WOCN WINZ 94.9 INTRESTING INFO

[t.j.]

Hey Guys:

I found some interesting info about 94.9:

On 8-20-73 Guy Gannett Buys WOCN 94.9 from Ed Winton of course subject to FCC apporval.

On 10-8-73 WOCN FM SEEKS NEW CALLS WINZ-FM, no info when they were granted.

On 11-28-73 FCC Apporves the sale to Guy Gannett.

In the 1974 yearbook it has 94.9 listed as WINZ and the on air date says Nov 15, 1973.

on 2-18-74 WINZ-FM 94.9 granted modification of transmitter.

I found an article in the JAn 5 1975 billboard that WINZ FM EXISTED IN Dec 1974.

And in the Miami News Newspaper dated Oct 19, 1974 in the radio highlights section There is a list for WINZ-FM 94 show at 8:30 pm showing that they are playing a symphony chorus.

It seems to me that before WINZ 94.9 became Zeta 4 on Feb 4, 1975 is was WINZ from Nov 1973 to 1975, format most likely Auto Beautiful Music or Classical

Your thoughts

T.J.

[cd637299]

94.9 has confused me, a citizen of Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, for a long time.

I seem to recall, during Oct 1974, 94.9 was running 940's Tom Adams morning show* 6-10 am, then they were on their own.  Now it seems right that it was beautiful music (or running symphonies at night?).   I believe when Zeta 4 started, it had to have been after the Adams debacle then.  Now I cannot even recall when "Zeta 4" began, but I'm almost sure it was not running 940 in the morning by then.

Sherry Woods at the Miami News was very adept at the goings-on in radio at that time.  t.j., you must be checking out the same site that I bookmarked on my PC!  (Too bad that nothing can be printed out.)

[*Funny thing:  Nobody seems to have info on Tom Adams, even here on this site.  In late 74, Adams was considered a big radio star, and luring him to WINZ from WIOD was quite the coup.  However, (a) his show didn't seem to last more than 3 months, and (2) nobody seems to know wha' hoppn' to him since then.  ]

Oh well.

cd

[Schuyler]

About Tom Adams:  Might this be the same fellow who moved to Hawaii and ran a DJ jokes service (the Electric Weenie, IIRC)?  I worked with the son of joke service Tom Adams at the old WOVV Fort Pierce in the 80s. (It's now WLDI.)  The son was also named Tom Adams and was on the air there, and at then-sister WIRA (AM), and was production director.  He got his dad, former DJ and joke service Tom Adams, to cut an ID for the station.  I think Tom said his dad had worked earlier in Miami.  So maybe that's him.

I hope this is helpful, but I have my doubts.

[apolasky]

Before there was LIFE there was Ocean Radio Miami. I was there for the whole process. We were WOCN FM before the sale to Guy Gannet. Ed Winton was a great station owner. WINZ FM did not go rock with Zeta for the first 6 months. We stayed in the WOCN studios with ez music until the WINZ's downtown studio was ready. Al Anderson was PD and then Bill Steadman when Zeta when live.

Great days - I loved it as in the long run as it led me to leave Ocean Radio and be on 50,000 watt WINZ AM when I was only 16.

Alan Michaels

[ai4i]

I remember looking into Arthur E. Zuckers on-air studio one time (I think it was in the lower lobby) but I was a shy little kid and did not say anything.
He paid for the studio, office, transmitter, and tower space by reminding every one about the "beautiful Deauville Hotel" every hour, or maybe it was twice each hour back then.

Next up...
Serving Dade, Broward, and the Bahamas with eighty one thousand watts of stereo power, this is WOCN-FM, Miami Beach (and WOCN 1450 Miami) the station(s?) that brought beautiful music to South Florida. Calls were not followed imediately by COLs back then.

Anybody go back to the WQAM-FM days? I do not.

[WRKO]

Before there was LIFE there was Ocean Radio Miami. I was there for the whole process. We were WOCN FM before the sale to Guy Gannet. Ed Winton was a great station owner. WINZ FM did not go rock with Zeta for the first 6 months. We stayed in the WOCN studios with ez music until the WINZ's downtown studio was ready. Al Anderson was PD and then Bill Steadman when Zeta when live.

Great days - I loved it as in the long run as it led me to leave Ocean Radio and be on 50,000 watt WINZ AM when I was only 16.

Alan Michaels

Was that the same Alan Anderson who sorta yukked when he talked?  The same one who programmed and did the WAIA ID?

[Stormychuck]

WRKO, yes one and the same, Alan Anderson, PD WIOD/97AIA formally PD of WINZ as APolasky has pointed out, and yes he did the top hour ID on 97AIA.  I worked for Alan at WIOD and AIA in 80 and 81 and he was one of the easier programmers and an all around nice guy to work for.  After I left WIOD and shortly thereafter Alan was hired as programmer WPIX New York.  Footnote, not only did Alan  program a few radio stations and make it pretty big in his tenure, he also had a medical degree, the radio business, go figure! 

[radiosanchez]

I remember looking into Arthur E. Zuckers on-air studio one time (I think it was in the lower lobby) but I was a shy little kid and did not say anything.
He paid for the studio, office, transmitter, and tower space by reminding every one about the "beautiful Deauville Hotel" every hour, or maybe it was twice each hour back then.

Next up...
Serving Dade, Broward, and the Bahamas with eighty one thousand watts of stereo power, this is WOCN-FM, Miami Beach (and WOCN 1450 Miami) the station(s?) that brought beautiful music to South Florida. Calls were not followed imediately by COLs back then.

Anybody go back to the WQAM-FM days? I do not.

Short note: WQAM-FM and WMGE/WZTA/WINZ-FM/WOCN-FM/WAEZ are not the same license...WQAM-FM, according to the info. I have, was a station that Storz *returned* the license to the FCC when he bought WQAM.  Think it was 1956 when that happened, and WAEZ did not sign on until 1962.

[Norm Rosen]

I remember hearing the ID " 94.9 WINZ FM, Our Friends call us Zeta 4" when I was visiting South Florida
at age 17 in late 1973, Very Much an  AOR