kturnerga, Randy Sheffield and Wayne Bishop are the partners in Beach Radio, Inc., which owns Beach 95.1. Randy was indeed at WGXA for a number of years. He came to Macon in the early 90's to build and manage WMKS (Kissin' 99.3), which, despite being a 3KW station, made a stab at being very competitive with the 'Mother Ship' - WDEN. They were never able to really make a huge dent, and ultimately the station was sold to Don McCoy's US Broadcasting, and we crammed it into a back room on the 7th floor of the American Federal Building. After a number of format changes, Cumulus created Blazin' 92.3, which has managed to be a pretty competitive Urban station in an oversaturated Urban market, despite being owned by that hole of a company.
Randy was the GM of WFSY/Panama City in the late 80's, and he hired me away from 92.5 WPAP (country) to do afternoons when we launched Sunny 98.5 in 1/1/87. I was there doing afternoons and handling music director duties until September of 1989, when The Woodfin Group (owner of WFSY) transferred me to their station in Columbus, GA (WGSY/Sunny 100). I was there until August of 1996, when Sunny 100 was sold. That's when I came to Macon to program and do afternoons on Oldies 99WAYS.
When Jan Jeffries at Cumulus finished excoriating me and shoving a 10 foot pole up my backside in February of 2009, Randy invited me to come back to PCB to help with launching Beach 95.1, and I've been here ever since. I LOVE living here, and working for an independent broadcaster that doesn't employ arrogant, worn out, bitchy, has-been programmers to be their corporate 'king-of-all-formats'. I've said it elsewhere, Jeffries must have photos of the Dickey brothers having 'relations' with some farm animals, or something like that.
TDO
David Nolin
Operations Manager/Afternoons
WBPC-FM/Beach 95.1
Panama City, FL
