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TIX format in mid-80s
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> I was working in Picayune MS in the mid 1980's (1985-1988)
> and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night weekend
> shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those days?
> (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid 80s... Right before it flipped talk
RFLA
> and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night weekend
> shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those days?
> (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid 80s... Right before it flipped talk
RFLA
> > I was working in Picayune MS in the mid 1980's (1985-1988)
>
> > and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night
> weekend
> > shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those
> days?
> > (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
> >
>
>
> I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid
> 80s... Right before it flipped talk
>
> RFLA
>
correct it was oldies from around 1980- sometime in the early 90s. <P ID="signature">______________
note to the NAB..satellite radio..its worth paying for!!</P>
>
> > and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night
> weekend
> > shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those
> days?
> > (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
> >
>
>
> I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid
> 80s... Right before it flipped talk
>
> RFLA
>
correct it was oldies from around 1980- sometime in the early 90s. <P ID="signature">______________
note to the NAB..satellite radio..its worth paying for!!</P>
> > I was working in Picayune MS in the mid 1980's (1985-1988)
>
> > and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night
> weekend
> > shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those
> days?
> > (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
> >
>
>
> I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid
> 80s... Right before it flipped talk
>
> RFLA
>
This looks like a question Bob Walker or Pal Al can answer...<P ID="signature">______________
I'm my own PD
Jason Reed</P>
>
> > and I remember listing to WTIX-AM on the late night
> weekend
> > shifts. What was the format of the Mighty 690 in those
> days?
> > (Sorry, I'm getting older and my memory is getting weaker)
>
> >
>
>
> I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the mid
> 80s... Right before it flipped talk
>
> RFLA
>
This looks like a question Bob Walker or Pal Al can answer...<P ID="signature">______________
I'm my own PD
Jason Reed</P>
> > I think it was it's last days as a oldies station in the
> mid
> > 80s... Right before it flipped talk
> >
> > RFLA
> >
> correct it was oldies from around 1980- sometime in the
> early 90s.
>
I had air checks of TIX in the 80s and they were mainly a 50-60s oldies station after being a top 40 station into the early 80s sometimes.
But I will say, I find it funny no one has brought up the "Ed Clancy Radio Cartoons" like one memorable I had of the 1984 world's fair (that has since been misplaced) of getting caught in the gondolas above the Mississippi and interviewing people in the Gondola with the responses being snipets of oldies songs... Don't know if others were doing this at the time but I enjoyed them... But as Jason Reed says, Bob Walker or a few others could shed more light on this big time.
RFLA
> mid
> > 80s... Right before it flipped talk
> >
> > RFLA
> >
> correct it was oldies from around 1980- sometime in the
> early 90s.
>
I had air checks of TIX in the 80s and they were mainly a 50-60s oldies station after being a top 40 station into the early 80s sometimes.
But I will say, I find it funny no one has brought up the "Ed Clancy Radio Cartoons" like one memorable I had of the 1984 world's fair (that has since been misplaced) of getting caught in the gondolas above the Mississippi and interviewing people in the Gondola with the responses being snipets of oldies songs... Don't know if others were doing this at the time but I enjoyed them... But as Jason Reed says, Bob Walker or a few others could shed more light on this big time.
RFLA
Ah, yes…the twilight of Funlovin’ 690. I was acquainted with its hybrid Talk/Oldies format during my sophomore year in high school briefly before they 86ed the Oldies format to go All-Talk in spring 1988 (to my dismay). I made a few recordings of WTIX-AM myself. The Dr. Dmento Show, The Lost Lennon Tapes, The Real Dan McKay…excellent material of a like which we’ll never know again. :'( :-[ 
RFLA, if you still have those WTIX 690 airchecks, please share 'em with us! 8)
RFLA, if you still have those WTIX 690 airchecks, please share 'em with us! 8)
M
MacGyver504
Guest
In the last days of oldies on WTIX-AM Ed Clancy was the morning man and the studios were still on Carondelet Street. Price Communications owned the station at that time and gradually phased out the music one daypart at a time until it was all talk.
The studios were moved to Causeway Blvd. and WTIX brought Rush Limbaugh to New Orleans for the first time. Ed Tyll was the afternoon guy.
The entire music library including the custom WTIX intro on "Sooner or Later" by the Grass roots was purchased by WBSL in Bay Saint Louis which played the WTIX format and called itself the Mighty 1190. The library (on the old red carts) included a large portion of the ED Clancy Radio Cartoon library.
Dan Diamond, Ira Hatchett and Katrina have been through there since and no one knows where any of that stuff wound up.
The studios were moved to Causeway Blvd. and WTIX brought Rush Limbaugh to New Orleans for the first time. Ed Tyll was the afternoon guy.
The entire music library including the custom WTIX intro on "Sooner or Later" by the Grass roots was purchased by WBSL in Bay Saint Louis which played the WTIX format and called itself the Mighty 1190. The library (on the old red carts) included a large portion of the ED Clancy Radio Cartoon library.
Dan Diamond, Ira Hatchett and Katrina have been through there since and no one knows where any of that stuff wound up.
