Fact #168192
When:
Short story:
After almost thirty years, the WLS Musicradio AM station in Chicago, Illinois, USA, changes from a popular music format to an issue-oriented "hot talk" format. Full article:
Phil Duncan (deejay, WLS) : Marty Soehrman, one of the engineers, had brought the log for the next day into the studio and had noticed it was all talk shows from here on out. He had come in with that news as The Eagles were playing, (the next to the last song on WLS).
It was in those last couple of minutes of the Eagles song that we realized we would be playing the last song as we headed up to news time.
So I just sort of looked through a few songs in the cart rack and decided "Just You and Me" by Chicago was about as good as I could come up with as The Eagles started running out. We didn't have time to plan a goodbye. It surprised us. If only we had known that was the end...
sooner... I could have been more profound.
We had time to play one song and hit the news so we could join the network out of the news. It's funny. I had waited my whole life to work at WLS. I had finally gotten there and ended up having to kill my own dream. But at least I got the pleasure of being there. I remember the first time I did an air shift and got to play those jingles. There have never been such sing-able call letters. Here I was sitting at the controls of the coolest radio stations that ever lived and was about to fly it into the ground. There must be some kind of "Life's Message" in that. You get to have your dream, but by the time you get it, your dream is out of date and the world has decided to move on.
(Source : http://www.wlshistory.com/jox/docduncan.htm)
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It was in those last couple of minutes of the Eagles song that we realized we would be playing the last song as we headed up to news time.
So I just sort of looked through a few songs in the cart rack and decided "Just You and Me" by Chicago was about as good as I could come up with as The Eagles started running out. We didn't have time to plan a goodbye. It surprised us. If only we had known that was the end...
sooner... I could have been more profound.
We had time to play one song and hit the news so we could join the network out of the news. It's funny. I had waited my whole life to work at WLS. I had finally gotten there and ended up having to kill my own dream. But at least I got the pleasure of being there. I remember the first time I did an air shift and got to play those jingles. There have never been such sing-able call letters. Here I was sitting at the controls of the coolest radio stations that ever lived and was about to fly it into the ground. There must be some kind of "Life's Message" in that. You get to have your dream, but by the time you get it, your dream is out of date and the world has decided to move on.
(Source : http://www.wlshistory.com/jox/docduncan.htm)