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- Thread starter Tim Y
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Where was the original?
I was GM at WNOW in the 70s we actually beat WSBA in one book ---- Talent was Dave Marino, Jack Malloy, Richard W and Pete LaRosa. Mike Pinyek did news, format was Country. Then we turned out attention to WQXA - Q106, talent was Jim Cook & The Captian (Jerry Edling) mornings, Dennis John Cahill mid day, St John PM Drive, Shotgun Johnny Ringo evenings, Casey Sommers overnights. We became the #1 station quickly and actually had more cume listeners than any station in Pennsylvania when you eliminated Philadelphia and Pittsburgh stations. It was great fun!
Gary Burns
Gary Burns
WNOW was my first fulltime radio job in 1971. The world famous Phil Gardner hired me for overnights. When Phil left, Dave Marino took over and instituted a top-40 type of country format. I was "encouraged to leave", as they wanted to get rid of the old blood...was gone in four or five months. Took a PD job in Central Virginia. WNOW was a great training ground.
(In order to fathom this, you have to transport yourself back to the early 1970's--40+ years ago. Things were very different).
WNOW-FM's Country format was huge in the Chambersburg area--even though Franklin County was (and still is) on the fringe of the 105.7 signal contour--barely audible. Back in 1971 or '72, I remember seeing an Arbitron ADI report for Washington, DC--which then included Franklin County--and 'NOW had bigger numbers than any other station in The Valley (what is now the Hagerstown-Chambersburg-Waynesboro market). This preceded WYII's arrival as a Country FM in Hagerstown... and was a decade prior to WAYZ's flip into the format.
Almost no one had an FM receiver, back then. Radio geeks would wire-up FM converters on car radios (at 1400 KHZ, right?)--sort of like HD Radio today. FM was still a rumor.
And so was Country. Many small-town stations would run Country "programs" on the weekends--or do a few hours early in the morning (presumed to be "farm time," when the farmers were out milking the cows). But most broadcasters didn't take it seriously.
105.7/WNOW-FM was ahead of its time. Had it been allowed to live just a few more years--until the FM band took off, it would have been a huge success and would have dominated the entire region.
WNOW-FM's Country format was huge in the Chambersburg area--even though Franklin County was (and still is) on the fringe of the 105.7 signal contour--barely audible. Back in 1971 or '72, I remember seeing an Arbitron ADI report for Washington, DC--which then included Franklin County--and 'NOW had bigger numbers than any other station in The Valley (what is now the Hagerstown-Chambersburg-Waynesboro market). This preceded WYII's arrival as a Country FM in Hagerstown... and was a decade prior to WAYZ's flip into the format.
Almost no one had an FM receiver, back then. Radio geeks would wire-up FM converters on car radios (at 1400 KHZ, right?)--sort of like HD Radio today. FM was still a rumor.
And so was Country. Many small-town stations would run Country "programs" on the weekends--or do a few hours early in the morning (presumed to be "farm time," when the farmers were out milking the cows). But most broadcasters didn't take it seriously.
105.7/WNOW-FM was ahead of its time. Had it been allowed to live just a few more years--until the FM band took off, it would have been a huge success and would have dominated the entire region.
Corky in the Morning...if he was the same guy...was originally a WNOW all night jock, worked several shifts and just may have have returned to WNOW sometime after I left the station in the fall of 1972. He traveled the York radio circuit...to WHVR I believed, possibly back to WNOW...and ended up at WZIX but not real sure if it was 'ZIX then or now. At any rate, again, if the same Corky, he died a few years ago of a heart attack. Was arrested prior to that on child abuse charges. Not sure of any jail time. Any "enlightenment" here from anyone?
Was cleared of the abuse charges....returned to WOYK.
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re Corky--was it child abuse or child porn---there is a big difference. I thought it was porn. Not a bad jock, funny, but temperamental as hell.
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