“I’ll hang up and listen to your answer!” 🎧🎙 Happy #NationalRadioDay

1990 photo by Pam Spalding, The Courier-Journal

It was fun seeing all of my deejay buddies post their photos and career trajectories for #NationalRadioDay last week.

Here are a few that I snatched from their social media pages.

Minday Peterson, Eric Cooper, Kim Frankenthal, Scott Jennings, Shelley Catharine, Brian Rublein, Paul Miles, Ralph Dix, Sandra McQuary, Mary Jeffries

Gus Allen, Herb Hurst, Jon Michael Clark, Terry Meiners, Will Clark, Tiffany Savona, Matthew “12” Brown, Amy Nic, Tony Cruise

Terry Meiners, Kyle Shepherd, Milton Metz, Wayne Perkey

Ted Werbin, Nathan Butler, Tom Latek, Paul Miles, Jim Williams, Mindy Peterson, Will Clark, Suzanne Duvall, Kristen Thoburn Butler

Tony Vanetti, Hayley Hansen-Kilkelly, Terry Meiners, Ashley Wilson

Joe Donovan, Doug McElvein, Van Vance, Wayne Perkey, Jack Fox, Milton Metz, Terry Meiners

former WHAS Radio staffers met for lunch in August 2021

Steve Isert as a baby deejay and later as a cranky old man

And then there’s the program director’s memo that kept 19-year-old me on the part-time payroll. NOTE: he used bad math. I was being paid $40 per MONTH, or $480 per year to do some radio promotion work on the University of Kentucky campus.

Had they cut me, I would more than likely have found a different career path. 😢

Happy #NationalRadioDay 🎧

Here's the 1976 @WKQQLexington program director's memo that saved my job and kept me in the business. I had only been working there for two months when Dick Hungate suggested that they hold onto me in the 1977 budget.

Things seem to have worked out. pic.twitter.com/ooAliOOrFh

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) August 20, 2021

My career: WKQQ (1976-1980), WLRS (1980-1983), WQMF (1983-1985), WHAS (1985-present)