A diehard wacky fan
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WKLO
Aug 1, 2005 21:58:10 GMT -5
Post by A diehard wacky fan on Aug 1, 2005 21:58:10 GMT -5
[glow=deeppink,7,300]WKLO, our worst fo yo! Your jingles blow so go off the air yeah! ;D My dog is now in her 60's (in dog yers) and he used to always bark when i turned the station to WACKY!And she would cry her ears out when she heard the WKLO djs on. WOW, it drived him crazy! Now she listens to oldies, cause he is one! ;D ;DLOL ha, ha,ha_HA_HAha HA HA *chokes* HA!!!!!!![/glow]
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WKLO
Aug 1, 2005 22:05:14 GMT -5
Post by bruiser on Aug 1, 2005 22:05:14 GMT -5
Leave the crack pipe alone.
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WKLO
Aug 2, 2005 10:22:47 GMT -5
Post by Max on Aug 2, 2005 10:22:47 GMT -5
How'd this first post make it past the proboard sensors? Lack of profanity, I guess.
And Bruiser, in the words of Gabby from 'Blazing Saddles', "Reveren'!". ;D
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WKLO
Aug 2, 2005 13:31:50 GMT -5
Post by Max on Aug 2, 2005 13:31:50 GMT -5
Besides, if there ever was any bitterness in the rivalry, it was long ago and it has no place on either site now. The reunion last month was proof there are no more hostilities. If there are they kept them to themselves or didn't show up.
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WKLO
Aug 2, 2005 15:50:24 GMT -5
Post by GilHerbigJr on Aug 2, 2005 15:50:24 GMT -5
I truely believe that if there was any rivalry it was all in good fun because most of the guys at WAKY and KLO were good friends and got together and had fun together as some of the postings and pictures show.
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Aug 2, 2005 19:25:36 GMT -5
Post by Young Daniel King on Aug 2, 2005 19:25:36 GMT -5
I truely believe that if there was any rivalry it was all in good fun because most of the guys at WAKY and KLO were good friends and got together and had fun together as some of the postings and pictures show. As my stepson always says at family gatherings..tongue in cheek..Hey guys ..can't we all just get along?.... Hell...at our age... I HOPE so...At the Middletown Hop...we used WAKY and WKLO jocks.. actually think about it... there were many good jocks on 'KLO .. Mich Michaels..CTW..Sorbi...and more and there were GREATStoo...Bill...'Put me to work Reed'...Bailey and Johnny Randolph. Johnny might remember this differently but I believe that he worked the Middletown Hop the night of the day that he was fired from 'KLO. My memory says that I followed him back to 'KLO after the hop and he found that his key didn't fit the door..or certainly something similar..I suppose only JR knows.. what do you say Johhny? I'm old ...so my memory is also old... ;-) I do believe the BEST heard...except for Bill and JR..on 'KLO was Mitch..Loved the guy...'Here's another 6 pack from 'KLO...and a Derbytown GREARRRRRRRRRRT! The MOST economical DEE JAY and THE BEST CROWD DRAW was Bailey..who probably doesn't remember me... however I have many fond memories of working with him at our teen dances. My BRIEF time as an UNpaid WAKY guy was MANY years before most of you guys were here..but ALL of you made my younger days ..BETTER THAN MOST!...Randolph, Dude...Mason Lee..Jack Sanders... yeah ..I actually drank with him..no I was not old enough.... and to the guy who got me started in MUSIC and RADIO and is now deceased..Gene Snyder... Thanks for all the memories. Hey..I guess I can ramble until Quincy kicks me off the site. I'd love to attend the next reunion... Thanks for letting me go onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....
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WKLO
Aug 3, 2005 5:13:39 GMT -5
Post by RJC on Aug 3, 2005 5:13:39 GMT -5
Besides, if there ever was any bitterness in the rivalry, it was long ago and it has no place on either site now. The reunion last month was proof there are no more hostilities. If there are they kept them to themselves or didn't show up. Max, the way I see it is, it's WAKY AND WKLO fans aginst the world. Listeners of both stations, just wanted good music and a good time, and got it! I don't understand what purpose it serves for WAKY fans to try and minimize WKLO 26 years after it's demise. Eventhough I listened to WKLO 95% of the time, I thinks it's important that both stations be remembered as equals.
