I saw this post and response on Facebook and thought it was worth passing along…from back in the day when radio was fun. Ross 71-86 …………. In 1972 I was doing the 7 to midnight shift and all 3 Rock sta

I've been trying to remember the details of a PSA that was played during the late '60s / early '70s. I believe it was part of a group of PSAs celebrating American excellence. It began with a series of

I watched a documentary the other day that you might enjoy if you like music from the 60s to 2000s. “Clive Davis: The Sound Track of Our Lives” is on Netflix streaming. It’s a bit too long at 2 hours

The WJMA anniversary party (details below) is quickly approaching. If you plan to be there, please let me know by the 12th so I can give a list to the station. Thus far I have 2 “yes” and 2 “maybe”. I

At high noon on September 10, 1949 WJMA began broadcasting to Central Virginia. There have been many changes over the years. The original AM station is now WVCV, but it’s still broadcasting from Orang

See below for a message from Kevin Dalton, GM at WJMA. If you plan to attend, post here and I’ll keep a head count for him. Ross 71-86 =========== Hey Ross, Yes, we have a BIG duel-Chamber of Commerce

I saw an article in today’s Washington Post saying 85 year old Sonny Jurgensen is retiring from broadcasting. He’s the last member of a great broadcast team of Frank Herzon, Sam Huff, and Sonny to ret

Anyone have a good picture of a cart label from the mid to late 1970s? The subject of cart labeling has come up on a Facebook group where I shared the WJMA system of colors and letters to figure what

I mistakenly posted this to the old WJMA Yahoo groups list yesterday. Since the move to groups.io a few email addresses have changed, so not everyone from the old Yahoo group would have seen this mess

Hi, Ross, Apologies for clogging everyone’s inbox with minor business, but I didn’t know how else to reach you. Cold you please change my email address for the group to bill.woolfolk@...? Many thanks,

I probably knew Norman Gimble’s name a one time, but it was not in my recall memory until I saw his obit in the paper this morning. Often the most interesting stories in the paper are the obits. https

Did you hear the story on Marketplace today about Tradio on a small Texas radio station? Here’s a link: https://www.marketplace.org/2018/12/13/business/texas-hill-town-tradio-vital-commerce Ross 71-86

Arch hired me to work at WJMA in the summer of 1971. I started on Monday Aug 23 thinking Orange would be a good place to start and I might stay a couple of years. Now, 47 years later we’re moving. The

Thanks for all the feedback. We made it safely to South Carolina and our furniture arrived on Saturday. Many thanks to Blue Ridge Movers from Madison who did a wonderful and efficient job of moving us

Hello Radio Orange alums. I stumbled across this group from a facebook post. I'm an alum of WCVA/WCUL from the late 70's and 80's. I'm curious if anyone is aware of a similar group, pics, etc. fro WCV

I found this story from Arch Harrison on my hard drive this evening: A truck driver is heading west across the Arizona desert. He's been driving all night and as the sun starts to rise, he feels the n

I’ve added two pictures from Phil Goodwin’s retirement party to the WJMA web site. http://www.wjma.radiohistory.net/WJMA%20photos/WJMA%20people/pages/page_239.html http://www.wjma.radiohistory.net/WJM

Yesterday I attended Phil Goodwin’s retirement luncheon along with JD Slade, Mary Thompson, and Bill Little from the old WJMA staff. Also a bunch of current Piedmont Communications employees were ther

I hope you were not surprised by the Welcome from groups.io. It took longer than I thought it would to move the WJMA email group from Yahoo to Groups.io. For future messages, please post to WJMA@group