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Best DJS in East Tennessee past and present

Wow...didn't know Ray Buckles died. He was a super guy. I worked over there for around 2 years...with Ray and Fred Williams,Jim Smith,Edd Townsend and Dick McClellan and Red Kirk. Mitch Sandidge was a great engineer/interim manager. Jim Edwards was there,too. Excellent atmosphere and great format back then. Miss the place on top of the hill...in Blountville...LOL.
 
anybody ever remember Ray Hutchins and his son Gregg? I would assume Ray is completely out of radio by now. Gregg is doing AM Drive for an FM station in Nashville that is the flagship for the Solid Gospel Radio Network (Salem Communications) and plays drums for Jean Shepherd on the Opry.
 
I believe if a list of the best is being compiled, Michael Henry Martin, WFLI, would have to be included.

Although not really a DJ, Stanley Hall was one of the most creative and talented persons I ever had the pleasure of working with.
 
Tri-Cities

PAST-
Dr. Don- Mornings, WFHG, Bristol
Randy "The Animal" Turner- Nights, WFHG
Rhett Bledsoe, Mornings, WOPI, Bristol then Rhett Tanner, WJCW, Johnson City
Jim Conrad, Afternoons, WOPI now feature reporter at WCYB-TV
Ed Guinn...aka Kenny Foster, Nights, WOPI
Steve Howard, Mornings/PD, WKPT-AM, Kingsport
"Daddy-O" Don Gibson when he was on WETB in Johnson City
Red Kirk when he was on WKIN in Kingsport and WGOC
Ray Buckles- worked a little bit of everywhere
John Dixon- I worked with him at US-99 in Johnson City...he was also on WXBQ
Joe Byrd- does morning news on WXBQ now...was a.k.a. Bo Matthews doing nights on WFHG
Tom Phillips when he did mornings...now mornings at WEZL in Charleston, SC
and Mike Padgett from WKPT in Kingsport---smooth as silk. Miss hearing him.

PRESENT
Steve Mann, WTFM- although I liked him when he was on WQUT b4 John Boy & Billy
Trags, Afternoons on WXBQ
Reggie Neel-WXBQ, Jeri George-WQUT, Elva Marie- WTFM- all been doing middays for ages and all do their jobs extremely well.
 
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I'd have to say...
Jay Cee:Wbmk,Wemg,
Brother John:Wdmf
knoxville

WBMK, the only competition that shook the boots off of wkgn in it's latter years.
lol!!!
 
laughingloudest said:
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I'd have to say...
Jay Cee:Wbmk,Wemg,
Brother John:Wdmf
knoxville

WBMK, the only competition that shook the boots off of wkgn in it's latter years.
lol!!!
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James "Slick" Maurice, WNOX and WBMK
 
jodyeng said:
anybody remember Joe Ritchie the overnight man on wimz back in the early 90's?
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Yeah I sure do. He wasn't all that good but I guess he was all they could get for an overnight shift. Phil Williams was the best DJ to ever be heard over the airwaves in Knoxville.
 
Tom Dooley, Chuck Boo-Boo Barron, Bill "The Birdman" Thomas...almost anyone who worked at 15Q....simply the best programmed station ever to grace the Knoxville airwaves with major market talent.!!!
 
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