Pig Station

[Chatham5150]

> I think this is what the board should be, expressing
> opinions without making personal attacks on those who
> disagree. When I spoke of Doc being the whipping boy on
> this site I was talking about the site in general. I wasn't
> talking about any one person. When I was fired my life
> sucked! I tried several sales jobs that ended up costing me
> money instead of making me money. Now I have recovered and
> I'm making more money than I've made and life is good again.
> I know what you're going through. If you need some extra
> cash while you are waiting to see what your next radio gig
> contact me at memphismitch2000@yahoo or Rmm@aol and I'll
> show you what I'm doing. Thanks for the exchange of ideas
> and being professional about it.
>
> Mitch
>

Thank you brother. I'll definitely send an e-mail your way. I pick up my final paycheck from this last gig of mine tomorrow, so I'm definitely looking to make a few bucks.

MC

 

[MemphisMitch]

Re: Pig Station - memphis beginnings...

> excuse me if the points jump around - but:
>
> back in august of 2000, 96.1 WMPS changed from the Phantom
> into the PIG. guess what station the music (and pretty much
> everything else) was coming from?
> KPIG 107.5 - in freedom, california.
>
> i saw the computer that received ALL the information from
> the west to play in memphis on 96.1. great idea -
> technologically. but it put me out of a pretty fun gig.
> still, a pretty good idea to play americana/AAA/cool music
> in memphis - why didn't someone else think of it first?
> evolution and the good dr. eventually made it more local and
> adding humans and changing frequencies and...well, you know
> about all that.
>
> now, i've been one to defend the character of doc many
> times. he's a good guy. he loves radio. it's his money. his
> licences. he can do what he wants. sometimes he'll tell you
> that too.
>
> i will not comment on the people that he has working for
> him, or had working for him in the past. none of them
> treated me badly, but i do have my opinions and don't really
> need to share because it doesn't matter. nearly all are
> pretty good though. (even the "electrician".)
>
> as the phantom, there were die-hard listeners and they
> increased with the pig (from my observations.) never one to
> be a big ratings buster because of signal deficiencies, they
> still listened. and showed up at events. and logged on. even
> the flyer was/is (?) a fan.
>
> there is a place for the pig in memphis. and consistency is
> key. if only there was a way to get that point
> across...maybe the fact that 107.1 @ 2.75kw as a rhythmic
> station in the top-10 (and sometimes top-5) for how many
> years now would be a place to start? it bills and they don't
> usually tinker with that, do they?
>
> my $.02 for today.
>
Thank you for your 2 cents! It was worth much more to me, I'm glad to see that there are more people that worked there that don't see Doc as a bad guy. One of my favorite stories about Dr. Flinn is when I bought a new car. We had an airstaff meeting at 6:30pm and at that time I was in middle of buying a new car, so I was late for the meeting. It was only my second meeting with him. As I entered the conference room, he was seated at the head of the table and looked over as I approached the door. He said “Come on in Mitch, I’ve had time to talk to everyone else because YOU’RE LATE!” As I walked around behind him and to take a seat he asked “Where are you from?” Not realizing he had already asked everyone else the same question I looked at my feet and said Frayser. I said that as I tossed my keys on the table. He saw the tag on the keys and asked if I had a new car. “Yes Sir, that’s why I was late, I was between my old one and the new one.” He asked what kind I had bought, I had looked at several and I was nervous because I was late to the meeting so I picked up the keys and read from the tag. “A ‘99 Cougar 5 speed” I said. He looked at me for a second and said “Boy you are from Frayser” (because I was so stupid I had to read which car I bought). The whole room broke up in laughter, it was funny as hell and it broke the tension in the room. I think I laughed harder than anyone and from that point he knew he could tease me (he did often after that) and I could take it. Between the music, the promotions and doing mornings working there was one of the highlights of my years in radio. Thank you all for your thoughts; it’s been fun talking about the Pig with you all.

Mitch
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[desechado]

Re: Pig Station - memphis beginnings...

> I do miss the Phantom...that's one of the craziest stations
> I've ever heard. Who else would play Depeche Mode bootlegs??
>

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Leonard Lawrence</P>