Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
From the 101 InBox~
"Played golf with my brother and his 12 year old son last week at Whittle Springs. We stopped at the old WNOX building and took a look around. It's dilapidated now, but it was a showplace 50 years ago. I wanted my nephew to see some of his grandfather's work. My father, Clyde Miller, was a foreman on that job for the George W. Reagan Construction Company. The irony is that I worked for all the legendary radio stations in town - except WNOX. I was only a visitor in the building that my father built. By the way, Billy Casper Golf now runs Whittle Springs Golf Course and they've done a fine job with the grounds. A big, new pond on the back nine adds a new dimension to playing the course."
Best Wishes,
Bill Miller
(I Am Still Suitcase Simpson)
Monday, July 25, 2011
Remember former B97.5 morning DJ TK Brooks? TK is back in East Tennessee and now hosts the morning show on WTFM in the Tri-Cities!
TK and Taylor (photo) are on the air from 6-10 daily, 98.5 FM on the dial, followed by Elva Marie 10-3, and Mark Baker 3-7.
Not in Ktown...but right up the road and dial!!!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Paul Lyle travels down memory (interstate) lane~
WIVK Interstate News!
Mike Hammond was interested in upgrading our news department so he and I went to WSB in Atlanta and spent a day with I guy down there with Gordon Van Mol I believe was the guy’s name. We were blown away by their operation and brought many ideas back to WIVK. One of the most noticeable is we named our news “Interstate News.” So it was then WIVK Interstate News. I’ll never forget Bill Williams grilling Mike on Why and are we now going to carry more stories from the interstate or outside the state of Tennessee. Mike was trying to explain it and was getting flustered as Bill kept pestering him with questions. I finally could stand it no more and just butted in(as I so often do so well) and said…Damnit Bill….We’re doing the same news…..we just call in WIVK Interstate News. It just makes it bigger. That was it. Mike and I were laughing for several days after that.
I also remember we always signed off with
More of East Tennessee’s No. 1 Morning Radio show is next…with Claude A. Tomlinson on Tuesday morning’s GREAT DAY. WIVIK WEATHER (here we played the meteorologist). (music rolling) 72 degrees in Knoxville…I’m Paul Lyle…WIVK Interstate News!!!!
Only about 150,000 people were listening!
VERY COOL!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Today our 101 Reload is 2 posts from Mike Beach~
"George...Through this site I re-fired an old friendship with the great Frank Erwin in Nashville. We talked for an hour or so and shared some great old stories and celebrated many of those who came before us in K-Town...Erwin had a wonderful comment about us old guys...he said..."we haven't talked in 25 years and it's like we just pick up where we left off. It is very comfortable."
"After getting a good nap just before Jerry Steele's last show, I went on to do afternoons on WAVA and WPGC in Washington DC, mornings on KBEQ Kansas City, KS-04 Denver, KTFM San Antonio, and took Kiss-102 Charlotte from the ground up as PD and morning man with Chuck Baron. Amazing what some sleep can do for one's career! Update: I am currently living in central Florida, and have an active life managing my real estate. Some days I must admit to missing air work a great deal, then I remember how much control management exerts these days. Then I am glad to be working for myself. There are still a very few pockets of real personality around the country, the guys in the back offices don't seem to want original thinkers..."
