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Y100 History Questions (Late 90's-Early 00's)

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Mac Daddy

I'm trying to put together some old lineups of Y100 from the late 1990s-early 2000s but I seem to be stuck in a rut. would anyone have any idea what the lineups were from mid 1998-January 2001 and the changes that occurred?

After Bobby Mitchell left in June 1998, they created the Chix At Six show and I know a lot of the airstaff was shuffled around.
 
Axman278 said:
I know prior to 1996 y-100 was a more of adult top leaning Chr rather than a true pop/Chr.
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Ah, "no hard rock and rap".....

Actually Y100 has been CHR/Top 40 all its life since 1973, with tweaks like the above at times.

I myself cannot give a timeline as such.

cd
 
I listened to them before I grew up and out.
 
1998 - Y100 Mornings were Footy and the Chix at 6 - Footy, Jade Alexander, Tina Malave, and "Your Girl" Faye.
Chris Marino - Midday
Kenny Walker - Drive Home
Rich Rodriguez and then Adam Bomb on the nights.

2001/02 - Kenny and Footy in the Morning with Froggy and Nudge.
2002 - 2004 Kenny and Footy in the Morning with Froggy and Carolina Bermudez
2004 - 2006 Kenny and Footy in the Morning with Froggy and (John) Hurley.

Donny Michaels 10am-2pm in 2002/03?
Michael Yo/Nick/Nina - 2001 - 2012 Midday 2-6, now Mack/Nick/Nina
Adam Bomb - Nights, then J Niice, then Mack, now Valentine.

Make corrections where needed :) Hope this helps!
 
Thanks! though I do believe there was another night host after Yo moved to afternoons in mid 2003. Adam Bomb came in about a year later. No clue who it was though.
 
Not sure who the DJ would have been...I do recall Rich Rodriguez for the early part of 2000-2001 who did pass away from Brain Cancer. Michael Yo was his successor, then Adam Bomb followed by J NIICE then finally Mack, who recently now holds the drive home.
 
cd637299 said:
Axman278 said:
I know prior to 1996 y-100 was a more of adult top leaning Chr rather than a true pop/Chr.
Click to expand...

Ah, "no hard rock and rap".....

Actually Y100 has been CHR/Top 40 all its life since 1973, with tweaks like the above at times.

I myself cannot give a timeline as such.

cd
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Not exactly. In 1990, they started to lean Adult CHR and abandoned their battle with Power 96 for the younger CHR audience. The station was similar at that point to many of the "Mix" stations that begin to pop up nationwide. Additionaly, Y100 began using phrases on the air such as "As you've grown, we've grown" and "The best music mix". Musically, the station avoided harder Rap, Dance, and Rock tracks, while embracing AC and Pop tunes, plus gold titles going back into the 70s.

The regular lineup at the time, IIRC, was:

"The Y Morning Zoo" with Bobby Mitchell, Footy, & "Captain Y"-Mornings
Stevie Knox (sp?)-Middays
Doug Dunbar-Afternoons
Al "Chio The Hitman"-Nights

FWIW: On Y100's 17th Birthday that year, the then-on air staff did a recreation of the station's on-air history each hour for 17 hours by playing the music that was popular for a specified year that the station existed, mixing it with old promos, jingles, and pop culture references.

By the fall of 1991, Y100's then-owner, Metroplex Communications, had entered into a LMA with crosstown WAXY (then Hot AC as the short-lived "Mix 105.9"). Since there was no need for both a Hot AC and a Adult CHR that was borderline Hot AC, management flipped WAXY back to Oldies as "Waxy 106" (they were Oldies/Gold based AC during the 80s) while adjusting Y100 to Hot AC. (Arbitron even listed Y100 as AC during that time).

Y100's started evolving back to CHR in early 1995 and had completed the transition by the end of that year.

Robyn
 
Exactly right. When Stevie Knox left, Al Chio went to middays and Jade Alexander was hired to nights. From 92 to 93ish - They were "South Florida's only station for the best hits, without the Hard Rock and Rap" "Fun every morning with Bobby and Footy, more music all day/night, this is 100.7 FM" - In 95/96 Casey Keating came in and made the station what it's heritage was - One World, One Station - Y100 - Putting Top 40 back on the air. In 2000- They then became Miami's Hit Music Station. Now, the programming follows no different than most Clear Channel stations around the country - They all sound the same unfortunately...i.e. G105, Z100, XL 1067, 933 FLZ, etc...
 
From about 1991 to 1995, Y sounded like an AC station. They still did live remotes on Saturday nights (I vaguely remember Tia Maria doing remotes, but I will have to listen to some old tapes), but the music was decidely AC. I remember lamenting the fact that Miami did not have a real CHR/Pop station for a period of time. Power was Rhythmic, as was WEDR. And for a brief time, circa 1993 and 1994, West Palm Beach lacked a CHR/Pop station, as WOVV went AC when it flipped to "Star" (however, by the end of 1994, Star had evolved back to CHR/Pop).

And correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Y identify with Broward County/Ft. Lauderdale back in the early 90s? In the early 2000s, especially after CC assumed ownership of Y, they made a concerted effort to bill themselves as "Miami's Hit Music Station."
 
I remember that I first heard a real Chr station in Atlanta one summer in 1992. It was called power 99. Y-100 always sounded like coast fm. Soft and very AC. Not looking for the high school pop audience. It was around 1996 it started to fully evolve to a top 40 powerhouse. It's sad that at my age I prefer rock music and have no outlet down here
 
Outstanding link, Robyn. At the time of that clip, I believe that "Tony Q. Foxx" hosted middays at Star 95.5 in West Palm Beach (he worked weekends at Y). Later, he went to host afternoons at WIRK/West Palm Beach as "J.R. Jackson." He was on the air until about 3 or 4 years ago.
 
Muzikboyfl-Casey Keating was a great Old School PD to work with. I'd gladly work with him again in a heartbeat.

Scott-It was Jade Alexander who did Saturday Night remotes at Confetti and later Bermuda Bar.
 
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