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Ft. Myers Naples History questions (Help)
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DToTheJ said:
1) WKII is on 1070 AM.
2) WTLT was originally on 93.5 FM; they later moved to 93.7 FM in order to increase power.
By the way: Naples has a local station. It's 98.9 FM WGUF Naples' FM Talk.
Phil said:
The Fort Myers News-Press is owned by Gannett; Scripps-Howard owns the Naples Daily News.
Couple of notes re: 1510/93.5:
I have a Vane Jones log from 1975, which actually lists 1510 in Marco as "WMIG", and 93.5 as "WMIB". This may "throw a wrench" on the discussions so far, just letting all of you know.
Surprised no one has brought out the short-lived, but excellent stint WLAZ had, not as "Lazer 93", but as "Z-93". Mid-late 1990...Probably the best sounding *mainstream* CHR south of Tampa (to my ears, better than anything Miami had at the time, since Y-100 was awful). Not very rhythmic and one of the first stations to do heavy 80s gold..Think Bill Shane was the PD...I loved it and used to get it on rare occasions in Miami....They used the "Serving the Universe" jingle WHTZ/NY had and re-sang it to say "Serving South Florida". It was a shame it lasted so little.
I have a Vane Jones log from 1975, which actually lists 1510 in Marco as "WMIG", and 93.5 as "WMIB". This may "throw a wrench" on the discussions so far, just letting all of you know.
Surprised no one has brought out the short-lived, but excellent stint WLAZ had, not as "Lazer 93", but as "Z-93". Mid-late 1990...Probably the best sounding *mainstream* CHR south of Tampa (to my ears, better than anything Miami had at the time, since Y-100 was awful). Not very rhythmic and one of the first stations to do heavy 80s gold..Think Bill Shane was the PD...I loved it and used to get it on rare occasions in Miami....They used the "Serving the Universe" jingle WHTZ/NY had and re-sang it to say "Serving South Florida". It was a shame it lasted so little.
"WMIG" is a misprint.
I was at 93.5 when it was "Z-93" as the morning guy. It was fun while it lasted but H&D out of New England never wanted that station, and after it was flipped back to WRGI, they sold it on the sly to WNOG. We at the station would have gladly bought the station for what they sold it for and kept it live and local. And a separate voice from the others.
Oh well....
The whole WTLT frequency/power deal is as close to illegal as you can get without getting caught, but more power to them (pun intended)!
I was at 93.5 when it was "Z-93" as the morning guy. It was fun while it lasted but H&D out of New England never wanted that station, and after it was flipped back to WRGI, they sold it on the sly to WNOG. We at the station would have gladly bought the station for what they sold it for and kept it live and local. And a separate voice from the others.
Oh well....
The whole WTLT frequency/power deal is as close to illegal as you can get without getting caught, but more power to them (pun intended)!
Just stumbled onto this topic while doing a search on what radio stations were still in the area. (left Naples in 91)
The Spark had it's studio about a block from my house but the tower was in Ft Myers as I recall. End result was that while I lived less then a quarter mile from the station, I could never pick it up on my crappy stereo in my room.
G93.5 was top 40, then was called 'Lazer 93.5' from about 85(?) to 1990 shortly before I left the area. After that, It reverted to it's old call sign and played oldies.
The Spark had it's studio about a block from my house but the tower was in Ft Myers as I recall. End result was that while I lived less then a quarter mile from the station, I could never pick it up on my crappy stereo in my room.
G93.5 was top 40, then was called 'Lazer 93.5' from about 85(?) to 1990 shortly before I left the area. After that, It reverted to it's old call sign and played oldies.
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If it's of any help, WROC became that in 1994, the station went on the air around 1990 as WSUV and played soft ac.
WSWF was AC in the early 80's before going AOR.
WNOG had a small town variety format, at least in the early 70's, doing MOR during the day and top 40 at night, with the Nick Powers Power House.
Hope that helps some!
WSWF was AC in the early 80's before going AOR.
WNOG had a small town variety format, at least in the early 70's, doing MOR during the day and top 40 at night, with the Nick Powers Power House.
Hope that helps some!
I know I'm really late on this, but hey, there are a couple of things to clear up.
WRGI was always a "commercial" station. The Non Com section runs from 88.1-92.1. The station ran from twin double wides off of Florida 951 to Marco Island. It's transmitter was slightly south, southeast of Naples. It was Top40 (kind of KCBQ-ish) I always thought the GM was a little off the mark, but he was the GM.
