KOTTER'S STAR DIMS The very popular 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter introduces a young John Travolta as the super-cocky womanizer Vinnie Barabarino. Travolta goes on to fame and fortune in Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978) and Urban Cowboy (1980). Gabe Kaplan plays the hip but beset high-school teacher Gabe Kotter. Robert Hegyes is the scheming Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein. At approximately 9 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012 police respond to an emergency call from Hegyes' home in Metuchen, NJ. Emergency ambulance takes him to JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ, but he is in full cardiac arrest. Robert Hegyes dies at 60 of an apparent heart attack. Hegyes also stars on the TV detective series Cagney & Lacey as Detective Manny Esposito. He guest-stars on TV shows The Love Boat, NewsRadio, Diagnosis Murder, Drew Carey Show and CHiPS. But from 1975 to 1979 we remember him most on the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. In its 35th anniversary, he appears with most of the original cast members for a reunion at the TV Land Awards on April 17, 2011. Robert Hegyes born in Perth Amboy, NJ leaves behind ex wife Cynthia Wylie, 2 children, Cassie (24), Mack (20); and 2 step-children, Sophia (20) and Alex (23).

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RADIO STATION FOR SALE ON EBAY Here's a new way to sell your radio station - on eBay! Yessir, Aurora Media lists the future 100,000 watt KXLI FM (94.5) Class C license to Moapa, NV on eBay for a buy-it-now price of $8,950,000. Aurora Media's two principals include veteran programmer Scott Mahalick [now at Larry Wilson’s Alpha Broadcasting in Portland, OR] and Ross Campbell. The eBay listing reads: Commercial FM broadcast station...serving Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County, USA. This is not the first radio station to appear on eBay, but Las Vegas, NV is probably one of the largest markets to show up. KXLI FM comes with studio lease and all broadcast equipment. If this is Hee Haw the number to call might be BR-549. FYI: A reader of www.sodahead.com writes: The origin of the number BR 549 is Boat Ramp 549 where Junior Samples of Hee Haw keeps his boat moored on Lake Lanier near his home in Cumming, GA. Arista Records Nashville Country group BR549 borrows their name from Junior Samples' used car skits on Hee Haw.

TRIVIA QUESTION: What two NFL teams play in Super Bowl X on CBS TV? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! John Steel [ex DJ on KONO-860 San Antonio, TX and KNUZ-1230 Houston, presently DJ/engineer at KUHF FM & KUHA FM] on February 1, 2012. •KKLF-1700 Volt Radio Dallas-Richardson, TX on February 1, 2012 drops its simulcast of Cumulus Talk KLIF-570 to join the Comedy network created by Dallas radio veterans. •SAG approves merger with AFTRA. New union is SAG-AFTRA. •DICK KNISS five decade bassist with folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and original member of John Denver's 1970s band co-writes Denver hit Sunshine on My Shoulders dies at 74 on Wednesday January 25, 2012.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 KTXS TV ABC CH12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX begins broadcasting on January 30th. •1969 THE GLEN CAMPBELL GOODTIME HOUR debuts on January 29th on CBS TV with first episode guest John Hartford [writer of Gentle on My Mind]. •1973 KISS plays 1st show at Coventry Club on January 30th in Queens, NY. •1988 KATHY MATTEA's Goin' Gone is her first #1 Billboard Country single on January 30th. •1994 DALLAS COWBOYS beat Buffalo Bills 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl XXVIII. MVP is Dallas RB Emmitt Smith. •2004 KEITH URBAN's video You'll Think of Me premieres on CMT on January 30th.

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FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) Subject: Ken Dowe KLIF-1190. Jim, I ask Ken Dowe about Ted Agnew, and he replied: "Think he died a long time back. I seem to remember that." Sorry to have to send along sad news, but at our age, that's happening a lot now. Take care... Frank

TED AGNEW is the wonderful KLIF-1190 News Director who snares me away from KBOX-1480 in Dallas, TX in 1972 without even so much as an aircheck or employee application. Guess that when he hears me around the clock on KBOX-1480 as a newscaster, mobile news reporter and news actualities that is my aircheck.

