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JAD in the early 90's

Which JAD are you talking about? Rock 103, or the original 97 Rock?
 
If he is asking about Joey Deee, then it is the 97.3 WJAD. The last I heard from Joey he was in San Antonio doing nights, but that was in 1995. He disappeared after that.
 
I never met Joey. I met Skip Eliot when he was the program director for 97.3 WJAD. Then I worked with him at Cool 103. After that he took off for Lexington. I was at WEGC (Cool 103) when the boss decided to revive the WJAD calls. I helped them launch Rock 103 and then I bailed.

I do remember listening to 97.3 WJAD. My favorite thing was when the jocks said "here's an info update" which always sounded like "here's a nympho update". Ok, we were jealous competitors! We had to find SOMETHING to pick on them about!
 
JohnAllan said:
I never met Joey. I met Skip Eliot when he was the program director for 97.3 WJAD. Then I worked with him at Cool 103. After that he took off for Lexington. I was at WEGC (Cool 103) when the boss decided to revive the WJAD calls. I helped them launch Rock 103 and then I bailed.

I do remember listening to 97.3 WJAD. My favorite thing was when the jocks said "here's an info update" which always sounded like "here's a nympho update". Ok, we were jealous competitors! We had to find SOMETHING to pick on them about!
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As hard as it is to believe, during its heyday on 97.3 during the mid-1980's, WJAD was known as the "HOT FM", blasting its powerful 100,000 watts in the so-called "Tri-Land" of Southwest Georgia, the Florida Panhandle, and Southeast Alabama via its 1,200-foot "Super Tower". These days, though, 97.3 has become the "Land of Format Changes", which nicknames ranging from "Magic", to "Power", to "Hit Radio WMGR", to "Real Rock", et. al.

By the way, does anybody remember a former WJAD-97.3 jock named Sterling Scott that was on the air during the mid to late 1980's?
 
I actually met Sterling through Skip, just before Sterling took off for New York, I believe. He wasn't there long.
 
I was the PD at WJAD from 1983 to early 1989. We pulled the 97 Rock handle because it didn't fit the image of the station anymore. We were formerly a rogue station, not on the SuperTower yet.
I remember when we moved the transmitter from Climax, GA to just south of Colquitt, GA. When I say we, I mean WE! Charlie Rowe, the GM, Norm Tanner, Robert Ingram, me and some other workers who were fans, loaded the xmitter onto a flatbed truck with a crane on it and drove it to Colquitt.
When the lights of that tower flashed, while driving to Albany at night, you could see the Flash of white from North of Bainbridge to West of Newton!
About Sterling Scott, after he left the station, i heard him doing hurricane coverage for NBC News one morning, driving to do a morning show in Lexington. Don't remember the year (maybe mid 90's).
Me, I'm still in Lexington. Now Production Director for LM Communications. I also do the noon to 6pm shift on our group's Soft Rock Station, 96.9 KISS FM. I also work for Host Communications here too, doing Scoreboard shows for their Oklahoma State football and basketball radio networks. I have done the same thing for Florida State, Notre Dame, Texas, San Jose State, Purdue and Morehead State.

Skip
 
Yeah Skip, things were not the same after you left. You hired me to do weekends in 1987 and eventually overnights after Bob left. I remember learning the fun part of radio with you and Tony Clark, JJ, Norm, Jim Shepherd and even Don Fox. I heard you doing a halftime report during an FSU game a couple of years back. Your voice is still unmistakable.

Now that I am in engineering, I have been to the old Colquitt site several times. The old FM 20K is the back up transmitter now. I think they have changed out all the strobes with LED beacons now, but I am not sure.
 
I moved to this area, after JAD's heyday. Were the studios at the WMGR transmitter site (1609 E. Shotwell) or elsewhere? Also, where and how tall was the Climax tower?
 
The WMGR/WJAD studios were there 1609 E Shotwell St. across from the Harveys and next to the Kmart shopping plaza. They actually built that plaza around 1990. The WMGR towers were directly behind the studios. I ran the wire from the studio to the towers nailing it to trees and across the road.

They had already moved to the Colquitt tower by the time I got there, but there used to be a 500 foot tower in Climax that held some two-way antennas
 
So, who picked out the 12-bay JSCP antenna for 97.3? I thought WREK in Atlanta had the only one of those! Everyone has always been telling us to "get off that 12-bay" but WMGR or whatever it is now has excellent coverage with it.
 
I am not sure who picked out the antenna, but it is still pumping over 20 years later. That combined with the heighth of the antenna and the flat terrain makes the signal boom.
 
Didn't Norm Tanner do a stint in Panama City? What ever happened to Don Fox?
 
ssnake said:
So, who picked out the 12-bay JSCP antenna for 97.3? I thought WREK in Atlanta had the only one of those! Everyone has always been telling us to "get off that 12-bay" but WMGR or whatever it is now has excellent coverage with it.
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The current call letters for 97.3 are WRAK-FM.
 
Yes, Norm Tanner left Bainbridge and help start Island 106 in PC. I lost track of him after that, but there was a rumor that he went to Dallas for an ABC satellite show. I believe it was "Zrock" or something like it.
I know that Don and his father owned a grocery store in the Thomasville area, and I heard his voice for years doing commercials throughout the area, but I do not know if he went to another stations full time or not.
 
Wasn't there a gal named Sharon Green who worked up in that area. I think she ended up going down to Tallahassee. What happened to her?
 
I don't remember Sharon, but Tammy Osborn (now Webb) did come to Tallahassee from 'JAD.
She's done mornings on Star 98 for several years now, along with John Dawson.

Also, Chuck Bear is in Apalachicola on Coast 105.
 
Sharon went to Tally as well. She worked for B103 for a few years and then moved to Jacksonville. Last I heard she was around the South GA area again.
 
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