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I can help on this one. In 1984 WMJQ's line up was as follows Dr. John Potter & Wendy Weithorn : Mornings, Kelly Sinclair then Pete Kennedy: Middays, Rick Warboys then Mike Vickers: Afternoons, "Major Tom Messner: Evenings, Terry Clifford: Overnights. Jay Stevens was the PD and Hal Deutsch was the GM. Other notable names included Dave LeFrois programming music and Vern Roberts was the Production Director. To the best of my recollection, that was the line-up.
 
Also remember tim rose the guy with the british accent? He didn't last very long but he made his mark!
 
qman said:
Also remember tim rose the guy with the british accent? He didn't last very long but he made his mark!
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Same guy who worked at WRXT with Randi Naughton? Was that a real Brit accent or a put-on like that UB professor who does Shakespeare in Delaware Park?
 
Looked Tim Rose up. Accent was real, he's a genuine Brit from London. He's still doing voiceover work, and also a live morning show in the Caribbean (Grand Cayman, to be exact) after a well-travelled career in Buffalo, Cincinatti, Atlanta and Phoenix. Guess he got as far away from the Buffalo snow as he could....
 
i love reading all the comments about roch radio. growing up in the 70's i was really into listening to bbf and waxc. the music was great..and then my dad bought a am/fm radio. wow more stations!! i loved whfm. the signal was awesome and stereo was great! all the changes made at at fm99 were amazing too. it's cool to read lee rust comments, to now know what was actually going on!! throughout the years all i wanted to do was be a radio dj. at 17 and ready to leave for college, i called whfm for a tour and the guy, (no idea who it was, but he had a small afro) said, sure come in for a tour! he was a great tour guide and offered me a job. hfm was in was in the wham studio at the time with the big reel to reels and were in different colors as to when they would be played. i couldn't take the gig since i was leave for school, but i was much appreciateve of the offer!! i remember driving by the wham stick in chili and seeing the truck trailer where the hfm xmitter was. after college i've worked at ch 13 for four years and am still at ch 10. 26 years now. In between all that i've worked at: rocket 95, metro traffic, wcmf, warm 101.3, wvor and the last station 99bbf. Lee Rust: Thanks for posting all the comments i really enjoyed reading them!!! :)

if you have not seen these yet, they're priceless..links to old radio surveys:
http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys_item.php?svid=1107
[[url]http://wordsdomination.com/waxc.html/url]
 
wstam said:
i love reading all the comments about roch radio. growing up in the 70's i was really into listening to bbf and waxc. the music was great..and then my dad bought a am/fm radio. wow more stations!! i loved whfm. the signal was awesome and stereo was great! all the changes made at  fm99 were amazing too. it's cool to read lee rust comments, to now know what was actually going on!! throughout the years all i wanted to do was be a radio dj.  at 17 and ready to leave for college, i called whfm for a tour and the guy, (no idea who it was, but he had a small afro) said, sure come in for a tour! he was a great tour guide and offered me a job. hfm was in the wham studio at the time with the big reel to reels and were in different colors as to when they would be played.  i couldn't take the gig since i was leave for school, but i was much appreciateve of the offer!!  i remember driving by the wham stick in chili and seeing the truck trailer where the hfm xmitter was.  after college i've worked at ch 13 for four years and am still at ch 10. 26 years now.  In between all that i've worked at: rocket 95, metro traffic, wcmf, warm 101.3, wvor and the last station 99bbf.   Lee Rust: Thanks for posting all the comments i really enjoyed reading them!!! :)

if you have not seen these yet, they're priceless..links to old radio surveys:


http://wordsdomination.com/waxc.html
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yugoidar said:
...they used the positioner "the home of kick ass rock and roll". Pretty bold language at the time and as I recall it didn't last too long.
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I still recall that controversy, and Simon Pontin's parody liner in response to the hubbub..."Donkey-Flogging Classical Music." Priceless!
 
Dave brings up some fun stuff from the sixties. Did anyone mention Art Gibson? Alex Lamutis? Roy Wetzel? Tom Ryan? Mort Nussbaum? The other fun part is almost recognizing these posters from the screen names. Bob Bittner, for example. I think everyone here would have loved spending time hanging out at the WBBF studios on Clinton Avenue (before they moved downtown in the 60s). I did for 2 years. Every Saturday and Sunday. The off-air fun was MORE fun than the on -air sometimes. How about Duane Dow? Bill Schwing? As a young kid I was befriended by 'BBF Engineer John Plumeri (RIP) who -every so often let me run the board. Of course, the guy on the air had to be cool with it...Leon Marguerite and Alex Lamutis were. Eventually I got to work at 'BBF -and work alongside some of the people mentioned here (Nick Nickson, Alex, Bob Bohrer, even Bob Mills). Dave (Mance), -if you still own stations, you know the difficulty in trying to make money and staff an operation with the size that 'BBF had back in the 60's and 70's. 5 jocks, 4 or 5 newsmen, board ops, let alone the office staff. The economy won't let that happen now. . and the technology has made a lot of those positions unnecessary - but it was fun. To see a little 1,000 watt station tear up the town for as many years as it did was amazing. It won't happen again. Let's keep the memories going.
 
HI Everybody!
It was nice to read all those names everybody remembered and the BIG change(s) WMJQ took over just a few years. When I came from 94-ROCK in Syracuse back to Rochester for 92-MJQ, we were ROCKIN'! Gave 'CMF quite a run for their $money$! Kevin Malvey in the Morning; Candi Clark-Middays; Janet from another Planet-Afternoons; Kevin "Revin'" Belcastro-6 til 10; AND ME-Rick Warboys 10-2am; Veren Roberts-Overnights. NOW "THAT" was a killer Line-Up!
We went from "92-MJQ" to "92-MJQ-Kick Ass Rock 'n Roll" to "I'm A ROCKER" (to which our bumper stickers often got changed to 'I'm a F_cker' if marked out correctly); to a SUDDEN change to "TOP-40"!
The birth of "HITRADIO Q-92" came afteer a long Holiday weekend of listening to the same POP-song for an entire weekend when Don Micheal Girard broke LIVE Monday morning, and we were ALL 'Top-40' Jocks suddenly! Don Micheal was soon replaced by "Dr. John Potter" in the morning and away we went! WOW! It's "THE BEE" now, and doin' just fine!
It's truely amazing jow many changes ONE station can go thru and 'THRIVE' in all of them!
 
Remember those fake "wind chimes" heard in the background on WMJQ? This would have been around 1977, during the early phase of MJQ (ollowing the demise of WNWZ, Rochester's NBC "News and Information Service" affiliate).

PAIA, the company that sold those wind chime kits, is still around, but the chimes appear to have been discontinued. PAIA currently offers some other interesting products, such as synth modules and theremins:

http://www.paia.com/products.asp
 
HI Everybody!
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Welcome to the board Rick!!

I grew up with that cow poop!! Loved it at the time. Remember it now! Worst part was being in the biz at the time too!!

Just a friendly welcome from me. You're fair game from everyone else! :D

HDBG
 
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