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[Vincent]

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[Ben]

Leuk Vincent. Ik vermoed dat dit dezelfde Bud Balou is als in dit filmpje tijdens de London RSLin 2001.

 

 

Hij is van Amerikaanse origine en was ook DJ bij Radio Caroline.

 

Overigens beginnen beide opnamen met dezelfde aircheck, heb ze nog niet helemaal beluisterd.

[Eric]

Toch niet want dit zegt Wikipedia (als het klopt?)

 

Dudley "Bud" Ballou (December 11, 1942 – April 15, 1977)[1] was an American disc jockey and radio personality active for fifteen years on several commercial radio stations during the 1960s and 1970s. Ballou was born and raised in Liverpool, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. His father was Leslie G. Ballou, and he had a brother, James. After a stint as an electronics technician at Western Electric in Syracuse, Ballou began his radio career as disc jockey at WOLF in 1962. With Ballou's help WOLF enjoyed a majority share of Syracuse radio listeners in 1963 and 1964.[3] In 1964 he moved to WNDR radio. He also hosted a black-and-white television version of "The Bud Ballou Show" on WNYS-TV, channel 9, originating from the station's Shoppingtown studios in DeWitt, which premiered on February 8, 1965.

Ballou left the Syracuse area for KBTR in Denver, Colorado in 1966, and in 1967 he moved to WKBW in Buffalo, New York to replace Joey Reynolds. As an April Fool's Day stunt in 1967, Ballou hosted one shift on WPOP, trading places with another DJ for that day only.

 

Ballou moved to the Boston area in 1968 appearing on WMEX until 1971 and then moving to WVBF in Framingham until 1976. During this period he was an avid hockey fan who sometimes watched games even while broadcasting. Ballou died April 15, 1977 at age 34 of a massive stroke at Leonard Morse Hospital in South Natick. He is buried in Fulton, New York. He was married to the former Kasia Rondomanski of Fulton and had four children.

 

Confusingly, a different ex-WOLF disc jockey from the Syracuse area named Howie Castle used "Bud Ballou" as his professional name while working for Radio Caroline in Europe in late-1967 and early-1968. As of 2002, Castle was the news anchor at KOGO in San Diego.

 

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Het kon dus wel. De huidige LPAM stations op de AM kunnen WOLF als voorbeeld nemen: 

 

WOLF first signed on in Syracuse shortly after the start of World War II. Like all local-channel AMs, it was initially limited to only 250 watts of power. During the early 1960s it was permitted to raise daytime power to 1,000 watts, and increased night power to 1,000 watts a decade later along with nearly all other local-channel (class C) AM stations in the United States. It long programmed a personality popular music format, and for many years was highly competitive within its signal area with stronger regional (class B signals from similarly formatted stations including WNDR and WFBL, although it was unable to achieve full metropolitan coverage especially after sunset

8 februari 2021 bewerkt door Eric

[Eric]

Howie Castle

Howie Castle is another of those well traveled radio folk. Before becoming a programming legend, Howie had been a DJ and was an original member of "Radio Caroline" a pirate radio station operating off the coast of England. Castle used the named Bud Ballou while working in England.

Howie came back to the USA and started programming radio stations. After leaving Syracuse New York, Howie came to town to program the Bill Hennes consulted station WLCY in Tampa Bay.

Howie is now the weekday co-anchor on the KOGO morning newsblock, 5-9am and also does hourly updates nationally for Clear Channel, 9am-3pm ET.  His email address is howiecastle@hotmail.com