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Stoppin' by to say hello....

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Nick Scott

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It's been forever since I've been on this website. I thought I would drop a line and say hello to all my old co-workers and friends that visit this site. Things are going well here in West By God Virginia (Ha!).

I hope all of you are keeping your heads up in the unstable market known as Cincinnati. But don't take it for granted... I never realized how much I loved that town and the radio stations until I moved here over a year ago. I honestly believe Cincy is the closest thing to Heaven on Earth. I never thought I would miss it as much as I do.

For those that want to keep in touch you can contact me at..

[email protected]
[email protected]
www.myspace.com/nick_scott

You stay classy Cincinnati,
NS
 
What part of West Virginia?

I worked at many stations in Parkersburg and Marietta....Parkersburg is my hometown.

Welcome back!!
 
"Electric 102.9" is located in Charleston.
It used to be "Super 102" when I lived in Huntington north suburbs and way back....WTIP/WTIP "beautiful music" in the late 60's and 70's.
BTW: Charleston/Huntington is not that bad.....good radio history there.
 
Charleston is a beautiful city! Hell, the entire state of WV is breath taking. Charleston is a fun market to work in! But I'm sure yall can relate when I say home will always be home. Cincy is my home and will always be my home. I miss it there but I am happy where I am now.
 
ncincy1 said:
"Electric 102.9" is located in Charleston.
It used to be "Super 102" when I lived in Huntington north suburbs and way back....WTIP/WTIP "beautiful music" in the late 60's and 70's.
BTW: Charleston/Huntington is not that bad.....good radio history there.
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We are 102.7FM not 102.9FM. It's kinda crazy.. I was driving home to Cincy late one night. About 2 in the morning or so, and I was driving through Chillicothe on Rt 35. And for about ten miles my signal at Electric 102.7 in Charleston was battling and mixing with WEBN 102.7 in Cincinnati. It was funny listening to it go from Justin Timberlake to Mudvayne. Haha... it was like a bad remix or something.
 
Sorry about the frequency mix-up....since I lived in the area growing up, I fondly remember radio in both Charleston & Huntington.
I then moved to Cincinnati in '87.
Graduated Marshall in the late 70's and worked at many radio stations in the Tri-State including:

-WMUL (of course during college days)
-WKEE AM
-WTCR AM
-WAMX FM (the original one @ 93.7 - Ashland/Huntington Top 40 early '70's)

Real tuntables and cart machines - pure dinosaur compared to today's radio - still lot's of FUN then.
Some excellent radio history in Charleston - mostly AM. Back "in the day" the following stations ruled the airwaves:

-WKAZ AM 950 (now on 680?)

http://members.aol.com/jeff570/wkna.html

-WXIT AM 1490 (used to battle it out with 'KAZ for Top 40 #1 back in the late '60's and early '70's)

Now doing something more financially stable and rewarding but still enjoy hearing about what's going on in radio - especially back home. Too bad not much on the West Virginia board.

Have fun in Charleston Nick and keep up the good work!
 
Ncincy, your statement
ncincy1 said:
Now doing something more financially stable and rewarding
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rang painfully true. There's a related discussion starting about five posts into this thread on that matter. For me, though, getting into radio was a mid-life crisis. I find it rewarding, just not financially rewarding. I lived in Parkersburg as a lad but wasn't into the dial at the time, I was discovering 8 tracks and John Denver records.

Nick, we never met while you were in town, but you're about an hour from Beckley... we have a mutual friend there that likes Harleys and who calls himself an old goat from time to time. I'm referring to Ted Morro. He's the morning man on Groovy 94. If you drop in on him, tell him Mark said hey.
 
Will do! I just talked to Ted last night on the phone for about an hour. He is the Ops. Manager down there as weill as PD and Mornings of Groovy. I've always considered Ted Morro my radio dad. I've never had someone take me under his wing like he did when I was on the air at Warm 98. He is def. one in a million. He's doing great down here. He misses the 'Nati just like I do.

Radio is WV is amazing! Tons and tons of heritage plus the stations still have fun. We have been Electric 102.7 for about 7 years now. Most of the city still calls us Super 102. Which was the stations name for about 20 years.
 
Around sunrise and sunset WKEE would sometimes give CKLW a run for its money in Western Ohio with its own top 40 format. Did anyone ever call WKEE the "Little 8"?
 
NCincy1?????

OK... WAMX-94X on Terraupin Ridge

Dick Windsor, Eric St. John, Shotgun Jay Michaels, Bobby Rich, Bob Lee, Paul Williams, Pappa Scott Hamilton were there in the top 40 days after the AOR/underground format was dropped.

Chris Bailey consultant, Don Rees Engineer, Dick Martin Owner, Carla Carhart receptionist. That was the lineup. Where do you fall in there? ???
 
I worked part-time weekends at WAMX -early 70's before going full-time at a new AM station (then) in Milton, WV. - WNST 1600.

