re: Deke Bellevia out at WWL radio

“Charlie Douglas & the Road Gang” in the early to mid ‘70s

Dave Nemo took over for him and had a much less rural accented voice.

“Whether you’re driving a big rig on some lonesome stretch of roadway or pushing barges up one our nation’s waterways....”

That was good stuff if you were up late.

I met Douglas one time at a ATA Convention outing onboard the Riverboat President.

Kinda scary in person. Justin Wilson was dere too.

Not scary in person. Nice guy.

Met Jerry Clower a couple of times too at those kinds of things. Nice as well.

quote:

---

Ratings have been in the garbage the last few years,

---

Link?

Deke was only decent when he wasn't talking sports, and talking sports is his job.

For Steve Korte, Deke and Bobby, and our executive producer Todd Menesis, I am the K dawg



Semper Fi,



Semper Friday,




I am out,

There mustn't be a sign at MCRD - Parris Island that says "You Must Be This High To Enter". Kristian is about 5'-2". How did he get in the fricking Marines?

quote:

---

WWL is so omnipotent that they can reach over 35 states at night. That is insane how large of a swath of land they can cover. Impressive, to say the least.

---

For all you non radio wave nerds like me. AM radio is in a part of the radio spectrum that allows sky waves where the signal will bounce off the ground at night and be reflected into the ionosphere and back until the signal is too weak. Some stations will even put metal grids in the ground to increase the first bounce at the tower site. Also, AM sites are very dangerous as the tower is the antenna and there may be more than one for a particular pattern.

There is another reason why AM is so crappy at times. The FCC at a time allotted certain stations clear channel status where all other AM stations near the the clear channel station on the same frequency had to power down or reduce power at sunset or point their signal away from the clear channel.

WWL is mainly clear at night because there very few stations on 870 east of the Rockies at night. But now as Digital AM and RDS in AM signals increase in popularity, they have introduced sideband interference across the country adding to the noise in AM stations.

Wow I must be the only one who liked his radio personality

Hellooee theahhh this is Deke BellaVuuh

The saints rushed foh fouhtee foh yawwds

Did duh Big Cheef #metoo Angela Hill?

quote:

---

Ratings have been in the garbage the last few years,

---

quote:

---

Link?

---

You done pissed off WWL's #1 fan.