It's hard to believe that half of 2013 is now in the 101 history books...

Today the 101 Audio Vault features 2012 Wall of Fame inductees "CP and Walker"~

...other names from WKGN around that time~ Eddie Beacon, Don Smith, John Foley, Jim Goodman, etc! 

The 101 Audio Vault features more from Johnny Walker~ 

It was a fun time in Ktown back in '71...rock wars existed between WNOX and WKGN, W-149 was added to the mix late in the year and my exposure to WIVK was the transistor radio that was playing at the barber shop where Dad use to take us for our buzz cuts! 

The Tenneessee Radio Hall of Fame has added a YouTube page (TennRadioHOF) and it is being populated with great sounds...Mike Bohan reached out to 101 and here's a tiny clip from Johnny Walker, WKGN's 7p-12 DJ in '71! 

 Do you remember other WKGN DJs from that era...Lee Arbuckle, Bob Baron, Chris Hampton, Bob Parker, etc! 

The 101 Audio Vault features JW~ 

101 travels back to early 1982... 

WIVK AM 850 featured CP and Walker 6-10, Becky Lynn 10-3, and Dan Bell. The catch phrase was "you can hear the difference"! 

Over at WNOX 990 Phil Williams was morning drive and Jeff Shannon aka Jeff Winters (real name Jeff Hawkins) was working the 7p-12 shift. 

WIVK-FM had a very powerful line up...Claude Tomlinson, Bob Thomas, Ed Brantley, Mickey Dearstone, and Terry Womack! 

 WRJZ had flipped to country, Mark Heiden was the GM and Steve Bridgewater PD. 

WOKI-FM's drive timers were Rich Randall and Chuck Edwards, oh...and Jeff Jarnigan was squeezed into middays! 

 ...and from the 101 Audio Vault here's how WYSH was sounding~ 

Happy Birthday...Frank Murphy!!!

Back in 1974 the call letters WCFA were active in East Tennessee...you can read more about WCFA on the 101 facebook page!

Here's their DJ line up~

6-11 Jackson Brown

11-4 Bernie Cycles

4-9  Bill Black

9-1  J Worthington Smith

1-6  Bob Steel

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...and in 1974 the Knox Sox (White Sox AA) had an almost sure hit to make the big leagues, CF Nyls Nyman!

If you haven't joined our facebook page (Knoxville Radio History 101) then you are missing a ton...Chris Huff posted this WKGN ad from 1963!

WRJZ "The New 62" debuted in late 1976...and took Ktown by a storm!!! In the months preceding the new sound the jock line up was as follows...

6-10 Curtis Parham

10-2 Jim Humphries

2-6 Walker Johnson

6-12 Joe Crotty

12-6 Mark McKinney

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What happened to Frank? Frank Murphy has become one of Ktown's top air personalities, today he signed off from his 8 year run as part of "Marc, Kim, and Frank" on Star 102.1. Frank assumes programming duties at the WNOX Classic Hits 93.1! Both stations are owned by Journal...

If you have joined our facebook page (Knoxville Radio History 101) then you may have already seen this WNOX newspaper add from 1957...

There is a ton of fact and fiction being bantered back and forth on our fb page, and father time sure has "updated" some historical data. Join and have fun!

Thanks to Chris Huff for this WNOX ad!

101 has started a new adventure by creating a group page on facebook, if you would like to join simply search for "Knoxville Radio History 101".

The page will be interactive...so send your photographs and memories and your comments are welcome.

The above advertisement about WROL radio got a ton of ink on day one!!!

Brother John was wild and zany in the night time at WOKI FM-100; but he could also slow it down and let his pipes do all the talking. The 101 Audio Vault features Brother John~ 

Happy Father's Day Weekend... 

We stay in 1982 and travel to WOKI-FM 100, the DJs were Jeff Jarnigan, Chuck Edwards, Brother John St John, and in afternoon drive it was Rich Randall (101 Audio Vault)~

THANK YOU to Topher Littleton for the new 101 logo...as you can see the work is even better than 100%, it's 101%!!!

