Favorite Jobs?

[Nostracorvus]

I have read this board for a few years and sometimes chimed in and most of what I remember having been posted by most is negativity toward a station, or an owner, or a certain company, well let's look past that.

If there's a post like this I'm sorry, but I wanna ask what are/were your favorite places that you've worked?

Mine was Definitely The Mississippi Radio Group in Tupelo..I don't think I'll ever have as much fun as we did on Z 98.5, but now being at KLSM in Vicksburg I can honestly say this is the happiest place I've ever worked. VERY good people I work with and a great company. I'm pretty blessed.

Burks

 

[jboyd]

Nostra: A person with a good attitude and work ethic ALWAYS finds a happier place...you make your
happiness a responsibility...and it happens! Trust me...JBI

 

[Henry McClurg]

My favorite place was at WJXN in the 1960s. It was there, on my first 4-hour shift ever on the radio, that I came to work only to find that the owner had earlier that day fired the whole staff. Everyone.
Receptionist, managment, disc jockeys. (Just like an episode of WKRP.) She didn't fire me because she didn't know I going to work there. She then brought in a whole new staff (the Harris brothers) and the station switch from rock n roll to country. I ended up working there several years. It was fun working with the Harris brothers.

 

[mikl73]

There was an aspect of almost every job I had in radio that I loved.

That makes it tough to say which job really was my favorite.

I learned something new from each experience.

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Director of Engineering for Jefferson-Pilot's San Diego cluster 1985-2005. I didn't get everything I wanted, but I always got anything I needed. They gave me a chance when I was really under qualified and let me grow and learn my way into it with total support from corporate. Jocking at ZZQ in '74-'75 certainly didn't suck, but I needed to get out of MS.

 

[pobryan]

My favorite job would have to be B-97 in New Orleans in '84 & '85. It was such a classy operation at that time. Cajun Ken Cooper (went to LA), Bryan Pierce (went to Boston), Boomer (went to Houston), Fast Eddy (went to Dallas).. Catfish (went to Birmingham... where I ended up after the B) what a line up! It's not anything close to the same station today. Of course they are not paying the salaries they were back then either.

 

[robgrayson]

My two favorite jobs in radio... 62JDX and WHBQ. Stepping into JDX in 1975 was nothing short of culture shock, in a good way.

 

[SkinnyJohnny]

I'd have to say 62/JDX. It was a learning experience for me.

 

[rfburns]

I'd have to say 62/JDX. It was a learning experience for me.

Same here. Even though my on-air time was short-lived... I found out pretty quick that I was much better at engineering!

RFB

 

[tzbarber]

Really learned a lot running Sunday morning tapes on WKOR in Starkville.



Okay,maybe not. Following John Weeks nights on JDX were pretty darn good.

 

[SkinnyJohnny]

Tim, you're too nice. I always enjoyed the cross talks with you. Fun times!

 

[beachguy3b]

Working at JDX was great, but so was the next gig I had, KSLQ in St. Louis.

The most enjoyable moment I had at JDX was either playing the album version of Shaft for my last song (and dedicating it to Bob Burton) or when I told Bob Burton, a few weeks after he said I wasn't ready for middays in Jackson, that I was leaving to do middays for Bartell's KSLQ.

"They say that cat Shaft is a bad mutha..."

 

[Ken38654]

WKZB FM DREW, MS. Galtellie Broadcasting Was The Most Awesome.
I Was Like A Dog-- I Showed Up One Day At The Door & Never Left.