{"id":63421,"date":"2025-07-19T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63421"},"modified":"2025-07-19T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:59:51","slug":"a-love-for-radio-wtnd-106-3-fm-and-the-legacy-of-tom-and-darryl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-love-for-radio-wtnd-106-3-fm-and-the-legacy-of-tom-and-darryl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love for Radio: WTND 106.3 FM and the Legacy of Tom and Darryl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Fred Waterer, who writes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Longtime WBCQ listeners may remember The Tom and Darryl Show which was on WBCQ for several years.<\/p>\n

I don’t know too many people with more knowledge of music or a larger music collection. Great guys too.<\/p>\n

Here is an article about Tom, Darryl, and their radio station from their local community newspaper.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.communitynewsmarket.com\/article\/1074,love-for-radio-brings-wtnd-106-3-fm-to-the-area<\/a><\/p>\n

Fred Waterer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes:\u00a0 Longtime WBCQ listeners may remember The Tom and Darryl Show which was on WBCQ for several years. I don’t know too many people with more knowledge of music or a larger music collection. Great guys too. Here is an article about Tom, Darryl, and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,442,3],"tags":[2729,10858],"class_list":["post-63421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-music","category-news","tag-fred-waterer","tag-tom-and-darryl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-guV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50661,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/fred-suggests-a-halloween-spooktacular\/","url_meta":{"origin":63421,"position":0},"title":"Fred suggests a Halloween Spooktacular!","author":"Thomas","date":"October 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fred Waterer, who writes: This is going to meander a bit from shortwave, but I'll give you a heads up in case it's of interest. 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