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Kevin Williams will be doing a new sports show on WOBM AM and WADB starting March 17 in the Afternoon, This from All Access.
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Yes! I say KUDOS to Sportscaster of the Year Kevin Williams! A local sports show is long overdue on the Shore and he's the man to do it. I've followed him for quite some time. In addition, I have heard him on Dr Phil's program on The Hawk. He knows everything about high school sports right down to who played left outside linebacker on the 1983 Brick Dragons
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I hear his new show willl be daily 3p to 6p,All sports in PM drive?
IF that is accurate I think it's a wise move as he knows more local sports than just about anyone in Ocean County. Break a leg Kevin..it'll be big.
In some towns, local sports is IT. When I lived in a Dallas suburb called Rowlett, the high school football stadium was a big as some COLLEGE joints. Not kidding. It's a HUGE deal..they even have SIGNS on team members LAWNS to tout their kid and team. EVEN the cheerleaders get in the action..bad choice of words perhaps, but it is MONSTEROUS there in North Texas.
It ain't THAT big here, but I think it's a good move. How many times can you hear The Ray Charles Singers doing "Love Me With ALL Your Heart" anyway on OBM-AM?
I've been a fan of Kevin's since his days in the Ocean County Mall broadcasting on JRZ. I used to talk with him all the time back then. But when I programmed the OBM's from '81-'84, I wasn't in the "clique" there.. But that's ok..the station sounded pretty good most of the time..and I was TOLD to fix it by ownership. And I did. The AM didn't sound bad either if I may put my legendary alleged "HUBRIS" into the mix. But it's all water under the Cedar Crick.
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In some towns, local sports is IT. When I lived in a Dallas suburb called Rowlett, the high school football stadium was a big as some COLLEGE joints. Not kidding. It's a HUGE deal..they even have SIGNS on team members LAWNS to tout their kid and team. EVEN the cheerleaders get in the action..bad choice of words perhaps, but it is MONSTEROUS there in North Texas.
It ain't THAT big here, but I think it's a good move. How many times can you hear The Ray Charles Singers doing "Love Me With ALL Your Heart" anyway on OBM-AM?
I've been a fan of Kevin's since his days in the Ocean County Mall broadcasting on JRZ. I used to talk with him all the time back then. But when I programmed the OBM's from '81-'84, I wasn't in the "clique" there.. But that's ok..the station sounded pretty good most of the time..and I was TOLD to fix it by ownership. And I did. The AM didn't sound bad either if I may put my legendary alleged "HUBRIS" into the mix. But it's all water under the Cedar Crick.
BE BIG
www.bigjayandanita.com
And while we're on the subject of WOBM...congrats to the station...on March 1 it celebrated it's 40th anniversary on the air. When I worked there, the legend was the first song played was "Love Is Blue" by Paul Mauriat. and the top local story in the first newscast that day was about a fire in a barber shop in downtown Toms River...Was happy to be there for 16 1/2 years...
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So how did Millennium mark the big day...did they decide to voice track the ENTIRE station?
If my memory serves me correctly, WOBM FM signed on in a snow storm. The original air staff was pretty good in '68, and so was the news department..
That "Love Is Blue" album had a naked girl on the front cover you know. I think I put some graffiti on it and also the cover of Herb Alpert's lp with the naked girl (pregnant) done up in whipped cream. Something about those naked girls at OBM makes me laugh considering how MOR the station was at first. I'll NEVER forget playing Bing Crosby singing "Hey Jude" to end my evening show, just to show the absurdity of it all.
Good times. And Paul Most, I promise to lock the front door..so you don't have to wake Joe Stephens from his middle of the night slumber.
BE BIG
www.bigjayandanita.com
That "Love Is Blue" album had a naked girl on the front cover you know. I think I put some graffiti on it and also the cover of Herb Alpert's lp with the naked girl (pregnant) done up in whipped cream. Something about those naked girls at OBM makes me laugh considering how MOR the station was at first. I'll NEVER forget playing Bing Crosby singing "Hey Jude" to end my evening show, just to show the absurdity of it all.
Good times. And Paul Most, I promise to lock the front door..so you don't have to wake Joe Stephens from his middle of the night slumber.
BE BIG
www.bigjayandanita.com
The format in 1970 on 92-7 Stereo was the following: Male Vocal, Instrumental, Female Vocal, Instrumental, Group Vocal, Instrumental, and back again. How quaint. And absurd. Songs on albums that weren't crossed off with a magic marker or black crayon were NEVER to be played. So it was left to each jock to pick what he wanted.
