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HUCKABEE STARTED ON DFW RADIO?

J

Justabubba

One of the old Mike Huckabee bios says the Republican presidential candidate got his start in 1975 at a DFW radio station before he was hired to flack for James Robison.

But the bio never says which station, or whether it was a Christian station. He would have been right out of the seminary in FW ... anybody remember?
 
I'd bet it was Jimmy Swaggart's new startup KWJS-94.9, but I'm just guessing.

Surfing Google, one article (a recent one in the Startlegram) says that he worked at a radio station in 1974 in Arkadelphia, before he graduated Ouachita and came to Fort Worth. Perhaps some confusion or incongruency in the various bios, or maybe he worked at stations both here AND there?

So who's the most famous local graduate of Ouachita University in Arkadelphia, AR? Why, it's Cliff Harris, former #43 for the Dallas Cowboys.

Off subject, but reading some of his bio info on Google...I'm a bit scared of this guy. I'm afraid he'd come knocking at my door, wanting all my "Satanic" albums so he could burn them. :eek:
 
BTW, James Robison's weekly evangelical show was filmed at the WFAA-TV studios. A May 28, 1977 article in the Dallas Morning News told how Channel 8 had canceled Robison's show after he made off-color comments about Hugh Hefner, which violated FCC rules about attacking anyone personally on the air (whatever happened to THAT law?!?) Robison's media assistant Mike Huckabee was quoted as saying that Robison had been warned about the FCC rule. But of course, by the grace of God, Robison made nice with Channel 8 and issued an apology and got his show back.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
BTW, James Robison's weekly evangelical show was filmed at the WFAA-TV studios. A May 28, 1977 article in the Dallas Morning News told how Channel 8 had canceled Robison's show after he made off-color comments about Hugh Hefner, which violated FCC rules about attacking anyone personally on the air (whatever happened to THAT law?!?) Robison's media assistant Mike Huckabee was quoted as saying that Robison had been warned about the FCC rule. But of course, by the grace of God, Robison made nice with Channel 8 and issued an apology and got his show back.
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Does Rosie O'Donnell know about that law ? ? ?
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Off subject, but reading some of his bio info on Google...I'm a bit scared of this guy. I'm afraid he'd come knocking at my door, wanting all my "Satanic" albums so he could burn them. :eek:
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And one of the other candidates - Mitt Romney - is the guy who started Bain Capital, the company who gave you Cumulus Media Partners AND the Clear Channel buyout
 
MikeShannon914 said:
BTW, James Robison's weekly evangelical show was filmed at the WFAA-TV studios. A May 28, 1977 article in the Dallas Morning News told how Channel 8 had canceled Robison's show after he made off-color comments about Hugh Hefner, which violated FCC rules about attacking anyone personally on the air (whatever happened to THAT law?!?) Robison's media assistant Mike Huckabee was quoted as saying that Robison had been warned about the FCC rule. But of course, by the grace of God, Robison made nice with Channel 8 and issued an apology and got his show back.
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Wasnt James Robison the guy who always had the weekly thought spots on WFAA during the 80's, where he gave us a chestnut and invited us to church? Also, I believe the law in question got tossed out around the same time of People Vs. Larry Flynt
 
James Robison -- a self-described "dark-visaged, angry preacher" for whose TV ministry Huckabee became communications director -- raged against gays. In one piece of footage, Huckabee's boss bellows that he is "sick and tired, hearing about all the radicals and perverts and the liberals and the leftists and the Communists coming out of the closet. It's time for God's people to come out of the closet, out of the churches and change America!"

As press flack, Huckabee had to handle the fallout in 1979 when Robison was kicked off the Dallas station WFAA for citing a National Enquirer report that gays seduce and kill children.
 
Now I know who this guy is..he's a crook along the lines of Benny Hill...er..Hinn
 
Huckabee started in radio at KXAR in Hope, Arkansas at the age of fourteen. He worked his way through college at KVRC/KDEL in Arkadelphia, AR as the nighttime personality. He did a lot of everything back in the day in the radio business including news and play-by-play. Later he would start a television station as part of his ministry in Texarkana. He is an old broadcaster through and through, and has been a great friend over the years.
 
