FROM THE CRATES
Listen to ‘The Voice of [jeff] Winter’ from the crates Kelly McCoy is a veteran Atlanta broadcaster who writes about the days popular music only came on vinyl records, which often were stored in crates. I’ve been blessed to have met many successful professionals in my industry and call them friends. These people have voices as different as they are. About 50 years ago, I heard a voice like no other. That voice belonged to Jeff Winter. Jeff’s voice was not the typical “radio voice” we were accustomed to hearing. By that I mean big pipes, or a somewhat deeper voice. His voice wasn’t high, but it wasn’t low, either. It was smooth, casual, and velvety. Not weak by any means, but natural and unaffected. Many radio types yell, grunt or growl. And there are other adjectives that could be used to describe their delivery: one technical
Jeff Winter
term we use in the business is “puking.” I first heard Jeff on WQXI FM, the sister station of WQXI, “Quixie in Dixie,” the legendary
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allowed to observe onsite remote broadcasts by WNBC for hours at a time. The program director was impressed by his enthusiastic interest in the station. Jeff was Kelly McCoy, left, and Jeff Winter invited to visit the studios and sit in with people Top 40 AM station that on the air to watch real live produced a list of wellradio from a heritage station in known radio and voice the famous RCA Building. talent long enough to Fast forward a few years. rival any station. (A fact After getting his first full time many Atlanta radio fans job at 17, then volunteering don’t know is that WQXI and working at a handful of FM once had the call New York area stations, Uncle letters WKXI. When Jeff Sam invited Jeff to join the U.S. began his radio tenure Army. in Atlanta, he actually While he was stationed at started on KXI.) Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Jeff is a native New Jeff was assigned to the Public Yorker who started his Information Office as a career after being bitten by the radio bug in the nation’s Broadcast Specialist. During Number One market. As a his stay, he entered a talent young 15 year old, Jeff was show at the service club with
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