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Show Tom Bock on KSL Rndio WEn ns til Mam IbdMiM T I : v ' '0: f -xSkX; .V ; ; 'vv; W,Y YCY YV t : ; ' N V:;lY! . - . " x ' f ; V f ? ; Y;fMvv I i -s CY wi 1 Y! t s y x : y , ; V, . ; , y 4 , II ii-VVrY; ;-v;-v; iyy yy; v -,y,j . pun a- A.rrW'..& y h:.:;-..--i 1 Ill t-S ,1 - By Nan Chalat As we begin the perilous approach .toward 1984 and each of us succumbs to various forms of future shock, rushing, always late, and on the lookout for speed traps, we learn to treasure constancy. And so we seek out a friend, one who makes few demands and who isn't likely to be in the midst of the absurdity attack which threatens to envelope us in a giant cloud of worry. We are in luck, it is 9;02, we are late . indeed for work, but Tom Bock is on the air and as a ' member in good standing of V the morning show he is sure to bring us relief from the mountaing frenzy of the day. The dial is set permanently at 1160, KSL being one of the only stations with the necessary neces-sary voltage to locate our aerial and sigh, Tom is on and as always in fine spirits. The Bocker would jever let us down. We know that t.-... iL.i. !i. . ..i .... Four years ago Tom Bock moved to Park City and during the winter on snowy mornings, Parkites turn to KSL before attempting Parley's Par-ley's Summit. At just about 8:30 a.m. Tom would call in from his car radio with an up-to-date on-the-spot traffic report for those on the way to or from Park City. He has been a special friend to Park City in other ways also. Tom is a member of the Park City Wireless Board of Trustees lending his vast amount of experience to the fledgling station which is due to sign on the air on July 2. He is confident that KPCW will be a success. "There is a whole pot pourri of interesting people in Park City. People who know about drama and sports and- every kind of music. The diversity will add a lot of depth to the , station." The determining factor in the station's success, suc-cess, he adds, will be the community's response in Behind the scenes at the mid-morning Medicine Show. 11C KllUWa. 11111 115 U. l ill IttLC out there but ultimately he assures us everything will be okay, except in Miserable Merlin's case however but that is just because, we gather -from Tom, Merlin stopped caring. In fact if he would stop feeling sorry for himself and take some of Aunt Minnie's advice he would probably be a lot better off. And as Tom chats about ongoing events of the day, shares tidbits that we might have missed in the news, plays some music and tells a few jokes our neck muscles unclench and the rest of the day seems at least possible. KSOP and then the evening k news on KSL. Before long he found himself in the prime ; time radio slot 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. In those two years, the Bocker's personal style evolved evol-ved radiating a sense i of amused rationality. Tom will admit to having bad days but, "Hopefully," he says,' "you will never know." i in" nir"iinnr""ii n ' liViiiHTI'mmnrmrnurinnniirniiiiii 'mm i icrm ui inuney ana ume. According to Blair Feulner,; ; the f Bocker will emcee at; Wireless's sign-on party. 7 ' " Well the morning has passed without a major crisis. Tom hands oyer the controls to Morrie Carleson. "Notice we never say good- ; bye," he points out. "Our philosophy is that we never leave you," and on that added note of support (it is Tom Bock has been a "radio personality" at KSL since 1973. The term radio personality is used to differentiate differ-entiate Tom's style from the keyed up record spinning DJ. Tom explains that he lets a lot of himself reach out toward his listeners. "If I can touch someone positively then I am rewarded." So each morning, Monday through Friday, Tom Bock sets out to reach a multitude of listeners in nine states. Tom is doing something he has always wanted to do. It is apparent in the way he bobbs up and down to the music in the studio and smiles into the mike. He is living the dream that he had as a fifteen year old when he set up a neighborhood radio station. "There were about three ol us who were really hard core," he remembers. "We used to ride around on our bikes with transistor radios to see how far the signal would go. We knew that we were transmitting further than we were allowed to so we kept changing the call letters." Throughout school Tom picked up part-time work at commercial radio stations. He majored in speech at the : University of Utah with an eye toward becoming a newscaster, and then there v was a short stint at Continental Continen-tal Bank in the . Master Charge Department; But his resonant made-for-radio voice seemed to lead the way back to broadcasting. 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' :. ,. ;:. -.' , .. . . , ".v , . , . ,; ; : - f 1 r . .- ' t if ' : . . i ' r r' r t . " "i . ' Tom screens material from the UPI, API and weather wire services. nice to know that someone will always be there) we go about the rest of the day knowing, thanks to the Bocker, that we can handle it. ; r s 1 ' - ' ; : : : - 7 .'A ; 1- illilllsv ' " " t '' ' :. S; x 1 '; alt N- ' Tom Bock will be in Park City July 2 to emcee Park City Wireless's sign-on party. |