WAPE - THE BIG APE ( The 70's and 80's )

feeds@yuku.com (DjDonnyD) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:52:46 GMT

This is just some of the staff from the 70's and 80's :

Bill Burkett was Program Director (1972-1973)

Cleveland Wheeler

Larry Dixon

Don Smith

Jack Manning

Ted McAllister

Michael Scott

Leo Vogel

feeds@yuku.com (tididit) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:48:16 GMT

Sorry, I forget what name(s) he was using when working at WBUS and WSHE in the early-mid '70s.
At the time, FM was becoming an actual presence in the pop culture. Leo got written up in Billboard because of the way he put together "sets." Because he was a musician, he could match up songs by keys and rhythms.
Anyway, Leo died in Malaysia, sometime in the past day or two. Leo's been living in Asia for a lot of years.
One of the smartest people I've ever...

Arnie & Amos

feeds@yuku.com (foreveragator) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:49:59 GMT

Does anyone have any audio clips of the Arnie and Amos show from WGBS?

Skip Herman, Sonny Fox and Nancy G

feeds@yuku.com (DikSatchelOnDrums) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:47:52 GMT

Whatever happened to them? I met Skip and Nancy at the battle of the bands in Key Largo in the 1980s and Sonny at Musicians Exchange same time frame.
Nancy got me hooked up with Donna Dupuy and then to Alan Jacobi with Warner Bros. records to check out our act.

Cool folks.

A Radio Consultant Confesses

feeds@yuku.com (JeffMiami) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:38:34 GMT

Here are some interesting comments from Lee Abrams' on-line blog. Lee, of course, was one of the most powerful radio consultants in the 70s & 80s, with Miami being part of his territory. He's now the programming guru for XM radio, and writes a weekly blog every Monday.

"Judging artist popularity in regards to programming songs sure has changed. Way back, a station would call record stores and ask what was selling. That was one of my duties back in Miami. I remember finding...

Anybody know how to post audio clips?

feeds@yuku.com (83way) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:55:45 GMT

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for the new forum. If I wanted to post some audio clips of old DJs is there a way to do that?

New Forum

feeds@yuku.com (JeffMiami) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:36:11 GMT

I'm obviously a 60s radio fiend, but others are just as fanatical about radio from the 70s and 80s... so I've decided to open an area for discussion of d.j.'s and stations from that era.

Thanks to 83Way for the suggestion.

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-- Daniel Boorstin

WHYI-Y100

feeds@yuku.com (1989BCCClasmate) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:08:15 GMT

What ever happened to Bill Tanner "Tanner in the Morning" or Mark in the Dark?
The old days at Y100 were the best. I had a friend Mark Pollack who was a photographer for the radio station. I have to dig up the pictures of the old green Y100 van..Mark brought it over to the house one afternoon and took me and a friend of mine down to the beach in it. All the kids went wild.
I miss old Y100...

Does anyone remember the Cosmic Traveler on WBUS-FM?

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Laing) — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:49:03 GMT

When underground radio was in it's infancy in Miami most of the stations on the FM frequency were throw-away formats. No one thought FM would take off. WBUS-FM was a business news station but took the plunge into progressive "free form" radio. One of the first stars of this station was The Cosmic Traveler. He sometimes went by just "The Cos". He drove a colorful Volkwagen Bug with fake rockets mounted on each side. Quite a sight to see. He pretty well fit the mold of an FM...

WWOK & WIGL

feeds@yuku.com (JeffMiami) — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:56 GMT

My first professional radio job was at WWOK, which was located in the Southeast Bank building on Coral Way.

Here are some images from the station, which was the leading country music station in Miami at the time.

70s/80s Disc Jockeys & Radio

WFUN Make-It-Or-Break-It, 1971

My Tribute to the old Channel 6 (WCIX-TV)