just pondering...as i approach my exit from the 25-54 demo..

[the jive talkin one]

Ten local radio "legends" of my generation i admired but never worked with: Jack O'Shea...J B Miller...Steve Hayes...Clint McElroy (unless you count 2 weeks "disco" jockeying at the Brass Lantern in Ironton)...Chuck Black (i did have classes with both Clint and Chuck at Marshall)...Rob Scheibly...Mike Tussey....Dee DeLancey...Ron Mastin...Ernie G....

[EZ103.3FM]

I'm leaving that demo also in about 68 days.

And you forgot one.....Gary 'Music' Miller.

I never worked with any of them but I knew several....

I was in the Huntington Jaycees with Steve & Clint (and 'Scott Brady' from WKEE also). We worked together on the KEE/Jaycees Haunted House for 2 years. Steve and I went to get a picture of some sort to put over a false wall where a monster would be reaching out and grabbing at those passing by. Steve decided the picture had to be a Velvet Elvis and we had a very funny search for one. It's nice to have reconnect with both....at least via facebook.

My wife and I, along with our first Sheltie Lady made an appearance with J.B. and Sheila on WKEE-FM. A group we were in was putting on a 'Blessing of the Animals' event in Ritter Park and J.B. had us on their show to publicize it. When we told J.B. that Lady would bark whenever my wife blew her nose (but not when anyone else did), he asked my wife to blow her nose on the air and said it was the first (and likely last) time he'd ever asked anyone to do that. I saw J.B. the last few years also when he MC'd the Cancer Survivors event at Cabell Huntington Hospital.

We met Dee DeLancey when he was working as a TV reporter. We donated oxygen masks to be used to revive dogs to the Huntington Fire Dept. The Lieutenant we were working with called Dee to do a story and he did a very nice one featuring our 2nd Sheltie Angel.

I don't know Jack (John Comer) O'Shea personally but I saw him at a remote once at a former stereo store in Huntington called the Hi Fidelity Center. A teenager asked Jack if he listened to some other radio show and Jack gave an answer I've never forgotten. He said 'I don't listen to the radio when I'm not on the air. Does a baker go home and eat bread all evening?'

[Tim Tyler]

I had the pleasure of working with Jack O’Shea and Steve Hayes at WKEE, Rob Scheibly at WTCR and WKEE, and both Mike Tussey and Ron Mastin at WTCR. They all are truly legends. To the list I would have to add “The Flying Dutchman” Jim Schneider, and without question, Charlie Dunlap.

[the jive talkin one]

Gary...Dutch...Charlie...all legends that i DID work with! therefore, not on the list! There are SO many more unforgettable people (i counted three dozen) that i had the pleasure to work with, from Dick Hustead to the amazing Johnny Riggs...but it would be so easy to leave someone out. The list of ten non-coworkers was much easier to come up with!

[EZ103.3FM]

Schneider is another good one. I met him also - when I worked at WHEZ-FM as an announcer in 1978-79, he worked at WTCR-AM. Both stations at the time were owned by Greater Media, and we met at company parties, HR meetings, etc.

Schneider's father worked at the Corps of Engineers with my father; I now work there.

[Lisa]

Uh....Joel....what about me?

[the jive talkin one]

again, Lisa, this was my list of legends i did NOT work with! my years bugging you with last-minute traffic changes were the climax to my career! we did have fun, didn't we?

and EZ guy...i suppose i worked with you too...since i started at 'TCR in August of '78. but...i can't place you! my bad.

[oldtvman2]

I worked at WTCR back in 1959 when Seeb was manager and Eddie Walters was Dj and Chief engineer I was morning DJ and assistant Chief Engineer. worked with Cousin Johnny ( John Simpson) lot of fun had to turn on the transmitter at 4:00AM they transfered me to their station in Kinston, NC WFTC as evening DJ and Chief Engineer. I got to re build three studios and install a new Gates transmitter. also got to meet the Paul Harvey. A great man talked and acted just like when he was on the air. at one time I worked with Hal Murphy I don't remember where it was . either WTCR or WPLH. Radio was FUN back then. oh well fond memories

[EZ103.3FM]

and EZ guy...i suppose i worked with you too...since i started at 'TCR in August of '78. but...i can't place you! my bad.

My name is Dick Ash.

I was the evening announcer at the old WHEZ-FM - mostly 2PM -10PM, sometimes 4 PM-Midnight.
I was there from June 1978 through June 1979.
Dan Monjar did days - usually 6 AM - 2 PM.
Kal Socolof did overnights - usually 10 PM - 6 AM.
Brian Sturm, Debbie Phillips and Leo McCourtney's son (Leo from channel 13 - can't remember the son's first name) were the part-timers/fill-ins.

Rick McNamara was Operations Manager.
Robert M. 'Mike' McDaniel was station manager.
Eddie Walters was Chief Engineer.
I can't remember the sales people other than Willa Bailes (who I dated for a while). I think there was a Judy and a Charlotte and a Sara back there somewhere, and maybe another Sturm (Geoff, maybe?).
Linda (can't remember her last name) worked in the office and did traffic.

I left to do sports/DJ/sales at a station in Middlesboro KY, then left radio in late 1979. I moved back to Huntington and started my career at the Corps of Engineers, where I've been working for about 33 years, the last 30 in navigation planning.

[SHADOW]

Hey, oldtvman2, I remember when tri-state radio was great. Naseeb S. Tweel was the GM of WTCR, 1420 AM, in Catlettsburg, Ky. WTCR was the number one country station in the tri-state. In May of 1966, the owner, Connie B. Gay, went on the air at the location on Skyview Drive near Huntington, in Wayne County and started WVQM Stereo, 103.3, Stereo, with 50,000 watts, 24 hours a day. The tower was fifty feet from the back of the station. The RCA transmitter caught on fire twice while was there, but I put it out quickly.

