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Tribute sites for WQID/WJDQ

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WQID-FM and WJDQ-FM where/are outstanding radio stations in the Magnolia state and it would seem appropriate (not to mention awesome) if tribute websites existed for both of them.

WQID was the POWERHOUSE CHR on the Gulf Coast throughout the 1980s and WQID is legend in its own time having maintained a Top-40 format through out out its 25+ year run. It seems justified that both of these stellar stations receive the recognition they deserve.

WQID is but a memory today, but back in the 80s it was the kingpin of Gulf Coast radio while the CHR format was riding high across America. As CHR fell out of favor in the early 90s QID faded as well.

WJDQ, better known as Q101, has been a Top-40 for most of its 25+ years, give or take part of the 90s when it was more Hot AC. None the less a station that has primarily stayed in the same format, in the same market (regardless of size) for more than a quarter century definitely deserves some form of tribute/recognition.

To have websites to provide history, the music, the people, the sound and the images would be a great resource to those who listened and contributed to the molding of these greats. It would allow us to remember what a station like QID was about and to provide retrospective on how JDQ has evolved, yet stayed the same, in a sense. Finally it would allow us all to remember what great radio was about and sounded like!

I'm no computer wiz, but I'm willing to contribute my thoughts and information,
hopefully enough of us can pull enough information, resources and memories to get something going.

Thanks
Brady

P.S.: Tribute sites may or may not be way off, but for starters I'll be more than glad to hear your thoughts and what you remember/know about these stations via the board.
 
I worked at QID and sister station VMI in the late 70's to the early 80's. One of the amazing things about this duo is that combined, they had the largest per capita listening audience at that time. They had something like a 90 share. Bob Lima was the PD/OM and was the best I've ever worked for. You know, they say if you wait long enough, things will eventually come back in fashion. With the generation that listened to QID getting older, maybe an all 80's format would be doable. Hard to believe that period was 20 years ago! Kevin Michaels
 
> I worked at QID and sister station VMI in the late 70's to
> the early 80's. One of the amazing things about this duo is
> that combined, they had the largest per capita listening
> audience at that time. They had something like a 90 share.
> Bob Lima was the PD/OM and was the best I've ever worked
> for. You know, they say if you wait long enough, things
> will eventually come back in fashion. With the generation
> that listened to QID getting older, maybe an all 80's format
> would be doable. Hard to believe that period was 20 years
> ago! Kevin Michaels
>
Thanks for the reply! I've heard about Bob Lima, and he must have been very good at what he did with QID/VMI because they had a charisma that has not been seen or matched since (on the Coast)

It would be awesome to have a retro format that imitated QIDs style and sound.

When you worked there what was the station like? what jocks where on then? what cuts where on the playlist?

Thanks

Brady
 
> WQID-FM and WJDQ-FM where/are outstanding radio stations in
> the Magnolia state and it would seem appropriate (not to
> mention awesome) if tribute websites existed for both of
> them.

I've started assembling information for a Q101 site. I have tons of pictures and stuff from the early days ('79-'82). If anybody wants to help, I'm at [email protected].

LF (aka The Real O'Neal)
 
> It would be awesome to have a retro format that imitated
> QIDs style and sound.
>
> When you worked there what was the station like? what jocks
> where on then? what cuts where on the playlist?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brady
>
Off the top of my head, I remember Mickey Coulter, Funky Bobby Case and Rick Tarrant. I rarely got to hear the station in person, but heard some cookin' tapes over the course of time. I remember them playing music off 45's and LP's during the mid 70's, because carts still presented phase problems (that was the explanation I was given).
Rick did part-time at WNOE (AM!) while he was working nights at QID. He went on to WDIA and WHBQ in Memphis, produced "20 the Countdown Magazine" for years, and was the first format manager of Sirius Satellite's Elvis Radio.
Mickey and Bobby came up to Jackson for a while, and kicked off Y-16. They went back to the coast when ownership changed, and Bobby made the leap from Biloxi to NYC, at WPLJ!
RG
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

QID still played some stuff off albums at least until 1990....

