JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #568
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October 13, 2008 [Monday]
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POPULAR TV DANCE SHOW HOST DIES: LLOYD THAXTON (1927-2008) R.I.P.
The host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s with a daily rock 'n' roll party for teenagers dies on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 81. Lloyd Thaxton's wife Barbara says that he dies of multiple myeloma at his home in Studio City, CA. In 1957 the Toledo, OH TV personality arrives in Hollywood. In 1959 he launches Lloyd Thaxton's Record Shop on KCOP-TV CH 13. In 1962 he updates and renames his show Thaxton's Hop. By 1964 his TV show becomes such a hit with young Southern Californians that it goes into nationwide syndication. In 1957 Dick Clark's popular TV dance show from Philadelphia American Bandstand also goes national on ABC-TV. Lloyd's TV dance party The Lloyd Thaxton Show features teens as they dance to records plus guest appearances by top recording artists like the Byrds, Jan and Dean, the Righteous Brothers, Sonny and Cher, and the Turtles. Lloyd Thaxton later becomes the Emmy Award-winning producer and director of TV's long-running consumer advocacy program Fight Back! With David Horowitz. In his Web site (www.lloydthaxton.blogspot.com) Thaxton discusses a 2003 interview with The Times, People started calling me a musical Ernie Kovacs, He signs off, The name of the show is 'The Lloyd Thaxton Show' and my name is Lloyd Thaxton. Teen dancers in the studio shout back, SO WHAT!
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IT'S A SIGN OF THE TIMES
On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 a significant number of employees at Denver, CO’s KWGN TV CH2 receive permanent furlough papers. This is part of a consolidation edict with KDVR TV CH31 as the two merge their operations. Dennis O’Brien, KWGN TV CFO, says, Employees at Channel 2’s Denver Tech Center studios were notified of the layoffs Tuesday. Were there a significant number [laid off]? Yes. The separately owned channels 2 and 31 have joint managers since October 1, 2008. Is this the sign of things to come? Dennis adds, Local TV Holdings LLC owns Channel 31, which is a Fox network affiliate, while Channel 2, a CW affiliate, is owned by Tribune Co. Channel 2 plans to relocate its operations and staff to the Channel 31 offices at 100 E. Speer Blvd. by early next year. Dennis Leonard, the new KDVR GM, is now in charge of both TV stations. Dennis says, The newscasts and sales departments remain separate, but there would be consolidation involving the back office and newsgathering areas. The two stations would share camera crews and editors. O’Brien confirms that Carl Bilek, KWGN TV's news director, has not been retained.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Who receives the writer's credits on Manfred Mann's Earth Band's #1 1977 hitBlinded By The Light? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•STEVE NICHOL PD News-Talk KLIF-570 Dallas, TX has advice for broadcasters who want to stop or stall PPM audience measurement: Welcome To The Real World! •CHUCK GIEGER 3-year PD of Clear Channel KHGE FM (Big Country 102.7) Fresno, CA leaves the building because of non-contract renewal. Chuck comes to KHGE in January 2006. OM Paul Wilson takes over programming - Kris Daniels handles the music. Chuck Gieger is availble at
provencountrypd@gmail.com •PATRICK DE CAROLIS President of France Televisions calls for greater co-operation between state broadcasters around the world to develop joint projects.ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1958 TANYA TUCKER (Here's Some Love #1-1976) born on October 10th in Seminole, TX. •1965 BETH GIBBONS vocalist with British Alternative Trip-Hop trio Portishead born on January 4th. •1970 JOHNNY CASH sings Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Morning Coming Down for a #1 Billboard's Country hit on October 10th. •1981 JAMELIA NIELA DAVIS British R&B singer-songwriter born on January 11th. •1992 ALAN JACKSON's album A Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) releases on Arista records on October 9th. •2003 ARTHUR CONLEY R&B singer-songwriter (Sweet Soul Music #2-1967) dies on November 16th.
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BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) Subject: Another radio-tv pioneer from our era is gone! Just learned of death of DJ, writer, producer, TV host, Lloyd Thaxton of multiple myeloma in Studio City, CA on Oct. 5, 2008. B. Memphis, 5/31/27; hosted Tv's Lloyd Thaxton Show on west coast that featured acts such as: Sonny & Cher, Byrds, Jan & Dean, Righteous Bros, Turtles, Bobby Fuller Four (of Texas) & about every other hit-maker over the years. He also recorded, "Image of a Surfer." You probably have all this info, but share in event it missed you. Your "reporter" on-duty, Col. Robert Hanger.
