Tuesday, October 18, 2011

590 MIGHTY MEMORY #455

PHOTO INDEX: ME IN THE WARM STUDIO IN JUNE OF 1995. EXCEPT THAT IT WAS WKQV FM AND AM. (FORMERLY WARD AM).

THE SHADOWS OF GREATNESS

I never got to broadcast from the WARM Studios in the old WARM building in Avoca when WARM was king. I did an audition tape in a production room for Joey Shaver when I was entering Career Academy of Broadcasting. I remember the playback as the reel wound round and round and the look of unmitigated pride on my father’s face.
That summer of ’72 I wound up in Washington, D.C. and lived on Wisconsin Avenue in the Northeast end of the city. I stayed at a place called McLean Gardens which was then on its way to being a bonafide dump. I had one room with a bed, sink, and closet. There was a shared bathroom down the hall with the other tenants.
When I came back from D.C. I did become a radio guy making stops along the way. I interned at WARM in 1976 working in the News Department with Jerry Heller, Kevin Jordan and Kitch Loftus. I also did a week in the sales department riding with Joey Shaver, the late Tim Durkin, Phil Condron and a really cool guy named Marty whose last name I cannot remember.
WARM became part of my professional career when I worked in public relations for Youth Inc., the United Way and Luzerne County. I always tried to find a WARM angle, always tried to use the power of WARM.
When the station moved to 600 Baltimore Drive in 1995, I did get to work in the WARM Building for WARD/WKQVFM. The FM studio was the old WARM control room. The AM station, WARD was where I worked being a board man for Nascar Races as well as the Sunday Morning Polka Show filling in for Bruce Kreiger. I was on the air in June of 1996 when WARD’s signal was transferred to Susquehanna Broadcasting.
The night before the station was going to be switched over, I had my wife take pictures of me in the WARM control room. I just wanted one seat behind the board that the WARM Sensational Seven worked. The controls that Harry West and Len Woloson used. My wife laughed as she took the picture. I asked her what the deal was and she said, “You’ll see when you get them back from Phar Mor. (A drug store we got our photos developed back then). When I got the photo, I knew what she meant. I had this saintly look on my face. I was a pretender to the throne of greatness. I was sitting in the shadows of greatness. But I didn’t care because I was loving it. I never got to broadcast from WARM when it was the Mighty 590, but the night before as the station simulcast a long gone sports network, I was riding those slide pods. It would have been near perfect if only I had supersonic sound.

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Rockin' Rich Nordheim said...

Dave:
Glad you're still pushing ahead. You brought back good and bad memories with the 3rd Class License. I started @ WCLH-FM in August 1976 with a Provisional License (the FCC's version of a Driver's Permit). After one year (October 1977) I took my 1st 3rd Class test which the FCC of Buffalo (who were nasty people)addmistered in the old Social Security Building (Now Blue Cross) Downtown Wilkes-Barre. Believe it or not I passed Element 1 but flunked Element 2 & 9 which meant I didn't even get the Blue License. In January 1978 my father drove me to Philly (much nicer people) on a snowy Monday and finally passed Element 2 but missed by 1 question Element 9. Finally in March 1978 I passed Element 9 given @ the old Host Motel East End Wilkes-Barre. Again given by the Buffalo FCC. Passing the exam that day were the immortal Bob Woody and newly elected Luzerne County Judge Fred Pierantoni. About 6 months later the FCC did away with the Element 9 and about a year after that did away with the 3rd Class License all together. But I'm proud to say I had a 3rd Class License w/Endorsement issued by the FCC.

Obiter Dictum -- An American said...

Dave,
My search for information on the old 'Stop and Go' Hamburger restaurants, somehow directed me to your blog. Perhaps a good story for another time, but as for now, thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I too am a graduate of Career Academy, however my experience on Wisconsin Avenue came a year before you. Fond memories of Mclean Gardens and its wonderful cafeteria. You probably would be familiar with another of my classmates--Tim Kidwell, better know to Northeaster Pennsylvania Radio and TV audiences as Tim Carlson. (He left us way too soon). Upon graduation, I headed for my first radio job at a radio station located about 50 miles West of Richmond, Virginia. Ironically, Tim also auditioned on the same day, but 'fortunately' for him he did not get hired and chose to take the drive back up 81 and begin his career at WSCR. Tim and I crossed paths several times over the years. By the time I moved north and worked nearly 8 years for WBRE, Tim took a big move to WARM. When WBRE was sold to KRZ, I went to work for WNEP-TV as Assignment Editor, during the years of Gary Essex and Jackie Boulden, Roger Springfield and later Joe Zone. Following my departure, Tim came on board at 16 and probably will be remembered as one of Northeastern Pennsylvania's most popular TV Sportscasters. His legacy--'He was, just damn good!' Best, John Begin, Orlando, Florida

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