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Tiger Radio WQAM Virtually Re-created

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flarrfan

I don't know how many readers of this board have been in south Florida long enough to remember Tiger Radio WQAM as the dominant Top 40 station in the market for many years between 1956 and the advent of FM in the 70's. Whether you remember or not, if you like music from that era, you should enjoy my re-creation of WQAM, now live at http://www.live365.com/stations/560wqam . There is a wonderful tribute site to the classic '60's sound of WQAM at http://www.560.com , and the webmaster there was kind enough to let me rip his massive jingle and aircheck collection. As a result, you can hear more than 120 original WQAM jingles and audio clips of actual Tiger Radio DJ's in between lots and lots of music that was played on the station back then. Starting Monday, we'll feature the voices of Lee Sherwood in the morning, Jim Dunlap middays, Roby Yonge in the afternoon, and R-I-C-K Shaw in the evening.

I'm strictly a hobbyist broadcaster, and except for the Live365 commercial inserts (over which I have no control), this re-creation is totally for non-commercial historic purposes. If you'd like to know what south Florida Top 40 radio sounded like in the early years of rock and roll, I invite you to tune in. (Legal disclaimer...not affiliated with or sanctioned by Beasley Broadcast Group, current operator of SportsRadio WQAM.)

Finally, if you share my interest in radio history, you might be interested in checking out my original Storz re-creation, KXOK the St. Louis Legend, at http://www.live365.com/stations/flarrfan
I became addicted to radio while a teenager living near St. Louis , and I listened to QAM regularly on family vacations to visit relatives in Miami (my cousins were WFUN listeners, but I was used to the Storz sound and preferred 560). Though I spent almost ten years as a radio and TV pro before changing careers, I've never lost my love of radio, and Live365 is giving me the chance to do it again, with the two stations I grew up with!

Kent
 
All of the airchecks I used are from the collection at this page: http://www.560.com/html/air_checks.htm There is no John Paul Roberts, sorry. I also searched at the Mr. Aircheck collection site and found nothing.

Lee Abrams? The name wasn't familiar to me, so I did a search to find he's a key guy at XM. No, except for my three years as a part-timer at WRUF while getting a broadcasting degree, followed by six years in TV and radio news in SW Fla in the 1970's, neither I nor Steve Geisler, who created the tribute web site and collected the audio I'm using, are in the radio business. We're just fans of old radio, before terrestrial broadcasting went to hell.

WFUN? There is also a tribute site (http://wfuntribute.com/), with a smaller audio collection than Steve's, so if anyone wants to revive the 56 vs. 79 competition, have at it!

I'm just having some radio fun in my spare time...I have a full time legal career in central Florida now, but I have never forgotten the brief time I spent growing up near St. Louis listening to KXOK (which I re-created in the same way a few months ago) or listening to WQAM from my early career base in SW Fla. I just felt there was something missing from the 70's era FM's, and then the music took a few turns I didn't like. These re-creations are my chance to play with radio like I always wanted to do, and to play the great old hits I remember with the same voices that made radio listening fun.
 
Lee Abrams is XM's creative director, and WQAM is his favorite top 40 station of the 60s. He loves to say great things about it all the time and how it would always out-prize WFUN.
 
RICK AND ROBY WEEKEND now in progress...hear all voice tracks from Rick Shaw and the Big Kahuna, including a fascinating aircheck from RY taking over the Clark Moore overnight show on a vacation from his new job in NY, along with Rick Shaw's goodbye from last month.
 
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