;D I also did the "Beloved WTOB" from 1972-1975. Did engineering (no remote control at that time) Weekends on the air and swing shifts. Transmitters and antenna array were off Polo Road and of course the studios were still in Town Steak House. It was also the National Headquarters for Southern Broadcasting which owned Channel 8, KOY WSGN, WKIX, A station in Tampa St. Pete, whose calls escape me and several other stations. Southern had their corporate offices in the left side of the upstairs steakhouse and the studios. were on the right. Mike Ludgate was GM.
Best I can remember at the time Bill Cox did mornings, Bob Lackey (Bob Dale) middays, Tommy Walker 1-4, Good Buddy Bob Langdon, Afternoon Drive Scott Shannon, nights and overnights escapes me.
The station was sold to John Woods who drove it immediately into the ground. This guy was so hung up on saving a nickle, he had us take some of the run lights out of the cart machines.
Walker was PD and had it in his head he wanted to bring Russ Spooner (74) back from Nashville. Woods wanted no part of it because it cost more money. They finally struck a deal with Woods agreeing after Walker gave up the Weather Wire to pay .Spooner, Spooner cut a deal with the late Dick Chappel of Colony Dodge to let him drive a new Red Charger. Well, a morning didn't go by that the Winston Salem Police didn't chase Spooner into the parking lot.
I used to love to be the one to take the school children on tours through the building and tell the story of the building being built as the Reynolds family's Summer Home back in the 50's. There also was a large pipe organ in the attic of the building that was still there when I left. It had been built into the attic and couldn't be removed.
That's just a few of the fond recollections I have from working at one of the Triads foremost radio stations and I 'm proud to say that I was one of the "WTOB GOOD GUYS" :
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