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Cumulus strikes again!

... well, they weren't running commercials until they got back up to full strength. Maybe a week of news and info with the only commercials being the ones from insurance companies assuring us that they are "on our side" and that we were "in good hands", etc...

.... on the other hand, Clear Channel didn't have any news operations to get back on the air in Pensacola, so I don't remember their timeline to get back up and all the other stations with news were one off local operations that took much longer to get back in the game. Marty (from WXBM) joins the WEAR TV crew as the Santa Rosa Emergency Operations reporter before, during, and after storms, so I also can't remember what Pamal was up to.

Anyway, I am of the impression with the Cumulus buyout of Pamal that Pensacola is ripe for the picking if someone can get their ducks in a row. If only there were one or two FM frequencies available for ADX to buy, I think they could storm all over Pensacola and take every audience they wanted, except Urban. Even a cluster trying to rimshot Pensacola with 104.7, 105.7 and 95.7 along with a well placed translator or two for 98.7 could do it... Bluewater/Montgomery style.
It would have been awesome if ADX had the cash to enter into the Dickie's 97.5 bidding war... not a cool as WZEW getting their hands on 97.5, but much better than big brother Cumulus.
 
I know it's been a while since this thread was started, but I was in Pensacola on business last week and I happened to flip on WCOA 100.7. During Sean Hannity's show, I heard Stacey Noles who used to be on WXBM doing the news. He sounded great. My guess is even though he was let go from his long time gig at WXBM, Cumulus found another job for him. It always makes me happy when I hear good talent back on the radio. As for Dave Collins, I haven't heard him anywhere so maybe he moved out of the area?

I had a feeling one or both of them would be back. Although I have to admit it was different hearing Stacey do the news after hearing him for so many years on WXBM. I'm sure the listeners appreciate having someone local talking about the local news. I heard Jim Sanborn on in the morning too, I remember him when he used to work at TK with Marty White in the 80's!

I haven't been able to tell, but has anyone else been let go from Cumulus recently?
 
NWFLRadio10yrs said:
I know it's been a while since this thread was started, but I was in Pensacola on business last week and I happened to flip on WCOA. During Sean Hannity's show, I heard Stacey Noles who used to be on WXBM doing the news. He sounded great. My guess is even though he was let go from his long time gig at WXBM, Cumulus found another job for him. It always makes me happy when I hear good talent back on the radio. As for Dave Collins, I haven't heard him anywhere so maybe he moved out of the area?

I had a feeling one or both of them would be back. Although I have to admit it was different hearing Stacey do the news after hearing him for so many years on WXBM. I'm sure the listeners appreciate having someone local talking about the local news. I heard Jim Sanborn on in the morning too, I remember him when he used to work at TK with Marty White in the 80's!

I haven't been able to tell, but has anyone else been let go from Cumulus recently?
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I actually meant WCOA AM. (I don't think the FM airs Sean Hannity.)
 
Right, I looked that up after I made the post and couldn't edit it. I was in a cab heading to my hotel from the airport when I heard it. Between talking to the cab driver and hearing Sean Hannity, all I remember hearing was Stacey Noles saying WCOA news. I realize now it was the AM station the driver had on, not the FM.

It was nice being in Pensacola. I could definitely tell some changes in WXBM (especially their top of the hour legal ID). The girl they have on in the morning sounds a lot like Linda in my opinion. The bad thing about working for Cumulus is just because you have a job today doesn't mean you will have one tomorrow. I got out of radio several years ago, but if I was to get back into it I wouldn't work for Cumulus.
 
I wasn't really paying attention until I read your post yesterday but now that I am I've been hearing Marty from XBM doing commercials on 100.7.

It's been a long time. Was Sanborn half of the TK morning team when they had the pink flamingos and the Eee Eee TK TK thing going? The same morning show that got their butts kicked by Lex and Terry on Rock 106?
 
If my memory serves me correctly, I think Marty and Jim were on TK's morning show in the late 80's / early 90's. It seems like Marty went to WXBM shortly after that and teamed up with Linda Lawrence, so I don't think him and Jim were ever up against Lex and Terry. It seems like Jim was on Cool 107, and then he went over to WMEZ. I worked part time at WMEZ in the late 90's and remember him working there on the weekends then. I think he stayed at WMEZ for a long time, eventually going full time in the afternoon. I do remember a morning show called Ron and Ron on TK, but this was around 1997-98. I quit keeping up with them after that so I don't know how long that lasted, but I do remember Rock 106 signing on around 2000 or 2001.

Forgive me, I'm getting older and trying to remember what I can :)
 
You're right..Jim and Marty also teamed up in the early 90's on Q100.7,
then Jim went to KOOL 107.3, Marty to WOWW107 or later WXBM, before
Luke McCoy who did mornings at both FM's then WCOA. Back then WXBM had Robert Michael Green and Linda (both came from Defuniak Spgs). And can't forget CJ Whitmore who did afternoons at WXBM, then WMEZ.
I can go back to WBSR days and Jim Golden, Dan Patrick or Jack Hixon.
 
I think McCoy and the White Boy was WOWW 107's morning show in the 1980's. Don't remember McCoy on WJLQ.

WOWW died in 1993 to go OneZeroSeven so I don't think Marty served time there before going to WXBM. WXBM was #1 by 1990.
 
You're right!..McCoy was on WOWW107 and white boy, was that Chris Hampton? McCoy did not work at Q100 but their sister AM, WCOA. He
was at WBSR in the 70's before WOWW107.
 
stonecold49 said:
You're right!..McCoy was on WOWW107 and white boy, was that Chris Hampton? McCoy did not work at Q100 but their sister AM, WCOA. He
was at WBSR in the 70's before WOWW107.
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I remember some bizarre things but my memories of WOWW 107's programming end at the name of the morning show, "McCoy and the White Boy."
Also, I was too hip to listen to music on AM radio in the 1970's and 1980's, so I know nothing whatsoever about those stations prior to 1990 except for a few old sets of call letters... Mainly WEAR-AM which started on 610? and then moved to 1230? for 24 hour service.

I was quite content with the FM lineup of WMEZ, WAVH, WABB, WKRG, WJLQ, WTKX, and WOWW.
 
And now it's part of the NASH brand: NASH-FM 102.7( strangely pronounced "one-oh-two-seven" without the point)
 
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