WWOD-AM 1390 - Tribute Site Memories, Airchecks & Photos
WLLL 930 AM - Lynchburg, VA
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This WWOD Tribute Page Includes 1970's Material on WWOD in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rick Burnett, This Web Site's Creator, Worked At WWOD in 1973. The Material for This WWOD Tribute Site Has Been Provided With the Help of Others and Additional Contributions are Welcome.
Should you have Lynchburg VA. material from any station to contribute, Please Email Me atRick1031@hotmail.com
Recent Email sent to me on WWOD and wanting to make contact with a person mention on this page, Mr Mumm, but now retired. Contact me at Rick1031 (@) Hotmail and I will forward you email to Helen. See below from Helen:
Added 7/24/21
Hello Mr. Burnett,
I was reminiscing about my childhood in Lynchburg, VA and came across your Twin Cities Radio Airchecks website and all the awesome information about WWOD. I lived about 2-3 blocks from WWOD on Taylor Farm Road in the 1960's and my friends and me spent a lot of time in the woods behind WWOD in search of discarded 45 and 78 rpm records. WWOD's DJ's had apparently been flinging records into those woods for many years. Lots of them were broken, naturally, but some weren't. To this day, I still have a very warped but still playable (at last check) disc of "The Purple People Eater" that I harvested from the woods behind WWOD.
The other very cool thing in those woods was the old and forgotten cemetery which, I read from emails on your site, Jonathon Mumm similarly visited during his childhood. I would like to make contact with Mr. Mumm via email, but found from googling that he retired from TV (the email address shown on your site). However, I also noticed from your site that the 'fraternity' of WWOD radio professionals seems to have maintained a contact network over the decades, so I'm hoping that you or another former WWODer can help me to make email contact with Mr. Mumm. My reasons for wanting to contact Mr. Mumm are largely nostalgic and include:
1) we were neighbors; Taylor Farm Road runs parallel to Indian Hill Road (Mr. Mumm's old road) one block over
2) my mom was a 'lay teacher' at Holy Cross High School throughout Mr. Mumm's high school years there and may have been one of his teachers
3) my parents routinely tapped the well of Holy Cross high schoolers for babysitters, so Mr. Mumm may have experienced the horror of babysitting me [in which case I owe him one or more apologies]
4) Mr. Watson's giant swing (roughly across the road on Mimosa Drive from WWOD)
5) the cemetery, and this is the only reason that isn't purely nostalgic; I still have very vivid memories of that cemetery and would very much like to compare thoughts and experiences with Mr. Mumm from the perspective of now being adults (ok, old people) as to what we felt about the cemetery as kids
I would look forward to hearing back from you, Mr. Mumm or other former WWODers, but I would greatly appreciate it if you would refrain from making my email address public information on your website.
Thank you, and thank you also for compiling such a nice historical record of WWOD!
Helen
Demo of WWOD Studios - Summer of 2011
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This page contains old photos and airchecks (Scroll Down) of WWOD-AM in Lynchburg, Virginia from early 1973.
Although this is not a Twin Cities Radio Station, it was a station I had one of my first full-time jobs and contains some 1973 history that will be of interest mostly to other 60's and 70's WWOD alumni. Dick Bartley got his first job at WWOD in 1969 when it was Top 40. Bartley recently celebrated 25 years on Saturday night network radio (1982-2007) and currently hosts Rock and Roll's Greatest Hits & American Gold. Bartley also worked at WLLL in Lynchburg in 1971.
I work at WWOD in 1973. WWOD-AM was a Top 40 Country station and its FM was a religious station. I was given the on air name "Rick Mason" by then program director, Jay Douglas (Douglas Neatrour). At the time it was owned by Cy N. Bahakle, Bahakle Communications. Bahakle Communications still owns KEXL-AM in Waterloo, which some of us in the Midwest may recognize. Back in 1973 KXEL could be heard in many parts of the country at night with its 50,000 watts.
WWOD was shut down sometime in the early 80's. The studio on Mimosa Drive are now boarded up (see 2007 photos below) and the towers were taken down. A developer was planing to tear it down and build some houses on the site (may have happened by now).
