Thursday, January 27, 2011

The 101 Time Machine travels to January 1978...

Jimmy Carter was President!

WIVK's news team was anchored by Mike Hammond, Mark Thomas, and Dan Bell. PS- Jean Ash was DJing on the AM from 1-3p!

WBIR-FM (103.5) was trying to battle WIVK with a country format...DJs were Keith Dodd, James Freeman, John Irons, Bill Page, Celeste, and Mike Johnson. Plus The Mulls were on nightly from 8-10p!

Over at WNOX 990 Bill Beason was new and their line up was~
6 Dr Dave
10 Phil Williams
2 Mike Beach
6 Scott McLeod (PD)
10 Larry Steele
2 Bill Beason

Down the dial at 62...CP and Walker were cracking up Ktown, Adele stayed up all night on 62, the night DJ was named Van Radford, and Foster Arnett reported from the Z plane!

WKGN was basically an AOR format with AD 6a-10, Robin Beck 10-3, Dave Elrod 3-7, Keith Lambert 7-12, and Frank Green overnight...and Joe Anderson was still news director!

...and at the end of the month a teenager arrived to hone his skills behind the night time WRJZ mic~ John Boy Isley!