Monday, August 02, 2021

When I joined WIVK in 1976, as an 18 year old UT freshman, the station was located on Bearden Hill and the building addition was still a few years away. You could enter up the steps to the reception area but the jocks normally came in thru the basement door where Booby had his office. I can still see the stack of 45 records sitting on his desk. If you weren't careful you would hit your head going up the steps to the control rooms. Back then there was the main control room and a production room, only used for air time during the obligatory AM/FM station separation times, which was mainly on the weekends. Later the old control room across the hall was renovated and became the home of AM 850. Smoking was still prevalent in the control rooms back then, and Booby loved a good cigar, he was afternoon DJ and Operations Manager, working 4-7p as DJ. Here's the 101 Audio Vault...