![]() ![]() ![]() The format was Southern Gospel, but Jon hoped to introduce listeners to CCM. When they couldn’t fill a slot, they played music. Management wanted to fill the day with paid teaching programs. WCVC was what most of us would call a “dollar-a-holler” station. Records, turntables, carts, cheap-microphones and a “Flintstone-era” control board. It wasn’t so bad during wintertime, but in the summer when the days were long – it was brutal. For those who can remember working at a ‘daytime-only’ radio station, that means he worked from sunup to sundown on Saturdays. His first radio job was for an AM Daytimer (1330 WCVC – The Christian Voice of the Capitol ) where he worked between classes and on weekends. In 1976, Jon transferred to Florida State University (Go ‘Noles) and became a Mass Communications major. Two years later the man who gave him the internship, Jim Campbell, from Radio Training Network, launched WCIE/Lakeland, FL. Another friend gave him a lead for a radio internship to fulfill some college needs. ![]() But friends helped him realize that “stardom” wasn’t all he thought it would be. He was originally a theatre major in college and had big dreams about going to New York and landing lead-roles on Broadway. “įrom that point on, he realized just how powerful Christian music could be in softening complacent hearts. So, I got up from my drums in the middle of the song and asked Jesus to forgive me. At the church there was always an altar-call, but on this day, in his words, “I realized that the relationship I was inviting others to experience was one that I didn’t have myself. You see, he was playing drums for a Christian youth-choir. He came down from the platform of a church to approach the altar. Jon Hull “walked the aisle” in 1971 at the age of 15, but didn’t do it like most people do. ![]()
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