We continue our look back at WKGN The Famous 1340...and the year 1973~
The year began with the following line up...
6 Bob Baron
9 Gary Drake
12 Chris Hampton
3 Wayne Bernard
7 Frank Erwin
12 Jerry Steele
In late February Jack Diamond arrived as the 7p-12 DJ and Frank Erwin moved to 9a-noon slot replacing Gary Drake.
July arrived and Chris Hampton left to become Program Director at a station in Florida, Hampton's 12-3 spot was not immediately filled.
In late July PD Bob Baron takes Dick Winstead full time in the 9-noon time slot and Frank Erwin moves to noon-3p.
In August a new morning voice was heard...Smokey Burns. Smokey went on to become "Murphy in the Morning" in cities like Charlotte and Chicago!
September...Jack Diamond was offered a gig in Louisville KY and packed up and became Coyote Calhoun. Coyote first worked at WAKY in Louisville but has been PD at WAMZ there since 1980.
So the line up was...6 Smokey Burns, 9 Bob Baron, 12 Frank Erwin, 4 Wayne Bernard, 8 Dick Winstead, 12 Jerry Steele.
...and in December, a big surprise~ longtime WNOX star Your Dave Young joined The Famous 1340.
And that's the way it was, in 1973, at WKGN The Famous 1340!