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Q99 TV show from the 80s?

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A while back, my cousin told me of a show that the old Q99 used to air in a simulcast with WAPT back in the 80s. The show aired on Saturday nights and on one particular night, 94TYX bought air time on this show through WAPT and since it was a simulcast, whatever was played on WAPT was also heard on Q99. Does the show--if not the necessarily the 94TYX deal--ring a bell to any of you?<P ID="signature">______________
"...and the countdown continues until the neanderthals that govern college football do something about their pathetic postseason."--Tim Brando, Sporting News Radio</P>
 
> A while back, my cousin told me of a show that the old Q99
> used to air in a simulcast with WAPT back in the 80s. The
> show aired on Saturday nights and on one particular night,
> 94TYX bought air time on this show through WAPT and since it
> was a simulcast, whatever was played on WAPT was also heard
> on Q99. Does the show--if not the necessarily the 94TYX
> deal--ring a bell to any of you?
>
Yes I do. barely .I think it was a music video show. I used to watch it but for some reason WAPT kept saying it was simulcast but when you turned on the radio it was nowhere to be found. Apparently Q 99 stopped carrying it and didn't tell WAPT. The clarion ledger film critic's column has a message at the bottom that says her review can be heard on WTYX every week. WTYX no longer exists.

While we are on the subject of WAPT does anyone remember the short lived and truly awful "Disco 16" ?. Talk about a big time cheese fest. Man! It was sort of like a disco version of Jackie Thompsons "Hour of the 50's". Just as bad. Mostly commercials. local cast.

hour of the 50s was one of my guilty pleasures. Jackie's microphone was never turned on when he started talking and when they finally turned it on it was too loud and you couldn't understand what he was saying. Then there was Tony McGill who imitated Elvis. And those God awful lip-sync segments where Jackie and the gang would pretend to play instruments to some old Fats Domino record. Those were a hoot, We'd be on the floor laughing. Of course don't forget the old people dancing. oh, and remember the really really old couple? I think thats the first show that got canned when they sold WJTV. along with Romper Room and all the other local cheese. I miss those days, makes me laugh just thinking about it. They should bring local shows back, who knows, it might make a hit.
 
> While we are on the subject of WAPT does anyone remember the
> short lived and truly awful "Disco 16" ?. Talk about a big
> time cheese fest. Man! It was sort of like a disco version
> of Jackie Thompsons "Hour of the 50's". Just as bad. Mostly
> commercials. local cast.


Don't forget "Black Gold" on WLBT. It was a Jheri Curl cheese fest! It was on every Saturday, after the cartoons. It went off the air sometime in the late '80s/early '90s.
 
> > While we are on the subject of WAPT does anyone remember
> the
> > short lived and truly awful "Disco 16" ?. Talk about a
> big
> > time cheese fest. Man! It was sort of like a disco
> version
> > of Jackie Thompsons "Hour of the 50's". Just as bad.
> Mostly
> > commercials. local cast.
>
>
> Don't forget "Black Gold" on WLBT. It was a Jheri Curl
> cheese fest! It was on every Saturday, after the cartoons.
> It went off the air sometime in the late '80s/early '90s.
>

"Anytime is party time and anytime is party time, so do it".

What is Lee King up to these days? I do hear about him once every blue moon.

Also, does anyone remember a show called "Catchin' A Wave"? It was a local dance show that was done from Rapids on the Resevoir. It aired a couple of summers on WJTV on Saturday mornings. Rosco on the Radio from 94TYX hosted it the first summer and Shadow B. Cruze from Hot 95 hosted it the next summer. <P ID="signature">______________
"...and the countdown continues until the neanderthals that govern college football do something about their pathetic postseason."--Tim Brando, Sporting News Radio</P>
 
>
>
> Don't forget "Black Gold" on WLBT. It was a Jheri Curl
> cheese fest! It was on every Saturday, after the cartoons.
> It went off the air sometime in the late '80s/early '90s.
>

Oh yeah, Black Gold. They all had those loud flashy 70's outfits that looked like either the cast of a Shaft movie or a Pimp convention. I remember girls would be wiggling so much their (BLEEP) would be slapping them in the face. Great stuff. How about the local segments on Wrestling. They had the WJTV weatherman (Ken Dear or something like that) who would interview wrestlers behind that cardboard desk and the wrestlers would scream and yell into the mike sling slobber and sweat all over the place while he would be bent over backward to keep from getting wet. Sometimes they would knock over the cardboard desk. Cowboy Bill Watts, Dick Murdock, Skandar Akbar, Percy Pringle, The Spoiler. Great stuff.

