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Whatever Happened To........

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del_griffith

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This has been around on some other boards, so why not this one? Feel free to add to the list or provide answers to those already given.

John Fraim WTVN Mornings
Johnny Dollar WTVN on air, Sales Manager, GM (last heard he was Saga in New England, but years ago)
Dave Logan WTVN MidDays
Bill Smith WTVN Evenings
Jack Evans WBNS Afternoons, Evenings and Mornings
Bill Preston WRFD
Dick Scoville WRFD
Bob James WRFD
E Karl WNCI and WRFD
Wes Osborne WRFD
Ron Barlow WMNI
Jack Stewart WTVN, WBNS
Bob O'Brian WBNS
Dale Ulmer WBNS Mornings, WTVN Evenings (short lived)
Paul Davidson WTVN Evenings
Len Anthony WRFD
Sean (can't remember last name) WNCI Evenings late 70's or early 80's
Jack Phillips WNCI weekends
Chris Johnson WBBY eves, WTVN weekends, WRFD weekends
Marcie Rogers WBBY afternoons
Diane Townley WBBY afternoons
Jockey Joe Gallagher WBBY eves

Not all were great, but were all a part of my radio experience growing up.

Left the WCOL stuff out since there's a web site dedicated to the history of WCOL and the alums.
 
Jack Stewart is still around Columbus, but out of radio. Jack Evans moved to Florida after he was turfed at 'BNS. He's still there, but I don't think he's behind a mic anymore. His on-air partner, Dick Zipf was killed in a traffic accident a few years ago.
 
Not sure if this is the same Ron Barlow, but I did work with Ron Barlow (and his son, Steve Barlow) at K95 in the mid-90's. They did a classic country show on Saturday nights.

As with most good things, they eventually come to an end. The owners (Jacor at the time) thought ratings would be better if they got rid of Ron and brought in that country show from LA via satellite.

Last thing I heard the Barlow family was all still living in Hilliard, but that's been a few years ago.
 
jtmichaels said:
Not sure if this is the same Ron Barlow, but I did work with Ron Barlow (and his son, Steve Barlow) at K95 in the mid-90's. They did a classic country show on Saturday nights.

As with most good things, they eventually come to an end. The owners (Jacor at the time) thought ratings would be better if they got rid of Ron and brought in that country show from LA via satellite.

Last thing I heard the Barlow family was all still living in Hilliard, but that's been a few years ago.
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Dave Barlow the realtor who advertises on radio all the time is his son. Ron works for his office at Re/Max.
 
Barlows Steve and Ron I believe are working for their son/brother Dave Barlow, the Realtor.

Tony Coles, last I heard was with CBS, I believe in San Diego or San Francisco.

Dick Zipf, mentioned on here a few posts back, died the same day as my father. I didn't know about it until a year or so later when Scott Haskins a former PD of mine broker the news. Dick was TRULY a wonderful gentle-man. Definitely someone I miss. He, Joe Cunningham, Spook Beckman, Greg Jordan, Earl Bailey, Brian Stevens, Kim Stewart, Tom Locicero, Bob Summers, Rob Ellis...the short list of folks that had a profound impact on my radio life.
 
Eric "The Bear" Banks WVKO and WNRJ in Columbus. Last sited at WJMO in Cleveland. Anybody know where he is now?
 
radiokiller said:
Can we add Tony Coles? Last I heard in Seattle then left and went south to? Was it San Fran? Someone help?

Thanks,

Radiokiller
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Tony Coles works for Clear Channel in Portland, Oregon.
 
I always wondered what happened to Chuck Underwood. He used to be the voice of the Buckeyes in the late 70's and early 80's. He was the sports guy for WTVN too.
Any idea where he went?
 
Other names from Columbus Radio History:
Spook Beckman (dead),
Bill Weber (WMNI...died at early age of 50)
Jane London..WSNY, somewhere out west living a life in suburbia...but she's a talented gal
Wes Hopkins..WCOL am back in the 60s-70s when that station ruled...dead
Neil Shapiro..WCOL am & fm....selling cars for Ricart
Michael O'Malley..WNCI selling real estate through his own agency in Grandview
 
Jane London is the host of a very successful morning show in Denver.
 
Jockey Joe Gallagher, real name Joe Ucker, was a high school classmate of mine, and a good guy. He passed away several years ago. I enjoyed hearing him on WBBY and WTVN. I spent one of his shifts with him at WBBY.
 
610 WTVN's 1976 "Spirit Of America" promo'd line up:

John Fraim 6-10 (doing the AM thing from his penthouse high atop the LeVeque-Lincoln @ 555ft.) "good Lord willing and the creek don't rise"...
Dave Logan 10-2
Phil Whitelaw 2-6
Vance Dillard 6-10
John Potter 10-2
Gene Warmen 2-6

Wow!! 24/7/365 live TALENT! Imagine that.

Remember?

Also, where's Steve "BOOM BOOM" Cannon?
Where's Marty Mcneil? (WTVN, later WSNY) w/her sexy voice?

