That's what I figure I can determine by passing west of Rockford, since the TX used to interfere with much of the AM spectrum as I got to the Exit 97 interchange. I haven't looked up on the rise while heading into Rockford recently, but your assessment of its upkeep holds with what's gone on for dec...

Broadway worked at B-93, WSNX, down in St. Louis, someplace in Florida (?) out in Hartford, before heading to the MacDonalds, he was with 93.1 NASH in Detroit. I was wondering about a guy with big market stops going to the top of the lower peninsula, but he's been a friend for a long time and I wish...

I listen to some feathery AM signals as I travel 131 morning and afternoon, I can check out 810 kHz today. "Boomer" was the guy's on-air name I recall from some scattershot programming formerly offered on that signal, before it went Hispanic. Can't remember if he was a sports talk show host, an odd-...

There's great fishing in Lake County on the Pere Marquette River and a significant bit of tourism industry connected to same, they get plenty of snowmobile visitation when the winters allow. I don't know if the prison that was built north of Baldwin still is operating, but it truly is a beleaguered ...

"The Littles" didn't have much for production values. Dinky Little getting sauced in "A Little Drunk" and operating the family's motor vehicle should be a lesson in good passage to us all.

I have to be off work to see it, but WLLA's 64-5 OTA signal in Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo carries RetroTV, which shows both "Naked City" and "Route 66" mid-afternoons, 2-4 p.m., weekdays. I enjoy the Paul Burke/Harry Bellaver/Horace McMahon NC trio, James Franciscus and John "Eyebrows" McIntire also ser...

One of my WATT co-workers went to work for Dave in '85 at "The Country King," after his overnight shifts on AM 1240 started to get to him. The fellow was out of radio, driving a air transit delivery van several months after that. Carmine was very nice to me, the couple of visits I made to his studio...

My wife enjoys Mike FM in Lansing, when we pass through the area on I-96. I imagine The Fat One comes in at 930 AM, I found that one on a trip to Marshall to play some golf late this Spring. Was glad to have cut my teeth in Lansing radio after graduating from State, in the early days of Perles. Many...

Bobbert, Rich was on his way out with the Grand Rapids Griffins as I joined WOOD Radio. Pretty sure he took that job thinking he was on to bigger things. Maybe it's good he didn't stick around town long enough to have (name removed by request) become his "Joe." PS-I am impressed with the Buzzboard's...

I do know that WJIM sent a tower to West Central Michigan in a transaction with WDEE, Reed City/Big Rapids/Cadillac in the late 90s, 'cuz it came down in the derecho winds of May in '98. One example, anyway. WDEE had an AM signal at 1500, which has gone silent long ago. Doubt Smile will be rooting a...

Bobbert, are you then asserting that Rich Kincaide is the "Compton" to Ron's "Joe?"

I remember having the Mad Magazine issue with the parody "Shmoe" in it, but I don't recall the visceral elements of the plot, this far downstream.

With no Ed Buchanan to spice "Breakfast in the Basement," I don't stumble into Jazz Brunch, or WLAV as often as I might, in the past. This time of year, even when they come in sketchy, I tune in "the Fat One" out of Battle Creek via 930 AM or WION's 1430 signal from Ionia. For the sake of investigat...

Larry King is also in "Ghostbusters," using his Mutual talk show premise to discuss the Ghostbusting craze.

Thanks to Chris WL 1980's reference to WXLA. I wound up collecting unemployment for a piece in 1984, when WDTB's mix of CNN Headline News and local news/sports programming gave way to WXLA, after Memorial Day. I caught on with WILS running some board, filling in and doing Saturday overnights on LS-1...

As to Dunaway, hers is the role that Casey Jones moved to, rather than be a morning anchor at 8. (Beyond the thrill ride of joining Chance for "Pay to Play TV" at 9) I appreciate the information!