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Jaan McCoy gone from KAAM
- Thread starter tgibs
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Cary
My gosh so much ANGER..... For Years you were ready and waiting ( With knee pads in hand ) to do anything for Jaan & Hue (620 or 770 version ) how many times did they promote your Big Band or the Special KAAM Vacations to Alaska did you get to go on ..........
Jaan pooped on me as well as well but I always knew that I was crawling into Loins Den . And I Think when that happens you can get Bit in the Butt.
I Never in a thousand years thought I would defend Dumb & Dumber ( John & Hue) But Ironically I have to give them Credit this will be there second endever in owning a Radio Station ..... They both may be as insensitive to former friends and fellow employees ...... hey what comes around goes around........................
My gosh so much ANGER..... For Years you were ready and waiting ( With knee pads in hand ) to do anything for Jaan & Hue (620 or 770 version ) how many times did they promote your Big Band or the Special KAAM Vacations to Alaska did you get to go on ..........
Jaan pooped on me as well as well but I always knew that I was crawling into Loins Den . And I Think when that happens you can get Bit in the Butt.
I Never in a thousand years thought I would defend Dumb & Dumber ( John & Hue) But Ironically I have to give them Credit this will be there second endever in owning a Radio Station ..... They both may be as insensitive to former friends and fellow employees ...... hey what comes around goes around........................
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rr
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Jack Sellmeyer was the person that realized that the 620 could be moved from Wichita Falls. He knew the owner, and after looking at the engineering issues involved, he decided to put together the group that invested in the project. The general partnership was Jack, Hue, and Jaan, with Jack holding controlling interest. The general partnership held 51% of the company.
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crbigband
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No, I'm not bitter or angry. Jaan was a good friend (or so I thought) for a very long time. He changed - I didn't - and I called him on it when he turned against me. This led directly to my ouster at KAAM in '09. For whatever reason or reasons, he was not the same person I knew in the 620 days. I can't explain it and at this point couldn't care less.
And let's set the record straight here: Hue Beavers never had anything to do with promoting anything I did. The truth was that he himself was ousted as General Manager of 620 by McCoy and Sellmeyer in July 1997, a month before my band's first date; The promotion of which was all Jaan. And the station benefited as much or more than I did from all those promotions.
As far as cruises were concerned: After the first one, I never wanted to do another. Away from 770 throughout a good part of the last decade I did several with the band and hated them all. Something always went wrong, from band equipment being lost, damaged or winding up at the wrong port of departure. The money was good on some of them, but often times I struggled to make a profit.
When I was hired the last time at 770, Crawford informed me he was launching Silver Travel and all air personalities would be required to lead trips. So there was no alternative - if I wanted the job. Going back there was a mistake but I didn't know that then.
While I bear no ill-will to either Crawford or McCoy, I can say there is no amount of money or other inducement that could persuade me to work for either again.
I was just astonished that McCoy would ever leave KAAM on his own accord. It just goes to show you - wait around long enough and life surprises you everytime.
And let's set the record straight here: Hue Beavers never had anything to do with promoting anything I did. The truth was that he himself was ousted as General Manager of 620 by McCoy and Sellmeyer in July 1997, a month before my band's first date; The promotion of which was all Jaan. And the station benefited as much or more than I did from all those promotions.
As far as cruises were concerned: After the first one, I never wanted to do another. Away from 770 throughout a good part of the last decade I did several with the band and hated them all. Something always went wrong, from band equipment being lost, damaged or winding up at the wrong port of departure. The money was good on some of them, but often times I struggled to make a profit.
When I was hired the last time at 770, Crawford informed me he was launching Silver Travel and all air personalities would be required to lead trips. So there was no alternative - if I wanted the job. Going back there was a mistake but I didn't know that then.
While I bear no ill-will to either Crawford or McCoy, I can say there is no amount of money or other inducement that could persuade me to work for either again.
I was just astonished that McCoy would ever leave KAAM on his own accord. It just goes to show you - wait around long enough and life surprises you everytime.
crbigband said:
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dfaulkner
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pintobuddy said:
So Jack Davis is gone too ?
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charles123
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dfaulkner said:
Jack's still there I think
Yes, Jack Davis is still there I am told until they change to "Colin Blow" 770.
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fleurdelis
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..rr stands corrected...Sellmeyer, Beavers, McCoy together had controlling interest in the 620 project...no one of the founders had control....Sellmeyer was afforded plenty of sweat equity for helping with engineering...the rest of us came in at various levels for love of keeping a great station going...and Mr McCoy is to be congratulated for a warm, personable morning show...20 years doing mornings in dallas fort worth is no small accomplishment by anyones standards....and now..1400's coming in loud and clear here at Lakewood/White Rock...I'll be listening!
I beleive Jaan was even at KZPS for a time
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rr
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Sellmeyer had the idea to move the station. He retained 51 % of the General partnership. If you understand how limited partnerships work, you will understand how this was set up. Jack Sellmeyer put the deal together, and Hue and Jaan together did not have as much stock in the deal as Jack. All of the 29 investors together did hot have more control of the partnership than Jack Sellmeyer did. When the limited partners tried to force the sale to a Much Lower bidder, Jack vetoed the sale and arranged the sale to Disney.
