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Where were you in '86? Here are some of our groovy responses-
Walker Johnson...
I owned a small AM in Maryville called WMDR. WMYU just moved to Knoxville and offered me the chance to team back up with CP on U102. I said no because I was programming, general managing and when someone was sick, filling in on the air at WMDR. They came back with one of those...what will it take... deals and with the help of a great lawyer (Bill Mason) we carved out a deal where CP and Walker ran live on both stations in the morning, I had no production to do, and the two stations split all ad buys of CP and Walker live spots. Oh and because of Bill Mason my contract included a yearly ten percent pay increase along with U102 paying for a board op at my station from 6 to 10 AND one of those new cell phone things. Heck I forgot the deal ALSO included half (for WMDR) of any billboard in our listening area that featured CP and Walker. As for the blizzard, my station in Alcoa was on the air the entire time, my 30 foot boat sank down at Tellico Marina and because we couldn't get out of the house BUT had power, we spent a ton of time on the back porch in the hot tub listening to news reports of folks melting ice for drinking water. The night the marina called to tell me my boat was going under, the wind was over 30 miles an hour and the air temp was in the low teens. I told the guy I couldn't get out of my front door let alone drive 35 miles to the boat and he just said he thought I might like to know. Wild weather to say the least.
Mike Clark...
I was doing morning news at U-102, working with the great CP as part of CP and Company. We were in the last year of our stint in the Sevierville studios; in December of '86 we moved to 8419 Kingston Pike. Walker Johnson would join the station after the move and CP & Walker would once again help jump-start the mornings for thousands of East Tennesseans.
Chad Austin...
Here is the lineup for WOKI (Hits 100) from 1/1/86:
6am - Ron Harper
10am - Gary Beach
3pm - Julie London
7pm - Shotgun Stevens
12am - J.J. Randle
Former WOKI Night time Shock Jock, "Shotgun Stevens" pulled a publicity stunt just a few days later after Tennessee's Sugar Bowl Victory in January of 1986, when he locked himself up in the studio around 11pm that night, and he played the song "Orange Blooded", (which was a parody of Foreigner's 1978 hit "Hot Blooded") in honor of Tennessee's 35 to 7 victory over Miami, 35 times in a row until station management supposedly showed up and threw him out of the studio.
Then a couple of weeks later Shotgun Stevens left Ktown and started doing mornings at 99.7 WDJX in Louisville, Kentucky, and Michael Scott was moved from weekends to doing 7 to 12midnight as Shotgun's permanent replacement that same year.
Where were you in '86? Here are some of our groovy responses-
Walker Johnson...
I owned a small AM in Maryville called WMDR. WMYU just moved to Knoxville and offered me the chance to team back up with CP on U102. I said no because I was programming, general managing and when someone was sick, filling in on the air at WMDR. They came back with one of those...what will it take... deals and with the help of a great lawyer (Bill Mason) we carved out a deal where CP and Walker ran live on both stations in the morning, I had no production to do, and the two stations split all ad buys of CP and Walker live spots. Oh and because of Bill Mason my contract included a yearly ten percent pay increase along with U102 paying for a board op at my station from 6 to 10 AND one of those new cell phone things. Heck I forgot the deal ALSO included half (for WMDR) of any billboard in our listening area that featured CP and Walker. As for the blizzard, my station in Alcoa was on the air the entire time, my 30 foot boat sank down at Tellico Marina and because we couldn't get out of the house BUT had power, we spent a ton of time on the back porch in the hot tub listening to news reports of folks melting ice for drinking water. The night the marina called to tell me my boat was going under, the wind was over 30 miles an hour and the air temp was in the low teens. I told the guy I couldn't get out of my front door let alone drive 35 miles to the boat and he just said he thought I might like to know. Wild weather to say the least.
Mike Clark...
I was doing morning news at U-102, working with the great CP as part of CP and Company. We were in the last year of our stint in the Sevierville studios; in December of '86 we moved to 8419 Kingston Pike. Walker Johnson would join the station after the move and CP & Walker would once again help jump-start the mornings for thousands of East Tennesseans.
Chad Austin...
Here is the lineup for WOKI (Hits 100) from 1/1/86:
6am - Ron Harper
10am - Gary Beach
3pm - Julie London
7pm - Shotgun Stevens
12am - J.J. Randle
Former WOKI Night time Shock Jock, "Shotgun Stevens" pulled a publicity stunt just a few days later after Tennessee's Sugar Bowl Victory in January of 1986, when he locked himself up in the studio around 11pm that night, and he played the song "Orange Blooded", (which was a parody of Foreigner's 1978 hit "Hot Blooded") in honor of Tennessee's 35 to 7 victory over Miami, 35 times in a row until station management supposedly showed up and threw him out of the studio.
Then a couple of weeks later Shotgun Stevens left Ktown and started doing mornings at 99.7 WDJX in Louisville, Kentucky, and Michael Scott was moved from weekends to doing 7 to 12midnight as Shotgun's permanent replacement that same year.
U-102 in January of 1986:
6am - CP
10am - Larry Trotter
3pm - Jeff Jarnigan
7pm - Jeff Freeman
12am - Kay Manley
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6am - CP
10am - Larry Trotter
3pm - Jeff Jarnigan
7pm - Jeff Freeman
12am - Kay Manley
101 wants to hear from you too!