1982 was a big year in Knoxville as the city hosted "The 1982 World's Fair"! 

On the radio dial WRJZ had jumped into the country music game and added a heavy hitter line up of DJs bringing in Dr Don West and Jessica James as drive timers and sprinkled local legend Eddie Beacon to anchor middays. The station also took news serious with David Henley, Ernie Baker, and News Director Brad Schultz anchoring that mic each hour. 

The 101 Audio Vault features Dr Don (Program Director Steve Bridgewater)~

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Happy Burfday this week to the Lady Vols basketball coach Holly Warlick, I graduated from Bearden with Holly and Bert Bertelkamp, we were in the class of  the "Spirit of '76"!

Yep, it's a back to work Monday and we feature a "101 Reload" (first posted in October 2010)~

"WBLC was my first job in the latter 60's and Rick Smith was there. Jerry Jenkins and Mike Beach pulled a shift and the general manager was Ray Stockard. I remember the mixing board in the production room had a bad habit of working intermittently and needed a tap on the side to make it work again. Ray kept a hammer in the production room and you could hear him whamming the board trying to get it to work again. That poor board finally died from all the hammer blows to the right side. LOL" (Jerry Howell)

"It was Mike Beverly though who did the voice for the Reverend Judge Noose Coolidge, Pastor of the First Church of Gooey Death and Discount House of Religion which so far as I know only ran the one time, in response to the issue of UT playing football on a Sunday (in Hawaii). It was also Mike Beverly in the hot air balloon when it “crashed” with Dave Lambert’s dads battery." (500 MegaWatt)

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Eddie Beacon..."The Swingin' Deacon"!!!

Happy Birthday wishes to one of Ktown's truly great radio personalities!

From the 60's at WNOX to today where he can be heard on WKVL, Eddie's voice has been a large footprint in the history of Knoxville radio.

PS...would someone alert the fire department, there are a ton of birthday candles on that cake, ha!

HBD Swang!!!

Seems like yesterday but it was January 1982 when Bill and I were hired on the same day to work as DJs at "62 WRJZ My Kind of Country", our boss was PD Steve Bridgewater (Dr Don West)...

"Hey George..Just a note of thanks for featuring my old friend Jim Wilson at WTGR. He hired me to join him at TIGER Radio in 1975 where we enjoyed fun in the sun and a life of ease on the beach. I might also add Jim and I worked together at three other stations. WRJZ, WCRK, and WLIK. It was always a pleasure to follow him on the air because he would hang around after his shift as we talked about working in larger markets and becoming another Larry Lujack since SuperCFL was our favorite station at the time. Many times we took road trips to larger markets to visit other stations and meet their jocks. One in particular was WKGN in 1972 when we met Wayne Bernard a.k.a. Charlie Chase who voiced our station promos and sweepers. (I was also fortunate to work in Nashville while Charlie was at WSM.) As you may know Jim fell and seriously damaged his brain in 2006. He has since been involved in a car crash and further injured himself. However, I try to stay in touch with him from time to time since he was a BIG help to me in my early days in radio."

Bill Beason a.k.a. Buzz Daily (well, not as much nowadays)

The 101 Audio Vault remains in Myrtle Beach for another day, but with a Ktown twist!

Remember Jim Wilson?

He had a powerful voice on the air, I worked with him at WRJZ back in '82!

Here's Jim on WTGR (Tiger); circa- 1975~

Growing up in East Tennessee typically meant a summer trip to a coastal beach town...

Daytona Beach, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, etc. Back in '75 101 air checked a great sounding WKZQ in Myrtle Beach~

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Happy birthday to Dan Bell, Dan worked on the air in Ktown for decades and had a great run hosting WIVK's Sunday Survey!

The 101 Birthday Club sings burfday wishes to Allen Free!!!

Happy June! This is a great photo via Mike Clark...at WJBZ Praise 96.3!