We hope you will enjoy a live streaming of the entire 3 hour “Frank Horton Hangover Show” on Saturday, March 6, 2021. The original show aired from 7-10 am, but we will start it at noon, CST. It will be stereo, with aircheck on right channel and “studio banter” on left channel. This will be exactly 50 years after it aired March 6, 1971. For best listening, connect your device to a stereo, so you can “pan” between channels. To be able to pan (adjust balance) while you listen on your computer, Bluetooth, or other device,

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The audio stream below will become active at noon, CST, Saturday March 6, 2021.

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50 years ago, WIDB was not yet one year old, and not yet 24 hour. Sign-on was 7am, weekdays 10 am weekends, and, as always, new jocks still had to accept less desirable shifts.

PD Howie Karlin was determined that WIDB would sign on at 7am Saturdays. But who
could be found to reliably appear week after week Saturday at the crack of dawn?
Who could possibly be functional at that hour on the heels of a Fryday night of
revelry?

The answer was Frank. A top-notch newsman who later became one of WIDB’s
best News Directors, Frank wanted to try his hand at jocking. Howie was
skeptical until he desperately needed to fill the Saturday shift.

Frank Mazzocco (center left) and the 1972 WIDB News Dept. Clockwise from left: Gary West, Don Graf, Dennis Lyle, Tim Carvis, Alan J. Friedman, Todd Cave, Katy Jaskula, Cliff Albert, Chris Bury (center right, seated). Photo courtesy of Don Graf.

Frank’s real last name is Mazzocco. But on Saturday morning on WIDB he
became “Frank Horton” hosting the “Frank Horton Hangover Show.”

Unbelievably, Frank found an engineer willing to board op for the show. It was
Bruce Whiteside, one of WIDB’s most brilliant engineers.

Bruce had the foresight to not only aircheck the show, but also record the “studio
banter.” Most records were under 3 minutes, usually there was a jingle and
talking after each one, and this had to be discussed and set up each time.

Bruce’s actual equipment and materials used to record the broadcast in 1971.

Bruce produced a recording of the entire show from Saturday, March 6, 1971. It
has the aircheck in one channel and the studio banter in the other channel.

We will stream this live on Saturday March 6, 2021, exactly 50 years later.
However, it will run from noon-3pm, CST. For best listening, connect your device
to a stereo, so you can “pan” between channels.

Brought to you by: Bruce Whiteside and Your hard-working WIDB 50th Anniversary Reunion Committee

Lucas McCallister, former GM and Chief Engineer,
has published his first honest-to-goodness article…
“Analyzing College Radio in 2012 – A Study of Different Station Structures
Part of his Masters Thesis, it appears that it’s also part of a bigger article that he’s hoping to have peer-reviewed for publication. I, for one, am looking forward to reading it!

Well done, Lucas.

Post Script from the author:
Looking back on it now, I’d say that the research that I did for my study was one of the most eye-opening things I did involving WIDB. We all know the college radio station archetype, but it’s really different to talk to other stations, managers, and students in the same boat. One of the things WIDB always seems to deal with is the yearly rebuilding of the wheel – managers getting their sea legs and new DJs learning the ropes.

The reunion is a bit of the same experience –
Oh, you tried to re-engineer the studio too?
Oh, there was a previous time we (fill in the blank here with some management decision)?

Here’s what I recommend to any new WIDB’er reading this:
1) Try and learn from previous actions of our station or others –
talk to WIDB Alums or read some literature on management and organizations.
2) Don’t take it too seriously, and
3) Treasure it. You’ll be surprised where it all becomes useful later on.