The Heritage Of Y-100

[The-Major]

I've actually been considering writing an extensive article on the heritage of Y-100 for awhile now - specifically for my own popular web site (MASSIVESMASH.COM) - but also for Wikipedia. (I'm an official user and contributor on there as well.)

I would need some assistance for this article since I've only lived aqui en South Florida for the past 19 years. If I did it alone my article would be biased towards the 1987 to 2006 time-frame. If anyone out there is interested in this possible project then let me know. If we got a whole bunch of longtime Y-100 fans together we could come up with a masterpiece that's worthy of their illustrious heritage that spans a third of a century !

THE MAJOR

Obviously, I've written more about the stations I know more about, from having been a listener.
Back when Y-100 started I was just out of college ... Only times I ever listened to Y-100 were for info for my site.
We need an article about Y-100 by an expert. A long-time fan. Like you, Major.
Please? Maybe you can draft some other Y-100 fans to collaborate. Maybe you even have some pictures?
73s from 954
PS --- If you want to continue this topic, please start a new thread. Y-100 fans won't be looking at a thread entitled Eric Brandon!!!!!

 

[top4odj]

Hola Major......I seem to have some knowledge of this subject <snikkah> ;D So...with that being said, if you'd like to pick my brain, at least whats left of it.....Have at it. You know my policy, if there is anything I can pass on to shed light on the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market from 75-96, i'll do my best to fill in the blanks. Just let me know in advance so I can put on my Broadcasters Alumni Badge..oh wait...there isn't one

 

[The-Major]

THIS JUST IN !

I got tired of constantly accessing Wikipedia and finding nothing whatsoever on there regarding Y-100, so this afternoon I have once and for all done it. WHYI has been created !

I've got the first (introductory) paragraph on there now, and I also added the standard Infobox for radio stations.

Please help me in the enhancement of this creation that's worthy of its 33-year heritage !

THE MAJOR

 

[954]

THIS JUST IN !

I got tired of constantly accessing Wikipedia and finding nothing whatsoever on there regarding Y-100, so this afternoon I have once and for all done it. WHYI has been created !

I've got the first (introductory) paragraph on there now, and I also added the standard Infobox for radio stations.

Please help me in the enhancement of this creation that's worthy of its 33-year heritage !

THE MAJOR

Great start! Suggestions:

Braek up that first paragraph into at least two, for readability.

Link to other info about y-100, such as footamerica, Josh's article, my article, this thread.

Add old dolphin logo.

Check spelling.

I'm sure other people who were big fans will have much more to say.

73s

 

[The-Major]

Great start! Suggestions:
Braek up that first paragraph into at least two, for readability.
Link to other info about y-100, such as footamerica, Josh's article, my article, this thread.
Add old dolphin logo.
Check spelling.
I'm sure other people who were big fans will have much more to say.

The fun has already started. Less than two hours after my last update someone has already gone in there and added some great new material to it. That someone is obviously part of our family here on this board, so whoever you are I must thank you so much for your wonderful contributions.

I plan to make some minor spelling, grammar, and sentence and paragraph structure modifications to it later tonight, so please excuse the construction zone. I'll make it look nice and pretty !

THE MAJOR

 

[radiolover78]

I'm also an official "Wikipedian" lol. I'm currently working on creating a WLYF-FM article. I have the page up, but not much is on it yet.

I'll contribute what I can to the Y100 article.

 

[954]

So why doesn't a link to either article appear on this thread?

 

[The-Major]

So why doesn't a link to either article appear on this thread?

Because all ya gotta do is go to Wikipedia and type in WHYI in the search box ! :

Or you can link to it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHYI

THE MAJOR

P.S. I'm planning an entire paragraph on the legendary Footy alone !

 

[954]

I'm sick of cutting & pasting quote tags. What I said is in TEAL.
The Major said the rest.

So why doesn't a link to either article appear on this thread?

