JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #632
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March 11, 2009 [Wednesday]
Issue #632
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TV NEWS LEGEND DIES
Windsor Win James Smith is a no-nonsense, classic newsman who is the ultimate assignment editor in WKYC TV CH3's Cleveland, OH Westinghouse and NBC ownership days. Those words come straight from WKYC TV. Windsor passes away at 82 from a stroke in late February 2009. In 1951 he receives his bachelor of arts in journalism from Ohio State University. Win is a radio newscaster on WING-1410 in Dayton, OH. In mid-1952 he joins WNKB-TV NBC news and WTAM-1100 in Cleveland. In 1968, he becomes the first news assignment editor in OH. Win runs the assignment desk and produces the 6 pm newscast every day. There are no editorial meetings. It all comes out of his head. He assigns it. Then he produces it. Howard Fencl, WKYC Assistant News Director, tells the Director's Cut Blog, In the 1980s I had the privilege of working on the 6 pm with Win every day. He was, by then, wanting to slow it up a bit, and he was doing associate producer duties while I line produced. But I always knew in my heart I really was working FOR Win, anyway. WKYC's news article goes on, According to his colleagues, Win had a wicked sense of humor and an addiction to smelly cigars which he fortunately gave up. Nobody had a better gut instinct for news. He was a devoted father and a tireless fan of OSU. He retires in 1991 after nearly forty years as a news editor, assignment editor, and news program producer. In 1999, he inducts into the Silver Circle of the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Funeral Mass is at St. Bernadette's Church with interment at St. Joseph Cemetery in Fremont.
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GROSS AND LIMERICK REPLACE PAUL HARVEY
As we read in JRRR on Monday, Paul Harvey leaves us to join his late wife Angel. There is only one Paul Harvey. But beginning on Monday, March 9, 2009 ABC News Radio's Gil Gross and Doug Limerick do their best to fill Paul's three daily casts. Gross hosts the daily 5-minute morning cast that previously is News & Comment. Limerick handles the Rest of the Story's afternoon spot. Gross also takes the 15-minute weekday and Saturday midday broadcasts. Gil is a 30-year radio vet who previously hosts The Gil Gross Show on CBS Radio. Gross is also a longtime fill-in host for Paul Harvey. Limerick is an Edward R. Murrow Award winner who will focus on the day's news mixed with folksy, positive stories for the Rest of the Story. These are big shoes to fill. Paul Harvey's career covers 75 years. He dies at 90 on Saturday, February 28, 2009. Paul Harvey News & Comment with a radio audience of 22 million listeners every week is in its 57th year. The Rest of The Story is in its 32nd year.
TRIVIA QUESTION: What is Jerry Jeff Walker's birth name?
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•EMMIS cutbacks continue as Julie Gustines MD & Jeff Foxx AM Drive personality on Urban AC WRKS FM (98.7) NYC plus Susan Castle MD/midday DJ on Triple A KSGR FM (91.1) Corpus Christi-Portland, TX leave the building due to B-Cs. •WXRK FM Rock (K-Rock 92.3) CBS Radio NYC flips to Top 40 (Now FM 92.3) at 5 pm on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 under Dom Theodore, CBS Radio VP-Contemporary Hit Radio Programming. (
www.923now.com) •OPIE & ANTHONY exit CBS Radio WXRK FM NYC after it switches from Rock to Top 40. •DAVE RAMSEY joins Clear Channel Talk KNST-790 Tucson, AZ for 3-6 pm.ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1952 RUSSELL FERRANTE Jazz pianist with the Yellowjackets born on January 18th. •1963 PATSY CLINE, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes die in a plane crash on March 5th in Camden, TN as they return to Nashville from a charity concert in Kansas City. •1971 JONATHAN DAVIS lead vocalist for Multiplatinum Nu Metal band Korn born January 18th. •1984 EXILE's single Woke Up In Love is its first #1 Country hit on March 3rd. •1991 LEO WRIGHT Jazz alto saxophonist-clarinetist-flutist dies at 57 on January 4th. •2005 BLAKE SHELTON's video Goodbye Time debuts on CMT on March 3rd.
