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[cceng1]

just in town for the day.....trying to catch up before I go back to the deer woods this afternoon....damn...I am sorry to hear that Jimmy Keyton died...he was a really nice guy and a pleasure to work for......Yes, I did build the original WJEM in Thomasville.....now, back to the deer woods

wooten

 

[radioboy]

Freddy,

WSTT's urban oldies was around '98 or '99, I think. They were doing some gospel on the weekends.

John Pembroke and I were friends from the time he came to the area until he passed away. I gave
him some vinyl albums for WSTT's Sunday morning show. He wanted me to come work for him but
I had a full-time radio gig at the time.

 

[fwillis]

Yes, he was a good guy. Smarter than some folks gave him credit.

 

[radiosanchez]

WSTT has developed a stable audience of sorts with its gospel format. It was indeed given away
in an MTV contest, in 1990, to a young women who was clueless about running a radio station.
I KNEW I should have entered that contest!!!

How long did the winner of the contest run the station (pray tell), and how well did she run it?? IIRC from watching the promos on MTV part of the contest included the chance to interview Billy Idol on the station.

 

[radioboy]

WSTT was playing country at that time. Billy Idol did visit the station when the young lady won it.
She was quoted as saying she'd run "anything but country."

I believe it was silent within a matter of weeks.

 

[fwillis]

She won a license to broadcast, some run down equipment, and right to broadcast from the tower. The FM took all the good erquipment to Tallahassee. Not being from the area, it was a good move to sell to John. Winning $45,000 is a lot better than loosing what she would have lost trying to operate it, not knowing what she was doing. I still remember the old standby Bauer transmitter. I believe it found a home in Quincy. It originally came from Alma Ga, built out of the kit in 1961.