"When Carson Hutchison (King in the Morning) was at WOKI radio when it first went on the air in 1974, Bill Johnson brought in a new account. Snuffy's Discount Store actually had two locations--Jamestown and Ducktown. Carson and I spent a lot of nights sitting around the radio station listening to old records. One of our favorites was the Saturday Morning Radio Show featuring Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys (aka the Statler Brothers). Carson did a take-off voice of the ole Roadhog for the new account that started out "This here's Me fer Snuffy's" and ended with "....and I'll see ya next time." When Carson left WOKI a couple of months later, I picked up the account and continued the commercials using the same voice character until Snuffy quit advertising on the radio in 1983. There was actually a Snuffy (I don't remember his real name) who owned the store. When people started driving to Jamestown from all over to get a Big Orange Dope, Snuffy put Orange Crush soft drinks in his machine outside the store and put a homemade "Big Orange Dope" label on the button. I wrote all the copy for all the commercials, which generally told some crazy story about Me and Ole Snuff sittin' around sellin' stuff. Oh, some wonderful memories of those days at "The Only One". Mike Beverly and Cliff Hudson have some stories to tell, too." (Dave Lambert aka Da Kid)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
"When Carson Hutchison (King in the Morning) was at WOKI radio when it first went on the air in 1974, Bill Johnson brought in a new account. Snuffy's Discount Store actually had two locations--Jamestown and Ducktown. Carson and I spent a lot of nights sitting around the radio station listening to old records. One of our favorites was the Saturday Morning Radio Show featuring Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys (aka the Statler Brothers). Carson did a take-off voice of the ole Roadhog for the new account that started out "This here's Me fer Snuffy's" and ended with "....and I'll see ya next time." When Carson left WOKI a couple of months later, I picked up the account and continued the commercials using the same voice character until Snuffy quit advertising on the radio in 1983. There was actually a Snuffy (I don't remember his real name) who owned the store. When people started driving to Jamestown from all over to get a Big Orange Dope, Snuffy put Orange Crush soft drinks in his machine outside the store and put a homemade "Big Orange Dope" label on the button. I wrote all the copy for all the commercials, which generally told some crazy story about Me and Ole Snuff sittin' around sellin' stuff. Oh, some wonderful memories of those days at "The Only One". Mike Beverly and Cliff Hudson have some stories to tell, too." (Dave Lambert aka Da Kid)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
"Moved to Knoxville in 1973 and loved listening to WROL especially the night of the Strip Streak-a-thon. I got my foot in the door at WKGN in 1974 and surprised the guys when I passed the test for my FCC Third Class license. Joe Anderson gave me a shot as a reporter when Chris Moser moved on to Atlanta. Got fired in 1975, a month after George Mooney sold the station. Was offered jobs as overnight “babysitter” at the old Muzak station (forget the calls) and in news at WNOX but took the offer at WIVK. Worked police beat, City Council, etc. while in grad school and then with Ed Brantley in midday, Booby and then Dave Young in afternoons and eventually Claude in morning drive for many years. Loved dancing with Schultz and Lester and co-anchoring with Channing Smith. My last six months were spent starting up the news-talk format (that became WNOX before the latest developments) with Jim Donovan in the summer of ‘92, and then it was off to China in 1993. Does the brief incarnation of ‘IVK as WHIG count?" (Jean Ash)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Today we travel to 1981 and~
Bernard Addison on WKGN
Curtis Parham on WRJZ
Rick Hudson on WETQ
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
101 wants to hear from you~ "What Ktown radio stations did you work at?"
First up 101 heard from the insegrevious one, Eddie Beacon the swingin' deacon~
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The new WNOX 100.3 news talk is now streaming online! click here
Friday, September 17, 2010
Happy Birthday to Don Lindsey and Mike Howard!!!
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Back in 1975 WETE Radio 62 was a MOR/soft rock programmed station and was a true institution in Ktown!
5-9 Curtis Parham
9-2 Jim Humphries
2-6 Walker Johnson
6-10 Joe Crotty
10-5 Ernie the Bartender
News- Tony Yoken, Betsy Gray, Judy Jenkins
Part time- Ben Clifton
From the 101 Audio Vault, here's Joe Crotty~
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

From the 101 InBox~
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
"Just found this website last night and am blown away by the names, places and faces I'm seeing. I did a stint at Rock 104 from April 81-Nov 82 working many time slots including opposite Mike Beach in the am, doing 10-1 and engineering Mike's "Noon Flashback" which he broadcast from his house. I also babysat Max our big automated system for our sister station while doing Sun mornings 6-10. Clayton Creekmore where are you? Ha! A few cataclysmic political events marked my time at WIMZ. My interview for a position concluded mins before Reagan was shot and during my am slot when I first started doing news I sadly had to deliver the report of Anwar Sadat's assassination. Radio is political too as many of you well know. The lessons I learned in Ktown's radio scene have stood me in good stead throughout my career which has been fairly dormant since the demise of WZLS in Asheville in 2002. I miss it of course and may return to it one day but I just wanted to give a shout out to all the great individuals I knew back in the day! Love you all!" (Terry Darakjy)
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101 has added two new links for Carson Cooper!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010

Today we open the 101 InBox...
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Speaking of birthdays, it was an honoring hearing from Johnny Pirkle, thanks so much! Also from our InBox some others wrote to 101...
"Happy Birthday from the Ed and Bob Show" (Ed Brantley)
"George...Congrats on turning 3! Keep up the great work...and thanks for the site. It makes us old guys feel grounded! Regards" (Mike Beach)
"Happy 101 Birthday, George -Really enjoy reminiscing with your blog! Do you have any Colvin Idol airchecks? We listened to his news reports each morning in the North Carrick Hall lobby while we (UT Track distance runners) stretched before our daily 6 a.m. practices. Those were the days that WKGN disc jockeys were playing disco -Good memories! Thanks George" (Gary Loe)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Your efforts have made Knoxville radio even more special, and I hope everyone who reads 101 realizes the amount of committment and time you are giving to its history. Keep on keeping on."
Johnny Pirkle
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
As we kick off another year, the 101 Audio Vault travels to "WKGN The Famous 1340" and "The Dave Young Morning Show"...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Joe Anderson is a broadcast legend in Knoxville! My early recollection of Joe was as News Director at WKGN 1340 in the 70's!
Here's Joe via the 101 Audio Vault~
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Saturday, September 04, 2010
Friday, September 03, 2010

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Jean Ash has a new link
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Wednesday, September 01, 2010
From the 101 Audio Vault here's Fred~
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