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ANNUAL ROLL CALL:WHERE YOU'VE WORKED IN PROVIDENCE

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WHERE YOU'VE WORKED IN PROVIDENCE
1 station but not on air
FARTHEST AWAY FROM PROVIDENCE YOU'VE WORKED ON AIR
Nearby Ct
 
Worked in Providence:

WEAN 990, WHIM 1110, WRIB 1220.

Most disttant from Providence on the air:

WFBS 1280 Berwick PA(News Director)

WNWR 1540 Philadelphia PA, WVCH 740 Chester PA
 
1. WKRI - West Warwick
2. WSAR - Fall River
3. WFHN Fun 107. Hired as original weekend jock the week before the station made it's debut in 1989, but had to bail out because of non-compete I had with WSAR where my full time gig was at.
4. WINY - Putnam, CT.

Also was offered a full time gig at a Rock station in Vermont which I had to pass up because I was to broke to actually move there. The PD said that I could just sleep in the station until I got a place. lol. Looking back I actually wish that I had done it. It probably would have been a blast. In the very least it probably would have given me some good stories to tell.
 
WLKW AM/FM
WEAN/WPJB(WWLI)
WBSM (consultant)
WJMF (moved them from 91.5 to 88.7)
WDOM
WXIN (RI College)
WWKX/WWON
WARA (boosted them to 5000 watts).

Several stations in Boston.

I now live in Los Angeles.
 
LA_Guy said:
WLKW AM/FM
WEAN/WPJB(WWLI)
WBSM (consultant)
WJMF (moved them from 91.5 to 88.7)
WDOM
WXIN (RI College)
WERI AM/FM (RI-104)
WWKX/WWON
WARA (boosted them to 5000 watts).

Several stations in Boston.

I now live in Los Angeles.
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Have to add to my previous post started professionally in 1977 at WERI AM/FM, Westerly, learning the engineering skills under ChuckAustin. Went to WCIB Falmouth MA after that, doing my first studio rebuild. A cup of coffee followed at WEZE in Boston, then WHIM, WRIB WEAN 990 and WMYD 1370. I took the Chief Engineer job at WBSM 1420 next, which was where I met LA_Guy. Looking back on all that now, it was a hoot....and still is!
 
2 Providence stations and I have a feeling there ain't gonna be a 3rd, boys and girls. Now you made me register just to respond to this and the day will come when everyone will probably be sorry.
 
DG02816 said:
Have to add to my previous post started professionally in 1977 at WERI AM/FM, Westerly, learning the engineering skills under ChuckAustin. Went to WCIB Falmouth MA after that, doing my first studio rebuild. A cup of coffee followed at WEZE in Boston, then WHIM, WRIB WEAN 990 and WMYD 1370. I took the Chief Engineer job at WBSM 1420 next, which was where I met LA_Guy. Looking back on all that now, it was a hoot....and still is!
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I too had the pleasure of working with LA_Guy at several stations (though not in Providence) over the past 20 years. In 1990, while doing a complete antenna/pattern proof of WBET in Brockton's new tower system, part of our duty was to check out the pattern of the other AM station in town. The 1410 facility, once a pristine and well maintained station (as WOKW) as I saw it in 1974, was quite a sight to see some 16 years later, in 1990. For the lack of a better term......, it was a dump. The entire ground and tower system (well mowed and covered with "barefoot grass" back in 1974) was overgrown by full sized trees and brush. A real forest if there ever was one. Talk about a real "hoot", you could only imagine the look on our faces when we found a rather large "hermit" shack just outside of one of the dog houses on one of the towers in the woods. Whoever built the shack tapped on to the electric power feeds in one of the dog houses and used it to run a 19" color TV set among other things. Quite the set up, too...... however the hermit had long since left and the picture tube on the set had been imploded (probably by someone's foot). It was truly amazing, but considering that this station had been silent for the better part of 2 years, anything could happen. Case in point..... it did! What a "hoot"!
 
DG02816 said:
Have to add to my previous post started professionally in 1977 at WERI AM/FM, Westerly, learning the engineering skills under ChuckAustin.
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Was Carl Grande running the station then?
 
DG02816 said:
Have to add to my previous post started professionally in 1977 at WERI AM/FM, Westerly, learning the engineering skills under ChuckAustin.
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Ah, yes....... WERI-FM, before "RI/104". Before the major upgrade in 1983-84, the old 16,000 watt signal was somewhat limited to the valley area. I had the chance to visit WERI/WERI-FM facility around that time. At the time, the FM was called "Number 1-04 FM" with a modified AOR/Classic Rock format that was consulted by Clark Schmidt, who now owns WCAP/980 in Lowell, MA. The AM was a graveyarder on 1230. I was helping a fellow engineer load up the old 250 watt RA250 (Raytheon) rig. It had not been functional for years. Don't know if it ever fired up again.

The funny thing about WERI-FM/103.7 was that eventhough it had very limited coverage to Southern Rhode Island and nearby Connecticut, it was a regular "visitor" in the East Wakefield/Belleau Lake, NH area (near Wolfeboro) on trops (practically every evening in the summer in the mid to late '70's). I had a cottage up there and was a fairly frequent listener. Not bad for nearly 160 miles. If I recall, WERI-FM was running Drake Chenault's automated "Hit Parade" format back in the 70's in mono. No sign of the other 103.7's in Keene (WKNE-FM) and Berlin (WXLQ).
 
Well it's official, there is nothing interesting left to discuss, our city has become officially homogenized.

Who would have thought we'd have the day where:

B101 doesn't have a PM Drive show
HJY has no night show
PRO has no night show
Buddy has a show
A country station sounds better than any other FM - great imaging
HJJ has 1 person in studio - for 10 hours a week total blahahahaha
Everyone ditched the local sports station for Boston's
That's it kids it's Hollywood Headlin..........make it stop!

Terrestrial radio is 1 nail away from a complete coffin. The true problem lies in the amount of alternative advertising that now exists online & is content based, which is more targeted than ever. Radio will never come back and corporations are not the evil ones, it's the technology and consumer driving it.
 
In Providence: WHIM 1110 (82-86, weekend p/t mostly)

Farthest from Providence: several stations in Orlando/Daytona Beach and on the Treasure Coast of Florida

Been a civilian for about ten years
 
The only station that ever paid me was WGNG.
I had an Irish show on WGNG, WKRI, WRIB, WMYD, WCEG

And traffic on (in no particular order):
WGNG
WSNE
WWBB
WLKW FM
WLKW AM
WALE (Fall River)
WSAR
WKRI
WNRI
WOON
WARA
WCTK
WMYS
WICE
WHIM
WPRO-FM
WBRU
WRIB
WJCC
WMYD
WWLI
WHJJ
WWKX
WOTB
WARV
WJZS
WSTL
WBSM
WWRX
WERI-FM

And a few fill-ins on WPRO-AM and WHJY
Also in college at WTBU

Well, that killed a few minutes...and 30 years!

Mike
 
In Providence, 2 stations full time & 2 stations part time. Furthest away was central Mass. Connecting the dots here, it dawned on me that I know at least 3 of the people who posted on this topic. Talk about friends in low places.
 
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