WHLY-FM
106.7
Tavares
Original
Call Letters:
WLBE
Originally
Licensed:
Original City of License: Leesburg
Power: 100,000
watts
Original Format: Religious
Owner(s):1969-
-General
Communicorps
1983-Southern
Starr Broadcasting Group Inc.
($7 million in a deal
that included a New Haven station)
1989-Taylor
Communications ($12
million)
1993-Chancellor
Media/Shamrock Radio
1997-Shamrock
Radio/Chancellor Media
1997-HM2/Chancellor
2000-AMFM
Radio Licenses (Clear
Channel Communications)
2004-Capstar
(Clear
Channel Communications)
History
Of Call Letters and Formats: WLBE-195?-
WHLY-1969-Religious
''Where He Loves You''
WDGM-1969-Beautiful
Music
"We're
Delightfully Good Music"
WHLY-1978-Jazz
and
Pop
WHLY-1980-Adult
Contemporary
"Y106"
WHLY-1984-Top
40 "The
Hot-Rockin Y-106"
WCAT-1987-Top
40
"Cool
Cat"
WHLY-1988-
WXXL-1990-CHR
"XL
106.7 Today's Hit Music"
WHLY
History
WHLY
began life as WLBE-FM.
Bob
Andrews fills us in on
some of the history of WLBE-FM 106.7.
"In the late fifties, WLBE-AM 790,
under the ownership of a wealthy road contractor, (father in law of Jim Sharp)
applied for and got the 106.7 license and was actually on the air-the space for
FM transmitter and wiring for Air conditioning, etc are still in the back of the
WLBE-AM 790 studios. The station was bought by a couple of preachers, who
saw no value in the FM, just the value of the resale of it to keep
going, and Lake County lost its second FM station to Orlando. The first was
107.7, licensed to Mount Dora. I don't recall the ownership, but it went to WORJ-FM
107.7,
Orlando. The company kept an office and a man in Mount Dora for some time to
satisfy FCC rules. That is why 107.7 and 106.7 still identify with
Lake County locations every hour. The first incarnation for the calls WHLY
(took place in 1969), which stood for Where He Loves You.
The station broadcast religious programming. Then the call letters WHLY
would return in 1978 and then again in 1988.
WHLY Personalities
Greg Wells
Bill
Barber-1980-1982 Biography
Bill tells us the "Y106"
studios were in
a "bunker" in Winter Garden.
Dave Edwards-1982-1983 Biography
Anne
Jeffries-
Jim
Steel-(now Corporate VP of programming for Emmis Broadcasting)
Shadow
Stevens-1985-
(Rod
Grant)
Kathy
West-1981-1990
Bill
Cross-Y-106
Breakfast Club host with Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen-Y-106
Breakfast Club host
with
Bill Cross
Bill Michaels
Gregg
Parker
T.C.
Dooley (Chris
Kampmeier)-Program Director
Bobby
Sharpe
Todd Demers
Biography
Roger
Stallard-Afternoons
Biography
Pat
Beall
Adrian
Charles-Mid
days
Greg Fox
Fast Bobby-O-Evenings
Steve
Wein
aka Steve
Ocean-1980-1982-Afternoons
Dirk Thompson
Rick
Stacy-6-10PM-Rick would go on to WAPW,
"Power 99.7" in Atlanta, where he was program
director and morning host, "Star 98.7" (KYSR-FM),
Los Angeles, then to Denver at KS107.5 and "Mix 95.7" (WMWX/Philadelphia). In
December of 2003 Rick moves to New York City's WNEW-FM, "Mix
102..7".
Kurt Wells-1979-10PM - 2AM
Mike
Schiano-1982-1986
Biography
Mark
Simpson-Morning
drive
Dick
Sollom-Morning news In
Memory
Rick Saylor
Renee
Blake-News
Craig
Soldinger-1970-1974
Ken Rabac-1976-79
and 1986-1990
Chris Hill-1988-Overnights
Biography
Fast Bobby
Shadoe Stevens
Rafi Con Tigo-10PM-2AM
Jerry and Annie Lousteau-(Sep)
1988-(Jun) 1989-known as ''Mr. and
Mrs. Ugly"-Mornings
Other
names in WHLY
History
Alan
Rock-1976-1985-General
manager Biography
James
Tillery-1985-General
manager
Gerry
Cagle-Operations
manager
Jim
Robinson
Jake
Russell-General Manager
Bernard Kaplan-Part owner
Steve
Fluker-1995-Chief
Engineer
Ricki
Black-General Manager
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