Steve West, WGKX Memphis | October 9, 2004

Your webmaster was privilaged to be a radio jock for 29 years. Out of it now, but some great memories remain. Here’s a bit of my work on WGKX “Kix 106″ Country.

Steve West, Last Show on WMC-FM Memphis | October 30, 2005

FM 100 was the culmination of a career to me. True, I was only full time there for one Summer, but the station’s reputation, the life, the energy… the whole aura that surrounded this station put me in a trance from the first day I entered the building.

I can’t say why I hold such an emotional attachment to WMC-FM. I will say that this particular evening was the last time I was on major market radio, the last time I got to interact with callers or really be myself on a commercial radio station. Given my feelings toward this station, and Memphis, Tennessee, its little wonder why I was very emotional on this day.

At the end of this, is my farewell to Memphis. Nobody does a farewell… I figured what the heck. I wasn’t going to get to be on Memphis radio anymore. So, I had this really good speech I wanted to give, and wouldn’t you know it… my son, who was at the station with me, decided at that moment to enter the studio and just start talking to me while I was trying to speak… thus, lots of long pauses as I tried to remember exactly what I wanted to say but hadn’t written it down. Kids hahahaha…. But in the end, it was my son who was the reason I had to leave in the first place, so perhaps it was appropriate that he be there to remind me that it wasn’t the listeners or even radio that my first responsibility was to.

Nevermind. I’m just rambling.

If you’re a radio person, how did you leave your last gig?

Michael Jay on KLTG Corpus Christi | January 27, 1997 RELOADED

Today, they call it “The Beach”, but back in 1997, KLTG Corpus Christi Texas had just morphed from ‘Lite’ AC to Oldies. And, they still called it “K-Lite” back then!

Okay, the secret is out… Michael Jay was Steve West. Or was it the other way around? Listeners will note that on this Sunday morning, Mr. Jay wasn’t exactly in top form, in fact as many times he stepped on elements at the beginning of this ‘check, I used to turn red. However, in the interest of presenting the Corpus Christi market in historical context… well, here it is.

One of my co-workers, John Elliot, used to joke that… “the Mexicans love their Oldies”. No offense intended, but ratings WERE healthy in this predominantly Hispanic part of South Texas, where some 80 percent were of Mexican decent. On a personal note, I have fond memories from there, having met some of the friendliest people of any market I worked in.

So, from early 1997, from the home of Farrah Fawcett-Majors and (the late) Selena, listen to Michael Jay… (the only time THAT name was ever used) play the greatest songs ever recorded. Scoped, that is, on KLTG Oldies 96-5 FM K-Lite! (Yes, the imaging was confused! You simply have to listen)

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