MICHAEL O'SHEA (Bellingham, WA) Subject: Ken Dowe KLIF-1190. Jim... Ken (Dowe) originally asked me to take on the air-name of “Rich Burton”...remember Richard and Liz Taylor in those days? I pleaded with him to NOT use that, and use my real first name, Michael. I told him I was Irish...and he said that he and Charlie Van Dyke would come up with a good Irish name for me to use on air. I packed up the ’67 Mercury Cougar with the essentials (TV and the Dog)...my wife flew ahead as she was expecting our first. I was literally driving through central Illinois at dusk, had tuned my car radio to 1190 (WOWO, Ft. Wayne), so I could get KLIF when I got to Texas. At local sunset Wo-Wo switched pattern and power and in came KLIF like a local (still at 50kw, with daytime pattern). I heard Charlie Van Dyke read a liner card that said: “beginning Monday Big D’s smiling Irishman, Michael O’Shea...” And That’s how I learned what my new air-name would be. I wrote it on a liner card and practiced saying it for the remainder of the drive. I started on Noon to Three and the monthly “Hooper-ratings” went from a 33 share to a 36 to a 39 <I have the photocopies, smile>...and Ken later told me that he won a bet with Chuck Boyles, then McLendon’s National PD, who bet him that I would NOT make it. I’m glad he told me after the fact instead of going in <grin>.

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KEN DOWE (Dallas, TX) Jim. Dottie and I would be in Los Angeles on business from time to time and Rod (Roddy) would always take us to dinner. Every time was déjà vu. Rod would enter MORTON's (always Mortons) and the folks having dinner would erupt into applause and say together: "ROD RODDY! COME ON DOWN...ROD!!" Then, he'd order his favorite drink to go with his steak. A DIET Coke, to which he would add 8-10 teaspoons of sugar. I never got it, either. And so...the ADVENTURE continues. Beats working for a living, doesn't it? Keep up the good work, Jim. Ken

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TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Subject: favorite station. What was your favorite station to work out of all the great stations you were at?

SINCE APRIL 1965 there are over 30 TX radio frequencies in my resume. In summer 1967, KPCN-730's small studio in Dallas, TX still holds fond memories. It certainly is a thrill as a DJ on 50,000 watt clear channel WFAA-820's massive building in Big D from 1967-68 where listeners in 38 states call in, send cards and letters. Many other top TX radio stations such as twice on KILT FM come to mind. In 1972 when Ted Agnew hires me as a newscaster on Dallas' most popular radio station KLIF-1190 that just about beats them all. But when the marvelous Cal Druxman GM of KHFI FM and KHFI-970 in Austin, TX rescues me in 1966 from the KTER-1570 bottomless pit in Terrell, TX and hands me KHFI FM as PD/MD/DJ that brings my radio career to a whole new level.

LESLIE WAYNE HODGES (Marshall, TX) Subject: George Carlin and James McWain KXOL Fort Worth. Jim, James McWain KCRS 550 Station Chief Engineer when I was with KCRS Midland and when I was with AGGIE 96 in College Station 1992-1993. James McWain worked at the KXOL Fort Worth transmitter site while George Carlin was on air till midnight. Just after 4 AM James would drive by KXOL and give George a ride to his apartment. 'GEORGE CARLIN (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that".' Leslie Wayne Hodges

TRIVIA ANSWER: On January 18, 1976 the Cowboys advance to their third Super Bowl in team history. CBS TV Sports' Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier call Super Bowl X in the Orange Bowl in Miami, FL. Lynn Swann's catches lead the Pittsburgh Steelers (12–2) past the Dallas Cowboys (10–4) to repeat as Super Bowl champions. In the classic matchup the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. Lynn Swann is the first wide receiver to win the Super Bowl MVP award. Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Roger Staubach has season passing 2,666 yards, 17 touchdowns and rushes for 310 yards. Wide receiver Drew Pearson leads the Cowboys with 46 receptions for 822 yards and 8 touchdowns. Wide receiver Golden Richards and tight end Jean Fugett combine for 59 receptions and 939 receiving yards. Fullback Robert Newhouse is the Cowboys leading rusher with 930 yards. He catches 34 passes for 274 yards.

PARRIS AFTON BONDS (Dallas-Allen, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1060) December 30, 2011 [Friday] I agree with you on Houston's weather, Jim ~ and, oh yes, I would much rather be strolling along a white sandy beach than Galveston's brown ones. Happy New Year, dear! Parris Afton Bonds; Namesake of Southwest Writers Workshop's Parris Award for outstanding contribution and service by a published author (www.parrisaftonbonds.com)

JACQUES COUSTEAU (June 11, 1910 to June 25, 1997) The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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