A question for Mike Sheridan

[t.j.]

Hey Mike:

You posted a while back this list :

I got my first FM radio in 1966 for my birthday.  WINZ-FM was long gone by then, WWOG (now WKIS) was at 99.9 from Boca with a mix of soft insturmental music and religious programs. Here is how the FM dial looked in 1966:

WTHS-FM  91.3 Educational
WKAT-FM  93.1 Classical
WGOS-      93,9 Country
WAEZ-      94.9 Beautiful
WGBS-FM  96.3 Beautiful
WIOD-FM  97.3 Beautiful
WEDR-      99.1 Block programming
WWOG-     99.9 Beautiful/Religious   
WMJR-      100.7 Beautiful
WWPB-     101.5 Beautiful
WWIL-FM  103.5 Country/MOR
WVCG-FM  105.1 Beautiful/Classical (on a short tower at one time it was 320KW ERP!)
WFLM       105.9 Beautiful
WFTL-FM   106.7 Beautiful/Classical

Could you give me a month in 1966 these stations were on the air. I am trying to figure out when did WGOS went from Gospel to country.

I have been doing some amazing research on the history of this market (like the exact date when WIOD 97.3 first went on the air as a beautiful music station and seperated from the AM and a complete history of the 93.9 frequency of formats I never knew about) and soon I am going to be posting what I have discovered as soon as I get all the info I need.

Thanks Mike for your help on this one.
T.J.

[ai4i]

WVCG-FM  105.1 Beautiful/Classical (on a short tower at one time it was 320KW ERP!)

160kw at 190 feet on one of WVCG's sticks.
Still claiming 160 kw many years later from One Biscayne Tower but required to cut back to the normal power level

[Mike Sheridan]

Hey Mike:

You posted a while back this list :

I got my first FM radio in 1966 for my birthday.  WINZ-FM was long gone by then, WWOG (now WKIS) was at 99.9 from Boca with a mix of soft insturmental music and religious programs. Here is how the FM dial looked in 1966:

WTHS-FM  91.3 Educational
WKAT-FM  93.1 Classical
WGOS-      93,9 Country
WAEZ-      94.9 Beautiful
WGBS-FM  96.3 Beautiful
WIOD-FM  97.3 Beautiful
WEDR-      99.1 Block programming
WWOG-     99.9 Beautiful/Religious   
WMJR-      100.7 Beautiful
WWPB-     101.5 Beautiful
WWIL-FM  103.5 Country/MOR
WVCG-FM  105.1 Beautiful/Classical (on a short tower at one time it was 320KW ERP!)
WFLM       105.9 Beautiful
WFTL-FM   106.7 Beautiful/Classical

Could you give me a month in 1966 these stations were on the air. I am trying to figure out when did WGOS went from Gospel to country.

I have been doing some amazing research on the history of this market (like the exact date when WIOD 97.3 first went on the air as a beautiful music station and seperated from the AM and a complete history of the 93.9 frequency of formats I never knew about) and soon I am going to be posting what I have discovered as soon as I get all the info I need.

Thanks Mike for your help on this one.
T.J.

Got the radio for my birthday so that would be September 1966.  I too have found some interesting things.  Many FM's were started only to go dark and return later on a different frequency.  WFTL had an FM in the late 40's WGOR (for Gore Publishing the owner) but at some point they turned it off.  WFTL-FM came along around 1962 I believe.  WINZ had an FM at 99.5 but somewhere along the line turned it off and WQAM had an FM at 93.9 which was either turned off or sold when Storz bought WQAM around 1956. 

When I got that first FM radio it was like a whole new world opened up.  A world that only a few people knew about!

[t.j.]

Hey Mike:

Thanks for that date it really helps alot.

Just to correct you WINZ was 99.9 and never went on the air. It was a contructon permit for a long time. And WQAM was first 95.5 then 94.9 I don't have the exact dates in front of me but the next post I will give you all the exact dates I have. Just give me a little time.

Thanks again
T.J.

[cd637299]

Note to all history buffs:

There are two websites that can *somewhat* track histories of radio stations' call letter changes, facilities & such (but for the most part, not formats---sorry):

One is www.amlogbook.com , where past Vane Jones directories reside as .pdf files.  (DavidEduardo supplied most, if not all, the info on the Jones books.)

The other is an archive of the Miami News dating beck to *before* radio.  This site comes courtesy of the Palm Beach Post online:

http://www2.palmbeachpost.com/archives/google_archive/search.php?searchTerms=miami+news&submit.x=37&submit.y=13

It is not easy to navigate...one must click on a headline and then "scroll" back and forth to what one wants to see; also, no printing capabilities, unless you point a digital camera at the screen....but, many TV-Radio pages feature logos of the past, radio programming (when it still mattered), ads, etc.

Just remember the sources....

cd

[Mike Sheridan]

Wow, thanks for the website link to the paper.  This is very cool.  I used to go to the library and browse the newspapers on microfilm all the time.

[t.j.]

Hey Guys:

This is the sites I am using for my research. There is Miami news and Palm beach post archives from google books. I wanted to post the link but cd beat me to it.

THANKS CD

T.J.

[Mike Sheridan]

I hope to get around to looking up info on WFTL-TV 23  I find it a bit ironic that the first WFTL from 1939 was moved to Miami and moved from 1400 to 710 to become WGBS in the early 1940's.  Then WFTL-TV becomes WGBS-TV in the '50's.