A quiet night in my part of the world

Few things are as serene as tonight. Not that I got tight with something sweet and am enjoying a bit of euphoria that goes on after the wyld thing. Nope not even there. In fact its that with the snow outside and with LexiBelle down on repairs I was able to just go for a walk downtown and back. Sure its cold outside and all and the sniffles surly will start again, but cabin fever got purtty bad so out I went.

When one does not have to drive and worry about the idiots you get to absorb the beauty and peace. Then about my return home seeing just a few and I mean few cars out, including some cops busting some drunk, down a mile from the house, I just looked and felt a albeit a few minutes of divine peace. It’s like with the white outside, that even hustling bustling Twin Falls, covered itself in white blanket, rolled over and went to sleep.

Upon my walk I got to thinking of all the things that lead to my near mind freeze over the last few weeks, as well as the seemingly dead end that seems to be the norm for our half of Idaho. The things I returned here after I said no way in haideeze would I ever do this again in 2002, and even when I nearly was headed back to Utah, after a little bikini bar bouncer who heckled me beyond anything needed. I thought bullsbreath. My loyalty to Big C wont change and while not even close to re-entering the toew bizz again, I’m not quite ready to close that door. Just got to be the right place. I know where, but that’s at least two years off, if it ever does happen in Idaho, for that.

Now to put some minds at ease, the media werx plan is to train, Sylver Star , to a point , then Ceaser to where in a year or two, I can hand the keys to the radio gig, over to them, with Sylver Star being main boss and Ceaser her Vee-Pee, so I can return to Utah to regain control of operations at AyreWolf Aviation, and of course regroove Dixie Toewing in Utah, and do my end of HazzardAyre there, and know , that outside of fire and /or flood, KDXB is in good hands.

But the Utah life works better for me there are other resources there that will never be in Twin Falls, likewise resources to put Hazzard and WyldAyre over the top. Or at least get to an altitude and attitude the media werx and most important the club to grow beyond the boundaries we are restrained under now.

More over I need to find me again, someone I miss and lost in 2006, when I got conned by a nose candy hussy, to moving back here in the first place.

I like the idea of being able to just make a phone call to get models for photo projects or videos, from established agencies. Rather than having to put up ads on CraigsList and getting crack sluts, who are looking for quick bucks. I want and need those fully trained to just slyde in , do the gig, get their money and slyde right out, not linger.

Or when needing on air talent going to established media recruiters rather than the Craigs List thing. In radio and media both TV and Print, if you wait for the resources to catch up to you, it might just pass you by. No matter the production idea, if you thought it, two others already have. You have to act decisively , if you don’t your idea is already on screen and somebody else making money off it long before you get your horse out of the barn. Idaho’s trucking and toewing industries need what we do, the long stretches of long black, tonight white ribbon, of highways, have residents on them that need to know the latest, in their worlds, they also want to be entertained and want a little spice in their radio rather than the bland, LDS Approved version they get elsewhere. But I do not have to be here forever to make that happen. A good GM and assistant can do the day to day duties as easily as I do, once trained in Hazzard County procedures. Sylver Star has the open mind to absorb such, but hey I might be wrong. She might bolt, so I’m taking that easy. But once her or who ever I train is fully trained and Hazzard Certified, and I’m out of aviation engineering school, my tail is in Utah, the radio gig or Idaho’s end of it is here and so it goes.

I could go on there, but ya’ll get the idea.

On nights like this, I think of those days with Monkey, sitting on the floor, in front of a fire place, in Payson Utah. It was a night like tonight, on that floor, that in 1994 , I asked Monkey to marry me, surprisingly , she said yes. Sadly though the memory of due to the pressures of my going toewing and all, that I came home through a hell snow storm through Paris canyon in southeastern Idaho, to get home and find Monkey and Mike gone. Only a note. She’s why I’ll never get that serious about any woman again, EVER.

Although I don’t blame her. Few if any woman, could keep up with my schedules and life, from tow to radio to TV and producing films, its difficult for women not used to it , to live with someone that has to cast women for acting and other drama activities. Plus the on call, never go very far from home due to tow duties. Hell I didn’t resume flying until 2001 and that was only by divine inspiration.

I’m still hacking, but its more dry air than flu. Looking to getting a humidifier. That is when there is one to be bought.

