WBLZ

[TANKSBACK]

Don't remember Brian going to Las Vegas. He did go to work as a rep for Atlantic Records for about 12 years. He now has a media and consulting company in Atlanta.

 

[microbob]

Thanks TB. It's possible I could be thinking of another Jock who worked at the station.

 

[Lamont Lester]

...and Linda Shane moved on to Indy.

Linda moved to Indpls from Wisconsin in the late 70s to do TV weather. Then radio news at WIKS in 1980, WENS in late 81/early 82, then back to WIKS. She left Indy when WIKS became WZPL in the spring of 83. That's when she moved to Cinti for nights on BLZ. I remember her still being on the air at BLZ doing a weekend shift in 87 or 88. She never returned to Indpls after BLZ. Google search showed a mention of a Linda Shane as part of the air staff at WAPL in Appleton, WI in the early 90s. Shane was an air name. I'm guessing she got out of radio, resumed using her real last name, and happily disappeared into radio history.

 

[radiorob2.0]

I can remember when someone cut their transmission line causing them to go off the air for over a week and when they came back on, They played The Gap Band Who Dropped a Bomb On Me over and over. Q102 also did a parody song Who Dropped a Bomb On Me BLZ which was funny at the time.

It wasn't a transmission line but a guy wire, perhaps a couple of guy wires, were cut by some teenagers. I don't remember an official parody of the Gap Band song against BLZ. However I remember an impromptu singalong of "You Dropped a Tower on Me, BLZ" over top of the actual song. That was during the Q102 on air ratings party in 1984 when they became number one. It was hours of jocks playing anything they wanted, drinking and no commercials.

 

[microbob]

Q102 did quite a few of those ratings victory parties then. They were fun to listen to. You're right about that song. It was a jock/staff sing along which is what they did to WEBN many times. The Frog is Dead bit comes to mind. Thanks for the info on the WBLZ tower dropping. Now that you posted it, I do remember it was the work of a teenager at the time. He was lucky He wasn't killed or seriously injured.

 

[ehrichweiss]

I hate to revive a dead thread but I have to ask, does anyone have any old recordings of WBLZ from around 1984 to 1987 or so? I'm looking for some of the parody songs they used to play in the mornings, especially "Benzene"(a commentary about Cincinnati having benzene in the water at the time) and "Don't All My Songs Sound the Same"(a parody of Whitney Houston). I used to pick them up starting at 10pm at night in Lexington, KY when a certain plane would fly over my house(I lived in the path of our airport at the time) it would bounce the signal just enough to let my radio lock onto the signal and I'd have it until about 9am or so. I don't totally understand how a plane could do that considering how small of a signal would be hitting it but I wasn't gonna look that gift horse in the mouth.

 

[partymarty]

Tony Mann is his name. He also did commentary with One Mann's opinion.

Tony Michaels

 

[microbob]

hate to revive a dead thread but I have to ask, does anyone have any old recordings of WBLZ from around 1984 to 1987 or so? I'm looking for some of the parody songs they used to play in the mornings, especially "Benzene"(a commentary about Cincinnati having benzene in the water at the time) and "Don't All My Songs Sound the Same"(a parody of Whitney Houston). I used to pick them up starting at 10pm at night in Lexington, KY when a certain plane would fly over my house(I lived in the path of our airport at the time) it would bounce the signal just enough to let my radio lock onto the signal and I'd have it until about 9am or so. I don't totally understand how a plane could do that considering how small of a signal would be hitting it but I wasn't gonna look that gift horse in the mouth.

I wish I still had my recordings from WBLZ during that time period. They sounded great in the mid to late 80's

 

[microbob]

I hate to revive a dead thread but I have to ask, does anyone have any old recordings of WBLZ from around 1984 to 1987 or so? I'm looking for some of the parody songs they used to play in the mornings, especially "Benzene"(a commentary about Cincinnati having benzene in the water at the time) and "Don't All My Songs Sound the Same"(a parody of Whitney Houston). I used to pick them up starting at 10pm at night in Lexington, KY when a certain plane would fly over my house(I lived in the path of our airport at the time) it would bounce the signal just enough to let my radio lock onto the signal and I'd have it until about 9am or so. I don't totally understand how a plane could do that considering how small of a signal would be hitting it but I wasn't gonna look that gift horse in the mouth.

Tony Michaels

Yes I stand corrected