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Remembering Winston-Salem's 93.1

These great memories motivated me to start a website (certainly not the first), called "Top 40 Radio Retrospective." You can find it at http://www.squidoo.com/musicradio/. I hope you get a chance to visit and tell me what you think...and what I should add to it.

BarneyPip, aka Bruce Cole aka Bruce Summers, now Bruce Carson at WRIT and WQBW Milwaukee (I change names like underwear -- about once every 12 years ;) ).
 
Wasn't Bernie Mann involved in Z-93 with Nick?

The orginal building was tiny! Studios and transmitter to the left of the door, and other offices to the right. Not sure when they added the back part of that building. It was twice the size of the original.

In the Jeff Silver days - he was so afraid someone would steal something, none of the air staff had a key. You had to ring the bell to get into the building!
 
I never could figure out that Jeff thought anyone would take out of that building. I know there was nothing there I would want. The building was expanded in the late 60s. The AM operation was on the left side of the building with the FM on the right side. Bernie was part of the management till the late sixtys when he went to Arkansas. After Bernie left Billy Packer was the sales manager for a few years. In the Nick and Bernie days the station had an all female sales staff, there was lots of talk in the market about that! I remember that in the Nick days the stations engineer always said Nick always had good equipment since someone else had used it for years before Nick bought it. Long live the WAIR PLAYBOYS!
 
I remember a CD Player disappearing in the Silver days. We looked everywhere. He finally decided to call the cops and was going to make everyone take a lie detector test! Machine had been placed under the control room counter to make way for a turntable for some special show, or something! Guy was nutz!!
 
I remember that but I didn't know Silver wanted us to take a lie detector test. It would have cost him over a grand and all over a $120 CD player. Do you remember when TV 2 was gonna do a PM Magazine shoot in the Oldies 93 Studio and Silver wanted to make sure they did not shoot the cart rack cause he was afraid other stations cound see the names of the songs we played? I am sure you remember when he would come back from a visit up north and we would have to redo all the liners to match the ones the oldies station in Pittsburg were using. One thing I can say for old Jeff, he did know how to throw a client party!
 
I do remember a party at that place on Country Club Road! You are right!

I saw him a in Jan 05 at a managers meeting in Miami. Was working for CBS in Buffalo. Had a bout with cancer (colon, prostrate, something - don't remember). Hadn't changed much.
 
XTalker said:
Wasn't Bernie Mann involved in Z-93 with Nick?

The orginal building was tiny! Studios and transmitter to the left of the door, and other offices to the right. Not sure when they added the back part of that building. It was twice the size of the original.

In the Jeff Silver days - he was so afraid someone would steal something, none of the air staff had a key. You had to ring the bell to get into the building!
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Bernie became partners with Nick in 1965. Together along with a silent partner, John Googe, they formed Holiday Broadcasting Corporation. The original building was indeed tiny. The addition was constructed in 1970. Until then, poor WGLD (later to become WSEZ/Z-93) was in a trailer to the side of the building. When it rained, the "trailer park" became "Lake Matney," as we referred to it. You had to wade out to the trailer.
 
Yeah, WGLD was 100.3, then changed to WOJY "Joy 100", then later WWWB "B-100", then WFXF "The Fox", then WVBZ "The Buzzard". I was there and knew many of the old WGLD sales staff.
 
I don't think WGLD became SEZ! GLD became JOY which became B-100 FM (WWWB). Switch from GLD to JOY was from Beautiful Music to AC. B-100 was AC but a little more foreground. I worked at B-100 in the early 90s with Max & Pam in the mornings .. then Jim Schafer.

I worked with Harlow at WYYD in Raleigh in the 80s. He was Sales Manager, I was PD. Always liked Dick and thought he was a good radio person. He did like to party!
 
mots said:
XTalker said:
Wasn't Bernie Mann involved in Z-93 with Nick?

The orginal building was tiny! Studios and transmitter to the left of the door, and other offices to the right. Not sure when they added the back part of that building. It was twice the size of the original.

In the Jeff Silver days - he was so afraid someone would steal something, none of the air staff had a key. You had to ring the bell to get into the building!
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Bernie became partners with Nick in 1965. Together along with a silent partner, John Googe, they formed Holiday Broadcasting Corporation. The original building was indeed tiny. The addition was constructed in 1970. Until then, poor WGLD (later to become WSEZ/Z-93) was in a trailer to the side of the building. When it rained, the "trailer park" became "Lake Matney," as we referred to it. You had to wade out to the trailer.
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By bad...I didn't mean WGLD...I meant WGPL.
 
Dr. Proctor said:
Did you know Dick Harlow and Kim Pyle by chance?????
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I know both Dick and Kim. Kim has moved back to Little Rock to Market Manage the CC cluster there. I'm not sure if that's one of the clusters to go in the sale, though.
 
WAIR FM became WGPL (Witnessing God's Precious Love) when it went all gospel. The statoion was indeed in a mobile home behind WAIR on Salem Valley Road. The "board" was home built, it had two old Ampex 601s, and a mike hanging from the ceiling on a rope! The station later became WSEZ.
 
Was the Mobile Home, the station that had the fmmking chickens running around in it???
 
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