Wave 104 in 1990

[BobbyV]

If memory serves, we had WYAV at #1 from our first full ARB Spring '85 until after I left in Summer '88. Not sure what happened after that.

 

[radiolives]

Now Myrtle has 2 again.

Sometimes 4 if you count out of market stations, z107.5 from Wilmington, NC and 95sx from Charleston, SC. z107.5 can be heard well around Myrtle Beach and heading north while 95sx is picked up well south in Garden City, Murrels Inlet and heading south.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Myrtle also had 105.5 WNMB playing top 40 in the 70s-80s. When did that switch to AC?

I don't know, but at one point they were listed somewhere as rock.

They tried modern AC in the late 90s because a consultant told them to and then all of a sudden no one was listening, even when they tried to change back, because WMYB had taken their audience. You can read about it in The Sun News ... no, actually, you can't because THEY DIDN'T MICROFILM THAT ARTICLE.

 

[thatwasradio]

A lot of good reading here, thanks to all for the posting on a great topic! As Crazee said, yes, I worked at both Power 98 and Wave 104, and Sunny 106.5 when it was CHR, we had some good stations on the beach back then, and when Wave 104 hired me away from Power 98 I was so glad to hear Wave sounding more like a CHR powerhouse than the A/C station they used to be, their signal was unbelievable. But KZQ dominated in the early years, before Wave moved from Conway to Myrtle Beach, then they were number one until Power 98 moved from Georgetown to Myrtle Beach, and I guess Sunny 106.5 was smudged somewhere in the middle when we moved it from Georgetown to Myrtle Beach, never could get that signal right...

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

When I moved to Myrtle Beach in August of 1988 to go to college at Coastal Carolina, here is a summary of local radio at that time in `88. WYAY-Wave 104 was HUGE!!! They were top 40 and aired Oldies in the afternoon 12-1 PM and had a great Oldies show on Sunday Nights-50`s-60`s 6PM-Midnight. Rock 97 (which would become Power 98 in early 1989) was classic Rock. WKZQ was new Rock until they went more classic Rock in May of 1989 after the demose of Rock 97. WYAK-FM 103 was the big country station. WSYN-FM Sunny 106.5 was adult-contemp. until they changed to all-Oldies in May of 1990. WNMB-FM 105 was a very good station. They did play new ac, but played alot of 50`s-60`s Oldies and Beach Music. Billy Smith dis an Oldies/Beach Music show on Sunday Afternoons until he was fired in Feb. of 1989 and he went to the new Power 98 tp do mornings. WYXC had a good classic country on the AM.

 

[Ssummers]

I'm not sure your KZQ timeline is entirely correct.

 

[CrazeeCarroll1]

I don't remember an oldies show on Wave..... CC1

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

Yes, the WKZQ-FM timeline is correct!!! May 1989 is right when Banna Jack Murphy came to town! They started playing more Classic Rock because of the demise of 97 Rock (a few months before this). As far as Oldies Shows on Wave 104, there was the one on Sunday Nights from around 6 to Midnight. I think that it started in 1986. It aired until late 1988. Wave 104 also had the 12 Noon "Oldies Cafe" that was until 1 PM. They played all request Oldies. I remember the day that Roy Orbison died in December of 1988. They played a whole hour of his music. The Oldies cafe disappeared from Wave 104 in early 1989, when Sunny 106.5 went All Oldies.

 

[Ssummers]

Yes, the WKZQ-FM timeline is correct!!! May 1989 is right when Banna Jack Murphy came to town! They started playing more Classic Rock because of the demise of 97 Rock (a few months before this).

I'm aware of when Jack started at the "Q". I just don't think they were classified as "new rock" in 1988.

 

[GoodTimesandGreatOldies]

Sir, I never said that they were "classified" as New Rock at that point-LOL. Grand Strand Radio was much more laid back at that time and didn`t "classifiy" anybody-LOL! The term "new rock" didn`t even really exist in 1988, either! They were playing CURRENT ROCK with a few Rock Classics thrown in. In May 1989, they started LEANING more towrads CLASSIC ROCK with LESS Currents (because of the void of the demise of 97 Rock). They still did play some curent music. But, they NEVER used the term NEW ROCK.

 

[Ssummers]

Sir, I never said that they were "classified" as New Rock at that point-LOL. Grand Strand Radio was much more laid back at that time and didn`t "classifiy" anybody-LOL! The term "new rock" didn`t even really exist in 1988, either! They were playing CURRENT ROCK with a few Rock Classics thrown in. In May 1989, they started LEANING more towrads CLASSIC ROCK with LESS Currents (because of the void of the demise of 97 Rock). They still did play some curent music. But, they NEVER used the term NEW ROCK.

Actually, "sir", I used to work in Myrtle Beach back then and at KZQ in 85 and again in 87-88 and, #1-you said KZQ "was new rock"...not "KZQ played some new rock". By wording it that way, you implied that KZQ was playing a "new rock" format, #2-Stations in Myrtle Beach most certainly WERE "classified" back then and #3-KZQ was "classified" as a CHR or contemporary hit radio format back then...or, if you prefer, top 40. And we played some top forty music that was rock that was new and we played some rock music that wasn't top 40 that was new, but not "new rock" or, as most of it from that era was "classified" back then, "alternative".

My only quibble(unless you want to debate again whether or not Myrtle Beach stations were "classified" by format back then) is whether they officially changed direction during the latter part of 88 after I had already moved on from KZQ.

 

[vchimpanzee]

They started playing more Classic Rock because of the demise of 97 Rock (a few months before this).

98 Rock. I remember that this station was still on the air when my parents and I visited in October of '88. We watched the landing of Space Shuttle Discovery on TV, so I know I have the date right.

WKZQ also had a lot of rock, but it was still a top 40 or CHR station.

Our next visit was in August 1989, before Hugo, and Power 98 was on the air with a stronger signal. WKZQ was rock, though until WYAV went classic rock, I don't imagine they had much incentive to lean toward new rock on WKZQ.

 

[vchimpanzee]

WYXC had a good classic country on the AM.

I've never heard of this station. Do you mean WJXY?