Here are two Ktown legends...Dave Young and Ed Brantley~

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101 InBox~

Regarding Disco 13..."I was at WKGN when Steve Dahl of WLUP Chicago burned those disco records at the baseball park in Chicago. It was November 1979 when Bobby Denton rescued me and brought me to WIVK". (Tony Igar)

Regarding WQLA..."Mike Beverly has reportedly taken over the operation of WQLA. 101 awaits the filing of a transfer of ownership or an LMA. Stay tuned!" (Anon E Mouse)

Medical Regional Blood Center has announced two dedicated blood drives for long time Knoxville radio personality Dave Young who is battling cancer.

Known to his fans from the 60's thru the 80's as "Your Dave", this broadcast icon is in need of blood.

You can give Wednesday July 30th from 1p-8 at the Church of the Savior on Weisgarber or on Friday August 8th from noon-6p at Toyota of Knoxville on Parkside Drive.

Every unit of blood will go to "Your Dave Young". Please help a man who gave so much joy to so many for so long!

Phil Williams has done it all in Knoxville radio...from his WNOX years to morning drive on WIMZ to The River...and now as afternoon talker on WOKI Newstalk 98.7! 

 The 101 Audio Vault is from '78~

This was the main control board when I worked at WIVK in the 70's...we played 45 rpm records and the entire back wall was a book shelf of 33s!

2 microphones for the stereo sound and we even turned on the mic with a foot pedal. Behind that curtain was a wall...

The 45 rpm records that you see were categorized into pic hits, current fast A, current slow B, up and coming fast C, up and coming slow D, and there was a cubby hole for those records exiting those categories but still fairly new.

You see a radio, top right...Booby and a few others did not wear head phones so when the mic turned on he could still hear the music thru that radio.

Not pictured but to the left was a connected table with 2 microphones...Marshall Andy sat there when being interviewed, during Football Finals that was where Tim Priest and Joe Thompson would opine!

We had no required format...balance the categories and stay on the request line~ radio at its best!

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Mike Beverly and WQLA?

BREAKING NEWS

Congrats to Knoxville broadcast personality JEFF JARNIGAN...

He is the new PA announcer for Tennessee football games!

Do you remember disco? 

WKGN went from Top 40 to AOR to...disco!

In the late 70's Randy Miller was working mornings and Disco 13 was programmed by Suitcase Simpson.

101 Audio Vault~

Back in '78 WIVK was celebrating 25 years of broadcast excellence. The station was still located on Bearden Hill. Bobby Denton was running the show, Claude the Cat was kickin' it in morning drive, oh...and Jimmy Carter was in the White House.

Here's a 101 Audio Vault montage of the station ID via Your Dave, plus Jimmy Vineyard and Suitcase Simpson.

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Birthday wishes this week to Paul Lyle!

Before the classic rock era, WBIR-FM played country...here's Phil Moore~

from the 101 InBox...

It's always great to hear from the legendary voices of Knoxville radio, TV, production, etc!

"Hey George! I worked at WATO (my first job in radio) doing mornings '68-'69...worked with Joe Vann PD and Eddy Roy. Eddy went to WNOX and I went to 'nam. Came back to WATO in '71 and joined Eddy at WNOX doing midnight to 6a in '72"...Carson King (most of us also remember Carson as "King in the Morning on both WNOX and as the original am drive on WOKI FM 100)

Page 3~ Happy Birthday to fellow Bearden High and Tennessee College of Communications grad John Wilkerson, John is heard afternoons on The Sports Animal!

Back in the 70's WIVK was power packed with super jocks...Claude Tomlinson, Terry Womack, Bobby Denton, Jimmy Vineyard, Bob Catron, Dan Bell and his Sunday Survey, and the list goes on...

 The 101 Audio Vault features two of the WIVK greats...Dave Young and Ed Brantley~

Happy 4th of July!

WIVK studios on Bearden Hill, circa~ early 60's. This very classic photo has been circulating around the cyber world recently. Can you ID anyone?

When I joined the WIVK air staff in '76, there was no frog, and Mike Hammond and Paul Lyle had been relocated to Nashville to head up the new Dick Broadcasting station WKDA. 

The building on Kingston Pike had yet to experience expansion so the control room was at the end of the property with windows. Being on the top floor there was not an easy shot but a make able one as peeps would throw rocks to ask to be let in, no groupies of course. The station's control room had a glass window looking into the news room and across the hall were two other control rooms, one was for production and on air when the signals split periodically, the other was boarded up...I wish I had taken more photos. 

The 101 Audio Vault features a familiar and an unfamiliar voice...Booby of course was basically the station manager and PD in '76, Bill Carnett was ND and one of the news voices was named Bob Agee. I recall Bob as a big and gracious man with incredible pipes...

Tim Edwards was the original afternoon DJ at WRJZ...and stayed until the station turned to a country format in late 1981. 

Here's Tim on the 101 Audio Vault~