JOYCE WEBSTER [J.C.] (Mena, AR) Jim, You say Michael O'Shea and Bob Morrison in your little email from me. Did you say you were at KLIF in Dallas in 1972? When did you leave KLIF? You must remember Joe Holstead, the News Director...great guy! Michael O'Shea was Program Director at KLIF in 1972. I worked there in programming under him and later Dave Ambrose. Michael went on to various successes...National PD for more than one company, including Golden West Broadcasting in Los Angeles. He's been in Florida, Seattle, and other places in various capacities. A very talented and experienced radio person. Bob Morrison of KVIL DFW fame, also worked for various radio stations, don't think I could name them all. Big guy. Great voice and lots of talent! He is still in radio in Dallas. Don't want Michael or Bob to think I referred to them as Starr employees or as Stars...although they both have been, and in my opinion still are. Nice people both, and they deserve to be in the TRHOF. Manygreat people are in the TRHOF...so it only becomes more meaningful! Other inductees for 2008: Sammy Allred, KVET Austin; Bob Cole, KVET Austin; Dave Cooke KRLD DFW; John Hicks, Jr., KLVI Beaumont; Josh Holstead (Rowdy Yates) KILT FM Houston; Jo Interrante KNUS DFW; Joe Leonard, Jr. KGAF Gainesville; C.C. McCartney KRBE Houston, J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) KTRM Beaumont; Jerry Thomas, KNOK DFW. I worked for Starr Broadcasting Group at their station KDTX/KMGC in Dallas, and later in a corporate capacity. I then went to KNUS/KLUV...my final involvement in radio in Dallas. JC
KLIF-1190 in my home town of Dallas, TX in 1972 is the place to be when News Director Ted Agnew adds me to his news staff as a newsaster. Michael O'Shea is Program Director. Mike Selden is afternoon drive DJ. Remember Pulse? That's the main radio rating service of the day. If I remember correctly Mike polls 100% of all Dallas teens in that particular survey. Completely unheard of anywhere in radio. Lance Rentzel is the star wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. His wife is the lovely actress Joey Heatherton. Dickie Heatherton is a DJ on KLIF during my time behind the news mic. He tells me one day that Joey is his sister. DJ John Butler with his deep voice draws listeners to their speakers like magnets. In the news department Bruce Hughes is the main man with the news. KLIF the Mighty 11-90 is the best and most listened to radio station in our land. Words do not describe the feeling one gets while behind the mic at KLIF-1190 when it is at the top of its game. Well in San Antonio John Rhodes moves over from KTSA-550 to head the news department of KITE-930. John makes me an offer that I cannot refuse. So it's back to the Alamo City for the PM Drive news spot on KITE. On the surface this is a great move on my part but have no earthly idea what lies ahead. Proves to be one of the biggest mistakes in my long radio career. Live and learn.
WHERE DO YOU READ JRRR? Tell us how far away from Houston, TX that you read JRRR.
RUSSELL BARNETT (Portland, OR) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio Issue #566 Tell us how far away from Houston, TX that you read JRRR. Portland, OR. Russell Barnett KILE Galveston, Texas 1976-1980
BOB CROWLEY (D/FW-Arlington, TX) Jim; I really enjoyed Bobby Reyes description of the Clear Channel facility in San Antonio. It was much different when I worked there in the mid 1980's. Back then it was just WOAI and KAJA. John Barger was the Vice President back then. He had an office on the ground floor, by the back door. He bought the property and designed the first facilities, when WOAI moved from the KMOL-TV facility on St. Marys downtown. One distinctive feature of the facility, before it was remodeled, was the width of the hallways. They were quite narrow. I asked, and was told they were kept small to allow for more floorspace in the studios, but that each was "...exactly one Barger-width". John was quite rotund back then. If you saw him coming down the hall, you'd have to duck into a studio so he could pass. Bobby sent me some pictures from the last S.A. radio reunion, and Mr. Barger has slimmed down a lot since then. John could be a bit gruff, but I always enjoyed his respect and appreciated his honesty. Respect and honesty are two traits I look for in a boss. bc
TRACY PITCOX (Brady, Tx) Please put me on your list. Tracy Pitcox; Heart of Texas Records; 1701 South Bridge Street; Brady, Texas 76825
TRIVIA ANSWER: Bruce Springsteen writes Manfred Mann's Earth Band's 1977 #1 hitBlinded By The Light.
BLAISE PASCAL (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662) Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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