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MsMusicRadio
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There is a similiar thread on the Miami board. If I had been in Tampa Bay 20 years ago, what were the stations doing? 10 years ago? Formats and calls.
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Well if we journey back 20 years to September 1988 and flipped on the radio in Tampa Bay, here is what we would find:
92.5 WXCR Classical
93.3 WFLZ Oldies "Z93"
94.1 WEZY Easy Listening (only a local Lakeland/Winter Haven station back then)
94.9 WYNF Rock "95ynf"
95.7 WNLT Hot AC "Lite Rock 95.7"
97.9 WKRL Classic Rock "98 Rock."
99.5 WQYK-FM Country
100.7 WUSA AC "W-101"
101.5 WKES Religious
102.5 WHVE Jazz/AC "The Wave 102.5"
103.3 WDUV Easy Listening "Stereo 103"
104.7 WRBQ-FM Top 40 "Q105"
105.5 WGUL-FM Standards
106.3 WLVU-FM Standards
107.3 WWRM Soft AC "Warm 107"
570 WTKN Talk
620 WSUN "Sun Country"
680 WLFF Standards "Life 680"
760 WEND Talk
820 WRFA Religious
860 WGUL Standards
910 WPLA AC "Play 91"
970 WFLA Talk
1010 WQYK 99.5 simulcast
1040 WHBO Oldies
1110 WTIS Christian
1150 WTMB Urban
1250 WDAE Standards
1300 WQBN Spanish
1340 WTAN AC/Talk
1380 WRBQ 104.7 simulcast
1470 WLVU Greek
1550 WAMA Spanish
1590 WRXB Urban "Star 16"
I think that about covers it. Thinking back I really do miss "The Wave" and the WFLA line-up of 20 years ago, mainly Dick Norman and Bob Lassiter. Of course YNF was great back then too.
92.5 WXCR Classical
93.3 WFLZ Oldies "Z93"
94.1 WEZY Easy Listening (only a local Lakeland/Winter Haven station back then)
94.9 WYNF Rock "95ynf"
95.7 WNLT Hot AC "Lite Rock 95.7"
97.9 WKRL Classic Rock "98 Rock."
99.5 WQYK-FM Country
100.7 WUSA AC "W-101"
101.5 WKES Religious
102.5 WHVE Jazz/AC "The Wave 102.5"
103.3 WDUV Easy Listening "Stereo 103"
104.7 WRBQ-FM Top 40 "Q105"
105.5 WGUL-FM Standards
106.3 WLVU-FM Standards
107.3 WWRM Soft AC "Warm 107"
570 WTKN Talk
620 WSUN "Sun Country"
680 WLFF Standards "Life 680"
760 WEND Talk
820 WRFA Religious
860 WGUL Standards
910 WPLA AC "Play 91"
970 WFLA Talk
1010 WQYK 99.5 simulcast
1040 WHBO Oldies
1110 WTIS Christian
1150 WTMB Urban
1250 WDAE Standards
1300 WQBN Spanish
1340 WTAN AC/Talk
1380 WRBQ 104.7 simulcast
1470 WLVU Greek
1550 WAMA Spanish
1590 WRXB Urban "Star 16"
I think that about covers it. Thinking back I really do miss "The Wave" and the WFLA line-up of 20 years ago, mainly Dick Norman and Bob Lassiter. Of course YNF was great back then too.
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MsMusicRadio
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any pesonalities from then still on the air?
Two radio personalities that were on the air in the area, that still are that come to mind are Jack Harris (has been on WFLA AM since at least 1973 or 1974 and Tedd Webb, who has been on serveral stations.MsMusicRadio said:
There may be others. The two personalities mentioned in a prior post are deceased. Dick Norman was killed in an auto accident on the way to work at WFLA and Bob Lassiter passed away within the last year.
On the non-comm side of the dial, you had:
88.5 WMNF (I don't remember if they were 24 hours then, for many years the had a late sign-on time, Sundays I believe, for the purpose of training volunteers 'off the air')
89.7 WUSF
91.1 WCIE "Where Christ Is Everything" Playing Christian Rock from Carpenters Home Church in Lakeland
Anyone else at the 'bottom of the dial' back then? I believe WBVM 90.5 signed on in 1989?
88.5 WMNF (I don't remember if they were 24 hours then, for many years the had a late sign-on time, Sundays I believe, for the purpose of training volunteers 'off the air')
89.7 WUSF
91.1 WCIE "Where Christ Is Everything" Playing Christian Rock from Carpenters Home Church in Lakeland
Anyone else at the 'bottom of the dial' back then? I believe WBVM 90.5 signed on in 1989?
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MsMusicRadio
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How did WWRM outlast all the other AC competitors?
David Sharp said:
The Joy FM WJIS came on the air in the late 80's at 88.1; also around 1987 or 1988, 91.7 came on the air as a community/music station, but that was short lived, as "Family Radio" bought the station.
