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Mark In The Dark Shands alive and well and still kicking in Portland Oregan....!

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Stormychuck

Good to see Mark In The Dark Shand's, Y-100's top late night personality's from the early day's at Y-100 still alive kicking and hangin-out so to speak. Mark you'll like this one, if Arbitron was handing out diary's for late night radio back then, you would have had better number's then all of the other South Florida radio station's, present day combined, in the day light hours....LOL That's right......! I figured I'd post this for all you from the old days in South Florida radio who know and remember Mark, I'm sure I'll catch hell for it, I normally do....

Great hearing from ya Mark,..........................."Happy New Year"
 
Whaaaaaaaaaat? Party onnnn Stormychuck, you wack o!! :) Happy 2011 mannnnnn!
 
Stormychuck said:
Good to see Mark In The Dark Shand's, Y-100's top late night personality's from the early day's at Y-100 still alive kicking and hangin-out so to speak. Mark you'll like this one, if Arbitron was handing out diary's for late night radio back then, you would have had better number's then all of the other South Florida radio station's, present day combined, in the day light hours....LOL That's right......! I figured I'd post this for all you from the old days in South Florida radio who know and remember Mark, I'm sure I'll catch hell for it, I normally do....
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Y-100 in the Tanner years was as good as any Top 40 station I ever heard.

Tanner, Footy, Kramer, The Madame, Earle, Tramonte, Kid Curry, Al Chio, Robert W, Quincy, Cox on the Radio, Mark in the Dark, and many others were so identifiable, each with their own personality yet were part of the station, too.
 
Re: Mark In The Dark Shands alive and well and still kicking in Portland Oregan.

It might be interesting for one of you to elaborate on the circumstances of Bill Tanner exiting Y-100.
 
Stormychuck said:
Good to see Mark In The Dark Shand's, Y-100's top late night personality's from the early day's at Y-100 still alive kicking and hangin-out so to speak. Mark you'll like this one, if Arbitron was handing out diary's for late night radio back then, you would have had better number's then all of the other South Florida radio station's, present day combined, in the day light hours....LOL That's right......! I figured I'd post this for all you from the old days in South Florida radio who know and remember Mark, I'm sure I'll catch hell for it, I normally do....

Great hearing from ya Mark,..........................."Happy New Year"
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I'm wondering if this is the same Mark In The Dark Shands who was program director at WNFY "Y 100" Daytona Beach in 1983?
 
Yes I survived a few months as PD in Daytona Beach, WNFI. It was a very crazy place! Jerry Clifton was the consultant and he taught me all about getting the record stores on your side, lessons I soon used against Y when I went back to S Fla and WINZ-FM/I-95.

Tanner leaving Y? Of course he could only tell the real story, but my guess is that he was interested in working in Washington, DC and I would guess that he grew tired of the changing vibe at Y-100, without Cecil Heftel as owner, but that's just a guess. Maybe he just thought there could be bigger money in such a large market and it might set him up for even bigger markets, you know the usual radio path. We should ask Tanner!

Working at Y-100 was just an unbelievable experience, the air people were my friends and they were so talented, Cecil Heftel was so inspiring and gave us all the tools necessary for great radio. My hands would actually shake right before I went on the air, it was so exciting. You could feel the huge audience. Another big factor was the timing, South Florida was takin' off like a rocket. Huge growth was goin' on and the music scene was on fire! Y-100 reflected all that excitement which made for some pretty good radio.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Stormychuck said:
Good to see Mark In The Dark Shand's, Y-100's top late night personality's from the early day's at Y-100 still alive kicking and hangin-out so to speak. Mark you'll like this one, if Arbitron was handing out diary's for late night radio back then, you would have had better number's then all of the other South Florida radio station's, present day combined, in the day light hours....LOL That's right......! I figured I'd post this for all you from the old days in South Florida radio who know and remember Mark, I'm sure I'll catch hell for it, I normally do....
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Y-100 in the Tanner years was as good as any Top 40 station I ever heard.

Tanner, Footy, Kramer, The Madame, Earle, Tramonte, Kid Curry, Al Chio, Robert W, Quincy, Cox on the erRadio, Mark in the Dark, and many others were so identifiable, each with their own personality yet we part of the station, too.


