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Original Call Letters: WXBR |
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Originally Licensed: Jul 19, 1962 |
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Original City of License: Cocoa Beach |
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Original Frequency: 101.1 |
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Origin of Call Letters: |
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Original Power: 100,000 watts |
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Original Location: |
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Original Format: Top 40 |
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Owner(s): |
1962-Stereo Broadcasting, Corp. |
| 1968-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| 1971-Southland Broadcasting | |
| 1985-Capitol Broadcasting Co. Inc | |
| 1993-Paxson Broadcasting ($6.7 Million) | |
| 1997-Clear Channel Communications, Inc | |
| 2008-Aloha Station Trust, LLC, as Trustee | |
| 2009-Clear Channel Licenses, Inc. |
History Of Call Letters and Formats: |
WXBR-1963-Light Classical |
| WCKS-1968-Top 40 "CK-101" | |
| WCKS-1972-Beautiful Music | |
| WCKS-1974-MOR | |
| WCKS-1978-Top 40 | |
| WDOQ-1984-Rock "Q-102'' | |
| WDOQ-1984-Adult Contemporary | |
| WCFI-1984-Adult Contemporary (Transtar Satellite Service) "I-4" | |
| WSTF-1985-Adult Contemporary "Sunny 101" "Star 101" | |
| WVRI-1992-Adult Contemporary "Variety 101" | |
| WVRI-1992-Adult Contemporary "Variety 101" | |
| WJRR-1993-Rock | |
| WJRR-1997-AOR | |
| WJRR-2002-Alternative "Real Rock 101" |
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From Ray Myers: United Radio Network used the station for most of the Apollo Missions as local anchor for the network. |
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Thanks to Sean King for these photos |
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WCKS "CK101" Personalities |
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| Dick Olsen-1970-Program Director-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| Les Roberson-1972-Operations Manager/News Director/1974-General Manager-Southland Broadcasting/1985-General Manager-Capitol Broadcasting Co. of Raleigh, N.C. | |
 Fred
King (Sean King)-1972-Promotions Manager/1974-Program
Director-Southland
Broadcasting Sean King-1972-1978-Biography In Memory Sean tells a great radio tale; "I worked different shifts at CK, usually 10 to 3, but did overnights towards the end. I used my air name from WLOF(-AM 950), Sean King. My favorite story is one when I was doing AM drive on a Saturday and I saw Stan Anderson, who was doing news that day, going out front to watch a rocket launching from the Cape. We could feel the familiar rumble beneath our feet as the station was located only a couple of miles from the Space Center in Cape Canaveral. I promptly found a 5 minute track to play and decided to join him to watch the launch. Once out the door, I looked up at the sky, but heard a "click" behind me. I suddenly realized that Stan and I were the only people in the building that morning and I had just managed to lock us out with the automatic door lock. Neither one of us had a key as it was a 24 hour operation. Fortunately, the Program Director, Les Roberson, lived only a few blocks away. Stan was able to wake him and use his key. We had about 15 minutes of "dead air". I wasn't looking forward to seeing (Les) the P.D. that day. Actually he took it pretty well and ribbed us about it in the months to come." |
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| Gloria Lee -1973-1977-Teamed with husband Dick Lee-Mornings-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
 Stan Anderson-1974-1985-Engineer/Promotions Director/News Director-Southland Broadcasting Biography In Memory |
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| Dick Lee-1973-1977-Teamed with wife Gloria Lee-Mornings-Radio Filchburg, Inc./1974-1978- Commercial Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Dale Wright-1974-Music Director-Southland Broadcasting In Memory | |
 Michael W. Lowe-1975-Music Director/1982-Program Director-Southland Broadcasting Biography |
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 Benjamin Hill-1976-Program Director-Southland Broadcasting Biography |
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| Rita Lorraine (Rita Giddings)-1976-Southland Broadcasting Biography | |
| Mike Stone-1978-Music Director-Southland Broadcasting | |
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 Mike McCoy-1979-Production Director-Southland Broadcasting |
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| Chip Taylor-1980-1981-Program Director/Mid-days-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Chris Bailey-1982-Music Director-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Michael Moriarty-1982-News Director-Southland Broadcasting | |
 Steve Craig (Steve Biddle)-1983-News Director-Southland Broadcasting |
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 Mel Burns (Perry Moore)-1985-Home News Publishing Co. Biography In Memory |
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| Alan Edwards-1985-Program Director-Home News Publishing Co. | |
| Greg Shannon (Paul Gardiner) | |
| Chris Wolf | |
| Alan Thompson | |
| Kym Landers | |
 Brian Morgan |
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| Mark St. John | |
| Billy Charles | |
| Jim Lewis | |
 Gabe Burton Biography |
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| Jim Morgan-the voice of Wal-Mart | |
| Jon Greenwood | |
| Jan Moore (Leslie Overby)-Office Manager/Swing shifts | |
| Bubba Sutton | |
| Beth Dickey | |
| Larry Kessler | |
| Michael Kelly-News Director | |
 Bobby Sharpe |
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| Jeri Banta-Afternoon Drive | |
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| Tremonte Watts-Weekend overnights | |
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Jason Douglas (Robert Curtis) |
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| Jim Sumter | |
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Other Names In WCKS History |
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| Norman Knight-1969-President-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| A.R. Mack-1969-General Manager-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| Thomas Lynch-1969-Commercial Manager-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| William Coble-1970-General Manager-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| William Gorman-1970-Commercial Manager-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| Don Becker-1970-Promotions Manager-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| Charles Murray-1970-Chief Engineer-Radio Filchburg, Inc. | |
| Pauline Metcalf-1971-Partner/Owner-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Esther Muran-1971-Partner/Owner-Southland Broadcasting | |
| William Corkhum-1971-Partner/Owner/1972-President-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Ralph Hatcher-1972-General Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Tom Morley-1972-Commercial Manager/1974-Regional Sales Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Bob Bevis-1972-Chief Engineer-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Bill Baker-1974-Chief Engineer/1978-Operations Manager/Chief Engineer-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Richard Hinshaw-1976-Commercvial Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Tom Love-1978-Sales Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Howard Feingold-1982-Sales Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Leslie Morris-1983-National Sales Manager-Southland Broadcasting | |
| Allen Edwards-1984-Program Director-Abell Communications | |
| John Bogart-1984-1985-Production Director-Abell Communications | |
| Frank Konn-Sales | |
| Ray St. James | |
| Ginny Johnson | |
| Spanky McCoy (Talmadge Bartell) | |
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