Mr1derful said:
Matt was "Indy Jonze" at STO and WFMI Lexington (well, Winchester). He became "Matt Austin" when he moved to WVLK-FM (K-93). He used another name when he worked at WKYX and later WVJS Owensboro but I don't remember at this moment.
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Matt was "Indy Jonze" at STO and WFMI Lexington (well, Winchester). He became "Matt Austin" when he moved to WVLK-FM (K-93). He used another name when he worked at WKYX and later WVJS Owensboro but I don't remember at this moment.
I worked @ KYX in 1977. I was part-time on weekends and worked full time @ Rock 100 in Harrisburg, IL I also was the PD/GM for K98 WRIK when we flipped it from CHR to AOR. Working for Sammy was the problem with the format. I also worked at WKQQ 7PM/MID in the early nineties.
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voicenky said:
Occasionally when I've been in Paducah with my kids along I've driven down Kentucky avenue and showed them the "talent entrance" to the flophouse. They can't believe that their dad used to live there. I can't believe it's still there PERIOD.
"Pretty cool" was right--especially when the snow drifted up INSIDE the doors overlooking Broadway during the blizzard! And then there was that awesome mural of the girl painted on the wall in the hallway.
And as for my guess...one of us (who didn't have to get up early) was too busy bringing chicks in and out at night to have noticed that stuff. It wasn't me, and it wasn't Mohr.......
The more I think back.. Matt was setting the station up for Sammy, prior to sign-on and he asked me to drop my KYMO tape off... I'd already decided to go back to get my third degree in youth counseling at Oakland City, but stopped by to see the theater and the digs going up.. I think Matt left before sign on for the Lexington market.. I will ask him the next time I doin' some biz at Way-Programming Headquarters in Nash-Vegas (o.k....Franklin/Brentwood)....
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Yes, good thing we were less than 2 blocks from the station, the blizzard was horrible, I remember trying to thaw 2 year old hamburger meat...walking up the back "talent" entrance to the 4 bedroom showplace, the one with the coach with the collapsed middle. The chicks...of course, I was poor but I WAS happy. What happened to our boy Mikey?
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I'm a "second-generation" broadcaster, but have fond memories of going to Paducah when my step-dad was offered a midday job at WPAD in 1981. The station mgr./morning guy (Ed?) drove our family around in his Cadillac. My step-dad wanted to take the job, but my mom vetoed the decision when she heard Ed make a racist comment about the staff that watched the automated (or live assist) Top 40 down the hall. I remember thinking that WPAD's building looked like a dump compared to the WKYX building.
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voicenky said:
People will read your comment about 2 year old hamburger and think you're joking!
I remember when Barb Cramer and Fran Morley came over and cleaned the place up for us because they couldn't bear to think that they had co-workers who lived like that! After you left for Lexington, Scott Walker moved in with us and it didn't get a lot better....The last I heard--and this is about 10 years old--Dave/Mike had left broadcasting and was living outside St Louis. He was working in IT for a big investment firm. That's where I am now (St Louis) and if he's around somewhere I'd love to see him again.
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Onesimus said:
That would have been Ed Taylor, who retired not too many years later when Ed Fritts sold the stations to a guy in Indianapolis. Ed did everything on WPAD--he was the morning guy, then when he got off the air he would go out and sell advertising on his show, and at night he did high school football and basketball play by play. I left Kicks in the mid 80s to go to work for the new owner as OM in charge of taking the FM live, and during that time the building was cleaned up quite a bit. We had to build on-air studios and production rooms, and the owner got a lavish office. I don't know if the owner ever paid for any of the remodeling that was done (which is a whole nother story) but it got cleaned up compared to the way it was in 81.
dang, I'll tell you what. wkyq is the worst station to listen to for personalities. bobby & steve only think they're funny. then the rest of the day it's; tell the song we just heard, w k y qqqqq paaa doooooo ka!, and it sounds like they're reading EVERYTHING and really don't give a rats behind.
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In the old days we would just call the jock and say "you suck" and slam down the phone. Thank god for the internet.
slick81 said:
lol, who's to say I haven't done that?
Hey how's Bristol B'casting to work for? I've never worked for that bunch...only their competition in TRI. Do the PaaaaaDooooooKaaaaa stations sound good? Just wondering. Don't they have a top 40 there?
I don't think they sound good at all. All the clocks seem the same and it seems to me that they hold back their talent from growing. They only backsell songs, which sounds ridiculous. And yes, they have a top 40 in Electric 96.9.
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Were you around during the X Rock 15 days of WDXR...always liked those calls. Curious what your on-air name was, I worked at KYX 74-78. Actually worked a few weekends on DXR while working at Channel 6 before getting back into radio just to keep timing going...it was on the top floor of a hotel.
Prais said:
Ah yes, Channel 29. I remember them as an offering on the brand new Owensboro Cablevision later replaced by WTTV Bloomington/Indy. How long did DXR do Top 40 and when and why did they flip calls with PAD?
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Prais said:
WDXR & WPAD traded frequencies years ago. I'm no longer in Paducah so I don't know what's on which frequency there anymore.
Pat Martin was the PD of X-Rock 15. It was my first radio job, doing Sunday signons and board-opping remotes while in college at Murray State in 1975. In the spring of 75, Frank Carvell was hired as PD and he dropped the "X-Rock" and went back to "WDXR".
The currents were on carts loaded into carosels and we played the "gold" off 45's.
And the owner was Lady Sarah McKinney-Smith.
After WDXR TV went defunct and WDXR Radio moved to the Hotel Irvin Cobb, Spencer Soloman bought the building and leased the former WDXR radio space to WKYX/WKYQ. The old X-Rock 15/WDXR control room became the WKYX/WKYQ production office.
porkchop03 said:
I agree while the backselling is kinda old, WKYQ sounds much MUCH better than its closest country competitor Froggy. When 103.7 signed on years ago, it was cute to hear the jocks using frog names and "weather frogcasts" and "frog gigs"
and "Have a Hoppy Day!" Then after a week, it was really old and lame. Say what you want, WKYQ has been #1 for over 30 years and they've never finished 2nd. They must be doing something right.
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porkchop03 said:
Could you give an example of how a station would prevent a talent from growing? I personally always felt the direction my career took was up to me, and the last time I heard there were no non-competes in Paducah. I don't get how the station has so much control.
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slick81 said:
WDDJ is too scripted.. the jocks are "jocks" no real talent or personality there
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