Is the station licensed to Rockville, Indiana, still owned by Bob Rouse?
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Rockville radio station
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WAXI was sold in 1998 to Crossroads Communications.
History of the station is here:
http://www.waxi.com/waxihistory.htm
History of the station is here:
http://www.waxi.com/waxihistory.htm
IndyDan said:
Thanks.
They even stream their audio. I've listened to the morning guy, Ronn Mott. He has a very interesting show, and has lots of trivia. He even pokes fun at Gov. Mitch about daylight savings time at the top of each hour. I think I heard him say that he's benn in the business for 51 years. Kind of neat for a small market station.
I used to work with Ronn at WBOW back in the early 90s. He's a curmudgeonly sort but really knows his music. He has a record collection that numbers, I think, over 6,000 discs, Lp, 45, and 78. At WBOW, and at WAXI before they switched to Oldies, he used to play music largely straight out of his collection. (At WBOW, he complained loud and long that the owner put only one turntable in the studio.)
Sorry about the partial post, my complete thought follows.
I used to work with Ronn at WBOW back in the early 90s. He's a curmudgeonly sort but really knows his music. He has a record collection that numbers, I think, over 6,000 discs, Lp, 45, and 78. At WBOW, and at WAXI before they switched to Oldies, he used to play music largely straight out of his collection. At WBOW, he complained loud and long that the owner put only one turntable in the studio. He'd play a couple really obscure songs each shift, and would usually make some sort of trivia game out of them. Before I worked for WBOW, I won one of those trivia games by correctly guessing that the song "Linda" by Ray Noble with Buddy Clark was written for Linda Eastman McCartney when she was a girl. (I had that 78 back then, which impressed Ronn when I told him.)
There used to be this annual record sale at Hulman Center in Terre Haute, and I'd always go, back when I still collected vinyl. I'd usually bump into Ronn there, and he'd always lament how he and I were the only two DJs in town who went. He'd always have a big bag full of stuff he'd bought.
Ronn's on-air style was very old school. He liked to sprinkle spots through his show rather than group them in stop sets (as it showed on the clock!). He routinely let an instrumental spool out into the news at the top of the hour, rather than backtiming. That sort of thing. It drove the PD nuts. But people really liked Ronn's show, and IIRC he had respectable numbers for a little AM on 1230 that barely covered Vigo County.
Ronn got the boot from WBOW when the station tried to go in a more AC direction, so he formed a partnership and bought the 1300 property, which he ran as WjSH (Wish) for a few years. Now he's playing oldies at WAXI. I was surprised by that -- I thought he'd want to hold onto his mid-19th-century pop and standards. But last October when I was in Terre Haute one morning, I tuned in and listened to him do a credible job with oldies. He was still playing the obscure and forgotten stuff from his collection, just 30-40 years later on the timeline. He did a trivia contest on Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday," where the first person to guess the artist won something. Not bad.
Peace,
jim
I used to work with Ronn at WBOW back in the early 90s. He's a curmudgeonly sort but really knows his music. He has a record collection that numbers, I think, over 6,000 discs, Lp, 45, and 78. At WBOW, and at WAXI before they switched to Oldies, he used to play music largely straight out of his collection. At WBOW, he complained loud and long that the owner put only one turntable in the studio. He'd play a couple really obscure songs each shift, and would usually make some sort of trivia game out of them. Before I worked for WBOW, I won one of those trivia games by correctly guessing that the song "Linda" by Ray Noble with Buddy Clark was written for Linda Eastman McCartney when she was a girl. (I had that 78 back then, which impressed Ronn when I told him.)
There used to be this annual record sale at Hulman Center in Terre Haute, and I'd always go, back when I still collected vinyl. I'd usually bump into Ronn there, and he'd always lament how he and I were the only two DJs in town who went. He'd always have a big bag full of stuff he'd bought.
Ronn's on-air style was very old school. He liked to sprinkle spots through his show rather than group them in stop sets (as it showed on the clock!). He routinely let an instrumental spool out into the news at the top of the hour, rather than backtiming. That sort of thing. It drove the PD nuts. But people really liked Ronn's show, and IIRC he had respectable numbers for a little AM on 1230 that barely covered Vigo County.
Ronn got the boot from WBOW when the station tried to go in a more AC direction, so he formed a partnership and bought the 1300 property, which he ran as WjSH (Wish) for a few years. Now he's playing oldies at WAXI. I was surprised by that -- I thought he'd want to hold onto his mid-19th-century pop and standards. But last October when I was in Terre Haute one morning, I tuned in and listened to him do a credible job with oldies. He was still playing the obscure and forgotten stuff from his collection, just 30-40 years later on the timeline. He did a trivia contest on Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday," where the first person to guess the artist won something. Not bad.
Peace,
jim
I worked for Bob Rouse when he was GM of WVTS from 1977 to 1980. I didn't grow up in Indiana but while in Terre Haute I heard lots of stories about what a popular Top-40 DJ Bob Rouse was at WBOW during the 1960s.
Someone told me his on-air moniker was "Bouncin' Bobby Rouse".
Someone told me his on-air moniker was "Bouncin' Bobby Rouse".
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