DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHEN WLQY BECAME FULL TIME HATIAN STATION.?
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WLQY QUESTION
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If I recall correctly, it was 85/86 when Dan & Jeff bought WQAM and were forced by then-ownership rules to divest themselves of it.
Funny, the last time I was visiting, they ripped down the old KISS/QAM studios and built townhomes around the transmitter site!
Gotta squeeze that $$$ wherever it comes from....
Funny, the last time I was visiting, they ripped down the old KISS/QAM studios and built townhomes around the transmitter site!
Gotta squeeze that $$$ wherever it comes from....
I don't think it was so 'cut and dry' insofar as LQY going 'full time Haitian' in 85/86.
As I recall, the early days of LQY's post-"Lucky 13"/"Music Of Your Life" era, it was not all Haitian, but rather, block programmed "little bit of everything"....I think they had some Creole, some Reggae (think there was a show called "Carribean Rendezvous"), and some Spanish Religious shows (think one was called "La Hora de Sanidad"). There may have been also Money talk shows, and I think they ran a Christian countdown on Sunday nights. So was the case with VCG/1080, WKAT, and WAVS, they all ran 'mixed bag brokered'.....By the mid-90s, it seemed that each station took on a personality of its' own, with LQY becoming the home for brokered Haitian, VCG being the one Spanish preachers preferred, WAVS being the Caribbean/reggae station, and KAT dropping out of the race.
As I recall, the early days of LQY's post-"Lucky 13"/"Music Of Your Life" era, it was not all Haitian, but rather, block programmed "little bit of everything"....I think they had some Creole, some Reggae (think there was a show called "Carribean Rendezvous"), and some Spanish Religious shows (think one was called "La Hora de Sanidad"). There may have been also Money talk shows, and I think they ran a Christian countdown on Sunday nights. So was the case with VCG/1080, WKAT, and WAVS, they all ran 'mixed bag brokered'.....By the mid-90s, it seemed that each station took on a personality of its' own, with LQY becoming the home for brokered Haitian, VCG being the one Spanish preachers preferred, WAVS being the Caribbean/reggae station, and KAT dropping out of the race.
The other WLQY
Does anyone remember the other WLQY?
It was on FM at 100.7 what was called Y-100. There must have been a change of direction at some point. From the time it came changed from WMJR they called it Y-100 but WHYI didn't come till a month or two later.
Does anyone remember the other WLQY?
It was on FM at 100.7 what was called Y-100. There must have been a change of direction at some point. From the time it came changed from WMJR they called it Y-100 but WHYI didn't come till a month or two later.
Top 40 competitor WMYQ (96.3 FM) complained that the call letters were too similar. However, as you indicated, and I remember this as well, the station went by Y-100 on air rather than its calls. It may have been the first station in the market to do so.
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