Thanks to DJ Mad Lad & Phil Beckman For the 2007 Photos on this Page There are photos from 1973 taken from my camera when I (Rick Burnett a/k/a Mason) worked there. The 2007 photos are courtsey of DJ Mad Lad of Lynchburg VA. His web site is www.djmadlad.com DJ was old a pirate radio operator in Lynchburg when he was school age. He has photos on his site of the studios.
Dj Mad Lad also informed me the old WWOD 1390 KHZ AM frequency is used by Dave Morans WKBA/WKPA Southern Gospel as a simulcast in Roanoke. It now uses one tower location in Madison Hgts. The old WWOD 100.1 MHZ FM frequency is now Urban WVBE, owned by Mel Wheeler(K92-Roanoke).
"I remember the WWOD, 78 record library and other radio equipment that might still be there. That is when I looked up the present owners to see if I could get in the building. Also I met this guy who had a tv-Starz network show about collecting old 78's, and I thought that I could help him out with WWOD's library(My site, click on celebrities, Joe Buzzard)! No such luck, they were donated to Jerry Falwells school long ago. Nothing in there was worth getting, I took those pictures in the dark, with a flashlight, aiming at what I thought was something interesting!"
Thanks again to DJ Mad Lad for these interesting 2007 photos of the WWOD remains. I guess its time for cremation.
Thanks to Phil Beckman Phil has provided some historical info and has help to restore/enhance some of the old 1973 photos I took when I was working at WWOD. He worked at WWOD when it was Top 40 and left when they announced the format change to Country. Phil has worked at other Lynchburg stations in the 70's as well and was doing drive time at another station in 1973 when I was at WWOD doing mornings. I believed I listened to him when I was driving home. Phil also supplied photos he took of the exterior of the WWOD building and the interior at the end of July 2007. He was able to get the owner of the building to let him inside for about 45 minutes and Phil was able to get us more shots of the interior and the equipment that was amazingly left behind. Phil states the owner was vague about future plans, but there didn't seem to be any possibility that the building was coming down soon. The zoning for the area has changed and he would not be able to use the building commercially beyond another broadcast facility, I guess. He is keeping the power on, which seems to be very important for that building's future.
Thanks to Douglas Neatrour Doug was know on the air as Jay Douglas. When I joined this stating in 1973, Jay was the Program Director. Jay hired me to do the morning show. Not that I was the best talent for that spot, but because I had a 1st Class FCC license and I would qualify to do the power change at sunrise. Douglas (Jay) treated me good and was great to work with. We recently (October 2007) made our first contact in many years. Douglas sent me some WWOD jingles which I posted on the site and the WWOD format book. He will be sending more material as he get time.
I am starting to hear from other WWOD fans and ex-jocks and have posted their email comments on the Postcards From The Edge Page. I did not realize this tribute page would generate any interest. There seems to be some.
Calvin Wayne Campbell October 21st 1938 to July 9th 2008
Calvin Wayne Campbell, 69, of Evington died Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at his home. He was the loving husband of Ginger Lee Cram Campbell.
Wayne was born Oct. 21, 1938, in Lynchburg. He was the son of the late Aubrey Campbell and the late Pauline Franklin Campbell.
Wayne was the program director and disc jockey for WBRG and WWOD radio stations. He also hosted his own radio show "The Wayne Campbell Show," sponsored by Chestnut Hill Bakery and JimWalterHomes. He served three years in the U.S. Army and earned the rank of sergeant. While in the service, Wayne attended the University of Louisville, studied in Europe, studied English and math through the University of Maryland Extension, and was the editor of the Stars and Stripes Magazine. Wayne played football at E.C. Glass and was quarterback on the U.S. Army All Star Team in Germany. Wayne also worked as a Real Estate agent for Century 21 and later with Professional Realty Group in Lynchburg.
In 1968, he signed a contract to record with Columbia Records and had the singles "Nighttime Rose," "Time's Been Good To Me," "Soft-Hearted Me," several others, and one album. He also co-wrote a song for Allison Krauss called "Steel Rails." When he wasn't involved with the music industry, you could catch Wayne on the golf course, walking the track at school or watching NASCAR races. He was also a member of HylandHeightsBaptistChurch. Wayne touched so many people with his generosity, strength, compassion and love for his family.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Amy Allgood, and a granddaughter, Leah Allgood, both of Lynchburg; a sister, Ella Creasy of Richmond; a sister-in-law, Alice Campbell of Lynchburg; a niece, Barbara Shelton of Lynchburg; two nephews, Jeff Kowatch and wife, Mervil, of Spout Spring and Greg Kowatch and wife, Hyonae, of Anchorage, Alaska.
