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1967 2005 Tom Dooley - 1360 WSAI Cincinnati - 1967
Mike Stone - 95.3 WNKR - Falmouth, KY - 1978
Ty Williams - Michael Xanadu - Mike Stone (1968) Ty Williams - MichTael Xanadu - Mike SoTne
Shad O'Shea & Mike Gavin 1230 WCPO Cincinnati - 1964
We Miss You Bwana Johnny! Bwana Johnny (Rick Johnson) 1946-2005
Bwana Johnny - 1360 WSAI Cincinnati - 1970
Oscar Treadwell
"Larry Smith had a kids' after-school cartoon and puppet romp that aired on WXIX (Channel 19) in the late sixties through early seventies, I believe just dubbed "The Larry Smith Show." It revolved around sketches with the characters shown in these pictures, interspersed with cartoons. |
Alan Browning - 550 WKRC - Cincinnati - 1978
Legendary Cincinnati Radio DJ-Personality Dusty Rhodes - 1360 WSAI - Cincinnati - 1966
Frank Wood Sr. - 102.7 WEBN - Cincinnati Official Farewell Broadcast 06.30.85
Geoff Nimmo - 94.1 WSAI - Cincinnati - 1979
The Legendary Cincinnati Radio-Television Announcer Mr. Bill Nimmo
Mark Tipton - "Audiosyncracies" WVXU-FM 91.7 - Cincinnati - 2005
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Frank "Bo" Wood (Michael Xanadu) 102.7 WEBN - Cincinnati - 1969
"I like to think of myself
as a cattle egret," Frank Wood, '67, laughed. "A cattle egret hangs around
fields of cattle and eats little bits of undigested materials and
bugs—that's the kind of venture capitalist I am." Wood spent most of his
career in radio and had to reinvent himself when ownership laws changed in
1996 to favor large public corporations and the consolidation of radio and
television companies. "It was an ideal time to sell the stations and
change the Wood family's fortune," he said.
At first, the station played jazz and classical. "A year into it, we were on a first name basis with all of our listeners, which is not a good thing," Wood said. So, in 1972, he was forced to rob the station's pop machine of thirty dollars worth of dimes, which was just enough to meet loan and payroll obligations for that pay period. He realized that change was needed if the station was to survive. His own passion for music became the primary inspiration: the station began playing rock and roll bands such as Jefferson Airplane and the Beatles. By 1975 it was a hit.
Talented, entertainingly popular Cincinnati radio personality Mr. Ted McAllister (2006)
Ted McAllister - 1360 WSAI - Cincinnati - 1978
We Miss You Dear Jessica! Ms. Jessica Clark (born Larry Clark) 1945-2007
WEBN's Ty Williams
Tyler interviews himself Thom McGreevey (only WEBN grad to teach kids how to do mantras on The Uncle Al Show)
One of the Top 40 Radio
Personalities of All Time:
Photo from WSAI "Radio Adapter" (circa 1969) Left-to-Right: Jonathan Summers, Jim Scott, Walt Turner, Roy Cooper, Bud Stagg, Bill Phillips, Jack Stahl, and Larry Clark (center).
Wirt Cain
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Bob The Producer To say that the
Dawn Patrol “wakes up this town” is a huge understatement;
it’s more like they stomp into Cincinnati’s bedrooms, pound
the closet door to the beat of a drum solo and bellow, “It’s
show time!” while puring a cup of coffee over the city’s head.
Rumor has it that one time, Bob produced something.
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"Cool Ghoul", Dick Von
Hoene |
Another legend in Cincinnati
media, the one and only "Cool Ghoul", Dick Von Hoene. Many of us have fond
memories of him as the Ghoul, and many others have memories of him in the
numerous other things he did "unmasked". Dick passed away Wednesday,
February 4th, 2004. He was a much too young 63. Dick Von Hoene lived in Price Hill. He grew up in Madisonville, both in CIncinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Purcell High School in 1958, went on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Cincinnati, and then a Master's Degree in Theater. Dick began his 40 year career career as a copywriter for WCPO radio. He worked on Bob Smith's Monster Mash in 1961. The 'Cool Ghoul' character started in comedy routines he wrote for Larry Smith. He moved to broadcast television at WXIX-TV Channel 19 in 1969 where he came up with a costume for his character, the Cool Ghoul, to go with his trademark "Bleeeh! Bleeeh! Bleeeh!" vocalization. The Cool Ghoul became a regular weekend feature, hosting horror movie presentations on "Scream-In" during the 1970's and parts of the 1980's. He returned last Halloween to host a night of movies. He
was hired as a reporter for WUBE-FM 105 in 1973. Became a disc jockey there
in 1979. In 1983 he became a news announcer for WFKB Florence. In 1986, he
moved to Storer Cable as a nightly news anchor and news director. His last
job was as host of "Northern Kentucky Magazine", a weekday morning public
affairs show on Insight Communications Channel ICN6. He had been there for
the last 12 years. In hosting "Northern Kentucky Magazine", Dick found that
he appreciated what he was accomplishing as himself, away from the "Cool
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 I started as radio co-op group while in high school in 1965 through an Explorer Group at WSAI 1360 and later when WEBN was being constructed in 1967 was hired by Frank Wood Sr. to help and assist in the construction of his project. I remember soldering components to audio channels and coaxial terminations in a rush to get WEBN on the air. I was there the day a flatbed truck brought the transmitter from Collins and lowered it with a crane into the little building built (before the roof went on). I maintained the transmitter with a 3rd class FCC license at the time to oversee the stations automation of Jazz and Classical music. I assisted his son Bo in the Jelly Pudding project. The very beginning of a whole new era. Beatles, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Joan & Joni, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, etc. I could go on with that list for a long time. I would maintain the 5 Skully tape playback machines for Mr. Wood's All Night Jazz. Miles, Stan, (oh I'm sorry, I won't start that again. After all that..... I attended the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music in 1970 for a 2 year course and Xavier University in 1972 in Radio/Television Production. I worked WCET's Action Action for 3 years as a production assistant and camera man. After leaving WEBN in 1973 (and met my lovely wife Sher), I worked as a recording engineer and concert mixer for a rock group from Morocco (that was cool). I had various other jobs after that such as the trucking industry (yuk), energy consultant and then back into radio at WNKR in Falmouth, Ky. I became an amateur radio operator in 1972 as WB8UNG and still hold that license. I talked to people all over the world and had fun doing it. Today I can do that on my cellular phone. Same thing only different. I was into ARP Net, Pine and Packet (AX.25) networking wireless. I was also into RTTY (radio teletype), high speed ASCII. When I started in communications, we ran 60 bps. I am up to 3.5 mbps on my ADSL connection over the internet. I started on an Apple II and both Commodore's 20 and 64. I worked for 25 years for 
Information Systems and
as the Manager of
Information Systems
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Brian O'Donnell
-Xers
who no longer read Rolling Stone—was
a risky one. The 'zine costs more to produce than originally imagined
and the subscriber base has been too slow to build. Tracks has many committed
readers, Wood said, but "time is money."
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