Worked there? Please let us know! I returned to a teaching and coaching position in public schools and retired as an elementary principal in the Wissahickon School District PA. Gary Bundy.
I remember sneaking into the Kennel Club underage -- c'mon What memories and what a great training ground! It was a blast and I was treated with respect by both those guys especially Tanaka who was a pleasure to know. I think their show was followed by Allison?. I also remember a sales guy named John Rafal, also very friendly to me. I would shutter to think how somebody as green as I was would be treated in today's corporate radio world.
Cinema for a while Johnny Devereaux. Think I still have a tape that has And I am trying to remember back many years, Led Zeppelin.. Kind of my intro to music that wasn't in the mainstream.
I participated in all of it from to the end of the decade. The station's 50KW transmitter was West of Norristown,so the station was marginal in Center City but huge in the suburbs. John Tenalia, group VP, always said the station had more guts than the others. Many an evening spent at the library. I must assume the signal now comes from the antenna farm in Roxboro. As Johnny mentioned, Mel was a kind and generous man and very, very funny.
I can remember the first day we listened to Terry Young, the motormouth, and talking amongst ourselves we thought, 'this will never work' 6 months or so later, CAU was 1 music station in the city and WIFI92 was scrambling for it's life The station aired unique and unusual for the times "specialty" programs which sounded "brokered": 50s Rhythm and Blues Five Keys, etc.
At the station I did a nightly talk show from a restaurant in King of Prussia, became "The Ultra T" and did a weekend lat evening rock show, also did a Saturday AM "Beatles" show that kicked butt in the ratings. I was hired to come in and turn the station from an automated oldies format to live jock top At the time we were only the 3rd Fm top forty in the country I believe. I had come up with the Boogie format, which consisted of top 20 hits and oldies rotated in a very repetitive rotation.
In one book we recorded a 2. We went onto get high 3's in the ratings and became very competitive. They became the top 40 leaders in their respective markets. I see Lloyd Roach had posted a comment here earlier. Great staff, Great times in radio. Thank you Jon Tenaglia for bringing me to Philly. Mel was the best boss. Solid jazz programing with Ted Taylor Dave Solomon and myself.
Known as the friends with pleasure. Made many great friends and still in touch with Ted, Dave and Craig Baker. Far from retired, running two full time businesses in Pompano Beach, FL. A graduate of WFIL, and being fortunate or unfortunate depending on how you saw it enough to be less than a mile from the transmitter, I could hear the station on practically every electronic radio project I tried to build.
When I got older, I hiked up to the transmitter site and peered into one of the windows and could see wood paneling and what looked to be the remains of what was probably the original studio, before it became remote.
When I got a little older and started to get into "harder" rock, the once advantageous strong signal from WIFI made it almost impossible for me to pick up WMMR, which was close at Jerry invited me and a couple of other CB guys down to the studio to see how his show was produced, and for a long while becoming a radio DJ was my dream job. Unfortunately, the rise of mega-corporate cookie-cutter formats dashed that dream, and I ended up becoming an engineer in the cable TV field instead.
I heard the station through out the years I was attended High School durring the late 70's. My memories dictate too much repeat of the same artists and songs. I just got tired of hearing so little variations of music, especially Peter Frampton's Live Album. Within our first full year WXTU grew to be the second most popular station with MEN age 25 and older in the Arbitron Ratings and that resulted in a great improvement in revenue and profits.
We had some great talent and sales executives at WXTU and amazed just about everyone in Philly by making Country Radio a big success, which it remains today. I eventually left and built my own radio station company with a number of stations in 7 Southeastern cities. WXTU was a great place to work. Having grown up on AM-top 40, I was ready for something new when "underground" radio came along and Wi-Fi was the first in philly to do it beside the college stations. Eventually, I got into radio myself, spending almost 40 years in the business, mostly in Williamsport, Pa.
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