This is one of my quirkier, more personal lists. I grew up in Hollywood, which lies right in the middle of the heavily populated three southeastern counties of Florida: Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade. I also had, from 1968 to 1973 when I was going to Nova High School (corresponding to my 7th-11th grade years there) a hobby of listening to radio to pick up distant stations, called "DXing" and now obviously obsolete with the advent of the internet and easy-to-download apps that can pick up just about any station anywhere. Well, during that time I compiled a listening log as well as lists of the local FM and TV stations. I'm sure that the TV and radio station lineup looks quite different now than from back then, so I though it might be a sort of contribution of mine to the storehouse of knowledge accruing on the internet to put out a list of these old stations from my old home area. They are all from either Palm Beach, Broward, or Dade county...my favorite radio stations were WQAM, WFUN, WSRF (all three with rock n' roll formats), WSHE-FM (album rock), and WKAT (talk radio). Sometimes WFTL would broadcast local high school football games live and faithfully gave us all the scores late on game night. In early 1971, WMYQ on 96.3 made the big breakthrough in south Florida with a strong popular music format for the first time on the FM band...others would soon follow in a torrent, quickly converting that once-neglected band into the one most people listen to today...later that decade, as the disco era ensued, the station on 100.7 would reign supreme, while the one on 94.9 renamed itself "Zeta Four" and commanded my listening loyalty with some really good album rock. Here's the list, with the TV section listing the channels and the AM/FM sections listing the frequencies...
SOUTH FLORIDA TV STATIONS (1968-73)
2 WTHS Miami (Educational/Public)
4 WTVJ Miami (CBS)
5 WPTV Palm Beach (NBC)
6 WCIX Miami (Independent)
7 WCKT Miami (NBC)
10 WLBW/WPLG Miami (ABC)
12 WEAT West Palm Beach (ABC)
17 WSEC Miami (Educational)
23 WLTV Miami (Spanish)
51 WKID Fort Lauderdale (Independent)
61 W61AA Fort Lauderdale (Independent)
SOUTH FLORIDA AM RADIO STATIONS (1968-73)
540 WQAM Miami
610 WIOD Miami
710 WGBS Miami
740 WSBR Boca Raton
790 WFUN South Miami
850 WEAT West Palm Beach
900 WSWN Belle Glade
940 WINZ Miami
980 WLOD Pompano Beach
990 WFAB Miami
1000 WJTS/WRYZ Jupiter
1080 WVCG Coral Gables
1140 WMIE/WQBA Miami
1190 WAVS Fort Lauderdale
1220 WOAH/WLTO/WCMQ Miami
1230 WJNP West Palm Beach
1260 WAME/WWOK Miami
1290 WIRK West Palm Beach
1320 WGMA Hollywood
1340 WQXT Palm Beach
1360 WKAT Miami Beach
1400 WFTL Fort Lauderdale
1420 WDBF Delray Beach
1430 WIII/WRSD Homestead
1450 WOCN Miami
1470 WRBD Pompano Beach
1490 WMBM Miami Beach
1520 WIXX/WEXY Oakland Park
1550 WRIZ Coral Gables
1580 WSRF Fort Lauderdale
SOUTH FLORIDA FM RADIO STATIONS (1968-73)
89.7 WMCU Miami
91.3 WTHS Miami
92.1 WHMS Hialeah
93.1 WKAT/WTMI Miami
93.9 WGOS/WBUS Miami Beach
94.9 WAEZ/WOCN Miami Beach
96.3 WGBS/WJHR/WMYQ Miami
97.3 WIOD/WAIA Miami
97.9 WWOS Palm Beach
99.1 WEDR Miami
99.9 WWOG Boca Raton
100.7 WMJR Fort Lauderdale
101.5 WWPB/WLYF Miami
102.7 WCKO Pompano Beach
103.5 WSRF/WSHE Fort Lauderdale
104.5 WEAT West Palm Beach
105.1 WYOR Coral Gables
105.9 WFLM/WIXX/WAXY Fort Lauderdale
106.7 WFTL Fort Lauderdale
107.9 WIRK/WPBF West Palm Beach
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