Worked there as MD then PD for Nasseeb S Tweel in the mid- 70's - now that guy was legendary with Tri-State Radio - even before my day (WTCR in the mid-60's?) Lot's of stories there - talk about characters!

Matter of fact, I think Naseeb was instrumental in bringing 103.3 to Huntington (WVQM; now WTCR-FM) - wow, that's going way back in time!

After that, did afternoon drive at WHTN - AM 800-Country then Oldies.....the list goes on. FYI - Watching Jack O'Shea "do country" was weird since I grew up listening to him on Top 40 WKEE in the mid to late 60's.

Yeah, I remember many of those guys you mentioned - went to Marshall with Bobby Rich.

I used to really enjoy listening to WCMI in the late 60's as a teenager - they were awesome - better than WKEE (my opinion) - loved the jingles and local personalities -"Tricky-Ricky Cool Showtime"?

How about Hal Murphy (yes, he used to do his radio show from a bowling alley in downtown Ashland on WIRO. I think he then brought a new FM to the Tri-State (WCAK - "we care about kentucky")? That station broadcasted in the early days above the Dollar General Store in Catlettsburg.

I remember after leaving radio in the Tri-State to move to Cincy in '87 to soon hear a familiar voice doing traffic reports -

I could go on all night but don't want to bore the others -----fun times then-----radio was exciting to a (then) young guy who loved radio ever since he could remember. I would not trade those early, "living the dream" experiences for anything.

Special thanks to Nick for starting this thread allowing the "older" radio guys from the Tri-State (Huntington/Ashland/Ironton) now living in Cincy, to go back in time!
 
Agree on CMI, but being an Ashland Native it was my hometown station, when it meant something. Plus they were 24hr AM and Kee AM signed off.

BTW KEE Was The Big 80. Flying Dutchman and Jimmy Mack and O'Shea Loves you most. I can hear them coming over the tinny PA at Southside pool.I go back to when WWHY was a top 40 station with the HY guys, but it was a struggle to get them in my part of Ashland. Ashland-Huntington has always been a feeder for Cincy. Hell most of Channel 5 and Sheila Gray on 19 came from Channel 3. Minor trivia NBC Huntley Brinkley report was built on the platform Channel 3 developed for the Huntington Charleston dual anchors in the 50's-60's.

Tons of stories of Terraupin ridge and the isolated studios. If you left the station door open, you would occasionally have to round up the critters before you signed off. Moths were the size of bats. If the well went dry you carried a bucket outside to the garbage can under the ac unit to get water to flush the john. Late afternoons on those days could get a little awkward.

Just trying to recall the weekend staff back then, but then I was having too much fun to pay attention. ::)

Bob Lee 73-80 AMX/KEE/V-100
 
Hey no problem ncincy1!! I've found that alot of great talent has came through these signals. Shela Gray actually helped me get to know ppl down here with I first moved here. She even hooked me up with her husband to do some market research on how much I should have asked for my starting salary and such. She was a big help and from what I've heard, she is a very missed talent on the news down here.

I'm not a hard person to find so if any of you "old timers" ;D ) are ever in the area. Please feel free to hit me up and I'll give you a tour of my cluster with Bristol Broadcasting.
 
I'm pretty sure we own KAZ now. We flipped it into a all sports channel. It is run by automation 24/7. No live jocks or shows. Kinda sad....
 
My bad... I was wrong in my last post. We have WVSR- FM (My station), WQBE-FM, WZJO-FM, WBES-AM, and WVTS-AM.
 
Nick: Yes and no....

Your company does own the original WKAZ @ 950AM now called WVTS (Supertalk 950).

The current WKAZ is on 680 and (at last check) plays 60's oldies....that's why the WKAZ call letters are so cherished in Charleston and the Kanawha Valley - it was THE LEADER in Top 40 in the 60's and early 70's before FM was so popular. Excellent history there.

I guess the "Jack" format did not work well for 107.3 'KAZ so they now are "classic hits" - not wanting to be associated with the term "oldies" since they play hits from the late 60's to mid-80's.

Question: Why doesn't "Electric 102.7" broadcast / stream online? Your new fans in Cincy can't hear you???
 
I know!!!! We've tried and tried to get our GM to allow us to stream. Like most GM's, he doesn't want to fork out the dough to make it happen. I wish we did simply because I have alot of family in Waynesville, Lebanon, and South Lebanon that would love to hear me. If we ever do, I'll put the link up.
 
Who was the Chad O'Shea that worked at WKEE in Huntington the late sixties? I've always that it was our Chad O'Shea here in Cincy, but he told me he never worked that market. My first FM tuner was purchased in 68 when KEE AM would go off at dusk, or reduce power, but FM stayed on til midnight. I lived in Ashland, worked in Greenup Co and loved the Ashland station and KEE. It was the best 100 bucks extra I ever spent on that 68 VW tuner just to get the station in the evening.
 
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