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Showing posts with label People Dingle Dwight. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Dwight Dingle April 4, 2011 by Kevin Dayhoff


Dwight Dingle

April 4, 2011 by Kevin Dayhoff


Recently I have received several requests for what I wrote about our local beloved WTTR radio personality Dwight Dingle, who passed away on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 at his residence. He was 63.


So on April 4, 2011, I Tweeted: kevindayhoff: Re: requests 4 what I wrote on Dwight Dingle: @explorecarroll: 'Voice of Carroll County,' Dwight Dingle, dies at age 63 shar.es/3NJnL  https://twitter.com/#!/kevindayhoff


Our good friend Dwight Dingle, popular longtime on-air personality with our county ... in our great community. In many ways, Dingle was the personification of everything right about ... done for our community." WTTR, Dingle, and the other personalities at the ... ...

Published December 6, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... who always advocated for Carroll County. Dingle, the popular, larger-than-life cheerleader ... leaders have shared memories of Dingle's activism. The Community Foundation of ... the board of Westminster Fallfest, saidDingle "was a consummate professional, ... ...

Obituary and Appreciation By Kevin Dayhoff
Published December 2, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... of Carroll County honored WTTR and Dingle as the Business Philanthropists of the Year ... the board of Westminster Fallfest, said Dingle “was a consummate professional, and ... daughter-in-law Ryan and LeithaDingle of Manchester and granddaughters Carlie, Kirsten ... ...

Published March 22, 2009 by Carroll Eagle   http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/2578/wttr-history-air/
... Corp. (as in Pat, the game show host). "Pat Sajak really believes in community radio," says station manager Dwight Dingle. "When he bought us he didn't change a thing." Who listens? According to the station's promotional material, 66 ... ...

Noon, July 14, 1953: The AM station, founded by the late H. L. Russ Morgan and a group of local investors called the Carroll County Broadcast Corp., has its inaugural broadcast.

1958: Carroll County Broadcast Corp. launches an FM station, WTTR-FIVL.

1984: WTTR expands its 6 a.m-to-sunset broadcast to 24 hours and erects two additional 309-foot towers to supplement the original tower of the same height. Broadcast power: 1,000 watts.

2005: Station bought by Sajak Broadcasting Corp. (as in Pat, the game show host). "Pat Sajak really believes in community radio," says station manager Dwight Dingle. "When he bought us he didn't change a thing."

Who listens? According to the station's promotional material, 66 percent of WTTR's listeners are 35 to 64 years old, 99 percent are homeowners and more than 80 percent have attended college or hold college degrees.
Location: For the past 56 years, WTTR 1470 has broadcast from the same building and same location in Westminster. Once on the edge of a cow pasture, the station's facilities are just up the hill from a large subdivision.
Web site: www.wttr.com.

Golden Oldies  http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/2589/golden-oldies/ For more than 50 years, WTTR has been a breath of Carroll County air  By Bob Allen  Published March 22, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... can't get anywhere else," adds Dingle, a former Baltimore County school teacher who ... need to know." "Mark? ..." Dingle says, posing a rhetorical question to ... to do all these different things." Dingle is particularly proud of WTTR's ... ...

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April 4, 2011 UPDATE:

On August 26, 2010, s.stein commented: “i wish, if not could find, WTTR history online. he was part of that.. back when WTTR was just some 'old backwoods' mistake. :D even wiki has NOTHING on WTTR. (not that i'm surprised.) 8/26/2010 11:34 PM

And then on April 4, 2011, Brian Beddow said... “If you write one I would love to read it. I spent 7 years there 4/04/2011 4:37 PM

Mr. Bedlow and s stein, I did write a piece or two on Mr. Dingle, but I do not see them on "Soundtrack http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/"  For other articles I have pieces I have written about my good friend Mr. Dingle, please click here: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/People%20Dingle%20Dwight

Meanwhile, go here, on the www.explorecarroll.com newspaper website: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dingle&action=GO to find what I wrote about Mr. Dingle for the Carroll Eagle, especially: http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3689/dingle/

Thanks for being in touch.

