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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTom Journey Stock Report Code Transcript, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Interview Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Tom Journey | Former WTAW Radio Host Daniel Hayes | Transcriber Transcript 00:00:01 Dick Bolin (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947- 00:00:04 Speaker 2 Now let's go to the bonfire signed where WTAW's Tom Turbi-? 00:00:07 Speaker 3 -WTAW election night coverage. All 8 voting centers in Brazos County have been counted- [Unintelligible sports broadcaster and crowd of screaming fans] 00:00:14 Speaker 4 Today on WTAW, we're joining with businesses from across the Brazos Valley , to support our- 00:00:20 Speaker 5 16.20 WTAW. 00:00:22 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW The First 100 Years. I'm Tom Turbiville. It was about 20 years ago, I believe, that I was invited to a reunion of WTAW disc jockeys down in Navasota. I'll never forget meeting Dick Bolin, Conrad Behring, Tom Journey, and John Holman. All four of those gentlemen are gone now, but what stories they had of broadcasting from A&M's YMCA building during the World War II era and the post-war time. One story I'll never forget, Tom Journey talking about giving his stock reports. 00:00:56 Tom Journey (TJ) It was some stock market reports, and there was uh, agricultural programs, and there was some uh, music programs. They were on the air about an hour and a half. To illustrate things that you could get by with, and nobody knows this, they're going to know it now, I had a system worked out with my girlfriend who lived in Belleville, and I needed to communicate with her uh, something. We had signals interspersed uh, with the stock market reports. We're talking about the uh, commodities or cattle or agriculture or whatever different type of description that I use of what the market was doing uh, was sending a signal to her that I'd see her this weekend or I couldn't come this weekend or she should come to A&M or something like that. Nobody ever caught on as far as I know and the reports were legitimate. You could use slow or easy or sluggish in describing a market, they all meant the same thing. But to her, each one meant something else. 00:01:55 TT Great stuff there. This is WTAW, the first 100 years.