How bout the Tarzan reruns.
 
And Speaking About Local TV Wrestling...

> How about the local segments on Wrestling. They had
> the WJTV weatherman (Ken Dear or something like that) who
> would interview wrestlers behind that cardboard desk and the
> wrestlers would scream and yell into the mike sling slobber
> and sweat all over the place while he would be bent over
> backward to keep from getting wet. Sometimes they would
> knock over the cardboard desk. Cowboy Bill Watts, Dick
> Murdock, Skandar Akbar, Percy Pringle, The Spoiler. Great
> stuff.

I'll never forget while I was a kid what was then Gulf Coast Wrestling, promoted by Lee Fields out of Mobile, would do weekly shows in Laurel (Monday nights) and Hattiesburg (Thursdays). They would film their TV shows Thursday mornings at 9:00 at WDAM's Eastabuchie studios, just down the road from where I grew up in Moselle. Of course, school absences at Moselle Elementary and South Jones High School rose slightly Thursday mornings with the kids that would play hookey to show up and watch Cowboy Bob Kelly, "Flash" and "Rocket" Monroe, as well as several of those mentioned above.

One particular Thursday morning I went with my brother and a couple of his friends to a taping. My older brother was about 15 at the time, and after the Monroe Brothers had finished their match and were leaving the ring, he said something smartalecky...and "Flash" Monroe reached over and slapped him across the face. No "sports entertainment" there...my father, when he heard of the incident, was mad at us for skipping school, but had to be talked out of packin' his .38 and heading for the Wade Kennedy Livestock Arena, where the matches in Hattiesburg were held.

Off topic, but some interesting memories of a time long passed.<P ID="signature">______________
Robert Charles Pickering
Lakeland, Florida</P>
 
> > > While we are on the subject of WAPT does anyone remember
>
> > the
> > > short lived and truly awful "Disco 16" ?. Talk about a
> > big
> > > time cheese fest. Man! It was sort of like a disco
> > version
> > > of Jackie Thompsons "Hour of the 50's". Just as bad.
> > Mostly
> > > commercials. local cast.
> >
> >
> > Don't forget "Black Gold" on WLBT. It was a Jheri Curl
> > cheese fest! It was on every Saturday, after the cartoons.
>
> > It went off the air sometime in the late '80s/early '90s.
> >
>
> "Anytime is party time and anytime is party time, so do it".
>
ASOLOM ALEGGAM!! (sp.)

>
> What is Lee King up to these days? I do hear about him once
> every blue moon.
>
> Also, does anyone remember a show called "Catchin' A Wave"?
> It was a local dance show that was done from Rapids on the
> Resevoir. It aired a couple of summers on WJTV on Saturday
> mornings. Rosco on the Radio from 94TYX hosted it the first
> summer and Shadow B. Cruze from Hot 95 hosted it the next
> summer.
>
 
> Also, does anyone remember a show called "Catchin' A Wave"?
> It was a local dance show that was done from Rapids on the
> Resevoir. It aired a couple of summers on WJTV on Saturday
> mornings. Rosco on the Radio from 94TYX hosted it the first
> summer and Shadow B. Cruze from Hot 95 hosted it the next
> summer.


I remember it! I'd pretty much forgotten about it, but it all came back to me just now. Didn't Rosco have that pink zinc oxide on his nose in every episode? That stuff was really cool for about a month then it disappeared completely.
 
> ASOLOM ALEGGAM!! (sp.)

The correct spelling is "As Salaamu Alaikum", but that's neither here nor there at this point.
<P ID="signature">______________
"...and the countdown continues until the neanderthals that govern college football do something about their pathetic postseason."--Tim Brando, Sporting News Radio</P>
 
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