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Post by Max Highbaugh on Feb 3, 2007 12:25:39 GMT -5
Recieved this e-mail from EJ Clark today:
I sure did work for WIEL. I left WQXE in the fall of 75 and did midday/afternoons until I went down the hall put WKMO on the air on August 15th, 1977 (the day before Elvis died). I was at WKMO as their program director and morning personality until the end of September 1982. I resigned and went back to Louisville to do afternoons at WTMT. It is nice to learn someone cares about those days. During the 70's and early 80's WIEL was one of the best local am stations in the state. It was really a mini "WHAS" in it's service and relationship to the E-town and Hardin County-Central Kentucky communities. Great local Radio!
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Post by tallpaulinky on Feb 27, 2007 11:16:39 GMT -5
EJ Clark wrote: >>It was really a mini "WHAS" in it's service and relationship to the E-town and Hardin County-Central Kentucky communities. Great local Radio!<<
An interesting comment, in that in the stone age (read that early 1970s) we were actually programming a WHAS type of format with the basic idea "Variety Is The Spice Of Life." I believe I have thrown that paper away, but basically WIEL didn't mind being the second radio station on folks radios in the Heartland. Most folks, regardless of age, had a favorite Louisville radio station. The teens like WAKY and WKLO. the adults liked WAVE and WHAS. WIEL played music you would find on all these stations. So at night when WAKY cut power the teens tuned to WIEL. During the day adults would leave Louisville stations at least for a while to hear local talk shows of items of interest like Mike Harmon's "What's On Your Mind" (a Milton Metz clone of sorts) or catch up on the local news. Services not offered to Hardin County on Louisville stations. So I guess being second best to most everybody is not that bad.
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Post by Max Highbaugh on Apr 8, 2007 19:32:18 GMT -5
Larry Bolls, formerly of Elizabethtown, writes:
...Dennis Wilson was a part time night DJ there in the 50s while he was still in high school. I think Charlie Logsdon was also a part timer there. Charlie's father was the custodian there when we were in school. We use to go to the station when Dennis worked there. One of their full timers tried to get me interested in radio because he said I had the voice for it. It would be good [if you] could interview Dee Huddleston and include that on the web site. [You] might could even do it by mail. Dee was not only the General Manager, he also called the local sports events for the station and also did other on-air things. Too bad [you] couldn't have interviewed Bill Earl before he died. He just died about a year ago I think...Bill's personality was one thing that kept people tuning in because of the way he butchered the English language and the interesting ways he told stories. I will never forget we were listening to him one day and he started his noon news program with "Well, the hum-i-didity is really bad out there today". He continually walked the square in search of stories. Bill Evans was one of the WIEL personalities [not WQXE's]. Of course he is deceased but his wife, Toy, still lives in the big old brick house behind the old Kroger (now NAPA Auto Parts) and kind of across from our 7th and 8th grade school building. Keep up the good work.
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Post by Max Highbaugh on Apr 8, 2007 19:37:44 GMT -5
Larry also writes: You know, Charlie taught school (I think at Lincoln Trail) and did a lot of acting (Steven Foster Story at Bardstown, Abe Lincoln at Hodgenville, Daniel Boone at Old Fort Harrod, etc.) and wanted to make a career of acting. I think during that time was when he worked at the station. Larry also said he forwarded our link to Bob Fouts... . ..I don't know if he will have anything to add or not. In the 1960s he was the engineer at WSAC before he moved on to Voice of America in Washington, D.C. in 1967. I thought during his time at WSAC he might know of some interesting items about WIEL. If he has any input I will forward it to you.Thanks, Larry!
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