I have bumper stickers from WVMI and WQID that I scanned into my computer (cutting down on my inventory of stuff) and some aircheck tapes from 1989 and 1992, plus knowledge of where several alumni of WQID are located... Might even have some station posters somewhere. Let me know what plans you guys have... [email protected]
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

> QID still played some stuff off albums at least until
> 1990....
>
> I have bumper stickers from WVMI and WQID that I scanned
> into my computer (cutting down on my inventory of stuff) and
> some aircheck tapes from 1989 and 1992, plus knowledge of
> where several alumni of WQID are located... Might even have
> some station posters somewhere. Let me know what plans you
> guys have... [email protected]
>

i have a tape from 1992..(wqid)sounds like vinyl to me..plus its a classic rock format..?..its on the same tape as the flip of k hundred and six and AM 1 thousand one hundred and forty..wack am:) (stunting)changing from top 40 chr to country..so i know it was 92..
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>
> When you worked there what was the station like? what jocks
> where on then? what cuts where on the playlist?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brady
>
When I was there, it was Mickey Coulter, Bobby Case, Mike Lana, Reverend Red, Don Silver (later replaced by Rip Daniels). I have an old tape of one of my shows somewhere. Includes Hot Choclate "You Sexy Thing", Tom Petty "Refuge", AC/DC "Back in Black" and some others. I remember working around 3am filling in for Rip (who had a habit of not showing up). I got bored and put on an album cut of Grand Funk. Phone rang and it was Bob Lima asking why I was playing that cut as it wasn't on the playlist. I swear, that guy never slept! The fastest way to get fired back then was to cut crappy commercials or start records on the wrong speed. Reverend Red was fired the first time around because he couldn't get his production done on time. Bob was a stickler for quality and it showed!
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > QID still played some stuff off albums at least until
> > 1990....
> >
> > I have bumper stickers from WVMI and WQID that I scanned
> > into my computer (cutting down on my inventory of stuff)
> and
> > some aircheck tapes from 1989 and 1992, plus knowledge of
> > where several alumni of WQID are located... Might even
> have
> > some station posters somewhere. Let me know what plans
> you
> > guys have... [email protected]
> >
>
> i have a tape from 1992..(wqid)sounds like vinyl to me..plus
> its a classic rock format..?..its on the same tape as the
> flip of k hundred and six and AM 1 thousand one hundred and
> forty..wack am:) (stunting)changing from top 40 chr to
> country..so i know it was 92..
>

It was a Rock 40 format... unless you airchecked the overnight shift with Bruce Edwards... lol he was given more "latitude" with his music list... Bob Fonda was the OM and Pat McGowan was PD and they did a fantastic job with that format. WQID was the most fun station I ever worked at.... Some of the cuts were only available on vinyl... I remember playing "La Grange" by ZZ Top off vinyl once, and there were some other things. Lots of the music was carted up off vinyl. When I started there in 89, most stuff was on carts, and the cd library was growing. There was a new pd who came along in 1990, and started carting up the cds... said the cds were unreliable (?) Like carts never broke... but anyway, lots of stuff was on cd by 1992 when he was gone...
 
> >
> > When you worked there what was the station like? what
> jocks
> > where on then? what cuts where on the playlist?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Brady
> >
> When I was there, it was Mickey Coulter, Bobby Case, Mike
> Lana, Reverend Red, Don Silver (later replaced by Rip
> Daniels). I have an old tape of one of my shows somewhere.
> Includes Hot Choclate "You Sexy Thing", Tom Petty "Refuge",
> AC/DC "Back in Black" and some others. I remember working
> around 3am filling in for Rip (who had a habit of not
> showing up). I got bored and put on an album cut of Grand
> Funk. Phone rang and it was Bob Lima asking why I was
> playing that cut as it wasn't on the playlist. I swear,
> that guy never slept! The fastest way to get fired back
> then was to cut crappy commercials or start records on the
> wrong speed. Reverend Red was fired the first time around
> because he couldn't get his production done on time. Bob
> was a stickler for quality and it showed!
>
The Reverand and Rip Daniels spinning records for QID?! Reverand getting canned for poor production...not to suprising... But quality counts, and it shows too. So it is not suprising QID had high standards, which indoubtly was part of the reason they were a kick ass station!
 
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
 
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> 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
>

Well, Mister AnonymousRadioGuy, forgive me for bragging, but QID was jamming when A.J. programmed it in 1989 and again when Bob Fonda and Pat McGowan were running the show in 92 and 93. As I understand it, when Power 108 signed on in 87, Bob Lima had gone over to WPMO and relaunched it as K-99, and it took QID/VMI a while to recover. If QID was so great before, I wish I could have heard it back in the day!

I only know Scott Sands from what he did at Live 95, but I do know Bryan Rhodes and Miami Steve and Lisa Vee and Mark McCraw and the other guys over there, and they were great to work with. Good to see Scott Beard and Dave Madison on Kicker's website. Dave picked a he11 of a time to move back to the coast...
 
