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Hello Houston from Harley Colt

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harleycolt

I just logged on to tell you of my new show in Taos, New Mexico but first my condolences to everyone over our loss of Mike O. I never met him that I know of but always read and respected his posts. Only the good die young... see ya in heaven Mike.
While I lived here I had to post anonymously but now that I have moved on I am out in the open. Please check out my website www.harleycolt.com and listen to my new station ktao.com. My new show is streamed on the station website. I play all my own music (like a real dj!) I named the show Country Roots Alternative and last saturday was my first. It airs from 8am to noon mountain time. I'm riding my motorcycle and learning to ski. I will always love my friends in Houston. Congrats and kudos to Dave E.Crockett on the internet station. Our future is on the web.
 
Congrats on the new gig.. and for getting to play some of your own music.. wow.

Question.. did you ever work in Nacogdoches Lufkin Market?

Kevinc
 
Nevermind... I answered my own question on your webiste.. I think our paths may have crossed in that market years ago...
 
Yes! My first station was KTAM in Lufkin. I also worked at KEEE and KTBC in Nacogdoches while attending Stephen F. Austin. Late 70s. My air name was Shawn Casey! Hope no one else remembers those years. I could tell you some funny stories though...So where were you?
 
I was out your way not long ago. I wish I had known you were in NM, it would have been nice to have a local with some iideas on good places to eat.
 
I worked at KEEE/KJCS beginning in 1978... My brother Ron was at KEEE before that as the chief engineer as well as on air some. I don't know that we ever officially met, but I know my friend Mike Hudman talked about you alot and when he and I both left Nac about the same time, (around '86) I remember he said he thought you had moved as well.

Kevin Charles (Minatrea)
 
certainly I remember you and Ron. I went to Dallas to a Hicks brothers station right after that (before they were cc). After that I went to Beaumont and then Houston. My son has revamped my website and starting tomorrow we will begin archiving all the saturday shows. I hope you can listen! Harley
 
It's always interesting to me to see all the former Lufkin/Nacogdoches radio people on here. Harley, I didn't know that you started in Lufkin. I see that you worked at KTBC,,,the old 92K! Were you there with "The Sha-na-na", Randy Shannon? I worked at my first station with him,,KAQU 101.9. I also worked at KYKS,,programmed KTBQ/KSFA,,and then programmed KJCS for about a year before coming down here to work with another Nac. native, Jeff Garrison. Small world. Glad to hear that you have gotten yourself a gig. I always enjoyed listening to you on the air here. Good luck! Steve Rixx
 
You can ask Dave E. Crockett about Jeff's 32 share he had in Lufkin! I'm sure I will have more listeners to my show online non air. KTAO is streaming audio and I've already heard from people in New York and Ohio after just two shows! Plus I will have the shows archived on harleycolt.com. I'm excited again about the future of broadcasting. We just have to be flexible and creative and think out of the radio box. People still want personalities and they still want to be entertained. Someone told me a long time ago that the reason people tune in to a certain show is to change their mood. They are looking for a catalyst to move the way they feel. Jukeboxes can't do that unless they are playing music that hasn't been sanitized, homogenized and commercialized. But I blog on. I'll save that ranting for my website. Being able to play what I want and say what I want is so foreign to me now I feel like a babygirl taking my first steps. I feel reborn.
 
Jeff Garrison and I worked together in Nac at KJCS.. in fact I was the one who hired him (with the help of then owner Robert Hill... no one did anything without his approval.) The small world keeps getting smaller.

Kevin
 
When I left 92K in Nacogdoches to go to KTAM Robert Hill told me that I would never make it in a major market like Bryan/College Station. He told me when I failed there that he would hire me back. Nice.
 
harleycolt said:
certainly I remember you and Ron. I went to Dallas to a Hicks brothers station right after that (before they were cc). After that I went to Beaumont and then Houston. My son has revamped my website and starting tomorrow we will begin archiving all the saturday shows. I hope you can listen! Harley
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Another Hicks brothers alumni! (I worked for their dad, John and the other brother Jay as well as Steve!).....I take it you were at 106.1 in DFW..I take it Steve had started GulfStar when you were in Beaumont?
 
Hello to The Colonel, Houston's greatest jock (since I left) LOL. And in reply to CW... Yes, the CC monstrosity was well on it's way back then. Who knew I'd be fired and hired from CC six times! Brutal business. Oh well, they can't touch me up on this mountain. Hope your career has gone well lately. I had alot of good friends in Texas but I couldn't take anymore voice tracking or corporate abuse. I urge everyone to have a dream, follow it and be happy. Life is short. Taos, New Mexico is so beautiful, I think I might have already died and gone to heaven. But If I did, Mike O. would be here and I haven't run into him yet.
 
harleycolt said:
Hello to The Colonel, Houston's greatest jock (since I left) LOL. And in reply to CW... Yes, the CC monstrosity was well on it's way back then. Who knew I'd be fired and hired from CC six times! Brutal business. Oh well, they can't touch me up on this mountain. Hope your career has gone well lately. I had alot of good friends in Texas but I couldn't take anymore voice tracking or corporate abuse. I urge everyone to have a dream, follow it and be happy. Life is short. Taos, New Mexico is so beautiful, I think I might have already died and gone to heaven. But If I did, Mike O. would be here and I haven't run into him yet.
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SIX times?? Wow, I only quit CC twice and got fired once (How the hell did you get back in with them.....and WHY? ;)
Corporate abuse is rampant everywhere now! My current employment is trying to take me off overtime and make me exempt even though the job hasnt changed in 23+ years (well for some of the guys in the company..I've only been here for 3)...Guess its time to call the Dept of Labor (Hi! Im from your government and Im here to help you.......riiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!!!)
Enjoy the mountain air!
 
Glad to read you're still painting...good for you that the view finally got better! Isn't it awesome?

Shhh~
 
Hey Harley,

I lost touch with you a couple of years ago. I saw you in the halls at CC, you were at KLOL and I was at MIX. Glad to hear you are so happy. I'm in LA now...voice overs. Have fun in NM and take care.


Larry Davis
 
Hello Larry, Hello Joe! Wow this is like a good class reunion. Us radio people are determined to get some satisfaction. I loved hearing from you guys on this thread. The jocks are truly the good guys in this business.
 
It's really nice to know you're doing well out in NM. I always did like listening to you when you were Deejaying here in Houston. You had a fresh up-beat style that was easy to listen to. And it didn't hurt that you played great music. Keep on truckin'.

I just discovered this website today (3-22) and I'm bowled over by how many Lufkin-Nacogdoches refugees there are -- and were -- in this town. It feels like I walked into a reunion, reading all this stuff from you and Kevin Charles (Minatrea) who I remember as one of the best DJ's I ever worked with.

I also worked at KEEE-KJCS in Nac for not quite five years back in the 80s, till Hill and Rucker sold it to that bunch from Bryan in 1987. The new owners took one look at how much money Robert Hill was paying me, and decided they needed to cut costs. I should have expected they would do that. Three months later I was back in Houston. Best thing that ever happened to me though. I love east Texas but it's almost impossible to make a living there in our business. I still plan to retire to east Texas in a few years.
 
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