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Stuart Greenberg said:
Quad,
I may be wong, before "The Buzz" changed to sports, they were 850-KIX (before KIX went to FM). By that time they were playing what I think the term is "Reel to Reel" Music of the late 50's, 60's, and 70's. There were no DJ's, only drop in's. When they first changed to "The Buzz", they still kept some of that music until they were able to work out the kinks with the SportsRadio concept. After that, the music was stopped.
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I was a listener back then. They had a satellite-delivered format, one which I can now hear again on a Greensboro-area station. And the music was from the 40s, 50s and 60s (and occasionally the 70s), though most of the 40s music was from the 80s and 90s. It just sounded old. During the last years of that format it was called WYLT and the WKIX letters were on 96.1. There were talk shows such as Dr. Laura on 850, and they eventually decided to go all talk in 1995, which was a shame. By this time I had a station playing this music in the Charlotte area but not when I would go to Winston-Salem.

The change to sports came later. Ironically, in a News and Observer article when they were still doing music, there was speculation they would go all-sports, but they claimed to be happy with the music.
 
Interesting point...When I moved to Durham in 1986, 96.1 was WYLT (Lite 96) Their sister station in the Triad was
WOJY (100.3 Joy FM). 850 am was WKIX, Joe Wade Formacola (sp) did the Morning Show! :D
 
When Joe Wade did mornings at WKIX (850AM) it was country. Then QDR changed to country and Joe Wade left to go to Detroit.

Shortly after the WKIX changed to Oldies. Dale Van Horn did mornings. Station was successful at it until TRG came along with the format.
 
Mike,
I hate to disagree with you. Joe Wade did do mornings at WKIX, and it was not Country. I do not enjoy listening to Country at all, therefore I would not choose that station. I will see if I can find out some more information ???
 
Stuart - I never said he didn't do mornings at WKIX (850AM). Joe Wade was doing mornings in 1979 and 1980, 81 and possibly 82. He was PD for a portion of that time before Mike Chapman. Station changed to country in the summer of 1980! Call letters remained on the AM frequency until at least 1990.
 
Stuart ... I am pretty aware of the WKIX history in those days. I worked there from June 1980 to late 1989. Also worked with Patterson when he did mornings at WYYD (96.1) when it changed from Beautiful Music to AC.
 
Actually, Joe Wade did do mornings very briefly when Kix went from Country to Oldies. It may have been less than a month. I had totally forgotten about it myself until I recently ran across an aircheck of Joe while looking for the air check of Van Horn I promised X (I’m still looking X! I have somewhere!). If you had asked me about this time-line before I found this tape I would have said no way it happened, and I was right there in the trenches with X at the time. X the things I have heard on some of these old airchecks from our era jogs the brain quite a bit. I did not realize how much I had forgotten about those days. Do you remember Dale doing all of the live shows on Friday afternoons at the Sheraton? Tony H. and I had bit parts on his show as well, Tony as “Derrick The Decorator”, and myself as “Cleve Humpwell”. Tony and I evidently did our own version of Sanford and Son at some point, I was Fred, Tony was Grady. The aircheck I have of Joe doing oldies features Tony’s “Cosell” impersonation as the character “Howard Knowswell”. Hard to believe this was all about 20 years ago. I will uncover the infamous “South Of The Border” aircheck. I have a box of about a hundred airchecks from both my Kix and ‘TRG days and, OF COURSE, they are mostly unlabeled. I haven’t found any tapes with Sara Louise yet. Just remember, Conway Twitty wrote “Tight Fittin’ Jeans” about her. Don’t believe it? Just ask CB Bagwell!
 
Actually, MaxGM, I suspect the Joe Wade oldies air check from probably pre-country at WKIX. The station was AC in the late 70s and until summer of 1980. Joe was PD and morning man in those days.

Not sure exactly when when Joe left, but by the time the station went true oldies, I was PD. Tracey Boomer was MD in the country days and left shortly after the change.

I would love to hear some of those tapes! The hunt for the Titanic at Jordan Lake was a classic. Do you have "Crappy Fishing"?

Too bad the station was the testing ground for FM formats in those days. WRAL and G-105 took the Top 40/AC formats, QDR took country, TRG took oldies. KIX kept coming back for more!
 
620 The Bull and 850 The Buzz now streaming...

... and I suspect that they only started doing so in order to compete with the new 99.9 The Fan (which, BTW, also streams like its country predecessor did). One caution, however: The Bull and The Buzz only stream their local content, so you won't get any syndicated shows (like the Packman) or any ESPN Radio broadcasts from The Bull.
 
;D  Stu, Sorry it took me a couple of days to catch up...My experience with KIX was limited to the time that George Williams was National PD of Southern Broadcasting and they owned WSGN, KOY, WTOB and various other little goodies including Tampa.
Steve Roddy was in Raleigh in 72..Pat Patterson was PD from 69-74 .. KIX went Country in the Summer of 81.. In the early 70's, Tommy Walker (PD) Spooner and Myself were at WTOB in Winston..I along with most remained until Southern Sold to John Woods and he and Kaye his "Beloved Wife" and her Son ...""Blew Up the Station"..GM Mike Ludgate was the only sensible one and got out early and went to WCHV in Charlottesville.. That's about the extent of my invlovement with KIX!  BIG APE!
 
