My perception of the Lion preceding The Eagle was this... I was at 103 from 1979 to 1984. I left prior to the conversion to CHR, was production director and did middays at WMC (we milk cows) 79 for a couple of years, and came back to 103 after the change back to AOR.
When 103 dropped the format, nobody was programming it, to my knowledge, in the metro. Like I say, I was doing other things, do I don't know exactly when the end came. However, a few months into the rock-and-roll drought, I do recall a guy at church telling me to listen to 98.1. My memory was that they were calling it "The Lion" then, while 103 was still doing CHR. They had the market to themselves until the change of the guard at 103, and Mr. Scott and Mr. Wander got things cooking again.
One day shortly thereafter, I was minding my own business, just driving to lunch, when my car steered itself to 203 Beale and parked itself behind 103. I found myself taking the elevator up to the second floor, probably ran into Dr. Cecil and Gary Condrey who asked "are you coming back?" and then yada yada yada wound up back with the station and helping rebuild.
The Rock103 name came back, but not immediately. Management changes came, and a change in the direction of the station leaning more to the crude and lewd. I had "philosophical differences" with the new direction, and left in 1988 to go to work for Wilkerson Sound, for whom I still toil 25 years later, and on air to FM100 weekends. I spent 20 years, off and on, doing work for FM100.
When 103 dropped the format, nobody was programming it, to my knowledge, in the metro. Like I say, I was doing other things, do I don't know exactly when the end came. However, a few months into the rock-and-roll drought, I do recall a guy at church telling me to listen to 98.1. My memory was that they were calling it "The Lion" then, while 103 was still doing CHR. They had the market to themselves until the change of the guard at 103, and Mr. Scott and Mr. Wander got things cooking again.
One day shortly thereafter, I was minding my own business, just driving to lunch, when my car steered itself to 203 Beale and parked itself behind 103. I found myself taking the elevator up to the second floor, probably ran into Dr. Cecil and Gary Condrey who asked "are you coming back?" and then yada yada yada wound up back with the station and helping rebuild.
The Rock103 name came back, but not immediately. Management changes came, and a change in the direction of the station leaning more to the crude and lewd. I had "philosophical differences" with the new direction, and left in 1988 to go to work for Wilkerson Sound, for whom I still toil 25 years later, and on air to FM100 weekends. I spent 20 years, off and on, doing work for FM100.