HALL WINSTON-SALEM - Jesse Richard "Rick" Hall, 64, of Winston-Salem, lost his long-time battle with cancer on April 3, 2009. Rick was born in Forsyth County on February 24, 1945 to Walter Robert "Bill" and Virginia Davis Hall. He attended Mineral Springs High School, graduating in 1963. Rick served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was an active member of the American Legion Post 55. He most enjoyed the American Legion Riders motorcycle group. Rick is survived by one son, Bryan (Shannon) Hall of North Myrtle Beach, SC; one daughter, Jennifer (Vince) Canfora of Long, SC; one granddaughter, Lilian Canfora; one sister, Betty Hall (Alvin) Shore of Clemmons; nephew, Lee (Kathy) Shore; and best friend and canine companion, Mr. Bear. A memorial service will be conducted on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at the Huff Funeral Home Chapel in East Bend, officiated by the Rev. Chris Byrne. A committal service will follow in the Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery in East Bend with full military honors presented by the American Legion Post 55. Memorials may be made to the American Legion Post 55, 111 Miller Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
Published in the Winston-Salem Journal from 4/4/2009 - 4/5/2009 ____________________________________________________________ Doug Neatrour was hired by Rick Hall and sent a email with some thought about working with Rick.
"I can thank Rick Hall for hiring me back in 1973. I recall answering an ad in Broadcasting Magazine, then received a call from Mr. Hall himself requesting an interview. I was working as a jock in York, PA at the time and the station was having some personality issues with a new PD...so I was a looking. As I recall, I got off the wrong exit of I-81 South and ended up going the looooong way over the mountain and into Lynchburg, mainly via the Blue Ridge Parkway. I was probably 40 miles from the station and said to myself, well let's try to pick it up, thinking I was much too far away. I kicked on the radio and BOOM, there was one of the country gentlemen and some great country music with a strong bass sound. Arrived in L'burg and got along very nice with Rick. He hired me on the spot, but said we wanted me to start out as the Music Director, prove myself and possibly be the PD. I arrived a week or so later, got a place to live and showed up for work.
Rick pretty much gave we all the leeway I wanted. Two weeks later, I was anointed the PD. He told me to fix the sound, maintain the country music and hire some dj's as he called them. So I did. We had a staff of young, un-married guys (myself included back then). Rick was a true salesman...he could sell ice to Eskimos. He had a philosophy he told me once (this one's for all the sales folks out there)...'always make one more sales stop at the end of the day, because that one will be the BIG order'. I remember remotes with greased pigs! I recall a remote at a mobile home lot with a guy who dressed like Evil Kineval who was popular at the time. The Evil clone had a ramp up and down the sides of a long double wide. He fired up his cycle, did a fake roll to the top of the ramp, came back down...I threw the mike out to him and said 'any last words?' They must not have been too memorable, I don't remember them. Once Rick had a promotion called 'Treasure Man' He somehow talked Sam the engineer to dress up in a traded out tux. Under his arm was a white painted mailbox, the kind you might still find on a post for rural delivery. The door to the mailbox was locked. Sam had ring fll of dozens of keys. You guess it, one key opened the box. The winner got all the gift certificates and stuff obtained from sponsors, who were also sold a nice little advertising spot package for cash. Sam stopped people on the sidewall in downtown Lynchburg, introduced himself as the Treasure Man and asked if they wanted to try their luck at opening the box. Simple but fun.
We had a tight format, a clean facility that was almost always sold out spot wise, thanks to Rick Hall and Henry Ford, the salesman.
The FM was WWOD-FM and played beautiful music from a reel to reel deck at the speed of 3 3/4 ips. The deck was in the main studio and the AM jock had to change reels at the bottom of each hour. Since the FM wasn't making any real money, Rick decided it was time for change. Lynchburg as we all know was and still is in the bible belt. In 1974, I do not believe there were any religious radio stations in the area. That was soon going to change. Rick wanted to create a, as he called it 'toe tapping gospel music radio station'. It was to be called The Gospel Truth. The only problem was, we had no staff, and most important, NO music. Rick was walking me out to the parking lot after a long day of spinning the hits and recording commercials. With his arm around me he said 'Jay, I want you to head up this format change to gospel.' I said I know nothing about gospel...I'm Catholic! He said he wouldn't hold that against me. I asked when he wanted the change...he said, next Monday. It was now Tuesday.
