I remember it, but I'd still enjoy hearing an aircheck or two.
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WBMI 1055 Back on the Air
- Colonel Flagg
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Re: WBMI 1055 Back on the Air
"Don't you knock when you enter a room?"
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Re: WBMI 1055 Back on the Air
The best way to play small town radio is wal marts philosophy stack it high and sell it cheap. 3.00 dollars a Hollar for a 30 second ad.
- DJ-MichaelAngelo
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Re: WBMI 1055 Back on the Air
re: 98.5 WUPS -- sorry! I may have had something to do with that
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At the time I just took it for granted that WUPS aired a bunch of commercial/current Top 40 songs, of all types, but back then I didn't really understand terms like Hot AC or Adult CHR or whatever. I just loaded the songs into the system that were marked for me on the "new release" compilation CD's we got every month from the DJ-service companies. Can't remember who....TM Century? Ultimix? Promo Only? If I remember right, the main guy at the station at the time was CJ Russell, who did the morning show with Chris-something, the "C&C Morning Machine" he was the boss guy in charge, and the only other person's name who I remember working with was Corrine Williamson in sales, who was a great gal - down to earth and so much fun. I started out at WUPS as a college intern in '99 or maybe '00, and my last day was June 22, 2001 when I left the station to move back to Grand Rapids.
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That was me about 20 yrs and 40 lbs ago, while they never let me actually drive the famous WUPS "hummer" truck around town (which always seemed to be in the shop for some repair or another) I did do a couple remote gigs for them, plus on-air talent shifts as "Mike Richards" and I was usually the CMU Sports board operator for the basketball games. Near the end my official title was "Production Director" I think (write, produce, record most of the ad spots) a task for which I was probably underqualified....but then again they only paid $15K/year salary + no benefits, so I had to really stretch to make ends meet. I think at one point I even applied to get (and qualified for!) food stamps....radio was not known as a high-paying industry back then (unless your name was Casey Kasem or Howard Stern) -- I dunno maybe things have changed since then?
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