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Where are they now? Former WAVI 1210 AM talk hosts.

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Bob Kwesell
Brad Clay
Doug Carrick (spelling?)
Kris Mitchell (spelling?)
Dr. Frank Heninger
Ray Bernard
Raymond Graham
Jim Kirkwood
Steve Hall

Any of the above still in the radio business?

I believe I have heard Steve Hall doing some Reds spring training updates on WLW.

Last I heard of Brad Clay, he was selling cars at a dealership in Centerville, OH.

Jason Roberts: Can you help on any of these names?
 
Bob Kwesell was working on the air at a station in Maryland a while back, but I believe he has left their employ.

For some reason, I seem to remember Brad Clay sold cars even around the time he worked for WAVI, so it's not a stretch to think he might have returned to that line of work. But, I haven't seen him or heard from him in quite a while. He may still be in the area. It wouldn't surprise me.

Again, I'll put my ear to the ground for you.

Gr8t: thanks for the WIBC info. I'd forgotten about that.
 
From looking around the internet recently, I have the idea that Kwessell spent some years at WCBM in Baltimore, and could well be retired in that area now. I recall him as taking positions that were extremely conservative, but that he was often very funny.

I have the idea that Dr. Frank Heninger might be retired also, perhaps somewhere warm. IIRC correctly, he was a UD professor that did a show that started around 6pm only during summer when the days were longer. There seem to be positive internet mentions of him as a professor, none mentioning his radio gig.

During the time I listened, Dick Norman was one of the hosts. He later went to WCKY in Cincinnati, then to WFLA, then quit WFLA upon learning that Jacor was buying it, returning to WCKY for something like a week, then returned to WFLA, either because someone convinced him that Jacor wasn't so bad, or that their lawyers were really bad. Then I believe he died in a car wreck there.

I'm thinking Brad Clay was the afternoon guy. I remembered him and Heninger being liberal, Kwessell being conservative, and Norman being moderate. At WCKY I thought he was basically conservative with some moderate mixed in; perhaps that's how he really was at WAVI. I wondered if the station had been deliberately set up to have an overall balanced set of hosts.

I remember them having two pretty good news anchors, Dave Harris who later worked at an FM station or two in Dayton, and Brenda Hart, who later worked at WKRC.

For some reason I remember their address as being 1414 Cincinnati Street. I don't know why I would remember that, unless they mentioned it on the air a lot for some reason. I remember them mentioning Bud Crowl quite a bit, WDAO not so much, though I knew they were co-owned. (That was a great sounding station on the occasions I listened to it.)

It seems to me they referred to their hosts as "talkmasters". They also had a good ID package including "People Power, W-A-V-I, Dayton." (Musical notes cgdf, edcfdg, ga)

At least as I remember it, that was amazing station, especially for a 1000 Watt daytimer. I listened in Cincinnati, and there was nothing here to compare with it at the time. In most cities, there's nothing to compare with it now.
 
If I'm not mistaken that "People Power" jingle was produced in the early 1970s by PAMS..Several other talk stations including one in SanFrancisco used that same package.

I miss the studios on Cincinnati Street. Tried to get a part time job there shortly after the WDAO move to AM and the FM became WWSN...there were no openings at that time but while there I waved Hi! to Michael Ecton while he was playing "Living In America" by James Brown. I was dancing in the lobby to the song imitating James Brown and Ecton laughed while the record was playing!
 
exradio said:
From looking around the internet recently, I have the idea that Kwessell spent some years at WCBM in Baltimore, and could well be retired in that area now. I recall him as taking positions that were extremely conservative, but that he was often very funny.

I have the idea that Dr. Frank Heninger might be retired also, perhaps somewhere warm. IIRC correctly, he was a UD professor that did a show that started around 6pm only during summer when the days were longer. There seem to be positive internet mentions of him as a professor, none mentioning his radio gig.

During the time I listened, Dick Norman was one of the hosts. He later went to WCKY in Cincinnati, then to WFLA, then quit WFLA upon learning that Jacor was buying it, returning to WCKY for something like a week, then returned to WFLA, either because someone convinced him that Jacor wasn't so bad, or that their lawyers were really bad. Then I believe he died in a car wreck there.

I'm thinking Brad Clay was the afternoon guy. I remembered him and Heninger being liberal, Kwessell being conservative, and Norman being moderate. At WCKY I thought he was basically conservative with some moderate mixed in; perhaps that's how he really was at WAVI. I wondered if the station had been deliberately set up to have an overall balanced set of hosts.

I remember them having two pretty good news anchors, Dave Harris who later worked at an FM station or two in Dayton, and Brenda Hart, who later worked at WKRC.

For some reason I remember their address as being 1414 Cincinnati Street. I don't know why I would remember that, unless they mentioned it on the air a lot for some reason. I remember them mentioning Bud Crowl quite a bit, WDAO not so much, though I knew they were co-owned. (That was a great sounding station on the occasions I listened to it.)

It seems to me they referred to their hosts as "talkmasters". They also had a good ID package including "People Power, W-A-V-I, Dayton." (Musical notes cgdf, edcfdg, ga)

At least as I remember it, that was amazing station, especially for a 1000 Watt daytimer. I listened in Cincinnati, and there was nothing here to compare with it at the time. In most cities, there's nothing to compare with it now.
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http://radio.about.com/cs/radiohistory/a/aa110903a.htm

Confirmed above, that Dick Norman died in an auto accident in 1989.
 
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