Until Saturday afternoon,

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Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
--Dr. Martin Luther King

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New hires

Had a pitch that came in during our toew show earlier this evening so I need to address it as best as I can.

We have , pending some formalities , a new intern that can bloom well as an area supervisor and Vee-Pee of Confederate Star Media.

While I’m tickled so far and all I want to make sure that all understand, I have no alternate ideas here. In fact it wouldn’t matter if Sylver Star was male or female, her dedication and responsive attitudes make her a real find. Now the fact she just happens to be a she, in a fine package don’t hurt either, but again it’s the person inside.

She’s eager and seems to have both sides of her brain connecting. Which is also very rare in this area.

Then got a blip from one of the hecklers that was a tragic upset to the HazzardAyre project over December.

By January 2nd they wanted money. The question was, what do we pay them for? If I took out my normal consultation fees of $50.00 an hour, they wouldn’t get anything. Plus standing guard when her ex came to pick up his stuff, then going to the car lot she had got a car from to negotiate release of the vehicle. She didn’t mind calling me honey then. Really? And she wanted paid for this?

On anybody so far, I have yet to find the slick glide in of the moxy test, you know the lips on toes in hose thing. I have yet to find anybody who have came in and just pulled off a heel and said here ya go. In fact I have only had 3 in the last 25 years do that in this area. The first is one from Boise who mailed me a regular letter with some crude but good Polaroid's of her. I trucked up from Pocatello, met with her, she put toes in front of my nose , plus we worked on poses and even went to the mall to shop for threads for the shoot. I took LexiBelle up, with a photographer and pics were done, she got paid everyone was tickled. If my ex hadn’t thrown most of that away out of jealousy , I could even use those today.

The next of then new hires came in from a simple two or three line ad I put in as a after thought into the what was then Farm Times of Idaho. Thinking maybe I might get an ex rodeo queen to apply. After three interviews one came in that is my measure of the best. Robin came in, in a mid knee dress. I told her the look, we wanted and what was the gig. She went home, put on a hot skirt, nice hose, and came back. In no short of a time about two weeks of us working 13 hours a day, I had a talent, who didn’t flinch or do the 30 question of the toes in my face thing. She could recite copy, and I could mix in music long after, without her even being there. I’d be thinking of an idea or topic for the show and she’d call me up even in mid sleep and we’d both be on the same page. Now understand Robin by no means was a pro model when we found her. She worked part time at the WaySide, outside of Heyburn doing dishes and serving then at Simplot’s cafeteria, but she wanted the career, not just a job we offered.

After a month we were so in tune, many of the club thought I should have married her, and a few times in the booth things did get a bit steamy, but we left each other extremely great friends. She now is a marketing executive with Freightliner , making the better of $2,mil a year. But she wanted it.

Then there is Ellie May our Nurse Goodbody, because she truly has the look of Nurse GoodBody of HeeHaw fame.

The first time , Ellie May called me, she came over and wasn’t impressed and then called back a few days later.

When she called for interview #2, I told her about the moxy thing, and the only question she asked was, Pantyhose or stockings, shyt I thought they were the same thing. Not only did we do that, but we worked and had a budding near multi million dollar gig about to go viral on two TV networks an as well as radio. Plus the fact she bailed out LexiBelle, which was a plus, but she believed in the project. To the point she’d drive the 35 miles one way through some really nasty weather to be there at midnight, yes MIDNIGHT the bewitching hour, but did not let that hour bother her. Her hubby would pack us lunch she’d bring organic root beer, and a radiant heater we called Henry, and we made great radio. The default came when mail from the club, failed to reach us because a postal service worker of Gooding couldn’t figure out I had just moved 8 blocks on the same damn street. The delay got under the skin of a realtor there that leased us the facility, the rest of that most of ya’ll know. And had a few doubters stayed out of it and not made waves, I had alternate quarters found and we could have launched on time. But know what? Ellie May and I stay in touch are great friends, and she’s also ready to jump back in once we relaunch full on in June or so.

Now I have the new trainee, Sylver Star, as we call her on air, who has that same IT factor, if I can just bring it out. While at the first interview I was going to administer the moxy test, I thought not yet. I’m waiting for that as a surprise when she shows up to start training. She’ll know the right time and all when, but I think Sylver Star has the ability to be in the company of the ones who stuck to it, worked with me in the unorthodox methods we do, and know what? I see her, becoming a true media talent if not complete celebrity by this time next year.

