Bob & Sheri do a syndicated morning show based in WLNK-FM in Charlotte. The way they describe themselves is they are soulmates who just happen to be married to other people.
They’re loading up two RVs with 16 people to tour America and do personal appearances at radio stations in July. Bob is not planning to be on the tour.
Now that’s just crazy.
Sounds like a PR stunt to me. Bob’s not going? Crazy? Sounds like Bob isn’t wanted on the “tour” otherwise they would have made him “an offer he couldn’t refuse”. Ah well, anything to generate ratings.
Bob and I go back a long ways (in the radio sense). He’s a very personable guy, somewhat atypical of radio people. Put him in a crowd with a bunch of people he doesn’t know and he’ll draw people out and make them interesting. He was on WBT -AM in Charlotte back in the 1970s. He then went to TV for a while, then and met Sheri who was an off air person – the two of them went to the FM side and started a syndicated show. The station was owned by jerfferson Pilot (an insurance company) which was acquired by Lincoln Financial, who doesn’t want to be in the radio business – they sold the station to Greater Media out of Boston
Blending in with the new blog theme, Bob decided to have a live remote event. The NCNB tower had recently been completed which was a really big deal that proved Charlotte was ready to be a “big city”. The contest was based on contestants catching a raw egg thrown off the top of the 40(!) story skyscraper (Now called Bank of America Plaza) by Bob. How a person tried to catch the egg was entirely up to them. “As God as my witness, I thought eggs could fly!”
The amusing part of the story is it turns out catching an egg apparently isn’t hard at all (maybe someone hard boiled them!)… They were afraid nobody could do it – in the end so many people caught the eggs without breaking, the prize they split was pretty small.
‘Jefferson Pilot’ Hadn’t heard them in a long while. ‘Sail with the Pilot’ !
They sponsored the ACC basketball games back in the day,
I miss Rays; home of the ‘Kingburger’ “If its good enough for Richard Petty, its good enough for me”
Have a good one,
Parrott!
There was one in Salisbury that I went to at least once. It was an interesting time in the food business – I had run a cash register in a burger place (long gone). I added up the bills in my head (not using Common Core math) and calculated the sales tax, then pushed the button for the total and hit the total key. It was an blue NCR mechanical cash register similar to this, except it printed the total on the order slip to prove the bill had been paid.
http://youtu.be/nZ5vSrh3QYY
McDonalds was experimenting with one of the more stupid ideas – optical marking where the clerk had to fill in circles like on standardized tests. That had the benefit of freeing the clerk from doing the math and gave accurate inventory control, but was slow and often the reader would reject the form multiple times as they filled the dots in darker.
Ray’s KingBurger on the other hand was using hand crank cash registers and entering each price one item at a time.
I might have mentioned it before, but when I went to a diner in Chucago, they were still using the same mechanical NCR cash I had used in the early 1970s, which I mentioned to the owner. She wasn’t sure if up it was a criticism or a compliment.
Totally off the wall – in 1977ish, the guy who ran the customer accounting department for my employer (we had around 1.2 million accounts billed every month) had and used a peculiar machine that was a cross between an adding machine and a typewriter – it had the ability to multiply numbers by doing repetitive addition into a carriage that held the accumulators.
http://www.johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Friden/FridenSVE-819-IMG_2682-5.jpg