The station's studios and offices are located on Gandy Boulevard in South Tampa. The stations were owned by the Tribune Company, which also owned the daily newspaper, The Tampa Tribune. It played quarter hour sweeps of instrumental cover versions of popular songs, Broadway and Hollywood show tunes. In , the Tribune and its three stations were sold to Richmond Newspapers, which became Media General in The oldies format lasted only a year.
The Tampa Bay radio landscape change was influenced by a St. Petersburg Times "Favorite DJ" contest. The executives at Jacor saw that WRBQ, which, up to that point, had been the dominant FM Top 40 leader in Tampa for about 15 years, might be vulnerable from another full-power FM station playing contemporary hits. Q ignored the demands of Z93, as well as daily newspapers such as the Tampa Times and local Tampa television news coverage that the ransom request was receiving.
At a. Live on Looking forward to it. Let's go! Have a happy day! After a minute-stunt of sound effects of electric wires and pigs squealing, Power 93, The Power Pig would then be launched, with " Cold Hearted " by Paula Abdul being the first song played. In , the station underwent a slight re-imaging, adopting a new logo and the slogan "The 1 Hit Music Channel. The final broadcast was on February 17, Clear Channel announced that the Kane Show would take over the morning spot.
On October 30, , at p. The last concert on her World Tour in the U. On April 11, , the Kane Show ended. The iHeart-specific coverage that aired statewide aired in Tampa on the other stations in the cluster. In the subchannel switched to the " Evolution " EDM brand, but customized for Tampa-area listeners, billed as "Evolution Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.
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