With 3 talk stations in town now, I was just thinking back to my first radio job in Indianapolis, as a desk assistant for Newsradio 13 WIFE.
Our job was to record network features, lift AP actuallities, and rip the wire machines. Man, I hated replacing those ribbons.
I remember working with Eric Garnes, who made the transition over from when WIFE played music. He was the last DJ to play music on that frequency. If anyone reads this works with him, ask him about how he dealt with the format change from music to news. It was very awkward.
Steve Cooper, Frank Thomas, Sam Graves, Cheryl Boone, Doug O'Brien, Jerry Castor, Bill Wathen, Scott Apple, Paul Scheuring, Chris Little and the legendary Jon Shepard are some of the other names I remember working with.
As far as syndicated shows are concerned, I only remember a few that we carried like Bruce Williams, Larry King, and Barry Farber.
They would bring in nationally recognized speakers from time to time, ask Eric Garnes about the time he met Henry Kissinger!
I remember that David Letterman had to fill in on a radio commentary for a week. I forget who he filled in for, but I remember the outcue "This is David Letterman, on the NBC radio network." Strange the things we remember, eh?
Desk assistant's were usually never on air types, but I remember one Saturday morning I had to fill in for the sports guy who was running late. It was a horrible sportscast, but I remember my outcue here as well, "WIFE newstime is 7:45, I'm Tom Berg and that's the sportsline to the minute."
I remember the jingles we used, bits of the jingle lyric went something like: "How ya gonna know all the news of the day, how ya gonna know what the world's got to say." "How ya gonna know if you'll need an umbrella, how ya gonna know if we don't tell ya." "News and more on 1310, W-I-F-E, Indiana-PLAS" There was a weird accentuation on the last syllable of Indianapolis in that jingle.
I remember the storage closet in the back that had mementos from WIFE's music days, 45's, carts, old American top 40 radio shows.
OK that's all I can remember for now.
Your thoughts?
Our job was to record network features, lift AP actuallities, and rip the wire machines. Man, I hated replacing those ribbons.
I remember working with Eric Garnes, who made the transition over from when WIFE played music. He was the last DJ to play music on that frequency. If anyone reads this works with him, ask him about how he dealt with the format change from music to news. It was very awkward.
Steve Cooper, Frank Thomas, Sam Graves, Cheryl Boone, Doug O'Brien, Jerry Castor, Bill Wathen, Scott Apple, Paul Scheuring, Chris Little and the legendary Jon Shepard are some of the other names I remember working with.
As far as syndicated shows are concerned, I only remember a few that we carried like Bruce Williams, Larry King, and Barry Farber.
They would bring in nationally recognized speakers from time to time, ask Eric Garnes about the time he met Henry Kissinger!
I remember that David Letterman had to fill in on a radio commentary for a week. I forget who he filled in for, but I remember the outcue "This is David Letterman, on the NBC radio network." Strange the things we remember, eh?
Desk assistant's were usually never on air types, but I remember one Saturday morning I had to fill in for the sports guy who was running late. It was a horrible sportscast, but I remember my outcue here as well, "WIFE newstime is 7:45, I'm Tom Berg and that's the sportsline to the minute."
I remember the jingles we used, bits of the jingle lyric went something like: "How ya gonna know all the news of the day, how ya gonna know what the world's got to say." "How ya gonna know if you'll need an umbrella, how ya gonna know if we don't tell ya." "News and more on 1310, W-I-F-E, Indiana-PLAS" There was a weird accentuation on the last syllable of Indianapolis in that jingle.
I remember the storage closet in the back that had mementos from WIFE's music days, 45's, carts, old American top 40 radio shows.
OK that's all I can remember for now.
Your thoughts?
