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So I was thinking alot about 91.5 WDBK, where I started radio,lately. Air talent doesn't have a lot of chances to get started these days with voice tracking and automation..Well in 1993 WDBK, Camden County College's radio station, gave air talent plenty of room to breathe with a student run station...that's right the students ran this station with absolutley no faculty involvement. When I joined the station there was an alternative format with Saturdays dedicated to dance music.
I kid not I could write a movie on the stuff that went on behind the scenes at this station. Seriousy crazy things from practical jokes,nudity, weird hook ups to hiding people's possetions...i mean it was nuts..half of our staff didn't attend their classes because they were so busy hanging out at the station...I think I'm the only one from our crew tha got a degree from CCC. We made WKRP look normal. One instance that sticks out . Our college made us sign off every night at Midnight...one night two of our members broke into the station signed back on at 2AM and went on as aliases..lets just say the FCC wouldn't have approved of their contact..many complaints camein over this show I was Program Director and Bob Patrick (WAYV. K92 Roanoke) was station manager we prtende to have no idea of the incident..we knew exactly who it was..but we were like family...I said our listeners must have broke in( like they would have known how to turn the transmitter on).
WDBK was totally a bust as an atlternative station..On Saturdays we got a huge response from letters( give me a break it was 1993) to killer phones..It litereatly never stopped ringing...never. It was the summer of 93 our station manager and PD were leaving..The next thing was huge. A member Al Camione(he was a BOSS 97 and Q 102) got all the old dance carts from Q 102..they had switched to hip hop..Al asked for them and the pd of Q told him to take them!!!. Bryan Grayson(Q102's mix show DJ before Richie Rich) became Station Manager..I became Pd (Gator WAYV)..very strong infuences from Michael Gillen(Michael J , Boss97,WAYV) and Joe Borsello(WMXI 98.1 Mississippi ,98.9 Collorado springs most recently Jo JO at WJSE. Together it was decided WDBK would be all dance!!!!
From 93 to 98 we owned South Jersey..if we did a remote hundreds would show.We teamed with local freestyle label Tazmania and had seve sold out concerts at various cubs..we would incorperate established artists as well: Lil Suzy, Judy Torres, George LaMond, Cynthia,Coro, Noel,Collage ,Rockell, to name a few. I kid not, if PPM existed ten we would have hurt a couple of the Philly stations. I can' explain how may phonec alls we got a day..when I was a WAYV i got about 20 a shift at WDBK I go hundreds..thats on a four hour shift.
There has been so much success that has come from this station from future owners of stations to air -talent..I am proud to have come from there and to have worked with so many infuential personalities..They all still call me Instigator..or Gator ..I'm 36..it was a wild station .
Maybe Brett from Z889 could do the second phase of WDBK..we were taken off the air by faculty in 99..they felt the station had got out of control..funny it was about six months after I left and I had the most out of control show there(content ect.,) on the station..it was ressurected and did great things once again like getting labele supporrt and was featured in the national magazine Dance music Authority.
Here are some of the talent out of WDBK
Al Camione(Q102 , Boss 97,owner WMXI Mississippi, owner WJSE ) Michael Gillen (j) (Boss 97.WAYV nights WMXI owner..afternoons)
Bob Patrick (WAYV nights, K92 Roanoke,another in Joplin Mississippi..Sorry I can't remember)
Heather delucca (WAYV mid days..SOJO 104.5 mid days)
Billy "the Kid" Horst (Wayv part time..WJSE morning producer..Wild1027 weekends)
Mark Dichico(weekends WAYV)
Brian Fioretti (Gator WAYV weekends Z889)
Pat Gallager (WBSS and he has alotof other staions under his belt I just don't know wich ones)
Bryan Grayson(Sly Br Q102 mixshow DJ)
Jason Mollica( probaly the biggestsuccess..MSNBC)
Scott Stevens(he was at WAYV beforehe worked at WDBK I thought I should mention him)
Joe Borsello(WMXI MIssissippi, 98.9 collorado springs..Jo JO WJSE's Morning edge)
Tom Lavoi(pronounced La voy) (New Jersey Senate)
Dave Goodman( Appeared in many commercials,billboards,and an Extrain many movies Including The Sixt Sence)
Jordan Katz(WAYV)
Now these guys all worked at WDBK in a six year time frame...thats incredible.
The second phase produced Brett Holcome (WIP, Z889 pd)..and Stay Puff and Ratt boy from Q102 and WFLZ Tampa.