But then there are those that find the need to call the fuzz, create hate in with club members and associates , just to make trouble because of sour grapes.

These will be the same ones that will be lined up to main and all the way to Clear Springs in Buhl, wanting to be part of HazzardAyre, WyldAyre or Confederate Star TV, begging and saying I’m sorry. At that time it’ll be the other club members doing interviews and they don’t do it like I do.

The bottom line, with new hires, when I’m impressed , I put my all into the new hires , I’m impressed with, because I know the quality of the shows, the network will be because of them , this is a team effort. In a few days when she’s over the flu like I am, and have had, I’ll have her write and post her own into bio, on this newsletter to introduce her to you, by next Friday don’t be surprised to hear her on air.

Any mile taking the night off, threw the net switch Friday Night, see ya’ll Saturday Afternoon here, and on air,.

L8R Ya’ll

 

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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
--Publilius Syrus

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More Ayre , less Hazzard

I have been caught between two affections and due to advice from a Doctor and a few others , I have been instructed to be making some serious changes in my life.

When I nearly had a partial stroke, this past week and needed a jump start, to stay alive after couching due to the flu, the Doctor told me, I have to either scale back or stop or retire some activities. One of course is toewing. A job that should be okay, but increasingly is becoming more a pain versus the money to be made.

Then there’s the club, that I pledged to serve until death, which includes this radio media gig. That I truly believe in, but wondering, is this even the place for it?

Could it be as simple as having one or two club members maintain the studio in Buhl, but I move and produce the shows from one of our stations say in Utah or even Arizona. The latter is getting very much an item on my HUD. Of course flying, I’m not ready to hang up, was doing that long before toewing, in fact in case somebody wondered , is why that landing pad was made right in front of the big house on the hill in Hazzard.

For my Hazzard friends and all, been thinking on getting in touch with Ben & Alma, see if they’d be interested in old LexiBelle, as a display truck for Cooter’s Place in Tennessee, if so, fix er up a bit and donate Lexi to them. Still thinking on that but thinking hard.

After that concentrating more on things, flying, AyreWolf(Airwolf) and the AyreWolvez, rather than things Knytes-of-Anarchy , and to retain some Hazzard connection, just run Hazzard County Choppers. Outside of that fly , not so much tow in the cold snow.

Its not so much money although that has something to do with it as, I can make more flying than toewing, but I have gave nearly 40 years to towing, have seen the best, trained with the best and by the best in the business. But I’m getting burned out.

The Doctor told me, that if I didn’t slow down, get somebody on board to do the majority of the leg and stress work, or start delegating tasks to, the next time I got a blank out like I did from coughing, it might be the final ejection. In other words shaking hands with the reaper.

I’m not ready to check out just yet.

So in short , hauling Lexi over next week, park her behind Rick’s place, and look to doing that in summer then make the decision to stop towing and send her to Cooter’s Place, or whatever then. In the meanwhile, doing more for the AyreWolvez, including doing more air seat time, and flying. In fact plan on hitting the city of LDS in May to get my two aviation degrees that I need as well as advance flight ratings.

The reason there is Ayre coupled with Hazzard is, because its those two worlds, Hazzard County and AyreWolf(Airwolf) mashed together. In short, its time for me to do more Ayre than Hazzard. More overnight, but seeing above the clouds this past week said, I need less rather than more.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht

Psalm 118:5-6“When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

During the transition HazzardAyre will be off line for a few miles

A nasty fight erupted on fb last night between two factions that I thought had shook hands and made up.

One is on a crusade to get every tow service counted in America. The other I thought was just a casual page for us who just dug older and even classic tow trucks.

Apparently this is not the case.

But the entire issue or issues stress’s the reasons, that years ago, there was a need that the then Hazzard County Knytes(now Knytes-of-Anarchy ) urgently felt a need to address, and formed an alternate group called the Rode Knytes Association.

This was at the same time that the towing industry’s voice was as silent and still as a wupperwill at winter.

Lets face it, the tow operator, more properly called a Emergency Vehicle recovery Technician, is the last and hardly that of everybody who drives. Glad we’re there when needed, and so on. The greater public does not feel the slightest interest in our industries problems. Even though those issues can effect the price they pay for our services.

