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KQCR Q103 THE HOT FM

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Does any one remember the DJ's from the 80's

Gary Dixon
JJ GERARD
Todd
Rick something

Charmin Jeff Harmon......He was there for a VERY short time if I remember ..


What about the part timers

AHHH the 80's Great music Short skirts and BIG hair !!!
 
I worked weekends at Q103 from January, 1983, to August, 1984, and often handed off to Gary Dixon.
A real nice guy with great pipes who did very good production.
 
Loved working CR..great memories..younger daughter born at Mercy...

After working the way to the majors..in my hometown of Omaha, at Dial Global, plus doing Talk.

Rick Lane
 
Getting in late on this, but the Hot FM in CR was a fun place...

Charmin' Harmon, Gary Dixon & Todd, and Don Kelly.
Sorry to hear GM Bill Clymer has left us.

Gary is managing a NAPA store in Florida and doing well. He was always a genius motorhead, so no surprise.
Todd, last I heard, became wealthy running the Irish Democrat tavern in CR. Don Kelly went to Omaha and resumed broadcasting under his original air name of Carl Mann. He most recently (in 2010) retired from Dial Global where he programmed the Oldies networks.

There were many others at Q103 in the mid-80s... It was a fun time, between the automated period and consolidation... Brad Fuhr (a promising PD but never given the reins), Jim Simon, Paula (GM for a while), Alicia Woodhouse, et al...
 
I don't remember the 80's years so much (hence I don't recognize Hot FM tied to Q103).

What I remember was the early 90's years. It was Dance, Hip-Hop and Pop intensive with a huge sound-" All Hit Q103" is what I remember. It dwarfed anything else in Iowa aside from Power 98.9 in the QC at the time. Interestingly it made the Des Moines market sound like a sleepy small town with only fringe/rimshot 107 KCCQ from Ames giving Central Iowa any true CHR service. (Q102 was Adult CHR and a BLAND one at that).

I longed to have something like Q103 in the central part of the state. And with OHP being HUGE at the time, I wished I lived further east.

Funny how the years change things as Des Moines is the hotbed of CHR in the state right now as it has changed drastically since the early 90's.
 
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