{"id":6150,"date":"2015-03-22T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2015-03-22T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:22:45","slug":"floydian-slips-bizarre-collection-of-antiques-curios-8-wexp-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/03\/floydian-slips-bizarre-collection-of-antiques-curios-8-wexp-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Floydian Slip’s Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios #8: WEXP photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we lead up to\u00a0\u201cFloydian Slip\u201d Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we\u2019re digging into the archives to share relics from the show\u2019s past.<\/em><\/p>\n

WEXP 105.1 FM<\/strong>, an Adult Album Alternative (Triple-A) station in Burlington, Vt., was the first commercial radio station to carry “Floydian Slip.”<\/p>\n

I started the show there Friday, Dec. 2, 1994<\/strong>. It aired at 11 p.m. once a month, during the new moon, while I served full-time as the station’s evening jock.<\/p>\n

The “Experience 105.1” studios were located on College Street in Burlington, on the second floor across from what was The Burlington Free Press space. At the time, I was living about a two-minute walk from the station, across from City Hall Park.<\/p>\n

Aside from the occasional rumble of traffic that sometimes permeated the studio walls, it was a great space \u2014 warm, friendly, high-tech and very downtown chic. At least by Vermont standards.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the station was a brand new, stand-alone start-up, and within just a year ownership had exhausted its capital and sold to another local broadcasting company. Hall Communications<\/strong> took over WEXP in spring ’95, moved it to its existing facility on Joy Drive in South Burlington, and WEXP became WKOL.<\/p>\n

“Kool 105” remains on the air today, playing classic hits, though none of the full-time WEXP staffers continued after the sale.<\/p>\n

Hall Communications is also the owner of WIZN 106.7 FM<\/strong> in Burlington. “The Wizard” is a rock institution in Burlington, and the station I aspired to be a part of when I was studying broadcasting in the ’80s. WIZN has been a “Floydian Slip” affiliate since autumn 2009.<\/p>\n

… we came in? Isn’t this where …<\/p>\n<\/a> WEXP air studio: XTC, the Allman Bros. and Robert Plant all on-deck in the lower-left of this photo. Jocks had complete creative control. Play whatever you wish, talk whenever you want to, and say whatever you feel like saying. Rare for the mid-’90s. Even more rare today.\n

 <\/p>\n<\/a> WEXP air studio. The station’s music library was composed mostly of CDs donated by the station’s seven owners. That might be Pink Floyd’s Shine On boxset on the bottom shelf.\n

 <\/p>\n<\/a> Visitors to the front office were greeted by a large mural of the WEXP logo.\n

 <\/p>\n<\/a> The WEXP front office, viewed from the entrance\n

 <\/p>\n WEXP production studio \u2014 all-digital and state-of-the-art for its time\n<\/a> WEXP production studio\n

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As we lead up to\u00a0\u201cFloydian Slip\u201d Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we\u2019re digging into the archives to share relics from the show\u2019s past. WEXP 105.1 FM, an Adult Album Alternative (Triple-A) station in Burlington, Vt., was the first commercial radio station to carry “Floydian Slip.” I started the show there Friday, Dec. 2, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6172,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}