Public education was job one for the Rode Knytes, and as such launched KTOW AM 1090 in December 1983. We ran and still do, a program called Highway Hooker. Now the terms were racy but got you to listen in. If the prudes really wanted a bitch session here’s one, would you let your kids watch a hit TV series about Nerds(Poindexters) a hit series on CBS TV if you knew the title song was by a group called the Bare Naked Ladies? So true, The Big Bang Theory’s theme song is by Bare Naked Ladies. But you still watch.

Okay off point.

But it would seem that what we did then needs to reoccur. This industry of ours was always competitive, even cut throat in some places, but we all shared the same issues and concerns. Many fought between each other. And while there were national organizations that seemed to speak for all seldom did. TRAA(Towing & Recovery Association of America) which I joined seemed all too interested in big cities and big tow fleets rather than the mom and pop single or two truck companies out here in the sticks. The situation of the landscape hasn’t changed much. Tow shows are still only held in big cities back east or near casino filled towns in Nevada. Oregon has a good one, but ain’t been back since I was treated like crap, one year. Washington has a good show, but it’s a pay to visit show, bullsbreath.

The State of Idaho started a trade group, but its numbers are off into the stratosphere, due to the enlightenment of the fact its recreator and past prezz was using the organization to market product, and at the same time taking a great discount as a dealer to equip his own fleet to compete with the rest of us.

However if you cross our states border to the south , you find Utah. The Utah State Towing Association is one of the most professionally ran groups of its kind. Not only looking out for the big outfits but not putting up a big finger to us in the smaller fleets. Like ours , SpeedWrench Toewing of Morgan Utah. With only 3 trucks we weren’t the biggest but someone that stretch of I-84 could count on.

To the ends here, its time for the might of Highway Hooker to re-enter and once again be that loud howl of towing.

As such, as HazzardAyre is taken from a small blog and reworked into being HazzardAyre Radio as well as a full web site of its own, I’ll be switching to www.highwayhookergazzette.blogspot.com .

More in the morning cold meds really got me dizzy.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
--Dr. George Washington Carver

1 Peter 1:15-16“But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Old is not always bad, in fact Old can be radically new

There was a condition that reared its evil head a few hours ago, amid my hacking cough a call came into DXE HQ, for a special tow.

So I took old LexiBelle out and in shorter order, that old 500 Holmes, did the job quick and made the few others standing around in their coveralls with new equipment bewildered.

Old skool, beat new gear again.

Then I get on fb, as I tried(still am) tried to warm up some b4 calling it a night, and saw a thing on this fb page about a national tow list. and putting out a directory of tow companies as a resource to motorists.

Not a bad idea. But its been tried before, with ultimate failure. TRAA, (Towing & Recovery Association of America) , put one out of its members to AAA for a resource. Some were AAA contractors, some weren’t. But the arguments started, AAA was sending none AAA contractors on motor club calls, over AAA contractors , because the none AAA contractors were less cost to the motorist. So AAA stopped publishing the directory and TRAA stopped listing it. The National Street Rod Association, put out a similar directory, for NSRA members. It was called the NSRA Buddy List. Hot rod shops, tow services etc gave deep discounts for being listed. Again arguments started, ultimately NSRA quit the service. Our parent organization the UAITA published a similar directory, that went out to our long haul otr members. Again, none UAITA member companies got called, over member companies. Even to the point everybody started undercutting each other to get on these lists. With some going as so far as trashing other companies trucks so they couldn’t respond, so others could.

To put out such a list takes a ton of research and many employees. Some companies that look like good guys on the surface are sharks feeding off guppies underneath.

One poster on I Love Tow Trucks said something like just do a simple Google search. Well that can be good some search results can pop up from disgruntled former employees or customers who didn’t feel they got a fair shake, or at least a good deal.

I have always said, when going to a new city and your looking up a tow service, look for names of companies, that have been in business for at least 30 plus years, under the same trade name, and ran by the same person or family of the creating owner. In Idaho that number is small. In fact only 8. There’s us here at Highway-Hooker/Dixie Toewing. Hagerman(Hazzard) Idaho. Boise TNT Towing, and B&W, Wrecker Service. Pocatello, Denny’s Wrecker Service Stan's Towing and Custom Towing, in the Idaho Falls area its Morgan's and Sunkiss Towing. Outside of those everybody is either new, start ups or merged with others.

