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SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO HISTORY QUESTION.

T

thebeach33445

HEY GUYS AND GALS:

A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT A FEW STATIONS: DOES ANYBODY KNOW.....

1. WHEN WCMQ 1210 WENT FROM SPANISH NOSTALGIA POP TO TALK?

2. WHEN 1260 WENT FROM RADIO SUAVE TO CARACOL 1260?

3. WHERE THE OLD WFAB WAS ON THE AM DIAL AND WHAT YEAR IT WAS FORCED OFF THE AIR?

4. WHEN DID WPOM 1600 GO TO URBAN AND WHAT IT WAS BEFORE IT WAS URBAN? DOES ANYBODY HAVE A FULL HISTORY OF WPOM?


THANKS FOR YOUR HELP ON THIS ONE GUYS AND GALS!!!!

OH!!
DID ANYBODY NOTICE THAT 670 WWFE IS BEING REPEATED IN A DELAY ON WRHC 1550?? I HAVE HEARD WWFE LEGAL ID'S ON 1550. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!!!!

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
1. WHEN WCMQ 1210 WENT FROM SPANISH NOSTALGIA POP TO TALK?

2. WHEN 1260 WENT FROM RADIO SUAVE TO CARACOL 1260?

3. WHERE THE OLD WFAB WAS ON THE AM DIAL AND WHAT YEAR IT WAS FORCED OFF THE AIR?
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1210 WCMQ was not nostalgia. It was a higher rotation version of fm 92. It added talk with Tomasito Regalado in the mornings in the late 80's, and then was all talk when sold to Radio Unica around 1998. I was PD of this little station in about 1985, and we were CHR then.

Suave went to CARACOL as a network affiliation when Levin and partners sold in 1989. The current ownership, El Dorado, took over in 1995 and made the station all Colombian.

WFAB was on 990 and lost its license sometime in the late 60's or early 70's due to fradulent billing by the licensee, United Broadcasting. They were located at Biscayne and about 14th, near the curve in the street just before the Omni.
 
DAVID THANKS FOR THE REPLY!!! THIS WAS A BIG HELP ESPECIALLY FROM SOMEONE WHO WORK AT THE STATION. HOW LONG DID YOU WORK THERE? I GOT THE NOSTALGIA INFO FROM A DIFFRENT SITE AND NOTICED MOST OF THE BROADCSTING YEARBOOKS SAY THAT THE FORMAT WAS SPANISH/ADULT CONTEMP/MOR. SO I WASN'T SURE. SO YOU ARE SAYING THEY ADDED TALK IN THE LATE 80'S. SO THE STATION WAS MUSIC AND TALK TO 1998? DID THEY ADD TALK WHEN SBS BOUGHT 1210? I GOT FROM ANOTHER SITE THAT 1210 WAS ONCE CALLED RADIO CENTRO WAS THAT TRUE?
DAVID QUESTION DO YOU KNOW THE WHOLE HISTORY OF WCMQ 1210 FORMAT WISE? ALSO WHEN 1260 WENT TO CARACOL 1260 WAS IT ALL TALK?

THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INFO I AM TRYING TO GET A FULL HISTORY OF SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE BEEN A GREAT HELP!!

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
HEY GUYS AND GALS:

3. WHERE THE OLD WFAB WAS ON THE AM DIAL AND WHAT YEAR IT WAS FORCED OFF THE AIR?
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990. Where Radio Disney currently is....They signed off in the Fall of 1977 when United Broadcasting lost the license...20 years later in 1997 a new licensee put WFBA on the air on 990 as "Radio Aereopuerto Musical", which lasted for 2 years until ABC bought it and flipped it to Radio Disney.
 
Side note when WNWS 790 first went on they used the old WFAB studios. During the short time WFUN was "Beautiful Music" the studio was out at the transmitter site. The WFAB studios had been vacant for quite awhile by that time and they were a mess.
 
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