as mentioned, has had quite a few call letters. There was a WGBG-FM (sister to 1400 WGBG, now WKEW) in Greensboro in the late 1940s on the channel that fell silent. The High Point 100.3 first signed on in the late 1950s as WNOS-FM (sister to 1600 WNOS), became WGLD in the 80s, then WOJY "Joy 100", and finally WWWB "B-100 FM" (the latter three all some form of easy listening or soft rock). In 1994, the station went classic rock as WFXF "100.3 The Fox" only to go country as WHSL "Whistle 100" 13 months later. When Clear Channel bought WHSL, they couldn't have it competing against WTQR, so it went rock as WUBZ "100.3 The Buzzard" in 2001, only to change call letters a month later to WVBZ. In 2009, they went active rock as "100.3 The Buzz"-with the same WVBZ call sign.

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I think the complete history of the above mentioned stations would be the following:

WVBZ = WGLD = WNOS-FM = WGBG-FM
98.7 Simon = WKSI = WRQK = WPET-FM = WMDE

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You left out a few it was more like
WVBZ = WHSL = WFXC= WGLD=WNOW=WGBG
WSMW (Simon) was also The Point at one time. Can't remember the calls.
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[vchimpanzee]

When 98.7 was the point (from 1995-2002), the did so under the WKSI call sign from the "98.7 Kiss FM" and "98.7 Kiss Country" days. When the station became "98.7 the Zone" in 2002, they changed their calls to WOZN. The current WSMW/"98-7 Simon" format came online in 2005.

100.3, as mentioned, has had quite a few call letters. There was a WGBG-FM (sister to 1400 WGBG, now WKEW) in Greensboro in the late 1940s on the channel that fell silent. The High Point 100.3 first signed on in the late 1950s as WNOS-FM (sister to 1600 WNOS), became WGLD in the 80s, then WOJY "Joy 100", and finally WWWB "B-100 FM" (the latter three all some form of easy listening or soft rock). In 1994, the station went classic rock as WFXF "100.3 The Fox" only to go country as WHSL "Whistle 100" 13 months later. When Clear Channel bought WHSL, they couldn't have it competing against WTQR, so it went rock as WUBZ "100.3 The Buzzard" in 2001, only to change call letters a month later to WVBZ. In 2009, they went active rock as "100.3 The Buzz"-with the same WVBZ call sign.

And they moved rock from 94.5 and made that classic country WWCC.

 

[MaskMan]

I stand corrected RadioDaze. I remember the WOZN calls. I do not, however, remember WUBZ. I don't beleive that is accurate. I only recall WVBZ and think it was that from the beginning. Why would they give up WUBZ calls for WVBZ? Makes no sense.

 

[amos]

Call Sign Begin Date
WVBZ 02/28/2001
WUBZ 01/31/2001
WHSL-FM 11/10/1995
WFXF 10/24/1994
WWWB-FM 10/14/1994
WWWB 04/03/1989

 

[Huff]

93.1
Apr 1947 - WAIR-FM
Jan 1965 - WGPL
1973 - WSEZ-FM
Feb 1987 - WMQX-FM
Nov 2006 - WPAW

98.7
1948 - WCTP (not known if operation ever signed on or not)
Jan 1958 - WMDE
1973 - WPET -FM
Nov 1973 - WRQK
June 1985 - WKSI
Mar 2002 - WOZN
May 2005 - WSMW

100.3
1948 - WGBG-FM (originally at 101.7, off air in 1951)
June 1953 - WNOS-FM
1975 - WGLD-FM
Mar 1985 - WOJY
Apr 1989 - WWWB
Oct 1994 - WFXF
Nov 1995 - WHSL
Jan 2001 - WUBZ
Feb 2001 - WVBZ

107.5
Dec 1958 - WYFS
1967 - WAAA-FM
1972 - WSGH
Jan 1976 - WKZL

 

[ncradioeng]

97.3

WFMY late 1940's to early '50's.

 

[vchimpanzee]

93.1
Apr 1947 - WAIR-FM
Jan 1965 - WGPL
1973 - WSEZ-FM
Feb 1987 - WMQX-FM
Nov 2006 - WPAW

98.7
1948 - WCTP (not known if operation ever signed on or not)
Jan 1958 - WMDE
1973 - WPET -FM
Nov 1973 - WRQK
June 1985 - WKSI
Mar 2002 - WOZN
May 2005 - WSMW

100.3
1948 - WGBG-FM (originally at 101.7, off air in 1951)
June 1953 - WNOS-FM
1975 - WGLD-FM
Mar 1985 - WOJY
Apr 1989 - WWWB
Oct 1994 - WFXF
Nov 1995 - WHSL
Jan 2001 - WUBZ
Feb 2001 - WVBZ

107.5
Dec 1958 - WYFS
1967 - WAAA-FM
1972 - WSGH
Jan 1976 - WKZL

Where did you get these since the site I go to doesn't go back that far?

 

[Huff]

Years and years of research... most of it made easier these days thanks to David Gleason's website (www.americanradiohistory.com)

 

[MaskMan]

yawwwwnnnnn . . .

 

[stafferman]

Thank you Atticus....

Raleigh/Greensboro should be re-titled "Nursing Home Radio"

Everyone reposting old station call letters....ITS CALLED WIKIPEDIA

It's all out there....we got it

 

[BIG APE]

Thank you Atticus....

Raleigh/Greensboro should be re-titled "Nursing Home Radio"

Everyone reposting old station call letters....ITS CALLED WIKIPEDIA

It's all out there....we got it

Exactly..in fact most of us worked at them at one time or another! Don't need reminders of some of 'em!! BIGAPE