WLAC changes schedule

[firepoint525]

jwk1979 posted...Michael Del Giornio from Tulsa, Woody and Jim on the River came here from Kansas City (though it was 10 years ago), Mack...

As I recall, Woody & Jim joined The River from Fly 92 in Albany.

I couldn't recall what market they were in before they came to Nashville but the point was they were brought into Nashville from another market. They were not LOCAL TALENT as so many posters on the board are clamoring for!!!

No one in Nashville anymore is actually from Nashville.  Not even me!  Although I did not come here to take over anyone's morning show.  Good thing!

I have long said that the best way to make it in Nashville radio is to move to Albuquerque!  Then you can move to Philadelphia, Birmingham, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and then maybe (back) to Nashville if you are lucky!  I say this from reading the bios of air talent back when those were still being published on radio station websites.  The common thread among all of the big, successful ones was that they were not from Nashville, and that they had been moving around from town to town, station to station quite a bit.

But hey, at least WE know how to pronounce "Demonbreun"!  ;D

 

[ShadowB]

It is the nature of the beast to move around a lot...I grew up here,got into radio,moved around then came back home in 94. Nashville has so many good out of work jocks and It WOULD be nice if the stations that are getting voices from outside the market would put them to work first.

 

[jwk1979]

Mix 92.9 is the second choice. They have done their homework and have built one of the most successful AC stations that I've ever heard. The morning show always sounds bright, middays and afternoons are good as well. The only problem is I don't care for the nighttime program with that chick, I can't think of her name off of the top of my head. If it was up to me, I'd replace her for a local female talent that can do the same thing.

Delilah! : Ugh! In a time of people saying that they are sick and tired of overly talkative jocks, we are stuck with this "chatty Cathy"! : And she is not only on the air on 92.9, but also on Lite 98.7 out of Hopkinsville! Double ugh!

I believe she is on a majority of the AC/Lite Rock stations accross the country. I've been in very few cities accross the nation over the last 10 years or so that you couldn't find Delilah airing on the Top AC/Lite Rock station in that city. I don't think there is NO ESCAPING the "Chatty Cathy" of radio.

 

[Journeyman]

It is the nature of the beast to move around a lot...I grew up here,got into radio,moved around then came back home in 94. Nashville has so many good out of work jocks and It WOULD be nice if the stations that are getting voices from outside the market would put them to work first.

I may be wrong on this, but if you are corporate and non-union I think you can be required to do out town VT for no additional pay

 

[olebud]

Firepoint: No one in Nashville anymore is actually from Nashville.

Firepoint....well said.... I'm from Nashville, but while in radio here after Texas, from 1979, I lived in Sumner county, so technically, I was not from Nashville.
Carry on ya'll....

 

[Kyle Cantrell]

Olebud, on the subject of famous air talent being from other towns, very few of the "big names" have been true locals down through the years. You've already mentioned folks like Allen Dennis and Gerry House, but going back through the WSM roster (which I know best), none of these were from Nashville: Jud Collins, Ott Devine, Irving Waugh, Grant Turner, Louie Buck, Eddie Hill, Dave Overton, and I could go on and on.

Ralph Emery could almost claim to be a Nashvillian because he lived here for a while before he got into radio, but as we all know, he was really from McEwen. At least, that's close!

 

[scottwmro]

Mix 92.9 is the second choice. They have done their homework and have built one of the most successful AC stations that I've ever heard. The morning show always sounds bright, middays and afternoons are good as well. The only problem is I don't care for the nighttime program with that chick, I can't think of her name off of the top of my head. If it was up to me, I'd replace her for a local female talent that can do the same thing.

Delilah! : Ugh! In a time of people saying that they are sick and tired of overly talkative jocks, we are stuck with this "chatty Cathy"! : And she is not only on the air on 92.9, but also on Lite 98.7 out of Hopkinsville! Double ugh!

I believe she is on a majority of the AC/Lite Rock stations accross the country. I've been in very few cities accross the nation over the last 10 years or so that you couldn't find Delilah airing on the Top AC/Lite Rock station in that city. I don't think there is NO ESCAPING the "Chatty Cathy" of radio.

Her show is just plain boring and sometimes depressing to me. But I'm a male, and I guess her show is after a female audience, especially the young ones that lost their boyfriend or a girl trying to get a guy to like her.

Reminds me back in the early 90's when I was just a jock at WQQK-FM, 92Q, and I had to jock the "Quiet Storm Show", which is still on today. Some of the music was good, but some cuts I had to play were depressing as all get out. But, the Quiet Storm is an important part of Urban Radio in many markets these days. It makes me sleepy. Heck, I want to jam so I could stay awake during my board shift.