Even partnering with other companies is a tight rope walk. Even though your partnering with another company, you both want each others calls. And its not uncommon to find bitter feuds between good friends due to these feuds.

I’m not saying co-operation between companies, territory protection, and other things like that can’t be done. But in the 21st century, we are living under an even more cut throat industry. The toew pie is even thinner per slice than it was even 20 years ago. Anything that gives you a foot and leg up is good, but the effort can outweigh benefits if you tick off some competitor you might have to work a gnarly wreck clean up with . Its best to leave the listings to the Yellow Pages.

Keep it toewing

 

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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry

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Some of the happiest people have the smell of a cow barn

I still haven’t got the green light from our new Miss AyreWolf to tell you about her here, so I’ll pass that off, and get into the topic.

I got inspiration on this from Our Miss AyreWolf 2013, from a photo posted on her fb page, and thought I’d expand on that a bit.

Since I can’t talk might as well write.

Any flyte, I think it was on the movie Bruce Almighty that it was said best , that the happiest people on earth come home smelling like hell. Hard work that sheds sweat is not bad, in fact its honest. No corporate politics, no back room deals, no nothing but straight forward work.

It’s like gals I have met. Some of the dearest women I have had the pleasure of spending time with are the ones not trying to put on a public show with their looks or bodies, but are quite content just being themselves.

It’s like somebody asked me not too long ago, if there was one place I’d love to live, it’d have to be of course in Hazzard. Well my Hazzard, Idaho. Our family while we did well money wise didn’t really have all that much in worldly goods. While the house was grand by all standards and at least 20 plus years ahead of its time was built with hard work, lots of sweat and much of it by ourselves. I can remember the nights, mom would put Bag Balm on her hands after sanding 8 times 4 on each side of every damn door and there were many, of that house. Then Varathaning each door another 8 times , light sanding between each coat. I can remember stringing wire and hooking up each individual plug to its own breaker switch in the control box. We must have strung enough wire in that house to wire the Pentagon twelve times. Yet at the end of the day, on that front deck, sitting there as only the Doves, and quail sang and we sipped our home made shine, it was just the three of us.

Of course the reasons I had to leave outside of service to the USMC, I have told, many times, but that’s where my mind races when over done by stress today.

I truly wish I could see a future like that of then, but sadly I can’t. But in my minds memory I can relive those days, of racing all around the valley in the General Lee, watching kids of the era climb to the fence at all Junior and grade schools in Twin Falls just to catch a glimpse of OUR General, I can remember the innocent days of busting our knuckles on a 49 Ford F100 to get it ready for a car show, that rivaled all the store bought customs there. After which such innocent releases was ice cream at the A&W on Blue Lakes BLVD where Mister Burger is now. Or Roller Skating where I wasn’t very good, but it was fun.

I can also remember seeing Jimmy and his family, loving each other in rather bleak looking living conditions, but they made it work, and it was there’s. Many envied my life, but having money does not always mean bliss.

It was just after Mom passed and as much as the club guarded me, I felt like a mouse on a field being eyeballed by a great hoot owl. Seemed like every eligible female wanted me. Not for me, but what was attached to my wallet. But I was way too stupid to know. It was at the end of my last marriage that I flat determined that I would dress close to being southern country as I could, drive an older truck, and just be me.

Of course Radio stardom didn’t allow that very much, but I decided that if a gal truly wanted to be personal with me, she would take the time to get to know me, not the club, not the radio gig, certainly not AyreWolf Aviation, Dixie-Deere Racing, or Hazzard County Choppers, just get to know me. And make it honest.

It’s like my extended family in Soda Springs and Grace Idaho.

My Uncle Dell, is the best example. My Cousin Claude, is a supervisor and design tech for Utah Power, He makes good money, but he is most happy riding those hay fields on his horse in solitude. My Aunt Delora, was happiest doing barn milking chores, feeding everything from chickens to peacocks, making great sweet rolls and homemade bread, and that homemade ice cream. In short they didn’t have a lot of worldly riches , but they had a love of family and desires of protecting family traditions that bound them together unlike the wilds of today. My second cousin Brady, Claude's son, is a champion NFR Cowboy but is most happy on a lone trail on his horse.