I kid not I could write a movie on the stuff that went on behind the scenes at this station. Seriousy crazy things from practical jokes,nudity, weird hook ups to hiding people's possetions...i mean it was nuts..half of our staff didn't attend their classes because they were so busy hanging out at the station...I think I'm the only one from our crew tha got a degree from CCC. We made WKRP look normal. One instance that sticks out . Our college made us sign off every night at Midnight...one night two of our members broke into the station signed back on at 2AM and went on as aliases..lets just say the FCC wouldn't have approved of their contact..many complaints camein over this show I was Program Director and Bob Patrick (WAYV. K92 Roanoke) was station manager we prtende to have no idea of the incident..we knew exactly who it was..but we were like family...I said our listeners must have broke in( like they would have known how to turn the transmitter on).
WDBK was totally a bust as an atlternative station..On Saturdays we got a huge response from letters( give me a break it was 1993) to killer phones..It litereatly never stopped ringing...never. It was the summer of 93 our station manager and PD were leaving..The next thing was huge. A member Al Camione(he was a BOSS 97 and Q 102) got all the old dance carts from Q 102..they had switched to hip hop..Al asked for them and the pd of Q told him to take them!!!. Bryan Grayson(Q102's mix show DJ before Richie Rich) became Station Manager..I became Pd (Gator WAYV)..very strong infuences from Michael Gillen(Michael J , Boss97,WAYV) and Joe Borsello(WMXI 98.1 Mississippi ,98.9 Collorado springs most recently Jo JO at WJSE. Together it was decided WDBK would be all dance!!!!
From 93 to 98 we owned South Jersey..if we did a remote hundreds would show.We teamed with local freestyle label Tazmania and had seve sold out concerts at various cubs..we would incorperate established artists as well: Lil Suzy, Judy Torres, George LaMond, Cynthia,Coro, Noel,Collage ,Rockell, to name a few. I kid not, if PPM existed ten we would have hurt a couple of the Philly stations. I can' explain how may phonec alls we got a day..when I was a WAYV i got about 20 a shift at WDBK I go hundreds..thats on a four hour shift.
There has been so much success that has come from this station from future owners of stations to air -talent..I am proud to have come from there and to have worked with so many infuential personalities..They all still call me Instigator..or Gator ..I'm 36..it was a wild station .
Maybe Brett from Z889 could do the second phase of WDBK..we were taken off the air by faculty in 99..they felt the station had got out of control..funny it was about six months after I left and I had the most out of control show there(content ect.,) on the station..it was ressurected and did great things once again like getting labele supporrt and was featured in the national magazine Dance music Authority.
Here are some of the talent out of WDBK
Al Camione(Q102 , Boss 97,owner WMXI Mississippi, owner WJSE ) Michael Gillen (j) (Boss 97.WAYV nights WMXI owner..afternoons)
Bob Patrick (WAYV nights, K92 Roanoke,another in Joplin Mississippi..Sorry I can't remember)
Heather delucca (WAYV mid days..SOJO 104.5 mid days)
Billy "the Kid" Horst (Wayv part time..WJSE morning producer..Wild1027 weekends)
Mark Dichico(weekends WAYV)
Brian Fioretti (Gator WAYV weekends Z889)
Pat Gallager (WBSS and he has alotof other staions under his belt I just don't know wich ones)
Bryan Grayson(Sly Br Q102 mixshow DJ)
Jason Mollica( probaly the biggestsuccess..MSNBC)
Scott Stevens(he was at WAYV beforehe worked at WDBK I thought I should mention him)
Joe Borsello(WMXI MIssissippi, 98.9 collorado springs..Jo JO WJSE's Morning edge)
Tom Lavoi(pronounced La voy) (New Jersey Senate)
Dave Goodman( Appeared in many commercials,billboards,and an Extrain many movies Including The Sixt Sence)
Jordan Katz(WAYV)
Now these guys all worked at WDBK in a six year time frame...thats incredible.
The second phase produced Brett Holcome (WIP, Z889 pd)..and Stay Puff and Ratt boy from Q102 and WFLZ Tampa.
Wow I should have proof read better..I was typing so fast..sorry about the missing letters and some bad grammer...BTw for those not interested in his thread sorry..I didn't want to bury this on the college boards and sinceI started talking about DBK on the dream dial tread I thought it fit better here then on the dance boards.