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Merle Blair
Hatteberg's People
Reporter: Larry Hatteberg
May 20, 2006--"Well it's Sunday and that means
it's time for the Earl Blair Sunday show. Welcome to my morning."
Merle Blair's house sits in a tree-lined Topeka Neighborhood.
"This is our 2212th get together on Sunday and our 43rd year." |
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And downstairs, way downstairs, through the rec room,
the office, the storage room past the furnace and left at the wall, is a
studio where he created a lifetime of radio shows.
"Someone once told me that when I got in the radio business, that if I
didn't think I was doing something special then I shouldn't be in it."
It's been 43 years of a radio show done in Merle Blair’s Topeka
basement. |
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"Merle Blair on Sunday from 8 til Noon in our
43rd year."
Blair spent years in radio, even becoming a general manager. When he
left the business, he didn't leave his basement show.
"It's fun doing it, I mean I go through the whole hour, I don't voice
track, I play the music." |
Nothing fancy here, no computers, no CD's just
records, real LP's and Merle.
"Our get together this hour on the Merle Blair Sunday show made possible
by John Levin and Lindy Springs Systems."
Listeners have to realize that I wouldn't be here if all those sponsors
weren't here. |
His show airs on KTOP AM every Sunday from 8 till
noon. It could be the longest running independent radio show in the
nation.
"I get a lot of comments from people over the years and they don't
realize how important that is. Cause you know, if no one is out there,
then there is no use doing it." |
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For Merle Blair, someone has always been there. And
after 43 years, it appears he'll always be here too.
"And do you know what we feel about you for being
with us all these 43 years....I love you more and more every day....Al
Martino.........." |
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