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Your All-Time Favorite Miami Station

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ScottBurns

As the title of the thread says, what is your all-time favorite Miami station? For context, from what era? I'll start with Power 96 from the late '80s and early '90s. The station seemed to have different formats in different dayparts. It was Urban/Rhythmic at night, with many mix shows. During the day, they played Rock-leaning CHR songs at times. They also had legendary personalities, from Don Cox to Kid Curry to Dimas.

In the West Palm Beach market, I loved 95.5 WOVV when I was growing up. I preferred CHR, and I loved this station's energy. From upbeat jocks to music that was also programmed to the daypart, the only drawback was a signal that started to fade from Delray south.
 
I really don't have a favorite because I like to pick and tune in whenever I need to, but if there's one that I tune in constantly, then its WZFL/WBGF/W228BY *Revolution 93.5* because its home to my favorite music, EDM.

Thus, this is also why I loved WPYM *Party 93.1* in the early 2000s. It played a lot of EDM and it was unheard of at the time to have a format like that, but I did listen to it and I loved it. Eventually, it led me to listen to EDM more and more a decade later in high school and it just became my favorite music genre to listen to so I owe a lot to WZFL/WBGF/W228BY and WPYM for making that happen.
 
itsTheRolyPoly said:
I really don't have a favorite because I like to pick and tune in whenever I need to, but if there's one that I tune in constantly, then its WZFL/WBGF/W228BY *Revolution 93.5* because its home to my favorite music, EDM.

Thus, this is also why I loved WPYM *Party 93.1* in the early 2000s. It played a lot of EDM and it was unheard of at the time to have a format like that, but I did listen to it and I loved it. Eventually, it led me to listen to EDM more and more a decade later in high school and it just became my favorite music genre to listen to so I owe a lot to WZFL/WBGF/W228BY and WPYM for making that happen.
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I like Revolution 93.5 too. I am not in love with EDM, but I like it for a change of pace. The problem is that the station is hard to pick up in many places. In Southern Palm Beach County, where I am, the 93.5 signal is weak. The best luck I have had with the station is listening to it in the Upper Keys, where one is close to the Islamorada signal.
 
ScottBurns said:
I like Revolution 93.5 too. I am not in love with EDM, but I like it for a change of pace. The problem is that the station is hard to pick up in many places. In Southern Palm Beach County, where I am, the 93.5 signal is weak. The best luck I have had with the station is listening to it in the Upper Keys, where one is close to the Islamorada signal.
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Yeah. I used to travel to Palm Beach county for school and the 93.5 signal just stinks. They have one closeby in Belle Glade but it doesn't even reach WPB that well.
 
I have several favorites from different eras.

Later 60's: WFUN. A great Top 40 under PD Dick Starr. A bad signal, but they beat or tied WQAM often.
Early 80's: Y-100 with Bill Tanner. My idea of the best CHR in America. Great talent, locally focused music, enormous promotions.
Early 90's: Power. Tanner again, with a sound that was just pure Miami.
Later 90's: Amor 107.5. Javier & Osvaldo, Betty Pino, Tony Campos, Claudia Puig and our team with Bill Tanner and myself.
 
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itsTheRolyPoly said:
Yeah. I used to travel to Palm Beach county for school and the 93.5 signal just stinks. They have one closeby in Belle Glade but it doesn't even reach WPB that well.
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REvolution's full power signals are regular visitors in the eastern uS during summer eskip season.. i know people ars far west-ish as michigan who heard it. I had it so strong in PA near Erie one day that RDS showed up and hung around awhile
 
DavidEduardo said:
I have several favorites from different eras.

Later 60's: WFUN. A great Top 40 under PD Dick Starr. A bad signal, but they beat or tied WQAM often.
Early 80's: Y-100 with Bill Tanner. My idea of the best CHR in America. Great talent, locally focused music, enormous promotions.
Early 90's: Power. Tanner again, with a sound that was just pure Miami.
Later 90's: Amor 107.5. Javier & Osvaldo, Betty Pino, Tony Campos, Claudia Puig and our team with Bill Tanner and myself.
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I was too young to remember the Y-100 of the early 80s. My earliest memories of Y was as a Hot AC-type of station. That was, I think, the late 80s-early 90s. That was also the time when Y seemed to stress Fort Lauderdale over Miami.

I totally agree about early 90s Power 96 being pure Miami. It was a station that was unique not just to Miami, but to the entire country. There was literally nothing like it. That's what I miss about radio. Now, it is very difficult anywhere to find a commercial station that is not cookie cutter.
 
itsTheRolyPoly said:
Yeah. I used to travel to Palm Beach county for school and the 93.5 signal just stinks. They have one closeby in Belle Glade but it doesn't even reach WPB that well.
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Before it was Revolution, the Belle Glade signal targeted Palm Beach County as 93.5 The Bar. It had one of the worst signals imaginable for a rim-shotter. The signal is terrible from central Palm Beach County, including West Palm Beach proper, south.
 
