Radio Daze

Amazing what you can find online these days, I was cruising the web for something and happened on a couple of items from when I first broke into radio. Dated circa 1986, these 2 little gems are from when I was on the original Power 96 Miami, the station was in the middle of transitioning after having just signed on as 96.3FM, being sold a few months after going live, changing it’s name to Power96 and moving to the frequency it’s been on ever since, 96.5FM.

The Power Play List is just after we changed from 96x to Power96 and I was one of the fortunate part timers that were kept on staff, everyone else that was with the station from Day 1 as 96x such as my very good friend Stuart Elliott whom I credit with starting my radio career were all let go. I actually used to deliver these play lists to all the local Miami record stores until we opted to just drop them entirely in early 1987.

I was with the station from late 85 to early 87 when I went back to club work, I only came back to radio in 1992 after running into Bill Tanner at Ace Music in Miami where he gave me the lead on going back to radio and I landed a job at Waxy 106 Miami.

The 2nd picture was from our 1st time in the Coconut Grove Bed Race in 1986, we painted and prepped the bed at my house in North Miami the team was (L-R myself, Mike Ritter (bottom center), Mark Moseley (top center) and Stuart Elliott, we lost to WSHE that day and the bed was used 1 more time the following year at the new Ft. Lauderdale Bed Race where we again lost to WSHE, in all fairness it was their event.

Enjoy!