JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #906
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December 10, 2010 [Friday]
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NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST FOUND DEAD On Monday, December 6, 2010 Lt. Darryl Johnson with the Port Aransas, TX Police Department reports that they find former San Antonio Express-News columnist, Carlos Guerra, lifeless in the one-bedroom condominium where he resides on Mustang Island which is northeast of Corpus Christi. Lt. Johnson says they transfer him to the Nueces County Medical Examiner’s Office. Port Aransas City Councilman, Keith Donley, who is a friend and the condominium’s owner, says that the 63 year-old Guerra resides at the Casa Condominiums since November 3rd. Carlos retires from the Express-News in 2009. Donley says that he is supposed to leave the condo on Monday morning. When he doesn't exit by 1 pm, housekeepers knock on the door. No one responds. They enter and find him lying on the bedroom floor. Donley says that Carlos stays at the condominiums off and on for the past five or six years. He usually rents a condo for a month or two at a time during the winter. His condo is on the fourth floor that faces Corpus Christi Bay. The Councilman remembers: He liked to watch the sun go down, overlooking the wetlands. He wanted as good a view as he could. Donley recalls that Guerra loves his job as a newspaper columnist. He says that they joke because Donley is once a San Antonio Light news carrier. The S.A. Light is the Express-News’ competitor until it shuts its doors in the early 1990s. He was proud of what he did. He liked the organization. Throughout the complex, Guerra is known as a kind person. Everybody that knew him at Casa. I’m talking about the staff, whether it be housekeeping or the front desk, if you ask them, they’d say, ‘What a nice guy’. Which is not a bad epitaph, is it?
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ELVIRA'S WRITER RECEIVES HONORS Songwriter, Dallas Frazier, who writes timeless Country Classics such as There Goes My Everything, Elvira, Beneath Still Water and Fourteen Carat Mind receives honors as a Poet and Prophet on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theater in Nashville, TN. Museum editor Michael Gray hosts the 90-minute program. Frazier also writes the enduring Pop hits Alley Oop and Mohair Sam. Many artists record his tunes: Merle Haggard, Connie Smith, Jack Greene, Elvis Presley and George Jones. At other times, the Museum's Poets and Prophets series celebrates writers Bill Anderson, Bob McDill, Curly Putman, Hank Cochran and Craig Wiseman. We can catch it live on www.countrymusichalloffame.com.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Amos 'n' Andy is a popular radio show that also becomes a hit situation comedy TV series. When does the series have its premier on TV? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•CHRIS MARKOWSKI's Talk Radio Network syndicated weekend show Watchdog on Wall Street adds Gospel Music KKGM-1630 Ft. Worth-Dallas, TX. •GLOBAL BROADCASTING CHANNEL unveils a new Houston-based news network on DirectTV to 18.7 million American households on March 3, 2011. The 24-hour news cycle operates from The Preserve on North Loop West. Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia, who produces media programs in India, owns the new channel. GBC expects to add 75 new jobs in Houston, TX. •GARY STONE Univision Radio P/CEO retires on December 31, 2010 after over 40 years in radio.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1953 KOMO TV ABC CH4 in Seattle, WA begins broadcasting on December 10th. •1967 GARY ALLAN Country singer (Her Man #7-1996) born Gary Herzberg on December 5th in Montebello, CA. •1976 WINGS release their triple album Wings over America on December 10th. •1988 GEORGE STRAIT's remake of the old 1954 Faron Young hit If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') rings #1 at Billboard's cash register on December 10th. •1996 FARON YOUNG Country singer and actor commits suicide on December 10th at 64. •2004 KEITH URBAN's video You're My Better Half airs on CMT on December 10th.
