TO: jshirah A QUESTION FOR YOU ABOUT WILZ When you worked there.

[thebeach33445]

jshirah: Thank you for your input!! It helps out alot in my research!! So what you are saying is that WILZ 1590 was oldies first then top 40? I saw a post on this site saying that WILZ was Top 40 first then oldies. This could clear up a lot. Could you also tell me what year you started out at Solid gold 16 and could you tell me what year z 16 started. This would be a great help!!

Again jshirah thank you!!

T.J.

 

[jshirah]

Hey TJ....Quick notes about WILZ. Station had been floundering around as big band since owner Art Millman was into Guy Lombardo (at one time part owner of the station), plus they had a pretty bad signal, being 1k at 1590. I was working as Mike Scott at WLCY when our midday guy, George Gainey, resigned and told me he was going to WILZ, which was changing format to oldies, Solid Gold 16, under the direction of Mel Tinney, formerly of WCWR. Oldies is my thing, so I interviewed with Mel and decided to leave WLCY to do afternoons at WILZ. This was in 1972. We also floundered around with a bad signal, but did have some business on the air but couldn't really compete with only lk. In 1973 Mel hired The Great Scott (Scott Owens) as PD and he changed it to Z16 and turned it contemporary. Again without much success. I left shortly after that and went back to WLCY in sales. Had a lot of grins at WILZ, played some good tunes, but small signal (plus being a daytimer) did Solid Gold 16 in. Can't remember exactly when they changed to WRXB.

 

[zappafan1]

Hey TJ....Quick notes about WILZ. Station had been floundering around as big band since owner Art Millman was into Guy Lombardo (at one time part owner of the station), plus they had a pretty bad signal, being 1k at 1590. I was working as Mike Scott at WLCY when our midday guy, George Gainey, resigned and told me he was going to WILZ, which was changing format to oldies, Solid Gold 16, under the direction of Mel Tinney, formerly of WCWR. Oldies is my thing, so I interviewed with Mel and decided to leave WLCY to do afternoons at WILZ. This was in 1972. We also floundered around with a bad signal, but did have some business on the air but couldn't really compete with only lk. In 1973 Mel hired The Great Scott (Scott Owens) as PD and he changed it to Z16 and turned it contemporary. Again without much success. I left shortly after that and went back to WLCY in sales. Had a lot of grins at WILZ, played some good tunes, but small signal (plus being a daytimer) did Solid Gold 16 in. Can't remember exactly when they changed to WRXB.

Hey, Guys: I don't know if you two still follow this post but I thought I'd give it a shot. I worked for a time at WILZ when Art Millman was there. I did the commercials for The Chupko Show, Pat Chupko being the DJ, and the guitarist for our band "Storm." I was the drummer for the band. A local newspaper even started a comic strip about the show. We opened up the format a bit by playing mostly new stuff, but we covered anything from John Coltrane to Frank Zappa. We had lots of calls of all ages saying they liked what we put on the air. Geez.... doing editing for the commercials on 1/4" tape was a lot of fun, actually. I still have a copy of the spots I did for the show. I recall art being out of the studio for a while one day, and I quietly opened the door up on Pat the DJ room with a fire extinguisher in hand, and sprayed the room, moments later finding out it was a class 2 unit..... there was dust EVERYWHERE (control unit, tape carts, etc), which we had to clean up before Art got back, all the while keeping the show going. It was great working there.