Test YOUR Tampa Bay Radio Savvy...

[jefflaurence]

Some are easy..some are a little rough. They are all phrases or characteristics that are associated with one of the listed selections. Match the various item to the provided call letters or frequency (some might have more than one correct answer, but there is only one correct choice in each set of possible answers)

Ready? Sure you are..here we go.

1. "I Love You Tampa Bay"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYUU-FM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WWRM-FM

2. "WHEN FLASHING..NEWS IS ON"
a) WALT-AM
b) WLCY-AM
c) WFLA-AM
d) WWBA-AM

3. "Skyyyyyyyy Patrol"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYOU-AM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WUSA-FM

4. "JOY"
a) 99.5
b) 100.7
c) 93.3
d) 95.7

5. "Good Ol Boy (or Girl)"
a) 97.9
b) 97.7
c) 1010
d) 99.5

6. "QUAD"
a) 102.5
b) 101.5
c) 1380
d) 1250

7. "LIFE"
a) 90.1
b) 860
c) 680
d) 1110

8. "OK"
a) 107.9
b) 97.9
c) 101.5
d) 95.7

9. "Z"
a) 97.9
b) 104.7
c) 100.7
d) 1590

10. "The End"
a) 89.9
b) 760
c) 107.9
d) 1300


Step right up..try your luck..win a ceee-garrr!

 

[Ferreri]

Some are easy..some are a little rough. They are all phrases or characteristics that are associated with one of the listed selections. Match the various item to the provided call letters or frequency (some might have more than one correct answer, but there is only one correct choice in each set of possible answers)

Ready? Sure you are..here we go.

1. "I Love You Tampa Bay"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYUU-FM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WWRM-FM

2. "WHEN FLASHING..NEWS IS ON"
a) WALT-AM
b) WLCY-AM
c) WFLA-AM
d) WWBA-AM

3. "Skyyyyyyyy Patrol"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYOU-AM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WUSA-FM

4. "JOY"
a) 99.5
b) 100.7
c) 93.3
d) 95.7

5. "Good Ol Boy (or Girl)"
a) 97.9
b) 97.7
c) 1010
d) 99.5

6. "QUAD"
a) 102.5
b) 101.5
c) 1380
d) 1250

7. "LIFE"
a) 90.1
b) 860
c) 680
d) 1110

8. "OK"
a) 107.9
b) 97.9
c) 101.5
d) 95.7

9. "Z"
a) 97.9
b) 104.7
c) 100.7
d) 1590

10. "The End"
a) 89.9
b) 760
c) 107.9
d) 1300


Step right up..try your luck..win a ceee-garrr!

Good one, Jeff..

#1- got me
#2- c
#3- c
#4- b
#5- d
#6- a
#7- c
#8- ?
#9- a
#10- c?

 

[sbe1]

Ready? Sure you are..here we go.

1. "I Love You Tampa Bay"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYUU-FM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WWRM-FM

2. "WHEN FLASHING..NEWS IS ON"
a) WALT-AM
b) WLCY-AM
c) WFLA-AM
d) WWBA-AM

3. "Skyyyyyyyy Patrol"
a) WFLA-AM
b) WYOU-AM
c) WDAE-AM
d) WUSA-FM

4. "JOY"
a) 99.5
b) 100.7
c) 93.3
d) 95.7

5. "Good Ol Boy (or Girl)"
a) 97.9
b) 97.7
c) 1010
d) 99.5

6. "QUAD"
a) 102.5
b) 101.5
c) 1380
d) 1250

7. "LIFE"
a) 90.1
b) 860
c) 680
d) 1110

8. "OK"
a) 107.9
b) 97.9
c) 101.5
d) 95.7

9. "Z"
a) 97.9
b) 104.7
c) 100.7
d) 1590

10. "The End"
a) 89.9
b) 760
c) 107.9
d) 1300


Step right up..try your luck..win a ceee-garrr!
[/quote]

Good one, Jeff..

#1- got me
#2- c
#3- c
#4- b
#5- d
#6- a
#7- c
#8- ?
#9- a
#10- c?

3. Al "Sky Patrol" Ford... WDAE and WSUN 620

10 "The End" of good radio.... 760 WEND

2. When Flashing.... WFLA

The only "Joy" I recall is 88.1 and the only "Z" I recall was Z93

 

[smedge2006]

1. "I Love You Tampa Bay" is c. It was part of a station jingle IIRC.

 

[Wazzie]

Or as we like to call it, ancient history. (Gee Jeff, you're OLD!)

 

[WNCRadioFan]

hmm, lets see now

Joy was 100.7
OK was OK96 95.7 (just before 96Fever)
this is scarry-I remember them doing equipment tests..

