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Your All-Time Favorite Miami Station

CentralFL said:
WHYI-hd2 carries revolution 93.5. It has a a strong signal all over Dade and Broward. It signal is solid in at least the lower half of Palm Beach.
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Yes. That's true. However, the 93.5 signal stinks in WPB as it barely covers it, sometimes not at all.
 
itsTheRolyPoly said:
Yes. That's true. However, the 93.5 signal stinks in WPB as it barely covers it, sometimes not at all.
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Yes, 93.5 is really a stretching it to consider themselves useful Palm Beach County, even the hd-2 on 100.7 is gone by WPB. In Oakland Park, 93.5 is significantly weaker than the full-market signals. It is fine in the car, but shaky on a small radio. We have a condo about 13 miles from the Miami/Fort Lauderdale antenna farm. Other than in the car, it is much easier to pick up Revolution 93.5 on WHYI-hd2. Although I think 93.5 itself is further away.
 
What about Disco 96??? Loved all those disco stations that played the extended and "disco" versions of the popular songs of the time.
 
One thing I remember about Studio is their light, clean, pure processing, probably from the Joy days.
 
Ai4i said:
One thing I remember about Studio is their light, clean, pure processing, probably from the Joy days.
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Oh the engineer (I think his name was John Baley he later went to Y-100) at Studio 107 was an audio processing fanatic! Their were 3 separate audio chains. Music was fed off the board through the stereo program bus, the spots through the stereo audition bus and the studio mics went through the mono bus. Never saw anything quite like it but that was the secret

Joy came after, before Studio 107 it was Glow, WGLO, automated Beautiful Music. From 1974-1978 I ran from WFTL to WGLO to change the tape reels when they ran out!
 
ScottBurns said:
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.
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Power 96 from 87-97 was IMHO the best south Florida radio I've ever heard. It was an auditory mirror of the market. So unique and fun. A kind of chill energy that defined a feel that was truly special to that era where people had a one people commonality. We had that melting pot America thing in perfect harmony, a big party where everyone was invited and everyone was loved without pre set hatred and biases. I feel bad for those who were too young to experience it, as things are now, there's really no way to explain it.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Oh the engineer (I think his name was John Baley he later went to Y-100) at Studio 107 was an audio processing fanatic! Their were 3 separate audio chains. Music was fed off the board through the stereo program bus, the spots through the stereo audition bus and the studio mics went through the mono bus. Never saw anything quite like it but that was the secret

Joy came after, before Studio 107 it was Glow, WGLO, automated Beautiful Music. From 1974-1978 I ran from WFTL to WGLO to change the tape reels when they ran out!
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John Bailey was excellent, he had a similar set-up on Y-100 (In the 70's)... Spots ran on one chain, the music and promos on another chain...
 
mid-1970’s WIOD with a personality MOR format. Excellent personalities like Bill Calder & Big Wilson from WNBC NYC. Easy conversation & games mixed with adult pop music & news, with Larry King doing a local talk/sports show prior to going national.
 
Difficult to hear 93.5 in Boynton Beach as well. Downtown Miami has a translator and the signal is good there, and I heard it fine from Downtown Miami to Key Largo. I started to lose the Belle Glade Signal near the town of Okeechobee.

I guess they are protecting 93.7 WGYL, but I think they can move a bit closer to WPB (didn't they have a CP to do so and a slight increase in power) and 93.5 had another translator in Fort Lauderdale at some point but that went away too.

I like how all the signals on 93.5 in South Florida are synchronized, it sounds great if and where you can get a good signal.
 
KyleAndMelissa22 said:
Difficult to hear 93.5 in Boynton Beach as well. Downtown Miami has a translator and the signal is good there, and I heard it fine from Downtown Miami to Key Largo. I started to lose the Belle Glade Signal near the town of Okeechobee.

I guess they are protecting 93.7 WGYL, but I think they can move a bit closer to WPB (didn't they have a CP to do so and a slight increase in power) and 93.5 had another translator in Fort Lauderdale at some point but that went away too.

I like how all the signals on 93.5 in South Florida are synchronized, it sounds great if and where you can get a good signal.
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I’m near Lantana, and I can’t hear it without extreme static. I drove back and forth to Fort Myers. The Belle Glade signal is nearly perfect from Lion Country Safari to Clewiston.
 
Whats stopping WBGF from moving closer to WPB?
I would say its possible to move it to the Wellington / Loxahatchee area as a class A signal with a null north towards WGYL. That would give it a decent signal from Jupiter to almost FLL, plus the signals in Miami and Islamorada help as well. Maybe someday they can add a signal for Key West as well - such as 93.7 WKEY which was recently a dance station.

Update:
93.5 now ID's as
WZFL Islamorada / Homestead
WMIA-HD2 Fort Lauderdale / Miami
WBGF Belle Glade / West Palm

(No longer on WHYI-HD2
but WMIA-FM is licensed to Miami Beach)
 
Another station back in the day I listened to was WTMI on 93.1 FM. Classical music during the day and jazz in the evening.
 
Ke4kls said:
Another station back in the day I listened to was WTMI on 93.1 FM. Classical music during the day and jazz in the evening.
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That sounds like the current WRTI Philadelphia.
 
Power 96 was also my favorite in the 80s & 90s. They played all kinds of Pop music, Freestyle, Hip Hop, & slow jams. The era when DJ Laz was doing live mixing on turntables at night was the best, ever.
My 2nd favorite was Party 93.1. Dance music all the way, with mix shows to boot!
3rd was Hot 105 in the 80s & 90s, when they sounded like Power 96.

Current favorites are Revolution 93.5 for their dance music, & Vibe 92.7 for their old school hip hop & Miami-based classics. Thank goodness they stream online, because they don't have the best FM signals.
 
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