A guy I went to IBS (predecessor to ICB) with was PD at WKFI for awhile (he was named Tom Peake). I don't know if anyone remembers WCXL, owned by an organizationed called Broadcast Workshop, INc that ran a disco format on the noncommercial end of the band in the mid to late 70s...I remember there was a guy who worked at WDHK who jocked there and was pitching himself to WDAO (was that you, Kevin by any chance?)
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gr8oldies said:A guy I went to IBS (predecessor to ICB) with was PD at WKFI for awhile (he was named Tom Peake). I don't know if anyone remembers WCXL, owned by an organizationed called Broadcast Workshop, INc that ran a disco format on the noncommercial end of the band in the mid to late 70s...I remember there was a guy who worked at WDHK who jocked there and was pitching himself to WDAO (was that you, Kevin by any chance?)
Wasn't WCXL a 10 watt Class D on 88.1, that later became WQRP and is now WDPR?
I remember it quite well.
No. I wasn't gunning for a job on WDAO. In fact, I worked for them as a morning drive newsman when
this happened.
The "disco" format you mentioned was actually part of a "broadcast workshop" they offered. From time to
time, a number of "pros" would come down and volunteer an hour or two here or there to show "newbys" how radio was done. I was one of those. I forget how many months I was involved with it, but know I was on a couple of nights a week here and there for an hour at a time. (It might have been two hours some nights if the next guy didn't show up.) All of this programming aired strictly at night from about 5 or 6 pm until 11 or midnight. The rest of time, the station aired religious programming.
Yes, the late Harold Parshall was involved with the station. He later put WQRP on the air.
That was not all I did during that time. I also worked as a DJ in a Dixie Drive disco, did morning news on
WAVI/WDAO (after all, you probably recall the late Bud Crowl was not known for paying people huge salaries...
I think I made $125 a week plus overtime there). I also tried out for and performed with Dayton Community Theater when all of that was going on.
I'm amazed anyone remembers that. A 10 watt non-comm certainly wasn't the kind of station that would set the world on fire. But, it was fun to work with new radio "students", who, perhaps may have picked up a thing or two working with me and some of the others who volunteered their time.
No. I wasn't gunning for a job on WDAO. In fact, I worked for them as a morning drive newsman when
this happened.
The "disco" format you mentioned was actually part of a "broadcast workshop" they offered. From time to
time, a number of "pros" would come down and volunteer an hour or two here or there to show "newbys" how radio was done. I was one of those. I forget how many months I was involved with it, but know I was on a couple of nights a week here and there for an hour at a time. (It might have been two hours some nights if the next guy didn't show up.) All of this programming aired strictly at night from about 5 or 6 pm until 11 or midnight. The rest of time, the station aired religious programming.
Yes, the late Harold Parshall was involved with the station. He later put WQRP on the air.
That was not all I did during that time. I also worked as a DJ in a Dixie Drive disco, did morning news on
WAVI/WDAO (after all, you probably recall the late Bud Crowl was not known for paying people huge salaries...
I think I made $125 a week plus overtime there). I also tried out for and performed with Dayton Community Theater when all of that was going on.
I'm amazed anyone remembers that. A 10 watt non-comm certainly wasn't the kind of station that would set the world on fire. But, it was fun to work with new radio "students", who, perhaps may have picked up a thing or two working with me and some of the others who volunteered their time.
And, if I may add one postscript to my previous post:
A couple of other things you may not have known about WCXL:
Harold Parshall and his business partner, Kurt Farmer were the engineering staff for WAVI/WDAO at the time.
WDAO provided the records for the broadcast workshop. WCXL actually became, sort-of a "farm club" for WDAO, who would later hire a number of the workshoppers. I forget the actual number or all of their names, but one name that you might recognize who was part of the broadcast workshop was Michael Ecton, who has been on WDAO (FM and AM) for years. When he was at the workshop, Michael was a shift worker at
Frigidaire. I can remember him both preceeding me and following me on the air on various nights.
If I remember right, this was my first-ever use of the name "Jason Roberts" on the air. (With sincere apologies to my good friend, Mark Elliott, who later, while at WDJX gave me his "blessing" for using the Jason Roberts name he used on WTUE in the 70's.)
No...WCXL was on a different frequency. (I forget it off the top of my head.) WQRP was an entirely different radio station and was licensed separately.
A couple of other things you may not have known about WCXL:
Harold Parshall and his business partner, Kurt Farmer were the engineering staff for WAVI/WDAO at the time.
WDAO provided the records for the broadcast workshop. WCXL actually became, sort-of a "farm club" for WDAO, who would later hire a number of the workshoppers. I forget the actual number or all of their names, but one name that you might recognize who was part of the broadcast workshop was Michael Ecton, who has been on WDAO (FM and AM) for years. When he was at the workshop, Michael was a shift worker at
Frigidaire. I can remember him both preceeding me and following me on the air on various nights.
If I remember right, this was my first-ever use of the name "Jason Roberts" on the air. (With sincere apologies to my good friend, Mark Elliott, who later, while at WDJX gave me his "blessing" for using the Jason Roberts name he used on WTUE in the 70's.)
No...WCXL was on a different frequency. (I forget it off the top of my head.) WQRP was an entirely different radio station and was licensed separately.
Thanks for all the info. I visited the facility while I was a student at IBS and as I recall the only hour air shift they had available on WCXL was while I was in class (it would have been a heck of a lot cheaper than IBS, even at 1975 tuition rates and I probably would have learned more!). I visited again when I was working up in Celina with a friewnd who was interested in the business and it was then that I met the guy from WDHK who wanted to jock on WDAO. Somebody should so a program like Broadcast Workshop now..maybe one of the LPFMs or even that AM in Springfield.
techie2 said:gr8oldies said:A guy I went to IBS (predecessor to ICB) with was PD at WKFI for awhile (he was named Tom Peake). I don't know if anyone remembers WCXL, owned by an organizationed called Broadcast Workshop, INc that ran a disco format on the noncommercial end of the band in the mid to late 70s...I remember there was a guy who worked at WDHK who jocked there and was pitching himself to WDAO (was that you, Kevin by any chance?)
Wasn't WCXL a 10 watt Class D on 88.1, that later became WQRP and is now WDPR?
In the early 1980s WCXL and WQRP were both simulcast and operated out of a small building off of West Third Street heading out of Dayton towards New Lebanon and Eaton. The building was once a small church. It aired a lot of southern gospel and pentacostal preachers when WDPS from Dayton Public Schools were done with its programming for the day. WDPS and WQRP still share the frequency.
That was actually the second location for WCXL.
It was orginally (believe it or not) in a basement of an old building that used to be next door to the
Golden Nugget Pancake House near Patterson and Dorothy Lane.
They moved out to the church in Drexel later.
It was orginally (believe it or not) in a basement of an old building that used to be next door to the
Golden Nugget Pancake House near Patterson and Dorothy Lane.
They moved out to the church in Drexel later.
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