Kevin Dayhoff



kevindayhoff (at) gmail (dot) com

His columns appear in the Carroll Eagle, http://explorecarroll.com/,
The Tentacle, www.thetentacle.com,
and Investigative Voice: www.investigativevoice.com
Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/
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20110404 sdosm update Dingle

Pictures: September 17, 2006: http://twitpic.com/4h4ebz Dwight Dingle shares a laugh while helping MC the Westminster Fallfest parade on September 17, 2006.  Photo by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/3utfjfj

September 23-26, 2004: http://twitpic.com/4h4fhn Kevin Dayhoff, left, mayor of Westminster 2001-2005 with Dwight Dingle, right, at a Westminster Fallfest event in September 2004.  Picture date: September 23-26, 2004, photograph by Caroline Babylon http://tinyurl.com/3utfjfj


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Saturday, November 28, 2009

A reprint of “Dwight Dingle, Sgt. Pepper, and a Bathtub”


Which appeared in the Westminster Eagle – http://www.explorecarroll.com/ June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff
Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/ra9by or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/260544005/heres-dwight-dingle-in-collage-i-did-of-him-for

Dwight Dingle will be greatly missed in the community.

He was a tireless community supporter and had a great sense of humor.

November 27, 2009 November 27, 2009 [20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and The Papas]

For more on Dwight Dingle go here People Dingle Dwight and here: Media Radio WTTR

Wayne Carter, writing for the Carroll County Times is reporting that “Longtime WTTR radio personality Dwight Dingle has died.” Read Mr. Carter’s article on the death of Mr. Dingle here: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/local_news/3_dingle.txt http://tinyurl.com/yfrx9tb

“Dwight Dingle, Sgt. Pepper, and a Bathtub”

Westminster Eagle –
http://www.explorecarroll.com/ June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

It was 40 years ago, last Saturday, June 2, 1967; when the Beatles released their eighth album, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Although musical taste can be fiercely debated; many music critics and publications consider this album to be one of the most influential of all time. “Rolling Stone” magazine lists it as the number 1 album in their 2003 list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

To put music in 1967 in context, the top songs that year were: "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams; "Ruby Tuesday" by The Rolling Stones; "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by The Supremes; "Penny Lane" by The Beatles and "Happy Together" by The Turtles.

In its rating deliberations, apparently Rolling Stone did not consult the Sam Greenholtz household. In a recent conversation with Mr. Greenholtz, a former Westminster City councilmember and now chair of the GWDC, he said that although “there were a couple of good songs, the album was for the most part - not appreciated.”

But his wife, Janice did not like the album at all. True to form, Mr. Greenholtz, a tireless downtown-Westminster cheerleader reminded me that in those days, Stu’s Music Shop on Main Street in Westminster carried all the Beatles’ albums and “forty-fives” and was “the center of our musical world.”

Vivian Laxton, Carroll County public information administrator, said she actually has a copy of the “Sgt. Pepper” album in her car’s CD player at the moment. But she promptly volunteered that she wasn’t even born when the album was released… Ms. Laxton, a French horn player, also called to my attention that the album begins with a French horn quartet.

Westminster councilwoman Suzanne Albert said she remembers the album well. She especially “appreciated the energy of the Beatles. Their music made people happy and brought a smile to their faces.”

Westminster Police Chief Jeff Spaulding, who shares my love of heavy metal volunteered, “The Beatles were a little mild for my taste. I was more a Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix fan.”

As far as the “Sgt. Pepper” album, Chief Spaulding said, “he appreciated the change from the pop orientation…to a more eclectic style of music.” Currently in his iPod is music that “runs the gamut from Nirvana to Extreme to Elton John to U2.”

Carroll County commissioners’ chief of staff, Steve Powell said “I listened to the Beatles growing up. And still have a moderately extensive collection of the Beatles on vinyl.” Currently in his CD player is “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and The Silver Bullet Band but he “listens to all kinds of music, from country music, to “Meatloaf” to John Cougar Mellencamp.”

I reached Dwight Dingle, a radio personality with WTTR since 1974, on the phone last weekend, while he was in Ocean City with other station staff members, where WTTR was receiving five Associated Press awards.

He said that he was a “The Mamas & the Papas” fan. He was a student at Towson State College when the “Sgt. Pepper” album came out. However, he remembers well that his roommate, “Buck” Jones, the former principle of East Middle School and now the principle of Carroll Lutheran School, was a big Beatles Fan…

Mr. Dingle thought the album cover for “Sgt. Pepper” was fascinating but “it doesn’t compare with “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover with the all the members of the band in a bathtub…”

Hmmm. Perhaps someone may want to call Dwight up at WTTR and ask him “on-air” to explain his affection for that “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover…?

The album, “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears” debuted in March 1966 and it has one of my all-time favorite songs on it – “California Dreamin’.” The first of ultimately three covers for the album, (now a valuable collector’s item) was banned in the United States “as indecent,” (for the silliest reasons – by today’s standards; and not because it contained errors in grammar.)

Have Dwight tell you the story…

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.



