Friday, September 19, 2025

1972 Football bet between KAAY & WOAI

Here is another gem from the tape collection of Mark Moss, Wayne Moss' son.

It's an aircheck of WOAI-1200, the 50kw clear channel blowtorch from San Antonio, and DJ Bob Moody on a night in October 1972.  Bob talks about the upcoming game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Univ of Texas Longhorns on October 21.  And, whaddaya know, Bob mentions a challenge from "a radio station in Arkansas" over the outcome of the game.  Then he throws in a swipe that he "didn't know they had a radio station in Arkansas now".

Later on, he introduces the challenger and it's Wayne Moss with the terms and rewards of the bet.  After a few songs he brings Wayne on the show again.  This is all in fun, of course, and undoubtedly arranged beforehand as so many stunts in radio are.  It was a great bet from one 50,000-watter to another!  I got a feeling that Wayne and Bob were already friends before this.

This is DX reception from Little Rock, I assume.  While the WOAI signal is good at the start of the aircheck it deteriorates later on.

BTW Arkansas lost that game to Texas 35-15, in Austin before a crowd of 80,000+.  I wonder if the bet was collected and Wayne wound up doing Bob's show on WOAI?


https://archive.org/details/woai-bob-moody-and-wayne-moss-football-bet-october-1972


Greg Barman

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