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PROVIDENCE RADIO ROLE CALL

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aqualung

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Well now that the 4 or 5 talk show mavens have basically taken over this board because of their own bad experiences maybe it's time for a role call. Hey I don't mind criticism and go at it myself at times but not when it's a substitute for the radio career that eluded you. I only started posting a few months ago so I'm a newbie here but not in the business. I'm seeing that some posters whose topics I used to think actually were a valid contribution are disappearing because of the bitter bunch.
Sooooo let's have a role call. How many here actually do or have worked in Providence radio? You don't have to be specific unless you want to. I'm in on the role call as a YAY.
 
Skynet74 said:
When you throw it to a commercial, how do you spell it. Do we BREAK (or) do we BRAKE?
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"Break", as in break the flow of the program.

originally used, when radio had "programs" to indicate a break the flow of the program or game for "station identification". "This is the RED SOX Radio Network" was a various cue for local spots and ID.....one that seems to have been ignored as often as it was honored on the small stations in the net back in the day.....
 
kenwood101 said:
Joe Mollicone here. My new show is called Money Matters. Its on Sunday mornings at 2 am on a Part 15 AM er near you.
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Good one.

Name flew right over my head for hours.

Then I read a post about Buddy possibly returning to radio and little bells started to ring!

http://www.projo.com/specials/diprete/1a.htm

I wonder how more folks memories played tricks on them.....
 
I'm outside Providence but not that far outside. I know that doesn't qualify as Providence radio but I figured somebody had to actually answer the question since the rest of you are unfocused as ever.
 
And yes, I have been in Providence radio:

1980-86 WHIM, on air as Dave Allen
1987-88 WRIB
1988-89 WEAN 990, doing overnights under my real name

So, I'll just say YEA to that! Aqualung, get a spell checker!

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
aqualung said:
Sooooo let's have a role call. How many here actually do or have worked in Providence radio? You don't have to be specific unless you want to. I'm in on the role call as a YAY.
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Not giving away "real" name, under which I always work in and around Providence but some of you know me.

WYNG (1590), Warwick-East Greenwich. News and PD
WXTR (550), Pawtucket air shifts
WLKW (990), Weekends then full-time afternoon traffic
WXTR (550), yes, again. Replaced PD Mel Burns when he died unexpectedly.

All this between 1959 and 1970 when I quit doing radio except for vacation fill-in stuff, having moved over to TV engineering and finally out into the TV equipment industry where the real money was!

Since retiring have dabbled at radio with stations in California and Alaska but only for fun; not for money.
 
Though I made my living with a real job, I managed to dabble in radio over the years beginning in 1957 at WWRI 1450. After that I had part time tours at WJAR 920, WLKW 990, WEAN, WPJB-fm, WYNG 1590, WXTR 550, WADK 1540, WOTB 100.3, WSAR 1480 and In-Sight Radio. A true broadcasting bum!
 
OK I know it's ROLL call. I typed without thinking. It's a message board not a term paper. And thanks to Cianci and Mollicone for staying on topic. A few more convictions and Vinnie Paz can post here claiming he's been hired by The Score.
 
worked in Providence Radio
1969-1976 WPRO ( mid days after Salty, and mentored Holland Cooke)
1976-1992 PRO-FM mornings.
1992-1995 WEBE-108, Westport, Conn., Mornings
1995-1998 WCTK, Mornings.
1998-2000 WHJJ mornings

Air name: Jimmy Gray[do it as long as you can, then do it one more year]
[[email protected]]
 
RE "...mentored Holland Cooke."

He taught me everything he knows.
Not everything I know.
Everything HE knows.
:)

But seriously...It must've been a-kinder-gentler time. I relocated to Providence, and got a warm welcome, from listeners, and EVERYONE at WPRO...ESPECIALLY from Jimmy Gray, who showed-me-around, clowned-around with me on-air, and became a lifelong pal. He fixed me up with the insurance guy, the accountant, and the barber I've been using since 1975.

Fast-forward to present day, and we read here that if-you-didn't-happen-to-be-born-here-you-shouldn't-be-on-the-air-here. That would've disqualified Salty, Jimmy, Larry, and HC.

And what's with all this intra-staff feuding posts here report?
WHY?
That Salty/Larry/Jimmy/Gary/HC/Cherub line-up was A TEAM.
Ballbusting? All the time! And ALWAYS in good cheer.

And now, from the archives: The very first voice you'll hear is PD Jay Clark. Those-who-know-him-best will recognize real Jay Clark copy ("WE WANT YOU TO WIN!"); and another technique of his that I've shamelessly borrowed elsewhere, using multiple voices, sometimes cutting from voice-to-voice mid-sentence. Following Jay, you'll hear, in this order: midday host Jimmy Gray, mid-morning host Larry Kruger, Jay again, then longtime WPRO production director Austin "Jake" Paquin, before yours truly tags it live.

Grab the arm rest...and return-with-us-now to 1977:
http://members.aol.com/cookeh/WPRO77.wax

Good evening from Winston-Salem NC,
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
As far as the original question, yes.
As far as the ghost of Steve, in heaven as it was on earth. In other words, you're probably still fired.
 
My "role" in the market was as a part-timer for WSNE (for less than a year, in 1986). Not even a blip on the screen, but still interested in what's going on today.
Bill Hall
WDHA-FM, Morristown, NJ
 
wkfd 1979
wmyd 1979
weri fm 1980
whjy 81 to 85
reality 85 to 2007
favorite moment breaking up a fight between steve white and eddie beard in the hjj lobby before projo reporter walked in for interview
 
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