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Hot Rockin, Flame Throwin I-100/Daytona

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Another great CHR that died an early death. Two words......MAMMOTH SIGNAL. Covered almost 2/3rds of Florida on 99.9. Came on as Y-100, then the evil Y in Miami made 'em go from WNFY to WNFI. Another great radio station back in the day..... :-\
 
I believe Mark Ross did a couple of long tours there ... 1st time around with Rick Jewel (?), then later w/ Mindy (same that's at Lite Rock 99.3 in Brevard now?). Anyone know what ever happened to him?
 
Marky Ross left the biz and bought a UPS franchise store back in St. Louis. Jewell is pumping Ethanol somewhere around here I think.............

Ross had a great pipes and a HUGE ego to boot. Welcome to radio!
 
Now this was a great station. THE BOSS OF THE BEACH!!!!!

I always used to listen to these guys. I recall going down the Intercoastal waterways with my dad listening to this station...
 
i remember the 12 min stop sets after every 2 songs, and there were 8 Razzles spots
per hour. I also remember thinking, thats a high energy Beach CHR that makes you want
to stop in Daytona, even if you weren't going there. Then you would get to Orlando, and
go, god, what happened? The radio dial sounds like a funeral service. 1989, the year Daytona
out-radioed Olrando. I can remember hearing the Power Pig coming from cars and I drive shops,
no Orlando stations being played.
 
Old Guy said:
And Tracey Young did middays there before she went to BJ105.
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And Bobby Mitchell before he moved to B.94.5(YOUNG COUNTRY) & K-92
 
That is right shoothoops, this great station really did make you think that Daytona was the greatest place in the world..

Like I said earlier, I have very fond memories of cruisin' the Intercoastal on my dads boat on a Sunday morning with this great station playing in the background...

"WNFI, Palatka, Daytona Beach, I-100, THE BOSS OF THE BEACH!!!!!!!"
 
That is what we are missing now, a CHR, that makes you think, Orlando--- daytona--- cocoa is happening and fun. There is no more top 40 magic, unless you love those cut up Ryan seacrest blips. That has
nothing to do why it is great to be here, the Magic ( no not them either) Scott Shannon said it
best, flame throwing, heat blowin and live and local. Always sound bigger than you are.
Here, they just get through a show, and hope today isn't there day to get fired.
 
Remember "Scott Shannon's Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown"?????

It didn't last long, but it was a great rival to Rick Dees and Casey Kasem for awhile...
 
Wow... I-100... talk about memories. I did nights on that station in the mid 80's.

A typical day:

1. Show up about 30 minutes before the airshift in a swimsuit and T-shirt. Sit down at the little desk outside the studio and schedule the music for the 4-hour show using blank format-clock sheets and an index card file (no, they didn't have Selector).

2. Walk into the studio, do a break or two with the afternoon guy who was leaving... and then proceed to work the phones, fire off the Jam jingles, scream over every intro, and of course do the live ID at the top of every hour: "WNFI Palatka, Daytona Beach, Orlando, Jacksonville, Gainesville... this is Florida's superstation... the HOT ROCKIN, FAMETHROWIN'... I-100!!!!". The compression was so high that the needles barely moved when you talked (er, screamed), and if your headsets weren't cranked up to extreme levels you couldn't hear yourself at all.

3. Get off the air, hook up with a couple of other jocks, get plastered, close the bars down, take a girl (or two) home, sleep till noon or so, hit the beach for a couple of hours... and then go back to work.

Such was the life of a young, long-haired, and very single CHR jock living and working on the "world's most famous beach". The money sucked (about 300 a week)... I lived next door to two crazy hookers in an apartment 2 blocks from the beach... and drug problems were rampant throughout the station. But damn, we had a lot of fun:)
 
99.9 flipped to country many moons ago and covered the metro Daytona area well. Renda Broadcasting bought the station and moved the license and tower to Jacksonville (Middleburg). Station now known as 99.9 Gator Country, doing well in Jax.

That flamethrower tower in Espinola (Bunnell) Florida must be collecting dust............ ::)
 
FiddlerOnTheRoof nailed it to a "T" ...back! That station sure was fun to work at AND listen too. If you worked at that place back in the day you were something special at all party spots in Daytona. When Spring break was in it's heyday in the early 90's, EVERYONE had 99.9 on. Every now and then you'd hear 102 Jamz but 99.9 was all about Daytona Beach. Lotta names went though those studios on the way to bigger markets.

So how about that mighty WVYB 103.3? Ha ha ha ha... man times have sure changed. Sorry kids. :'(
 
A lot of names went through there on the way down, too. I won't mention any specifics, but if you had a substance abuse problem or bad reputation in the industry and lost your major market gig, you were always welcome in Daytona Beach at the hot rockin I-100:)
 
I believe that WJRR's Crash got his start at 99.9 during 91-92.....

Can anybody confirm that????

That would've been around the time that the station kind of had a "rock 40" format....
 
I'll confirm that... he sure did. However it might be more like '93 or so. Regardless, I think it was when they dropped the "I" and became "The New 99.9 FM". Later it leaned back towards Top 40 as "99.9 KISS-FM". Crash took a gig at WDIZ... and then the consolidation began with Paxson - Clear Channel... and to where we are today.
 
I remember driving to the beach in high school; we listened to this station as soon as we got past altamonte springs. I had a mustang with a lousy radio and we couldn't get it from my home in crime free pine hills. I listened to BJ-105 in orlando, but they didn't seem to be having as much fun as the I-100 folks.

then, about two years later the station was gone.......
 
I definately remember listen to Casey Kasem on this station from 12-4pm on Sundays back in the summer of '85...
 
;D Way before you guys that had that much fun on I100- We had a hellava time at WMFJ... That's all you had to say in Daytona Beach to get anything you wanted! Anybody remember Dale Wright? BIG APE!
 
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