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The old daze of WKTJ

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MisterBilge

Anyone remember when they played HotAC/Top 40 currents? Anyone know where Nelson Doak is? Did anyone ever escape Farmington and make it to a bigger market?
 
Nelson Doak passed away last March.Here's a short write up from Bates College Magazine.
Nelson Boies Doak, March 1, 2009

Nelson Doak fulfilled his dream in 2000: He bought a radio station. And not just any station —WKTJ in Farmington, where he worked while a Bates student and again starting in the late 1970s. He also owned a mobile disco from 1977 to 1986, which provided music entertainment for many events in western Maine. Immediately after college, he taught high school social science and earned a master’s in educational administration from Antioch College in 1976. But broadcasting called him back, and he was on the air at WKTJ using the name "Charlie James" for many years. A history major, he helped develop the annual history conference at Norlands Living History Center in Livermore in the early 1990s. After bypass surgery in 2003, he received a heart transplant in 2004. Among his survivors are his wife, Hazel, and a number of aunts and cousins.
Here's the link in case in case this gets edited for too much content.Scroll down to 1970.
http://www.bates.edu/x205165.xml
 
Thanks for the info Andy - but sad to hear. I'm glad that he was able to get into ownership at the place he loved. "Back in the day," he was among the first to pick the hits - but I guess in Farmington, you don't get much recognition on the national scene. Still, everyone up there knew him and loved him. He'll be missed...
 
Just found this thread - my wife Sue Waldron worked at WKTJ back in the 1970s as a result of the FM going on the air to accompany the daytime AM, during and after her time at UMF where she also had been the first female on the college station WUMF when it went on the air. During a college reunion she brought me out to the old "broadcast house" (think it was on Voter Hill Rd.) during a college reunion. Although it had been almost 20 years since she had been there a lot was the same - except the AM was gone. Our most recent visit was after the station was sold the studio moved downtown and the "broadcast house" became just a house.
 
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