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WTQX Selma, 1975

danhughes

danhughes

I remember WTQX (around 1974) as being horribly overmodulated, like the jocks were constantly pinning the vU meter. Sounded like a CB radio.

I do have one story for you about WTQX.

I had a connection to the black community of Selma in a couple of ways. I did a Sunday interview show for WAMA, and my guests were often from the black community - F.W. Reese, the various Sanders and Chestnuts, the head of Selma Academy, and the president of the Black Elks club (can't remember his name - a very tall man, I remember). Later I was a writer/photographer for Selma's weekly black newspaper (I think it was called The Black Belt Journal; it was run by a Rev. Dixon).

I don't remember the circumstances, but I was in the WTQX on-air studio, showing a unique earphone to one of the DJs (I think his last name was maybe Bailey?). He was very excited about it, because it could be worn without messing up an Afro, which was THE hairstyle back then. It was from Radio Shack, a single hard plastic cup that fit right on your ear, and you wore it on only one ear. I later heard that most of the jocks there bought one to use on the air.

The odd thing is that I have no memory whatsoever as to what their equipment looked like. Darn!
 
Did you know Sam Everett, who was GM of WTQX? He was married to the owner's daughter. He and I went thru 12 years of school together. He now lives in Gulf Shores.
 
Want to make a correction here and now.

Just discovered WTQX went silent in 1996.

I knew that but for some reason I said 1995, in some of my latest posts about this station.

Please accept my apology for making that mistake.

Didn't mean to do it.

For the proof here it is: 6148 1570 WTQX AL SELMA LICAN 04/01/1996

R.D.P. <><

P.S. And yes, Mr. Dan that station served the black community very well for the many years they did Soul.  The sound quality wasn't perfect but hey they did their job and gave that community a radio station they could listen to.
 
Yep, the class of 1962 in Atmore produced 3 radio people: Jim Lumpkin, Chief Engineer for WHBB and the other Talton stations, Sam, and me. Not bad for a high school class that totalled only 99 of us. Our 50th reunion is coming up.
 
And of the three, two ended up in radio in Selma ... and two of the three ended up in black-formatted radio (WTQX, and WKXI 94.7 Jackson MS for me).
 
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