Mark In The Dark Tribute Pictues, @ Y-100 tribute.com

[Stormychuck]

Long hair? Mark in the dark had the longest when he was at Y-100 FM.......

 

[jmtillery]

Awesome website and even better online composite aircheck.

 

[Stormychuck]

This by far, and I should know is thee real Y-100 FM.........

Your gonna love these airchecks at Y-100 tribute.com ...

 

[jmtillery]

I've already listened to all the airchecks posted on the site... Awesome station sound and imaging. In fact, Y 100 Daytona Beach (WNFY-FM 99.9 Palatka) in 1982 (A Jerry Clifton consulted station) was a carbon copy of WHYI right down to the $50,000 giveaway and he Phrase That Pays - "Don't Answer the phone with hello, say I listen to the New Y 100 and you could win $50,000 cash".

 

[Stormychuck]

Wow Jerry Clifton, prior to hiring me at WMYQ he was PD at 99X New york, and was Bartel Media Group's national PD for all of their "Q" stations, although smaller in statute Jerry was a spittin image of Ted Nugent, that's my best description of Jerry, and he was a very bazaar individual.

So if Jerry borrowed some of Y-100's programming and on-air technique's I guess we could consider that a compliment to Y-100......

 

[MarkInTheDark]

Believe me, Y100 in Palatka/Daytona Beach was no Y100! It was a hellish place to be, one of the owners back then is now in the pen for hiring a hit man to go after his divorced wife. But, that station did give me a way out of Metroplex/Miami/Y100 and set me up for a cool job at I-95/WINZ, which turned out to be one of my best jobs ever. Record promotion great Moe Preskell got me that Daytona Beach gig, my first PD job!

 

[Stormychuck]

MarkInTheDark...Dude I can't believe I just read that, after his wife, "Oh my".......And to think Metroplex would have any thought's about that sort of thing......

 

[jmtillery]

MarkInTheDark...Dude I can't believe I just read that, after his wife, "Oh my".......And to think Metroplex would have any thought's about that sort of thing......

He's referring to one of the former owners of WNFY "Y 100" Daytona Beach; not anyone currently or formerly associated with WHYI "Y 100" Miami. Metroplex owned WHYI while Ronette Communications owned WNFY.

 

[vadar]

You really can't compare these two stations. I had the opportunity to work at Y-100 in Miami, turned down the offer and stayed in Central Florida to work at I-100. Interesting ownership and some questionable decisions. I'll just leave it at that.

 

[jmtillery]

You really can't compare these two stations. I had the opportunity to work at Y-100 in Miami, turned down the offer and stayed in Central Florida to work at I-100. Interesting ownership and some questionable decisions. I'll just leave it at that.

Everyone is entitled to his or her own respective opinion; However, the first year Y100 Daytona was on the air (late Summer 1982), to me, the format sounded almost like a carbon copy of Y100 Miami, even right down to the first contest aired on The Visible FM. This all soon changed after PD Bill Baily (WLS Chicago) left WNFY after only a few months on the job. This is when Y100 Daytona took on a new image heading in a new direction with an urban lean in early 1983. Around this same time the call letters changed to WNFI and the imaging was re-branded as I 100 due to a copyright issue over rightful ownership of the moniker "Y100".

As for behind the scenes at each respective station, that is a whole different story.

 

[MarkInTheDark]

Yeah the owners in Daytona Beach were trying to do a sales trick, calling the station Y100. Trying to trick advertisers. They got called on it and changed to I-100. For my first PD job it was a LuLu! :-0 Quite an adventure!

 

[jmtillery]

Mark - I thought you did a great job as program director at I 100. I was with WNFI's competitor WDOQ when you with WNFI. The two stations competing head-to-head made for great radio.

 

[MarkInTheDark]

Cool, 2 top 40s in one market, what a concept. You're right, it was fun... great music to work with at that time.