"Get outta here there's a lobster loose!! Oh, holy cow he's loose!!!"
--O'malley in the morning opening

How about Mark Daniels from 92X? Super talent doing the voice of "Melvin", (unsuspecting idiot off the street recruited to drink a chocolate bar) from the "Chocolate Soldier" ad's... (Suzy might know)

"Yeah Boy" Jack & Dick mornings 1460 'BNS

Spook was great when he was "gonna do it to it"

-John LaPalla? (92X mornings) blowing things up.

I could go on, but I think I'll go cry now.
 
I believe the spirit of America line up had Rick Minerd from 2-5:30 am and Fraim didn't broadcast from the Penthouse until he was at WCOL. Warman (worlds' greatest trumpet player) was only doing Sunday morning from 9-1. Also remember that Whitelaw was out when Bob Conners returned from BNS in early 76.
 
Stumbled on this thread just after joining. Fun to read. I noticed the O'Malley mention, and I believe his show back then on WNCI was called the "Morning Paper." Four players on the show ... pretty much the first Morning Zoo type of program.

Also, I saw John LaPalla's name mentioned, and I think he first started in Columbus at WBUK, which was the old WTVN-FM back in the late 60s.

Anyone else remember anything else?
 
OK. I remembered a few things more back from those 1960s and 1970s Columbus radio daze (as I grew up in central OH, listening to the great radio on the airwaves back then). Surely makes me wonder where they all are now::

- WTVN-FM was a jazz station in the mid-60s, and played jazz afternoons through late night. Then, it simulcasted with WTVN-AM, carrying overnights and John Fraim's morning show, too.

- Dave Anthony, Bob North, and E. Karl were all on WTVN-FM as jazz, around 1967, I believe, and then they all ended up working at WNCI.

- WTVN-FM changed to WBUK-FM in 1968 or so, and played "pop" music in mono. John LaPalla was on the station then. He was PD, if I remember correctly. I think E. Karl did 6-10P, and Dave Anthony did 10-2A (as they did when it was jazz). Kenny Stone may have worked there, too, but he moved on to WCOL-FM when it went "progressive rock" after WNCI made its move in 1969.

- Bill Blinn was an overnighter on WTVN-AM back then and was really funny and talented. Dave Logan did middays and Bob Connors did afternoons. Jim Loshe did the "Loshe Lounge" evening show (6-10P maybe) and he actually played an in-studio piano and sang songs on his show, taking requests. Johnny Dollar was PD, and Gene DeAngelo was GM.

- E. Karl left WBUK-FM in 1969 and started a WNCI show called "The Incredible Progressive Rock Circus" from 8-10P. WNCI was a mono FM - like all others back then - and it would shut down the taped syndicated "Sounds Of Today" show from CBS (Andy Williams, Eydie Gorme, etc.) so rock music from the just-started Woodstock era could be played for two hours. The station just went off the air at 10P or midnight then, but I'm not sure which hour. Bob North also had a jazz show called "Midnight Sunshine," if I remember correctly.

- WNCI was up at the WRFD studios back then, in Powell, at Nationwide's Green Meadows training center. The studios were huge (I took a tour) because they used to accomodate studio orchestras in the 1950s. That's when Spook Beckman was at WRFD, and I think it was Ed Johnson who did a WRFD syndicated morning "farm report" morning show at the station. Something like that.

- Brian McIntyre was the PD of WCOL-AM when FM stations started taking their toll on WCOL. He rode the station down admirably as FM took over, after finally going stereo in 1970 and then learning the secrets of Arbitron ratings.

- WBNS-AM was also trying to stay "pop" along with WTVN-FM back then, but the FM movement was too powerful when it came to rock and Top 40. WBNS-FM was a syndicated "beautiful music" station then - maybe Schulke - and was taped programming. I think WBNS-AM finally just started talking and gave up playing music.

- After Dave Anthony on WNCI died of throat cancer in the mid-70s or so, Bob Nunnally came in from Marion, I believe, and replaced Anthony. Nunnally later worked mornings at Sunny 95, and then moved to TV4, where he still is today, as a weather person.

- When E. Karl was news director at WNCI, he worked with a reporter - Dan Line - who was killed at a convenience store around 1979 or so. Karl was a DJ, then news director, then PD of WNCI. And, as mentioned above, I think he was part of that four-person morning show called "The Morning Paper. I think the players were Charlie Pickard, E. Karl, a news reporter, and a traffic reporter who was actually a Columbus police officer ... somthing like Isseldyke. Karl left WNCI in 1979 or so when Scripps-Howard hired him in Cleveland.

- Other names I remember and wonder where they are: Jay Michaels, Sean McKay, Jim Irwin, and Rick Minerd.
 
Interesting recollections. Good memory! Thanks.

I believe the Young Sound also mixed in some current and gold Top 40 hits with the MOR -- and even some instrumental covers of them.

Kenny Stone was my cousin, but I had forgotten that he spent some time at WTVN-FM. He had a far greater passion for music than for radio.
 
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