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DJ's Invade The Peabody

KarsonWithaK

KarsonWithaK

This is my first time back in Memphis since shipping up to Boston for a new gig. There are a lot of radio people in town this weekend for the premiere of a new TV show on TNT called Memphis Beat.

Maybe we'll run into one another at the Italian Festival tomorrow or drinking a Big Ass Beer on Beale! ;D
 
I had a nice young lady who works at Power 106/LA come by the Sirius/XM studio at Graceland this morning. I'm on again tomorrow; maybe more?

DE
 
Even worse, this Fall's CW show called Hellcats about hot cheerleaders at a fictional college in Memphis is being filmed in Vancouver.

I don't know how you can make Vancouver look like Memphis.
 
Money and tax breaks can make Vancouver look like anything, especially Memphis.
 
Reading that comment made me flash back to a moment years ago... It was a late Friday afternoon, when Rock 103 was on Beale Street, and I was sitting in an office on the second floor manually reconciling a log (now THAT sounds dirty! I was making sure all the spots had cart numbers and such). Downstairs at Alfred's, I could hear the din of an TGIFM100 party, hosted by David Page. All I could think of was how much more fun it sounded like he was having than was I at the time. Such a glamorous field of work. As the old story goes, "Why don't you quit?" "What, and give up show business?"
 
The title of this thread is a misnomer to me. DJ's invading the Peabody indeed! When Hoyt Wooten opened his Wooten Radio Electric Company station in the Peabody, lo those many decades ago, the likes of Buck "Stuffy" Turner, Lewis Fosse, Mac Todd, Paul Dorman, Fred Cook, Ev Flagg, John Powell, Hank Lockhart, Tys Terway, Dean Pollard, Joe Oliver, Jack Jackson, Leonard Blakely, Roger Cooper, Paul Barnett, Harv Stegman, Levi Frasier, Jerry Tate, Claudia Barr and on ad infiniitum held the fort against the Visigoths as ANNOUNCERS and NEWSMEN/WOMEN. There were no DJ's to be found in the building then. In fact, Rock 103 hit the air for the first time at midnight from their new studios at 1385 Lamar as Joe Hargraves pulled the last plug in the basement of the Peabody and walked past the blinking phone bank with all those listeners wondering what the hell was a FOGHAT and what happened to the Gatlin Brothers and WZXR. There were no DJ's in the Peabody. But I digress...
 
courier37027 said:
David Page, wow. There's a name from way back. Who were Ron Olson's morning show partners over the years? McKeever, Page, ... ?
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Kelly Cruise, Conley, Karen, Earl Farrell...
 
I realize some of our posters weren't even born when they moved Ron to mornings. I recall at the time wondering why they would do that, because Ron was such a great stand-alone afternoon drive jock; but the wisdom of the decision has been proven out over the decades. Ron has made them (and himself, I would assume) some decent coin over the course of time.
 
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