Slambang said:
Now I know who this guy is..he's a crook along the lines of Benny Hill...er..Hinn
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Well, wait. I am typically a good judge of character, with the minor exception of a couple of my ex-girlfriends (restraining orders anyone), and I can say this comment is waaaaaaay out of line. Copeland, shady individual. Hinn, flat out got i$$ue$. Robison, may come across as angry, but he is far from legality concerns.

Just because he claims a love for Jesus doesn't make him a crook, just a lil' more scrutinized than the rest of America. Keep your "IMO"s to a minimum when throwing out tags on people. It's not that radio-friendly. ;D
 
True veritas, im weary of all the teevee preachers. I also figured out who I was thinking of, thats Dr. James Plites. We need more of his type and alot less of the Robisons out there...
 
Slambang said:
True veritas, im weary of all the teevee preachers. I also figured out who I was thinking of, thats Dr. James Plites. We need more of his type and alot less of the Robisons out there...
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I'll give you that. Most of the people to roll out of First Baptist have been salt of the earth kind of guys. But it goes back to purpose. Many of these preachers get on broadcasting because it's a way to expand and enlarge their proverbial "net". They have a message to get out, and God bless them for working so hard to do so. It's the Tiltons, Falwells and Bakkers that ruin their years of diligence and credibility with one fatal spreading of the plate for their own motives.
 
Dont forget Benny Hill, Creflo Dollar Jr and the grandaddy of em all, The Late Dr. Gene Scott
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
It's the Tiltons, Falwells and Bakkers that ruin their years of diligence and credibility with one fatal spreading of the plate for their own motives.
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I think of Larry Lea (Church on the Rock in Rockwall) and W. V. Grant (Soul's Harbor) in that same sentence. BTW, Grant and his fake faith healing is alive and well at some church off I-30 and Jim Miller in East Dallas (inside the old Toyota Town dealership.) Do we need an encore of ABC's "Primetime Live" from 1991 to remind people about these scam artists?

I remember kindly old Dr. James Pleitz from his inspirational commercials on Channel 4 in the 1980s. He'd usually end them with, "because.............the BIBLE.......tells me so." (caesuras intentional.) He was pastor of the Park Cities Baptist Church.
 
Slambang said:
Dont forget Benny Hill, Creflo Dollar Jr and the grandaddy of em all, The Late Dr. Gene Scott
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But you have to admit Dr Scott was up front about it. He said his airplanes needed fuel and his horses had to eat. He admitted pulling his TV show off the local air because he wasn't getting enough donations. ;D
 
Well, I guess we "clunkers" can only take on the world's problems one at a time. Thank God we have you around to handle the rest of them! :D

And we thought your only purpose in the world was to lament the absence of a true Album Rock station. You're proving yourself to be multi-dimensional! Bravo! Fight the good fight! :)
 
MikeShannon914 said:
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
It's the Tiltons, Falwells and Bakkers that ruin their years of diligence and credibility with one fatal spreading of the plate for their own motives.
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I think of Larry Lea (Church on the Rock in Rockwall) and W. V. Grant (Soul's Harbor) in that same sentence. BTW, Grant and his fake faith healing is alive and well at some church off I-30 and Jim Miller in East Dallas (inside the old Toyota Town dealership.) Do we need an encore of ABC's "Primetime Live" from 1991 to remind people about these scam artists?

I remember kindly old Dr. James Pleitz from his inspirational commercials on Channel 4 in the 1980s. He'd usually end them with, "because.............the BIBLE.......tells me so." (caesuras intentional.) He was pastor of the Park Cities Baptist Church.
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James Pleitz is a gem of a man. After he left DFW TV, this market longed for someone that carried that paternal presence. They found that in O.S. Hawkins from FBC in Dallas.

Oh, Mike, while you are trolling the highways and byways, check out Mansfield. Larry Lea has a church off of 287. P.T. Barnum may have been a more eloquent orator than we thought. Ya think? ;D
 
TexasGopher said:
Slambang said:
Dont forget Benny Hill, Creflo Dollar Jr and the grandaddy of em all, The Late Dr. Gene Scott
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But you have to admit Dr Scott was up front about it. He said his airplanes needed fuel and his horses had to eat. He admitted pulling his TV show off the local air because he wasn't getting enough donations. ;D
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I love those late night Gene Scott rants about how he needed 10k before he'd start a bible lesson or give you a pass to his sunday morning service. Then, he started running the Sunday morning services with his hot wife.....
 
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