The next day, I worried while on the air as to how I was going to pull this off. Then, almost as if God was listening, the secretary came into the studio and said I had a phone call. I usually did not take calls on the air, but asked, what the caller wanted. She said, apparently a job. I took the call. The guy on the other end was asking if we had any temporary openings on the air. He was a 'dj' from far away, passing though, when his car broke down. He had little cash for the needed repairs but a lot of ambition. I said we may have something on our FM, but it is playing gospel music (remember, we still had NO music!). At that moment, the heavens parted, trumpets blew and this guy announced, HE was a gospel radio announcer...in fact, with him in the broken down car was an entire collection of gospel 45's and LP's, his personal collection, on his way to his next job. Wow...he got the job on the spot. Somehow, I got to him, we loaded all the music into my car and proceeded to WWOD. I'm not sure if this guy slept at the station or what, but we had talent, music and now a format in place. Our morning guy recorded several liners and ID's, we moved some equipment around in the beautiful music studio, and bingo, it was a gospel music radio station.
Later, I believe we hired a local minister with a very funny personality, who used to be a jock..he did mornings. A few long form paid gospel preaching tapes were played every other hour with the toe taping stuff in between. Rick was happy and I was 'saved' probably both with my job and religiously! And hey, I'm Catholic!"
Doug Neatrour (a/k/a Jay Douglas)
This page contains old photos and airchecks (Scroll Down) of WWOD-AM in Lynchburg, Virginia from early 1973.
Although this is not a Twin Cities Radio Station, it was a station I had one of my first full-time jobs and contains some 1973 history that will be of interest mostly to other 60's and 70's WWOD alumni. Dick Bartley got his first job at WWOD in 1969 when it was Top 40. Bartley recently celebrated 25 years on Saturday night network radio (1982-2007) and currently hosts Rock and Roll's Greatest Hits & American Gold. Bartley also worked at WLLL in Lynchburg in 1971.
I work at WWOD in 1973. WWOD-AM was a Top 40 Country station and its FM was a religious station. I was given the on air name "Rick Mason" by then program director, Jay Douglas (Douglas Neatrour). At the time it was owned by Cy N. Bahakle, Bahakle Communications. Bahakle Communications still owns KEXL-AM in Waterloo, which some of us in the Midwest may recognize. Back in 1973 KXEL could be heard in many parts of the country at night with its 50,000 watts.
WWOD was shut down sometime in the early 80's. The studio on Mimosa Drive are now boarded up (see 2007 photos below) and the towers were taken down. A developer was planing to tear it down and build some houses on the site (may have happened by now).
Thanks to DJ Mad Lad & Phil Beckman For the 2007 Photos on this Page There are photos from 1973 taken from my camera when I (Rick Burnett a/k/a Mason) worked there. The 2007 photos are courtsey of DJ Mad Lad of Lynchburg VA. His web site is www.djmadlad.com DJ was old a pirate radio operator in Lynchburg when he was school age. He has photos on his site of the studios.
Dj Mad Lad also informed me the old WWOD 1390 KHZ AM frequency is used by Dave Morans WKBA/WKPA Southern Gospel as a simulcast in Roanoke. It now uses one tower location in Madison Hgts. The old WWOD 100.1 MHZ FM frequency is now Urban WVBE, owned by Mel Wheeler(K92-Roanoke).
"I remember the WWOD, 78 record library and other radio equipment that might still be there. That is when I looked up the present owners to see if I could get in the building. Also I met this guy who had a tv-Starz network show about collecting old 78's, and I thought that I could help him out with WWOD's library(My site, click on celebrities, Joe Buzzard)! No such luck, they were donated to Jerry Falwells school long ago. Nothing in there was worth getting, I took those pictures in the dark, with a flashlight, aiming at what I thought was something interesting!"
Thanks again to DJ Mad Lad for these interesting 2007 photos of the WWOD remains. I guess its time for cremation.