I can remember summers there, the three of us, myself , cousin Claude, and, cousin Raydean down the field, racing each other moving sprinkler pipe. Sitting under that tiny apple tree and chowing down green apples till we were sick, but it was fun. I was completely happy.

These are some of the innocent and family values we try to impart on today’s radio scene on HazzardAyre. But there are those that love to find fault.

There are those that say we are a bit too wild for them, yet they air HeeHaw, and WKRP, and we are the ones they call racy? Come on give it a break. Looks to me like I need to get hooked back up to cable TV again, don’t it?

But aside that, There are many TV shows that even Family Net does not run.

Of many from the Dukes-of-Hazzard, Airwolf, B.j.& The Bear and some others, they should run. This is why we are bringing to light something called Confederate Star TV, in 2015. But until we get there, doing up HazzardAyre Radio is job one.

But I like to keep it simple and honest. And while way too many of the lovelies that hindered to entering the Wolf’s Den to take part in the thoughts of something terrible would happen to them, is at best a big laugh. As it is our and my idea, no gal is going to have anything happen to them, that they don’t want to happen. If they don’t want extra attention, do not brush off those pheromones .

I come from a family and heritage that put most women on a throne treated them with respect. And like a lady at ALL TIMES.

It’s true, that some of the happiest people smell like hell at the end of the day, just like working on a farm. Or coming from the milk barn.

More flu meds then, bed, hope I’m able to do radio overnight.

L8R Ya’ll

 

Quote of the Day:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
--Dorothea Brande

Matthew 6:19-21“[Treasures in Heaven] “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

          

Confederate radio started late one mystifying night

There came a time like it does in every tow truckers life, when I was sitting at the yard, guzzling down a few gallons of watermellon wine, I was tuned into this radio station down Utah yonder and they was doing a otr trucker show thing. I thought just dandy. But I thought, what about us tow truckers? Don’t we count? Back then us who drove a tow truck were seen as a necessary evil in driving a car or truck. Glad we’re here when needed, glad we ain’t when not.

The issues that were plaguing our industry, from image to new ways to tow were increasing ten fold. There was a need for a radio voice for us who tow.

A company name I had used prior to Dixie Toewing/Hazzard County Garage, was drummed in as the new overnight heavy haul tow truckers radio show. But where to air it? Oh we pitched the thing to every gall darn radio station in the valley and one out of Boise, no luck. An old Navy Recruiter buddy of mine said AM 1090 is open for licensing. But what call letters? After churning many over, we arrived on a set that matched. KTOW or KAY-TOW , that had even legendary announcers trying to pronounce it. It was pretty much at that time I said, put a hot set of hosed toes by the call letters. mash the words of toe and tow together as toew, and whala , KTOW was born December 12th 1983. The first programs that aired was we called Highway Hooker Radio. Hooker as in cb slang for tow truck, highway where we worked. After that we filled in space with everything we could find. Then a slight eavesdropping on KNBR out of San Francisco, and caught this now defunct thing called TalkNet, that had such radio pioneers as Sally Jessie Rafael, on there. So I called NBC in NYC, got in touch with the right people and little KTOW became the only, repeat ONLY , NBC Radio affiliate in Idaho. This was good since it gave us access to Doctor Ruth, as well as Doctor Demento. The program schedule ran with 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Road Resque Radio, 6:00PM to Midnight , Highway Hooker Radio, and over night Heavy Hooker Radio, that eventually became Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio. For 29 years little KTOW has been pumping out that tiny 1,000 watt signal keeping those who tow on their toes.

That changes this year. KTOW gets some muscle. In the fall of 2013 here a new tower will go up with new antenna and get the urges of 50,000 watts. Making KTOW the most powerful AM station in the Magic Valley in fact in this part of Idaho.

But let’s look at the rest of what KTOW brought to the radio table.

KTOW brought and will continue running full radio lap to lap coverage of all major NASCAR races, as KTOW is the only MRN (Motor Racing Network) affiliate in Idaho. Next KTOW will continue Highway Hooker Radio and target those who tow, but more KTOW is where kids can visit to dig on tunes as KTOW will be a Radio Disney station , all this from a mere dream and a magical night in that big house on the hill overlooking what we proudly call Hazzard Valley Idaho.

Stay Tuned.

 

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