What format was Silk 107.1

[Mid West Clubber]

Anyone remember what format this station was?

 

[fwmw]

It was a Smooth Jazz station.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

Thanks, I thought it was something like that.

 

[mjcarter1981]

Just a little more info on WSYW during the Silk days...it was automated Jazz until around the spring of 1999...then Tom Posz, the OM, put on a full time staff when the studios moved from the west side to downtown. Larry Leggett, formerly with WFMS in news, did mornings, I did mid-days and handled production, and we had a lady doing afternoons but I can't remember her name. We had a Hispanic group that came in at 7 pm with a program that they ran through the evening and I think overnights. On October 15 of '99, we all got our pink slips at the end of our shifts and were told they were flipping to alternative.

 

[Kent]

we had a lady doing afternoons but I can't remember her name.

That was Simone. I don't remember her last name for sure (maybe Enoch?), but I talked to her a few times, and she told me she had previously worked in El Paso.

We had a Hispanic group that came in at 7 pm with a program that they ran through the evening and I think overnights.

Actually, you were back to smooth jazz at midnight. There was also Hispanic programming all day Sunday.

 

[mjcarter1981]

we had a lady doing afternoons but I can't remember her name.

That was Simone. I don't remember her last name for sure (maybe Enoch?), but I talked to her a few times, and she told me she had previously worked in El Paso.

We had a Hispanic group that came in at 7 pm with a program that they ran through the evening and I think overnights.

Actually, you were back to smooth jazz at midnight. There was also Hispanic programming all day Sunday.

Yes, Simone Enoch..that was her. I had never heard of her before we worked together.

I couldn't remember the extent of Hispanic programming...I rarely listened outside of my air shift. ;D

 

[mjcarter1981]

Does anyone know what ever happened to Tom Posz? Last I heard, he was out of radio.

 

[BrigThomson]

Just a little more info on WSYW during the Silk days...it was automated Jazz until around the spring of 1999...then Tom Posz, the OM, put on a full time staff when the studios moved from the west side to downtown. Larry Leggett, formerly with WFMS in news, did mornings, I did mid-days and handled production, and we had a lady doing afternoons but I can't remember her name. We had a Hispanic group that came in at 7 pm with a program that they ran through the evening and I think overnights. On October 15 of '99, we all got our pink slips at the end of our shifts and were told they were flipping to alternative.

I do not know you, but I was the PD of Silk-107. I did the mornings there live, and you are correct, the rest of the day was a computer generated format from Jones. I left in early 1999. Silk was the replacement format for the classical format, which I was hired to change. One of the problems was that management insisted on running things like the Indians and IUPUI basketball, as well as endless amounts of infomercials featuring the Butt Doctor, The Herbal Doctor, The Vitamin Doctor and such. It interrupted the programming so often that it was impossible to hold an audience, especially after Bill Shirk put on a compteting Smooth Jazz program that featured.....Music!! Tom Posz was a great guy, and that last I heard..which was some time ago..he was selling advertising for The Indy Star.

 

[mjcarter1981]

I do not know you, but I was the PD of Silk-107. I did the mornings there live, and you are correct, the rest of the day was a computer generated format from Jones. I left in early 1999. Silk was the replacement format for the classical format, which I was hired to change. One of the problems was that management insisted on running things like the Indians and IUPUI basketball, as well as endless amounts of infomercials featuring the Butt Doctor, The Herbal Doctor, The Vitamin Doctor and such. It interrupted the programming so often that it was impossible to hold an audience, especially after Bill Shirk put on a compteting Smooth Jazz program that featured.....Music!! Tom Posz was a great guy, and that last I heard..which was some time ago..he was selling advertising for The Indy Star.
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I must have started not long after you left. Tom hired me initially to come in during the afternoons to record the traffic updates and do production part time. I was doing overnights on The Bear at the time as well. Tom was recording the morning stuff and the whole thing was on the bird. I also board opped some Pacer games, too. We went live sometime around May of '99 when the station moved downtown. Larry, Simone and I all got our pink slips a week before my wedding in October and they flipped to alternative for a while.

 

[BrigThomson]

I do not know you, but I was the PD of Silk-107. I did the mornings there live, and you are correct, the rest of the day was a computer generated format from Jones. I left in early 1999. Silk was the replacement format for the classical format, which I was hired to change. One of the problems was that management insisted on running things like the Indians and IUPUI basketball, as well as endless amounts of infomercials featuring the Butt Doctor, The Herbal Doctor, The Vitamin Doctor and such. It interrupted the programming so often that it was impossible to hold an audience, especially after Bill Shirk put on a compteting Smooth Jazz program that featured.....Music!! Tom Posz was a great guy, and that last I heard..which was some time ago..he was selling advertising for The Indy Star.

I must have started not long after you left. Tom hired me initially to come in during the afternoons to record the traffic updates and do production part time. I was doing overnights on The Bear at the time as well. Tom was recording the morning stuff and the whole thing was on the bird. I also board opped some Pacer games, too. We went live sometime around May of '99 when the station moved downtown. Larry, Simone and I all got our pink slips a week before my wedding in October and they flipped to alternative for a while.
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MJ....I came in late 1997, and left in early January 99. Dwight & I could stand each other about that long. I think that there have been more "staff-ups" and then clean outs at WSYW/WEDJ than at all the Indy stations combined. While I was there Tom was in sales, and after I left he became the PD/OM. While I wasn't in the area when it happened, I remember hearing about the flip to alternative. I was in on the original planning of the move from Indy Court to North Meridian. I was up on top of the building on North Meridian on a cold December day working with Max Turner & Mike Rabey while Jeff Goode was out at the transmitter while we tried to find out if we could hit the building with an STL. I never did get to see the new studios at North Meridian. I talked with Dwight Barnette just before he was replaced by Russ Dodge. As I said, the last I knew, Tom was selling for the Indy Star. I hope you've moved on to bigger & better things.

 

[mjcarter1981]

Brig,

You didn't miss much by not seeing the downtown studios...not a lot to write home about.

I've moved on, not necessarily bigger, but I'm in Richmond, KY doing afternoons at a country station after some time in Maine, Ohio and North Carolina.

Mike