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« on: January 19, 2011, 08:05:41 AM » |
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The counter-punch to the "best Tennessee stations of all-time" thread. Who has (or had) the worst station(s) in Tennessee history.
My vote would have to go to WHDM of McKenzie, circa 1990-1991. I should know. I worked there then. We weren't allowed to carry network news, and this was at the height of the first Persian Gulf war!
They owed money to ASCAP at the time, so we weren't allowed to play anything published (or even co-published!) by ASCAP for fear that they would be listening to us and would fine us!
Ad to that that they STILL did not have a CD player yet at that time, and the very first volume of CDX was issued at about that time.
The station has long since been sold, and the now-former owner has been deceased for many years, so none of this should be taken as a judgement against whatever may be going on there now. I live too far away from them to listen to them now, and as far as I know, they don't broadcast online.
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2011, 11:47:43 AM » |
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Any of the dollar a holler stations that are owned by FW Robbert: WNQM and WWCR shortwave in Nashville, WMQM and WLRM in Memphis. They also bought AM 730 in West Memphis, AR, but I think they're still sports talk for now, and I think they have a station in Knoxville as well.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2011, 08:58:30 PM » |
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Robbert has WLRM in Millington. Did not know that they had bought the West Memphis property.
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2011, 09:20:29 AM » |
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From signal strength view the old 1550 Cir. 1970’s Soddy Daisy would be a contender. No night time signal, Chattanooga AM’s signals loud and strong daytime. No chance for signal improvement with Cookeville TN, and Huntsville AL on same frequency. IIRC this station was a sell and repo deal for a broker.
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 03:28:09 PM » |
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Two in Bristol come to mind....WOPI (1490) back in the late 70's/early 80's when Paul Culp owned it. The other, I have to be careful with, cause a poster on here, Sammy Reed, his dad used to work there. WBCV (1550), when it was owned by Jennings Dotson. Sammy's dad, Cecil Reed, did sign-on there and was actually decent. Jennings and his son, had no business even being around a radio station, but that's another story.
WOPI was the first station that Tennessee Ernie Ford ever worked for. Its now owned by Holston Valley Broadcasting Corp in Kingsport and simulcasts WKPT-AM on there except for weekends. WBCV had a chance to make a little bit of a comeback when former WCYB-TV 5 weatherman Rick Mitchell bought it and changed the calls to WIGN, but he's sold it to a baptist church in Bristol. Those 2 would be my choices.
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 06:13:59 AM » |
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WEMB in Erwin.
The horror stories of this station are legendary. Let's just say Jim Crawford and Chuck Ray aren't the brightest bulbs I've ever been around.
Once wanted me to do a talk show, but didn't give me a phone line.
I'll just leave it at that.
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2011, 01:42:38 PM » |
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WHDM is owned by the lake WLZK Paris Tennessee. WHDM is also on 89.9fm in Mckinzie,TN
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Many years of radio: WDSG-1450,WTRO-1330,WASL-SL-100,WXKY-1360,WKIR-104.1,WJAK-1460,KBOA-830,WTNE-1500,WWEZ-97.5,WTNE-97.7,WTKB-93.7,
KTMO-98.9,KCRV-1370,KCRV-105.1,WHMT-1190,WTRO-1450,WLSZ-Z105.3,WWGM-93.1,WHDM-1440,WKBJ-1600,WKBJ-92.3,WCTA-810,WEZI-105.9-106
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2011, 09:57:18 PM » |
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Article about him in the latest City Paper if you want to read it. |
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« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2011, 08:40:39 AM » |
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There is no doubt about this one. WDSG, Dyersburg. When I worked there it was owned by JoAnn Ward, who had NO idea about running a radio station. One shining example was when the transmitter flooded in the swamp behind the station, she went through 3 engineers before getting one to complete repairs. We were off the air for a week until she got a 10-watt emergency transmitter shipped in. When it went live, we covered a radius of 1 block! The brainiac decided we would play ALL of the spots we had missed over the past week immediately in order to bill the poor saps who actually advertised with us. I shut the power down and reasoned with her that the lawsuits would be more than the station was worth. When I finally escaped to Florida, I found out she had been taping my air shift and proceeded to air these taped programs for 3 YEARS after I left! I still shake my head when I think about how crappy that station was. It was sold after her death to WASL-WTRO and WTRO took the 1450 frequency.
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