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WSRF 1580

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strangelove

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I seem to recall hearing 103.5 when it was either She or Planet being simulcasted on 1580 at one point. Does anyone else remember this?
 
Re: WSRF 1580 (Original AM/FM Combos)

WSRF and WSHE at one time were owned by the same company. This is a start of a great post. When you were allowed to own two stations in a market. What stations were paired with the same owner.

I'll start:

In the Keys:
WKIZ/WEOW
WAIL/WKWF
WFFG/WMUM

The Miami market
WSRF/WSHE
WCKO/WRBD
WHYI/WHTT
WINZ/WINZFM
WQBA/WQBAFM

Fun
 
Are you sure you don't mean simulcast in the same market? That's still legal, though it's not done here. And owning more than one station is legal too, sad as that might be at times.
I think i mentioned in a previous post that the old WSHE/WSRF building is still there in Davie with the calls set into the stonework out front though it's just a regular office building now. Also the old WSRF antenna farm now has condos on it and they're now sharing a site with WAVS near 595 and the turnpike.
 
No simulcast, same market, before deregulation, and multiple station ownership in a market.
 
Before 107.5 was WQBA-FM, it was WIGL-FM/WJOK-FM, the sister station to country station WWOK-AM 1260. This was in the mid-to-late '70s.
 
When I was at 'SHE in '87 and '88, we occasionally simulcast on 1580 (remember Surf 16? The station nearest your glove compartment?), but as no money was being spent on the 1580 transmitter, it was barely at 5-6kw instead of the licensed 10kw, and sounded bad.
 
You're missing a few biggies....

Before it was Kiss and 'QAM, it was it was WKQS and WLQY...

Also, how about WIOD and WAIA/WGTR?

WFTL and WLQY(I THINK those are the right calls)

...and WLYF and their AM counterpart?
 
Phil said:
When I was at 'SHE in '87 and '88, we occasionally simulcast on 1580 (remember Surf 16? The station nearest your glove compartment?), but as no money was being spent on the 1580 transmitter, it was barely at 5-6kw instead of the licensed 10kw, and sounded bad.
Click to expand...

That's not the only reason it sounded bad. WSRF has the strangest directional pattern you've ever seen. Driving up what was then the Davie Road ext. you could see the towers but the signal would swish in and out like you were tuning across the dial.

The FCC monitoring station was nearby so there was some restiction on how much signal they could pump in that direction.


Some of the other AM/FM match ups from the old days:

WIOD 610 / WFLC 97.3
WGBS 710/ WJHR 96.3
WINZ 940/ WINZ-FM 94.9
WVCG 1080/ WYOR 105.1
WWOK 1260/ WIGL 107.5
WKAT 1360/ WKAT-FM 93.1
WFTL 1400/ WJQY 106.7
WMBM 1490/ WWWL 93.9
WOCN 1450/ WOCN-FM 94.9 (before WINZ-FM)
WEXY 1520/ WAXY 105.9
WSRF 1580/ WSHE 103.5

...end of ancient history lesson...
 
Speaking of 97AIA what ever happened to Sandy Peyton. I Know shew was a key personality at the station.
 
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