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WPTX/WMDM-FM: Where are they now?

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Any of the old staff of WPTX or WMDM-FM, down in Lexington Park, still around?
I did some part time work there in 1976-77....Rocky Willis, who died recently, was GM.
 
Carey Corson? Erik "E.K. The Brom" Bromley?
"Sunshine Sonny" Stephens? "Rockin' Ray"?
Frank Hayes?
 
Carey Corson here, I'm still around. . . although not around radio anymore. I haven't been on the air in over 30 years - and even then it was just a Sunday morning gig on WKIK am. I've done a number of other things, including driving the Monorail at the '84 World's Fair in New Orleans, playing in a number of garage bands, serving in Kenya in the Peace Corps, working at a crisis outreach program, working in a psychiatric hospital, and joining the volunteer fire company, but no radio gigs. But then again, I'm about to become unemployed, so who knows what's up next for me.


I understand that Rocky Willis has passed on and, according to St. Mary's College of Maryland alumni website, so has Eric Bromley. I haven't heard from or of anybody else who was at the station.
 
Dick Myers here. I'm still in Southern Maryland. I was at the old WKIK-AM from 67-77 and then worked at WPTX-WMDM in the 80's and then again in the late 90's and early 2000's I am currently at www.thebaynet.com after having retired from a federal gig. I know that Tom Grooms is still around.
 
Hey, Dick - I remember you - you were the "competition" when it was PTX and KIK - and then I think you were still station manager when I did the Sunday morning gig at KIK - what are you up to these days?
 
Dick, I got a chance to check out that baynet website - very cool, I guess the on-line format allows you to be very flexible with story length and depth - luxuries you didn't always have with the radio format

Carey
 
I remember you too. I talked to youR mom a couple of times and she kept me posted about your comings and goings. My last radio gig was as manager of WCTR in Chestertown. I then went to work for Sen. Mikulski. I retired in March and went to work for the Bay Net doing all of old news stuff I used to do.
I forgot to mention that Al Dailey is still around. He managed WPTX/WMDM back in the 80's. He's general manager of the Enterprise newspaper in St. Mary's County.
 
"Hey, Carey! What's this 'Lofler' thing?"

Eric Bromley (later that day), "Never apologize on the air".

(First-day-on-the-board nervousness...always turn off the mike before yelling to the engineer in the transmitter room.)
 
What was the older engineer's name? Seems like "George" something.

And, I remember hearing about a "Marlin Moss", who was from Georgia. I think the home-built console in Production said "South Georgia Engineering" on the VU meter.
 
>>I know that Tom Grooms is still around. <<

Tom is doing his overnight thing at the former ABC cluster (now Cumulus) in DC. He is public affairs director, in addition to overall good-guy.
 
Old thread. I was searching for some stuff, and came across this. My Dad (Rockin Ray) passed in 2014 in New Orleans, his home town. If any former colleagues have any historical items, I would love to share them with his grandchildren. They never got to meet him.
 
I used to "babysit" some times, when Ray was on the air. He only had a 3rd class FCC license, so one of us with a "First Phone" had to be in charge of the transmitter. It's a long, lonely walk in the dark taking antenna base current measurements on those towers.
Ray was a Navy cook when he was at Pax River. He had a soul music show a few nights a week.
 
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