Vintage WGAY-AM/FM spot, 1978

Quick teaser ad promoting "the beautiful things in life" (for DC-area residents, anyway).

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• 1978

[WhatsAYak]

While some might snicker at the calls, they were actually a reference to the station founder, Connie B. Gay.

[TheMellowcandy]

Definitive response. Connie B Gay (a man from Lizard Lick NC) brought the stations WGAY and WQMR because of the Call letters.  He Bought the AM station and Paid $1 for the FM station. Later they reversed the call letters and made WGAY the FM station. I worked there from 1969 to 1993. I miss you Bob

[torgman]

@Superbook4Eva A man? All the more interesting.

[Superbook4Eva]

@Attmay Connie B. Gay was a man, not a woman.

The AM station had earlier had the calls WQMR ("Washington's Quality Music Radio").

[Attmay]

@WhatsAYak Her name is a complete sentence as well as a double entendre.

[PBRTV1998]

VSN maybe you should learn the history of the station before you go on a rampage.

[VSN411]

GAY, callsign FAIL!

[heine71]

I remember WGAY Beautiful Music but never listened to it much when I lived in the Washington, D.C. from 1973 to 1979.