I haven't seen a general topic on this subject, and if I find one I'll post more there, but I'm going to limit this to what is appropriate for the standards board.
Carl Hampton said yesterday that 10 years ago "I was sitting in this very chair." I don't see how that's possible, unless he was filling in for Jeff Rollins, who worked that shift even back then. He was working for Music of Your Life before Jones dropped it. Though what is possible is that the old Music of Your Life studio stayed with Jones and when Dial Global and Jones merged their formats, America's Best Music moved into that studio. I don't think that makes sense.
Where I was: Stardust was playing "Near You" by Roger Williams. For a long time I thought of that day when I heard that song. Vic Thomas, filling in that day, came on afterward and said a second plane had hit the other tower, so the first plane hitting the first tower was no accident. I think he said Saddam Hussein was being credited. Or they may have decided it was bin Laden. I forget. And the way he described it, I thought it was like the time the Empire State Building was hit. And it was the first I had heard about anything. I don't know what time I turned on the station, but it was probaby around 30 minutes before that and I didn't know about the first tower. Soon after that, I arrived at the library and didn't hear any more on the radio until I left at 5 that day.
I did go out to the car to listen to Paul Harvey's "Rest of the Story" at 3 Eastern. If that was on, things weren't so bad, right? I will say the station didn't fit any of the formats on this board for another year, but Mr. Harvey continued even after the change.
I had heard about the Pentagon and rumors about The White House while at the library, and then I walked as usual for exercise but didn't want to hear any more. It was at 5 Eastern I got back in the car and returned to the Stardust station which was wall-to-wall news, and heard the man say the towers were GONE. And 50,000 people could be dead. I guess I was the last person in America to know the towers fell. I did hear a man at the library say one had collapsed, but I interpreted that to mean the part above where the plane hit. There's no way towers that big could have fallen.
Carl Hampton said yesterday that 10 years ago "I was sitting in this very chair." I don't see how that's possible, unless he was filling in for Jeff Rollins, who worked that shift even back then. He was working for Music of Your Life before Jones dropped it. Though what is possible is that the old Music of Your Life studio stayed with Jones and when Dial Global and Jones merged their formats, America's Best Music moved into that studio. I don't think that makes sense.
Where I was: Stardust was playing "Near You" by Roger Williams. For a long time I thought of that day when I heard that song. Vic Thomas, filling in that day, came on afterward and said a second plane had hit the other tower, so the first plane hitting the first tower was no accident. I think he said Saddam Hussein was being credited. Or they may have decided it was bin Laden. I forget. And the way he described it, I thought it was like the time the Empire State Building was hit. And it was the first I had heard about anything. I don't know what time I turned on the station, but it was probaby around 30 minutes before that and I didn't know about the first tower. Soon after that, I arrived at the library and didn't hear any more on the radio until I left at 5 that day.
I did go out to the car to listen to Paul Harvey's "Rest of the Story" at 3 Eastern. If that was on, things weren't so bad, right? I will say the station didn't fit any of the formats on this board for another year, but Mr. Harvey continued even after the change.
I had heard about the Pentagon and rumors about The White House while at the library, and then I walked as usual for exercise but didn't want to hear any more. It was at 5 Eastern I got back in the car and returned to the Stardust station which was wall-to-wall news, and heard the man say the towers were GONE. And 50,000 people could be dead. I guess I was the last person in America to know the towers fell. I did hear a man at the library say one had collapsed, but I interpreted that to mean the part above where the plane hit. There's no way towers that big could have fallen.