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When August 6 rolls around, WF MH will have been serving North Alabama on the air for seven years. Back on August 6, 1948, Carroll Eddins and another man opened WFMH on 1,000 watts. The two men carried programs that were of interest to the people in this vicinity. “Slim” Lay, who worked with them at that time, tagged the station as “The Homefolks Sta tion.” And that is what Carroll has tried to maintain these seven years. WFMH caters to the program tastes of the people of the area it serves. Their program philosophy has always been to especially fea ture local, state and national news, hillbilly and gospel music, sporting events of all kinds, farm service news and special events around Cullman. Besides Carroll, the station man ager, there is Lon Waters, the pro gram director. Lon has been with the station since early 1952. Leon Murphree, a Cullman an nouncer, specializes in hillbilly and gospel programs. His voice can be heard on the “Earlybird” and “Community Singing” programs. When popular music is played on the “Ten Top Tunes program on Wednesday afternoons, it’s Harry Moss doing the disc jockeying. Har ry handles news and sports, too. And when the “Rise and Shine” program signs on, Bob MecGukin is behind the mike. Bob, an Eva boy, also does sales and service for the station. A University of Florida boy, now living in Cullman, does summer fill-in announcing for the station. Bobby Jacobs is the announcer behind the mike on some hillbilly programs and some news broad casts. Virginia Barnes, a traffic direc tor for WFMH, does the popular program “Mid-Morning in Cull man.” Virginia gives the ladies recipes, music, Q’s for cooks and hints for the homemaker. The bookkeeping and paper work is done for the station by Agnes Bates. Billy Parker, another Cullman boy, serves as a general relief man. Thus, most all of the personnel are Cullman people, thus ready to serve you and, give you the best of radio entertainment. With their two studios, WFMH takes pride in being one of the best equipped stations of its size. They have good high-fidelity equipment and they stay well-equipped and up to-date. They have professional-type weather equipment to supply weath er information to their listeners. And they are prepared to supply weather forecasts which they re ceive from the Birmingham weath er bureau. Being an independent station, WF MH can serve the people better CARROLL EDDINS LON WATERS
Newspaper Details
Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Fri, Jul 20, 1956
Page 6
Full Page
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