Ape ? for you

Is the Pat Patterson you mentioned, the same Pat Patterson that is a big wig corp. wide PD for Entercom? I seem to recall when The Wolf launched in the Triad that Pat Patterson is who R&R directed you to .... just curious ?????
 
Ha ha!! I definitely have Crappie Fishing transferred over onto Digital. I’m traveling this week and have a huge community fund raiser to work this weekend when I get back. I’ll try to pull a few tidbits off soon and send them to you.

Man I do remember the timeline and, like I said, would have said no way to Joe even pulling a shift on the station once we switched but this tape is absolutely after the switch. It is also unscoped and one I believe I recorded at home on the first morning after the switch. Are you sure Joe didn’t work a week or two while you guys worked out the deal with Pat? I was just a lowly DJ at the time ;>). I wasn’t a part of those types of high level discussions. I'm diggin' out that tape for another listen when I get home.

I don’t think I have the Titanic stuff. The only reason I have the South of the Border stuff is because I was running the board while you and Dale were visiting with Pedro.

I also ran across the aircheck me doing the last shift on the station before it went Oldies. The damn tape ran out before the switch though so I don’t have the switch-over itself. Dale used to tell folks he played the last country song on the KIX before the switch but nope… it was me. David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Call Me By My Name”, into a transition song, “Lost In The ‘50’s” by Milsap, into whatever we did to launch (can’t remember), into the first oldie (can’t remember that either! Man… I feel old).

Come on out to the Outer Banks one weekend X and we can reminisce! I’ve got plenty of room at the house and some restaurant trade we can burn.

Oh… Pat Paxton is the Corporate VP of Programming for Entercom. Not Pat Patterson, who is still in Raleigh and is now doing a show on Saturdays on 570-AM on WDOX.
 
For Stu and Ape: I went to KIX and YYD in June of 1980 - doing evenings on the FM.

At the time the stations were owned by Bernie Mann. GM was Ed Weiss (aka Charlie Brown). KIX was AC and Joe Wade was PD and morning man. YYD was Beatutiful Music. I did a few fill-in shifts on KIX before the change to county = which came later in the summer of 1980. Bill Flynn (WMAG) was doing evenings on KIX and left with the change and went to WCHL.

I believe the KIX Country lineup was Joe Wade (mornings), Dale Van Horn (10-3), Ron McKay (3-7) and Jay Butler (7-12M). Don't recall overnights at that time, although Bobby Jo Austin (who was recently at 94.1) did overnights for a while. Station was country for several years and did quite well. The market had not had a successful country station. I believe WYNA was the country station of record at the time, but suffered from serious signal issues and couldn't really cover the market.

Later in the country days, Mike Chapman took over afternoons (I think McKay went to G-105). MaxGM joined the crew (was it from Henderson?) and was later music director. Handled change over to Selector. (Were you PD by then?).

Joe Wade may have been around a few days for the oldies format, but I thought Van Horn did some mornings when the station was country. Maybe not.

Pat Patterson (who still hangs around radio in Durham) was hired on WYYD when the station went from BM to AC. Lasted about a year. I always loved Pat's voice and bits, but he had a real hard time moving to FM and getting used to a "more music" approach.

I left in 1989 and moved to Greensboro.
 
XTalker said:
Pat Patterson (who still hangs around radio in Durham) was hired on WYYD when the station went from BM to AC. Lasted about a year. I always loved Pat's voice and bits, but he had a real hard time moving to FM and getting used to a "more music" approach.
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Does anyone remember Pat Patterson's brief stay in Wilson? Voyager Communications brought him to WVOT-AM (then WRDU's sister station) to do mornings. They promoted him heavily around town, but Pat's stay was short-lived. This was during the Jones Fuquay era, around 1984-85.
 
That would be after the WYYD stint, I believe.

Pat is a great guy, but last time I saw him (about 2 years ago) he was wearing the same sportcoat from the WKIX days.
 
realradioplayer said:
Ape ? for you

Is the Pat Patterson you mentioned, the same Pat Patterson that is a big wig corp. wide PD for Entercom? I seem to recall when The Wolf launched in the Triad that Pat Patterson is who R&R directed you to .... just curious ?????
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Nope! Last I heard Pat was at WCHL.. Pat worked also at QDR from 77-82 and then back to KIX when they tried the "Cool Gold Thing" 88-90 Then did some talk at DNC.. Seems like I remember him going to Boston for a short time at WHDH and also to KULF in Houston..Both those stations were sold out from under him shortly after he arrived! That's My Luck...Big PD for ENTERCOM???? NOT Pat..I Didn't know ENTERCOM had any "Big Time PD's (Little ones either?) BIG APE!'
 
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