I played Spanky & Our Gang as a GROUP vocal one night, (well it wasn't crossed off) and I got a call telling me to actually BREAK the record and put it under the PD's door. True. The point of ALL of these threads as I'm getting is the following: EACH radio station of any merit, especially those that have been around for over 30 years has a rich history of not only formats, but ownership, personalities, sales dogs (an affectionate term), and even OFFICE intrigue. It's like ANY other business in that way, but the missing ingredient that other businesses lack? Show business. It's zany, unpredictiable, fickle, back stabbing at times, and FUN most moments. I would hope that before radio disappears, each station designate a historic document that can be kept in a front display case (like WCTC has) just to show the history and very important nature that station's play in their respective communities. Do it NOW before it's gone forever. I would hate to lose all of that history. I know Rich Phoenix and the NJRM folks want to do that in ONE place, but each station needs to keep its own archive. And if ANY of you former employees or just casual listeners have momentos of the old days, share it with the station. They'd likely LOVE to see it and save it for future generations of radio folks (if their are any) to marvel.
BE BIG!
I played Spanky & Our Gang as a GROUP vocal one night, (well it wasn't crossed off) and I got a call telling me to actually BREAK the record and put it under the PD's door. True. The point of ALL of these threads as I'm getting is the following: EACH radio station of any merit, especially those that have been around for over 30 years has a rich history of not only formats, but ownership, personalities, sales dogs (an affectionate term), and even OFFICE intrigue. It's like ANY other business in that way, but the missing ingredient that other businesses lack? Show business. It's zany, unpredictiable, fickle, back stabbing at times, and FUN most moments. I would hope that before radio disappears, each station designate a historic document that can be kept in a front display case (like WCTC has) just to show the history and very important nature that station's play in their respective communities. Do it NOW before it's gone forever. I would hate to lose all of that history. I know Rich Phoenix and the NJRM folks want to do that in ONE place, but each station needs to keep its own archive. And if ANY of you former employees or just casual listeners have momentos of the old days, share it with the station. They'd likely LOVE to see it and save it for future generations of radio folks (if their are any) to marvel.
BE BIG!
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Kudos to Big Jay for having the ability to take a thread and make a multi-colored quilt with it! Love to hear the memories people have from working at stations..I have 16 years worth of memories from South Jersey Radio (now Access.1) that I love to share with anyone who will listen..the overnight guy who ordered a pizza, went to pay, locked himself out, kicked in the door and was fired! The same guy at his first
talk-point ever said, reading the index card, "It's time, I'm name"! When the spanish jock on WONZ would go out for a smoke, a prankster would barge in and put on "Eres Tu" while speaking incoherent Latino. Oh, by the way, good luck, Kenny! He hasn't been mentioned in the last few posts!
talk-point ever said, reading the index card, "It's time, I'm name"! When the spanish jock on WONZ would go out for a smoke, a prankster would barge in and put on "Eres Tu" while speaking incoherent Latino. Oh, by the way, good luck, Kenny! He hasn't been mentioned in the last few posts!
Dapper, that must have been at WDVR/WKTU in Ocean City.
I remember a jock that dropped the F bomb on his first afternoon shift! His name slips my mind right now. Then there was the PD who nearly burnt the station down trying to connect an oscilliscope to the Optimod. Another that enjoyed a six pack every "midnight" shift, until he was found fast asleep with his head down on the console, once too many times. Another that got around the station long-distance restrictions by going into the elevator and using it's emergency phone's dial tone. Then the time the electric company locked-out service to the offices and studios in the middle of AM drive. The bookkeeper thought the two electric bills were duplicates, and only paid one (for the transmitter building)
Oh, and one putz that left his mic w i d e open and whined along with George Michael's new hit Careless Whisper, saying "what a piece of crap." "This is the worst song ever." " Why do we have to play drek like this?" "This record would make a great frisbee to throw into the bay". "Hear that sound? It's tuning knobs switching to WSLT." Yeah, that was ME.
I remember a jock that dropped the F bomb on his first afternoon shift! His name slips my mind right now. Then there was the PD who nearly burnt the station down trying to connect an oscilliscope to the Optimod. Another that enjoyed a six pack every "midnight" shift, until he was found fast asleep with his head down on the console, once too many times. Another that got around the station long-distance restrictions by going into the elevator and using it's emergency phone's dial tone. Then the time the electric company locked-out service to the offices and studios in the middle of AM drive. The bookkeeper thought the two electric bills were duplicates, and only paid one (for the transmitter building)
Oh, and one putz that left his mic w i d e open and whined along with George Michael's new hit Careless Whisper, saying "what a piece of crap." "This is the worst song ever." " Why do we have to play drek like this?" "This record would make a great frisbee to throw into the bay". "Hear that sound? It's tuning knobs switching to WSLT." Yeah, that was ME.
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