The Tyler Chronicle Worldwide Edition, Winter 2022

BMCN Radio Network Tops 120,000

Bobby D. Moore has realized the dream of a lifetime. He has launched his own radio network. "I have been in love with radio since I was a kid," he said. "And now the development of the internet and digital electronics has made it possible for me to accomplish what only a few years ago would have been impossible. I am grateful to God for the opportunity to create this powerful instrument for good."

As a child Moore listened to stations like the powerful border station, XERF in Del Rio, Texas. "The station was so powerful that your automobile headlights would light up from the signal when you were parked near the antenna!" he said. XERF has a colorful history which Moore is more than happy to relate, but that is another story. Some years ago, in fact, he made a trip to Mexico and Del Rio to try to buy the station. "I didn't have enough money to pay for gasoline for the trip, but I wanted my own radio station," he chuckled.

Local radio stations also impressed Moore as a child. "In the earliest days (when I was about five), all the local stations were AM. The reception was not the best, but let me tell you, some of the best programming came out of those little stations! The earliest local radio personalities I remember played country/western music. Hank Williams and Eddie Arnold were at the top. When the first rock and roll music and news station came to our little East Texas town, it really shook things up. Sermons were preached against it and Elvis was condemned as a disciple of Satan. But the best rock and roll DJ ever to exist on the face of the earth got his start on a station in our town. His name was Paul Williams... "Tall Paul" Williams to be exact. Paul wasn't tall at all, but in all my years, I have never heard a radio personality who could outdo him!" Moore still has recordings of Paul Williams on the air in the 50s.

But all the quaint memories aside, what has driven Bobby Moore to launch BMCN? His smile vanishes when asked this question. It is almost as if he becomes a different person. Here is what he has to say....

"I have always cherished freedom. I had the good fortune to grow up in what I believed to be the greatest nation on earth, and basked in the great freedom, which I, like many others, took for granted. It may seem a little contradictory, but although I viewed it as a birthright, I realized that freedom could be lost. And as the decades passed, I personally witnessed the erosion and usurpation of that freedom, bit by bit and piece by piece.

"Politics, government, and history didn't interest me very much; I was completely immersed in science and technology during most of my childhood and well into middle life. But as time passed (as I mentioned before) I began to see the growing intrusion of the federal government into the lives of the people. I watched our culture disintegrate. I watched public education become a propaganda tool; I saw our moral values inverted. I watched America become a police state. I personally experienced it.

"As I saw it, I had two choices; one was to try to escape the oncoming tyranny; the other was to stand against it. You can see which choice I made. It remains to be seen whether or not that was a good decision for me personally."

"The purpose of BMCN is to provide entertaining programming and a very healthy, if somewhat alarming, dose of what I believe to be truth. ( Mark Twain advised us to use truth sparingly, since it is a very scarce commodity!)"

"And so, BMCN (The Bobby Moore Communications Network) is based upon lofty ideals. But that's not enough; it's ultimate success will depend upon your support. " At the time of this writing the network did not charge for advertising.

Actually, BMCN is a network of seven stations, including the recently added You Tube television edition. Our address there is: You Tube BMCN Television. To reach a complete directory of the BMCN radio stations go to www.bmcndirectory.com

BMCN The Bobby Moore Communications Network Honors Paul Williams

According to Bobby D. Moore, founder of BMCN, Paul Williams was the greatest Rock and Roll disk jockey to ever spin a record. Paul, "Wild Child" Williams was one of a kind. Teenage girls went crazy over him, local preachers accused him of leading the town's youth toward the burning pits of hell, and the sponsors of his after-school radio shows smiled all the way to the bank.

The year was 1958 and Paul Williams was a senior at Tyler High School in the last graduating class before the name of the school was changed. And that's not all that was changing in Tyler, Texas about that time. In fact, you might say, "Change was in the air!" The town had supported two AM radio stations; KGKB, the older of the two at 1490 kilocycles which signed off at sunset, and KTBB with the more favorable frequency of 600 kc. Both stations were well accepted by the highly conservative and very fundamentalist population. They played a lot of country music and each had its share of Sunday morning church services.

But then, about the time "Tall Paul" graduated, the radio "airwaves" of a new and very different station signaled "change" for Tyler radio! Broadcast-ing. From their new studios on the 13th floor of the Peoples Bank Building, KDOK began spreading the musical gospel of "rock and roll". It was the "real deal" featuring the original recordings of the greats; Fats Domino, Elvis, The Everly Brothers, and all the rest. For some Tylerites, entrenched in their ways, it appeared that the "end of time" had come! But for many of the younger set, it was a breath of fresh air.

The timing was perfect. The new station arrived at exactly the right time to capitalize on the rock and roll wave that would soon be sweeping the country. And Paul Williams was there; his show was an immediate success. The effect this young man had on his listening audience was phenominal. Included in this article is a poem about the "new" station written by a Whitehouse High School student of the time (a young man, by the way). Paul had an incredible wit and was a master of "word play". And when he was sitting between the turntables and in front of that big old studio microphone, he could do no wrong! But "away from the microphone" may have been another story. There are at least two versions of the following tale. Here is the story as related to us by Paul himself.