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June 16, 2008 [Monday]
Issue #517

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PAUL WILLIAMS (Houston, TX) We are losing a lot of good people and "Uncle Scotty" was one of the best. In the early 60’s I replaced Mike at KILE in Galveston. He was known as "Mike, The Bell-Boy". I had lunch with him a couple of months ago. He looked very frail. What a talent to lose. He was a good DJ and a good man. Paul Williams, Senior Account Executive, Univision Radio

JOHN HALE (Austin-Cedar Park, TX) Jim, I'm sorry to hear of Mike Scott's sudden passing. I worked with him briefly at KULF back in the early eighties, but remember him best for his days at KLIF. He was on the air there when I was going to Elkins, and was one of my favorite DJ's at that time. He was as good a person as he was a DJ, and that's saying a lot. He'll be missed...condolences to his family. Yours Truly, John Hale, Mobile Magic Music "We're at the best parties!"

GARY ALLYN (San Diego-Fallbrook, CA) I, along with Jerry Mueller and many others are saddened of Mike (Belisle) Scott's passing. I worked with Mike at KONO when he was partime there, sharing time with the Air Force while stationed at Lackland AFB. What a fun guy, and a dedicated pro who truly loved Radio. His enthusiasm was "infectious" to all who met or knew him. Later, when I returned to KCBQ from KONO in 1968, it was Mike who hired ME this time. I was on my way to accept an air gig at KDAY in L.A., when I stopped by at KCBQ. Mike talked me into working again for the "Q", along with Jimmy Rabbit and Lee Babi Simms. I shall always remember this big guy from the Cajun Country, and Radio is putting another "minus" in it's column of Passing Pros who gave it so much. Thanks Mike for letting me know you. I, and Radio will miss you very much...I "gar-ahn-tee". Gary Allyn (http://garyallynsradiopinion.blogspot.com/) (www.garyallyn.com)

RAY WHITWORTH (DFW-Arlington, TX) Hi Jim: A couple of things. 1) If anyone has a shred of talent I wouldn't even bother sending a T&R to KMVK. The ratings are the pits and worse than a screen door on the underside of a submarine. I am sure the call for T&R's is strictly an E.O.E thing for the files and they already have their talent in mind. 2) What gary Allyn said is very true. Post 1996 broadcasters have no morals and no passion as long as they get a check. Have a good weekend. Ray 

TRIVIA ANSWER: In 1992, the Dixie Chicks' first album is Thank Heavens for Dale Evans. In 1998, the Chicks win the CMA Vocal Group of the Year and in 1998, they receive the Horizon Award. 

DEAN DANIELS (Dallas, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#513-38) June 06, 2008 [Friday] The Internet sure has changed things for communication (heck, I found you here!) On www.cmtcountry.com, I've got little pop-ups that include Dad's obituary which the AP ran after the story was picked up from the Dothan, AL paper (where he semi-retired in 1988). After leaving San Antonio in late 1974 to pursue syndication of his TV talk show "Big Daddy's Country," we ended up in Nashville, then moved to Dothan, AL where we did a local version of his show too and I finished high school (plus left my sister there to raise two beautiful kids). In 1977 we moved back to Nashville where Dad produced and hosted a local Nashville television program "That Good Ole' Gospel Music" (he always loved Southern Gospel) and syndicated it. In 1980 he built the "Video World Productions" studio in Hendersonville, TN after getting a large contract to produce a syndicated country music series called "Big Country" (he loved "Big" in titles, didn't he?) and from there eventually launched two music programs "Sing Out America" and "Nashville RFD" for the CBN Network. A dream of his to do a television version of country radio was first vocalized to me in 1980 and we talked quite a lot about the possibilities. Then in 1981, MTV premiered and Dad said, "now picture that with country music!" He began producing other programming including a talk show that featured everyone from Carl Perkins to Ray Price to Minnie Pearl in 1982, all the while developing a music video library that he owned all rights to. Then early in 1983 Dad started networking his CMT concept and found investors. We launched CMT on March 5, 1983 and the rest is history. In 1988, Dad semi-retired and moved to his adopted hometown of Dothan, AL to be near his new grandchild, Roni Lynn. In the meantime, my wife and I had relocated to Orlando, FL, still producing television products with my father involved in several of those projects as a "commuter producer." Dad sold his stock in CMT in 1989 (it had been diluted from 1/3 to 2% by profiteering from the majority stockholders) and passed away from diabetic kidney failure on March 16, 1992 in Dothan, AL where he's buried. A lot of people never knew what caused Dad's dramatic weight problem that he fought all his life. When he was 19, Dad was 6' 2" and 190lbs of muscle, voted "most handsome" from his high school class. While attending junior college, he was a student swim instructor in Eldorado, AR when he caught typhoid fever in an infected cow pond that the classes trained in. Dad was one of the only survivors but he developed a slow thyroid and a screwed up metabolism as a result. He fought the "battle of the buldge" as he jokingly called it the rest of his life. In his later years, he did manage to lose down to 300lbs, his weight when he died. Dad was dignosed with Type 2 Diabetes in 1977 and successfully controlled it with diet and Weight Watcher's from then on. Despite doing everything right in his diet (he never needed insulin until near the end), in late 1991 his body turned against him. He was hospitalized off and on into 1992 and went into full kidney failure while in the hospital on his birthday, March 11, 1992. Dialysis proved a failure for him and he passed away at Southeast Regional Medical Center in Dothan, AL. To this day, I have sought out and often direct the video presentations for the national American Diabetes Association meetings in his memory. If they knew then what they know now, he might still be with us. And that my friend is as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story!" Dean

BOB DYLAN (May 24, 1941-p) Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas États-Unis
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