Quad Quad 102 1/2
Life was 680
Z was 97.9 in its Z98 phase


anyone remember....

Surf Row Radio
or
WSAF
or
W106

 

[Mike_Serio]

Very good Jeff. You DID throw a couple of curve balls. But I think I nailed 'em. (let me know if I was wrong!)

1) C Thanks, now I'll have that jingle stuck in my head all day. (were you there when the 45 was released?)

2) C & D both WWBA-AM and Newsradio 970 WFLA have done this. AM 68 did it in the late 70's, WFLA over a decade later.

3) C Still the best in content and STYYYYYYLE!

4) B WJYW. Cool logo too... name of the station and a single red rose.

5) D Did the GOB contest go back as far as the 1110 days ???

6) A

7) C Somewhere I have a pic of the VW Beetle with all the pictures of the artists and the "Panda Logo" on it.

8) D WOKF I was a high school intern (from Dunedin) and spent a semester there. WTAN was the big station in the building, OK 96 was automated. When they did the weather, it was called "Tampa Bay Environment"

9) A - WZNE... and obviously Cool Oldies Z93 WFLZ... but I also think that WRXB incorporated a "Z"

10) B

 

[smedge2006]

MORE Tampa Bay Radio Savvy...

1. "The Higby-Miller Report" aired on which station?

a. WWBA 680
b. WFLA 970
c. WDAE 1250
d. WSUN 620

2. What was Al Ford's rank in the Tampa Police Department when he left to work fulltime for WDAE?

a. Officer
b. Sergeant
c. Lieutenant
d. Major

3. The first host of a sports talk radio show in Tampa was

a. Tedd Webb
b. Nanci Donnellan (Fabulous Sports Babe)
c. Mark Champion
d. Scott Ross

4. In 1981, 96 KX staged a contest that propelled it to the top of the Arbitrons, the top prize of which was

a. a house
b. a car
c. a restaurant
d. a disco

5. The frequency now home to WKES-FM (91.1) originally hosted which station?

a. WBVM
b. WMNF
c. WCIE
d. WRFA

6. Which personality popularized this joke: "Did you know they're selling corn in the concession stands at Tampa Stadium? It's a buck an ear! (Buccaneer)."

a. Jack Harris
b. Scott Farrell
c. Rick Morgan
d. Jonathan Green

7. Which station was the first to transmit from atop the Park Tower (First Financial Tower) in Tampa?

a. WFLZ
b. WQYK
c. WRBQ
d. WWBA-FM

8. Pioneering talk show host Harvey Sheldon frequently referred to a feature of his anatomy on his
late- night show on WLCY in the late 1960s. Which one was it?

a. pilonidal cyst
b. bunions
c. double-jointed fingers
d. dual-pupil eyes

9. Chuck Harder worked at which Tampa radio station before launching his "For the People" show into national syndication?

a. WFLA
b. WNSI
c. WPLP
d. all of the above

10. WDUV-FM has operated on which frequencies over the years?

a. 103.3, 103.5, 105.5
b. 105.5, 96.1, 97.1
c. 95.7, 97.5, 105.5
d. 107.3, 101.5, 105.5

 

[RMarino]

9) A - WZNE... and obviously Cool Oldies Z93 WFLZ... but I also think that WRXB incorporated a "Z"

And WSRZ... All hit Z106!!!

 

[Parttimer]

#10 is "a" 103.3, uprgraded to 103.5 and then swapped with Thunder...

 

[jefflaurence]

The "When Flashing News Is On..was at both..your right..I was thinking of the old WWBA in St. Pete at 680..and the old sign was on the street..Higby told me that he nearly got canned one day because he forgot to turn on the light before a newscast.

and regarding Mike's note regarding the "I Love You Tampa Bay" record..we had 2000 of them pressed by AR mastering in Texas, and Chris Rathaus and Scott Walterman and I went to about 40 bars in the area convinced them to put the record in the various jukeboxes, and went there frequently armed with about five bucks in quarters. The damn record would get punched up about three dozen times and play over and over and over..It was a 3 min jingle for the station basically...

Let's see if I'm right on these...Hmm

1. a
2. c
3. c?
4. a (I think it was at the Plantation in Carrolwood..off Linebaugh
5. c (Where Christ Is Everything)
6. a. (who else?)
7. c
8. b ?? (Holy crap Smedge..that's a hard one)
9. d (call now to order your nev-r-burnt-out light bulbs..made by the same company that makes em for our tower)
10. a

 

[billengguy]

Harvey had double pupils! It got to the point, kids would call in all the time during the show and that is all the subject was. He would start hanging up on them after several calls in a row!