Today 101 returns to the "alpha" of WRJZ.
In October '76 620 AM was still WETE, a fun sounding MOR format station. The DJ line up featured Curtis Parham in the morning, Jim Humphries middays, Walker Johnson afternoons, and Mark McKinney at night.
Fast forward to November and WRJZ was born! The station was nicely prepared to take Ktown's rock listeners by a storm...
The new station retained the WETE drive time jocks and teamed them up as..."CP and Walker" and of course the rest is history!
Bob Kaghan was PD and worked 9-noon and was followed by production guru JJ Scott.
Tim Edwards "Tim again" was imported from WMFJ in Daytona Beach as the 4-8p jock. Lee Taylor worked nights...of course that slot was soon turned over to a youngster named John Isley "John Boy". The overnight DJ was Rick Kirk, who went on to spend decades on the air in Ktown.
Around that same time in Ktown...101 received a swine flu shot at the doc, sound familiar? And...Vols football coach Bill Battle resigned, enter Johnny Majors!
Also heard on WRJZ in its early days...Jim Riddings, Charlie Fox, Pete Michaels, Ernie Baker, and Ann Alexander.