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JONATHAN FRICKE (Nashville, TN) Subject: Hank Locklin. Hank Locklin, 91, who had hits with Send Me the Pillow You Dream On and Please Help Me, I'm Falling, died Sunday, March 8, 2009. Locklin, was born February 15, 1918 in McLellan, FL. At age nine, Locklin was bedridden after getting hit by a school bus. He learned to play guitar and already had started singing at church. He had a regular radio station gig on WCOA in Pensacola, FL in 1942 and later was a regular on the Big D Jamboree on KRLD in Dallas, TX. During the 1940s, Locklin played in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas where his career began to take off. In 1948, Locklin and his band, The Rocky Mountain Playboys, had a morning radio show on KLEE in Houston, TX. He made his first record on the Gold Star label that year before joining Four Star Records in 1949 for a 6-year stint. By 1949, he joined the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, LA. Locklin, a tenor, had his first Top 10 single, The Same Sweet Girl, in 1949. His first number 1 was Let Me Be the One in 1953. He also had hits with Why, Baby, Why in 1956 and a pop-country crossover song, Geisha Girl in 1946. Send Me the Pillow You Dream On was a hit in 1958, while Please Help Me, I'm Falling went all the way to the top in 1960. The song reached number eight on the pop charts. Locklin became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1960. Locklin's music helped popularize The Nashville Sound as country music. Locklin was at RCA Records for 19 years and recorded tribute discs to Eddy Arnold, Hank Williams and Roy Acuff. Locklin also later recorded for MGM Records. Jonathan Fricke
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BOB CROWLEY (D/FW-Arlington, TX) I have just been informed that WBAP is severing their relationship with me. It was a good run. This is not the outcome I chose, but sometimes things happen that we cannot control. Any assistance that you could provide in helping me find new employment would be greatly appreciated. Bob Crowley
PAUL WILLIAMS (Houston, TX) Hey Jim, I almost forgot to report on our latest "Old Timers" lunch a couple of weeks ago at Willie G’s Restaurant. We had a good turnout and, as usual, I know I’ll forget somebody. Here we go…Dave Ward. Dan Lovett, Bob Allen, Jim Debruin, Paul Orsak, Gene Arnold, Jerry Mueller, Art Casper, "Buffalo" Bill Bailey, Robert B. McIntire, Walter Hammock, Steve Smith former Anchor for Channel 11 KHOU TV, me (Paul Williams) and the "Guest of Honor" Harold Weisenthal. Bill Bailey had some fun with Harold by going over to his table with a spoon in his hand (pretending it was a mike) and said "We will be right back after this commercial" then handed the mike(spoon) to Harold and he uttered his famous words "Hi, I’m Harold". Everybody fell in the floor with laughter!! Actually, Harold looked very good and said he felt good at 81 years young. It’s my fault I forgot to invite you. I will remember next time…I promise. Later, my friend, Paul
TRIVIA ANSWER: Country-Rock singer-songwriter-guitarist Jerry Jeff Walker's real name is Ronald Clyde Crosby. We also know him as the Gypsy Songman.
DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) RE: JRRR issue #630, March 6, 2009. Jim...in response to Dr. Jeff Cunningham's observation that I'm not over the election, he is correct; also, he's obviously correct about the stock market's lack of enthusiasm during the new administration's less than 2-month grip on what has been our capitalist system. In the paragraph just above Dr. Cunningham's, it seems that my old friend and former KLIF fellow-worker, Gary DeLaune shares the same dim view of additional governmental largesse for those who avoid participation in the work-force arena. It's becoming apparent that the ultimate goal of the new Messiah and his Democrat apostles is to weaken our capitalist system to the point where it makes more sense to the average citizen to jump the fence into the greener, free-grazing pastures of socialism. Might as well call this form of socialism exactly what it is: communism. The Robin Hood/Karl Marx imperative: "Take from the responsible, rule following, tax-paying 'rich' and give to the non-productive, non-working, non-taxpaying 'poor.' "The initial stone has been cast. And it sailed through Congress. Actually it's a boulder named 'Stimulus.' However, I am further dismayed by the earmarks of the 'conservative' Republicans. There are plenty of dirty hands from both parties in this cookie jar. So, while yelling, beating their chests and gnashing their teeth due to the Democrats' massive overreach, our Republican poseurs are busy scrambling around in the pork pit, covered with almost as much pig poop as those horrid, greedy, uncaring, leftist Democrats. Frankly, I see the GOP Zephyr pulling out of the train station with yours truly still standing on the loading ramp, jaw dropped down near my shoes. From this disgusted moment onward until I see it differently, call me an Independent or Libertarian or whatever moniker you choose, but don't call me a Republican. Their train left me at the station. Dan McCurdy: Charlie Brown, Dan Patrick - KLIF, KBOX-Dallas; WMEX-Boston; 2004 Inductee, the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN (1882-1958) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons
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