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polkas on the talker

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sam liguori

i heard bill flynns polka show on 94.3 the talker.. sunday afternoon. bill always does a great job. i was skeptical about putting any kind of music on an all talk station, but i remember we did it back in the 60s and 70s on wbax when jim ward was running things . i know radio is much different today, but back in the 60s gibbons beer sponsored the entire weekend on bax, and the station made money, and had listners during the week with speak up (an all talk show) and back then there were live jocks for the entire weekend with alot of local imput. did alot of live remotes from san souci park to all the churches, fire companies, to rocky glenn pk. i hope it works for the talker, and for bill. know matter what you may think about polka music, its a happy sound, and maybe with all the bad stuff we are hearing on the air today ..it might be a good thing for the weekend. best of luck to bill and the talker.. s.l.
 
I've been on stations where we made more money on weekends than on the rest of the week. Ethnic programming $ells.
 
i agree, on the weekends we sold h.s. football games, basket ball games, baseball games, and yes, even remotes from church bazzars. we made money. our sales staff got on the phones and sold packages for different local events. today, its all about waiting by the fax, and waiting for agencies to send in orders and writing up contracts. its a revolving door now for sales people.
 
When I was at 13Q with Woody, we hit every church bazaar in Scranton. We let the church's sell to their business men/parishoners. 100 bucks-25 spots and the remote. Talent fee was 10 bucks for every sale if we got 5 or more. Nothing if less than 5. I think there was only 1 remote where I went hungry and there was at least 1 remote every Friday and Saturday. The station made a ton as did I. In the latter days of the "Good" WARM, we did some church bazaars, but not many as we got our talent fees even if it was a community service remote and between my cost and the cost of the engineer who had to set up the MRS, it was cost prohibative.
 
The FM talk station in Syracuse currently airs a program on Sunday afternoons called "The Irish Power Hour." I believe it consists of Irish and Gaelic music.
 
The summer of '92 Ted Rose and I made a ton at WTLQ (Q102)---Jay J Lombardo sold a church bazaar every weekend during that summer, Teddy & I were at every single one. A BRILLIANT idea, unfortunately it was the only summer it was done.
 
as i mentioned in my first post, we did remotes every friday, sat. and sunday for years at wbax. churches, fire companys, little league, if they could sell it, we were at it. it was the is good gibbons polka weekend, and we had hundreds of people at each remote. back then, when we had real live jocks, and alot of them, we would piggy back each remote. johnny margis, dick whitaker, ron barry, pete rinker,dave garrett, and the list goes on.we would start at 6pm friday nights, and go til 9pm sunday night. it was an exciting time for me, and i met alot of interesting people during those years.
 
WGPA down in Bethlehem is nothing but a crazy mix of polka, oldies, ethnic programming, and brokered programming, and my sources tell me Jolly Joe Timmer is rolling in the money.
 
sam liguori said:
as i mentioned in my first post, we did remotes every friday, sat. and sunday for years at wbax. churches, fire companys, little league, if they could sell it, we were at it. it was the is good gibbons polka weekend, and we had hundreds of people at each remote. back then, when we had real live jocks, and alot of them, we would piggy back each remote. johnny margis, dick whitaker, ron barry, pete rinker,dave garrett, and the list goes on.we would start at 6pm friday nights, and go til 9pm sunday night. it was an exciting time for me, and i met alot of interesting people during those years.
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Sam , OMG Dave Garrett. Is that the guy from WICK who punched his own landlady in the face and was run out of town. True story. Ron Barry I recall did the terrible impressions. He used to pit the board on automation and leave 20 minutes BEFORE hsi shift was over at BAX to drive back to Allewntown. LOL
 
That's true about Ron Barry. I did mornings for a short time at BAX, 1972, and I'd go in the building and no one was there. he'd time it right to 6, then I'd go on. fFormerly Dan Dayton, now Chuck Manning (aka) Country Chuck in Las Vegas. Where is Ron Barry now?
 
LAST I HEARD, HE WAS IN EASTON, PA. HE WAS MARRIED, AND HAD ONE CHILD AT THAT TIME. RON WAS IN A WHEEL CHAIR FOR SOME YEARS, AND WASNT DOING WELL BACK THEN.HE WAS BOOKING PRO WRESLING TOO. WE ALWAYS CALLED HIM HOWDY DOODY BECAUSE HE WON THE TITLE WHEN HE WAS LITTLE. HE DID WEAR A HAIR PIECE, AND WAS A FUNNY GUY. HIS REAL NAME IS RON KLUGMAN, AND HE SAID HIS COUSIN IS JACK KLUGMAN.. HE DID INVITE US OVER TO HIS APARTMENT AT WILKES WOODS FOR A NEW YEARS EVE PARTY, AND HE DID HAVE JACKIE VERNON AT HIS HOUSE, WHO WE MET. HE WAS A BIG FAN OF ABBOTT AND COSTELLO, LAUREL AND HARDY, AND REALLY NEW THESE PEOPLE. I ALWAYS GOT ALONG WITH RON, AND I DONT KNOW IF HES STILL WITH US,, I HOPE SO. IF ANYONE CAN FIND OUT ABOUT RON, LET US KNOW. SAM
 
sam liguori said:
LAST I HEARD, HE WAS IN EASTON, PA. HE WAS MARRIED, AND HAD ONE CHILD AT THAT TIME. RON WAS IN A WHEEL CHAIR FOR SOME YEARS, AND WASNT DOING WELL BACK THEN.HE WAS BOOKING PRO WRESLING TOO. WE ALWAYS CALLED HIM HOWDY DOODY BECAUSE HE WON THE TITLE WHEN HE WAS LITTLE. HE DID WEAR A HAIR PIECE, AND WAS A FUNNY GUY. HIS REAL NAME IS RON KLUGMAN, AND HE SAID HIS COUSIN IS JACK KLUGMAN.. HE DID INVITE US OVER TO HIS APARTMENT AT WILKES WOODS FOR A NEW YEARS EVE PARTY, AND HE DID HAVE JACKIE VERNON AT HIS HOUSE, WHO WE MET. HE WAS A BIG FAN OF ABBOTT AND COSTELLO, LAUREL AND HARDY, AND REALLY NEW THESE PEOPLE. I ALWAYS GOT ALONG WITH RON, AND I DONT KNOW IF HES STILL WITH US,, I HOPE SO. IF ANYONE CAN FIND OUT ABOUT RON, LET US KNOW. SAM
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Sam...There are three Ron Barry Klugmans in the Easton/Allentown area...Ages are 85, 64 and 50. How old would the Ron you know be?
 
tom, out of the three, i would say ron is in his 60s.. he was younger then me. let us know what you find.. always nice to read your posts. sam..
 
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