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fun trip back to 90s cleveland radio

Wow, you must have been reading my mind. I was also going to say that WMJI's weekend DJs were just as good as the daily DJs and better than a lot of stations daily DJs.
 
It was JR in The Morning that did the Company Challenge. JR Randall is Now in Pittsburgh at Star 100.7. He was teamed up with Madame LaRue, then Leeanne. Leeanne never walked out on the morning show. They had a side kick that walked out on them after he spazzed out on Leeanne. His name was Rooster Boy I think.

LaRue (Rosemary Vinci) passed away last spring.

There were many more players on Jammin in the early 90's when they were in Cleveland Heights. Mornings: JR, Madame LaRue, Jeff Thomas, Leeanne Sommers, Big Dave, Kathy Kang...Middays: Tank Sherman, Action Jackson. Afternoons: Doc Reno, Johnny D. Nights: Johnny D, Tim Virgin. Over Nights:Action Jackson, Timmy V (changed it to virgin when he went to nights), Jerry Mac, Shannon Steele.

There were a whole slew of people there who came and went after they moved in with ZAK like: Geronimo, Scott Free, Blazeman, Coco, Bubba, Joe Mama, Dee-Sta, Tony-Tony, Kutrie, Bobby Base, Chuck Booms, General and many more that escape me.
 
re: HHH's post about WMJI 1990s... John Webster was on the morning show til about '99. He was never the same after his surgery. Billy Bass didn't join til 1998. Gone by '99 due to budgets, putting Denny back on the air via voicetrack.

Other part-timers included;

Jim Shea, WKYC's Mark Nolan (Mr. Smooth), Mike Valentine, Vicky Sue Winston, Megan Clemson, Tony Havana (Dan Zullo), Sky Douglas, Bob Friend (original WHK Good Guy) and most notably John "Records" Landecker, after the demise of Power 108. He would fill in for Lanigan, and did a few weekends before heading for Chicago.

Dan Deely and Kim Scott did PM drive before Scott Howitt came aboard. Mike Ivers did middays before Ravenna.

News staff included Carmen Anglelo (still there), Adam Mendoza, Carolyn Carr, Webster and Kullick

Regarding "Capt" Ken Morgan. How great was he??!! Former AM drive at WDOK for 12 years. Gets blown out, G-Man picks him up. What a great talent (he was my instructor in broadcast school).

Gina St. John (another former Power 108 staffer), the first anchor for the then fledgling E! Network.

I was incredibly fortunate to have been able to walk the halls and work with those I grew up listening to. I learned a great deal working with three Rock 'n Roll Hall of Famers (Denny, Billy and Norm) as well as G-Man, Mitch Todd, Doc Thompson (one of Beck's main fill-ins these days) and others.

WMJI (and WMMS NexGen) was my radio Camelot.
 
Tried to update the previous post.. wouldn't let me.

I'd like to add that I'm presently with Rubber City Radio Akron... trying to bring some of the old WMJI... pun intended.. magic, to WAKR. As much as able. Imaging, if I do say so myself, is more uptempo and contemporary. Music is constantly being tweaked with help from my own library. OM/PD Chuck Collins, a M105/WMJI alum himself, is fantastic to work with. He's as passionate as I am (and that's quite passionate) when it comes to doing oldies correctly.
 
re: WZJM and Scott Free.

Scott has been OM for Backyard Broadcasting's Elmira NY cluster for about 4-5 years. He's also PD/Mornings for CHR WINK 106 www.wink106.com. Consistently #1. Scott did nights at WMVX/Cleveland for a few years, as well as swing/weekends at WDRQ/Detroit before heading for his first PD gig with WQSM/Fayetteville NC, then to WWCK/Flint MI before Elmira.
 
VODood, a ?. Are the WAKR jingles being used old ones from the past or just news ones made to sound like they're from the 60s/70s? If that's the case......they sound fantastic and someone got it right.
 
We have licensed old PAMS jingles. We approached PAMS CEO John Wolfert about usage...the fee was shockingly affordable. They are the original versions that aired in the 60s.

I've also got about 100 royalty free shouts that I am mixing in with the older jingles. I am chopping them up every which way to get the most use. Pairing with the station VO, mixing different ones (with AM you can't tell!) etc etc.
 
Hey Chuck C. and Chuck M. at WAKR: Maybe now you can start airing about 20 seconds of old audio from WAKR's past and use them as a "Flashback" for your anniversary and tie them in with a early jingle, or perhaps during a weekend, you can dust off a couple early airchecks and actually run them as they were back then...Congrats WAKR on all your years of serving Akron and the community...all the best!!!
 
We are airing pieces of former WAKR alums, ie Alan Freed, Scott Muni, Jack Paar, Charlie Greer and others. It's a long year... got to piece meal it out :D

Sports programming makes it tough to do what one can do on FM. We'll see what the rest of '10 has to offer.

More in store on 'AKR. Keep your dial locked.

Thanks for listening.
 
Those airchecks of the Top 40 stations in the 1980's and early 1990's were amazing!

Imagine if Power 108 came on the scene earlier to take on G98 and more of 92Q?
 
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