Because all ya gotta do is go to Wikipedia and type in WHYI in the search box ! :

I DID THAT TWICE.... BUT I'D RATHER NOT EVERY TIME.

Or you can link to it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHYI

YOU NEED A Y-100 DISAMBIGUATION PAGE.

THE MAJOR

P.S. I'm planning an entire paragraph on the legendary Footy alone !

A whole paragraph? I wrote more about him myself.... ;D...
and you're the big fan! :

73s

 

[The-Major]

YOU NEED A Y-100 DISAMBIGUATION PAGE.

I know. The former Y-100 in Philadelphia has long had its presence on Wikipedia. I'll work on that. It's only the first day !

A whole paragraph? I wrote more about him myself.... ;D...
and you're the big fan! :

Footy will actually be getting his own expanded section ! Actually Footy deserves his own Wikipedia entry !

THE MAJOR

 

[John FL]

This whole thing is pretty cool. I've always been one of those who always liked to know what the first and even last song was when stations launched or even flipped from one format to another or when a new DJ came aboard or left/etc. and for Y-100, now I know it was Seals and Crofts "Diamond Girl."

When you think about it's really awesome - one minute there was silence on that frequency and then there was the birth of what would later become a very significant culture shift in South Florida. Pretty exciting stuff for us radio junkies....

 

[radiolover78]

So why doesn't a link to either article appear on this thread?

Here's the WLYF-FM article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLYF-FM

 

[otterk9]

Kevin writes: "I'm also an official 'Wikipedian' lol. I'm currently working on creating a WLYF-FM article. I have the page up, but not much is on it yet."

Kevin: Appreciate the interest in WLYF. After all, it's not one of America's more notorious radio stations...

In the interest of accuracy, if you have any questions about the station's history, personnel or technical facility for your Wikipedia entry -- please feel free to contact me. (The same guy who offered you the tour of 101.5 LITE FM next time you're in South Florida. <g>)

 

[John FL]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Y-100 devoted a special program/better yet - features throughout a weekend in to looking at their past to even include competitors of yester- year.

For a long time CBS-FM in NYC did a legends type weekend where the jocks from WABC and WMCA came back on the air and did their thing, told lots of stories and just allowed us to relive some very special moments. The oldies station in Philly did something like that too, as I'm sure other have, bringing back the legends of the area.

Today, WABC looks back at it's music years every Memorial Day weekend in a great feature they call "rewound" and it seems to get better and more popular than the year prior.

Just food for thought. It could be a great way to get a lot of interest in the station. I'd love to hear something like that - hopefully it would stream on the net.

Even if that idea got nixed on the Y, there could be some potential for an AMer to bring back the South Florida Top 40 legends for a talk fest mixed with the sounds of the way it used to be. If done right, it could grow into an annual event. I tend to dream a lot but seriously it would be a blast to hear one day.....

 

[The-Major]

This whole thing is pretty cool. I've always been one of those who always liked to know what the first and even last song was when stations launched or even flipped from one format to another or when a new DJ came aboard or left/etc. and for Y-100, now I know it was Seals and Crofts "Diamond Girl."
When you think about it's really awesome - one minute there was silence on that frequency and then there was the birth of what would later become a very significant culture shift in South Florida. Pretty exciting stuff for us radio junkies....

Hey John,

I had no idea about the Seals & Crofts song being the very first song that Y-100 ever played back in 1973 when they first went LIVE on-the-air. Someone else wrote that portion of the article. I'm not going to be any good with writing material for the article from 1973 to 1987 because that was before my South Florida time. (I moved here at the end of 1987 from the U.K.). I'll be mainly concentrating on the past 19 years. If anyone out there in Radio-Info-land is interested in contributing to the article with Pre-1987 material then by all means go to it. One item of note though. We have to be very careful about what we write in there. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, so it should be all about the facts of the station. As passionate as some of us are about Y-100 (myself included) we have to try not to let our passion show up in the writing. Some of the historical material that's currently in there is a bit on the opinionated side, so we need to tone it down a bit. We can show our passion all day long here on Radio-Info, but we need to be full of facts on Wikipedia.

