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1450 WMOH - THE TALK OF BUTLER COUNTY

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btho96

Was at this little flame of a station in the mid 90's and had some of the best times of my life, particularly when they had almost all live talk. They had the following:
All News in the Morning w Teri Horsley and Alan Lytle
ViewPoint w Kert Radel
Tradio w Mark "Golden" Richards
then they went syndicated till 6pm when Chris Quillen took over Sportsbeat.

Weekends were ruled by lots of local high school sports and Ask the Builder w Tim Carter, In the Garden w Ron Wilson and of course Good Morning Mayberry w Mark Richards and Dennis Hasty. Sportscene was an awesome high school sports recap show. They even had a weekend Tradio guy for awhile who was a laugh a minute. Sunday nights was Feather and Fin Outdoors w Jerry K and Rick Creech and these guys were outrageous.

When Steve Vaughn came aboard they were live with news all weekend and repeatedly won several news awards. Some of those part timers went on to bigger things including Don (Shook) aka Garrett who was all over cincy radio for awhile doing traffic. Karen (Hartman) aka Elliot is now the voice of the US bank Arena and Steve Sullivan became program coordinator before taking a News Director gig at a Nashville flamethrower.
This has me wondering not only where is good local talk radio now but where are some of the aformentioned and the following:
Richard Mann, Joe (Geckler) aka Singleton (I think he was "Babyface " on krc for awhile; Paul Munz; Russ Walker (up north somewhere?); Todd Pitt; Becky Statkus (way up north?); Tom Snape; Jaimie Combs; Brett Rohrbach, John Hitch; Jim Bratfish and the hilarious Rob Essert.
Its a shame the way Jacor now CC ruined competition in local radio but I got to tell you those were some fun days back when the mighty MOH was owned by Findlay Publishing.
Hope to get an update. Hey Brian Kah - this should be right up your alley.
 
btho96 said:
Was at this little flame of a station in the mid 90's and had some of the best times of my life, particularly when they had almost all live talk. They had the following:
All News in the Morning w Teri Horsley and Alan Lytle
ViewPoint w Kert Radel
Tradio w Mark "Golden" Richards
then they went syndicated till 6pm when Chris Quillen took over Sportsbeat.

Weekends were ruled by lots of local high school sports and Ask the Builder w Tim Carter, In the Garden w Ron Wilson and of course Good Morning Mayberry w Mark Richards and Dennis Hasty. Sportscene was an awesome high school sports recap show. They even had a weekend Tradio guy for awhile who was a laugh a minute. Sunday nights was Feather and Fin Outdoors w Jerry K and Rick Creech and these guys were outrageous.

When Steve Vaughn came aboard they were live with news all weekend and repeatedly won several news awards. Some of those part timers went on to bigger things including Don (Shook) aka Garrett who was all over cincy radio for awhile doing traffic. Steve Sullivan became program coordinator before taking a News Director gig at a Nashville flamethrower.
This has me wondering not only where is good local talk radio now but where are some of the aformentioned and the following:
Richard Mann, Joe (Geckler) aka Singleton (I think he was "Babyface " on krc for awhile; Paul Munz; Russ Walker (up north somewhere?); Todd Pitt; Becky Statkus (way up north?); Tom Snape; Jaimie Combs; Brett Rohrbach, John Hitch; Jim Bratfish and the hilarious Rob Essert.
Its a shame the way Jacor now CC ruined competition in local radio but I got to tell you those were some fun days back when the mighty MOH was owned by Findlay Publishing.
Hope to get an update. Hey Brian Kah - this should be right up your alley.
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What ever came of Courtney "Collins" (Parmentier), who did Tradio? I didn't hear Gary Burbank mention her over the last couple of weeks-she did work before Leah Burns on his show (after 84 or 85-when she graduated from Scarlet Oaks/WJVS).
 
It is ironic that they come up with things like LPFM to somehow try and put a local voice back in radio when in the past we had these local stations that were just that. The problem is that if we want local radio the communities have to support it with advertising $$$$. It is easy for the big national agencies to place their buys with Clear Channel, CBS and Citadel. It is, however, the local businesses that have to support local broadcasting. If there is a synergy created with cross promotions and discounts offered if you mention the station when you buy it could work. I listen online to WBZI, Classic Country, and they seem to be doing a good job at just that. A larger example I know of would be KMGO in Centerville Iowa which is an FM flamethrower on a tall tower covering most of South Central Iowa with mostly local sponsors, so it can work.

As mentioned, those local stations were the actual training ground for those seeking to get into broadcasting in any position. Once the become satellite and major station repeaters that avenue closes forever. I think the LPFM stations as noncommercial entities will eventually all end up as religious or other social issue/ commentary outlets and will not be a true voice of the community as a whole.
 
In regards to WMOH being a "training ground", Joe Nuxhall did his first sports play-by-play on the station when he did Miami University basketball games in the mid-1960's with Ray Motley.

Tom Bruehl, now the Senior Vice President for Technical Operations at Paramount Pictures, was also was on the air there in the mid-1960's.

There are many others.
 
Todd Pitt is currently Sales Manager of News-Talk AM 1290 and 95.7 FM WHIO in Dayton, and co-hosts a U. D. Flyers sports show.
 
Courtney "Collins" (Parmentier). There is a really familiar name. I also would like to know what happened to her. I went to school at Scarlet with her and lost track after we graduated back in 87.
 
And, quite frankly, in my earliest radio days, I remember listening to WMOH as, pretty much, a Top 40 station...(I recall I did go there once for a job interview that I didn't get). It was a pretty good sounding station, then.
 
Toddy-0 said:
What ever came of Courtney "Collins" (Parmentier), who did Tradio? I didn't hear Gary Burbank mention her over the last couple of weeks-she did work before Leah Burns on his show (after 84 or 85-when she graduated from Scarlet Oaks/WJVS).
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I believe she is a Hamilton police officer. She was their Dare officer.
 
Dr. Hook-thanks! Knighthawk-I was one of your advisors. E-mail. I haven't talked to many of 84-87 in many years. [email protected]


How many owners has WMOH had?
 
Steve Sullivan is now teaching broadcasting down in Nashville although he is no longer on the air there. Seems Clear Channel just plain burned him out.
 
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