{"id":6265,"date":"2015-04-14T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:19:50","slug":"floydian-slips-bizarre-collection-of-antiques-curios-13-champ-101-3-montage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/04\/floydian-slips-bizarre-collection-of-antiques-curios-13-champ-101-3-montage\/","title":{"rendered":"Floydian Slip&#8217;s Bizarre Collection of Antiques &#038; Curios #13: Champ 101.3 montage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>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<p>By summer 1995, I no longer worked in radio full-time. <strong>WEXP 105.1 FM<\/strong> in Burlington, Vt., where I&#8217;d spent the previous year, had gone belly-up, and I&#8217;d become convinced there was a better career for me outside broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>But then there was &#8220;Floydian Slip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After starting the show as a college student in &#8217;89, and then producing it at WEXP, I was convinced the show was viable and ought to be able to find a home on another station.<\/p>\n<p>That summer I wrote a fairly formal proposal for the show, and mailed it to the two rock stations in the Burlington area: <strong>WIZN 106.7 FM<\/strong> &#8220;The Wizard&#8221; and<strong> WCPV 101.3 FM<\/strong> &#8220;Champ 103.1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Champ&#8217;s <strong>Rich Haskell<\/strong> immediately got in touch, expressing an interest in reviving the show. After waiting a few months for the station to find a sponsor, I started hosting &#8220;Floydian Slip&#8221; on Champ.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to have the show back up and running, but bringing it to Champ felt funny. The station was only a year old, and I&#8217;d spent the previous year at WEXP, another new station that launched just ahead of Champ, so regarded Champ as &#8220;those <em>other<\/em> new guys.&#8221; It felt a little like I&#8217;d flipped to work for the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Our first Champ show \u2014 Show #8 \u2014 probably aired <strong>Wednesday, Oct. 18 <\/strong>or<strong> 25, 1995<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The show remained a weekly offering on Champ nearly 14 years, surviving a number of ownership changes and shuffling timeslots. (The artwork shown here was Champ&#8217;s second logo, used only in the last couple years of Champ&#8217;s time as a music station.)<\/p>\n<p>Over the years we might have revised the opening montage that started each Champ show. But the audio posted here is the only montage we have archived, and it&#8217;s likely the opening that played most often during our time on Champ.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pulled from <strong>Show #246<\/strong>, broadcast <strong>Sunday, Aug. 6, 2000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6265-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/champ-opening.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/champ-opening.mp3\">https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/champ-opening.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. By summer 1995, I no longer worked in radio full-time. WEXP 105.1 FM in Burlington, Vt., where I&#8217;d spent the previous year, had gone belly-up, and I&#8217;d become convinced there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-show-1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","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=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}