History

History
The first home of The Brian Mason Show, WSM-FM in 1980	The Brian Mason Show began playing Contemporary Christian music on May 4, 1980. During these 28+ years, we have enjoyed over 1400 shows and thousands of guests. It has become a Sunday morning staple in Nashville radio. The program started as a half hour show on WSM-FM, which, at the time played mainstream, adult contemporary music.
After a few months, due to listener response, the show extended to 1 hour; 8-9 am. In February 1983, WSM-FM's format was changed and The Brian Mason Show found itself at a new home... WLAC-FM. This relationship continued for the next 15 years until a format change moved the show once again in February of 1998. The new home for The Brian Mason Show is Mix 92.9 in Nashville.
Before the Sunday morning Christian music show, I worked in radio and TV. In fact, my first job was at a hospital in my home town of Hialeah, Florida. Hialeah Hospital provided a closed-circuit TV station to its patients. I was 16 and a broadcaster!
	This job held me thru most of high school. It was great learning TV lighting, camera and video tape operation, and basic announcing. Somewhere, I still have some of those old tapes. They keep me humble!

Next came college! I went to Freed-Hardeman in west Tennessee. My first radio station was WFHC-FM (right picture).

My second year of college was in Montgomery Alabama. I worked in radio and TV there.

Me at the controls at WLAC (1975)

When I came to Nashville in 1973, my first radio job was at WLAC. It's a 50,000 watt monster which gets into about 38 states at night. I found many old high school friends listening from Miami while on the air there at night.

I also had the chance to meet and work with some pretty neat people while at WLAC.

Me and Tony Orlando in May 1975

Wolfman Jack visiting WLAC in Sept 1975

Since beginning the Sunday morning radio show in 1980, I've been involved in several TV shows as well. Click any of the pictures below to see full size.

In 1987, I began doing a show on channel 39 in Murfreesboro. The show was "*Crosstracks". Here's a shot with the group Whiteheart. We're celebrating the release of their new album (Yes, VINYL!), "Don't Wait For The Movie". Pictured front, l-r: Mark Gersmehl, Chris McHugh, me, Rick Florian, and Gordon Kennedy. Back row: Tommy Sims* and Billy Smiley.
The next show started in December, 1990 on Channel 66. It was fun to do a 4-hour radio show on Sunday from 6 to 10, an hour break, then a live 2-hour TV show.