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Tampa Bay Radio on December 8-9, 1980

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smedge2006

Some of you may have seen the aircheck someone made following the murder of John Lennon, by dialing around New York's FM band in the wee hours of December 9, 1980. Anyone have any idea what Tampa stations did that night? I'm thinking the ones that might have done something special would be 1380 (then still WLCY), 95 YNF, 98 ROCK, 102 "and a half", and Q105.

All I remember from that time were that generation's oldsters crabbing on WPLP and other talk radio stations, blaming Lennon and the Beatles for drug use, long hair, Vietnam War and draft resistance, sexual license, and other various shortcomings of the then under-35's... I remember one caller insisting that "Back in the USSR" proved Lennon was a Commie. :D
 
The only thing I remember is the midnight CBS newscast on 107.3, which then was beautiful music WWBA-FM, which was I think usually number 1 in 12+. WWBA-FM carried the CBS radio newscasts overnight and this was back before CBS radio newscasts were dumbed down. I recorded the newscast and put it on a web page that no longer exists, but I think my recording is the one on this page:

http://taz4158.tripod.com/beatles.html

The WWBA ID is missing on that page.

I vaguely remember that some (most?) stations did something special for the period of silence requested by Yoko Ono.
 
I was working at what was then 1430WQPD in Lakeland but couldn't get the station at my house when we were running night power. My clock radio was always tuned to 94.9 - I really want to say that they were still Y-95 doing top 40 back then. Anyway, when the alarm went off, all I heard were John Lennon and Beatles tunes. It wasn't until after I got out of the shower and dressed that I actually heard the news. He had just released the 'Double Fantasy' album shortly before he died.
 
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