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
> >
>
> Well, Mister AnonymousRadioGuy, forgive me for bragging, but
> QID was jamming when A.J. programmed it in 1989 and again
> when Bob Fonda and Pat McGowan were running the show in 92
> and 93. As I understand it, when Power 108 signed on in 87,
> Bob Lima had gone over to WPMO and relaunched it as K-99,
> and it took QID/VMI a while to recover. If QID was so great
> before, I wish I could have heard it back in the day!
>
> I only know Scott Sands from what he did at Live 95, but I
> do know Bryan Rhodes and Miami Steve and Lisa Vee and Mark
> McCraw and the other guys over there, and they were great to
> work with. Good to see Scott Beard and Dave Madison on
> Kicker's website. Dave picked a he11 of a time to move back
> to the coast...
>
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...
 
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
> > >
> >
> > Well, Mister AnonymousRadioGuy, forgive me for bragging,
> but
> > QID was jamming when A.J. programmed it in 1989 and again
> > when Bob Fonda and Pat McGowan were running the show in 92
>
> > and 93. As I understand it, when Power 108 signed on in
> 87,
> > Bob Lima had gone over to WPMO and relaunched it as K-99,
> > and it took QID/VMI a while to recover. If QID was so
> great
> > before, I wish I could have heard it back in the day!
> >
> > I only know Scott Sands from what he did at Live 95, but I
>
> > do know Bryan Rhodes and Miami Steve and Lisa Vee and Mark
>
> > McCraw and the other guys over there, and they were great
> to
> > work with. Good to see Scott Beard and Dave Madison on
> > Kicker's website. Dave picked a he11 of a time to move
> back
> > to the coast...
> >
> 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.
 
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.
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

Another guy comes to mind from the late 70's.. I think his name was George (maybe Michaels, or is that too obvious.. wouldn't have been then). Anyway, I first met him at WSUH in Oxford, and then ran into him at WQID, circa '77.
RG
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

> Another guy comes to mind from the late 70's.. I think his
> name was George (maybe Michaels, or is that too obvious..
> wouldn't have been then). Anyway, I first met him at WSUH
> in Oxford, and then ran into him at WQID, circa '77.
> RG
>
I seem to recall a Michaels a year or two on before I started on QID/VMI. Pat McGowan took my place as PD of Coast 102 when I left. He's a great guy and is a walking encyclopedia of music! Power 108 was doing well when I worked there and Coast 102. The problem is that K99 was #1 in the market and it chapped Morgan's butt! That's why he took 108 country. He didn't even tell the staff! I walked in one morning to do my shift on Coast and Brian was standing in the lobby watching them haul the CD's out of 108 and replace them with country cd's. Morgan is very lucky that he has had good people working for him all these years. Cheapest man I ever worked for. Bob Lima on the other hand treated his staff very well. We always got large Christmas bonuses and a big year end party. Last I heard, Bob retired and is is Florida. As far as K99, WPMO was purchased when it was apparent that AM radio was dying. Bob took his programming knowledge from WVMI and applied it to K99 and BAM! #1! Kevin Michaels
 
Re: Tribute site for WQID

> > Another guy comes to mind from the late 70's.. I think his
>
> > name was George (maybe Michaels, or is that too obvious..
> > wouldn't have been then). Anyway, I first met him at WSUH
>
> > in Oxford, and then ran into him at WQID, circa '77.
> > RG
> >
> I seem to recall a Michaels a year or two on before I
> started on QID/VMI. Pat McGowan took my place as PD of
> Coast 102 when I left. He's a great guy and is a walking
> encyclopedia of music! Power 108 was doing well when I
> worked there and Coast 102. The problem is that K99 was #1
> in the market and it chapped Morgan's butt! That's why he
> took 108 country. He didn't even tell the staff! I walked
> in one morning to do my shift on Coast and Brian was
> standing in the lobby watching them haul the CD's out of 108
> and replace them with country cd's. Morgan is very lucky
> that he has had good people working for him all these years.
> Cheapest man I ever worked for. Bob Lima on the other hand
> treated his staff very well. We always got large Christmas
> bonuses and a big year end party. Last I heard, Bob retired
> and is is Florida. As far as K99, WPMO was purchased when
> it was apparent that AM radio was dying. Bob took his
> programming knowledge from WVMI and applied it to K99 and
> BAM! #1! Kevin Michaels
>
Okay that explains how K99 came about...but whose half assed idea was it to vaporize QID and put Magic in its place?
 
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.
 
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> "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
 
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