Renfro Valley Gatherin'
Genre | Country music |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | WHAS (1943-1957) WRVK (1957-present) |
Syndicates | CBS Radio Network (1943-1957) |
Hosted by | Scotty Bussell |
Recording studio | Renfro Valley, Kentucky |
Original release | 1943 |
Website | www |
Renfro Valley Gatherin' (also formerly known as Renfro Valley Sunday Morning Gathering ) is a
Format
This section needs to be updated.(October 2015) |
The Gatherin' program lasts a half-hour. The program begins with an opening
Prior to 2011, the show was produced as a live stage performance. The current incarnation of the program is recorded entirely in a studio up to two months ahead of its air date and features studio recorded music, with almost all of it selected from a very limited playlist of approximately ten songs (most of which feature the host's wife, Pam Perry Combs, on lead vocals).
History
The Gatherin' program was founded by John Lair, former producer of the
John Lair was the first permanent emcee of the "Gatherin'," and there have so far only been three others; Grant Turner, Jim Gaskin, and Wayne Combs. Gaskin died on Saturday, May 3, 2008, at the age of 70 following a long illness. From then until approximately 2013, the Gatherin' was emceed by Wayne Combs, who is also an entertainer on the Barn Dance and other Renfro Valley shows, and a DJ at WRVK. For 2014 and 2015 episodes, Billy Keith hosted the show. The 2016 host is Scotty Bussell.
After CBS Radio dropped the show at the end of the
Renfro Valley Entertainment Center
Renfro Valley Entertainment Center, the home of the Gatherin' and Barn Dance, has been under separate ownership from WRVK since 1978. At that time the radio station's then-owners, Cochran-Smith Broadcasting of Nashville, chose to move the studios, offices, and transmitter approximately one mile north of the entertainment center, to their present location on Red Foley Road. (Cochran Smith's group of partners had leased the entire entertainment center from Lair in 1966, then exercised their option to buy it in 1968. When they sold the facility back to Lair and his new partners, they kept ownership of WRVK, and moved it out of the Valley.).[1] WRVK is now a 1,200 watt station owned by Saylor Broadcasting, Inc. of Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.
WRVK airs the Gatherin' on Saturdays at 6:25am. The Renfro Valley Entertainment Center currently lists WCYO/Irvine, Kentucky and WLXO/Stamping Ground, Kentucky as official radio stations, but neither station carries the Gatherin'. The show remains in production and in syndication.
References
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