70's Hometown Radio WNUE

08/09/2024

08/09/2024

Very cool video, a blast from the past!

17/05/2023

Rock on, Keith! 🎸🎶

08/05/2023

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22/03/2023

We're celebrating 9 years of Internet air play. Here is our updated programming schedule. Thanks for listening!

08/09/2022

Check out this great video/audio that recaptures the excitement of the very first football game played by Ft. Walton High School in 1971 and they played Choctaw! Just click the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teIr7bftubY

14/08/2022

We've built an Internet audio stream that pays tribute to AM 1400 WNUE as it sounded back in the 1970's. Over the 8 years that we've hosted the stream we've produced hundreds of faux advertising spots for once iconic locally owned businesses in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and the surrounding areas. Here's the latest example.

To listen to the new spot click on the SoundCloud link below.

To listen to the stream click here: streaming.live365.com/a34774

P.S. Most of the 30 or so newly produced spots should be in regular rotation in the next day or so.

We've built an Internet audio stream that pays tribute to AM 1400 WNUE as it sounded back in the 1970's. Over the 8 years that we've hosted the stream we've produced hundreds of faux advertising spots

04/08/2022

09/07/2022

Our global audience continues to grow and that's fabulous!

If you click on the link below you'll be virtually transported back to the mid-1970's in the Playground Area of northwest Florida and you'll be listening to AM 1400 WNUE. It's magical!

Here's the link to our direct audio feed:
https://streaming.live365.com/a34774

02/07/2022

I hope everyone in this group has a fun and safe 4th of July! Remember, whenever you're waxing nostalgic for the "good old days" you can easily do some virtual time-traveling back to the 1970's by listening to our WNUE-AM tribute Internet stream.

Simply click on this link to access the direct feed:
https://streaming.live365.com/a34774

30/06/2022

11/06/2022

Do you own an Alexa device? If so, you can activate a free skill that will allow you to listen to 70's Hometown Radio WNUE! I've provided a link below for instructions. I don't own an Alexa so if anyone starts listening to the WNUE stream that way, would you please let me know how it goes? Thanks.

Instructions link:
https://help.live365.com/support/solutions/articles/43000533137-accessing-live365-on-amazon-alexa

The direct audio link for our stream:
https://streaming.live365.com/a34774

Listeners can access Live365 on Amazon Alexa using the phrase "Play Live365!" Previously, listening was only available via browser or the Live365 mobile app, but the Live365 Alexa Skill allows listeners to tune in via their Alexa devices. ...

02/06/2022

Just creating some new art for station promos. This is a photograph I took at a recent car show in south Texas.

20/05/2022

In 2012, J Alex Bowab posted this information about WNUE AM in radio history forum on the Internet:

"WFBS 950, a 1 kw daytimer.The Smith family, which owned top 40 WAAY/1550 in Huntsville, changed the WFBS calls to WNUE and moved it to 1400 to get fulltime.It was called appropriately "New Radio."I thought someone would apply for the vacated 950 frequency, but that didn't happen.

French Brown's West Florida Broadcasting Service built WFBS in 1956. Brown had been a principal in WCNU in Crestview. The transmitter was always at 118 Wright Parkway, but the studios were in the old Miramar Hotel. M.D. Smith, III bought the station in 1960, but it didn't move to 1400 'till late '63. The studio/office building was built by Smith, but I'm not sure of the year. The facade of WNUE was almost identical to WAAY.

I think the 950 became unavailable because WMOZ/Mobile (960/1kw-D) applied for and was granted a CP for 5kw-D in the mid/late-60's, but by then, WMOZ ownership (Edwin Estes) went through a protracted fight that ended with their license being revoked. There were several new applications eventually filed for 960, but it was years and years before a grant was received. 960 returned to the air with 5kw in 1986, licensed to Pritchard. All that kept 950 from being available for application at FWB.

In 1980, WNUE billed just over a million bucks. 10 years later, it was silent due to not enough business to pay the bills. I bought the silent WNUE from the Smiths for $10,000.00 in 1990. There was no real estate included, and no equipment other than the tower, ATU, the 1956 Gates BC-1J and the 1979 Harris MW-1A. Dutch and Carolyn VanBuskirk were minority partners with me, and Dutch was the day to day manager. My original plan was to automate the station with Adult Standards. Dutch wanted to go news/talk/sports, and I went along with him. Larry White came back to be the PD, and he and Dutch did a daily show together.

At roughly the same time, I made a deal to buy WBBK-AM/FM in Blakely, Georgia. Dutch and Carolyn were to be minority partners in that venture, too. We experienced some disagreement difficulties after a few months (none of that needs rehashing now), so I agreed to sell my interest in WNUE to the VanBuskirks, and they would have no interest in WBBK.

Unfortunately, the WNUE format was much too expensive to sustain, and things quickly turned very bad. The sale of my WNUE stock to the VanBuskirks was never completely consumated, so I ended up with the station back in my hands in 1992. Dutch had hired Zoe Rowley, and her program was the only thing bringing in any $$$. Everything was in such a mess, and SO many people were owed money --- including the IRS (who only wanted $18,000.00 in back withholding taxes). In the end, we surrendered everything to the IRS and they sold the station to a new owner."

15/05/2022

Haha, so much truth!

My parents are still on their same oven from 1995. Meanwhile, our new oven has been replaced 3 times in 7 years.