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WGST

Eric,

It's great to hear from you. You, Nancy and Mike all lived and breathed radio. Your passion for radio was contagious and spread throughout the whole staff. I started out as an intern at Peach in the early 90's and moved on to promotions at WGST before eventually becoming the Events Coordinator for the cluster. I was the Events Coordinator and the Promotions Director for WGST my last couple of years there. I volunteered to do both jobs when the WGST Promotions Director job came open. I only did it because I love WGST and somehow thought that we could bring the magic back. I can tell you that the spark for WGST was lost and never came back after you guys were gone. I didn't know much about radio when I started but I brought a lot of creativity and an incredible work ethic to the table. You helped me channel that energy and creativity and tought me a lot about radio. I couldn't wait to get to work each day to see what we could do to screw with WSB. We brainstormed each day and you made me feel like a part of the team even when I was a lowly Promotions Assistant. We were low budget and low signal but we gave them a run for their money because we cared. The last few years of WGST were really sad. Kimmer and Tom have tremendous talent and there were still many talented people in the newsroom. Unfortunately, there was no promotion for WGST and they systematically dismantled the support staff and the pieces. They took Pete Davis, Jim Gossett and Wayne "no offense" from Kimmer and took Tom's last hour (the only hour you could hear him) away. Let us not forget that Pete Davis did an evening show that competed very well with Braves baseball. It's a shame to see Pete not in radio any more. And, it's an even bigger shame that WGST is gone for good. I wonder what the late great Keith Kalland thinks about all of this as he looks down from above. I know they are celebrating at WSB and they should be. They don't have anyone trying to put up a fight anymore. WSB has always been a class act and it was fun trying to compete with them.

John Grey (aka Perspiration John)
 
I'm grateful for many of the experiences I had at the Building of Death in the short time I was there (1996-99). I got to be a jack-of-all-trades (master of none) both on the Peach and GST ends of the hall at one point or another, and it was (usually) fun work for a young guy. It's kind of funny to reflect that as a "second-generation broadcaster," I grew up in radio, but only thought to actually work in radio because I was tired of fast-food and retail, but would very soon be "showing the ropes" to a lot of interns and part-timers that were older than I was. I do miss the work, don't miss the (no) money, and in the end its how I met my wife, who was one of the aforementioned interns, so I definitely got more than my fair share out of the experience.

That being said, I get quite a kick out of the fact that when I left Peach/GST it was to take essentially a data entry job where I was making time and a half what I made with a lot of responsibilities in radio. I did that for a month and a half, was the most productive worker they ever had, and absolutely hated it. Radio had spoiled me in that I could do for a living something I actually enjoyed, and that lesson I wound up taking, quitting the data entry job, and moving into the website design/development realm that I had dabbled in some at the station(s) (back before all the websites were run off the same horrible Jacor/CC template system), and have been able to make a good career out of that ever since.

John, when Dad told me they had let you go a while back I knew the end had finally arrived. I sure hope you were able to quickly move on to bigger and better things. Heaven knows, of all people, you deserved it.

Here's to the good(?) ole days. ;)
 
if you can survive 'gst, you can survive anywhere...

OOPS, nobody did!!!
 
It's good to read notes from Eric, Mike, John, and a few other of my conteporaries at WGST. Do I regret working there? No. Best job a recovering chemist with a radio interest could have. Do I regret getting out of the industry when I did? No. Sometimes a fun job in one's 20s provides the focus one needs for one's 30s.

I fondly remember all of the folks there. Yes, all of them.

--Brennan Price (Dec. 1996-Jan. 2000)
 
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