I went to work as an afternoon announcer, from 10 A.M. until 6:00 P.M. Ann Bauer, Gene Hester, Jim Eblin, Nora Langly and Paul Miller, were a few of the staff that worked there. Naseeb S. Tweel, the GM, and Eddie Walters, was my dear good friend, built the studios. I learned more about broadcasting from Eddie than from any other. I miss him very much.

Tweel hired Pete Steeger from WSAZ Radio for the morning slot, and Lloyd Garten as the Program Director, Neither lasted for more than a few months. After my first six months, I became the Music Director. All music was played from 33 1/3 rpm stereo records, and the announcers had to play selections from the 3 by 5 index cards I typed up for each 24 hour time period.The main studio mikes were two RCA 77 dx for live announcing, as was the production room and studio "B". It was a class act. All taped commercials were in stereo.

Dean Sturm and Naseeb Tweel hired me. Sturm left one week later to become a news anchor for WHTN channel 13. He ended his newscast with a quote by Omar Khayyam, "The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it." I never knew what that had to do with a newscast. Naseeb S. Tweel was replaced six months later by Ken Stephens who became GM of both WTCR and WVQM. Ken Stephens released Lloyd Garten and appointed me as the Program Director.

I hired Alan Mace Sturm, who left to join the Marine Corps, and today does the "Blue Room" big band show on 930 AM each Saturday morning, and his brother, Geoff Sturm, who just returned from the US Navy worked as my friend for many years. Both were sons of the late Dean Sturm. Naseeb Tweel built WNST AM, 1600 kc daytimer in Milton, and later sold it to Rosco Peters.

I estimated I hired more than 50 very good announcers from Marshall University, including the future TV News Director Tim Sharp, Larry Talley, Regis Tussey, Don Weed, Becky Clark. Sandy Rogers, Joe Harman, and Jim Vance. 168 hours per week had to be programed. “The Flying Dutchman” Jim Schneider, who worked at WTCR AM, girl friend, Sally Burns, was my copy writer. Jim and I were very good friends. Linda Fry was my bookkeeper and traffic person. She was there for many years after me.

I was given the task of changing the call sign from WVQM to WHEZ FM Stereo. After my traveling around the U.S., the trend was stations that had EZ somwhere in thier call letters, became identified in their musical sound.

Other enployees were salesman Emil George, who just got out of federal prison. and was soon to go back for bootlegging 8-track tapes and selling them to Hecks department store. Other sales reps were Jim Coffey and Karl Meeks, who in his sales career worked at every station within 50 miles of Huntington, more than once.

After Connie B. Gay sold the station to Peter Bordes of Greater Media, Inc., I became opereation manager and GM. I was sent to WRFM Stereo in New York City and later to WQRM Stereo in Washington, D.C. to learn a new type of programing. We replaced LP records with 10 1/2 inch tape machines from Stereo Radio Productions. In the early 1970's, this became the trend in the U.S. It was the end of LP records. We purchased a lot of audio reel to reel tape machines and replaced the turntables.

I worked there for ten years before going to Charleston and WCHS AM and sister station WBES FM. A person named Mike McDaniels replaced me and later WTCR became the 50,000 watt stereo station and WHEZ became the little AM station, that is all but gone now.

Maybe it's long, but an informative essay in Huntington broadcasting from 1966 through 1976.

[EZ103.3FM]

and picking up from shadow...

When I got to WHEZ-FM in 1978 the tape machines were in use as part of an automated setup. Music tapes came from KALA in Michigan.
Each hour when I was on was news & weather (locally recorded off of AP wire copy).
Then 10-12 minutes of music (1 vocal the rest instrumental in each music segment).
Then a set of commericals (usually 2) with a PSA in between.

Another 10-12 minutes of music.
A commercial break, usually 2 spots with weather or Wall Street Journal (during the day) report in between. This came off a wire machine and was recorded by the local announcer.

Another 10-12 minutes of music.
A commercial break. Don't remember what ran with them.

Then 10-12 minutes of music up to commecials and the news & weather.

[oldtvman2]

Hay Shadow I remember when Seeb hired me at WTCR, on the day before I went on the air Seeb called me into his office and told me that the Girl who made out the logs might schedule a beer or wine spot or a tobacco spot near a religious show but if you run it you are FIRED. If I remember it was no spots like that with in I believe five minuets before or after a religious show. that was the time when you could not run competing car spots back to back. also the copy book at WTCR was a small lose leaf notebook . copy for a place would be their address what they sold and what was on sale that day and you were to make it up as you went. also the PIs that were on that day were made up as you went. I remember having to pitch one about Dolls and you had to do it for at least 2 min. We received a letter from one store of what was on sale and the signature on it was a small feather and she was refered to as MISS TICKLE FEATHER. I had to rip and read a news cast around 10:00am and Eddie did this same report at around 12:30 and all those names were bad. Eddie would ask me how I was able to pronounce all those names. I didn't tell him till I was on my way to WFTC (also owned by Connie) that while I was on my way to the studio I would listen to WSM in Nashville and Ralph Emery would do this same news at 3:30 and I would just listen to him. Radio was really fun in those days. Cousin Johnny would get mad at me. He would do his part of the morning show from Huntington and I would be at the studio in Cannonsburg. he would do some of the spots from there and some from me in Cannonsburg. he would like to run over and I had a religious show that ran at 9:00am he would like to close out his show but if he was running over I would save a spot and when it was time I would run my spot and start my next show. and he would get mad.