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Former 97 WFOX jocks.
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Last I heard, Darlene Evans was in South Florida.
But, that was years ago.
But, that was years ago.
Alan Dupriest was on WFOX? He never told ME that!
He was last morning host at Boomer 95.3 in Columbus, GA (Valley, AL) and production director at Archway (formerly McClure) Broadcasting, which is now PMB Broadcasting.
He was recently relieved of his Archway duties, but his production company lives on. His voice is as ubiquitous in Columbus as Don LaFontaine's STILL IS everywhere else.
(A loosely related aside: Boomer has evolved from Oldies to Classic Hits under the new management of Jimbo Martin and longtime PD Al Haynes).
He was last morning host at Boomer 95.3 in Columbus, GA (Valley, AL) and production director at Archway (formerly McClure) Broadcasting, which is now PMB Broadcasting.
He was recently relieved of his Archway duties, but his production company lives on. His voice is as ubiquitous in Columbus as Don LaFontaine's STILL IS everywhere else.
(A loosely related aside: Boomer has evolved from Oldies to Classic Hits under the new management of Jimbo Martin and longtime PD Al Haynes).
Alan DuPriest was on WFOX in 1982. I have an air check with him doing mornings @ FOX...I was living in Albany When 102.9 Kiss Fm hit the airwaves! That was a great format! And What a SIGNAL! Everyone I went to school with in Albany quit listening to 97 ROCK WJAD when KISS came on. I think I still have a Kiss bumper sticker That I got with a prize I won On KISS Fm.
You forgot about Mark McKean,he was last heard on Eagle,he must have been one of the ones canned on Feb 29. Mitcell will proably know where he's at now.
Tom Pierce is a great guy, and became one of my first good friends in Atlanta. I had just relocated from Buffalo NY; we were both part of the airstaff for the launch after Shamrock bought the station and did the move-in in 1984. I don't remember for sure, but I think Tom was a holdover from the pre-move-in airstaff.
I believe the last time I visited Tom might have been early-90s. He said he'd been diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, which pretty much took him out of the business. I think he was working in the insurance industry at that time, and seemed very surprised I dropped by. His wife had become a court stenographer years earlier...if you're gonna be in radio, it's always nice to have a wife with a solid job!
I'd been thinking about Tom lately. Time to surprise him again!
I believe the last time I visited Tom might have been early-90s. He said he'd been diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, which pretty much took him out of the business. I think he was working in the insurance industry at that time, and seemed very surprised I dropped by. His wife had become a court stenographer years earlier...if you're gonna be in radio, it's always nice to have a wife with a solid job!
I'd been thinking about Tom lately. Time to surprise him again!
The funniest Alan DuPriest story happened his first week at WFOX. He held up a WFOX music chart and asked, "Why are there two different numbers on the left side of the chart? Shouldn't they be the same?" Nobody said anything, and then everyone laughed thinking he was using 'morning humor'. He wasn't, and I explained the music chart to him. Alan's a great radio guy and he was never afraid to put himself out there to entertain.
Alison works for the state of Georgia, or did, and lives in Atlanta. Sage, who did news, is still around Atlanta. Miles Stone was working with the Dawson County school system the last I heard. Others who made noise on the big old funky FOX were Sam Church who now resides in Greenville, SC, Bill Murray lives in Union County, GA and his voiceovers are global, Hank Dole (aka Jackson Walker) is PD of 107.7 The Lake in Buffalo. I don't know where Bobby Long, Kris Travis, Sebastian and Greg James are. Chief Engineer Randy Mullinax is now Senior VP of Engineering for Clear Channel's Central Region. As for me, I'm VP of Jacobs Media in Gainesville (WDUN, MAJIC 1029, WGGA, AccessNorthGa.com), and I do afternoons on MAJIC 1029.
97 F-O-X was monstrous - we had a 40-45 share 12+ the 4 years I was there. Great days!
Jay Andrews
Alison works for the state of Georgia, or did, and lives in Atlanta. Sage, who did news, is still around Atlanta. Miles Stone was working with the Dawson County school system the last I heard. Others who made noise on the big old funky FOX were Sam Church who now resides in Greenville, SC, Bill Murray lives in Union County, GA and his voiceovers are global, Hank Dole (aka Jackson Walker) is PD of 107.7 The Lake in Buffalo. I don't know where Bobby Long, Kris Travis, Sebastian and Greg James are. Chief Engineer Randy Mullinax is now Senior VP of Engineering for Clear Channel's Central Region. As for me, I'm VP of Jacobs Media in Gainesville (WDUN, MAJIC 1029, WGGA, AccessNorthGa.com), and I do afternoons on MAJIC 1029.
