Tribute sites for WQID/WJDQ

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > "94 FM, WQID, the station you listen to the most for the
> Best mix of music
> > with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!"
>
> Good god, who comes up with such gibberish?
>
> LF
>
Sounds like a typical 'corporate america' moniker.
Brady

 

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > Okay that explains how K99 came about...but whose half
> assed
> > idea was it to vaporize QID and put Magic in its place?
> >
>
> When Steve Davenport and the Jackson attorneys sold QID and
> VMI to Southern Starr Broadcasting (K99's owners) or was it
> Multi-Market by that time? Anyway, K-99 did market research
> that said QID's brand image was shot. By this time, QID's
> revival as a Rock 40 had been interrupted by a change to AC.
> The consultant's main bragging point was that he had
> programmed an AC to a 5.0 share in Chicago with a tight
> playlist, and believe it or not, he was able to duplicate
> that stunning success in Biloxi with the new "94 FM, WQID,
> the station you listen to the most for the Best mix of music
> with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!" and
> if I recall correctly, he hit it right on the mark... 5.0
> which was good for 5th place in Biloxi. Anyway it went
> downhill from there, and Bob Lima, Rick Mize, and company
> changed it to Magic 93.7 when they took over. Sad move, but
> it was probably the best alternative at the time.
>
Brand image shot? Hell, if those morons could have looked into the future then and seen this board maybe that would have told them something...
Also another great place they could have looked was to Q101 Meridian. It and QID shared a similar image as 'Q' stations and CHR formats. True CHR went out of style in the early 90s, but Q101 went Hot AC, without any major changes to station name or image and preserved its legacy. Screw the consultants, QID probably could have lived on had they went Hot AC vs. elevator AC, which was Magic's orgional format.

As a side note does any one else find it ironic that Rick Mize is currently running a Hot AC branded as "Q93.7" today?

 

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > > Pat McGowan, the current Coast 102 jock? Wonder what he
> > did
> > > between QID and his now, long run on 102. Bob Fonda,
> > another
> > > name I have heard, has he been associated with other
> coast
> >
> > > stations?
> > >
> > > So Bob Lima left to launch K-99, so is that how they
> came
> > to
> > > occupy QID/VMIs old digs on DeBuyes Rd.?
> > >
> > > As for Scott Sands, I recall him being on at Live 95 in
> > the
> > > mid ninties, what a flop that turned out to be. Maybe
> that
> >
> > > explains why Power didn't last...
> > >
> >
> > Whatever happened to Bob Fonda... that big Bob Seger
> looking
> > dude... we used to work at WKOR in Starkville together....
>
> > still remember when he beat the crap out of Ken Glenn, the
>
> > mid day guy, over a paraket or a canary or
> > something...reminded me a lot of WKRP...
> >
> > Tung
> >
> > P.S. Bob Lima... was- and is.... awesome.
> >
> Pat worked at Power 108 for a while, then Kicker 108 and
> then he became PD at Coast 102, so he's worked for Morgan
> for a long time now.
>
> Bob Fonda works for Clear Channel in Texas now. Still rockin
> too!
>
> Bob Lima is in Gainesville FL I believe... CC sold his
> station in Daytona Beach and it went spanish unfortunately
> for him and everyone else involved. 98 Frog was a good
> station.
>
It occurs to me now that all the current, major players in coast radio have QID/VMI in their lineage.

WMJY/WKNN/WQYZ/WBUV: Stations are housed in the same building that WQID/WVMI were housed in. Sad that none of these stations can live up to the heritage that their predecessors had.

WGCM/WKZN/WZNF: Current employer of Pat McGowan, former QID program director.
WKZN was once kown as Power 108, QID's primary nemisis. Both Power and it's succesor Kicker are owned by the Dowdy clan.

WJZD: Run by none other than Rip Daniles, former QID jock.

WUJM/WTNI/WCPR/WXRG/WXKY: The Coast Triad cluster. Seems that way back when a couple of guys who worked @ QID were employed at Gulf Coast Radio Services, Ltd.,forerunner to Triad. Triad was the last owner of WVMI before ditching the herigtage calls and 540 frequency for current, generic meaning calls TNI (Talk, News, Information) and different frequency, 1610 I believe... Sad, stupid and typical move of Triad, destroying a well known, and liked station, WVMI.

