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morrisjames
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 02:08 am |
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This video posted on Mark Ramsey's web site had me playing it over and over. Ramsey leaves the impression radio could do the same again.
This station was a giant, but on the local level, I remember when KTTS had that much influence. Our news tip hotline was always ringing. Two calls stand out to me.
1. A man who called to say the Strafford School was on fire and could I call the Sheriff.
2. A man called to say he came across a broadside crash on highway 14 and 65 (when it was rural and only a flashing light there) and there were no survivors. He asked me to call the Highway Patrol.
Both incidents are true. I'm sure there are more.
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:13 am |
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| Morris; Remember the night your newsroom console caught fire at the downtown studio? I recall that when I went down to unlock the door for the fire department, you beat all the responding trucks, and you lived all the way over by KOLR!
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 10:46 pm |
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I got a call from a character once that wanted the number for a tow truck company, 'cause KTTS was always at the scene of wrecks and we should know a good one. He got rather testy when I didn't know one so I looked one up in the phone book fro him and he seemed satisfied.
Then there was the belly dancer with swords who used to pester the city fathers about appearing before a council session. She used to call the newsroom all the time talking about the merits of belly dancing and the evils of city hall. I bet her and DVJ would have hit it off great together. Didn't she (seems her name was Sheba) end up hanging herself while incarcerated in the city or county jail?
The ones I remember most were the threatening calls from Teamsters during the Associated Wholesale Grocers strike, following the Morris James/Barry Johnson undercover investigative reports into violence surrounding that work stoppage. KTTS and KTTS News now that was good radio for the Ozarks.
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 10:54 pm |
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Morris James....I just viewed the 20/20 news video...THAT WAS GREAT! Thanks.
Sad to say....you don't hear it like that anymore.
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DB
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 11:08 pm |
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| Yes Shebba did. At the Baptist Hospital. But the funniest thing she did was to dance on the police dept porch. Facing Chestnut. And it took a couple of days for anyone to see but it used to say " Springfiel Police HQ. She made it say Springfield Lice HQ by taking some letters off.
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 11:43 pm |
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| But do you remember Morris getting his microphone stomped into the pavement by a Teamster?
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 03:25 am |
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| I hope that everyone has viewed the youtube video about CKLW 20/20 news...that is so good...that "dinosaur media" is awesome, that was when radio was magic, nothing coming out of the speakers that comes close to that these days. Thanks again Morris for posting that.
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Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozark
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Posted: Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 03:37 am |
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Turner the burner wrote: I hope that everyone has viewed the youtube video about CKLW 20/20 news...that is so good...that "dinosaur media" is awesome, that was when radio was magic, nothing coming out of the speakers that comes close to that these days. Thanks again Morris for posting that.
You Tube also has a reunion from the early 80s of those guys. Several of them had an impression of Byron McGregor. McGregor shows up later and expresses some remorse about the "wording" of some of those stories.
By the way, I've been wanting to feature Sheba as part of a Naughty Springfield post on by blog. If you gat a story send me a private message.
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Apr 13th, 2008 12:06 am |
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I would loved to have seen more discussion on the style of delivery and writing from the CKLW news staff...that was classic stuff from when radio was really fun.
It seems tho' that are still more "lurkers" than posters here.
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cjiniowa
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Posted: Sun Apr 13th, 2008 08:01 pm |
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I don't think that it's been posted here before, so here's a link with much, much more from the good 'ol days of CKLW:
http://www.thebig8.net
A lot of interesting material there.
CJ
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Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozark
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Posted: Mon Oct 20th, 2008 09:46 am |
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DB wrote: Yes Shebba did. At the Baptist Hospital. But the funniest thing she did was to dance on the police dept porch. Facing Chestnut. And it took a couple of days for anyone to see but it used to say " Springfiel Police HQ. She made it say Springfield Lice HQ by taking some letters off.
I finally found some info on Shebba in the microfilmed News Leaders at the library. DB is right, she took her life at the hospital while being treated for "psychiatric disorders." She claimed that the preacher leading a anti-porn group had offered to pay her and some of her belly-dancing students to dance nude for some friends of his. He resigned his post with the anti-porn group. Some of her neighbors went to the mayor to see if the city could commit her. The article I have is about her death and some of her friends claim it was this one group of neighbors who may have drove her to suicide.
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Posted: Fri Oct 31st, 2008 08:29 am |
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| Sad story. But she had things stirring when she was here. Yep the Baptist Boogie was busted.
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