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Translated from the original French, it means “THE Moines.”

February 21, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

OK, perhaps our French is getting rusty. But we did in fact spend a pleasant day in Des Moines as part of our cross-country travels last summer, gathering a near-complete update of IDs. And we also picked up a good chunk of some nearby markets: brand-new Cameron MO on the way up I-35, then Cedar Rapids IA and a very complete run of the Quad Cities IA-IL market, too.

Enjoy – and check out some matching photos from the trip over at Site of the Week!

 

We’ve lost a member of the Toppy family

February 19, 2018 By Scott 2 Comments

There would be no Tophour.com without Brian Davis. He was the founder of this site and is still our spiritual guru, even long after he handed off management of the site to the current bozos.

One reason Brian had to dump Toppy duties on our heads was the ongoing health battles of his wife, “TLMD, the Lovely Mrs. Davis,” or simply Heather. Her long fight ended last week and we all miss her dearly.

Brian asked that in her memory, we share her self-penned death notice as widely as possible. And we’re happy to do it, because the woman was funny as hell. (No, really – you thought Brian’s posts here were clever? He married up. Way up. We’re just saying.)

So we send our deepest condolences somewhere way out I-80 to Iowa and the Davis and Neal families as we share Heather’s farewell.

(PS – when she writes that “she tolerated her husband”? She really, truly did. Even the parts with all the boomboxes and airchecks. And that’s a rare thing indeed.)

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Heather Lynn Davis told this world to get lost on Friday, February 16, 2018.

She was born on July 28, 1973, and adopted shortly thereafter by Walter and Rose Neal. Turns out you really can choose your family. Upon realizing that she’d proven that piece of conventional wisdom wrong, she decided to make proving the world wrong her life’s goal.

Well, that and becoming Mrs. Donnie Wahlberg. You can’t always get what you want.

She graduated from Wahlert High School and Northeast Iowa Community College. In a moment of apparent weakness, she married Brian Davis on April 17, 2004, and upon realizing her mistake, adopted three fur babies of her own: Bob, Gordon and Chuck.

She liked musicals, bad movies and TV procedurals. She loved to cross stitch and read. She was into Chinese food, wine and her mom’s pie. She liked making the house look like Santa threw up each December. In much the same way some people buy underwear, she bought purses. She worked in a bakery but still liked donuts. She went to Mexico. She went to Hawaii. She went to Spain. (She did not go to Oklahoma). Like many kids her age, she became obsessed with New Kids On The Block and Janet Jackson. Unlike many kids her age, she got to meet them, and the aforementioned Donnie Wahlberg palmed her head like a basketball. It was difficult to get her to wash her face after that. She transcribed doctors’ notes at a mental health clinic, ran the art department for a craft store and liked the people at her cancer center so much, she went to work there. Some people there received home care as well from https://homecareassistance.com/marin/.

Yeah, she had cancer — three times, and two of those times, she wrestled it to the ground, gave it a noogie and made it cry “uncle.” She also had two heart transplants and a kidney transplant. She spent entire years of her life in hospital rooms, convalescent areas and doctor waiting rooms. She did not complain. Much.

And she loved The Lion King. Like, really loved it. Like, had multiple copies and pretty much every tchotchke that had a Simba on it. (She also loved the word “tchotchke”).

Heather loved her family, and just about everyone became family. She fiercely loved her parents. She adored her brother Phillip, his wife Crystal and their children and grandchildren. (Especially the grandchildren). She loved her in-laws, Kim and Laura Davis, her sisters-in-law, Amy, Sara, Beth, Katherine, Lizzie, Elizabeth’s husband Dustin and their boy, Sterling. She treasured the women who became her sisters, Julie, Lora, Shannon and Tina, their husbands and children.

She loved and missed those who went before her: her grandparents, Horacio and Rose Gonzales and Wesley and Nellie Neal; many aunts and uncles; and her Baby Gordon.

She admired and was grateful to her doctors, nurses and staff at Finley Hospital, the Mayo Clinic (Transplantation at Mayo Clinic), and Gift of Life Transplant House in Rochester, Minnesota.

She tolerated her husband.

In keeping with her wishes, there will be no visitation or services. Those things creeped her out.

One last thing: Heather apologizes for referring to herself in the third person in this obituary.

 

 

One last hit on Colorado

February 14, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

Our summer 2017 travels didn’t take us to any tower or studio sites in the Colorado Springs market – we were there for non-radio reasons, as it happened – but we had the radios running like crazy out in the car to get as close to a complete sweep of IDs as we could. (It was long overdue!)

(There’s one major local station missing here, but it wasn’t our fault. They didn’t do a legal in 85 minutes of airchecking them across a Sunday afternoon.)

A break from Colorado

February 7, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

We’re still putting up more Denver pictures over at Site of the Week – but we’re out of Denver IDs from our 2017 trip! So we reached back into the archives for some older material that hadn’t made it to Toppy yet…and we invite you to enjoy a big pile of Atlantic City and Salisbury-Ocean City IDs from summer 2016. The Atlantic City stations have stayed pretty stable, but there have been a bunch of changes in and around Salisbury that we need to get back to the shore to record this summer!

Finishing off Denver, more or less

January 31, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

This week’s update finds your editor still fried from filing translator applications for clients (all done!) – but in the meantime, here’s the rest of the Denver FM dial as I recorded it on my August 2017 visit. Again, there are one or two that went astray, in particular no legal from 106.7 KBPI, a few months before the KBPI rock moved to 107.9 up in Fort Collins and a co-channel Denver translator, allowing 106.7 in Denver to become country “Bull.” And I think I missed a couple of HD2 IDs, as well, which may yet turn up.

Meanwhile, you can see where all those iHeart IDs originate on this week’s Tower Site of the Week. (More Denver pics to come on Friday over at fybush.com.)

Denver 2017, part 2

January 24, 2018 By Scott 1 Comment

There are a lot of FM stations in Denver, too. And I’m too brain-fried from filing translator applications for Fybush Media clients to come up with very much clever to say about them – so I’ll just leave you with the lower half of the Denver FM dial, nearly complete from August 2017. (I think I didn’t get KJMN on 92.1 or KBCO-HD2 on 97.3 in this batch.)

See some neat Denver tower and studio photos over on Tower Site of the Week, with more coming to fybush.com on Friday!

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