
WNDD-FM
95.5
Silver Springs
Original
Call Letters: WGGO
Originally
Licensed: 1991
Original
City of License:
Silver
Springs
Power: 3,000
watts
Original
Format: Oldies
Owner(s):
1992-Stoher
Broadcasting, Inc.
1994-Allison
Broadcasting
Group ($850,0
1995-Hurricane
Broadcasting Corporation ($1 million)
1997-Ocala
Broadcasting Corp.
1998-Dix
Communications, Inc. (Co-owned with WOGK-FM
93.7)
History Of Call Letters and Formats: WGGO-1992-Oldies
"Go 95.5"
WLVX-1994-Progressive
Rock "Live 95.5"
WIND-1996-AOR/Rock
WNDD-1998-Classic
Rock "Wind FM"
WNDD-1999-Classic
Hits
WNDD-2000-Classic
Rock
History Of WNDD
Thanks to Marc
Tyll for this history of WNDD.
WNDD-FM began operations on February 12, 1992 as
an Oldies station, WWGO-FM "GO 95.5". The station was
built by Robert D. Stoher who owned the station until it was sold in 1994
to Allison Broadcasting. The oldies programming was provided by Satellite
Music Network and remained in place until the station was sold. There were
no local announcers on "Go 95.5" until 1994 when Allison
Broadcasting acquired the station and the format was changed to
Alternative/Punk Rock known as "Live 95.5" with the call
letters WLVX. Previously the call letters WLVX belonged to an AM
station in Islip, Long Island, New York. Allison sold WLVX to Hurricane
Broadcasting in 1996. Hurricane Broadcasting was headed by Bob
Ganzak who revamped the programming to AOR/Rock. The ratings immediately
shot up to place WIND-FM in the number two position. In 1997 Ganzak
entered into an LMA* agreement with the owner of an FM in Gainesville. Under the
arrangement, WNDT-FM 92.5 Gainesville would rebroadcast WNDD-FM
95.5. The concept was known as "Double Rock." Ganzak sold WNDD
in 1998 to Dix Communications which already owned WOGK-FM
93.7. The format was changed to Classic Rock. A year later the format
became Classic Hits, only to return back to Classic Rock another year later. The
WIND-FM Network now consists of WNDD-FM
95.5 Silver Springs-Ocala, WNDT-FM 92.5 Alachua-Gainesville and WNDN-FM
107.9 Chiefland. All three stations collectively cover the entire
Ocala/Gainesville metro and fringe markets consisting of 16-counties.
Names
in WNDD History
Robert Stoher-Owner
Don Connelly
Bob Ganzak
Craig C. Baggs
Dave "Hair" Riley
Ernie Mills
Steve Allison
Marc
Tillery Biography
*Local
management or marketing agreements (LMAs) first began to appear in commercial
radio in the early 1990s. At that time, commercial radio stations were operating
under ownership restrictions that limited companies to only one AM and FM in a
markets and twelve AM/FM stations nationally. LMAs were developed as a legally
viable contractual tool to address what these commercial broadcasters saw as a
regulatory environment that blocked them from maximizing profits.
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