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Questions about Orlando's CHR's in the 1980s.

Terry is one of the best guys I ever worked with at any station. He stayed in touch for many years. Last time I spoke with him, I think he was in Dallas. He did work with Shannon in New York during the heydey of Z-100.

My guess is that he's still active in radio in a major market somehwere.
 
Maybe some of you 80's jocks can clear this one up for me....

Wasn't there a top 40 station on 101.9fm called "Q-102" back in 82-83?????

I recall hearing Casey Kasem Sunday mornings and a lot of Men at Work on this station????

Does this ring a bell????...if so , fill me in on this obviously short lived station...
 
Wasn't there a top 40 station on 101.9fm called "Q-102" back in 82-83?

There was.

Tracey Young worked there, went to Oklahoma City for a year and then started at BJ105 in 1986.

And WLOQ was "Q103" for a while.
 
Terry Foxx is working for ESPN in New Haven. He and I still talk on a semi-regular basis and he is doing fine. He speaks of the Orlando days with fondness. Also, Brian Thomas and I spoke for about an hour last night, and he couldn't be better.
The station at 101.9 was, indeed, Q102. I remember driving through in 1983 on my way to Ft. Lauderdale from Pittsburgh and hearing, for the first time on radio, an actual CD being played! They made a pretty big deal out of that (lol). At the time, I has no idea that I would actually be working in Florida less than three years later!
 
Where or where is Rick Stone? Heard awhile back that Kevin Casey (Tim Hart) passed away several years ago?

Good for Terry Foxx and Brian, they are class acts, I loved working with both at BJ 105.
 
I used to love "The Hometown Countdown with Kevin Casey".....For a local show, it was just as good as Rick Dees or at40 at the time....
 
DIZ Guy said:
I used to love "The Hometown Countdown with Kevin Casey".....For a local show, it was just as good as Rick Dees or at40 at the time....
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I still have the weekly local charts from BJ105 from about 1977 through 1984.
 
One of the things that hasn't been mentioned is, that in Y-106's rebranding to XL (early 1990, just mere months after the BJ-to-Mix changeover), they, too, went "Adult CHR", using slogans like "Today's Best Music", and playing up the theme of "Evolution....Orlando Radio Has Evolved To Something Better". It was originally part of the name change (and ownership change). It was a big deal...Orlando suddenly had no true mainstream CHR, and two Adult leaning Top 40s....Billboard did a small writeup on it. XL was playing stuff like Richard Marx, and heavy amounts of Depeche Mode and Genesis gold. And they had some pretty cheesy jingles. Eventually Mix went more Adult, and XL went the other direction. By Summer of '91, Mix was doing the "50/50 Music Mix", and XL was countering with "100% of Orlando's Hottest Hits".
 
Last I heard Rick Stone was out of radio and working in retail.

Yes, sadly, Kevin (Tim) has passed away. It was fun "feuding" with him on the air back in the day.

The "Hometown Countdown" was a syndicated package show. Everything was sent to the station and Kevin simply recorded his part off a script and inserted it into that week's show.

Jon, if you talk to Terry and/or Brian again, tell them I said "Hi!"
 
I'll do it, Bill......BTW, I recently heard from Fred, the owner of Scatz teen club on Colonial Drive in the 80's. He's a DFW resident now and he heard me on KLUV. Weird, huh...
 
Remember when Fred brought that fake George Michael to Scatz?

(Years later, he was busted by fake cops in a fake public restroom.)
 
Hey DIZ Guy, I believe Q-102 was WDOQ Daytona Beach which was a great sounding powerhouse that frequently 'boomed' in here in Tampa. Then it became I-4 @ 101.9 (WCFI) :'( which was an automated AC that didn't last long, if memory serves. Not long after, 102 JAMZ debuted. :)
 
Q101 was a stop gap before JAMZ's debut..if I recall Allen Edwards was the consultant that oversaw the Q unitl the owners could get JAMZ on the air..r
 
JohnSummers and OldGuy... I was the DJ at Scatz, back when that George Michael was brought in, good times (we had over 1000 in there that night).
We were dangerously close to having the fire marshall shut us down many a Saturday night (Sir Mix A Lot, Nice & Wild, TKA, Debbie Deb,etc).

BTW Fred was NOT the owner...Old Man Heintzelman (Heintzelman Ford) was the bank roll on that.
 
I was the DJ at Scatz, back when that George Michael was brought in

If I recall correctly, Fred left a lot of room for speculation regarding whether it would be the real George Michael.

So there was plenty of excitement before the show, but it waned pretty quickly when the guy took the stage. I remember a lot of people walking away.
 
Yeah, Fread Barnum had the buzz going... but it got brutal fast. You can only pull that stunt once, people aren't stupid...
If I recall correctly it went downhill pretty fast after that, too.
 
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