I believe Dave's memory is correct; seems to me that WMNF was not 24 hours a day the first few years, it was a real bare bones operation; I seem to recall signing off at midnight or 1am, except on Friday nights.
Also, down toward the non com part of the dial was 92.1, the original WXCR frequency and from where I am in s.e. St. Petersburg, it was the battle of the airwaves between 92.1- WXCR's classical music and WAMR fm 92.1 country from Venice (tower north of Venice) many evenings. WXCR eventually moved to 92.5.
Also on the AM band the religious 820 (now Spanish pop) was a daytimer at 800 kc before switching to 820. 1490 WWPR, when it's transmitter tower etc was on the Pier on the Manatee River at that time and their signal really penetrated St. Petersburg, to the extent that they had advertisers from St. Petersburg, I remember was a good bakery in St. Pete that had frequent ads on WWPR 1490 Oldies at that time.
WBVM signed on aroudn 1988 or 1989 as best I can remember, but if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will give the correct year or maybe the exact date!
MsMusicRadio said:
Well let's see. Jack Harris and Tedd Webb were mentioned. I believe at this time 20 years ago, Jack Harris was doing mornings at Z-93. This was soon after his morning co-host stint at Q105. Tedd Webb was hosing "The Sports Huddle" on 970 WFLA. As for other people who are still currently on-air: Mason Dixon was doing afternoons at Q105. Mike Reeves was also on Q105 then. Marvelous Marvin was on "Lite Rock 95.7" as well as their sister station "1040 WHBO." Al Santana was on "The Wave 102.5." Ann Kelly (from Magic 94.9) was Ann Shepherd on "Warm 107.3" back then. Possibly some of the WQYK personalities were on the air 20 years ago, but I didn't listen to country back then so I don't know.
David Sharp said:
Mainly the ones I remember are the ones you mentioned. I know that "Joy FM" was also around. WJIS 88.1 signed on I think in 1986. Back then they didn't have all of those repeaters everywhere, so they were just "Joy 88" during that time.
MsMusicRadio said:
Good question. Maybe because they were more "listen-at-work friendly"? Didn't they used to have a liner that they repeated ad nauseum that stated something like "voted #1 at work" which led us all scratching our heads wondering exactly where that election was held?!
WWPR came later during the '90s. I think in 1988, 1490 was still WTRL or it may have already switched to "Classic Hits 1490 WKLV" which was a great station.
[/quote]I believe you're right, RMarino.
I better quit while I'm ahead on this thread, since my memory seems to be faltering at this late hour.
I looked up past call letters of WWPR at the FCC site and I don't even remember all the call letter changes; they've been through; WKLV does ring a bell and growing up I always knew them as WTRL.
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Current Call Sign: WWPR
Facility ID Number: 60587
Call Sign Begin Date
WWPR 01/03/1995
WYMZ 12/01/1994
WJRB 09/01/1992
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1490 in Bradenton when it was WKLV had a slogan which really ticked off the town. It was "grab our balls" They had all these styrofoam balls made to put on antennas that said that. I dont know from a music standpoint, but financially it was a failure. In the early 80's, they were a well staffed station with internal news, traffic and live jocks. At that time they were WTRL and was run by Bob Barnes. The WWPR call is most famous on an FM in NYC
MsMusicRadio said:
WQYK probably holds the record for the longest-lasting staff in Tampa Bay. Those who have been with the station for over twenty years are:
Rita Ciccarello
Hank Dale
Hank Shaw
Randy Price
Tedd was doing double duty ... besides doing "The Sports Huddle" from 6 to 8 p.m. weeknights, he also was co-host of "Gardner & Co." with Al Gardner during morning drive. If I remember correctly, he didn't do "Huddle" very long after teaming up with Gardner, eventually giving the show to Chris Thomas. I seem to recall that he kept doing "Huddle" on Mondays for a while, though, before giving it up altogether.RMarino said:
Actually, there was a period of time where Tedd may have been doing triple duty -- he handled middays (12 to 4) for a while as well. Perhaps it was right after Dick Norman died in January 1989, and Bob Lassiter had moved from middays to cover Norman's afternoon drive shift. That didn't last all that long, either, as I recall. Eventually, Tedd made way for some new, unproven syndicated guy ... named Rush something or other.
By the way, this fall marks exactly 20 years for Lionel making the transition from chronic talk show caller to chronic talk show host, doing Sunday afternoons on 970.
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RoneRigger
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Frank,
Would'nt you have to add Braden Gunn to that list?
20+ years at 99 before he left for 103.5.
Rita
Hank
Hank
Randy
Would'nt you have to add Braden Gunn to that list?
20+ years at 99 before he left for 103.5.
Rita
Hank
Hank
Randy
RoneRigger said:
You are technally correct. You can also add Jeff Ryan to the list.
However .... While Braden and Jeff worked for WQYK for more than 20 years, they are gone now.
wdae?
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