DavidEduardo couldn't have put it any better then that! These are the names that made Y-100 what Y-100 was, and of all of the top 40 radio stations AM and FM I've worked in and listened to nation wide, and that includes Los Angeles <...yes I had to say it, I assure you, in no way measured up to Y-100 in the 70's and 80's. The energy that came out of Y-100 was absolutely phenomenal, the irony, Present day South Florida radio stations, their programmer's, on-air talents, and or lack of I surmise are trying to the best they can with what they work with, but in short and including today's Y-100 and all of the other South Florida radio stations unfortunately will never, ever be able to tout the astronomical number's pulled by Y-100 during the era and with all of the above famous named talent and then some, it also stand's to reason they will never ever be able to recreate the high energy-output or even come close to what we knew to be the "Real Y-100"....Newbie South Florida radio programmer's no disrespect intended, should take lessons!


Before I forget, give some of my old friends a quick mention, Don Cox, Kramer Haas,
Tramonte Watts.......!
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RADIO TRUTH said:
It might be interesting for one of you to elaborate on the circumstances of Bill Tanner exiting Y-100.
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If you were offered a legendary station owned by John Kluge in a huge market, wouldn't you be tempted?

As Mark mentiones, Cecil stepped away from Y-100. NormBob was a good operator, coming from the really well done WIXY in Cleveland that took the market from about 64 to 72. But anything grows old, particularly things like a blue Mercez Benz...

I was tempted once away from a maket almost identical in size to Miami to one the size of many medium sized countries and regretted it over and over... fortunately, I was rescued by the person who is the subject of this part of the thread, so I have a pretty large bias.

But the best way I can say how good Y 100 was is to say that when I was manager of a Miami station, I would listen to Tanner on the way to work and boogie with Cox on the radio on the way home. Indeed, it was The Amazing FM.
 
Re: Mark In The Dark Shands alive and well and still kicking in Portland Oregan.

RADIO TRUTH said:
I would listen to Tanner on the way to work and boogie with Cox on the radio on the way home. Indeed, it was The Amazing FM.
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This Sun-Sentinel story is on the internet. Maybe one of you experts on B-96 and Y-100 would like to comment on it.
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Ah, a misinformed misanthrope or malicious malcontent drags out another episode of "Tell One Side of the Story."

The 4th, 5th, and 14th Ammendments to the Constitution protect the concept of Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.

"Case dismissed." And there aren't any alligators thriving in the New York sewers either.
 
The S Fla market used to be famous for the way jocks came and went, often jumping from station to station, all of them in Miami. I worked at 3 S Fla stations in 12 years and I think most DJs I know in S Fla moved around a few times. Plus since Y100s owner also owned 13-Q in Pittsburgh, some of us got shipped up there for a year.
 
Russ Oasis, was pretty much the guy who coined that term, "The Phantom Market" giving credit where credit is due, now if you were an on-air-talent in Miami, and regardless of which station just blew-you-out, for whatever reason, you were working the next day at the competitor, and that was the name of the game, and that's how it worked in South Florida radio, it worked for me!..........
 
And to think, as a teenager, I wanted to be a DJ.....obviously the Lord had better plans....!

cd
 
CD 637299: We were probably all saved by your decision not to be a DJ when you were a teenager!

Put your hand's on the radio and "Thank The Lord".......!
 
Stormychuck said:
CD 637299: We were probably all saved by your decision not to be a DJ when you were a teenager!

Put your hand's on the radio and "Thank The Lord".......!
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Um, okayyyyyy......

cd
 
Re: Mark In The Dark Shands alive and well and still kicking in Portland Oregan.

RADIO TRUTH said:
It might be interesting for one of you to elaborate on the circumstances of Bill Tanner exiting Y-100.
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Bill Tanner exited Y-100 after an 8 year tenure to accpet Mornings/ PD at Wash-FM, Washington, DC. At the time, his salary of $250,000 was the highest ever paid to a morning man/PD.
 
Stormychuck said:
Before I forget, give some of my old friends a quick mention, Don Cox, Kramer Haas,
Tramonte Watts.......!
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Ad fast Bobby to that list. Lung Cancer, about 3 years ago. And, he never smoked.
 
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