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Aug 6, 2005 9:33:52 GMT -5
Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 6, 2005 9:33:52 GMT -5
I have fond memories of both stations. I grew up listening to WKLO. In the 1968 or 1969 time frame, during high school, I switched to mostly to WAKY. The crusing loop was past WKLO on Walnut street and then past WAKY on 4th after WAKY moved.
In '71 I got a job at WAKY. I remember Gary Burbank not happy with ratings wanting to take a ball-bat to WKLO...but then he was ok the next time around and they probably wanted to take a ball-bat to him.
At the WAKY - WKLO reunion Mason Dixon was activeley proposing a fist fight between the WKLO and WAKY staffs. Of course this would have meant that Mason would have had to fight himself since he worked at both places. Since often Mason is his own worst enemy it would have been a good fight but it was not to be.
I don't think anyone is belittling WKLO on this site. Both stations were power-houses. There was an ebb and flow of audience between them. Even when one was on top of the other, people still switched back and forth in their cars. Some of the biggest personalities like Bill Bailey and Lee Gray worked at both. Each tried to outdo the other, each provided good service to the community. It was a good time in radio.
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Aug 6, 2005 11:50:26 GMT -5
Post by Travis on Aug 6, 2005 11:50:26 GMT -5
Fist Fight? OuCH! Mason told me he wanted to start a food fight. I told him to wait until I had ate my share, first. As it turned out, I was so busy bouncing from one person to another that I only ate a large piece of shrimp and that was it. The fight(s) never happened.
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Aug 6, 2005 13:14:59 GMT -5
Post by Kevin on Aug 6, 2005 13:14:59 GMT -5
I never worked for either WAKY or WKLO, and I know nothing about the radio biz.But as a listener all I remember was that WKLO never even came close to the impact WAKY had on my little circle of the world. I don't remember the personalities nor any promotions they did. All I remember was WAKY being the best radio station around. It was the only station my friends and I ever listened too unless the Big Red Machine or a UK basketball game was on.
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WKLO
Aug 7, 2005 13:49:37 GMT -5
Post by Travis on Aug 7, 2005 13:49:37 GMT -5
I was primarily a WAKY listener because personalities, such as the Weird Beard and Gary Burbank, were so dynamic in how they came across on the air. Still, like most of my fellow teens at that time, I would find myself jumping to WKLO and back again. This was especially true in cars where all one had to do was press a pre-set button to change stations.
I would listen to WAKY until a song I didn't care for, or commercials, would play and I'd jump to WKLO and stay with them until they played something I didn't care for and then jump back again. This is what most, if not all, of my fellow teens did in those days. I can't think of anyone who stayed glued to either WAKY or WKLO; especially, in a car. My fellow teens favored one station over the other, just as I did, but we all jumped back & forth. It was just what we did.
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Aug 8, 2005 14:37:05 GMT -5
Post by GilHerbigJr on Aug 8, 2005 14:37:05 GMT -5
I'll vouch for that Travis...that is exactly what I would do and most of my friends also ;D
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RJC
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Aug 9, 2005 4:29:53 GMT -5
Post by RJC on Aug 9, 2005 4:29:53 GMT -5
Had I been a teen during WAKY and WKLO's heyday, I'd been switching between the two alot as well. I know I did so in the 80's with WQMF and WLRS. BTW, WLRS from 1988 until the end of 1990, was the greatest rock station of all-time.
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WKLO
Aug 9, 2005 11:25:06 GMT -5
Post by GilHerbigJr on Aug 9, 2005 11:25:06 GMT -5
Actually, WLRS switched over to a Top 40 (more like Top 20) around late 83 or so, which wasn't to bad. I had pretty much stopped listening to radio for awhile there by 88 so I'm not to familiar with what they were doing by then. During the 83 84 period Rusty Rodgers was one of the jocks on there...but it just wasn't like it was in his KLO days.
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WKLO
Aug 9, 2005 11:53:51 GMT -5
Post by Max on Aug 9, 2005 11:53:51 GMT -5
Does anyone remember 101.7 WZZX in Louisville? It was a short lived AOR station around the late 70's.
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WKLO
Aug 9, 2005 15:14:48 GMT -5
Post by GilHerbigJr on Aug 9, 2005 15:14:48 GMT -5
Yes I remember it Max...I never listened to it but would hear it when I was channel surfing. I recall Rusty telling me that he worked there for a short time. I forget now why he said he left there.
