Xpatriate said:
(and that was the genius of DOX, great music/no jocks)
Just to set the record straight - there were a couple of us that were behind DOX, and
Chuck Knutson wasn't one of the inventors. Don Powers (R.I.P.) put WDOX on the air,
and was also the owner of WSKR (now WJSE) after running elevator music on cassette
for a couple of months, he was talked into running "Modern Rock" for the summer by
a guy named Chris Fraley. I then talked Don into keeping the format, and converting
it to a digital automation system. At that point, I think it was July of 1994, Frank Lario,
John Kerr and I dubbed every song we could get out hands on into the system.
Much of the music was borrowed from WMID-FM 99.3, where I was program director and
Frank was music director and John did afternoons. I created about 200 of the famous
DOX liners from the single "D O X" voice track, and pre-Internet sound clips downloaded
from bulletin boards. (My idea)
From that point, and until about a year after Don Brooks of WTTH bought the station,
Frank and I programmed it. We dubbed the music on DAT tapes at WMID-FM, I
generated the music logs on Auto-Jock, and made a weekly trip to the transmitter
site or studio later, to dub the music in and put the logs in from a floppy disk.
The original plan was to simulcast on 102.7 and cover the whole Southern Coast,
but Don Powers was forced to sell WSKR to Jim Quinn, who later sold it to
Al Parinello.
Not that anyone cares, but WDOX is named after the original holder of the
construction permit, a Washington FCC attorney named David OXenford.
WDOX did better than WJSE in the ratings many times while still on 93.1.
The reincarnation on 106.7 wasn't very successful. I generated the
music logs at my house through the Coastal purchase, until it became WSJQ.
My voice was on the top of the hour ID on both 93.1 and 106.7 ...
... tom