Delilah's show was on Satellite with Jones Satellite Networks. Since Dial Global bought Jones in Denver, I think she has been picked up by someone else. Any idea who that it is? Just wondering. I'm out of the loop on that deal.

Outside of Delilah, 92.9 is one of the best sounding FM's here, along with WSIX. Sorry, I spelled Gerry's name wrong in a previous post, (-5) for me. I was getting sleepy when I was posting that.

 

[scottwmro]

Olebud, on the subject of famous air talent being from other towns, very few of the "big names" have been true locals down through the years. You've already mentioned folks like Allen Dennis and Gerry House, but going back through the WSM roster (which I know best), none of these were from Nashville: Jud Collins, Ott Devine, Irving Waugh, Grant Turner, Louie Buck, Eddie Hill, Dave Overton, and I could go on and on.

Ralph Emery could almost claim to be a Nashvillian because he lived here for a while before he got into radio, but as we all know, he was really from McEwen. At least, that's close!

Hey Buddy!
Can I add Horatio Caine to this list? (HA, HA)....just kidding!

I just wanted to say hi, and I lost 10 lbs.! I happy!! Exercise at the Gallatin Civic Center does wonders! I need to make it a point to come by the restaurant after you get off on morning to stop by and say hi while getting a cup of Java. Hope you and Karen doing good.

 

[Nashsound]

Delilah is distributed on Premiere Radio now.

 

[turnitupnow]

I could be wrong but the original thought of "local" is more of who the "locals" see as one of them. TV is a more powerful impact with personalities but 2 of the biggest names, Dan Miller and Chris Clark, were not FROM Nashville but clearly WERE Nashville. I'm not sure anyone locally cared where they were FROM, they just loved the city and it showed. In music few "names" are FROM Nashville but in adopting the town, learning about the town, people claim them.
Don't discount those who worked hard to fit in. People can come here, live here, and Become Nashvillians without having been born at Baptist Hospital.
Locals liked Charlie Chase who is from Rogersville but feels more local than some "locals". Nobody cared Pat Sajak wasn't FROM here or that Hal Durham was from McMinnville or that Al Voecks was from someplace else. Allen Dennis and most of the WMAK staff were not from Nashville. I think John Young and Gary Douglas (Beaty), Don Hunt, and Mike Donegan were the ones who were from Nashville originally.
But even people FROM here into todays' media slick world with one host doing everything, do have a hard time keeping up with a syndicated show with support staff and good production values. But at one time you had a long list of names who gave a lot of credibility to Nashville media. For a market this size, it had bigger national impact in part because of who was here.

Names like Jay Thomas from WKDA to LA & TV.Steve Lundy (Jack Kelly on air) from WKDA to WLS. Scott Shannon to Atlanta Tampa and still strong in NYC (just named VP of programming for Citadel. John Young started SM95, was named Billboard Magazine AC Personality of the year while doing WSM AM airtime, and had a huge station in Atlanta and voiced everything for TBS. He's here now but doing tv v/o all over the country. Charlie Chase stayed here but has a national name with Crook & Chase still on the radio, and of course, the world knows Ralph Emery. John Tesh, Carol Marine, Lonnie Lardner, John Sigenthaler all had huge careers launched from Nashville TV. And don't for somebody named Winfrey. Many others could have done bigger things but just stayed here and it's not to put anybody down. Nashville has always been a hot spot for talent. The problems now may not be so much bad talent, but just a bad time in the industry. I do agree with the comment that Rick & Bubba "sound like Bham." And I still have people ask "did you ever meet John R?"
Amazing place this is. The world may see us better than we see ourselves.

 

[olebud]

I going to have to rely on memory..and that's always dangerous. But I had a BIG station P-D tell me the cost to have someone in another market voice track was 5-thousand dollars a year. Now, figure the cost of a live talent. With v-t, there is no insurance, vacation packages, yearly raises, etc., so the cost of voice tracking is tens of thousands lower than live talent, and this was a number of years ago. when I was at wsm, they figured the insurance and other 'perks' at about 13-thousand dollars yearly..and I don't doubt the numbers. It was good. I received a very good severance package. I, like most others would like to be able to tune to a local station and have a live person to tell me it's started rain/snowing/whatever outside the studio. But this is where we've come
we now return you to your regular programming already in progress

 

[scottwmro]

jwk1979 posted...Michael Del Giornio from Tulsa, Woody and Jim on the River came here from Kansas City (though it was 10 years ago), Mack...

As I recall, Woody & Jim joined The River from Fly 92 in Albany.

I couldn't recall what market they were in before they came to Nashville but the point was they were brought into Nashville from another market. They were not LOCAL TALENT as so many posters on the board are clamoring for!!!

