Re(2): Hey reality Posted on March 31, 2026 at 00:01:48 AM by areman
That's just a paste of an old namecalling post...we real boomers never got into boomboxes but our children did. Boom boxes were for CD's not radio.
We early boomers born in the 40s listened to small AM transistor radios, cigarette package size. FM stereo for pop music was in the mid 60s. I know this, my kid was born then and I was at WHB, and the shit was hitting the fan up on the 29th floor of the KCP&L building because SuperQ was eating their lunch and (gasp) black music was crossing over big time. Our warbaby jocks didn't like that a bit. Actually Johnny Dolan didnt' even like the Beatles and ranted one day in my earshot "The Beatles ruined rock and roll. Johnny was our afternoon drive guy an the peedee. But he wasn't calling the shots. This guy "Armstrong" who was up in Omaha was. Storz was pretty corprate when I got there in 76. Ron Eric will know all about that...when HB fell apart they moved him to Miami He never was a personality like Jay was, a good morning man. Johnny and Ron Eric and the midday guy, they just moved the music like KLEO did in Wichita. KLEO was getting THEIR clock cleaned too by KEYN. You'd know about that, weren't you selling for KEYN right about then? Lotta changes in the late 70s. That's when I bailed. Now I admit THIS post is repetitive...I've said all this too about what FM did to AM and how AM jocks took it.
They were DEFINATELY NOT "enjoying radio." Leaving WHB would have meant selling their houses, packing up to whereever they could get hired and disrupting the wife and kids. Nobody's happy about that unless you were a nationally known superjock stations fought over. Nobody in the KC market was that, mostly because KC's out in the stix with other markets not even able to hear us.
Hey, Reality. What do YOU do? Or do you have to stay on the downlow like most jocks did here when they came around? Replies: