Found this gem in my garage. Enjoy!

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had a friend that lived in Detroit-area late 70's/early 80's and he turned me on to Honey Radio and Tower 92....great stations!

Tower 92 was a great station. Why didnt' they last long?

Hard to tell what happen to Tower 92. I liked what they were doing back then too. Looks like it was changed just to compete with WWWW 106.7. A throw-away signal just to hurt their ratings?

According to Michiguide:
197x: WTWR is 'Tower 92', contemporary pop/oldies format
by 1979: Owner is Fritz Broadcasting.
1982: Drops 'Tower 92' and becomes country WCXI-FM to compete with 106.7 WWWW-FM.
1986: WNTM is 'Ninety-two Music', Hot Adult Contemporary
1987: WVAE is 'The Wave', New Age / Jazz
1989: WMXD is 'The Mix', Format evolves into Urban Adult Contemporary with Urban Oldies mixed in.
Colorful history with several more ownership and format changes over at that web site.

The Monroe station picked up the call sign WTWR: 9/13/1982 and then stayed that for many years.
3/14/2003: Construction permit granted to change COL to Luna Pier, ERP from 1,400 watts @ 466 feet to 3,400 watts @ 440 feet directional, and move transmitter location from Monroe County to Lucas County, OH
6/2003: License to cover granted for changes granted in March 2003- station markets itself to Toledo instead of Monroe.
10/2010: Format change from contemporary hits Tower 98 to contemporary hits as My 98.3. Station changes on-air focus from Toledo to Monroe.

Looks like being a local Monroe station won out in the in!

I was curious where those calls are now, so I just checked the FCC web site. It said they were not available, but didn't show where there are being used. Further check doesn't come up with any AM, FM or TV using them currently or in reserve. Interesting why they're not available???

The last I heard, they were still using four and three leter callsigns on a certain class of merchant ship. Never was sure about what ships used these, and am not sure if they still use them. You could request that the letters be switched in some cases. It would seem that they would mainly be of nostalgic or historic value on the ships.

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In the mid to late 80's, HoneyRadio was one great station that you could listen to from sign-on to sign-off. Their oldies playlist had variety, their news reports were pretty comprehensive, and their DJ's had energy, although not all of the energy of the old CKLW jocks. After their signoff, I'd flip over to WCXI AM1130, they also had a great lineup of country, some new and some classic, and their news crew won major awards over the bigger players like WJR.

Of course, you'd be correct in guessing my car at the time had only an AM radio.... but one could get most of their music needs from these two stations.