WLEQ (Super Q) was the Top 40 FM entry back in 1976, when it moved from Immokolee. This was the beginning of the end for WMYR. Super Q had a decent signal in Ft Myers from it's studio trailer/tower, about halfway between Bonita and Ft Myers, in the woods off of US 41. ( it was a class A FM with only 3kw at 300ft). They started kicking WMYR's butt pretty good, until WINK FM switched to Top 40 back in 1980. WINK made the switch in conjunction with it's transmitter move to their TV tower. ( I could never understand why it took them so long to make that move) Originally, Wink FM transmitted from the studios on Palm Beach Blvd, with 20kw erp from the 300 ft AM stick in their back yard, using the old Andrews Horiz only 8 bay antenna.
WINK FM was mostly Beautiful Music (Schaffer Automation "KA-Chunk") run mostly by this British lady named Nancy something. She was fabulous to work with, and really gave me a better liking to Fish and Chips with Malt vinegar. They competed with WCVU 94.5. which by then was already 100kw at 750ft to the east of I-75 and the Dog Track, and WAYK 1440 Lehigh.
WINK AM was the original AM station in Ft Myers. Mostly MOR/Personality radio until about 1978 when it tried to copy then WGBS in Miami with it's Adult Cont/Information format. But by then, FM had grabbed the ring on music, and they turned to News/Talk.
WMYR went on the air in 1950, I believe. with 5kw day and 500w night (DAN) Went Top 40 when the night power was elevated to 5kw. Don't know the date for that. Killer daytime signal. but at night, with it's two deep nulls to Mobile AL and Cuba, you couldn't listen to them on Sanibel with all the phasing interference.
WAYK and WSWF ran out of the same building in Lehigh. 107.1 was the format wheel expert (that thing spun more times than I can remember). It seemed to always be the niche format at the time. Big time winner when Disco hit big (The Rocket 107). WAYK was Automated beautiful music until the owners decided to bring in live DJ's and play Contemporary MOR standards.
When I remember more, I'll post again.
WRGI was always a "commercial" station. The Non Com section runs from 88.1-92.1. The station ran from twin double wides off of Florida 951 to Marco Island. It's transmitter was slightly south, southeast of Naples. It was Top40 (kind of KCBQ-ish) I always thought the GM was a little off the mark, but he was the GM.
WLEQ (Super Q) was the Top 40 FM entry back in 1976, when it moved from Immokolee. This was the beginning of the end for WMYR. Super Q had a decent signal in Ft Myers from it's studio trailer/tower, about halfway between Bonita and Ft Myers, in the woods off of US 41. ( it was a class A FM with only 3kw at 300ft). They started kicking WMYR's butt pretty good, until WINK FM switched to Top 40 back in 1980. WINK made the switch in conjunction with it's transmitter move to their TV tower. ( I could never understand why it took them so long to make that move) Originally, Wink FM transmitted from the studios on Palm Beach Blvd, with 20kw erp from the 300 ft AM stick in their back yard, using the old Andrews Horiz only 8 bay antenna.
WINK FM was mostly Beautiful Music (Schaffer Automation "KA-Chunk") run mostly by this British lady named Nancy something. She was fabulous to work with, and really gave me a better liking to Fish and Chips with Malt vinegar. They competed with WCVU 94.5. which by then was already 100kw at 750ft to the east of I-75 and the Dog Track, and WAYK 1440 Lehigh.
WINK AM was the original AM station in Ft Myers. Mostly MOR/Personality radio until about 1978 when it tried to copy then WGBS in Miami with it's Adult Cont/Information format. But by then, FM had grabbed the ring on music, and they turned to News/Talk.
WMYR went on the air in 1950, I believe. with 5kw day and 500w night (DAN) Went Top 40 when the night power was elevated to 5kw. Don't know the date for that. Killer daytime signal. but at night, with it's two deep nulls to Mobile AL and Cuba, you couldn't listen to them on Sanibel with all the phasing interference.
WAYK and WSWF ran out of the same building in Lehigh. 107.1 was the format wheel expert (that thing spun more times than I can remember). It seemed to always be the niche format at the time. Big time winner when Disco hit big (The Rocket 107). WAYK was Automated beautiful music until the owners decided to bring in live DJ's and play Contemporary MOR standards.
When I remember more, I'll post again.
Good stuff!!!
WMYR's sign-on was 11/11/52.
WMYR's sign-on was 11/11/52.
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