Pat Barry

[J Gable]

???Did Pat get canned from CC? I saw him doing the weather on Fox 19 Friday and Saturday night. I actually hope that Jim O'Brien is hired to be their Chief Weather guy.

 

[Arbitorn]

Pat's still at CC. He's helping out at 19 while they're short.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

Jim O'Brien was at least this past weekend back doing weekend weather on Sunday on WTHR in indianapolis. Don't Know if he is back permantly or not but he was on in indy on Sunday

 

[punchbuggy]

Here's a question:
I was talking with someone the other day who didn't know that Pat Barry used to be a Q DJ. What were the years that Big Ol' Funky Pat Barry was on WKRQ?

 

[jcr]

Pat Barry joined the Q from WJDJ 94.1 around April or May 1974, stayed until 1984, when he became Channel 5's weatherman

 

[keys2]

Pat left Q102 for a stint at Top 40 WOKV 103.5 in the late 70s. If memory serves me, he was the PD there for a while before the switch to disco.

 

[Toddy-0]

When did he work at WMOH(-FM??)?

I know he was at Q during my time with the Explorer's show (Dec 1980-Aug 1982). I think he joined WLWT in 1984.

 

[titoisradio]

When did he work at WMOH(-FM??)?

I know he was at Q during my time with the Explorer's show (Dec 1980-Aug 1982). I think he joined WLWT in 1984.

Pat also tracks a midday shift I believe for the oldies/classic hits station in Sarasota, or at least did last year. When I was a weather watcher for WLWT in the 80s/early 90s Pat was great to work with as a volunteer and the 3-4 years I was part of that program were some of my best childhood memories.

 

[jcr]

Pat worked at WOKV, the disco station that eventually became WBLZ, and later the station became WGRR. He was at WOKV from about 1978 to 1980 before returning to the Q

 

[radioboymark]

Pat Barry goes from Q102 to the new DISCO station in town. Turns in his resignation to Q Program Director Jim Fox.. takes an old pair of his shoes, wraps them in a package for Mark Sebastian (Q night jock who moves into afternoons) with a note that says "Just TRY and fill these!" Great moment, to this day Sebastian won't go anywhere Pat is.

Just as great... 103.5 FM switches to Oldies WGRR (Barry was long gone.) The first weekend the former jocks, young kids playing urban music 24 hours ago, were still on the air.. mispronouncing artist names and song titles. "Wishing and Hopping"

 

[keys2]

Point of clarification.....103.5 WOKV was Top 40 before it went disco. Pat worked at the station when it was Top 40. I'm not sure if he was there during the first weeks/months of the disco format or not, but I'm almost certain that he was gone once they fully settled into the "Disco 103 and a half" era.

 

[onegreatplace]

I believe the fabled Randy Michaels consulted that mess.

 

[Arbitorn]

Immeditely before Pat came to the Q, he was at WNDE in Indianapolis. He also worked at WMEE in Fort Wayne, WHLO in Akron and started in his hometown, Springfield (I forget the calls).

 

[onegreatplace]

Is this an obituary??

 

[onegreatplace]

is this pat's obituary?

 

[FRR]

I used to really like talking to the guy in the 70's, but by the 90's he sure seemed to have an exhaulted opinion of himself. Used to sit up in Mt Adams, trying to look cool, and then when ladies would try to talk to him, he's act like he didn't care. I guess some "famous" people get that way, but it was a shame.

 

[hipporadio]

Point of clarification.....103.5 WOKV was Top 40 before it went disco...

And it was WHOH before that--If you count the overnight Bob Barry/Brother Rufus Top-40 simulcast of 1450 WMOH circa '73-74. GOD I wanted to hear Big Joe London on 103.5... (but NO)--"elevator muzak" all day and evening (despite 1450's nighttime service reduction).

[Cue brass and the singers] "The new 14-50 W.M.O.H (and FM WHOH) HAMILTON!" ...and I can STILL hear Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" kicking off 8)

 

[keys2]

And it was WHOH before that--If you count the overnight Bob Barry/Brother Rufus Top-40 simulcast of 1450 WMOH circa '73-74. GOD I wanted to hear Big Joe London on 103.5... (but NO)--"elevator muzak" all day and evening (despite 1450's nighttime service reduction).

[Cue brass and the singers] "The new 14-50 W.M.O.H (and FM WHOH) HAMILTON!" ...and I can STILL hear Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" kicking off 8)

Um, well, after WHOH and before WOKV, 103.5 was known as WYCH. As WYCH there was a lot of simulcasting with mostly Top 40 WMOH as I recall. And hence the toh ID as I remember it......"The new 1450 WMOH -- and FM WYCH (this part spoken) -- Hamilton."

In its earlier incarnation as WHOH there was a lot of German language programming due to the high number of (legal) German immigrants in this area. Anyway, the WYCH calls went away after WMOH sold it off and the new owners re-named it WOKV and installed a pretty decent sounding Top 40 format. I believe this was in 1978. Pat Berry came over from the Q shortly thereafter.

 

[hipporadio]

And it was WHOH before that--If you count the overnight Bob Barry/Brother Rufus Top-40 simulcast of 1450 WMOH circa '73-74. GOD I wanted to hear Big Joe London on 103.5... (but NO)--"elevator muzak" all day and evening (despite 1450's nighttime service reduction).

[Cue brass and the singers] "The new 14-50 W.M.O.H (and FM WHOH) HAMILTON!" ...and I can STILL hear Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" kicking off 8)

Um, well, after WHOH and before WOKV, 103.5 was known as WYCH. As WYCH there was a lot of simulcasting with mostly Top 40 WMOH as I recall. And hence the toh ID as I remember it......"The new 1450 WMOH -- and FM WYCH (this part spoken) -- Hamilton."

YES keys2! ...You've restored a few more of my passed-out brain cells... The "spoken voice" inserted into the TOH jingle to ID the FM was Big Joe London himself. Wasn't he the PD of WMOH then?

I remember the German programming on 103.5--Then an alteration of the calls ('HOH > 'YCH), and I asked myself "What the hell is the point" No more "Bohemian", but an overnight simulcast of Bob Barry--and IIRC they carried the WMOH morning show also on 103.5. I was away from the area by 1978 and missed hearing WOKV.

During the day 'YCH featured pop instrumentals like the "Airport Love Theme [drip drip drip]" (Vincent Bell) and "Keem-O-Sabe" (Electric Indian) IN MONO with some of the WORST audio I have heard modulate an FM transmitter. OH... Those early FM years ;D

 

[microbob]

There was an incident that occured at the then WOKV studios where they lost power and had to set up a temporary studio at the transmitter building. Talk about interesting listening.