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TOM ELLIS (Boston-East Sandwich-Newton, MA) Subject: The Fabulous Fifties. Hi, Jim and Lacy, In the summer of '50 I saw an ad in the Fort Worth Star Telegram that said the Parker Wilson Ad Agency in Fort Worth was auditioning for a side show barker to travel with a Road Show that summer, so I went to the midway at the Fair Park and watched a barker for a coupla days, auditioned for Parker Wilson, got the job, and became a side show barker for the summer playing every little town in West Texas for 3 nights each while making $150 a week (more than my dad ever made in his entire life). Oh man, you sure know how to press my button...this goes on and on, including my first job in television in the summer of '51, etc. etc. my first marriage, my first kids, my first radio job, my first radio NEWS job. All in the Fabulous 50's. Those ten years were jam packed with excitement for me. Thanks for bringing up the subject. Tom
FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#904) December 06, 2010 [Monday] I agree, I should have never left KLIF (1190) and the Dallas market. We just do dumb things when we are young and when we're old too. MERRY CHRISTMAS my friend.
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DR. JEFF CUNNINGHAM (Austin-Kyle, TX) I worked my way up the food chain as a jock in the 1970's. I worked for Bill Bradford at KSST in Sulphur Springs starting in 74 and leaving 77. In 1977, I went to work for Cathie Martindale at KSCS. A beautiful person inside and out, she was unable to promote me to a full time position that I desired so greatly. EEOC issues prevented it. I then applied for and was accepted by KXOL in Ft. Worth. George Erwin did mornings, coming over from KFJZ (1270), and the wildest man I ever met in radio worked all nights, named Rocky Davis. A very nice man but when the mic went on, the lights almost dimmed from the amount of energy he sucked up. (www.zoesplaceclinic.com) / (www.myspace.com/drjeffcunningham)
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GENTLEMAN JIM CARTER (San Antonio, TX) Subject: 1950's e-mail. Howdy back atcha Jim: Growing up in south Oak Cliff in the 50's was a hoot! I went to a gym down on deep Elm to pump iron as you did. I forget the name of the place...but I went in for the super power energy drinks loaded with all sorts of magical ingredients to make me have BIG MUSCLES! Needless to say it didn't work. Lol...We had a canary yellow '52 Studebaker...then a green '56 Plymouth with push buttons for the gear shifts. Then we got a brown '59 Impala. I was always jealous of our next door neighbor's black '57. 2-door Chevy! What a stud automobile that was when it came out. Gentleman Jim Carter/San Antonio, Texas
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DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: Fragmented Radio (Issue 893) Greetings Jim & Lacy, In Issue 893 you wrote "City of Houston,TX now has 4 All Sports, 5 News-Talk, 3 Country & no less than 6 FM radio stations that play variations of one form or another of Rock music. Too much clutter on the radio dial breeds no more huge double-digit ratings." How true! Same type of situation in DFW & not likely to change, but it's interesting (to me, at least) to look at. In the Dallas Arbitron for spring of 68 KLIF (1190) is #1 with a record 27.3 share. Ft. Worth book for fall '68 shows KFJZ (1270) with a record 31.6 share. Moving up to the 80's, in the fall of 83 (DFW is a single market since 73) KVIL (1150/103.7 combo) is #1 with a record 11.8 share. In Sept. 2010 KHKS (KISS) 106.1 is #1 with a 5.9 share. Just something fun to look at. Source for my info is Chris Huff's excellent website: www.dfwradioarchives.com Take Care, David
TRIVIA ANSWER: Amos 'n' Andy is one of the very first radio comedy series. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll write and voice the characters directly from a studio at WMAQ-670 in Chicago, IL. Bill Hay is their radio announcer. Amos 'n' Andy is the first syndicated radio program in the U.S. In fall 1948, Correll and Gosden sell all rights to Amos 'n' Andy to CBS for a reported 2.5 million dollars. Amos 'n' Andy premieres on CBS TV on June 28, 1951 and runs through June 11, 1953 with 78 filmed episodes. On TV, Alvin Childress plays Amos, Spencer Williams is Andy and the brilliant Tim Moore is the Kingfish. Amos 'n' Andy continues in reruns from 1954 until pressure from the NAACP causes CBS TV to cancel the program in 1966. In 1988, the Amos 'n' Andy program inducts into the Radio Hall of Fame. To honor the performers, a pair of parallel, one-block streets in south Dallas, TX are named Amos Street and Andy Street.
LESLIE WAYNE HODGES (Marshall, TX) Jim and Lacy, Merry Christmas! Leslie Wayne Hodges (www.kzqx.com)
ERIC SEVAREID [CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977] (November 26, 1912–July 9, 1992) As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo
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