Friday, October 25, 2019

101 travels back to early 1977...on Saturday January 1 I broke in the new year by being on WIVK-FM from 6p-midnight.

That month the daytime only AM signed off at 5:45pm!

Over at WNOX 990 the DJ line up included- Eddy Roy 6-10, Terry Phillips 10-3, Dick Winstead 3-7, Scott Sams aka Night Bird 7-12, and Russ Brown 12-6. 

Johnny Majors was the Vols head ball coach and George Cafego was coaching the kickers!

Tony Eubanks decided to exit the 7p-12 weeknight WIVK time slot and was replaced by Don Meltabarger. At that same time Michael Gayles returned to host WIVK's afternoon sports.

January saw The Brothers joining WOKI-FM 100 in the 11p-2a time slot...oh, and Gary Gilmore was executed then too!

The BasketVols featured the Ernie and Bernie tandem and on the team was a young frosh, my Bearden High classmate Bert Bertelkamp.

On January 20 Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as our new POTUS.

WBIR-FM, later WIMZ, entered the country music format game, with Karl Shannon, Ken Johnson, Tony Eubanks, The Mulls, Don Lindsey, and Mike Johnson as their air force.

At that time WKGN 1340 was album rock~ AD, Dave Elrod, Robin Beck, and Keith Lambert all worked 6 hour shifts (automated?)...

And that's a wrap on January 1977...where were you?

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Lizzie McGuire is returning (the reboot) including Jake Thomas (Bob's son) aka Matt McGuire- stay tuned!