Up until a few weeks ago I was under the impression that Y-100 was the only radio station that was ever on 100.7 FM here in South Florida. I was shocked when I found out that 100.7 FM was once (in the 1960s) a beautiful music station with the call letters of WMJR.

THE MAJOR

 

[The-Major]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Y-100 devoted a special program/better yet - features throughout a weekend in to looking at their past to even include competitors of yester- year.
Just food for thought. It could be a great way to get a lot of interest in the station. I'd love to hear something like that - hopefully it would stream on the net.
Even if that idea got nixed on the Y, there could be some potential for an AMer to bring back the South Florida Top 40 legends for a talk fest mixed with the sounds of the way it used to be. If done right, it could grow into an annual event. I tend to dream a lot but seriously it would be a blast to hear one day.....

I so totally adore your idea, and I know that it's being done elsewhere in the U.S.; however, Y-100 is all about the now. They have long forgotten their past and where they came from. The Y-100 of 2006 does not sound like the Y-100 of 1996 (or even 2001 for that matter). CHR-POP stations in general are all about what is going on now. They are catering to kids, teenagers, and young female adults - many of whom weren't even born when their favourite station first hit the airwaves. I am so out of their format's target demographics, but that doesn't stop me from listening to them. It also doesn't stop me from remembering what they were once like. That's why we have this board here to do just that !

XM's '60s On 6' has a regular weekly show every Friday night from 4 to 9 PM where they feature great AM stations of the 1960s exactly as they were heard back in the day complete with the original on-air personalities, jingles, and hit music. They frequently feature your TOP 40 stations of the day since that was overwhelmingly the most popular radio format of the time. I wish '70s on 7' had a similar program for the great FM stations of the era. It may be time to send an E-MAIL to XM management regarding this request of mine.

THE MAJOR

 

[radiolover78]

Kevin writes: "I'm also an official 'Wikipedian' lol. I'm currently working on creating a WLYF-FM article. I have the page up, but not much is on it yet."

Kevin: Appreciate the interest in WLYF. After all, it's not one of America's more notorious radio stations...

In the interest of accuracy, if you have any questions about the station's history, personnel or technical facility for your Wikipedia entry -- please feel free to contact me. (The same guy who offered you the tour of 101.5 LITE FM next time you're in South Florida. <g>)

Thankyou, and I really appreciate you personally emailing me. I will obviously use WLYF-FM's website as a source. Of course I will try to be careful not to plagiarize, but if I have any questions, I won't hesitate to contact you.

Again, thanks, and even though it may be a while, I'll try to get down to South Florida!

 

[954]

Kevin writes: "I'm also an official 'Wikipedian' lol. I'm currently working on creating a WLYF-FM article. I have the page up, but not much is on it yet."

Kevin: Appreciate the interest in WLYF. After all, it's not one of America's more notorious radio stations...

Tell us about the notorious....

73s

 

[Mike Sheridan]

I'm also an official "Wikipedian" lol. I'm currently working on creating a WLYF-FM article. I have the page up, but not much is on it yet.

I'll contribute what I can to the Y100 article.

Kevin...did you do they entry for 105.9 WBGG? Prior to WAXY it was started as WFLM with a beautiful music format owned by the Findley Publishing Company of Findley, Ohio and later sold to Albert Tedesco and changed to country as WIXX-FM. Tedesco needed a night time signal to compete against new full time country WGMA Hollywood and WWOK Miami. The call leters of 105.9 were changed to WAXY in 1970, RKO bought the station in 1973.

I worked there (my first job in radio) as an automation operator from 1972-1974.

 

[radiolover78]

I didn't see the WBGG article. I'll look later. I didn't write anything there though.

If there isn't an article, I'll start one when I can, or someone else can. Thanks. I'm busy most of the weekend, so I won't be able to do a lot of "work" on Wikipedia.