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1. Dick Hungate says

   June 29, 2006 at 9:48 AM

   Only “Biker Bill Weston”, my favorite PD of 37 years
   in this business…and my other PD’s include Jeff
   Pollack at WMMR before he started his consultancy;
   Bill Pugh (Dan “Pugh” Patrick’s brother); Tom Taylor
   (who wrote the NICEST note of recommendation
   one-and-a-half years ago for me to obtain my
   Master of Divinity degree from Bethel Seminary…
   which I begin in early September, finally); Bob
   Neumann of that lendendary XL-102 Richmond decade;
   Tom “Evans” Flamia from the same ’82-’92 period;
   Tom Bigby / Liz Kiley of WIFI in Philly ’81, the
   very under-rated Paul Johnson (now a “big fish in
   the proverbial little pond” of Fredericksburg, VA.
   but formerly a major player in Colorado Springs and
   briefly at WKLR 96.5 “The Planet” in Richmond, VA.;
   and J.T. Stevens, also of the Planet, who took the
   bullet for my then-reckless butt when I got a DUI
   in 1998 (not an experience I would recommend if you
   want to stay on the air…I was blessed to have a
   loyal PD at that moment)…..but BILL WESTON, who
   now sits in the exact same office I once did at One
   Bala Plaza on City Line Avenue in Philly…leave it
   to HIM to come up with a seemingly-easy-and-obvious
   terrific idea (if it’s so obvious, then why have we
   not seen it done before ???) shoots and scores again!
   To Pierre Robert (whom I’ve never met…he took my
   place on MMR’s midday show when I exited to do the
   W-4 Detroit midday/PD thing and bring in Stern), to
   Randy Kotz (still there…heck, he worked for me back
   in 1981), to Buzz Knight (Bob Kozak…ooooh!, I’m
   gonna catch mucho bad kharma here for revealing
   Superman’s original, real identity…Buzz is pure class)
   and all the rest of the Greater Media Philadelphia
   pros responsible with WMMR’s third or fourth
   successful re-invention of itself…..way to go!!
   What a fantastic, “right under our noses, yet nobody
   thought of it” summer promotion that reaches whole
   families of diary-keepers. I take my hat off to you
   again (to you, also, Mr. Jacobs). Folks…(not that
   too many of you sit around waiting and wondering what’s
   up with that Hungate character…but anyway)…I will
   be off your “industry radar screen” for at least years and
   and perhaps even forever. The almost-too-good-to-be-
   true city of San Diego awaits!! I’m in, enrolled, have
   the apartment and am ready to tackle a cranium-busting
   subject called GREEK (I must be wacko, huh?) Greek is
   to a divinity student what organic chemistry is to a
   wannabe doctor or R.N. That is to say, it separates
   the PREtenders from the CONtenders! But having been
   there-done that in secular radio since age 15…and
   having gotten the spiritual “call” (which is a soul-
   level thing VERY difficult to explain/convey to someone
   else)…it is Christian ministry for me from here on.
   Thanks to everybody who taught me, mentored me, put up
   with my sometimes-seeming arrogance or ego (I only
   came off that way…folks close to me know better) and
   were great radio buddies along the way. It was, in
   general, a fantastic ride…and, in specific, punctuated
   with perilous months when I wondered just how many cans
   of 69-cent Bumble Bee tuna with saltines I could keep
   eating while waiting for that next gig to pop up.
   Best of luck to you all! Keep your eyes on the Middle
   East, and if you haven’t taken a spiritual inventory
   in a long while, why not do it now? Remember that
   even the supposedly biggest radio luminaries such as
   Mel, Howard and Trump will not take ONE SINGLE PENNY
   with them. Wow…what a concept that we tend to forget!
   Where is the great Johnny Cochran, that brilliant trial
   showman/shaman who saved O.J.’s bacon…where is he
   today? Answer—“6 feet under”,(and I don’t mean the
   cable TV series). Not one red penny, which most folks
   today are too lazy to pick up off the nasty floor, went
   with him to the next life. A sobering, yet very real
   notion to chew on…

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