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YOU must have worked at WCSI 1010.......to know that the air monitors picked up
Super - CFL....
What years did you work there ? May I ask .....
Who was the PD ?
Who did mornings ?
Fish
That would be Chuck Larson...also known as ChiefEngineer on Radio-Info. I was CE at WCSI from 1977 to the early 1980's and indeed Super CFL did come in on the air monitor at night...sounded sweet too.
Chuck:
Sounds good to me .... I worked under Jim Kyuper and I don't recall your name ;
seems like Hawkins was the Engineer in 83-84 etc.....that may have been after your
departure.....No big deal ----- I was just wondering. thanks for the reply.
YOU must have worked at WCSI 1010.......to know that the air monitors picked up
Super - CFL....
What years did you work there ? May I ask .....
Who was the PD ?
Who did mornings ?
Fish
Randy Michaels hired me to work any shift anyone else wanted out of. Never ran any Red's Games (had plenty of that in high school from way off at the other end of the over the air network) but it was cool to work before or after Marty and Joe.
I got weekly reports on how many states we got complaints from. Cool gig. I was driving 2 hours each way to work so it wasn't for the money but really cool to get calls from the army base in Alaska and airchecks from Sweeden.
Michaels would fire up the WW2 500 kw or what was left of it. We had a Mckay tabletop tuner on the shelf with rf meter. And he says "what's the rf reading now?" from Mason (at night) and it was half scale. Then he says 'What about now?" The meter was pegged. This had no outdoor antenna and wkrc couldn't get as high as WLW on the meter.
We were at 3 E 4th street. Hall of fame on the wall with the old WLW stars, Jimmy Durante, Art Linkletter, Doris Day, and so on. Avco stickers on all the equipment. LPB board in the studio.
After that an on air shift anywhere else was like near beer.
I did one shift on WLW as well...not even Chuck wanted to work on Thanksgiving night of 1983. Thanks to Chuck for suggesting that Randy give me a call. Randy called from the transmitter that night as well, but the only magic he worked was slamming the positive peak meter on the modulation monitor--and I do mean slammed. Best I got was a call from Oklahoma, but that was still way cool to me.
Randy was way cool. I used to listen to him and Alan Gardner. They were a hoot! One night, he hijacked Bozo's show. He claimed the calls
Dale was getting was because WMAQ was off the air. I also had an aircheck when he was on WKRQ, chopping up the "frog in the blender".
RANDY! If only radio could be his vision and not what most of corporate america sees. I hope Tribune with Zell succeeds despite the sucko economy. I keep waiting to hear he is personally delivering papers giving paper boys a model for how to deliver. "Hey kid she's hot, make sure and deliver papers when hubby isn't around." Or the infamous day the imprint of his butt shows up on the back page of all the Gary Indiana papers. (or you combine small parts of pages 3, 5, 7, and 9 to get the butt as a puzzle.) Mike Royko columns "new" as Mike is channeled through a medium. None of this has happened yet but his other work is already there.
I love that guy in a friend not life partner kinda way.
Every time he is posted on youtube from a conference call I watch. Despite being insanely fun he is Superman intelligent. His insight is more than most people could bring in their entire life. His spirit is in everything he does. If you haven't heard him on the air or met him in person you haven't lived.
After he created the empire at Jacor, and they sold, he was thrown under the bus because they couldn't deal with a square peg for their round hole. Course Randy wasn't "square" by any means.
WKRC built a million dollar campaign around personality and he spent 30 minutes in the production studio ruining it by making WLW personality plus.
When he wanted to get your attention he usually found a way. looking at a grown mans naked a$$ usually gets your attention. other more personal non mentionable things because even I blush. Mark Sebastion at WKRQ apparently was unbreakable, but the night he whizzed in his coffee cup while he was on the air broke him up.
He created Bill Cunningham. Cunningham was good but Michaels made him great. I can't say that I ever have the desire to be on the air again because it just isn't the same. He had the ability to breathe life, and abundantly, into anything he was involved in.
I'd love to have HIM as a consultant on our non commercial stations. I would have to adapt the broadcasters liability policy no doubt.
I did one shift on WLW as well...not even Chuck wanted to work on Thanksgiving night of 1983. Thanks to Chuck for suggesting that Randy give me a call. Randy called from the transmitter that night as well, but the only magic he worked was slamming the positive peak meter on the modulation monitor--and I do mean slammed. Best I got was a call from Oklahoma, but that was still way cool to me.
Radio Fish Heads: You and Chief and Hawkins all worked together in the mid 80's (you were dating a newsperson named Nanette). Chief and Hawkins came down to help us whenever their Indy gigs didn't keep them too busy. Did you replace Larry Henry or did someone else do mornings before you came to town? I know Gary Moreland took the gig after you left for Memphis or Cincy.
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