Hello from Alan Sneed...

I inherited Moby as my night guy on WKDF in Nashville when Jim Dick hired me as PD in 1978. The first time I was at 96 Rock in Atlanta, he was at 98 Rock in Tampa. After my move to Houston in 1981, I hired him for afternoons and moved him to mornings a few months later. I also carried his syndicated Country morning show (“The Biggest Small Town in America”) 2007-10 on a small Country FM I owned south of Kingsport. We had been friends for 45+ years and still stayed in touch.

                               (photos are AD and Moby, and AD and Moby, and the band Journey)

Greetings 101.

I was wanting to know if you were aware of the passing of former 99 WNOX Morning Man  Bernie Quayle better known as "Sir Bernard".  

Apparently he passed away a little over 2 years ago back on September 22, 2021. I was not able to find any acknowledgement of his passing from two years ago on the "KNR 101 Website" and did not know if anyone was aware of his unfortunate passing.  

https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/former-radio-dj-bernie-quayle-dies-aged-80-242824

https://www.legacy.com/uk/obituaries/iomtoday-uk/name/bernie-quayle-obituary?id=42185334

Kind Regards 
Brian Alden  

 

George,

Saw your WKGN lineup on the 101 site and was pleased to see Jim Dearman’s name.

I had the good sense to hire Jim into the Mooney Broadcasting fold when I heard him on another local station - WATE, as I recall.

Jim had an uncanny ability to be the morning talent’s sidekick and still maintain his news credibility. It wasn’t long after my departure from WKGN that Jim was lured to Nashville by WKGN’s big sister, WMAK. He performed even better in this role.


Paul Randall (Possum Riley) Dickerson

 

I'm always on the hunt for easy listening radio stations that play American Standards from 40's - 60's. Our family is going to Kiawah Island and I was looking for something in that radio market.

 

I happened upon WOKE MEMORIES, a web-site of a now vanished radio station, that was started by Harry Weaver, who transferred the WOKE call-sign from Oak Ridge to Charleston, SC.

We Remember Charleston, South Carolina's WOKE Radio - Home Page

We Remember Charleston, South Carolina's WOKE Radio - Home Page

The web-site has a biography blurb about Mr. Weaver, and some personal insights from past employees and those who remembered Mr. Weaver.

I don't know if this fits the Knoxville Radio History 101 format, but, hey...it's a Knoxville connection!

Thanks for the Knoxville radio history that you've shared. I drop in every so-many months to read about what I missed before moving here in 1989.

Warmly,

Jeff Shrewsbury

Knoxville, TN

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James Carney aka Moby in the Morning recently passed away. He was never a Ktown DJ but had a million East TN radio connections. I met him when I lived in Atlanta and later connected when he had his syndicated morning show.

 

Walker Johnson recently posted this classic photo, he's in the news room at WKGN 1340, the photo lists the date as February 1973 (I loved photos back in the day when the dates were tagged at the bottom to these wonderful black and whites).

I have kept Day At A Glance books since 1971...searching thru those books from the early 1970s, I first see Walker at WKGN in May 1972, he could have arrived earlier.

At that time...Allen Dennis had exited for sister station WMAK in Nashville, and Brother John moved down the Ktown dial position to W-149.

6-9 Bobby Rivers

9-11 Bob Baron 

11-3 Chris Hampton

3-7 Wayne Bernard

7-12 Eddie Beacon

12-6 Frank Erwin

Ken Burger was a weekend DJ, his wife was our teacher at Bearden Junior!

The news team was Joe Anderson, Jim Goodman, and Walker!

BTW- Eddie aka Elwood P Suggins, started back at WKGN on May 15!