WHLY-FM 106.7 Tavares

WHLY-FM 106.7
Tavares

Original Call Letters: WLBE

Originally Licensed: Feb 12, 1969

Original City of License: Leesburg

Original Frequency: 106.7

Origin of Call Letters:

Original Power: 50,000 watts

Original Location: 32900 Radio Rd.

Original Format: Religious

Network Affiliations:

Owner(s):	1969-Heard Broadcasting
	1975-WLBE Radio Inc.
	1976-General Communicorps
	1976-Magic Box Media
	1988-Southern Starr Broadcasting Group Inc.
	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)
	2007-Clear Channel

History Of Call Letters and Formats:	WLBE-1969-MOR
	WHLY-1969-Religious "Where He Loves You"
	WDGM-1975-Beautiful Music "We're Delightfully Good Music"
	WYLY-1976-MOR
	WHLY-1984-Top 40 "The Hot-Rockin Y-106"
	WCAT-1987-Top 40 "Cool Cat"
	WHLY-1989-CHR
	WXXL-1990-Top 40 "XL 106.7 Today's Hit Music" "XL 106.7 All The Hits"

WHLY History
WHLY began life as WLBE-FM 106.7. 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 In Memory

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 (Rod Grant)-1985

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

Pat Beall

Roger Stallard-Afternoons Biography

Y106 studio pix courtesy of Jaime Lerner

Adrian Charles-Mid days

Fast Bobby-O-Evenings

Steve Ocean (Steve Wein)-1980-1982-Afternoons

Dirk Thompson

Mike Schiano-1982-1986 Biography

Mark Simpson-Morning Drive

Dick Sollom-Morning news In Memory

Rick Saylor

Renee Blake-News

Craig Soldinger-1970-1974

studio at Y-106 Jaime Lerner 2-1986.jpg (55336 bytes)

Greg Fox

Rick Stacy-6PM-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

Dr. Ken Rabac-1976-79-General Communicorps/1986-1990-Magic Box Media

Michael Jay (Mike Helminski)-1986-Magic Box Media

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

Michael Jay (Mike Helminski)-1986

Jaime (Lerner) Rob Que (Cat Thomas) Mark In The Dark Roger Cary John Weyrick Janet Sawyer-1985-News Director Greg Wells-Overnights In Memory	Jaime promo shot
Gary Van Allen (Gary Warne)-1982-1984-Production Director/Air Talent-Shamrock Radio/Chancellor Media

Dr. Ken Raybac-News Director/Public Affairs Director

Other Names In WHLY History

Alan Rock-1976-1985-General Manager-General Communicorps Biography

James Tillery-1985-General Manager-General Communicorps

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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