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yellowfoamcans...excellent point. brings up a question, does Texas personality translate in other cities? Here is what I have so far (admittedly not a long list):

Kidd...of course.
Ashley Banfield
Kurt Menefee...both Kurt AND Ashley have Ticket connections.

Do bands count?
 
People who worked in Texas or Texans. Bob Schiefer, Dan Rather, Vern Lundquist, Scott Pelle (He is on 60 minutes) Though he is still in town and does great play-by-play Chuck Cooperstein
 
Well, if we are going for impact on the 'biz' or, calling attention to it we can't forget: Geroge Carlin, Dan Ingram, Sonny Melendrez, Chuck Blore, Charlie Van Dyke, Rod Roddy, Kent Burkhart, Lee Abrams, Bill Young, Wolfman Jack and Norm Alden.

-and that's just off the top of my head.
 
I was right there on Carlin. Genius.

Verne is a legend in Texas and hasn't done that bad for himself nationally. Schieffer is iconic in national news. Others? The great Chuck Morgan, Chapman's pipes with national commercials, same with Brad Sham. J.R. and Doc (for those of you who have worked with those classic radio voices...), though we don't claim him, Imus; Betty Nguyen (little hottie from KTVT) isn't doing too bad at CNN, same with Fredricka Whitfield (also from KTVT); Dan Rather and his Dallas roots...

and so on. DFW ain't that bad of a place to use as a springboard. Although some haven't used it quite as effectively as others, I sure am envious. :eek:
 
a pretty solid list, so do we still think that the Ticket personalities could not translate in other markets?
 
I guess it's the "forest-for-the-trees" syndrome, but how about U of Texas product Walter Cronkite? I don't suppose we think of her as a "broadcaster," but Carol Burnett.

Re. the Ticket personalities, hard to imagine "The Hardline" and some of the others anywhere but Dallas. The Musers, especially Gordon Keith, yes. Norm Hitzges, yes. But the greatness of The Ticket is that it's so indigenious to Dallas.
 
How do you count Lee Abrams as a Texan? I know he consulted stations here (Q-102) in the 70's, but I don't think he ever lived here. Am I wrong?
 
Lee Abrams did, indeed, live in Dallas for a number of years when he was working at ABC....but, he is from Atlanta and only lived here for a short time. He doesn't really fit the criteria.
 
The second post in this thread referred to Texans or people who worked in Texas. That is where I took the cue. Ref: "Radioman921"

Lee Abrams. Z-Rock/SMN-Dallas Q102, KFMX & more in the Lone Star State.
 
Former radio announcers: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, George Jones,Jim Reeves,Gary Owen ( KTSA)
 
I'll throw one out, techincally he was an import we exported back to the UK...

John Peel
 
so do we still think that the Ticket personalities could not translate in other markets?
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I would never say never. But the Musers, and the Hardline are extremely "Dallas." The kind of Dallas that I wouldn't expect other markets to necessarily appreciate.

As someone else pointed out, Norm and Gordon could succeed anywhere. But Norm's not from Texas.

This is a neat thread. My original thought was more about people from Texas who take their culture out of the state successfully. Bob Schiefer and Walter Cronkite strike me as people who have done so. Many others on this list are definitely success stories, but a lot of them are in disguise. I doubt anyone would peg them as Texans.

Jim Lehrer is up there too. But don't you think people are shocked when they hear he is from Texas for the first time? See my point?
 
Blair Garner. He's originally from Canyon about 15 miles south of Amarillo. I believe he spent some time on the air in Amarillo before heading to Austin, then Dallas, then KIIS LA and a few other stations out there.

Today he hosts the Premiere Radio Networks show After Midnite. It's on hundreds of country stations in all size markets.
 
You know, Yellow, although we strayed a little (as we tend to joyously do in here), I don't believe we were too far off. Schieffer and Cronkite were proud of their heritage and took it national. As did many of the aforementioned. Rather was all about his boot wearing, horse S... talking at CBS in the early years. He even digressed back to that, not too shortly he uttered those famous words, "Courage." (Um, thanks Dan.)

Chuck Morgan? Hard to tell he isn't from Texas and when he traversed to Detroit (albeit temporarily for him to come back to senses), he tried to educate fans on "southern vernacular."

The rest? Well, at least we know they're from Texas, and in this state, what else matters. Sing it Toby, "I'll put a boot in their @$$". Yee-haw. ;D
 
Just visit www.texasradiohalloffame.com and you'll find many pages of audio and photo shots as well as names of Texas media legends who stayed in Texas, drifted through and into other states.

This year, they have Dan Ingram and Charlie Jones as inductees. Ingram went to WABC 770 and WCBS-FM in New York City. Charlie Jones was on WFAA radio and TV, then went to work at ABC and NBC sports.
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Chuck Morgan? Hard to tell he isn't from Texas and when he traversed to Detroit (albeit temporarily for him to come back to senses), he tried to educate fans on "southern vernacular."
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Detroit? He went to Kansas City for a year and then came back, but can't recall him going to Detroit. I think he was a DJ in Nashville before coming to the Rangers.
 
Detroit. Kansas City. They both suck.

Yeah, you are right. I am wrong. Buy a t-shirt ;D

In other words, thanks for the heads up.
 
DroopyDave111 said:
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Chuck Morgan? Hard to tell he isn't from Texas and when he traversed to Detroit (albeit temporarily for him to come back to senses), he tried to educate fans on "southern vernacular."
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Detroit? He went to Kansas City for a year and then came back, but can't recall him going to Detroit. I think he was a DJ in Nashville before coming to the Rangers.
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Chuck Morgan took Ralph Emery's night slot on Clear Channel 650, WSM, Nashville, Tennessee, the 50,000 watt broadcast service of the National Life and Accident Insurance Co.

Ralph got moved to middays and was on just before Pat Sajak. It was something to hear Emery, who was associated with country music for so long, playing Abba, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs and other hot AC acts on WSM, which relegated country to only the night hours. Chuck Morgan was a fine country jock there and I think he may have done some emcee duties for the Opry.
 
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