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Coyote J. (Jim Batton) Birmingham

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waky79

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Is Coyote still on the air in Birmingham? I worked with him in the eighties at 95 Rock- WAPI
and at WAAY Huntsville. The last time I talked to him he was doing weekends at the now belated X.
Lost touch with him.

Anyone know where he is?

Thanks,

Damien
 
i heard him 2 or 3 weekends back. had his "edge" show on (i think) 99.5 on saturday. it was a strange day cause i don't usually listen to radio at that hour.

he is still around and at my last hearing he was still in birmingham.
 
Thanks, duncanalausa. I appreciate you taking time to answer me.

Thanks :)
 
Is his Edge show still syndicated? I seem to recall it being on Tiger 95.9 in Auburn and one or two other stations around the state.

Does anyone remember him doing oldies at "Cool 102" back when it was on the Tuscasloosa tall tower and was such a blowtorch (for FM, anyway)? That was my introduction to him as a kid. Odd stuff.
 
Does anyone remember him doing oldies at "Cool 102"?



I remember visiting him then. I think that was 1987 right?


Damien
 
When did Z-102 diasappear? I remember it being a blow torch on the 2000 ft. TV tower......Mitch Craig did amazing imaging....."Broadcasting live from the second highest man-made structure in the free world..(it's a BIG stick) WZBQ-Jasper-Birmingham.....Zzzzzzzzzz Z-102" Loved listening to that station.
 
gritsandeggs said:
When did Z-102 diasappear?
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Z-102 flipped from Top 40 to oldies on 1/1/94 and changed its on-air handle to Cool 102.5, focusing primarily on the Tuscaloosa market. It changed formats again in August of the same year and became country station WOWC-Wow 102.5, targeting the Birmingham market. It only took them eight or nine years, and three more on air handles (Dixie 102.5, Country 102.5 and finally 102-5 the Bull) but they finally topped 'ZZK in the Arbitrons in '02 or '03.
 
waky79 said:
Does anyone remember him doing oldies at "Cool 102"?
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Heh, yeah I remember.

Back when I worked at what was Fox 95.7 in Tuscaloosa, Coyote did the Edge live on Sunday nights there. He hated our monitors so he brought his own in each week. He's a trip, and taught me more about good radio than he'll ever know.

Anybody else remember when he "killed himself" on I-95 Bham?
 
I remember first listening to Coyote J. Calhoun on WERC-960 in the '70s when they were a top-40 and competing with WSGN-610, also top-40. Where I lived, I was able to get WSGN daytime, but not at night. I could get WERC at night, but not during the day. Both stations did some really good radio.
 
Actually, Coyote "killed" himself when he was on 96-ERC. Still one of the funniest stunts he pulled. He was great, and the chemistry he had with nighttime newsman Rich Ryder was incredible.

Thirty years later, I still remember the chorus of "Beer, Beer, Beer" chiming in his show that night.

Coyote has a great recollection of the Birmingham Top 40 radio wars of the '70's on the website:
www.birminghamrewound.com

Check it out.
 
I stand corrected. Thanks for sharing that site, I haven't seen it before.
 
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