Knoxville radio history is made fresh daily, tomorrow appears to be a monumental day...
- 100.3 FM which is owned by John Pirkle returns to his domain
- Ed Brantley after 42 years at WIVK was hired to join 100.3 as GM and DJ
- Bob Thomas, Dave Hooker, and Terry Fair were added to the line up
- Ktown will have 2 FM talkers with excellent local and syndicated talent
- The power of one versus the other appears to be a story...100k versus 8k
101 wishes both stations the best and am glad that modern technology allows me to listen to stations via the web and apps!
Opinions are flying, 101 heard from AD (Alan Douglas)~
"I was driving down to the Tri-Cities to work on my two "peashooter" FM's there and had a chance to listen to Citadel's truly bizarre programming on 100.3 this past week. Of course, they were directing listeners to turn to 98.7 for Rush, Phil, Hannity, etc., but were also playing some absolutely horrible music, some old audio clips, and I even heard a bit of "War of the Worlds!"...Good luck to Pirkle, Ed, Bob, and company. This should be an interesting battle between a "blowtorch" and the "A-List" syndicated talkers on a lesser signal." (Alan Sneed)