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Former WFEC PD Dene Hallam passes

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joepa4ever

Ex-WFEC PD Dene Hallam passed away over the weekend. He was 56. From Harrisburg Dene jumped to Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, KC, NYC & Atlanta, where he was with the syndicated Moby Network at the time of his death.

Hallam programmed WFEC in 1977, taking it from AC to Country as the city's first fulltime Country signal. If I remember correctly, Dene had been a jock at CHR WAVZ(AM) in New Haven and a part-timer at New York's County WHN(AM) where he met Bill Figenshu, who hired Hallam to program the first of what became a multi-station Country consultancy to include WEEP/WDSY, Detroit's W4, Houston's KKBQ--and Hallam advanced to those programming positions through the late seventies and early eighties--along with stablemates Joel Raab, Alan Furst and others.

For those interested, there is more on the Atlanta board.
 
I thought Barry Mardit was the PD when it went country in '77..... I was there at that time before going over to WQVE-FM - QV-93 - in '78.... was Dene only there for a short time? in late 77 some of the air-staff was Tony Montgomery & Barry Mardit. And from there Barry Mardit went on to WEEP in Pittsburgh... I visited him there in '80 or '81. The days stuck in the basement of the Blackstone building off of the square in Harrisburg. My condolences to Dene's family.
 
Dene Hallam was the PD who flipped WFEC from it's longtime Top 40 format in January, 1977. On the air he was Keith McShane. WFEC hadn't done well since KBO went Top 40. Don't know how long he was there. WFEC wasn't country very long. By the summer of ' 78 WFEC was "Town and Country" mixing AC with country. Then in the fall of '78, WFEC was briefly Top 40 again before it became "Disco 14" in November of that year. The late Scott Robbins was PD then.
 
I remember when it was disco. I guess Barry followed Dene. I think I started at WFEC in the summer of '77. I was only there until around early '78. Then Mike Patrick hired me for QV-93. Then onto FM-97 April 1, 1980.
 
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