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The Market's Most Colorful Station

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There is no doubt about it, WVAM is probably the market's most "storied" station. There are more stories about the "fun and games" which went on at 'VAM than any other station. Let me get it started. (Remember, Bixler is dead, so have fun!)

1. The story about the popular Altoona jock who got mad at Bixler and burned the station's licenses and autrhorizations in the burn barrel out back.

2. The red phone out front which nobody was to answer if it rang!

3. Someone running bogus help wanted ads in the paper.

4. The female who hung out with one of the guys who, to say the least, was victumized by a doctor! She had a part of her anatomy cut off with what appeared to be a pair of scissors. No, I don't mean anything about "private parts". She was a nice girl but that doctor must have been drunk!

5. The time the tower fell down.

6. The Sunday night recording sessions of you-know-who. ("....this portion of the program is brought to you by Schwartz's Meat Market where they say 'nobody can ............'"

7. The couch.
 
Wow, that is before my time.

I was there during the Jim Drayton/Ward Tucker era and the beginning of the Delereme/Grappone/Helsel group, and there were plenty of stories in those times too.

Everything from ops sleeping on the studio floor to certain DJs "weed" smoking outside the back door.

Too many other things to mention. :D
 
Crazy Drayton and Ward brought me into program WPRR. Steve Clark never told Dave Banks (PD at the time) that there were changes coming. Drayton holds a meeting with all above mentioned, announces my hiring as the new PD and we're all stunned including me because no one told Dave! It was all down hill from there, lost our ASCAP license (Drayton wasn't paying anyone to play their music!!!) had to play BMI and Seasac (Canadian) tunes for a year, Drayton took money from the Coke machine to get paid and got caught DUI several times. Think he still owes Jay Parks or Casey O'Day for beer money! Tom Riley was programming WVAM at the time and I bolted for a full-time gig at Channel 10. What a weird time?
 
. The Sunday night recording sessions of you-know-who. ("....this portion of the program is brought to you by Schwartz's Meat Market where they say 'nobody can ............'"

I'd love to know who dx is.
 
W (yawn) V (Ho) A (Hum) M (zzzzz). Couldn't hold a candle to the worst day
inside WFBG and the Super Jocks fun and games.
 
what does this mean? just wondering who rremembers about the old VAM days' never m9nd i must not be up on old altoona radiom "rememberers"
 
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