Thanks to Phil Beckman Phil has provided some historical info and has help to restore/enhance some of the old 1973 photos I took when I was working at WWOD. He worked at WWOD when it was Top 40 and left when they announced the format change to Country. Phil has worked at other Lynchburg stations in the 70's as well and was doing drive time at another station in 1973 when I was at WWOD doing mornings. I believed I listened to him when I was driving home. Phil also supplied photos he took of the exterior of the WWOD building and the interior at the end of July 2007. He was able to get the owner of the building to let him inside for about 45 minutes and Phil was able to get us more shots of the interior and the equipment that was amazingly left behind. Phil states the owner was vague about future plans, but there didn't seem to be any possibility that the building was coming down soon. The zoning for the area has changed and he would not be able to use the building commercially beyond another broadcast facility, I guess. He is keeping the power on, which seems to be very important for that building's future.
Thanks to Douglas Neatrour Doug was know on the air as Jay Douglas. When I joined this stating in 1973, Jay was the Program Director. Jay hired me to do the morning show. Not that I was the best talent for that spot, but because I had a 1st Class FCC license and I would qualify to do the power change at sunrise. Douglas (Jay) treated me good and was great to work with. We recently (October 2007) made our first contact in many years. Douglas sent me some WWOD jingles which I posted on the site and the WWOD format book. He will be sending more material as he get time.
I am starting to hear from other WWOD fans and ex-jocks and have posted their email comments on the Postcards From The Edge Page. I did not realize this tribute page would generate any interest. There seems to be some.
WWOD Building - Now Boarded Up - 2007. Scroll down to see photos taken of the inside in 2007 and com pare to the 1973 Photos. Looks Sad.
Keep Scrolling down for photos and old recorded broadcasts (Airchecks).
WWOD-AM 1973 photo of the control room with Bob Jackson doing his mid-day show
WWOD-AM 1973 photos of control board
WWOD-AM 1973 close-up of FM cotrol board
WWOD 1973 Photo of Production room. The window looks into the WWOD-AM control room.
WW)D 1973 photo of a large studio that was little used in 1973. It could accomodate groups and band performances.
WWOD-AM 1973 Lyn Nash did weekends and fill in work at OD radio in 1973. Not sure what happpened to him. This is a shot of him at the AM control board while he was doing his shift.
Keep Scrolling down for the airchecks.
WWOD-AM 1973 photo of Rick MAson on the air at the control board of the AM station.
WWOD-FM 1973 shot of FM control board. The window looks into the AM conrol room studio. The am studio was about 2.5-3 feet higher than the FM studio and production room.
Lynn Nash Provides Aircheck and WWOD Production Room Material
Lynn Nash started as a part-time weekend guy in the early 1970's and eventually was hired full time. He agreed to provide an aircheck and some additional material to the right.
WWOD-AM 1973 Photo of Rick Mason at he control board Mic. You can see the transmitter through the control room window in back of Rick.
WWOD Building footprint from the county assessor's office files. It shows the building measurements.
Keep Scrolling Down for Airchecks from 1973 & some photos of the interior of the boarded up building taken in 2007.
WWOD-AM December 1970 - Phil Beckman Doing Afternoon Drive
WWOD was doing a Top 40 format and this was the last days of the format before changing to Country. Do not adjust your volume during the 29 seconds of silence. The power and direction switch took a little time back then. 29 seconds is a long time.
Phil Beckman emailed me on 3-26-08 to following comments on this aircheck he sent:
"My note on the cassette says "Last day", 12/13/70", which was also my 22nd birthday. It could've very well been WWOD's last day as a Top-40 station, but it wasn't the 13th, as that was on a Sunday that year. So, it's obviously December, before Christmas, but the actual date is a mystery. Wish it was a longer tape. The 29 second gap is how long it took to flip from day to night power, and non directional to directional antenna if you were really moving!!
Don't know what the hammering was, but the only 'coffin' that would have been made would be one for the Top-40 format!
The voice on the ID and news intro is Allen O'Brien, who died about 10 years ago. The higher-voiced guy's name escapes me. I'll have to ask David Glass."
Aircheck Contributed by Phil Beckman, Formerly of WWOD and WLVA, Lynchburg.