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Aug 10, 2005 3:49:12 GMT -5
Post by RJC on Aug 10, 2005 3:49:12 GMT -5
Actually, WLRS switched over to a Top 40 (more like Top 20) around late 83 or so, which wasn't to bad. That is correct, LRS was top 40 when I started listening to it exclusively in 1986. And you're correct, it wasn't too bad as a top 40 station. They went to rock in 88', and did that until the end of 1990, when they pulled the plug and became Mix 102. That's when WLRS died for good!
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Aug 10, 2005 4:00:03 GMT -5
Post by RJC on Aug 10, 2005 4:00:03 GMT -5
Does anyone remember 101.7 WZZX in Louisville? It was a short lived AOR station around the late 70's. I remember it, but I don't think I ever listened to it. Since were talking about radio stations of the past, how about when ,what eventually became 107.7 WSFR, played 70's music in the mid 90's? I think it was known then as "Cool 103.9", it then morphed into a classic rock station, and moved to 107.7.
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WKLO
Aug 10, 2005 16:52:42 GMT -5
Post by Travis on Aug 10, 2005 16:52:42 GMT -5
Speaking of WLRS. If you listen to an aircheck of the Weird Beard, at his very first station, WPDF in Corydon, Indiana (back in the early '60s) you will actually hear commercials for the Louisville Radio School. That school was owned & operated by Louisa Henson's father and later evolved into WLRS (Louisville Radio School).
By the way. WPDF, in Corydon, was started by the father of none other than Les Cook, who is now the program director for WSAE.
When it comes to useless trivial information pertaining to radio... I got a million of 'em. ;D
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Aug 10, 2005 18:20:11 GMT -5
Post by RJC on Aug 10, 2005 18:20:11 GMT -5
Speaking of WLRS. If you listen to an aircheck of the Weird Beard, at his very first station, WPDF in Corydon, Indiana (back in the early '60s) you will actually hear commercials for the Louisville Radio School. That school was owned & operated by Louisa Henson's father and later evolved into WLRS (Louisville Radio School). So that's what LRS stood for? And here I thought they were going for a Walrus theme. Nothing uesless about your radio trivia, keep it coming, good stuff.
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Aug 10, 2005 19:29:14 GMT -5
Post by A diehard wacky fan on Aug 10, 2005 19:29:14 GMT -5
[glow=deeppink,5,000]heya! i wuzz jus kiddin im 11 btw [/glow]
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Aug 10, 2005 21:11:05 GMT -5
Post by Max on Aug 10, 2005 21:11:05 GMT -5
Hmmm. And I had heard in the late 70's an on-air jock identified them as 'Louisville's Rock Station'...I assumed that was the acronym.
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Aug 11, 2005 6:49:06 GMT -5
Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 11, 2005 6:49:06 GMT -5
Travis is right...WLRS did mean "Louisville Radio School."
In the early '70s they were located on the top floor of the 800 apartment building. At night they had to keep their monitors down or the tenant below them would complain.
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Aug 11, 2005 14:36:01 GMT -5
Post by Young Daniel King on Aug 11, 2005 14:36:01 GMT -5
Travis is right...WLRS did mean "Louisville Radio School." In the early '70s they were located on the top floor of the 800 apartment building. At night they had to keep their monitors down or the tenant below them would complain. I worked at WLRS in the 60s for about 6 months. Mr & Mrs. Henson..(Mom & Dad of the group) were absolutely WONDERFUL people. Indeed the station was named for Louisville Radio School and in fact shared space in an historic house at 3rd. Street and Lee Street. I was there when Jim Ameche (Don Ameche's brother) was an annoucer there. I don't believe he was there long, then again neither was I. I worked a double shift for a couple months. You guys will love this: 6AM 'til 11AM and then 6PM 'til 11 PM. I NEVER had VOICE problems while working at LRS in those days because I said ONLY the following each day: Twice a day I would give the time at the end of a commercial break and once per shift I would say: AT 102.3 FM,THIS IS MULTIPLEX RADIO FOR LOUISVILLE, WLRS. ALL THAT FUN PAID $1.50 PER HOUR. I believe Fred Higbie was the engineer at that time and also Beecher Frank was doing some news...God rest his soul.
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