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Once 5 hours daily on WCRW, Chicago, WHERE IS HE NOW? I was his board op for 2 years in the 1970's. Also wonder about Carlos Arroyo and Carlitos Agrelo???
 
tjthedj said:
Once 5 hours daily on WCRW, Chicago, WHERE IS HE NOW? I was his board op for 2 years in the 1970's. Also wonder about Carlos Arroyo and Carlitos Agrelo???
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Would you like me to ask some of the folks at our Chicago stations if they know where they are?
 
THANKS. That would be great. Those guys were "household names" in Chicago Hispanic radio in the 60's and early 70's. Raul and Carlos brokered time. Carlitos worked for Raul. There were NO 'fulltime" Hispanic stations in those years.
 
tjthedj said:
THANKS. That would be great. Those guys were "household names" in Chicago Hispanic radio in the 60's and early 70's. Raul and Carlos brokered time. Carlitos worked for Raul. There were NO 'fulltime" Hispanic stations in those years.
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I did not know that. I will be in Chicago in a week,a nd will ask.

What station were those guys on? WOPA, or one of the other brokered frequencies like 1240?
 
Those 3 were all on 1240, WCRW, Chicago, a very cool station.

WCRW operated (shared time) only 5 hours daily 11-2 and 5-7, and grossed about 3000 weekly (not bad money for the 70's/80's).

I was their board op (my second radio job). I also read in ENGLISH the same commercial they just read in Puerto Rican Spanish.

Bankers hours and the boss bought me lunch every day for 3 years. My (Polish) grandma used to listen just to hear me on the radio!

I left there to purchase WFDT, Columbia City, IN.
 
tjthedj said:
Those 3 were all on 1240, WCRW, Chicago, a very cool station.

WCRW operated (shared time) only 5 hours daily 11-2 and 5-7, and grossed about 3000 weekly (not bad money for the 70's/80's).

I was their board op (my second radio job). I also read in ENGLISH the same commercial they just read in Puerto Rican Spanish.

Bankers hours and the boss bought me lunch every day for 3 years. My (Polish) grandma used to listen just to hear me on the radio!

I left there to purchase WFDT, Columbia City, IN.
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I remember the 3 stations on 1240 well, and I DXed and verified two of them from Ohio. I was on a money-losing FM, but on Sundays I often ran the board for the 12 or so 30-minute shows in Greek, German, Italian, Polish, etc. that WJMO AM ran. About a year after I left, I signed on my own station, too.

A number of the show presenters got in the habit of bringing national delacacies. I never learned how to say, "is this from a part of the animal that will not make me sick were I to know about it?" in other languages. The Lord knows what I ate. The Poles and the Italians brought the best stuff. The Germans, who I recall were on at about sunrise, never deviated from the different-kinds-of-sausage routine, which was a belly full at 6 AM.

The most fun was learning that a "normal" hand gesture could well be offensive to the folks on the Russian show. Nearly none of the people had any English, making me wonder how the licensee knew what was on the air... of course, this was the licensee who lost WOOK AM in DC over Bible verses that were actually calls for a numbers game.
 
WFDT (the first station I owned) was not much more than a Mr. Microphone and a couple of scratchy albums. We bought it from a very nice old guy, changed it to oldies, and soon moved it to Fort Wayne, IN (where at least 4 owners later) it still occuupies 106.3.

WCRW was a great place to work, spotlessly clean. The boss was a hard taskmaster, but taught me ALOT. He also bought me lunch every day.
 
tjthedj said:
Once 5 hours daily on WCRW, Chicago, WHERE IS HE NOW? I was his board op for 2 years in the 1970's. Also wonder about Carlos Arroyo and Carlitos Agrelo???
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At WOJO, the only name that "registered" as the second Carlos... they knew him "from somewhere" but they could not recall where.
 
Thanks.

Cardona was a very good businessman with a very good voice, sounding much like the guy who speaks at the end of the GOYA commercials, saying something (in Spanish) like; Si, es Goya, something something bueno." (a memory from 26 years ago).

The FIRST Carlos was a "traditional" announcer with a beautiful voice. Might be described as a Hispanic Wally Phillips.

The SECOND Carlos did not have much of a voice, but a GREAT heart. He always wore his emotional feelings on his sleeve on the air "Puuuuubrecito!"

Gringo, I appreciate the try at finding out.
 
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