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Irv Schwartz

He fired me in 1972 for giving his junk cart machine a "not so gentle" nudge when it wouldn't start.
 
If this is the same Irv Schwartz who started WCVG...his number is still in the book and I just called him to get his voice on the answering machine..

As far as I know he is still brokering radio deals...but I will get back to you about it when he calls back.
 
Holy Cow! What did you guys talk about and how did he sound? I remember the first time I met him. He saw me in the WCLU studio and said, "What are YOU doing here?" The last time I saw him was the day Plessinger took over. Boy did he look happy.
 
He sounded fine...I joked with him that the news of his death had been greatly exaggerated...he laughed.

He is doing radio brokering these days...putting deals together.

We talked a little bit about WCVG/WCLU...It was nice to meet someone who was from the school of independednt owner at a time when that was successful and had good things to say about AM radio ;)

Anyways...I am sure he'd enjoy hearing from you.
 
He used to have his son Richard, work at the station from time-to-time. He was very quiet and not at all out going. (Maybe shy?). He is now an attorney, concentrating in personal bankruptcy, certainly not a field requiring loads of courtroom skills. There's a picture of Richard on his website and he looks like a younger Irv with more hair! Check it out! schwartzbankruptcy.com
 
I did hear a story once that Rick came down and did a morning fill-in on WCLU. He sat there and played records for four hours, but never bothered to turn the transmitter on.
 
That's funny, Jeff!!! Never heard that one! But once I was driving around by Value City. Irv and Rick were just leaving the station in one of Irv's station wagons. Irv was driving and Rick was wearing a dark jacket with a white turtle neck underneith. The girl I was with exclaimed, "Look, there's Irv Schwartz. Who's that priest he's with?"

If you remember the physical set up at the station with the train running behind it on the left...

One summer, in the late afternoon during an intense thunderstorm the guy on the air called me all excited saying a train had jumped the tracks and hit the back of the building. "The rain is coming in thru the hole, what should I do?" When I got there, what had happened was the wind blew out some wood supporting the window air conditioner in the transmitter room. The a/c unit tilted backwards thus taking out the window!
 
Jeff_Davis said:
I did hear a story once that Rick came down and did a morning fill-in on WCLU. He sat there and played records for four hours, but never bothered to turn the transmitter on.
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Hell-- I'm overqualified to be a dj then!
 
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