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Anyone remember WHVL 1600 Hendersonville?

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fmradionuts

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Anyone remember the talent on that station? TONS of talent! "Brother" Bill Prather, Dave Lyons, Glenn Trent and a lot more! I miss the late 70's-early 80's WHVL, good stuff!
 
A lot of people came out of WHVL that went on to bigger things. I recall they did a survey(NOT Arbitron) in around 79, and had like a 50 share!
 
I remember "Super 16" and "The music AM"...Man I miss the Steely Dan marathon! I remember tons of Steely Dan! I hear Dave Lyons is WHKP's CE and Brother Bill is with Davidson Media as Ops Mgr.
 
fmradionuts said:
I remember "Super 16" and "The music AM"...Man I miss the Steely Dan marathon! I remember tons of Steely Dan! I hear Dave Lyons is WHKP's CE and Brother Bill is with Davidson Media as Ops Mgr.
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1600 was a great station but it never found the financial success of WHKP.

I think the station became really crippled when someone who bought it defaulted and the previous owner and note holder figured out that his note had not been filed at the courthouse and essentially he had no note. I don't know all the specifics but that was the straw that broke the camels back meanwhile WHKP was selling their FM for big bucks, sold their cable system for big bucks....selling their property and building another show place and still doing twice the business anyone who knows much about radio thinks they should be. The thing I have always admired about the folks at WHKP is they could have easily taken it easy and rested on their laurels but they operate their sales department as if there are 20 other stations in town and they believe in their product. You can't say that about many stations over the years and especially nowadays.
 
I know this is an HVL thread, but I've always been in awe of WHKP. I don't know how it's faring and will fare after longtime morning man Al Hope retired several months back...but whenever I would pass through Hendersonville and listen it, it seems they ran more spots than ANYTHING. I guess the most appealing thing about their spots is Al Hope mostly did live reads and with his down-home delivery...he could sell ice cubes to Eskimos. KP has been a very unique station. Though it was a sad day when the FM was sold in the mid 80s.
 
I don't remember anything about WHVL, but I have always been amazed by WHKP. Art is right...they work sixteen times harder than practically any small market radio station on earth. Their studios are an absolute showplace, and they must run twenty minutes an hour of ads. I've seen a copy of their rate card, and they sure aren't selling ads for what the rest of us get. I have never talked to anybody who can figure out how on earth they bill as much as they do, but they do.

Amazing, too, that a county that large didn't end up with an FM that stuck around. Sorta like Lincoln County.
 
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