Catching Up with an Old Friend

Yesterday was a day of wonderful memories for me. This past week has been. The seventh was my son's twenty-seventh birthday, the eighth, I USED to refer to as National Whoops Day, as it would have been my thirty-third wedding anniversary, had we stayed married, but it WAS the fifth anniversary of two good friends of mine, Tim and Lisa. And the ninth would have been my precious Mother's eighty-ninth birthday, so it's been a season of memories all around.
Well, a couple days ago I came across a mother load of photographs. Fifty-six in total and no doubt will be sharing some of them from time to time on this blog.
Most were family pictures, but amongst them, were photos taken at the short-lived WRDT, a heathen radio station that Mortenson Broadcasting bought, cleaned up, de-smoked and nearly had to have a exorcism over!
It was the former WYNA, Raleigh's first Country Station, but an African American paper had bought it and aired some quite rebukable "music" and I recall their having a woman on air in the late eighties, early nineties who tried to mix the gospel with astrology. At the time Mortenson bought it it was WLLE.
WIth its new lease on life, and Christian programming, the station calls were changed to WRDT! How's that for confusing, Raleigh Durham?
Eddie Thomas and I got in on the ground floor of automating the station and airing Evangelical programs.
We no sooner got started and money bags Don Curtis came in and as he typically does, promised not to change anything, but changed everything, including three changes of the format and two changes that I KNOW of of the call letters. It's now part of the Curtis monopoly, which should not be, but that's another story.
For a couple of years there, we had a unique, truly Christian station and Eddie Thomas and I who had worked together at WPJL had a good time doing what we felt the Lord was pleased with. There was enormous potential there for ministry. Jack brought in a figure head manager, Randy Jordan just before Curtis' bags of money could be heard jingling our way.
Alas, Mr Jack Mortenson took the money and ran.
What's left are memories of a wonderful experience. I've emailed pictures, some of which are above to Randy and Eddie. Haven't heard from Randy, but it was nice catching up with old "ET!"Over the years, I've worked with some wonderful people in broadcasting.