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hopeland36

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I remember the last show ever on Hot....the problem is I just cant remember who the DJ's were...I know they "blew up" the station at midnight, and it was one of those moments that made me want to be in radio. Any help on who the night guy(s) were when it blew up and what they might be doing now?
 
If I remember correctly, the lineup in Dec92 when the station converted to the live-assist automation system as Q106 was:

Bobby Quinn - Mornings
Jon St Jon - PD/Middays
Metro Mike - Afternoons
Erik B - Night
Eric Michaels - Overnights
Scott Wilson (me) - Weekends
Tracey Tyler "Nightfox" - Weekends
Dave Shaffer - Weekends

St Jon called me on a Friday afternoon and left a message on my answering machine to call him ASAP...by the time I called about 2 hours later, he had exited the building. I talked to the sleezy GM who told me about the improvements made by switching to Q106.

The entire situation was pretty funny, HGF(owner) was SO cheap and non-interested in the radio business. Imagine that - a company who'se primary business was owning McDonalds wasn't very good at owning/operating radio stations!!! They had their engineer build this homemade, spit&chewing gum automation system for the AM. It broke every hour. It consisted of 2 reel-to-reels, a triple-deck cart machine and 2 household lamp timers that inserted the Legal ID and spots. Then, they brought in this vintage 1974ish automation system and said it was for the AM station. A week later, Hot was dead and Q-106 was in live-assist automation mode.

I'm not sure where any of the others from '92 are these days. I know HOT was a springboard for: Dave McKay (WPST), Valentine (Dallas), Mark Mckensies and Mark Feather (wherever he is). I heard Craig Rhodes on WITF a few years ago.
 
baxterspots said:
I'm not sure where any of the others from '92 are these days. I know HOT was a springboard for: Dave McKay (WPST), Valentine (Dallas), Mark Mckensies and Mark Feather (wherever he is). I heard Craig Rhodes on WITF a few years ago.
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Craig works for RadioPA Networks, but I'm sure you have heard his voice on both WITF-FM and WITF-TV. We're all in the same building.
 
baxterspots said:
If I remember correctly, the lineup in Dec92 when the station converted to the live-assist automation system as Q106 was:

Bobby Quinn - Mornings
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Saw Bobby at Citadel Harrisburg in 1999, he hosted 106.7's morning show
with Brad Flick and Earl.

Jon St Jon - PD/Middays
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Worked with JSJ at Z-107 in '92 or '93... must've been '93. He was there
very briefly, maybe one month. He's posted here at least once.

I worked for Q-106 for a few months in '93 (busy year), here's the studio;
http://one.fsphost.com/Q106/

Then, they brought in this vintage 1974ish automation system and said it was for the AM station. A week later, Hot was dead and Q-106 was in live-assist automation mode.
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IIRC, at this time, Scott McFadden (PD) hosted a live morning show, then the
station was automated for rest of the day. It was all live when new PD, Bill C.,
hired Rocky Spino, an ex-FM97 dude, and I around 8/'93.

Good memories of Trisha M., Johnny Storm, Rocky Spino, and Scott McFadden.

The large automation system (Max) was used for the AM. We [usually] recorded
a new Wx at the beginning of each shift and changed the music reels, sometimes
after the alarm beeped in the FM studio.
 
long time lurker....now deciding to enter the fray...

the good old days?

i helped sign hot on the air....or did i help mark feather do that?

perspective is everything...

last i heard he gained weight and lost hair...in denver...

but that was a long time ago..

rich lewis...was the g.m.

hear he's a big shot in n.e. pa.

sort of glad i got out of music radio....

although i get the itch every once in a while..

i prefer to remember the q-106 days....

sjs...if you are reading this...happy birthday buddy...

i'm looking forward to contributing...

m.m.
 
baxterspots said:
If I remember correctly, the lineup in Dec92 when the station converted to the live-assist automation system as Q106 was:

Bobby Quinn - Mornings
Jon St Jon - PD/Middays
Metro Mike - Afternoons
Erik B - Night
Eric Michaels - Overnights
Scott Wilson (me) - Weekends
Tracey Tyler "Nightfox" - Weekends
Dave Shaffer - Weekends

St Jon called me on a Friday afternoon and left a message on my answering machine to call him ASAP...by the time I called about 2 hours later, he had exited the building. I talked to the sleezy GM who told me about the improvements made by switching to Q106.

