Radio station WVAZ-V103 shook off its past and never looked back









Two decades ago, Barry Mayo reconfigured America’s radio land scape when he introduced the adult urban contemporary format to the dial. He took WBMX-FM 102.7 and transformed it into WVAZ-V103. The rest, as they say, is history.

On the recent occasion of the station’s 20th anniversary, some of those responsible for the station’s success—on-air personalities Herb Kent, Troi Tyler and Ramonski Luv, program director Derrick Brown and Scott “Smokin’ ” Silz, production and imaging director—gathered in a studio and talked about life at V103, then, now and down the road. [read the rest of story]

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