97 F-O-X was monstrous - we had a 40-45 share 12+ the 4 years I was there. Great days!
Jay Andrews
Sebastian ran the Susquehanna research effort here for several years, and then consulted for a while. Last I heard, he was working in the actuarial division of an Atlanta insurance company. Steve Westbrook is working for Turner/CNN.
Studio was in a house in G'ville. They kept the required 'Main Strudio' there for several years until the Rule changed. Don't know the power or tower, I got here as the new one was being built and put Y on it.
Tom Pierce worked at The Bear for a year or two back in the early 2000's. He did sales - wasn't on the air. His voice was still kind of raspy although I'm thinking he said he had surgery to correct the problem. I'm not sure where he went after that.
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FOX was always 100k, as was Jacob's WWID.
The FOX tower was south of town in a junkyard, main studio in a small house across from Brenau College. The newsroom was literally in a closet and one of the turntables was ever so slightly slow on 33 1/3 but fine at 45rpm so you had to think ahead (not everyone always did).
It was a cool set-up and legendary, although from a technical standpoint a far cry from what WWID had across town (where I arrived from).
The Wide 107 tower was adjacent to the studios (still standing) and had a superior signal, no question and better processing.
Great to see you pipe in Jay, I need to call you one of these days. You guys do a great job with Majic.
The FOX tower was south of town in a junkyard, main studio in a small house across from Brenau College. The newsroom was literally in a closet and one of the turntables was ever so slightly slow on 33 1/3 but fine at 45rpm so you had to think ahead (not everyone always did).
It was a cool set-up and legendary, although from a technical standpoint a far cry from what WWID had across town (where I arrived from).
The Wide 107 tower was adjacent to the studios (still standing) and had a superior signal, no question and better processing.
Great to see you pipe in Jay, I need to call you one of these days. You guys do a great job with Majic.
Never heard of any of them and I've been around for 690 years!
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Rogue
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As stated, both were 100k.
The FOX tower (seems it was a 200 footer) was in a hole on the south side of town (I think it still stands in that junkyard, but it's been years since I've been by there) fed by the typical for the time dedicated phone line. The audio was fair for that period (EQ'd both pre and post phone line), but not outstanding (kudo's to Randy Mullinax who made chicken salad with what he had to work with). Nonetheless, FOX was the first major music FM for the region and had established a very strong audience foothold and loyalty by the time WWID went after them.
WWID (originally named for Jacob's "Wide" Travel booking agency) was on what I think was a 150 footer adjacent to the still currently used (WDUN/WMJE) studios. I know for a fact this tower still stands and was/is very well maintained. It was a direct on site audio/xmtr feed and the stick essentially sits on the highest elevation inside the city. The signal kicked (it really was "wide", lol), and the audio flat blew FOX away... Paul Williams was the engineer. Still, the "heritage" that FOX built so quickly would rule the roost ratings wise every time, no matter.
By the way, there was never truly a FOX studio in the South Milledge building that housed WRFC, by the way, although Garry Glenn did do double duty morning sports from there for both stations, phoning into FOX. Hugh Christian was smart on one hand to secondary market WFOX to Athens as the signal was viable there and he had sales personnel on the streets, but he was in many ways penny foolish as with the cheaply leased and far less than optimal tower site (and not even providing AC in the studios across from Brenau, etc., etc., etc., among other things).
It's been a long time, but the memory has held up...
The FOX tower (seems it was a 200 footer) was in a hole on the south side of town (I think it still stands in that junkyard, but it's been years since I've been by there) fed by the typical for the time dedicated phone line. The audio was fair for that period (EQ'd both pre and post phone line), but not outstanding (kudo's to Randy Mullinax who made chicken salad with what he had to work with). Nonetheless, FOX was the first major music FM for the region and had established a very strong audience foothold and loyalty by the time WWID went after them.
WWID (originally named for Jacob's "Wide" Travel booking agency) was on what I think was a 150 footer adjacent to the still currently used (WDUN/WMJE) studios. I know for a fact this tower still stands and was/is very well maintained. It was a direct on site audio/xmtr feed and the stick essentially sits on the highest elevation inside the city. The signal kicked (it really was "wide", lol), and the audio flat blew FOX away... Paul Williams was the engineer. Still, the "heritage" that FOX built so quickly would rule the roost ratings wise every time, no matter.
By the way, there was never truly a FOX studio in the South Milledge building that housed WRFC, by the way, although Garry Glenn did do double duty morning sports from there for both stations, phoning into FOX. Hugh Christian was smart on one hand to secondary market WFOX to Athens as the signal was viable there and he had sales personnel on the streets, but he was in many ways penny foolish as with the cheaply leased and far less than optimal tower site (and not even providing AC in the studios across from Brenau, etc., etc., etc., among other things).
It's been a long time, but the memory has held up...
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