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In 1983 AFRTS brought in jocks from all over the country to record shows. Today it's to Portland OR for the Joe Show!
Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Mary Helen Barro 1983
Mary Helen Barro kept the Latino beat alive. She started with the network in the late 70s and was there a long time. Bailar!
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Joe Ferguson 1983
From Portland OR, Joe has the memories of 1983. Seems like yesterday.
Hear Joe every day at 11:00 easter on mybestsounds.com
Mary Helen Barro 1983
Las musica mas major en el mundo! Mary Helen Barro plays your Latin favorites on a Monday in 1983.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Mary Helen Barro 1983
Seemed like every time I was at finance, trying to guess what they did to my check Mary Helen Barro was on. It was great mid-day show. Take a listen.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Mary Turner 1983
Mary Turner and Ted Nugent
Mary Turner was the opposite of GI Jill and Chris Noel, a broadcaster that was a female, it kept with the times, yet still was the girl left behind.
When Mary started her show we were concerned about how an hour of slamming rock and roll would go over. I knew the troops would love it but the Colonel. The Canal Zone civilians? They really liked to complain. It went over great and was a wonderful addition.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Don Tracy 1983
Don paid his dues in Connecticut radio, through WPOP, WNHC and WAVZ then to win in Los Angeles.
KGFJ, KDAY, KABC-TV, KNX as a sales executive, his own ad agency and editor of the R&B Report.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Joe Ferguson 1983
Live from Portland, OR it's the "Joe Show" on AFRTS. I'm grateful Joe shared these with us.
Mary Helen Barro 1983
Summer in Minnesota. Tropical memories of Panama indeed. Let's have the music with Mary Helen Barro.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Joe Ferguson 1983
It's a Wednesday in the summer of 1983 and blogfan Joe Ferguson has "The Joe Show". I ran these on SCN... Thanks again for sharing the memories Joe!
Hear Joe every day at 11 Central on mybestsounds.com
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Wolfman Jack 1983
Wolfman was one that we'd get complaints about. First thing I did at SCN when I could was get his airtime changed from 3am to 8pm. There was only one Wolfman, I'm proud we had him.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Roland Bynum 1983
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Don Tracy 1983
Don Tracy was from Hartford. Learned his trade at the Conneticut School of Broadcasting with gigs in Hartford and New Haven before the lure of California. Then to KGFJ, KABC TV and KDAY and KMBY in Capitola CA then where most of us found him AFRTS. In 1997 Don was selling at KNX after that he was a part of Malloy and Associates, an advertising agency in Los Angeles. Here's a short piece from 1983.
Joe Ferguson 1983
It was a discussion we had many times ""There's no one good in Milwaukee, Miami, Dallas or anywhere else?" In 1983 the network bid out contracts with talent from all over the country. Joe Ferguson from Portland OR was with us for a while. On this show, Joe talks about being a dependent and in the radio club at AFN.
Hear Joe on mybestsounds.com at 11am Central
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Mary Turner 1983
Mary Turner rocks. But after winning at that, she made the world better as a psychologist and philanthropist.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Pete Smith 1983
Pete Smith was part of the EZ listening tradition at AFRTS. He followed John Doremus, who followed Jim Ameche. He had quite a career in Los Angeles radio KNX; KDAY, 1956-58; KRKD, 1958-61; KNOB; KPOL; KMPC, 1961-88; KJQI/KOJY, 1993-95; KGIL, 1998. Pete was part of "Music of Your Life."
Roger Carroll was telling me that Pete was fulltime swing at KMPC. What a gig.
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