A look at where all of 99X's key players are now 25 years after launch

[rohocop2121]

From Jimmy Baron (realtor) to Sean Demery (PD at Portland's Kink-FM), I have the skinny on what every major player at 99X is doing now:

http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2017/10/24/99x-25th-anniversary-where-are-they-now/

 

[RadioDoogie]

Will Pendarvis was the best. I loved him on 99X. He left Memphis on WMC FM100 and came here around the same time I did. Brenda Wood of 11Alive and Randy Travis of Fox5 also moved from WMC-TV around the same time as well. 99X was such a good station back in the 90s. Such energy and the music was so different from anything else. I do think alternative and country got a boost in the 90s because pop music was in a major slump back in those days. Really enjoyed 99X back in its hay day. Great article.

 

[mountainman]

What is the over/under on RHO's AJC where-are-they-now coverage of Barron/Barnes in the last, say, 10 years? I don't have access to a nexis search but I'd say it's at least six updates. "Jimmy is doing video docs on family histories", "Barnes becomes a weekend jock at 105.7", "Jimmy is a realtor", "Barnes loves gizmos" etc. Al stories are presented as straight-faced, blue sky revelations.

Somewhere north of here, Toucher and Shertenlieb (sp) are laughing at the fact that their careers ascended from 99x's demise, while B&B are treated like Atlanta radio's founding fathers -- though never of which has had a $1,000/year W-2 in radio in the last decade.

I don't know Barnes/Barron at all - and God bless whatever they're doing - but...Rodney (or Rodney's editor) - enough!

 

[DoctorRadio997]

I had forgotten that Melissa Carter did a stint at 99X. It's interesting that she can take any topic and somehow change the narrative to be about sex, race or sexuality. This is a simple article about where the personalities are decades later and Melissa's quote is about how great it was to work for a woman. She used to be ok on the Bert Show, now she comes across like she's always pointing out everybody's differences. It says a lot about where we are as a society.

 

[RadioDoogie]

I remember Leslie was PD for both Q100 and 99X around 2002. She was doing a live remote one Saturday back in April 2002 at the AT&T (then Cingular) on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth. I told her much I liked both stations and was glad she was PD at both.