Jimmy Roach was part of the top rated WDVE morning team in the 1980s who went to our major country station WDSY after leaving town for Florida with his partner Steve Hanson for a few months, and failing to regain audience when they came back to town. Hanson left radio for print and public TV gigs. To a 15 year old kid at the time, it was a betrayal to us, for him to do mornings without his other half, playing a music that he said he always preferred. He did their morning drive for a long time, and now does the same for a group of the local :”Froggy” stations on simulcast.

A few years later the demise of “Jimmy and Steve”, an overnight jock by the name of Chris DiCarlo left the WDVE over musical differences, although there were rumors of more personal issues. It didn’t hurt that she also posed in Playboy. She then convinced a small FM station on the outskirts of town to let her program it as heavy metal. The station was always changing formats (and automated to boot) so it didn’t matter much that the 10 people in their audience tuned it out. But the publicity chased off the local feed store ads and the hassle she brought convinced the owners to go back to country thru a satellite feed. Think she filled in at the 2nd level hard rock station for a while, but soon took a job at the same country station as Roach. She’s been the PD there for most of the last 20 years, with all the bravado about playing “our music” forgotten. By then, I understood it was payin’ the bills, not the music, that was most important.