ScottBurns said:
As the title of the thread says, what is your all-time favorite Miami station? For context, from what era? I'll start with Power 96 from the late '80s and early '90s. The station seemed to have different formats in different dayparts. It was Urban/Rhythmic at night, with many mix shows. During the day, they played Rock-leaning CHR songs at times. They also had legendary personalities, from Don Cox to Kid Curry to Dimas.

In the West Palm Beach market, I loved 95.5 WOVV when I was growing up. I preferred CHR, and I loved this station's energy. From upbeat jocks to music that was also programmed to the daypart, the only drawback was a signal that started to fade from Delray south.
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I remember WOVV constantly advertising for jocks. I only heard it once, passing through. It seems they were into having jocks only use their first name.
 
Zeta 4, back around 1976 or so... a great Album Rock station with excellent talent...... K-102, 1979...with Alan Michaels, will never forget Alan broadcasting live from a hot air balloon at 6 Flags Atlantis (a bit different than a voice-tracked night show of today)...... also another favorite was SURF 16, old school automation playing 60s rock hits, SURF was a cool machine mannnnnnnnnn...
 
DavidEduardo said:
I have several favorites from different eras.

Later 60's: WFUN. A great Top 40 under PD Dick Starr. A bad signal, but they beat or tied WQAM often.
Early 80's: Y-100 with Bill Tanner. My idea of the best CHR in America. Great talent, locally focused music, enormous promotions.
Early 90's: Power. Tanner again, with a sound that was just pure Miami.
Later 90's: Amor 107.5. Javier & Osvaldo, Betty Pino, Tony Campos, Claudia Puig and our team with Bill Tanner and myself.
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When I visited in 1980, I remember 3 top 40 stations, all 3 broadcasting from the Dade County Youth Fair, in which K.C. and the Sunshine Band was performing with Teri DeSario ("Yes I'm Ready" was on the charts). Then there was Spanish language Super Q (WQBA-FM) which alternated top 40 hits and Spanish language hits.

I liked 102.7 The Beach when it was capturing the rhythmic vibe, lately it sounded like a standard issue Classic Hits station.
 
For me it was Majic 102.7 during the golden years between the late 80s and mid 90s. The music was great and they had a terrific talent lineup but mostly I just remember listening to it with my folks.

Next to that, it would have to be 88.5 WKPX. I learned a lot about alternative music listening to that station and it was run by people who were my age at the time. Since I didn't go to Piper I was quite jealous of them!
 
I think it was late 1990 when I heard a cassette with recorded mixes and music and even commercials lol from Power 96. Their presentation was exciting and didn't drag on purpose as some stations still do today.

For all intents and purposes all the Dance/ EDM stations totally missed the mark with their programming approach in Miami. Too many sleepy Trance songs that is not meant for FM Radio. Especially for a city where people come to vacation and party.
 
gr8oldies said:
I remember WOVV constantly advertising for jocks. I only heard it once, passing through. It seems they were into having jocks only use their first name.
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I don't remember too many jocks who used only their first names, but perhaps I am forgetting a few. There were times that WOVV seemed like a revolving door, as jocks did not seem to stay too long. I remember jocks like Hurricane Wayne, Mike Michaels, Hawk Harrison (who has had a multi-decade run in mornings at a CHR in Greenville, SC), Jon Howe (who did multiple tours at WOVV), and Keith Van Allen (who went on to work at WIRK and the Gater).
 
The one I really liked was Mega 103.5 (WMGE). Not sure exactly what format they were, lots of old-school dance/disco, some freestyle. Around 2000 or so, they started playing newer music. They weren't around too long, started that format mid-1999, IIRC. Went on into 2002, then at Christmastime that year, they did a holiday music stunt (with no personalities). I figured, this is the end. But after Christmas day, regular format returned with djs, so I figured all was well...until 1/2/2003. Got in my car to go to work (after a 2-week break) and turned on the radio and was greeting by what used to be known as Urban Contemporary, but now is Hot AC or Ryhthmic (sp?) AC or whatever it is called now. So that was the end. After that, the only station I listened to on a regular basis was 93 Rock when they flipped to an Active Rock format in early 2005. They kept that until Christmas time 2010, when (you guessed it) an automated Holiday music stunt. Only this time, after the holidays they flipped to Soft AC. After that, I pretty much gave up on terrestial radio. In December 2012, I purchased a car which had Sirius/XM and that clinched the end of broadcast radio for me.
 
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