Where Are They Now?

   

Mike Rivers

Hi to everyone who remembers some great days in Tampa Bay radio! I got into radio first babysitting the "Hit Parade" automation on WLCY-FM in the summer of 1973, thanks to Johnny Stevens.

After a single fall semester at the University of South Florida, I started commercially deejaying at WPLA, Plant City, on July 8, 1974. Jim Maloy heard me and invited me to WQYK in January of '75, and I eventually followed him to Lakeland's WONN and also WPCV-FM in Winter Haven in the Florida Citrus Showcase building. I stopped back at WQYK briefly in 1976. Johnny Stevens helped me again to hook up weekends at Y95 in the fall of 1976.

THANK YOU CHUCK MORGAN!! After a year, I literally changed jobs with Easy Jack Dillon, as he came to Y95 from WYND, Sarasota and mornings, and I grabbed the 'YND morning job, working for Carl Strandell, and then Dave Allison. I didn't get back to Tampa Bay until early 1979, working for Bob McNeill on Y-95, again, weekends.

Decided to join the Navy in the summer of 1979, and after four years, would you believe, Bob McNeill selected me to help start the Q Morning Zoo for Q-94 in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia? Well, it's true. Since this hilarious experience of doing voices and bits and songs and also middays noon to three starting in 1983, I've been lucky to work for cool people in places including Ft. Wayne Indiana's WOWO, for Dan MacClintock and GM Jane Bartsch. I got to play oldies at 1190 AM, Clear Channel at night, for about a year, plus, produce and voice the weekly "WOWO OLDIES COUNTDOWN". I'm currently doing weekends for B103 in Richmond Virginia, and producing news and sportscasts daily for morning drive for stations in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg, Virginia as part of the Richmond Times Dispatch Broadcast News Service.

For all who read in the 'biz', THANK YOU FOR CRAZY MEMORIES. My email's:
mrivz@hotmail.com. For folks reading who were listeners and remember, THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT ALL POSSIBLE, you know, to "just" goof off and play records for a living! God bless all of ya! "RIVZ"






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