In an email from Dennis;
"...It (WSLC-AM
1340) was my first paid radio job just after graduating from Winter
Park High, and before going off to University of Florida.) I seem to
remember that it was a 250 watt day timer for a number of years before they got
a nighttime authorization. I'm almost positive that it was only 250 watts when I
worked there, and, at least on the Sunday shift I worked, I signed the station on
in the morning -I believe it was at 8am-and off close to sunset..."
“After my first year in college, I worked weekends for
the summer at WLOF, Channel 95 (WLOF-AM
950) in Orlando as “Peter Jay.” (I was
the 5th Peter Jay. There were 13 before WLOF retired the
name.) I worked fill-in shifts there again in the summer of 1970
as Bill Bear, a name then-PD Jerry “Pat O’Day” Thompson had me
use to stroke one of the station’s biggest advertisers, Bill Baer. While I was never a big player at
(I was just a
weekender and/or in a fill in), I was very proud of having had the opportunity
to work at the legendary Top 40 station I had grown up listening to!
I worked at WDVH(-AM
980) from 1965 thru 1968,
eventually doing afternoon drive as "Little" Bobby Dennis while
I was going to U of F. When I started, Stu Bowers, Larry Havill, Mark
Fowler, Bill Marr, and Randy Rogers were the daytime staff.
Later, "Tom Allan" Talcott,
Bud Blackwood and
Steve Sullivan came on-board. (I think
Preston
Hicks
worked there for a time also.) When I was doing afternoon, it was 2PM to
5PM, leading into the 5PM to sign off Bill Marr Traffic Watch! I think
Randy Rogers (Fred
Czerner),
then Mark
Fowler was doing mornings, and Steve or Bud was on midday. (I later
went to WUWU(-AM 1390) as PD for a year or so before
I graduated and left for grad school in Tallahassee.)
Later, I went to Orlando to program WBJW-FM 105.1
"BJ-105" (and worked for another old WDVH-AM
980 alumni, Pierre Bejano). Then, to Atlanta to work on-air at
WQXI-FM
("94Q"), to Milwaukee to program WMGF-FM, Tampa to program WMGG-FM,
then back to Atlanta to sign on and program WFOX-FM for 10 years, then
across town to Classic Rock WZGC-FM ("Z93") for a year. I
was in Houston as PD for KLDE-FM, then Operations Manager for the Cox
Radio cluster there (KKBQ, KLDE, KTHT, KHPT) for
the past 6 years. In September, I came to Philadelphia to program WOGL-FM,
"Oldies 98.1" (Infinity Broadcasting).
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