Sure wish i had a copy of that Grass Roots with the TIX intro.Walker 690, are you there? rf
Once Price Communications took over and Bob Mitchell ended up with Muniz in 82'ish. They brought in Tom Land, a great guy working for Journal now, in as PD and on air. Ed Clancy was doing news with Denis Prior in the morning, me and Bob Walker were doing midays Brian Chase was afternoons. David Girrod was GM and a squirrel at best. Late 85, Tom Land left, followed by Denis Prior, Chase, Walker (all at my wedding 9/85) and then Muniz got me over at WYAT. We used to do a live show on WTIX every Thursday night at the Sheraton Westbank (the round hotel in Gretna on the expressway). Girrod wouldn't let me loose to start with Ed after I gave my two-week notice. Muniz even ran liners with my voice but he left me on the air. My last show was live at the Sheraton. Between 11pm & midnight, we blocked all the phone lines and got stupid (beer included). My last song on WTIX was "Where Ya At" by the Bob O'Rouke Jazz Band. But the late 70's and early 80's was a blast! Beach parties, parades and that Mr. Pibb van (if it could only talk).
They stayed music for a few months, then went talk. Once over at Causeway Blvd. studio, Bob Delgiorno and his son Michael, did a stint in the mornings.
There was also a custom intro for the Pointer Sisters "Fire". Walker would remember that one too.
They stayed music for a few months, then went talk. Once over at Causeway Blvd. studio, Bob Delgiorno and his son Michael, did a stint in the mornings.
There was also a custom intro for the Pointer Sisters "Fire". Walker would remember that one too.
W
walker690
Guest
Well lessee. I did the TIX Original Oldies Hour at noon during the era from '79-'83 and we kicked everybody's butt off the dial, including the mighty Keith Rush. The guys in News at KILT in Houston put up a longwire so they could listen at noon and called us frequently with requests. Fats Domino called the request line often to thank us for playing his songs.
We were mostly current/recurrent/gold during that period but had hours with nothing but oldies at noon, and the Sixties at 6 with Gary Franklin. I left in '83 for 'QUE and returned to TIX as Program Director (thanks, Blair!) from '85-86. Price had bought the station from Storz in the interim and there was a new Yahoo GM from New York who wanted to run the air shows thru his dj's. You know, the egotistical GM type that has to go on the air several times a day with his editorials (as if anyone gives a crap what they thinks). He leaned on me to put up billboards of a gorilla wearing a propeller beanie, because he has seen one of a station in NYC who did that. I came this | . | close to telling him he was nuckin' futs. And he bullied his PD's and DJs to run their shows like he wanted them run - an extension of his frustrated latent DJ wannabe nature. At that time TIX was all oldies (except noon-3). Ed Clancy was on in mornings, I was on 9-noon, Rush Limbaugh was on 12-3, and Brian Chase 3-7.
I had quite enough of David Gerard's pushiness and meddling in programming and quit as PD in mid-86 and went back to QUE. I was sorry though to hear that he had died while jogging in upstate N.Y around '93.
Sometime between mid-'86-'90 it was sold again and went all talk. They were still at 332 Carondelet St., 4th Floor. I don't know when exactly the change happened because I couldn't bear to listen to the crap that was being pumped out on my beloved 690, and did not tune them in again for *many* years.
All the carts with oldies on them (over 2000 that we recorded one by one) did turn up next at WBSL, Bay St. Louis in the Dan Diamond era.
I hear, by the way, that Dan Diamond will be at our next lunch at Cap's and there are plans to record the lunch for tv.
Bob W.
We were mostly current/recurrent/gold during that period but had hours with nothing but oldies at noon, and the Sixties at 6 with Gary Franklin. I left in '83 for 'QUE and returned to TIX as Program Director (thanks, Blair!) from '85-86. Price had bought the station from Storz in the interim and there was a new Yahoo GM from New York who wanted to run the air shows thru his dj's. You know, the egotistical GM type that has to go on the air several times a day with his editorials (as if anyone gives a crap what they thinks). He leaned on me to put up billboards of a gorilla wearing a propeller beanie, because he has seen one of a station in NYC who did that. I came this | . | close to telling him he was nuckin' futs. And he bullied his PD's and DJs to run their shows like he wanted them run - an extension of his frustrated latent DJ wannabe nature. At that time TIX was all oldies (except noon-3). Ed Clancy was on in mornings, I was on 9-noon, Rush Limbaugh was on 12-3, and Brian Chase 3-7.
I had quite enough of David Gerard's pushiness and meddling in programming and quit as PD in mid-86 and went back to QUE. I was sorry though to hear that he had died while jogging in upstate N.Y around '93.
Sometime between mid-'86-'90 it was sold again and went all talk. They were still at 332 Carondelet St., 4th Floor. I don't know when exactly the change happened because I couldn't bear to listen to the crap that was being pumped out on my beloved 690, and did not tune them in again for *many* years.
All the carts with oldies on them (over 2000 that we recorded one by one) did turn up next at WBSL, Bay St. Louis in the Dan Diamond era.
I hear, by the way, that Dan Diamond will be at our next lunch at Cap's and there are plans to record the lunch for tv.
Bob W.
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