Small-town news

[Doug Drown]

I'll go you one a bit worse.  About thirty years ago I spent a week visiting 
friends who were living at the time in Lewisville, Mississippi, a little 
place of about 5,000 people some 60 miles north of Jackson.  Every weekday 
afternoon at 3:15 or thereabouts, a staffer at the local radio station would 
read the obituaries.  The program was sponsored by . . . the funeral home. 
Complete with an ad.

-Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Glazer" <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio Group" 
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Small-town news


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>; Boston Radio Group
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:00 PM
> Subject: Small-town news
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>
>> This might make an interesting (and fun) thread.  Lead stories on a
>> small-city and small-town broadcasting stations could sometimes be pretty
>> amusing.  I remember one 11 PM newscast on Channel 5 in Bangor years ago
> in
>> which the lead story was the opening of a new bowling alley in Brewer.
>>
>> To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "You know you live in Maine when . . ."
>>
>> -Doug
>
> Don't remember any lead stories, but I do remember that, in the late '70s, 
> I
> used to listen a little station in Forrest City, Ark., KXJK (950), that
> occasionally read the obituaries from the local paper right after the 
> news.
> KXJK was a country station, and I vividly recall one morning on which the 
> DJ
> on duty came out of the obits with the Statler Brothers' "I'll Go To My
> Grave (Loving You)."
>
> Howard
>
>