THANKS DAVID!!! A QUESTION FOR YOU!!

[thebeach33445]

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.

 

[davideduardo]

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?

1220 went to a Spanish music format when Herb Dolgoff, formerly the manager of WWOK 1260... I don't recall the date, but it was around 1970. It was programmed by Betty Pino who later became the PD of fm 92 in about 1972 or so when Dolgoff bought it.

When SBS bouught out Dolgoff, the AM, which moved from 1220 to 1210 when I was there (it had been a daytimer) and it slowly evolved into a WQBA clone, until SBS was forced by debts to sell its 3 AMs.

1260 began in the 50's with a Black format (WAME in Miami) and did, I think CHR for a while. It went country when Jack Roth bought it. In 1980, Metroplex bought it and it became WHTT Radio Hit in Spanish (I was the GM). Metroplex sold in about 82 to Levin and Rumbaut and Landin and it became WSUA, Radio Suave (I was consultant) until it went to the interim owner who sold to the present group, which is in part owned by PRISA from Spain.

When WSUA went "Colombian" (CARACOL, meaning cadena radial colombiana or colombian radio net) it had some music and talk shows, and some all talk.

 

[radiosanchez]

1260 began in the 50's with a Black format (WAME in Miami) and did, I think CHR for a while.

1260 did Top 40 (according to Jeff Lemlich's book "Savage Lost"), WAME actually prided itself in having a large playlist, or larger than the average Top 40 station.

I have an old Herald or Miami News article that shows WAME flipping to a "Good Music" format sometime in the early 60s, and features pictures of then-GM Ted Wilson, as well as a young Larry King, who was to begin hosting a show on the station.

The Black format came afterwards, with Nickie Lee probably the most memorable jock of that time.....Lee even did a stunt where he broadcast on WAME for several days continuously, to break the then-record for DJ on air for the longest time.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

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?

1220 went to a Spanish music format when Herb Dolgoff, formerly the manager of WWOK 1260... I don't recall the date, but it was around 1970. It was programmed by Betty Pino who later became the PD of fm 92 in about 1972 or so when Dolgoff bought it.

When SBS bouught out Dolgoff, the AM, which moved from 1220 to 1210 when I was there (it had been a daytimer) and it slowly evolved into a WQBA clone, until SBS was forced by debts to sell its 3 AMs.

1260 began in the 50's with a Black format (WAME in Miami) and did, I think CHR for a while. It went country when Jack Roth bought it. In 1980, Metroplex bought it and it became WHTT Radio Hit in Spanish (I was the GM). Metroplex sold in about 82 to Levin and Rumbaut and Landin and it became WSUA, Radio Suave (I was consultant) until it went to the interim owner who sold to the present group, which is in part owned by PRISA from Spain.

When WSUA went "Colombian" (CARACOL, meaning cadena radial colombiana or colombian radio net) it had some music and talk shows, and some all talk.

Actually 1220 was Spanish as WLTO before Dolgoff bought it. WLTO was owned by Dynamic Broadcasting of Pittsburgh which mostly owned Black formatted stations I believe they owned WAMO in Pittsburgh and WUFO in Buffalo.

Dolgoff had the smarts to change the calls to WCMQ after the well respected Cuban station CMQ. In the '70's 1140 WMIE was Cuban and of course later changed to WQBA.

 

[radiosanchez]

Actually 1220 was Spanish as WLTO before Dolgoff bought it. WLTO was owned by Dynamic Broadcasting of Pittsburgh which mostly owned Black formatted stations I believe they owned WAMO in Pittsburgh and WUFO in Buffalo.

Could go even further back.......To the beginning??

1220 started as WFEC and was owned by the Florida East Coast Railway.....Programming targeted an African-American audience. Location was the "Lord Calvert Hotel"....

When WMBM (then on 800) became WFUN/790, 1220 took the WMBM calls.

WMET/1490 was South Florida's first fulltime, 24 hour Spanish language station. It wasn't the first station with Spanish programming (I believe that was WMIE/1140, but they only had it in blocks), but WMET was the first to do it around the clock. Sometime in 1962 or 63, there was a frequency swap, where WMBM, then a daytimer on 1220 went to the 24 hour 1490 spot, and WMET went to the daytimer 1220 spot (then owned by Max Tavel).

Dynamic bought the 1220 but actually took it back to English first, as WOAH, with a Country format....Then WWOK came on the scene and basically pulverized WOAH, so Dynamic went the Spanish route, taking 1220 to WLTO. Then Dolgoff came in.....

As for "Radio Centro", which you asked about earlier, that was right when SBS bought WCMQ-AM (already on 1210 by then).....The last slogan they used on 1210 under the Dolgoff regime (until late '86) was "Radio Alegre 1210"....When SBS bought it, they modified the music offering and changed the slogan to "CMQ, Radio Centro Cadena Nacional".

 

[davideduardo]

Dolgoff had the smarts to change the calls to WCMQ after the well respected Cuban station CMQ. In the '70's 1140 WMIE was Cuban and of course later changed to WQBA.

WMIE changed to WQBA in the early mid-60's and the battle with already all-spanish WFAB begain. Eaton put La Fabulosa on around '62, as I visited it in Spring Break that year (it was a sister station to where I worked) and then again on my way back from South America in mid-63. I recall meeting Herb Levin at WQBA in around 1965, when I was looking for some transmitter parts for my HCRM1 in Miami and QBA was at 14th and Flagler.