Wow - truly the end of an era. I grew up about an hour's drive south of Ft. Wayne. I'd say nearly 90 percent of people within at least a 100 mile radius listened to WOWO and Bob Sievers every morning ... EVERY morning. Even many more in the pre-dawn hours when the signal propagated over the pole and south into the Caribbean with ease.
Especially in the winter, he either brought us the good news of school closings or the bad news of "get out to the bus because the snow wasn't deep enough." In addition to the weather, we heard the farm markets, corny but always good-natured humor, world and local news, basketball scores and the latest from the Ft. Wayne Komets. It was guys like him who gave AM stations their unique personalities, and made it worth listening to back then. Jim Pogue KH2AR/WPE9HLJ/KG6DX1A Memphis, Tennessee USA NRD-535, R-390A, ICF-2010 Wellbrook LA5030 loop, PAØRDT mini-whip, attic longwire, Quantum phaser QRZ.com/KH2AR -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayle Van Horn Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cumbre DX; ODXA Subject: [HCDX] Legend of WOWO dies For those that follow medium wave and are familar with either WOWO or Bob Sievers, the following may be of interest. Legendary WOWO Radio Announcer Bob Sievers dies Former WOWO morning host Bob Sievers has died at the age of 90. According to friends of the Sievers family, he was taken to the Emergency Room and died at around 7 AM Monday morning. Sievers hosted the Little Red Barn morning show on WOWO for decades, and has been on the air in one way or the other for over seventy years. You can read stories and memories from Bob's closest friends and co-workers throughout the day onTuesday on Newstalk 1190 WOWO. I have also posted a partial article about him on my blog. Thanks for your time. Gayle Van Horn W4GVH Teak Publishing, Brasstown, NC World QSL Book Shortwave Central Blog: http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/ Monitoring Times: SW Guide Frequency Manager Broadcast Logs/QSL Report Columnist ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
