Earlier in the week, I’d put together a tape together at the company’s headquarters in Indianapolis utilizing some of the great voices we had at WIBC and WNAP. I did a couple of two-man newscasts using stuff out of the two Dallas papers, mixed in a few commercials, added some killer promos voiced by Chuck Riley and sweetened it with some beautiful jingles from Hugh Heller. Next, I added a new form of music which would later be called Adult Contemporary.
Once all the elements were blended perfectly, I started inserting some local content from Ron off the tapes the GM had sent me. I had lots of stuff like weather, traffic, what was going on in town and the Cowboys. As Ron took you around the format clock, he, of course, hit all the posts, hey he ain’t no rookie.
Besides Bill and Ron, (Ron is now in three radio hall of fame’s) we also had a bunch great talent like, Mike Selden, Jack Schell, Larry Dixon, Major Tom Lewis, Cat Simon, Andy McCollum, Bob Morrison, Ben Laurie, Suzie Humphrey, Bill Mercer, Billy Bob Harris, along with so many others who also are now enshrined in the Texas Radio Hall Of Fame.
Then, of course, there was the time Ron did his show underwater with seven sharks when folks were afraid to go into their pools because of the movie Jaws. Next, he decided to do his first ever parachute jump live on the air which made the newscasts on all three networks. Speaking of billboards again, do I dare mention the naked one of Mike Selden which went up right across the street from a nunnery which put us in the newspapers and back on TV again. As I think back now about how great KVIL and its Hall of Fame staff sounded, I’m not aware that the station ever won an award. Hey, but I guess to win you have to enter huh? Hell, we were too busy winning the rating game to do that. R.I.P Kay Ville, you were a fine girl.
LIFE-LINERS
My only fear about someday exiting the planet is that nobody will care about my kids as much as I do.
When a girl gets engaged, the first thing she needs to stop doing is saying, “Well my Dad says.”
The only thing stronger than any religion or country is your family
The Democrats are in such a state about Trump that they forgot to find us, somebody, to vote for.
Twenty years ago I had no idea who was a Republican or Democrat but, unfortunately, I sure do today.
Some people today are still saying that they wish Hillary were president, but I shudder at the thought. Hell, even Michelle Obama said, “Hillary, If you can’t manage your own house, how are you gonna manage the white house?”
What I can’t understand is when the French took the land from the Indians in Canada the French didn’t change their language, but when the Brits took it from the French, somehow Canada had to become bilingual?
When a lawyer knows that his client is guilty of a horrendous crime, but uses every legal trick to get him off. Should he fail, I think that he should suffer the same consequences as his client.
If anybody doubts that our government works for big business, just check out who got bonus checks when the Feds bailed them out with our tax dollars.
Do liberals really like Arabs more than Russians? Weren’t the Arabs the ones who brought down the twin towers and are continuing to kill people all over the world?
How are we sure that the FBI and CIA aren’t just thugs with credentials?
I love how the Media who bash Trump, get offended when he bashes them.
Women love money much more then men do, hell we only use it to attract them.
There’s no way an American woman is gonna go back to how it used to be a thousand tears ago. The Muslims might as well move on.
If you were a pedophile wouldn’t you become a Preist?
Content is King but if you’re not a great performer, give it to someone who is, it would be a shame to waste it.
The Godfather movie was long but not near long enough.
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