No one in Nashville anymore is actually from Nashville. Not even me! Although I did not come here to take over anyone's morning show. Good thing!

I have long said that the best way to make it in Nashville radio is to move to Albuquerque! Then you can move to Philadelphia, Birmingham, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and then maybe (back) to Nashville if you are lucky! I say this from reading the bios of air talent back when those were still being published on radio station websites. The common thread among all of the big, successful ones was that they were not from Nashville, and that they had been moving around from town to town, station to station quite a bit.

But hey, at least WE know how to pronounce "Demonbreun"! ;D

I wasn't born in Nashville; I was born in Clarksville at Gateway Hospital, which was the old Clarksville Memorial Hospital in the early to almost mid 60's when I came along. My Dad worked at the Acme Boot Plant, just out of the military and my mother was working a women's department store, across the street from the old 1400 WJZM studios. Dad moved us to Sumner County in the late 60's, due to he got a new job in Nashville.

My late cousin (John Bailey) was part owner of WJZM, and Dad would take me over there. I would sit behind the window and watch the D.J. on the air. I can't believe at that early of an age I decided I wanted a radio station. My Dad taught me what the radio station was at a very, very early age. Thanks to John Bailey and my dad, Bill Bailey, I have a little station. They are both gone, may God Bless them. As some of you have mention, it was my cousin, John's idea to put WDKN on in Dickson.

WJZM is not what it was anymore. I went by there in 2006. Weeds growing up the guy wires of the tower and high grass around the tower. The tower is old, rusty and looks like it could fall! It needs to be replaced. They have a nice studio building that was built in the early 2000's. It was sort of sad for me to see it, since that station was a part of my family for years.

Firepoint, you and I are about the same age, what is wrong with some people? They won't take care of what they have. No maintenance! If they can't cut the grass and clean up outside, hire somebody to do it for you. I cannot do those outdoor tasks anymore, and I have a good man that takes care of my lawn at my station and my house. I guess my parents taught me to take care of what you have.

I have outside projects that need to be addressed, but it's been so cold, I've told my contractors to wait until it warms up a bit and no rain.

I love little, small, stand alone, AM stations that are 250 watts to 1,000 watts. Nothing big. I've always just been that way. My Dad and I have had offers to buy other small stations in the past when he was alive, but I told him one station is enough for me. People laugh at me for being this way.

If it was not so far away from my mother, who still lives in Gallatin, I found a small, stand alone, 250 watt AM station to buy. I would buy the 250 watt station "first" and a house there, then sell my current house and the station I have currently. But for now, that's impossible, so I’m just keeping my home and small AM station here in Gallatin. My wife and I need to keep an eye on my mother and her mother as well. Leslie's mother has MS.

Leslie and I would like to move some further away from the Gallatin/Nashville area.

Leslie and I would like to build WMRO a new building. From what I understand from Chris Romer, the building was not in good shape when he worked there when WAMG was in my building, and that was in the 70's! If I had the money, I would bulldoze the building were in now, and build a new, smaller building. The restroom subfloor caved in 2 weeks ago. I've got a contractor coming to tear the whole floor out and repair it!

 

[firepoint525]

Is 'JZM still on Madison Street, or have they moved?

 

[beatlenut]

They are on Martin Street, off of Crossland Avenue. Their building and their transmitter. I know for a fact that's where they are, but I don't know how long they've been there.

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WJZM-AM

 

[scottwmro]

They are on Martin Street, off of Crossland Avenue. Their building and their transmitter. I know for a fact that's where they are, but I don't know how long they've been there.

http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WJZM-AM

The WJZM transmitter site has always been on Martin St. The studios for many years, since I could remember, were on the second floor in a building on Madison St. across the street where my mom worked in a small women's clothing store. That store had a weird name that I can't remember. I think, but not sure, that the Madison Street studios for WJZM were the original studios for the station. I know my Dad could answer that question, but since he is gone, I not sure who would know.

At the WJZM transmitter site, was an old shack with a RCA BTA 1R1 Transmitter. The new owner had built a more modern transmitter building that houses a Harris (Gates One) solid state transmitter for WJZM. It is right behind the old transmitter shack where the tower is. The studios were moved to Martin St. in the early 2000's. I'm not sure which year.

The last time I was in the studios on Madison Street was back in the mid 80's when John and Charlie still owned it. It was still playing music, more towards an AC format. I know in the early 90's after John and Charlie sold it, it went through a few format changes until they came to what they are now. John Bailey was engineer for the station and GM. Charlie handled the sales end of the station.

John Bailey died in 1995, about five years after he and Charlie Malone sold the station. John was going to help me and my dad with WMRO, but his health wasn't at its best.