The entire situation was pretty funny, HGF(owner) was SO cheap and non-interested in the radio business. Imagine that - a company who'se primary business was owning McDonalds wasn't very good at owning/operating radio stations!!! They had their engineer build this homemade, spit&chewing gum automation system for the AM. It broke every hour. It consisted of 2 reel-to-reels, a triple-deck cart machine and 2 household lamp timers that inserted the Legal ID and spots. Then, they brought in this vintage 1974ish automation system and said it was for the AM station. A week later, Hot was dead and Q-106 was in live-assist automation mode.

I'm not sure where any of the others from '92 are these days. I know HOT was a springboard for: Dave McKay (WPST), Valentine (Dallas), Mark Mckensies and Mark Feather (wherever he is). I heard Craig Rhodes on WITF a few years ago.
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THis is hilarious I worked for Fulmer in Allentown. He was a Boss Hogg Character of radio owners and knew nothing at all about the business. The funniest thing was when their helicopter crashed. Fortunately no one was injured.
 
Quote from: PARADIOVET on Yesterday at 02:21:27 pm
sjs...if you are reading this...happy birthday buddy...


steel rocker: If you meant "JSJ", yes happy belated b-day!


oops.....

yes...jsj....

a typing mistake on a message board....

who would have thought?

....thanks for the vigliance...steel rocker
 
I worked briefly at Hot as a part-timer, then Mark Feather let me do 11P-2A after Metro Mike (does anyone know where he is?). I remember the "Power Pig" car...an old Cadillac painted pink....I was only there a few months before I got a job offer from 98YCR to do mornings (which lasted about 2 weeks before I got moved to afternoons) and went on to spend 3 years there. I remember one morning I was doing an intro on YCR and came on the air after playing a dance tune and intro'd it by saying "HOT 105.7 that was......uh......." and then I just had to shut up and play the next tune. :) Got a few calls (mostly from friends of mine) asking me if I was getting that old that I couldn't remember where the hell I worked at :)

I worked with JSJ at FM-97 back in the 80's....got up on stage to sing with his band a few times during those days also....he had one of the purest damn voices I had ever heard on the radio.....and his production was fan-damn-tastic!! Happy b-day JSJ...last I heard he was still playing in a band in the Lancaster area, although I can't remember the name of it.
 
thanks for the welcome....agingXer...


<<I think that Cadillac was named the "Party Pig.">>

fulmer was a classic car buff.......he owned many beauties...

and if my memory serves me right...

that included the "pig"...

too bad fulmer declared bankruptcy and had to sell them...

that wasn't the worst of the fulmer down fall....

his wife judy and a friend were leaving a bar after an election..

judy got in her car and hit her friend as she walked along the side of the road..

then judy took off...

she eventually pled guilty to some charges but managed to avoid jail time...(i think)

i believe fulmer's key flaw was confusing being rich with being smart...
 
FULMER EMPLOYED SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN RADIO
HISTORY....CHARACTERS LIKE...SAY RICK MUSSELMAN AND DAN WILKINS...
THESE GUYS WERE.....AND LEST WE FORGET THE UNCLE BOB CHARACTER
THAT I THINK DID MORNINGS ON THE Q FOR A WHILE....
 
<<AND LEST WE FORGET THE UNCLE BOB CHARACTER>>>>

i knew bob was really into theatre of the mind...

so during one commute to the station...it didn't bother me when i heard him talking with a woman in the studio on the air....and he said they were doing the show in the nude...

i chuckled...

until i arrived to find several station employees...who couldn't wait to tell me the morning show was really being done in the nude..

i went up to the studios...

and sure enough.....

neither u-b or the woman had a stitch of clothes on..

true story....
 
grandoleopry said:
FULMER EMPLOYED SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN RADIO
HISTORY....CHARACTERS LIKE...SAY RICK MUSSELMAN AND DAN WILKINS...
THESE GUYS WERE.....AND LEST WE FORGET THE UNCLE BOB CHARACTER
THAT I THINK DID MORNINGS ON THE Q FOR A WHILE....