WWOD, Lynchburg Virginia - Rick Mason 1973 Airchecks
In the early '70's, Lynchburg Virginia had a population of 50,000 within the city limits. I remember getting up at 3:30 AM to get to the station by 4:30 AM to start warming up the transmitter tubes before sining on at 5AM. The station had 5,000 watts non-direction during the day and 500 or 1,000 watts directional at night. The biggest hassle doing the morning show was the change of power at daylight. I had to put on a long jingle, run back to the transmitter to increase power and switch antenna to non-directional, and then run back to the control board to start the record before the jingle ended. Then during that record, I had to run back and adjust the coils to get the proper amperage out to the antenna. WWOD does not exist anymore.
Prior to country, WWOD-AM had a Top 40 format in the 60's. Nationally syndicated Dick Bartley. host and producer of ABC Radio's American Gold and Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits, had his first job at the station in 1969. The studio building o Mimosa Drive was excessively large. It was originally built to house both the AM/AM and TV station. There was no TV operation while I was there. I left in July 1973 to take a job at KTCR-FM in Minneapolis.
There are two airchecks of Rick Mason to the right from 1973. The July aircheck was used for a composite station aircheck that Program Director Jay Douglas (Jay Neetrier - not sure of spelling) compiled for upper management at the stations North Carolina corporate office. The rest of the corporate composite aircheck is separated by DJ and included below along with a talking letter (scroll to bottom) Jay Douglas prepared and sent to the Corp VP with his comments on the DJ's and the goals of the station sound.
The February 1973 Rick Mason (Burnett) aircheck has the music scoped out, but the news and commercials are not scoped. This provide a little more insight on the life and times of Lynchburg.
WBRG, Lynchburg Virginia - Bob Davis February 1973
The February aircheck of Rick mason was record by Jay Douglas along with the competitor aircheck; Bob Davis doing mornings on WBRG in Lynchburg. After listening to the two aircheck, I don't think I would have listen to me. Bob Davis sound better, and sounded a little bit like our PD, Jay Douglas.
WWOD The Big 1390 - Bob Barney on February 23rd, 1977
Bob, "The Ruthless Cowboy" is kicking some country ass on the afternoon drive time segment. In 1977, WWOD, The Country Giant, is still alive and well. You will note the Jingle package has changed from the early 70's. The songs bring back memories of the stuff I (Rick) was playing at KTCR-FM in Minneapolis at the time.
Bob emailed me the photos at the right with his comments below:
From: rmb@pro-market.biz [mailto:rmb@pro-market.biz] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:58 PM To: Rick Burnett Subject: Re: Bob Barney WWOD aircheck Rick,
It took forever, but I finally found those photos. There of two with George Jones and myself. I am holding a cassette recorder as he records some promos for myself and the station. I wish I had those promos.
There's a great story about these pictures. George actually arrived at the EC Glass Auditorium late. His band arrived on their tour bus long before he did. There were other performers at the concert that had to play a few extra songs until George arrived.
George was XXXXshed. Totally XXXnk. After he finally got through recording the promos back stage he looked at me and said, "Bob, do you have any Visine?" I told him that I didn't. He asked me to find his backup girl singer to see if she had any. When I approached her and asked her if she had any Visine, she said she had some on the bus but didn't have time to get it. I told her it wasn't for me but for George, so she ran off, came back and handed me the Visine. I brought it back to George, he put a few drops in his eyes, cleared his throat, strummed a few chords on his guitar and told me he was ready any time I was. I introduced him on stage, he went out and sang perfectly, put on a hell of a show. His first song in the set was "White Lightning". Totally appropriate.
Anyway the third photo is with Dave Rowland of Dave and Sugar. My aircheck (note: posted above) talks about their upcoming concert that weekend. No stories to tell here. The concert was at the Roanoke Coliseum.
Sorry the quality of the photos aren't that good. I hope you can use these. Hope all is well. Many thanks.
Success to be yours,
Bob Barney ProMarket Resources Principal Consultant Marketing - Advertising - Promotions Public Relations - Creative Services Media Relations - Graphic Design rmb@pro-market.biz
(Complete email posted with permission - Minor edit perform) _________________________________________________
These photos remind me of a leisure suit I still have i the back of my closet. Thanks for sending these Bob. I hope to get more material from Ex-WWOD'ers in the future.
Rick B.
