Long Running Morning Shows

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:02 pm

I know I'm going to regret doing this, but tomorrow I will celebrate (?) my 14th year of my morning show. 14 years of lost dogs, little league hot dog sales, etc. I state this not to be celebrate or pitied. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what the running record for a morning show is in West Virginia?

As as side note the year I started doing mornings and WVOW some of the "current" hits were Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There?" and UB40's "Can't Help Falling In Love". Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog hadn't hit yet. Grunge was still huge. Seinfeld was also big and my Cowboys were about to beat the Bills for the second straight year in the Super Bowl (well a few months later). Clinton was in the White House and Caperton was in Charleston and I was driving an '88 Ford Escort.

Anyway, anyone have any idea about the record?

Attack at will.

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:15 pm

Once you've hit 20 or 25 years they'll stick your name on sumthin... or at least thats the Logan I remember..

David Paleg · Post by **David Paleg** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:22 pm

A couple of years ago, the Charleston Daily Mail ran an article on Steve Bishop's 25 years at V100 (WVAF). I don't know if it is a record but it is a heck of a lot longer than any of my jobs in any type of business. Al Woody has probably been on WQBE in the mornings about 20 years.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:23 pm

Soon you will be able to run for sheriff or county court.

Congrats on the long run. Maybe they will name a grade school after you.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:51 pm

daveinthemorning wrote:and I was driving an '88 Ford Escort.

at least one thing has stood the test of time

genlock wrote:Maybe they will name a grade school after you.

or special ed. school

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:56 pm

or a rehab center..

Hoosier Daddy · Post by **Hoosier Daddy** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:43 pm

Mental Hospital.

Clay JD Walker · Post by **Clay JD Walker** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:53 pm

I believe Al celebrated 25 years at WQBE back in the Spring...I bought him a pack of cigs...when I say bought...well, he 'borrowed' them...I figured I'd pass on a good gesture...!!

Bob Loblaw · Post by **Bob Loblaw** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:35 pm

On your 15th year, Steve Bishop drives by your house and you get to stare at his awesomeness at 45 mph.

And to think...Erin was only 2 when you started.

Oldiesdude · Post by **Oldiesdude** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:10 pm

Congratulations on your 14 years Dave! I can not get your station up here in the north, (must be too close to Wheeling.)

Just think when you get 21 years in, you can buy beer.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:25 am

But has Bishop done mornings for all those years in a row? Maybe, not sure. As for naming something after me unless your name is Robert Byrd or Earl Ray Tomblin that doesn't happen here. A methadone clinic would be good, perhaps.

BTW, Zak, that old Escort was a friggin' tank! When I was at Marshall it was flooded (since I was too drunk to notice that the street where it was parked was flooding), the cooling fan fell out of it, literally. Good old piece of shit, though.

Erin was actually 11 when I started doing mornings here. We have a couple of part timers here who are younger than her, however it typical Logan County fashion, they are all already receving government checks.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:05 am

daveinthemorning wrote:We have a couple of part timers here who are younger than her, however it typical Logan County fashion, they are all already receving government checks.

any of the kids yours?

when i was in high school, my buddy had an escort. 85 i think... we tore that thing up. even jumped some railroad tracks "general lee" style once. scared the shit out of the construction workers on the sides

oops

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:39 am

Didn't Bishop move over to CHS and do talk for a short time? I could be totally hallucinating that.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:45 am

Bob Campbell wrote:I could be totally hallucinating that.

lay off the ludes dude.... or at least share

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:03 am

Erin was 11 when you started?
How long did she take getting thru Chuck U?

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:36 am

I don't know, two years, I think. Much like her hero, me, she went to Logan's own Mud Fork University first. As for Steve Bishop wasn't he on The Wolf for a while, back in their Kicks 96 days? If so he is disqualified. I'll take my gold watch now.

Chris Lawrence · Post by **Chris Lawrence** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:04 am

I think Stallings has been on WAJR mornings since the mid to late 80's. He was there when I came in 1990--and is still there. He and Kay Murray have been on Morgantown A-M for many years.

As Big Dawg about his car...that burned.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:16 am

My boss seemed to think Stallings may have done it longer than me.

Heheh he said "done it longer"

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:28 am

well anyways, since I forgot to say it... Congrats, here's a banana sticker..

Dr. Loomis · Post by **Dr. Loomis** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:30 am

Chris Lawrence wrote:I think Stallings has been on WAJR mornings since the mid to late 80's. He was there when I came in 1990--and is still there. He and Kay Murray have been on Morgantown A-M for many years.

He was on WVAQ in the mid-80s, but he may have been doing both at the same time.

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