Music and personality on 107.3 FM

[nightfly61]

Thought WNCX was "North Coast Xcitement".

 

[YEKIMI]

Nowadays, some people consider it North Coast Xcrement.

 

[dannykewl]

Same with the old 107.3 WBEA,=B-107
& WCZR=Cleveland's Z-Rock
Didn't WGCL stand for "We're Greater CLeveland"?

IIRC, the GC in WGCL stood for General Cinema, as the General Cinema Corporation owned WGCL. The bonus of having GC in the call letters was that it could also stand for Greater Cleveland. I forgot what the the L stood for, if anything. I was an usher as the General Cinema theater at Southgate in 1971. GC owned quite a few theaters in the area at the time and during the 70's.

 

[Rusty Muck]

I never heard that meaning for WGCL, but it makes sense. I do remember the WNCX was supposed to mean "North Coast Express". Someone ratted them out to WMMS who then called themselves "The North Coast Express" for awhile, thus screwing up the new handle for the soon-to-be new call letters WNCX.

From what Mike O's book outlined, there was a story in the trade papers explaining the upcoming switch from WGCL to WNCX, and that the call letters meant "North Coast eXpress." However, Metropolis failed (or outright forgot) to request the first-use service mark for that slogan. Someone notified WMMS, they used "North Coast eXpress" in an ID that exact same day, and registered the service mark instead. So WNCX was never able to use it.

That was a portend of what was ultimately to come.

 

[nightfly61]

After the flip WNCX promo-ed the "largest c.d library in Cleveland". Last time I was in the area they were playing the same old mainstream :

 

[YEKIMI]

Maybe they meant C.D. as in Cross Dresser.

 

[johnbasalla]

I was riding in the car of a co-worker for over a half hour. He enjoyed the Smooth Jazz format on WNWV. He was flashing around to different FM music stations. He said with a kind of shocked voice for emphasis... "Man, 107.3 is all over the place". In the final analysis, we spent more time listening to WNWV then any other station. He liked the fact that occasionally a Reggae tune would come on. We also enjoyed a female sung version of "I Put A Spell On You", plus another R&B based tune that was played.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

We also enjoyed a female sung version of "I Put A Spell On You", plus another R&B based tune that was played.

John, that was Joss Stone (vocals) with Jeff Beck -- Last week they performed the old Screamin' Jay Hawkins' classic on American Idol's "Idol Gives Back" special.

 

[YEKIMI]

I like Screamin' Jay Hawkins version best.

 

[Mr_Place]

Gosh. A discussion of current Cleveland radio has transformed itself to how cool and interesting the past was. In Cleveland? Who would have thought THAT would happen?

 

[Talk-Fan]

@ Mr Place.....faaannnn-tastic.