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December 3, 2008 [Wednesday]
Issue #590

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LEN HART (Geneva, Switzerland) Jim, Looking back, it seems like I must have worked every radio station in Houston at one time or another --KILT AM-FM, KTRH, KIKK AM-FM, KULF, KXYZ (ABC 0 and 0) and KENR. Your mention of Chris Collier brought back lots of memories. I left a comment on your blog. Indeed, I knew Chris when both of us were classmates in Wally Jackson's broadcasting class at Odessa College. Chris was sleeping in his car and my mom found him either a cheap or no rent two room just across the street from where I lived at the time. We were all dirt poor but had visions of making BIG BUCKS in radio! Those were heady days for the biz. Chris Eric Stevens covered the night shift at WLS and could be heard like a local DJ in Odessa. I was first exposed to Steve Lundy's 'big town' when I was going to UH and he was rockin' the nights at KILT. Later, I listened to him on WLS. By the time, I got to KILT, Lundy had returned from his gigs at WLS, KFRC, and KROQ (Los Angeles). I worked him at KULF and, later, KENR. Lundy was incredible on the air but a warm and very friendly person. A nice guy in a tough business. He is missed. Another name from the 'era' --Scotty Brink. I first worked with Brink at KELP, El Paso. He had been doing afternoon drive on WLS. I used to wonder why the h*** would anyone leave WLS for KELP! Brink wanted to be a PD and El Paso --and its Mexican sister city --was a good platform. I later worked with Brink again at KULF. Brink left KULF for a morning show in New York City and big bucks. We'll have to compare notes. Someone should write this history before it is all lost. Ol' radio guy. Len Hart PS I am living in Geneva, Switzerland. (http://classicacts.blogspot.com/)

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GEORGE LESTER (Palestine-Elkhart, TX) Subject: Happy Thanksgiving! Here's one you might have heard. When A.V. Bamford was working out of Nashville he managed a couple of country singers. One day her got a call from a young fellow who said someone had suggested he call Bam and see if he would be interested in managing him also. Bam told him he had heard his singing and didn't see much of a future for him. That young singer was Elvis Presley. Bam told this on himself.

BOB GRANT [Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) Subject: Bill Drake. Just learned of death of Bill Drake, radio programmer, in Los Angeles on 11/29/08 (lung cancer). Drake ( Phillip Yarbroug) was born in GA, 1/14/37. He syndicated & narrated radio special: "The History of Rock'N Roll." Inducted into GA Radio Hall of Fame. Col. Robert Hanger

DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) Jim, I sure hope we get some comment going about the dilemma that radio media buyers face: wanting to make the most efficient buys they can for their clients (biggest bang for the buck) and the hurdles they face from stick-in-the mud mega-monster media conglomerates who (1) want to maintain the present outmoded "status quo" (2) don't want to pony-up the costs that Arbitron charges them for audience measurement in their many markets and (3) big broadcast media moguls who really don't want to know what their real audience numbers are in clearly defined dayparts due to their fossilized, long-entrenched habit of praising the ARB numbers when they reflect well on their radio properties, and screwing themselves into their corporate ceilings while simultaneously yelling " FLUKE BOOK!!" when the numbers don't go their way. Ad agencies and small advertisers alike deserve to have the ACCURATE audience measurement that the ARB "Portable People Meters" (PPMs) bring to the ratings game. Without the PPMs, everyone is at the mercy of the "I could care less" diary keepers who, I know from empirical evidence, let their children fill out the daily diaries...skewing the numbers way out of proportion to younger and younger demographic groups and fuzzy dayparts. The PPMs are almost flawless in their ability to accurately track repondents' choice of stations, time spent listening (TSL) and the precise daypart in which the listenership occurred. Dan McCurdy - Charlie Brown, Dan Patrick - KLIF, KBOX - Dallas; WMEX - Boston; Inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame 2004.

JERRY MILLER [Mueller] (Houston, TX) In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.' In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

TRIVIA ANSWER: Fleetwood Mac's only #1 single in the USA is Dreams from their 1977 hit album Rumours. It also is their only single to sell over a half million.

RAY WHITWORTH (D/FW-Arlington, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#589-47) December 1, 2008 [Monday] HI Jim my young friend: Yup Clear channel, cheap channel and other variations of this cesspool of brilliance took the heart and soul out of radio. I remember a few years back staffers of CC ferociously denied there was a CENTRAL Program log, and Music selection, though it was plain to see it existed. They stated that the PD multi tasker of various formats in one market had the complete absolute say so on what songs were played not CC on Basse Rd. in San Antonio. Pure homogenized CR@P. They took the blood of radio and drained it dry, and the listeners sought entertainment elsewhere. So I am delighted CC had to sell some of their stations and I hope this parasite of broadcasting is forced to give up more. Its a tad bit late for what used to be called radio, but it's nice to see Goliath take a fall and hopefully stay down. Ray

YOGI BERRA (1925-p) It ain't over till it's over.

Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons

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