TOM ELLIS (Boston-East Sandwich-Newton, MA) Greetings, Jim and Lacy, from the frozen North, You were so right with your Jay Leno prediction. Channel 7 in Boston lost 20 percent of it's 11 o'clock news viewers during the crucial November book. What's also interesting is that way back when NBC was planning to sked Jay as the ten o'clock lead-in, Channel 7 owner Ed Ansin threatened to reject Leno and program a 10pm newscast instead. NBC threatened to pull its net syndication if Ansin did that, and Ansin caved. Looks like Ansin and you were right. Bet you'll be warmer in Houston before we are here on Cape Cod. This is the second month in our deep freeze, and nobody's predicting a January thaw yet. My nose is like a faucet with a bad washer. Very leaky. Tough luck for our Longhorns. Please say a prayer for my Patriots, and I'll do the same for the Cowboys. Stay warm, Tom

JIM TRAVIS (Hot Springs, AR) You mentioning your first radio job got me to thinking about my first job. Looking back now I see that I did things backwards. I started out at KFMK in Houston and ended up at a one horse station in Hondo before being booted out the back door in 2008. Most people start out in some jerkwater town and if they're lucky, end up in some big market like Houston. Of course, back then, KFMK was no big deal. FM was not important. Everybody knew it would never amount to a hill of beans. The studio was on the yop floor of a skyscraper of the Medical Arts bldg. or something like that. When I say top floor, I mean really top floor. We were up there with all the air conditioners and open ductwork. It had burlap bags on the wall for sound proofing. We had 2 mike switches; one for the right channel and one for the left channel. We played wall to wall instrumental. It seems like the only time we were allowed to speak was to give the station break. But, what the heck, it was easy. Looking back now, I wish that I would have listened to my stepfather and gone to welding school instead of radio school. After all, they still need welders---even old ones. Not too many radio stations are looking for old, washed up, over the hill has-been DJs. If you hear of one let me know. Jim (www.JimWWTravis.com)

JOHN SUMMERS (Los Angeles, CA) Hi Jim, Got back home from the holidays, scanning thru your items & found Friday's rather interesting... Who's the other...JOHN SUMMERS, Los Angeles...in the email regarding Dene Hallam's passing??? I know it wasn't me. John Summers Skype: broadcastpro

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KIMBERLY MORRISON HEACOCK (Houston, TX) I found your site while searching for Arch Yancey. I lost track of him when my mother died 10 years ago. He and my mother had been friends since their twenties and he had helped my family's business with radio ads and such throughout the years. I was hoping that you knew how or where he is now, or if you know someone else who might know. Thank you so much! Kim Morrison Heacock, International Billiards, Inc. (www.IntlBilliards.com)

GRADY MCALLISTER (Houston, TX) Hello, Kimberly, I believe I did meet Arch Yancey many years ago, but I am not usually up to date on individual personalities unless they contact me directly, or I read about them on the Jim Rose web site. I know that I have seen him mentioned recently on the Rose site. I will forward your message to Mr. Rose, and he may be able to forward your message. R. Grady McAllister (http://vasthead.com/Radio/blurb.html)

MIKE HARTMAN (Ft. Worth-Joshua, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#762) January 08, 2010 [Friday] Hey, Jim...I hope all is well with you, as we finish the first week of 2010. Friday, the 8th, as you mentioned, would have been Elvis' 75th birthday...Wow! Well, I've attached what I'll call my "One Song Tribute to Elvis". I may have sent you this on a CD a good while back. I recorded this in a studio back in November of 2006 using a Karaoke "track". It's one of my favorite Elvis songs. Uh...Thank Ya'...Thank Ya' Ver' Much. Mike

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MARGARETA SMITH (Houston, TX) Happy New Year to you and Lacy. Love Margareta

TRIVIA ANSWER: Elvis Presley’s 1961 hit Can’t Help Falling in Love comes from the melody of an 18th century French love song, Plaisir D’Amour.

DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR! Many thanks, Jim...I hope you and Lacy have a Superb Twenty-Ten. You've been a wonderful broadcast buddy. My thanks for your good work and dedication...the service you provide is invaluable! Dan McCurdy

SENECA (4 BC–AD 65) It is too late to be on our guard when we are in the midst of evils.

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

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