random board info-

[tzbarber]

Killing time before I have a remote to attend.
Just curious as to where everybody's from. Seems most of the posts here pertaining to MS are from Jackson or the delta,depending on which AM stations flipped formats. Never seem to see anything about Hattiesburg,Tupelo, or the coast. Anybody out there? Everything voicetracked? Consider this a chance for people to mingle among yourselves........

 

[onceradio]

Meridian is here....

 

[bobrall]

Hello from Itta Bena and Panther Burn

 

[DeadElvis]

Memphis.

But, I have worked in Jackson, Hattiesburg, and the Coast.

DE

 

[robgrayson]

Memphis, also; but I have had the pleasure of having to buy expensive Mississippi license plates in Greenville, Jackson, and Starkville. So far, I haven't had to make any, but just in case, Dead Elvis is my lawyer of record.

 

[stephend2]

Vicksburg here..

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Melmfus, but I actually had the control room of ZZQ about 167 years ago, when Sergio had a gig and couldn't blab. Dead Elvis is not my attorney of record, and I don't play one on TV.

 

[the golden boy]

Jackson

 

[jo-nathan]

Meridian is here....

Seconded... well, Meridian area (Stonewall).

 

[miss. girl]

hey yall from georgia! what has been going on in tupelo?

 

[Interstate4Jammer]

Lakeland, Florida here...appx. 35 miles east of Tampa. I am originally from the Hattiesburg/Laurel area, and worked over a decade in the market before coming here. Here's hoping everyone has a fun and safe Labor Day holiday weekend.

 

[mikl73]

Memphis. My radio career included stops in Clarksdale, Cleveland, Drew, and Hernando.

 

[radioagaga]

Laurel here, ive had stops in Jackson & Meridian to name a few !!!!

 

[Moonshine]

Good Morning from Chicago! I paid some real dues over the years in the early days in Mississippi .. back when we played records and had reel to reel tape players in the control room. Any of you guys ever played records or cued up cut 5 on a reel to reel while reading the weather? Thanks to technology however voice tracking may put us all out of work.

 

[Henry McClurg]

I go back to the 60's and worked at WJXN Jackson, WMDC Hazlehurst, WVIM Vicksburg, WDDT Greenville, WLEF Greenwood and (my baby) the Mississippi Radio Network. Then I moved to Houston (Texas, that is) and worked at a couple of BIG
stations. (At KULF we got 2 weeks paid vacation our first year. I never got vacation time in Miss., and I didn't want it. Being on the air was addictive.)

All those stations had cart machine for commercials and turntables for the music. In Greenville and Greenwood we each had an AMPEX tape recorder. That was the gold standard. I would spend hours (and hours) playing on them.

Did you know that both Houston, Miss., and Houston, Texas, are named after Sam Houston, former president of the country of Texas and a governor and senator after admission to the U.S. Houston, Miss., is named for him because he used to travel the Natchez Trace going to Washington and frequently spent the night there. So they named the town after him.

 

[pobryan]

Another Jacksonite here. I've only worked on air in Mississippi in the Hattiesburg area (WXXX, WHSY, WKNZ). I worked with Dead Elvis at WKNZ before he was in the legal world. I left Hattiesburg in the mid 80's for New Orleans (WEZB), Little Rock (KZOU), Memphis (WRVR), Birmingham(WKXX) and a few smaller markets here and there. Dead Elvis and I also worked together for a short time in El Dorado, Arkansas. And yes, I have cued many a record back in the old days. I remember only one cart machine working at WXXX. I had to pot up the production room and run back and forth between the cart machine in production and the one working in the control room. You had to make sure the jingle came up in the control room (turn tables were there). You couldn't fire a jingle in production and get back to the control room in time to fire the record. Time to find a short PSA!!! I was sooo glad when they got that fixed. And yes, we had two AMPEX machines. Anybody remember slip queing or putting a dime on the tone arm for a little extra weight. Boy, that put some cue burns down big time!!!