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PROJECT: QV-93 MECHANICSBURG ATS/STORIES

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karlyle

I was digging through some old reel-to-reel tapes last weekend and found my aircheck of WQVE (QV-93) MECHANICSBURG from the early 80's!!! Thought it woudl be nice to hear about where some of the old airstaff went to....

Rick Alexander is now at WIKZ
part-timer Mike Ondayko is now part of the mornign team at 98 ROCK BALTIMORE
Joe Ricci did overnights, segued to 93.5 WTPA and now I haven't heard about him in a while...

I remember the end of the station...rumor has it that the former GM (whose name I don;t recall) went in to get his severance and said "Can't we hurry this up, I'm taking my kids to Hersheypark"....

We brodcast out of the old trailer in the alley....
 
karlyle said:
I was digging through some old reel-to-reel tapes last weekend and found my aircheck of WQVE (QV-93) MECHANICSBURG from the early 80's!!!
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Why, I didn't think you were that old. Can you type some WQVE info?


part-timer Mike Ondayko is now part of the mornign team at 98 ROCK BALTIMORE
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He worked for WHTF for a few years during the '80s, IIRC.
 
I visited the QV-93 studios in 1979 and airchecked some of them that day. The address was 111 E. Strawberry in Mechanicsburg. Yep, it was in a trailer in an alley. (The inside of the trailer was nice, though.)

A pretty good station, considering what they had to work with, and the fact that 93.5 hadn't yet been upgraded at that point in time and was still primarily a West Shore signal.

The summer of '79 was also very nearly the last gasp of WIOO, WKBO, and WLAN (AM) as Top 40 stations, and I spent some time airchecking them, as well as some early Q106 in York, and 98YCR. Lots of Top 40 stations to choose from, but the AM choices were gone soon after that.

Come to think of it, I think WHYL was still nominally Top 40 as "Y-96" that summer, too.
 
I was there as a part-timer in the fall of 1982 through summer of 1983. I remember Dan Caruso was the PD then and after hiring me, gave me a lot of fill-in work, which didn;t make the existing part-timers too thrilled.

I know that one certain part-timer went to him and said that if I got to fill in for Rick Alexander at night while on vacation, he would quit becasue he felt that he had earned the right to do that....the guy never quit...and I filled in for Alexander at night :)

I wish I could remember some of the other folks that worked there...
 
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