Knoxville Radio History 101
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Art Miller...

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Does anyone know what happened to the green-and-clear plastic WIBK 850 AM electric clock which hung for decades in the main dining room at B...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

101 InBox~

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So great to see the note from Larry Solomon and hear that he’s back on the air. I have no idea if he would remember this, but when I was a s...
Monday, July 21, 2025

45 years ago...today!

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  "My life changed forever 45 years ago today. Jim Dick decided he wanted me to do middays at WIVK. Did that for 20 years and we were f...
Friday, July 18, 2025

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I was the original midday jock in 1979 for ROCK 104 (WBIR-FM, now 103.5 WIMZ.) After a research career in the federal government, I'm ba...
Monday, July 14, 2025

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15Q was a short-lived phenomenal sounding radio station back in 1976. The station imported many high-powered jocks including Steve West, Sho...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Date with Doc (Johnston)

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My W149 morning show didn’t start until 6:30, so—believe it or not—on the way in, I would often listen to the start of Doc’s show and his pi...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Art Miller...

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Here are some additional WBIR AM-FM “artifacts” from almost 60 years ago. Going thru the old files brought back memories of a different time...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Platters to Platters

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Everything in life is connected, the theme platters to platters chronicles my careers in radio and restaurants and 105 years ago today, the ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Art Miller...

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Back in the late 1960s, east Tennessee’s radio markets were undergoing significant shifts in listener demographics and increased competition...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Happy Birthday

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Inside your radio Ktown knew him as Alan Douglas, today 101 wishes Alan Sneed a very happy birthday. For years AD was on the air at the icon...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Bluegrass on Parade...

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I was at that show. GRITZ from North Carolina cancelled and you substituted the Knoxville Grass. You were the MC. I had heard you on the ra...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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Bluegrass music may be more popular than ever, back in 1978 it was sounding great...and yes, The Osborne Brothers played "Rocky Top...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

What would Jimmy Buffett do?

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Bob Savage explains...back in 1980 on WNOX 990~  Page 3- George, I earlier send you a query about Jim Price, who I hired at 16 to do weekend...
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