mussleman is now a vp for nassau broadcasting and what ever became of mickey haggerty...he had to have been one of the worst jocks in allentown that i believe fulmer made group pd when he had his small cluster of stations
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karlyle said:
I worked briefly at Hot as a part-timer, then Mark Feather let me do 11P-2A after Metro Mike (does anyone know where he is?). I remember the "Power Pig" car...an old Cadillac painted pink....I was only there a few months before I got a job offer from 98YCR to do mornings (which lasted about 2 weeks before I got moved to afternoons) and went on to spend 3 years there. I remember one morning I was doing an intro on YCR and came on the air after playing a dance tune and intro'd it by saying "HOT 105.7 that was......uh......." and then I just had to shut up and play the next tune. :) Got a few calls (mostly from friends of mine) asking me if I was getting that old that I couldn't remember where the hell I worked at :)

I worked with JSJ at FM-97 back in the 80's....got up on stage to sing with his band a few times during those days also....he had one of the purest damn voices I had ever heard on the radio.....and his production was fan-damn-tastic!! Happy b-day JSJ...last I heard he was still playing in a band in the Lancaster area, although I can't remember the name of it.
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MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ANSWER MY QUESTION. I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE JOHN ST. JOHN THAT WORKED AT WLAN FM 97 IN THE 80'S. THERE SEEMS TO BE THREE OF THEM. ONE WORKED IN LANCASTER, BUT IS NOW DOING VOICEOVERS, CHECK SITE AT
http://www.jsjprod.com/index.html

AND ANOTHER WHO WORKED IN LANCASTER, HARRISBURG AT WKBO, AND WIFI IN PHILLY, CHECK SITE AT
http://www.airliftproductions.com/site/650760/page/231918/site

BOTH OF THESE NO LONGER RESIDE IN LANCASTER, SO WERE THERE THREE OF THEM, SINCE ONE IS STILL IN A BAND IN LANCASTER??? HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP?
 
<<MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ANSWER MY QUESTION. I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE JOHN ST. JOHN THAT WORKED AT WLAN FM 97 IN THE 80'S. >>>


radio chuck....

neither of the links that you posted is the JSJ that i know who worked at FM97 in the early 80's and then Q-106 and HOT 105.7....

that JSJ is no longer in radio ...

has played in a Lancaster band for most of the last 20-years...

and last time i talked to him...works for lancaster county as a computer systems administrator...

hope that helps....
 
I can confirm the "JSJ" you're asking about still lives in the Lancaster area, out of radio, and in a band, and Paradiovet is correct, neither of those two people are him.
 
Radio Chuck said:
karlyle said:
I worked briefly at Hot as a part-timer, then Mark Feather let me do 11P-2A after Metro Mike (does anyone know where he is?). I remember the "Power Pig" car...an old Cadillac painted pink....I was only there a few months before I got a job offer from 98YCR to do mornings (which lasted about 2 weeks before I got moved to afternoons) and went on to spend 3 years there. I remember one morning I was doing an intro on YCR and came on the air after playing a dance tune and intro'd it by saying "HOT 105.7 that was......uh......." and then I just had to shut up and play the next tune. :) Got a few calls (mostly from friends of mine) asking me if I was getting that old that I couldn't remember where the hell I worked at :)

I worked with JSJ at FM-97 back in the 80's....got up on stage to sing with his band a few times during those days also....he had one of the purest damn voices I had ever heard on the radio.....and his production was fan-damn-tastic!! Happy b-day JSJ...last I heard he was still playing in a band in the Lancaster area, although I can't remember the name of it.
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MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ANSWER MY QUESTION. I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE JOHN ST. JOHN THAT WORKED AT WLAN FM 97 IN THE 80'S. THERE SEEMS TO BE THREE OF THEM. ONE WORKED IN LANCASTER, BUT IS NOW DOING VOICEOVERS, CHECK SITE AT
http://www.jsjprod.com/index.html

AND ANOTHER WHO WORKED IN LANCASTER, HARRISBURG AT WKBO, AND WIFI IN PHILLY, CHECK SITE AT
http://www.airliftproductions.com/site/650760/page/231918/

listened to his demo on this site. his pipes are mediocre. i am convinced anyone can open up a v/o factory in this day and age!!!!

BOTH OF THESE NO LONGER RESIDE IN LANCASTER, SO WERE THERE THREE OF THEM, SINCE ONE IS STILL IN A BAND IN LANCASTER??? HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP?
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