1320 AM currently carries a World Music format as WLQY.
UPDATE: See comment. Thanks Dan!
Friday, December 21, 2012
WADY
1320 AM currently carries a World Music format as WLQY.
UPDATE: See comment. Thanks Dan!
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According to this site WADY was AC (Rod Stewart, ELO, Linda Ronstadt, etc.):
http://www.radiopages.net/radio/mikewgma.html
WADY was a top 40's station. I used to work there when Sheridan St was a dirt road & there were horses in the fields surrounding the station. I did survey work. I called people & played bits of songs for them & then they'd tell me if they liked it or not. Easy job & getting to see & pet the horses at lunch time was a nice perk.
WADY (THE LADY) WAS "THE STATION OF THE SINGLES LIFESTYLE", MANAGED BY BILL CUNNINGHAM, EX WHYI AND WSDO IN LAUDERDALE. ONE OF THE DJ'S WAS RON PARKER.
"The Lady" singles-only format was quite the trainwreck. I was in the market in 1979 when it came on. AC songs were interspersed with PSA-sounding bits about the singles lifestyle, e.g., "If you're planning a 3-way, make sure all three participants get equal attention." I do not remember Ron Parker being on the station but I'll take your word for it. Ron Parker has worked literally EVERYwhere.
I was "fortunate" enough to get hired by PD Barry James at WADY 1320AM, Hollywood, Florida, a "for singles only" formatted station, as a board-operator, along with Liz West, during the station's final 6 weeks before "going dark" when management pulled the plug on a Saturday in early-May (or maybe late-April) 1980. We (Liz and I) got the news the night before WADY went off the air. We were both in the final weeks of our schooling at Fort Lauderdale's Brown Institute of Radio/Television Broadcasting. Liz was pretty shook up and asked me what we were going to do. I replied, "I don't know about you, but I'm going LIVE at midnight. What can they do? Fire me?" So, instead of operating the board for the next 6 hours, I went live on-the-air, as "Dave Edwards," and recorded my entire show to have a "real" aircheck to use for my next job search. It felt great to finally open my mic. I half-expected PD Barry James to call in and tell me to stop, but the only call from a staffer was from the Saturday morning DJ who, while coughing into the phone, feigned sickness and asked me to cover his 3-hour shift from 6-9am. "No problem," I told him and stayed on the air until nearly 9 when Barry James came storming in for his 9-Noon airshift. To say he was "pissed" would be putting it mildly. "Who gave you permission to go live?" he sputtered. "When did you plan on telling ME that we were going dark and would be out of work?" was my comeback.
"You've blown any chance of getting a decent recommendation from me now," he said. "Get your stuff and clear out."
"Okay, Barry. It's been fun working with you," I said as I gathered my things including a reel of tape with 9 hours of good aircheck material. I soon graduated from Brown Institute and headed to Naples to start the rest of my radio career, which took me all the way to New York state and continued until 2000 when I finally left the low-paying radio business to go trucking over-the-road and began making some REAL money, hahaha. Radio still ranks high on my list of favorite things and I listen to my favorite local stations several hours each day now that I'm retired from the road. "Keep listening and don't touch that knob!" God bless y'all.
Dixie Dave Ellis
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