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Chris Jones got arrested, again. He is in the Hillsborough County jail on an assault charge. Under occupation it says - Radio Host, WTMY, Sarasota.......

is this the same guy who claimed he played in the NFL but really didn't?
 
Haven't seen the dude in awhile, but that is him. Wow, he looks like crap. Always a criminal, but use to be pretty meticulous about his appearance.

Channel 8 did a piece on him a few months ago that featured Derrick Brooks and Mike Alstott complaining about Jones lying to sponsors about him using their names to sell promotions. Chris would promise Alstott or Brooks to appear and of course they didn't because they never agreed to it.

Of course, that doesn't stop radio pay toilets from taking Chris' money and keeping his larceny on the air.
 
zoneguy got it right... always a criminal. Does anyone know what happened in this incident? Whatever it was, it'll most likely violate is probation on previous charges and he may be put away for a while.
 
Zone Guy-- "Radio pay toilets", I haven't seen that used before. Good one.
I wish the FCC would start cleaning up the AM band by getting rid of these crappy, interfering freqs (ala WTAN). But they don't get it. Need proof? Look at all the crappy low power stations they are dumping into the FM dial.
 
I get tired of all the complaints about the pay-for-play stations. What else can they do? If you owned a lousy signal like 1340 you'd sell the crap out of it too. There really isn't any alternative for these stations.
 
I have nothing against the pay stations. They are actually independent radio folks (for the most part, 1250 excluded) trying to make a buck in a mega corporate radio world. In many respects, it is the ultimate marriage of democracy and capitalism. Pay your way on and broacast the message of your choice.

However, the owners do bear some responsibility for their clients. Chris Jones stayed on the air at 1340 for years despite numerous legal actions against him and several investigative reports outlining the depths of his many scams. It got to the point that he started doing his show by phone because coming to the studio would mean process servers would be able to find him and serve him summons, subpeonas etc. Even so, Dave and Lola never moved to strike him from the airwaves as long as his check cleared.

In addition, for those other locals who bought time on WTAN and were legitimately trying to make some money at it (a very difficult thing to do), they constantly ran into advertisers already burnt by Chris Jones and would have nothing to do with another 1340 program. Thus the Waggondorf's have earned the pay-toilet nick name others have thrown at them.
 
BJohnson, please forgive me. I didn't mean to call WHNZ a pay-toilet. The colon blow shows are truly a needed service, especially in Tampa Bay.
 
http://www.colonblow.com/

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Not sure if this is serious; the users testimonials are incredible! And how 'bout the t-shirts...

When a product very similar to this bought the 1-2pm hour on WHNZ for nearly three consecutive years, it was the highest rated hour on the station between 10am and 7pm (somewhere around a 0.4). Sad, but true. That's what years of colon blow will do to a radio station, not to mention your plumbing.
 
;D Hey Guys, First time on this board..Just a question..Many Many Moons agoi, I was in Sarasota and went to Dwain Glenns First Phone Mill...Whatever happened to it.. Also..Some people named the "harts" owned WYND where I hung out a while..Is it in exsistance?? Thanks APE
 
WOW... talking about memory lane... when the Hart's owned Surf Row Radio 1280 WYND...
That was a great time in the mid to late 60's... Johnny Dark, Butch Luke, Glen (Oh Happy Day) Hill and even Pepper Lipsinkx... Totally off the wall...As I seem to remember... Had a show for the last hour of their daytime schedule called HEAD's UP !!.. Played album cuts of some real psychodelic stuff you wouldn't hear anywhere else...I swear everyone was wasted in the studio @ the time...

They used to do 6 packs, 12 packs and a case (24 hits in a row...) only the sound effects of a can opening and a beer (or whatever) being poured.. then the announcer saying " # xx of 24 in a row... " They were also known for readjusting the antenna so that their signal hit Siesta Beach a bit better, as they were only a directional daytimer with all of 500 watts of power...

WKXY 930 was the goodie goodie station, so YND didn't have the Hit line... it was the RIP OFF LINE... no pick hit of the week... It was the BIG BUST of the week...



I used to hang around there, as I went to school across the way @ Cardinal Mooney High School... and later worked there when the TRADE OUT KING - Lowell "Bud" Paxon ( IE = Home Shopping Club, Paxon Communications PAX tv..) owned it in the early 70's...
Traded out everything... Kid's orthodontia, groceries, cars, gas, and just about anything else he wanted or needed... including a 22' Winnebago motor home for a remote unit...We were pretty much all cart by then anyway.. and with a Marti unit we could be anywhere and everywhere... Ran commercials on the hour every hour for what seemed like a year...

Hey... it WAS LIVE AND LOCAL... something you don't hear too much of today... And it was FUN !!!


later...

walt
 
Thanks, I remember a lot of that stuff. Iwas going to REI but I hung out some out there too..Also at the Civic Center or whatever theyt called it back then..But back to the other question. With the FCC deregulation of First Phones do Dwain Glenn and his school in or what happened? Sarasota was a nice little "Hippie town back then and I enjoyed going over to Siesta Key.. All of us were "Housed at an old motel (don't remember the name) but it was 1400 N. Trail and a old guy named Ed McCollum owned it! This all happened in 1968.. After the classes were over..They herded us all up and drove to Miama for the test. Everyone took it and went to their homes to wait for the results which came about 2 weeks later.. My family and I had been to North Carolina and when we got back to Cocoa Beach....Sure enough in the mailbox was a big brown enevelope with FCC Miami and My prized possession my First Phone..and ya'll all know back then that was a guarantee for a job at just about any station that had a nightime directional array...Those were the days...APE!
 
Wazzie said:
Zone Guy-- "Radio pay toilets", I haven't seen that used before. Good one.
I wish the FCC would start cleaning up the AM band by getting rid of these crappy, interfering freqs (ala WTAN). But they don't get it. Need proof? Look at all the crappy low power stations they are dumping into the FM dial.
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Hate to ruin it for you, but I've been using it on here for 2-1/2 years. In all fairness, I got it from Michael Zweling at KSCO in California.

And BJohnson is 100% correct. Good to see folks using reason. In any market I go to or have friends in, I challenge them to name a better format that the existing "paytoilet" should flip to... they hem and haw and never have an answer. The point is - there is no other format. That's all most of these stations have. Be happy WFLA doesn't broker time on the weekend - all the big ABC (oops... Citadel) stations sell 3 or 4 weekend hours.
 
KJCB said:
Be happy WFLA doesn't broker time on the weekend - all the big ABC (oops... Citadel) stations sell 3 or 4 weekend hours.
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Hate to break it to ya-- check 970 on Saturdays 12-1pm and Sundays 6-7am...
 
MisterNews said:
KJCB said:
Be happy WFLA doesn't broker time on the weekend - all the big ABC (oops... Citadel) stations sell 3 or 4 weekend hours.
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Hate to break it to ya-- check 970 on Saturdays 12-1pm and Sundays 6-7am...
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Most people even in the radio business have been confused as to whether the Mutual Fund show is brokered (it is, technically). Actually, they usually just buy a ton of spots and then ask to clear the show barter. As far as "brokered" fare, it's not bad. And one hour of paid stuff on Sunday early morning? What is it - vitamins, religion? My point was that WFLA AEs are going out pitching local financial planners and mortgage gurus to host their own prime time show. WFLA's billing is probably less than 1% from paid programming.
 
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