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WINDING DOWN RETRO RADIO...

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MikeShannon914

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OK, we knew it wouldn't last forever, and our time's almost up. SOOOO....here's what we're going to do to wrap things up:

Saturday...the usual schedule...Jay Weaver (now 8AM-noon,) Larry Stanley and Jim Thomas

Sunday...Randy Carlisle's Real Oldies Show 9AM-noon, then a George Carlin tribute 12 noon-3:30PM featuring some folks that actually worked with Carlin at KXOL in 1959-60! We'll also play excerpts from Carlin's 40th anniversary in showbiz that Comedy Central put together a few years back, PLUS the audio from Carlin's videotape he sent to the 2001 KXOL reunion, where he reflects on his time at the station and in Fort Worth. Bud Buschardt's "Records at Random" is on 3:30-7PM.

Monday...an all-day GenX Radio Marathon...we'll be live 7AM to 3PM. After that, it's "Mike-AM" from 3PM-5PM with everything I always wanted to play on the radio, THEN I've scheduled "Briefcase Blues" (the only Ayckroyd-authorized Blues Brothers cover band) to do their thing on the air from 5PM-7PM.

Tune in as Retro Radio goes out with a bang!!! I'll have the updated schedule posted on www.thehificlub.net.
 
Mike I have Loved what you've done
with 1360. I enjoyed those Weekends all i could.
And we will all have great Memories.
And its good that your going out with a bang.
Im thinking about Bringing Retro Radio back [when yours ends]
on my Part 15. Which will only last a month maybe.

Also How do i contact you about bringing the Hi-Fi Club to
my Part 15?
 
I posted another topic before finding this thread, but oh well. Retro Radio gained a huge fan in me. I would wake up in the morn and hear that annoying chicken and more 12" mixes of Duran Duran than I ever knew existed and I just loved it. I'll miss having that.
And who the hell else is going to play Devo? ( Edge, Eagle, whatever KZPS is now?) I think not, Retro Radio did.

All good things must come to an end, I'll be listening tomm afternoon. Go out with style (and a bang).

Rock on.
 
Thanks to all for the good words. We had a LOT of fun with this, and although I'm tired as sh*t and need a long rest now, I'll miss it. I know the guys will, too. It took a lot of dedication for those guys to stick it out, to come in at their own expense, work for free, and do that every week (or every day, in Chad's case.) If they didn't love what they were doing, they wouldn't have done it. Maybe this whole project won't change a thing for the future of local radio, but at least you all got to hear a little bit of how things USED to be done, and that it CAN work today...consultants and suits be damned!

Slight change for today...once Chad's shift is over, it's all over. I assume they'll let him go until 3PM as previously planned.
 
and its easier said than done to get that timing of that dog down. She always wants to bark too soon!

I'm off to take a nap! :)
 
Mike, I was proud to be a part of it!

(easttxtv - Were those two Ferris Buller's for me?)

Jay ;D
 
Did the Randy guy who hosted the oldies shows have prior radio experience? He sounded familiar, however I couldn't place his voice. His show was one of my favorites because of the wide veriety of music that he played, but it was obvious that he was having a lot of fun. It's rare to hear that type of excitement on today's radio.
 
Actually, that was Randy's very first gig! He went to broadcasting school in the 80s but never did anything with it. He was just itching for something like this to come along...and he had a blast with it! When you get a guy who's begging me to work more hours and more days and more often, AND you don't pay him anything to do it, that's PASSION. And he got a lot of calls during his show every week, and I got many positive emails, too.

He was pretty crestfallen when I told him what radio pays these days. I know he and some of the others would have liked to parlayed their gigs into something bigger and longer-lasting (oh, and one that pays.)
 
transmitter_building said:
Did the Randy guy who hosted the oldies shows have prior radio experience? He sounded familiar, however I couldn't place his voice. His show was one of my favorites because of the wide veriety of music that he played, but it was obvious that he was having a lot of fun. It's rare to hear that type of excitement on today's radio.
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Hmmmm.... Considering you have a "Randy" as part of your profile email address, I hope this isn't a shameless self plug. We know how some people do that around here using an alias. ;)
 
easttxtv said:
Well, I'll let you have them if you want them... :D

It was just something I came up with last-minute to sorta wrap up the sounder/bumper/bit stuff that they did.
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I believe he was referring to the 2 times during his show that the Ferris Buller sound bytes accidentally played. :) Jay you did fine! Regardless of what Chad said! :)
 
Can we please get some perspective? I listened to the Retro Radio, and although it was nice for you guys to get to have some free "Fun" on radio there was not one guy that will be getting a call from a station in this market. It was fun for pirate radio, but it was not ready for primetime. Next thing you guys write will be "Let's put Retro Radio in the Hall of Fame" come on guys.....
 
Ummm.... nobody said anything about primetime or putting Retro Radio in the hall of fame. It was fun - and that was that. Go rain on some other parade.
 
I can assure you that the earlier poster is NOT Randy Carlisle. That's not his style at all, to do that.

Indeed, it was all for FUN, and that's just what we did and what we had. The guys all have airchecks of themselves for whatever reason they might want them...for their grandkids, or for their portfolios. If this project gave any one of them a leg-up on a future job, then that's a great by-product of what we did...but it wasn't the purpose. (And BTW, one of them DID get a call...not me...but I'll wait to see where it goes before posting more.)

(And I can sure think of a few jocks/personalities and shows on the dial today that the Retro guys would surely be an improvement over...) :)
 
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