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.

This hour features stories from touring Fisher Hall with Miami University Historian Sue Frazier as well a speculation about Ronald Tammen, and stories and haunting experiences from Miami alumni.

This is the first of three episodes of Halloween night at WLW filled with mysterious tales.

This first hour was a partial rebroadcast of a feature about Miami University and the strange tale of Ronald Tammen's disappearance from Fisher Hall. Told by Dean Everett Lykens it includes more stories of encounters in the building and on the campus of Miami University and Western College.

The Fisher Hall recordings were done in 1974 on WOXR in Oxford for a weekly (Sunday evening) "public affairs" program that was so notorious for not fitting the AOR (Album Oriented Rock) format of the station that we named the show "Tune Out."

MORE STORIES INCLUDING LISTENER CALLS ARE IN THE NEXT TWO PODCASTS.

In !973 Columbus Day was a Monday Holiday rather than the old traditional date of October 12th. This "Goodbye Columbus Day Day" was a live tribute I wrote and presented on WOXR. (With apologies to Stan Freberg.) I had just started doing mornings in Oxford (north of Cincinnati) and I perceived this production as a big deal. So I had the girl I had just started dating record it in her dorm room at Miami University. (With bad radio reception.) Having her record it was actually a ruse so I could have an excuse to see her later that evening. By the way... a few years later we married. In April we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary!

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The afternoon drive slot at WFLA AM was fun because it paired me with traffic reporter Gary McHenry. I always tried to have a bit planned to bounce off him. Beyond some odd news item or fact it was all unplanned improv. You never hear radio like this anymore because the traffic is recorded from some remote location as is the on air talent who "voice tracks" (records breaks to be played later) multiple stations. This afternoon also features AccuWeather meteorologist Ken Clark.

Live radio like this is gone now. (As are green stamps, which was the big on-air promotion this day.)

Traffic reports from the Goodyear Blimp! with Arch Deal are highlighted with Mike Weber and Martin Giles anchoring this afternoon drive segment. Also featured are Tedd Webb with sports, Alan Archer Accuweather, and Steve Cheney makes suggestions for weekend TV watching.