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fleurdelis
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rr you obviously weren't there...the three principals together...Beavers, Sellmeyer and McCoy together had 51 percent and control of the operation so they would have a chance to get the station off the ground which they did...and successfully at that. Sellmeyer never had controlling vote but needed the votes of the two other principals. He originally did not want to sell...but relented when he knew he would be out voted by his two other partners and our group of investors at large as the Disney offer was too good to pass up.
I have been quite vocal in my opinion that KAAM 770 never even approached its potential as far as the music part of radio goes and was as perplexed as anyone as entertaining talent was summarily dumped as time went by. The weekday afternoon infomercials – well . . .
As a listener to KAAM since July of 1992, I want to thank Jann “McCoy” and partners for bringing the three stations to the air. KAAM was, for me, a welcome change of taste when I would visit Dallas. I doubt that working at KAAM 770 was much more bearable for him that it was for anyone else that found themselves unnecessarily constrained by station management including those constraints of his own making. If the purchase of 1440 allows him to finish out his radio career on his own terms, then I would say that is as good of a way to spell success as any.
The next time I’m in Dallas, I’ll see if the 1440 signal is readable at the house and see what they’re up to.
Regardless, I wish them the best.
As a listener to KAAM since July of 1992, I want to thank Jann “McCoy” and partners for bringing the three stations to the air. KAAM was, for me, a welcome change of taste when I would visit Dallas. I doubt that working at KAAM 770 was much more bearable for him that it was for anyone else that found themselves unnecessarily constrained by station management including those constraints of his own making. If the purchase of 1440 allows him to finish out his radio career on his own terms, then I would say that is as good of a way to spell success as any.
The next time I’m in Dallas, I’ll see if the 1440 signal is readable at the house and see what they’re up to.
Regardless, I wish them the best.
woodyrr said:
Gee - I go away from this board for awhile and come back only to discover I missed good old Horace and Myrtle being in the spotlight again.
You know, when Mrytle was a little girl, she would spend part of every summer visiting her aunt who lived near Caddo Mills which is right down the road from Greenville. Recently Myrtle and Horace inherited the place from her cousin Minnie whose best friend's daughter used to be a receptionist for KGVL some years ago. Myrtle has been spending a lot of time there keeping Horace busy fixing the place up.
That's why they haven't been tuning in to KAAM very much for the past few months. And when they recently returned to their Metroplex house for a few days and tuned in so that they could listen to the Breakfast Club over their morning bowl of Tony The Tiger Flakes and glass of prune juice, Myrtle was absolutely heartbroken when she discovered that Jaan McCoy was no longer on the air. She got mad when the lady who answered the phone at KAAM refused to give her McCoy's home phone number. She even made Horace type up a rambling, angry letter to Crawford Jr. Horace was actually afraid that he might have to spring for a trip to Branson, Mo. just to cheer her up.
Horace and Myrtle are now back at cousin Minnie's old place in Caddo Mills. Myrtle will be thrilled beyond words when she learns that Jaan McCoy has landed just down the road at KGVL. In fact, you can pretty much count on Myrtle making poor Horace box up a jar of http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=163472.msg1416607;topicseen#msg1416607"]Myrtle's prize winning homemade corn-pickle relish[/url] and having it mailed to McCoy at the KGVL studios as a sort of housewarming gift. (What Myrtle does not know is that the jar of corn-pickle relish that she sent to McCoy after she met him on the KAAM cruise has yet to be opened and is now owned by Crawford Jr. as a result of it being left behind when McCoy cleaned out his office. It will probably end up in the KAAM break room where perhaps one of the part time staffers might give it a try if he becomes bored enough or hungry enough. But you can rest assured that next time Myrtle and Jaan McCoy run into each other - and Myrtle will see to it that they do run into each other - McCoy will, no doubt, dutifully and politely say that it was the best corn-pickle relish he has ever tasted. And Myrtle will, no doubt, gush about it for weeks to her envious friends at her weekly Bingo game and secretly wonder what might have been had she never met Horace and had Jaan never met Rebecca.)
I remember that in the mid 1980s KGVL-AM actually had a big band/standards format. I cannot remember if it was associated with either the Music of Your Life or Stardust networks. My dim recollection is that it was, at least part of the time, locally programmed. And my memory is fuzzy if, when it had that format, if it at all over lapped with KAAM having that format back when it was on 1310.
I do remember Hue Beavers being an on-air personality at 1310 and, I am pretty sure, 620 as well. I always thought he was one of their better on-air personalities. I wasn't aware that he was the engineer.
McCoy and Beavers might actually do well in a smaller market. One of the thing I always liked about KAAM back when I listened is that it always had a friendly small-town sort of feel to it - and I say that in a positive way rather than in a negative way.
I do remember Hue Beavers being an on-air personality at 1310 and, I am pretty sure, 620 as well. I always thought he was one of their better on-air personalities. I wasn't aware that he was the engineer.
McCoy and Beavers might actually do well in a smaller market. One of the thing I always liked about KAAM back when I listened is that it always had a friendly small-town sort of feel to it - and I say that in a positive way rather than in a negative way.
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