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Dwight Dingle WTTR announcer has died

April 4, 2011 UPDATE:

On August 26, 2010, s.stein commented: “i wish, if not could find, WTTR history online. he was part of that.. back when WTTR was just some 'old backwoods' mistake. :D even wiki has NOTHING on WTTR. (not that i'm surprised.) 8/26/2010 11:34 PM

And then on April 4, 2011, Brian Beddow said... “If you write one I would love to read it. I spent 7 years there 4/04/2011 4:37 PM

Mr. Bedlow and s stein, I did write a piece or two on Mr. Dingle, but I do not see them on "Soundtrack http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/"  For other articles I have pieces I have written about my good friend Mr. Dingle, please click here: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/People%20Dingle%20Dwight

Meanwhile, go here, on the www.explorecarroll.com newspaper website: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dingle&action=GO to find what I wrote about Mr. Dingle for the Carroll Eagle, especially: http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3689/dingle/

Thanks for being in touch.

Kevin Dayhoff
kevindayhoff (at) gmail (dot) com

His columns appear in the Carroll Eagle, http://explorecarroll.com/
The Tentacle, www.thetentacle.com
and Investigative Voice: www.investigativevoice.com
Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/
Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://www.kevindayhoff.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff

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Wayne Carter, writing for the Carroll County Times is reporting that “Longtime WTTR radio personality Dwight Dingle has died.”
For more on Dwight Dingle go here People Dingle Dwight and here: Media Radio WTTR

The news brief said to look to the Saturday paper for more.

Update: Read Mr. Carter’s article on the death of Mr. Dingle here: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/local_news/3_dingle.txt http://tinyurl.com/yfrx9tb

For my friends on Facebook, please see my collage featuring Dwight here: http://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff?ref=name#/photo.php?pid=223090&id=1040426835
Source: CARROLL: Local radio personality dies By S. Wayne Carter Jr., Times Staff Writer Friday, November 27, 2009

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/27/news/breaking_news/98dingle.txt

20091127 Dwight Dingle WTTR announcer has died

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/11/dwight-dingle-wttr-announcer-has-died.html http://tinyurl.com/ygfxoaq

@CCTNews Wayne Carter reports Dwight Dingle longtime WTTR radio Westminster MD announcer has died http://tinyurl.com/yfrx9tb
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Monday, June 11, 2007

20070611 Follow-up on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville”

Follow-up on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville

June 11th, 2007 2:30 AM

UPDATE: I wanted to call to your attention the comment that Mr. Burns left… on "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville" (I wish I could figure out a way to highlight comments better…)

Before I get to Mr. Burns’ comment, I want to say again, how much I appreciated his post that brought back so many memories of a time and place from a long time ago. Thanks.

For those who are not aware of Mr. Burn’s web site – Please check it out. It has become part of my necessary reading everyday. Find it here: Maryland Politics Today.

As far as Dwight Dingle and WTTR – these folks are simply super. Dwight and I had a great deal of fun with my Westminster Eagle column on aspects of 1967 last Wednesday, June 6th, 2007: Dwight Dingle, 'Sgt. Pepper' and a bathtub band . (I may need to republish it on “Soundtrack” as I have received questions from many folks as to where they may find it.

Meanwhile – some insight into the column can be found here: 20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and The Papas.”

Of course, it was the topic of on-air discussion the day it came out, June 6th, 2007 and then the next evening, I talked about the column and other erratum on-air with Bruce Main…

Anyway:

P. Kenneth Burns has left a new comment on your post "20070610 The Last Train to Clarksville":

Believe me when I tell you this, it was more of a play on words than anything.

Little known fact, around the time when I was in the 2nd grade back in 198x, Nickelodeon and Nick and Nite picked up The Monkees television show. Then some years later, I come to find out that there is a Clarksville in Howard County.

As far as the Betamax reference, that was more irony than anything. If you are a regular YouTube user, feel free to look up user "videoholic2007," who was boasting about his Betamax collection.

BTW, Dwight Dingle and the folks at WTTR are a nice group. check out the pictures on my main site, www.kennyburns.com from my visit up there last year.

Thanks for the feedback. And oh, I saw The Monkees TV show when it was prime time TV… And Mr. Burns, the next time you are in town, please let me know. Lunch is on me.

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

20070606 Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and the Papas

Dwight Dingle and The Mamas and the Papas

June 6th, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

I had been in contact with Dwight several times recently as he is included in my Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Westminster Eagle column… (As I post this it is not online yet.)

In my column Dwight is credited with remarking:

“I reached Dwight Dingle, a radio personality with WTTR since 1974, on the phone last weekend, while he was in Ocean City with other station staff members, where WTTR was receiving five Associated Press awards.

