ALAN ETTER (Washington, DC) Hi Jim – I appreciate your help. I have a long and sundry association with radio – started out as a DJ in West Virginia – ended up in TV in Richmond, VA and radio at WRVA – then to CBS Network in the early 90s – and then back to radio at WTOP news in Washington, DC. I’ve spent the last several years in PR – worked for the DC Fire Department for almost nine years – and recently started at UDC as VP - radio is a love affair that won’t end, it seems. But – I came across your website many months ago – see it occasionally and really enjoy reading it – when I went about trying to find those old 7-Eleven spots – I figured you’d be the guy who would know where they were. I had them on a cassette tape 25 years ago – and played them for years. Really appreciate your help – and I look forward to hearing from Dan. All the best! Alan Etter; Vice President; University Relations & Public Affairs; University System of the District of Columbia; Washington, DC (www.udc.edu)

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BLAKE FARENTHOLD (Corpus Christi, TX) Subject: http://news.jimroseremembersradio.com/. RADIO HOST RUNS FOR TX HOUSE Blake Farenthold, morning talk host on Clear Channel KKTX-1360 (ex KRYS) Corpus Christi, TX is one of two finalists in a four-Republican primary who run against incumbent Solomon Ortiz (D-TX) to represent the Corpus Christi area in the US House. To be a candidate in the race Blake resigns from KKTX. This gesture may be only symbolic. It appears that the seat is safely in the hands of the Democrats because they send Ortiz to Washington, D.C. continually since he first wins the seat in 1982.' Come on...Scott Brown took the Kennedy seat. Republicans got 40% last time against Ortiz before the tea party movement and the outrage over Obamacare. Plus the last candidate was way under-funded...basically paying for his own campaign. I’m conservative, well funded, articulate and a long time radio guy. Give me some love. My first gig in radio as a weekender was on KRYS in ’76.

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TONY LAWRENCE (DFW-Arlington, TX) Giles (Giles Edward Miller, SR.) had just sold KPCN to a group of lawyers, Gump, Feld, Strauss and Kelly and TX. Lieutenant Gov. Ben Barnes. Irene Runnels had left KBOX and was manager of KKDA... Few probably remember the reason for the call letters was K-DAY "The Sunny Sound". I recall the avid country listeners threatened us daily to bring back KPCN. Those 500 watts went quite a ways but the format was doomed from the beginning. I only knew Giles in passing. Dale Edward (Payne-Jimmy Rabbitt) and Bill (Young) had just left KDOK for KILT when I arrived. The PD who hired me in Tyler was Dana Adams Jr. who left me the PD a few months later. Dana Sr. was GM and Hugh Neel was Sales Mgr. There are a lot of stories and history there also. I left Tyler for KPCN (KKDA) and later to WFAA 570/820, WRR and KRLD. WFAA Radio/TV were memorable days for me and you're right they didn't break the bank on payroll. I love your stories and the ones in JRRR bring back a lot of memories. Looking back we owned the world and were too young and reckless (as least I was) to realize it. Working 820 in the days of REAL clear channels and getting nightly calls from the Panama canal Zone should have been an eye opener.

KPCN-730 is one of if not the favorite radio station in my long broadcast resume list since early 1965 that includes Dallas, San Antonio, Ft. Worth, Austin, Waco, Temple, Terrell and finally Houston for over 30 years. In 1967 the KPCN studios are at the transmitter site in Grand Prairie right between Dallas and Ft. Worth. We sit out there in that truly grand prairie all alone in a cow pasture where we see miles and miles of Texas. KPCN's 500 watts completely cover central and north TX like a blanket because of its low position on the AM dial. One day as I enter the building to do my noon-3 pm show there is a young couple with a new born baby who wait for my arrival. These fine folks travel all the way from Oklahoma to meet and get my autograph. This completely overwhelms me because it's the first time that anyone ever asks for my autograph. What are they going to do with that piece of paper? KPNC has a grand array of famous DJs: Bill Mack, Groovy Joe Poovey, me and Randy Ryder. We have so much fun out there and listeners love us like we are members their family. KPCN is real radio. Many stories about my short time at KPCN. In 1967 I leave KPCN to go on the air at WFAA-820/570 Communications Center for the Great Southwest in Dallas. Each night from 7 pm-midnight that 50,000 watts of power on WFAA-820's clear channel sends my voice all across Texas and America. Receive phone calls and letters from as far north as Alaska all the way down south to an island in the Caribbean Sea. Boy do I have grrreat (as Tony the tiger says) stories about my time on WFAA and KPCN. When I leave WFAA in August 1968 to head south to the Alamo City to program KBUC FM-AM my good friend and fellow Elkins Institute of Radio classmate (1964) Rex Russell (Boehme) is my replacement. Sad to say that Rex passes away at 65 at home in Orange, TX on Wednesday, February 25, 2009.

TRIVIA ANSWER: After the Young Rascals' Good Lovin' becomes #1 in Billboard organist Felix Cavaliere admits, We weren't too pleased with our performance. It was a shock to us when it went to the top of the charts.

GEORGE LESTER (Palestine-Elkhart, TX) I'll try to think of some (stories). I hope I can come up with some that are reasonably interesting.

JRRR's Friday, March 12, 2010 Issue #789 has a very interesting radio story from George Lester that you do not want to miss. Tell your friends to tune in.

VICTOR HUGO (February 26, 1802-May 22, 1885) Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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

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