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QV-93 Reunion in July 18th

H

Harnett

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Hello All,

Back in 1978 we put a radio station on the air in Mechanicsburg, PA. The station was QV-93. I worked there from December 1978 till September 1982 then m ovedinto Philly. We are having a reunion in July for anybody who has worked for QV-93. The station was small and lots of fun and many wonderful people walked through the doors.

We are looking for Joe Ricci, Dave Greenwald, Mike Patrick. Dan Caruso, Dennis Eberhardt. Neil Ross.

If you know anybody who worked at QV-93, please have them contact me.

[email protected]

In those days I went by the name Joe Donovan.
 
Joe,

I think you can reach Dave Greenwald, AKA Dave Scott, over at Traffax in New Cumberland.

Great idea, btw!
 
Forgive my ignorance, but was this station at one time Starview or what is now TPA? Also, what format? Judging by the name, I'd say Top 40. Someone please help the outsider out!!!!!
 
Rockin Rob said:
Forgive my ignorance, but was this station at one time Starview or what is now TPA? Also, what format? Judging by the name, I'd say Top 40. Someone please help the outsider out!!!!!
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QV-93, once operated out of a trailer in Mechanicsburg, was what preceded 93.5 WTPA. When WTPA 104.1 flipped with 93.5, WNNK was born in the Spring of 1985. If I remember correctly, QV-93 called itself MAGIC for a while before the frequency flip.
 
Joe's holding down mornings at WTKU. He can be heard at www.kool983.com He can be contacted through that site.

Starview 92 was in York PA, another rocker.
 
Thank you very much for your help. I will contact Joe Ricci today... here is a tough one. Mike Patrick. We believe he went back to Norfolk... I will try the info-board down there. If you think you know where he went... please let us know.

Thanks again!

Joe
 
WQVE, QV93 went on the air in early December 1978, signing on from a brand new double-wide, located next to West Shore TV Cable at 111 Strawberry Alley in Mechanicsburg as a Top 40 station. The business office was across the alley at 107 East Main Street, in the first floor of a house that's still there (the trailer is not!). It lasted until August 2, 1982 when it was sold by George Gardner, who had also owned the afore-mentioned West Shore TV Cable, The Embers Hotel in Carlisle and the original 1130 WEEO in Waynesboro to Michael "Brandon" Schatz and Jim O'Leary who flipped the format to AC, the call letters to WKCD and the name to Magic 93. It became WTPA in early 1985 when the original WTPA became WNNK. Some of the people who worked on air at QV93: Mike Patrick, Ray St. James, Kris Kelly, Steve Harris, Steve McKee, Gary Maxwell, Joe Donovan, Rick Alexander, Dan Caruso, Mark Stewart, Gail Travers, Captain Dave Edwards, Ken Martin, Rich Michaels, Joe Ricci, Dave Cannon, and Rich Casey. The station was not very successful for two reasons: 1) bad signal: the original stick was on the side of utility pole at White Rock in Dillsburg. The signal was sketchy in Dauphin County. At that time the Harrisburg market was only Cumberland and Dauphin counties, Perry and Lebanon had not yet been added. 2) The pop music market was saturated ! In 1978-79, all of the following stations were top forty or some form of adult pop:WKBO, Q1O6(WQXA) ROCK 99 (WSFM), WCMB, WIOO, AND WHYL. The market did not have a full-time country or album rock station at the time. By 1980 Z107 and WTPA filled those needs.
 
RockofHBG said:
In 1978-79, all of the following stations were top forty or some form of adult pop:WKBO, Q1O6(WQXA) ROCK 99 (WSFM), WCMB, WIOO, AND WHYL. The market did not have a full-time country or album rock station at the time. By 1980 Z107 and WTPA filled those needs.
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Whoa... you sure brought back some memories! "Foreigner with Hot Blooded, and before that Hot Child in the City from Nick Gilder... WSFM ROCK 99... the Best Music." I can still hear that voice. :)
 
Yes, from 1977-1981, Rock 99 WSFM (today's WHKF, Kiss-FM) aired the TM "Stereo Rock" format. It was a totally automated adult Top 40 format. Very clean, it would play two currents and then a recorded voice, to which you refer, would backsell both songs, play a jingle followed by a gold, followed by a recurrent if there was time, then go to spots, play a jingle and do it all over again. It had a low spotload and a pretty slow rotation on the currents as I recall. It was all done on reel-to-reels and cart carousels. The weather was handled by the WCMB staff. It always did well in the ratings. It debuted in the Spring 1977 Arbitron with a 10 share 12 +, while then market leader WKBO had a 17.7 12+. In February of 1981, the decision was made to go AC as "Sunny 99" but they didn't call that at first. It was simply referred to as WSFM 99. It was done live (but it didn't sound too much different from the Rock 99 approach). The airstaff moved over from AM as WCMB elected to go automated country with Mac McCauley doing live mornings. Sunny 99 was generally top 3 until WINK went CHR in January 1985. Then,they did many varitions on the Sunny AC format until throwing in the towel the Spring of 1987 becoming 99 Hit-FM with the actual call letters WHIT. I will stop here before I write a book.
 
ROCK 99 actually went "almost live" in 1980 when Harrisburg's first female only morning show debuted. Her name was Candy Clarke, and she had an awesome voice. The way it was done? Breaks were recorded about 15-minutes in advance directly to carts. We carried the ABC FM Entertainment News, I believe, with Nick Alexander anchoring (one of the best radio network anchors of the era). We even had TM's voice guy record time checks during that era; a cart the size of a legal pad contained time checks for every minute between 6 and 9 a.m., and advanced each minute. When it worked right, it was an awesome thing to watch in action.
 
I did part-time at QV-93 from June 1982 til they were sold. I remember the day that people were getting their "walking papers"..the GM at the time (and I can't remember his name) came in and said " let's have my severence check and paperwork, I gotta take my kids to HersheyPark today!". Rick Alexander, now morning man and OM at Mix106 in Chambersburg was doing 6-11 PM when I was there.....and Mike Ondayko (now Mark Ondayko of Kirk & Mark on 105.7 in Baltimore, formerly of 98ROCK) was doing part-time with me as well. I've got some fond memories of my brief time at QV-93....if those trailer walls could talk, the stories they would have to tell :)
 
Where will the re-union be held? I worked at QV around 1981 as copywriter and did a few weekend on-air shifts after getting blown out of ZUE102 (WHYL 102.3). (Now doing mornings w/ Ben Barber on 960)
I'd appreciate any details on the re-union.
Thanks!
 
sandy...i love you man...as the old budweiser commercial said. hope all is well...i enjoy hearing you and ben in the am on am960
 
Hi ya'll......

Four of the air-staff met in NYC last October.... and somebody suggested the reunion. We did get a hold of Dan Caruso and Gail Travers....but we still need the others that we asked of to find...... To Karlyle..... I think I know who you are ... and it's good to here that you are still around. I left QV-93 in early 1980 to go to FM-97 (WLAN-FM) in Lancaster, PA.... did that for 7 years....then decided to venture into another field of work...... For those still in the Biz..... R O C K O N ! ! ! !
 
Gmax--Yep, you are correct....get in touch with me...send me an email through the board here as to how I can get in touch with you!
 
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