> WYCL has been discussed in great length on this board in the
> past. I'm sure you'll get a lot more responses in the next
> few days
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> According to the stories I've heard, 107.5 had been
> religious since day 1 until being sold to an outfit who
> allegedly pledged to keep the format religious. Instead,
> they flipped the format to light AC after the deal went
> through much to the dismay of the former owners.
>
From the stories I heard WYCL's owners were SUPPOSED to keep the station religious. They found a "loophole" in the agreement, and hence, the station went AC in, I'd have to say 87 or 88...I was in a band at the time and headed to practice when I frst heard 107.5 as secular music.
> WYCL tried their best to fight WRFY but failed a couple
> years later (1991 maybe?) The former owners purchased the
> station back and put it back to religious.
>
WYCL, I believe, never even came close to knocking RFY out of the top spot. And Y102 was straight up Top 40 at the time. I don't think they became Rock Hits until 93 or so.
The station went into receivership and wound up going back to religious sometime in the early 90's, but before Rock Hits came to Y102.
> I agree with you, however. It was a really good sounding
> station with a good signal and from what I hear, a spiffy,
> modern-for-the-day studio.
When I was going to Temple, our technical adviser pretty much had carte blanch at WYCL when they flipped, so he got his hands on A LOT of the carts, etc. He was known as a klep! hehehehehehehehheheheheheheh
> I was living all the way in Montgomery County (outside
> Philly) at the time, and the signal came in (and still does)
> like a local. I still remember listening to "Crusing for
> Bruising" by Basia while sitting on my front step in 1990 on
> WYCL
Towards the end, they were all over, a la WAEB before they flipped to B104 in 87. I remember 104.1 doing a lunchtime "block" (as they did everyday at 12) of.....THE WHO! I knew the gig was soon to be up. Also, at that time, they called themselves "WAEB-104"...a sign of things to come, no?
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