WBJW-AM 1440
Winter Park

Original Call Letters: WABR
Year of License: Sep, 1954
Power:  5,000 watts-Daytime  
Original City of  License: Winter Park                                                                                     WBJW  logo courtesy Dave Edwards
Original Location: Hazard St., Orlando
Original Format: Easy Listening

Owner(s): 1954-
                1973-Rounsaville Broadcasting, Atlanta (Co-owned with WBJW-FM)
                1982-Nationwide Communications  (Purchase price for WBJW and WLOF, $6.5 million)
                1990-Metroplex Communications
                1993-Paxson Communications ($5.6 million with WMGF-FM 107.7)
                1994-J & V Communications, Inc.

History Of Call Letters and Formats: WABR-1954
                                                         WBJW-1973-Oldies/Lite Rock "The Entertainer"
                                                         WNBE-1976-NBC 24 hour News
                                                         WPRD-1987-
                                                         WPRD-1990-Children "The Imagination Station"  
                                                         WPRD-1990-CNN Radio News
                                                         WWZN-1993-Sports
                                                         WPRD-1994-Spanish

 
WBJW Personalities
Phil Hendrie-mid-1970s 
Phil dropped out of Pasadena City College after two years, and moved with friends to Orlando, Florida to work as a construction laborer/cement finisher in the middle of the early seventies Central Florida building boom, and contributed to building Walt Disney World as well. According to Mr. Hendrie, he "...still entertained ideas about being a writer but didn't really write anything." Realizing that he'd need a job to support himself if he was ever going to get down to the business of writing, he unwittingly chose his career... "I landed a gig as a disc jockey at WBJW 1440 AM in Winter Park Fla, a suburb of Orlando. I never really did start writing anything. And for that matter never did anything of note as a disc jockey for some 16 years, drifting from Orlando, to New Orleans to Miami and then home to Los Angeles, spinning records and hating it. Real waste of life..."

Steve Mitchell (Steve Schiffman) 





Buddy Pittman-1971 Biography

Clive Thomas-1973-morning drive  Biography
Pam Gordon
Jim Boynton-1973-6-10AM
Tony Bell-1973-10AM-3PM
Jerry Peterson--1973-3PM-6PM/Program Director/Music Director              WBJW studios 1975-courtesy Dave Edwards
Jeff Whittaker--1973-6PM-Midnight
Dutch Edwards-1973-Midnight-6AM
Bill Thompson--1973-News Director

Names In WBJW History                                           
Jerry Norman-General Manager                                                   
Dan Miller-1972-Production
Bill Fechter-Chief Engineer
Linda Cramley-Accounting



                                                   




                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                      

                       


WBJW Rate Card-courtesy of John Gordon
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