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WTAN Ownership/Management

Nostalgia said:
Who among all of us old AM jocks has not dreamed of rockin' on a 50kw AM blowtorch in a major market, even Little Rock! Alas, my career peaked at 10kw, at least on AM. But Jeff, if Friday nights your gig, then it would be on a 220 watt peashooter covering Sheridan. The nighttime blackout over Little Rock will soon be covered by a FM translator I'm told. But, they do stream, so if you do it, I'll tune in. :D
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Damn Nostalgia, you've got the scoop on everything. I think the translator started carrying our feed this week. I believe this is the bad boy right here...

http://radio-locator.com/info/K233BF-FX

I've gotten a couple local signal reports from KLRG overnight... people can barely hear it. I'm really looking forward to this.
 
Did the Wagenvoords pick up some elbow-room loot when the new causeway went up? Or did they just get uprooted and/or reimbursed for their waterfront property?

Wow -- memories. My first-ever paid vacation (and from a RADIO station at that!) was in 1969, to see a radio buddy of mine who had moved there, and an old girlfriend who'd moved with her folks to Largo. I had to so *something* for a week. Why not drive to Florida?

At the time, WTAN was old-line MoR. It was kind of a dull listen, but otherwise -- what an office it would have been for a 21-year old New York City DJ to occupy for an air shift!
No one listened to FM then. So WFSO (Heavy 57), and WLCY with their PAMS jingles, and fake-Drake WCWR 1470 got the bulk of the car radio time. Chicken-rockers WSUN, WFLA and (especially) WDAE were very good. WSOL and WTMP were soul. WALT was a pretty good Country listen. WWBA 680 was Beautiful Music. I forget if WRXB was that at the time, and if 1550 was Spanish.

WTAN's little tropical cove -- it may as well have been a grass hut with a tower -- was the most charming place for a radio station I ever saw.
 
In the early to middle 1970s, 1590 WRXB was rocker WILZ. And back in the prehistoric times it was Guy Lombardo's Port-O-Call station. According to RadioYears.com, it became rhythm & blues around 1976, which evolved into the current format. There are a couple of short audio clips of 1970s WILZ on RadioYears.com.
 
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