He said that he was a “The Mamas & the Papas” fan. He was a student at Towson State College when the “Sgt. Pepper” album came out. However, he remembers well that his roommate, “Buck” Jones, the former principle of East Middle School and now the principle of Carroll Lutheran School, was a big Beatles Fan…

Mr. Dingle thought the album cover for “Sgt. Pepper” was fascinating but “it doesn’t compare with “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover with the all the members of the band in a bathtub…”

Hmmm. Perhaps someone may want to call Dwight up at WTTR and ask him “on-air” to explain his affection for that “The Mamas & the Papas” album cover…?

The album, “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears” debuted in March 1966 and it has one of my all-time favorite songs on it – “California Dreamin’.” The first of ultimately three covers for the album, (now a valuable collector’s item) was banned in the United States “as indecent,” (for the silliest reasons – by today’s standards; and not because it contained errors in grammar.) Have Dwight tell you the story…

So just what is the explanation as to why Mr. Dwight Dingle is on The Mamas and the Papas” cover for the album, “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears?

Perhaps you may wanna give him a call to find out…

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20070605 WTTR the “Voice of Carroll County” wins five awards

June 5th, 2007

(Paraphrased from information on the WTTR web site on June 5th, 2007)

WTTR wins five awards for news and sports from Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association:

The awards were presented by the Associated Press last weekend in Ocean City Maryland.

Mark Woodworth, Dwight Dingle, and Tom Burnett were cited for OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A CONTINUING STORY for November's "ELECTION NIGHT 2006."

Pat Sajak's "I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT..." took top honors for being the OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OR COMMENTARY.

The best PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM OR SERIES went to the "CARROLL COMMUNITY FORUM - MENTAL ILLNESS" show.

The WTTR news staff (delivers) 27 locally produced newscasts every weekday from a crew that has won hundreds of professional journalism awards and community honors over the past several decades.

In several phone conversations with Dwight over the last several days, he said more information will be forthcoming. I had been in contact with Dwight several times recently as he is included in my Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Westminster Eagle column… (As I post this it is not online yet.)

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Friday, April 06, 2007

20070405 Sports Hall of Fame preps for 2007 class

Westminster Eagle

04/05/07

The Rotary Club of Westminster has announced the inductees for the class of 2007 Carroll County Sports Hall of Fame.

This year's members of the hall will be honored at the annual Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on Friday, April 13, at Carroll Community College, beginning at 6 p.m.

There are currently 54 persons honored in the hall of fame. The five inductees for 2007 are:

*Amber Clutter Hunter -- a soccer All-American, All-South Region, All-State and All-County player, Baltimore Metro Athlete of the Year and 12-letter winner at South Carroll High School;

*Tom Reese -- a football and wrestling standout at North Carroll High, All-County and All-Monocacy Valley League player in football, two-time county, regional and state champion and All-American in wrestling, three-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion and three-time NCAA qualifier in Division One.

*Charles Robert Barnhart -- the first quarterback on Westminster High School's inaugural football team. He also played basketball and played shortstop on one of Westminster's best baseball teams.

*Dwight Dingle -- has served many years as sports voice of WTTR-Radio. He has promoted and developed the station's Athlete of the Week Award, and covered nearly every sport played in Carroll County, following teams all over the region; and

*Paul "Pete" Widener -- played football, basketball and ran track at Westminster High, played football and lacrosse at Duke.

He was an All American, All-Conference and All-Metro player at Westminster. At the college level, he played football in the Cotton Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic.

The unveiling ceremony of the plaques on the Sports Hall of Fame Wall will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the induction banquet in the college atrium.

Tickets for the evening are $30, and are available at The Boston Inn, 533 Baltimore Blvd., and branches of The New Windsor State Bank.

For more information, call 410-848-9095.

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

20060923 Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video





Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video


On September 23rd, 2006 distinguished members of Carroll County’s leadership got together for a pie eating contest during Westminster, Maryland’s 28th annual Fallfest celebration. Only a funny thing happened on the way to finishing the pie. A food fight broke out. Watch and laugh.

From right to left: Joe Cimino, Missie Wilcox, Tom Welliver, unknown, Ron Schroers and Dwight Dingle. In the background is the moderator, Lori Graham.

For previous posts on Westminster’s Fallfest click on:

20060925 Some Fallfest pictures

20060922 Westminster Fallfest Montage

20060921 One of my favorite Fallfest pictures

20060917 Who put the fun in Westminster Fallfest fundraising

20060916 A reprint of my Westminster Fallfest column from Sept 22 2004

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20060923 Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video