DENVER!

MONDAY 9 25 06

Denver taking in the evening fall sunshine!

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FALL 9 21 06

FALL

Florida Game DAY

Last night MHS won, today Vandy has been beaten and although LSU did score we are lighting candles for Auburn.

After being told over and over it was TOO early for mums I bought some any dang way. Check them out as we get ready to slice a gator in about 3 hours!

FALL

Fall at last! No joke, this summer went way over the allotted 100 plus degree days, time for it to be over.

In the distant to very near future the good old Media Column may become a cyber event. I "think" those hunting it will still be able to go to hallsnews.com and click on my name for access but right now all is in the planning stages.

Upside is I will still be writing in that publication with extended space and art. The plan is a series of feature stories each month on living and or dead (personally I am pulling for the dead because they won't argue with me on little things like facts) personalities in and around Knoxville. It will be fun to branch out a bit, but it will be even more fun to do the column on line. Now it certainly will NOT be encumbered by space limitations and at the end it will be wide open for any and all comments. Because things are still in a state of flux (a T tiny little area south of Vermont) the media column may be a monthly in the paper, but either way I am sure it will be on line.


Ok, as for the rest of the week, read the new column at hallsnews.com and figure out a plan to beat Florida.

Thanks for reading the blog and the column!

BOOMSDAY..PREACHER..POLITICS

The crew you are seeing all worked for the OLD U102 (WMYU) back in the day when folks listened to radio stations and radio stations put on big events, like BOOMSDAY.

Monday evening WBIR thought it best to broadcast a tape of BOOMSDAY the day after the event and although it was one of the best fireworks shows ever seen on the river the fabricated history that belched out of the show still is stinking up my rumpus room!

A grizzled looking B 97 kid said he MCed the first BOOMSDAY and said the crowd count was around seventy five thousand folks. Truth is he may have been at the first one but I didn't see him on stage with CP AND WALKER counting down the start?

Earlier in the same broadcast two odd looking people said they were the ones who started the event, bless their hearts, I don't think they even lived in Tennessee when the first sparkler was touched off. Truth is their radio station was THE station to GIVE the show away and this years attempt by those who now own it to run the one day event into three was a giant failure!

Truths...Boomsday was started by the old JACOR Broadcasting. It was a gift to the people of Knoxville and over 150 thousand were there that first night. As the numbers grew the city tried very hard to take over the event and the local papers would never give the founding station credit in their coverage. Still the show went on and still it grew.

So what happened?


Simple, the founding company learned folks would NOT come to a concert the day before or even two days before the big show. Reason?? FOOTBALL! Friday night is HIGH SCHOOL BALL and Saturday is UT!
Also this year the act on Friday was tangled in litigation over killing a PET and filming the death! Less than 2500 folks showed to hear them sing.
On Saturday afternoon less than 300 came out in the heat to hear the bands and when the promised big screen failed to produce the UT game, most demanded their money back.

Boomsday was fine, the two days before it were a BOMB


Preacher Mull passed this morning. He not only owned a radio station in Knoxville but was the founder of the first traveling gospel singing shows. Lots of broadcast history died with him.

Last of the Tyler story hit the shopper and this morning Da Bean was on 1180 talking about it. A lack of calls this morning may have been a way of saying folks are just over it. IF a TV station picks the thing up it might grow, but chances are very slim. If you wanta see part three check it out at hallsnews.com.