Dr. John's Radio Emporium WYNR 1390 now online

Today, I bring you exciting news in an update of a post I did on July 24, 2012 about my neighbor John who'd started his own radio station in his home broadcasting the hits of the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's every Saturday night from 7-9 Central Time. At that time, John's show was only available by radio within a small radius of his home station, but John has since gone digital and now everyone can tune in on Saturday nights via his web site: WYNR1390.com. 

These broadcasts are gems,  little slices of old-school broadcasting, like John did when he started out as a DJ at KAND 1340 back in the sixties. Each week features a theme, and this week's is 5 by 5: five songs by five different artists: The Eagles, ELO, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Poison and Van Halen. If you're near a computer Saturday night at 7 Central, tune in for a listen to Dr. John's Radio Emporium! *Note: John never misses a broadcast, but since I posted this yesterday, he was injured and is in the hospital recovering, so he cannot broadcast this week, but will be back next Saturday, March 8 - tune in then.

Also, he takes suggestions and requests for future shows via the email link on his site. Past shows have centered on the 25 greatest songs of the 60's, 70's and 80's, backseat of the Chevy, 50's doo wop, Southern fried rock, and Texas artists, to name a few.

To read the whole story of John's beginnings in radio, second career in television and movies as a production manager, and third act as a Dallas constable, go to my 2012 post, but here are a few extra fun facts that I learned during my last chat with John, who is like a walking encyclopedia on the history of radio broadcasting.
John has now been inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.

In the 60's John was an instructor at the Elkins Institute of Radio Broadcasting here in Dallas and Rush Limbaugh was one of his students.

Most commercial stations do not play songs from before 1964, which was a turning point in the American music scene due to the British invasion. John's station plays songs reaching all the way back to the 50's.

The music director of John's station, dubbed "Nurse Gina" is his lovely wife and greatest cheerleader, Gina.