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Longest Atlanta radio teams?

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atlsportsnut

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I heard a promo this afternoon during MLB on 680 that Buck and Kincade are celebrating their 7th anniversary show tomorrow afternoon. I've been back in town for about 5 years and was trying to think back to my youth here in town.
I came up with Steve and Vicki and maybe the old Morning X crew and then was stumped.
What other broadcast teams have lasted that long in this market?
I thought of Mayhem on 790 but that crew has added and subtracted parts many times.
Any others?
 
Kelly & Alpha on B98 have been around a while. So had Randy & Spiff although they have jumped around.
 
From my recollection. Kimmer was on WGST for 7-8 years, not sure how long of that he was teamed up with Wayne.
 
atlsportsnut said:
I heard a promo this afternoon during MLB on 680 that Buck and Kincade are celebrating their 7th anniversary show tomorrow afternoon. I've been back in town for about 5 years and was trying to think back to my youth here in town.
I came up with Steve and Vicki and maybe the old Morning X crew and then was stumped.
What other broadcast teams have lasted that long in this market?
I thought of Mayhem on 790 but that crew has added and subtracted parts many times.
Any others?
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Randy and Spiff have to be the longest tenured team I'd think (even though they've been off an on). Next is probably Steve and Vikki (15+ years?). After that I'm guessing it's the original Morning x (9 years?). Kelly and Alpha have also quietly been on the air for probably close to that at this point.
 
Randy & Spiff have been in Atlanta since 1989. Steve & Vikki have been at Star 94 for 17 years, but I believe before that they were together at Power 99. Kelly & Alpha came to the market in either 1998 or 1999.

My question is, how long have Skip Carey and Pete Van Weiren been doing the Braves?
 
Randy and Spiff have been off the air some of that time right? How many stations have they worked on?
Kimmer was a solo act show with contributors.
How long for Kelly and Alpha?
It is amazing to think that 7 years is such a milestone that few break past, but in radio today I guess it is.
Consecutively and at one station with no time off the air, radio is really fickle!
 
Rhubarb has been on the air on 106.7 since the 80's as a solo and a team. He and Dallas have been on the air for quite some time also.
 
Radio sucks. I'd rather die than be played in rotation F*** the radio station. The Phunk Junkies said it best back in'92. On air people are kleenex, toilet paper et al to those that are in power. Hence, the subsequent death of anyone compelling on the radio.
 
millhouse said:
Radio sucks. I'd rather die than be played in rotation F*** the radio station.
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so it makes total sense that you'd be posting on a radio board...


duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
Milhouse, while I totally understand that radio can be an extremely frustrating business most of the time, there are those rare moments when the stars align, the planets converge, Pamela Anderson actually says something intelligent, and radio "gets it". When radio does what it does best, there is nothing else like it. It is more intoxicating than any drug, drink or woman you'll ever know. You, obviously, have not experienced this.

Air talent is what it is...a show. Nothing meaningful, just entertainment. One look at the gossip magazine should be enough to tell you that entertainment folks just aren't all right. I align myself with those folks simply because I love to entertain people. Also, your comment has nothing (that I can see) to do with this thread. If you want to post something about how radio air talent gets messed with all the time, start a new thread.

OK...I'm done now.
 
and I think some of the long time talent here in town should move over and let some new blood in.
 
Just a little history:

Randy Cook and Spiff Carner were teamed together at WZOK, Rockford, IL, around 1983 by Kipper McGee, now PD of WLS, Chicago. At the time, Spiff was known as Spiff Dingle. They left around 1986 for Charlotte for a now defunct Top 40 station and was hired by Shamrock Broadcasting (Roy Disney company... yes, that Disney) for the Fox 97 frequency move in that happened in 1989. After nearly 12 years as Atlanta's Oldies Station, Cox Broadcasting idiotically decided to try hip-hop and blew out the staff. A few months later they landed on Clear Channel for their brief effort at Oldies before that was blown up. Although the rest of the staff was let go, they were retained for mornings on Lite FM. Soon that was blown up for The Bull which then landed Randy & Spiff as the morning show on WGST.

They are terrific guys, radio survivors and can put on one of the best morning shows in the country when left alone.
Unfortunately, that doesn't happen much.
 
>the Fox 97 frequency move in that happened in 1989.

Uh, I think you may need to wind your calendar. The station went up to 1500 - 1600 feet some years before 1989.
 
I owuld of thought they ran out of The Emerald City long before 1989 dint they? We were in The Platinum Triangle with Y before then. Maybe 1989 was when we were allowed to stop running Sunday Morning God out of thwe 'main studios'? It's sort of moot anyway. We had to gerrymander the contour to get away with doign everything from Galleria. They were a cople miles up the road, and consequently fell under the contour without having to resort to smoke and mirrors.
 
You may be correct, my guru. Randy Mullinax would know the complete truth. There was a brief JJ & Stasha(sp?) morning show at the launch in the Emerald Palace, but short lived once R & S were secured. At one point FOX 97 was the second highest rated station in Atlanta in adults 25-54. I believe the public affairs show continued to run out of the Gainesville studios into the mid 90's untill Marty messed up and Roy sold the entire group for what would now be considered a very small sum.

By then, Clancy Woods had fired most of the original management team and tried to evolve it into more of a mix format that was wallowing in the ratings. Of course, he quickly bailed for Z100 in NYC before the ax fell.

My point was that Randy & Spiff are the longest running Atlanta team that has remained together, although on different stations and in different markets.

History lesson over.....
 
InTIMadate said:
Just a little history:

Randy Cook and Spiff Carner were teamed together at WZOK, Rockford, IL, around 1983 by Kipper McGee, now PD of WLS, Chicago. At the time, Spiff was known as Spiff Dingle. They left around 1986 for Charlotte for a now defunct Top 40 station
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I believe you should research your information a bit better here. When Randy and Spiff were in Charlotte, they were on WBT, the premier radio station of the area, and one of the oldest stations in the southeast.

WBT is not defunct, they are alive and well in the Charlotte market. True they are no longer a Top 40 station, they are News - Talk, but they are far from defunct.

Sorry, but as a former news director, I am very watchful over the misuse of words.
 
I believe you should research your information a bit better here. When Randy and Spiff were in Charlotte, they were on WBT, the premier radio station of the area, and one of the oldest stations in the southeast.
WBT is not defunct, they are alive and well in the Charlotte market. True they are no longer a Top 40 station, they are News - Talk, but they are far from defunct.
Sorry, but as a former news director, I am very watchful over the misuse of words.
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Jtudor, according to what I've read, inTIMadate is correct. They were on an FM station; it might have been a previous incarnation of 107.9. There used to be a Charlotte top-40 tribute site, and I read it there.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
I believe you should research your information a bit better here. When Randy and Spiff were in Charlotte, they were on WBT, the premier radio station of the area, and one of the oldest stations in the southeast.
WBT is not defunct, they are alive and well in the Charlotte market. True they are no longer a Top 40 station, they are News - Talk, but they are far from defunct.
Sorry, but as a former news director, I am very watchful over the misuse of words.
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Jtudor, according to what I've read, inTIMadate is correct. They were on an FM station; it might have been a previous incarnation of 107.9. There used to be a Charlotte top-40 tribute site, and I read it there.
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WBCY 107.9
John Boy & Billy were locals there in the 80's.
 
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