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Macon's 99.1 WDEN Country is Lucky!

I am disappointed in what Cumulus has done with WDEN. The air talent, if not the worn rotation of music, made the station. First Rick Knight was shown the door then Gail Daniels and at some point Brad Majors. If Cecil Staton or ClearChannel were forward looking they'd hand Cumulus Media Macon its head on a plate. They've got some weak sticks but if a certain CC station would quit playing "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent 2x/day along with the rotation left over from 1992 I'd say they would have a chance.

Wasn't Fred Newton at WDEN? They called him "Fat Fred" from what I remember someone saying.

I also got hold, back-channel, of a 1970 scoped aircheck from WDEN-AM. Apparently Chris McHan cut this aircheck, and several others, up into jiblets when he scoped it. He cut the bleeping commercials and news almost completely out but I did listen to the Wickes Lumber spot (near US41 and GA247 in Macon; they died out in the Eighties). He went by the airname, apparently, of Chris Edwards (the aircheck was billed as "Chris Edwards for Grady Spires")

Oh well; it's better than no aircheck at all. Country airchecks are a booger to find especially when googling "Country Aircheck" shows results for some radio show having nothing to do with old radio recordings.
 
they are doing it everywhere, KT. why, in Louisville, they didn't want to run a couple stations anymore so they just shut them off. Although they were getting respectable numbers they pulled the plug.
 
kturnerga said:
Wasn't Fred Newton at WDEN? They called him "Fat Fred" from what I remember someone saying.
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"Fat Freddy Newton" was at WDEN back when it first started, then moved over to management at WMAZ. He gave me a ride home from a remote (in "THE" WDEN Remote Van, no less), and toured my basement radio station.
 
kenglish said:
kturnerga said:
Wasn't Fred Newton at WDEN? They called him "Fat Fred" from what I remember someone saying.
Click to expand...

"Fat Freddy Newton" was at WDEN back when it first started, then moved over to management at WMAZ. He gave me a ride home from a remote (in "THE" WDEN Remote Van, no less), and toured my basement radio station.
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Fred Newton was at WCRY (WDDO/WPEZ) before becoming a Mazie Raider.
 
jovialjay said:
kenglish said:
kturnerga said:
Wasn't Fred Newton at WDEN? They called him "Fat Fred" from what I remember someone saying.
Click to expand...

"Fat Freddy Newton" was at WDEN back when it first started, then moved over to management at WMAZ. He gave me a ride home from a remote (in "THE" WDEN Remote Van, no less), and toured my basement radio station.
Click to expand...

Fred Newton was at WCRY (WDDO/WPEZ) before becoming a Mazie Raider.
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I guess that was about the time I went in to the Navy (1973-77). I know he first started out in Macon at WDEN. I remembered bumping in to him at WMAZ later, and being happy that he still remembered me.
 
I was on hwy 96 lastweek. Was listning to 95.9 WQZY. Right before HWY 23 going west it was breaking up the 95.9 translator was almosy killing WQZY but WQZY was hanging in there like a close hanger swinging on a door handel. I finally had to change stations.
How can WPCH owner get away with broadcasting on 95.9? Too close to 95.9 in Dublin.
 
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