George Jones (Left) with WWOD's Bob Barney
George Jones (Left) with WWOD's Bob Barney
Dave Rowland of Dave and Sugar With WWOD's Bob Barney
WWOD-AM 1973 photo of Bob Jackson on the air. When I took this photo, Bob had just pushed the WWOD weather jingle. He had to follow the jingle with the weather forecast. Since I just took the photo with a bright flash, he was blinded and could not see the copy. He did fine, because he remember the forecast and did a great ad-lib.
WWOD-AM 1973 photo of Bob Jackson on the air with a good view of the control board.
WWOD Jay Douglas 1973 Aircheck
I believe I last saw Douglas Neatrour, a/k/a Jay Douglas, when he and another DJ from KEXL, Waterloo Iowa, attended the Conclave in Minneapolis. I was doing nights at KTCR-FM in Minneapolis at the time and could not afford the fee for the Conclave. I guess Jay was also having a hard time with the cost of attendance, and I let him and his Jock stay at m place.
Jay Douglas hired me in December 1972 and I got on the air in 1973 at WWOD-AM. I really liked Jay as a boss; he was the PD at WWOD.
As mentioned previously, Jay included the airchecks on this page in a tape to the corporate VP at Bahakle and you can hear his voice letter to the VP on the station sound and his goals further down on this page.
Douglas Neatrour a/k/a Jay Douglas on WWOD and former program director, has provided some old material from a file he had from his days as the PD of WWOD. You will see the format , including the hourly clocks, and rate cards and promo material. Douglas says he will send more. I will try to organize the files to be more in order as soon as I figure how to operate the Web Page design program a little better.
The Jock line-up on the WWOD promotion materials to the left shows Bill Watts as the morning man and I (Rick Mason) was shown as afternoon drive. This later was changed when Bill Watts left for another station. I understand he eventually ended up in Chicago.
Just below, I have included a PDF version of the format pages that you can open up and print. You may be able to see the material better that way.
Jim was on from 7 PM to 1 AM in 1973. He was an engineer and was on this shift becasue he had a 1st Class FCC license which allowed him to do the power change at sunset. Jim was Lynchburg home-grown. Dave Kaye, who I went to Brown Institue with in 1972 later took over this time slot.
WWOD_AM Composite Aircheck Comments - Audio Letter by Program Director Jay Douglas - Summer 1973
Jay Douglas describes the Jocks (on the WWOD-AM airchecks above) to the corporate office. Jay discusses the goal for the WWOD sound. He was too kind to me. As I listen to the aircheck of myself (Rick Mason- above) I cannot agree with his assessment. I was 20 years old at the time and thought I knew everything. It is amazing how much you don't know as you get older.
Jay Douglas eventually moved to Waterloo Iowa to work at another station owned by the corporation, as the WWOD GM moved on to that assignment. Should anyone know where Jay Douglas (real name Douglas Neatrour) is, please let me know: Rick1031@hotmail.com
Rick
WWOD Skippy Bennet (Unknown date)
I do not know much about this aircheck. It appears to be late seventies or early eighties. Skippy Bennet does a good job playing the hits.
At one time, WWOD-AM was Top 40. A survey from November 1967 is shown above along with a December 1970 employee pay stub. Phil Beckman sent both to me. Notice the pay for 11 hours of work.
WWOD-FM 1973 photo of an unknown board operator. I cannot remenber her name. WWOD-FM was a religious FM station at the time making good money running tape local ministers would pay to get on the air.
The photos below were taken by DJ Mad Lad in May 2007. The photo taking was difficult due to the lack of power to the building to operate the lighting. Phil Beckman took more photos under better condition and they are posted on anther page on this site: Click on - WWOD July '07 Photos to see Phil's photos in addition to the photos below.
To see the photos taken by DJ Mad Lad in May 2007, go to the WWOD May 2007 page
The airchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. Additionally, the recordings can be used by vision impaired visitors to get an audio perspective of radio history. These recordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes.
Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapes that were recorded off the air by the web site creator. In May 2006 the recordings started to be converted to MP3 and shared here. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also many airchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. Sources are cited, if known. The contributed recordings from friends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intended for purposes of archival preservation and research.
Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. Should you have any aircheck of Twin Cities radio stations, let me know and I may be able to include them at this site. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address