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2009 Fulton Football Broadcast Schedule

    WKCS-FM 91.1 is proud to announce its broadcast schedule for the 2009 Fulton High School football season. Falcon Radio will broadcast all ten regular season match-ups, plus any post-season games. Broadcasts begin 3o minutes before kickoff with the student-produced “Fulton Countdown to Kick-Off.” All Fulton broadcasts will also be streamed live on the new WKCS website found at www.wkcsradio.org. WKCS has served the North Knoxville community since 1952, and began broadcasting Fulton football games in 1953. For more information, please contact Russell Mayes at 594-1259.

Date	Opponent	Pregame	Kickoff
8/22	@Morristown West	4:00	4:30
8/28	@Powell	7:00	7:30
9/4	@Austin-East	7:00	7:30
9/10	Alcoa	6:30	7:00
9/18	@Pigeon Forge	7:00	7:30
9/25	@West	7:00	7:30
10/2	@Gibbs	7:00	7:30
10/9	Gatlinburg-Pittman	7:00	7:30
10/16	Carter	7:00	7:30
10/30	Union Co.	7:00	7:30

 

Falcon Radio

WKCS-FM 91.1 is proud to announce its broadcast schedule for the 2008 Fulton High School football season. Falcon Radio will broadcast all ten regular season match-ups, plus any post-season games. Also, WKCS will carry two preseason games featuring Fulton against Hickory and Powell. All Fulton broadcasts will also be streamed live on the new WKCS website found at www.wkcsradio.org. WKCS has served the North Knoxville community since 1952, and began broadcasting Fulton football games in 1953. For more information, please contact Russell Mayes at 594-1259

 Fulton High School is the home of one of only four high school radio stations in Tennessee, and is one of only a small number of high school radio broadcast stations in the country. The call letters, WKCS, were originally chosen to stand for Knoxville City Schools. Now that the school system has merged with the Knox County Schools, the call letters are still fitting. WKCS went on the air during December,  1952. This was the second year for students at the new Fulton High School. The station originally began under the direction of Oma (Penny) Wendham. Penny taught English and one radio class daily. 

With the retirement of Penny Wendham in 1963, the radio station and classes became the responsibility of Joanna Huffman. The radio program also became a part of the Vocational Department at Fulton High School. For the first time, radio broadcast classes were offered throughout the school day. 

Ron Cassady held the duties of radio broadcast instructor from 1971-74. In 1974 he turned the responsibilities over to Fulton graduate and local broadcaster, Lynn Davis. Lynn held the position until 1976. 

In the days of radio’s block programming, the students wrote and produced their own programs. As the industry changed, so did the programming at WKCS. This block programming gradually gave way to the new type of programming with music as its staple. 

The station was originally licensed to serve the community with 310 watts of effective radiated power at the frequency of 91.1 Mhz. However, the station was never able to operate at the maximum limits of its power because the Gates transmitter, used from the early 1960’s until 1996, had only 250-watt capability. 

In the fall of 1976, local air personality Allen Johnson, known locally and nationally by the professional stage name Dr. Al Adams, took the managerial and teaching position at Fulton High School. Johnson had both a radio and television background as well as management experience. Dr Al became one of the most loved and respected instructors in the history of the radio program. Johnson   trained many successful broadcasters such as Jeff Jarnigan, Randy Miller, Butch Johnson, and Chris Wade.

In 2004, Al Johnson turned over the reigns to Russell Mayes, one of his former students. Mayes graduated from Fulton High School in 1995, and after graduation worked at radio stations WLIL in Lenoir City and WKZX in Maryville.  Mayes hopes to continue training professional broadcasters that will be very attractive in the job market, while striving to make WKCS an attractive listening alternative and an active member of the community. He believes that the two major strengths of WKCS are the station’s diverse oldies format that has attracted many new listeners, and the live broadcasts of Fulton High School football and basketball games.

 

In 1996, the old 250-watt transmitter was replaced with a modern state of the art stereo transmitter with an 1100-watt capability. After the recent renovation of Fulton High School, radio station WKCS is truly a state of the art facility in every area except one - power! Presently, an increase to 1000 watts of power is being sought to enable the station to better serve the larger listening area that developed when Knoxville City Schools and Fulton became a part of the larger Knox County School System