Dave's emailed mentioned WBIR 1240 going all news/talk in 1976. I remember that day well, didn't everyone think "no way" that type format would ever work...who can fill an hour with all news/talk, DJ's are use to talking for about 23 seconds in between records and news casts were under 5 minutes long!
In January 1976 WBIR became WBIRadio 124-All News. Dave was titled Radio News Editor. Some of the other local voices were Tom Poe, Carol Utley, Doc Johnston, Ray Wilck, Brad Schultz, Don Lindsey, Jim Cline, Carl Williams, Sam Dalton, and Judy Jenkins. Foulk teamed up with Ken Johnson in the AM, the legendary Doc Johnston was on at 3p. With this line up, obviously WBIR was serious...but ahead of it's time unfortunately.
Other big changes were happening in early '76 as the independent thinking W-149 was morphing into 15Q. This little 1000 watts monster brought a major market sound and major market DJ's to our city. "15Q is gonna make me rich"! Here's their first line up-
15Q-
6 Steve West
10 Ron Baptist
2 Shotgun Kelly
6 Mick Rizzo
10 Kid Curry
2 Barry Hodge