Monday, July 18, 2011
The 101 InBox features Dan Bell and David Lambert~
"I think Roger Epperson is right about Janie Fricke doing that jingle...being from Morristown, Janie was active locally in marketing activities before making the jump to Nashville. Even then, she often came back to East Tn. It was not unusual to run into her at West Town Mall, or to have her visit the WIVK Studios. She could project seven or eight different voices vocally, and was featured as back-up on lots of records before making her own. Her back-up band was also from Morristown. Thanks for the memories, especially of ‘76. Did you know I worked for Knox County Ambulance Service for one day? When I moved to Knoxville in September of ‘76, I made the rounds of many of the stations, and even talked with one about being a copywriter. Instead I used my rescue squad experience, and EMT ranking from North Carolina to land the ambulance job. The first day I was on the job, I got a call from Bobby Denton saying they were going to make room for me in the news department, so good by ambulance, hello WIVIK! My one and only day at KCAS my partner was Rick Harrington, who now works with Lifestar." (Dan Bell)
"George...I think it was Jimmy Vineyard who broadcast races live from Smoky Mountain Raceway on WLIL back in the early '70s. I worked the board there as a teenager before moving to WORI/WOKI in 1974 and can still hear the sound of the cars roaring by in the background while Jimmy and others tried to describe the "action" on the track. Had to pay close attention, because there were few scheduled commercial breaks--mostly just time frames within the course of the races." (David Lambert)
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Happy Weekend! It's time for another "101 Reload"~
Very few "music" stations have carried a full time sports department, of course WIVK was the exception. Back in '76 when I joined WIVK, Paul Lyle was Sports Director and worked the morning drive program with Claude Tomlinson.
6-10 Claude Tomlinson
10-1 Jimmy Vineyard
1-4 Ed Brantley
4-7 Bobby Denton
7-12 Tony Eubanks
12-6 Terry Womack
Weekenders- Me, Donny Meltabarger, Jeff Winters, Your Dave!
News- Bill Carnett, Jean Ash, Larry Wayne, Rod Townsend, Lisa McNeal and Calvin Sneed
Sports- Paul and a young up and comer named Bob Kesling
Sales- Ken Russell, Jim Roberts, Eric Bettis, Your Dave, Ed, Booby, and Paul
Within a month of my joining WIVK, two wonderful gentlemen...Dan Bell and Chip Emerson, both came on board.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
101 wants to hear from you~ send your photographs and memories to KtownRadio@gmail.com!
Recently we played a jingle featuring a familiar female voice, here's Roger Epperson's three cents on who the singer was...
"I would bet money that the singer in the East Tenn. Ford spot is Janie Fricke, who before becoming a country music star in her own right, used to sing on many commercials." (Roger Epperson)
Ktown today~ Back in the early 80's WSEV-FM in Sevierville became Knoxville's U-102 WMYU, and today that dial position is WWST Star 102.1!
530-10 Marc, Kim, and Frank
10-3 Gretchen
3-7 Rich Bailey
7-12 Matt Steel
Friday, July 08, 2011
"Hi...Saw the Bobby Denton East TN Ford spot online this morning and recalled that I had never forwarded an mp3 of the late 70s jingle they used. My question at the time was whether this is a young Reba singing? Tracked the jingle down this morning and am attaching to this e-mail. It sounds like her most on those really broad R's in the lyric "spread the word..." If anyone can confirm or not that this is Reba, I'd appreciate it." (Brian Stevens)
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Thanks to Eddie Beacon for sending this vintage photo from 45 years ago...yep, 45! From the WNOX 990 control room this is Johnny Pirkle and Eddie!
Page 3...
BTW~ Eddie hosts a weekly racing show on WNOX 100.3 called "Bumper 2 Bumper", Sunday at 11a...and he recruited a couple of olde dudes to be on each week (me and Jimmy Vineyard)!
Monday, July 04, 2011
Happy 4th of July!!!
...and speaking of fireworks, this was a bombshell announcement back in 1979...Dave Young had replaced Bobby Denton a few years earlier as afternoon drive DJ at WIVK. Bobby had been an icon but Ktown's audience quickly embraced Your Dave and the rest was history...until 7-4-79!
With Your Dave hanging up the mic (he did return) this created the opportunity for Ed Brantley to take over drive time...and drive he did, holding down the 3-7p slot for many, many years!
Friday, July 01, 2011
Happy July!!!
Has the live and local overnight DJ gone the way of the dinosaur? Ktown has had some greats thru the years...most recently Hoss at WIVK, he followed the legendary Terry Womack as the 12a-6 announcer. Way back Ernie Baker mixed in alot of talk on his show on WETE 620 as Ernie the Bartender!
The 101 Audio Vault features a clip from Terry and then Dan Bell~
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