 

[DeadElvis]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> Sounds like a typical 'corporate america' moniker.
> Brady

Actually, TRUE corporate gibberish would be more like:

"94 FM, WQID, the station you listen to the most for the Best mix of music
with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!. A CLEAR CHANNEL STATION!"

Or something like that.

Now, for "Authentic Frontier Gibberish," we would have to ask Mel Brooks.

DE

 

[lfuss]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> Triad. Triad was the last owner of WVMI before ditching the
> herigtage calls and 540 frequency for current, generic
> meaning calls TNI (Talk, News, Information) and different
> frequency

WVMI was on 570 kHz.

LF

 

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > Sounds like a typical 'corporate america' moniker.
> > Brady
>
> Actually, TRUE corporate gibberish would be more like:
>
> "94 FM, WQID, the station you listen to the most for the
> Best mix of music
> with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!. A
> CLEAR CHANNEL STATION!"
>
> Or something like that.
>
> Now, for "Authentic Frontier Gibberish," we would have to
> ask Mel Brooks.
>
> DE
>
lol Yes, Screw Channel like to remind everyone who owns the station, don't they...
Brady

 

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > Triad. Triad was the last owner of WVMI before ditching
> the
> > herigtage calls and 540 frequency for current, generic
> > meaning calls TNI (Talk, News, Information) and different
> > frequency
>
> WVMI was on 570 kHz.
>
> LF
>
Thanks for the correction. For some reason I seemed to have thought they broadcasted on 54o

 

[kevinkelly]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > > Sounds like a typical 'corporate america' moniker.
> > > Brady
> >
> > Actually, TRUE corporate gibberish would be more like:
> >
> > "94 FM, WQID, the station you listen to the most for the
> > Best mix of music
> > with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!. A
> > CLEAR CHANNEL STATION!"
> >
> > Or something like that.
> >

In a testament to "how the mighty have fallen" the consultant who thought up that gibberish and at one time programmed stations in Denver and Phoenix is now an Ops Mgr in Tallahassee.

 

[937QID]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > Okay that explains how K99 came about...but whose half
> assed
> > idea was it to vaporize QID and put Magic in its place?
> >
>
> When Steve Davenport and the Jackson attorneys sold QID and
> VMI to Southern Starr Broadcasting (K99's owners) or was it
> Multi-Market by that time? Anyway, K-99 did market research
> that said QID's brand image was shot. By this time, QID's
> revival as a Rock 40 had been interrupted by a change to AC.
> The consultant's main bragging point was that he had
> programmed an AC to a 5.0 share in Chicago with a tight
> playlist, and believe it or not, he was able to duplicate
> that stunning success in Biloxi with the new "94 FM, WQID,
> the station you listen to the most for the Best mix of music
> with the biggest variety from the 70's 80's and 90's!" and
> if I recall correctly, he hit it right on the mark... 5.0
> which was good for 5th place in Biloxi. Anyway it went
> downhill from there, and Bob Lima, Rick Mize, and company
> changed it to Magic 93.7 when they took over. Sad move, but
> it was probably the best alternative at the time.
>
I can't seem to understand why Bob Lima would let a consultant have his way. Lima had been at QID and brought it so much success. He knew what that station had to offer. It is sad that it appears a programming genius like him took the bait of a consultant and put a far less stellar station in QIDs place.
BRADY

 

[scottsands]

Re: Tribute site for WQID

> QID was OK until they got fat and lazy and got their butts
> kicked when Power 108 signed on in 1987 with a 21.7 share
> 12+ and knocked QID down to a 12.6. They never rebounded. As
> someone who worked at Power, we ate, sleeped and breathed
> beating and demoralizing those guys. Ask Scott Sands about
> it...
>
> DRG
>

Power 108's sign-on battle which killed Q in one book was one of the best radio experiences of my career and a lot of fun. Brian & The Breakfast Bunch, Mark in the Middle, the Real Rick James, Mark "Top" Gunn, and all the weekend warriors had one unified mission and it was to humiliate QID. I don't know why, but it was personal! The most fun was annoying TC McGuire, on and off the air.