What do you remember about the 70's? That's the question on the talk show segment "People Radio" that I originated weekday evenings from 9:00 to Midnight. One thing to remember is that talk radio was much more difficult in those early days. Callers didn't have cell phones, so they literally had to pull over to a phone booth or call from home. Plus the notoriously cheap WLW didn't have an 800 number so the callers from the 38 state audience had to pay for the call! (I also had no phone "screener", and no engineer, so I ran everything in addition to being the host. When my contract ran out they replaced me with a host who had all of that!)

Sorry for the poor audio quality at the end of this recording. The 1979 cassette was going bad.

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Burt & Kurt were still doing mornings and I was in mid-days for a brief period after arriving in Tampa. On this morning Burt (Bob Burton) was off and I filled his spot on the comedy team with Kurt (Kurt Kilpatrick)

The WLCY promotion was the "$100,000 Contest, Contest." It was a modified rip-off of "The Last Contest" with listeners vying for duplicate prize packages by simply identifying what it was that hour. One of my later callers had a shot at a pair of Ford Mustangs... she didn't win even though she had someone trying to silently tell her the answer. (She couldn't read lips.) She later unsuccessfully sued us.

BOO!

This final segment of the 1979 Halloween night broadcast feature listener ghost stories and strange experiences. At the end of the show the strange stories continue on NBC News when it appears nothing has changed since then... inflation, government funding, interest rates. It's the ghost of administrations past making an appearance.

Make sure you listen to Part 1 and 2 (the two previous podcasts) to hear the story of Fisher Hall on the Miami University campus in Oxford.