Small-town news

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

When I worked at WQMA 1520 in Marks, MS.. a town of 1500 people south of
Tunica, between Clarksdale and Batesville, the obituaries and funeral
announcements were read every morning at 8;05, after being hand delivered by
the sponsor, the funeral home the night before.

They would be left i nan envelope at the front door with cash in the
envelopment, as payment for the announcement.

THey do obits here at KNLV AM and FM every day too..

Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com


On 11/24/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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" <
> boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> 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
>>
>>
>>  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
>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Sincerely,
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
www.onairdj.com
walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com