"Texas" Terry Phillips, in Detroit?

Yea I get that one alot. Here's the short-ish version:

I grew up in Dallas Texas, my dad lived in Michigan, so I spent one month of summer and a week round Christmas in Michigan. At age 5, I "borrowed" my father's tape recorder and began entertaining myself... By the time I was 7 he had "interviewed" Yoda, Kermit the Frog, and other character voices. Including getting friends to help out with parody songs, commercials, and fake radio shows. My other love, was computers, rocking a Comodore 64 BBS before 13.

Growing up listening to Ken Dow, Bob Shuman, Blair Gardner, Steven's & Pruit, Andy Barber, Kid Kraddick (starting as a night jock), Jack Murphy, Billy Burke, Pamula Steele, Moby in the Morning, and more of the radio great's who went through Dallas, & collecting hotline numbers from those stations and talking to the jocks often enough to encourage me, a doe eyed sucker lol.

From big stations, an internship with KZPS, to board op, part time on air, and voices for the morning show at Y95, KHYI... To small; weekends at KBUS, nights at KIKT & KPLT, and first nights, then mornings at KBYB, where a consultant first added "Texas" to my air name so Texas Terry Phillips got the "Texas" in Arkansas HA!!!...

Starting out working with, following around, and generally annoying amazing talents like Brian Wilson, Aubrey Hayden, Buzzy Bennett, JJ McKay and Jack Murphy in Dallas could be the blame for encouraging me in the production room, but it clicked at KIIM in Tucson, computers (which did I mention I dig, cause I'm a geek) in production gained me some clients, awards, and more responsibility. By the time I left Tucson I was handling most of the imaging for the station and had an ever-growing client list.

Then in the odd move, I, Texas Terry turned down nights at legendary WSSL, and moved to Michigan!!!

Well I wanted to get to know my father, and to help sign on WFBE in Flint as Production Director and Midday air talent. I met my wife a native with families ties, had some of the most beautiful children on the planet and in 2000 I was hired away by CBS Radio at WYCD in Detroit, then adding WOMC and other random responsobilities.

So, here I am, a proud Texan, and someone who has fallen in love with Detroit. So Yea I'm a Motor City Mouth, a geek, Texas Terry, a Creative Director, Voice Over guy, and DAD... You know, that last one is the coolest though.

The lastest from CBS Radio's 104.3 WOMC Detroit!

To the left and right you'll find some samples of the imaging created for 104.3 WOMC Detroit. As best as possible recent featured audio will be posted as examples. Comments encouraged, to comment or contact Terry, click CONTACT on any page, call, or email... 

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All Copy, Character Voices, and Imaging FX are copyright Texas Terry Productions 2000-2011, and created by Terry Phillips.

To the LEFT is some of the "Detroit Pride" imagry

and Station Imaging

To the RIGHT are recent Winning Weekend  and

Contest imaging examples

(all written and produced by Terry Phillips)

I often think of Detroit, and the Rodney Dangerfield of cities… Time to give respect, show the love, man up, and be proud of the Motor City…

I think sometimes the dred we hear in the local news, the negative way friends from out-of-state view our home, and the way national media covers Detroit and the Motor City with a clear spite makes us forget how great this town, and this state really are!

Sure we’ve had mayors who have not helped, some who have hurt… a lot, thanks Kwame. Oh yea and the feeling that American built stuff isn’t so good anymore. Well that’s all hogwash. So as one of the behind the curtain people here, I’m going on a little crusade. One of enlightenment, one for the good, no great stuff right here that even those who live here forget. Who knows, maybe, just maybe, if we start to be just a little more proud of the Motor City, a little more proud of this great state of lakes… MAYBE we can help make it even BETTER!

So, reason #1

WHY I LOVE DETROIT: NEW VS. USED

This is the only place in the world where:

• We see concept cars roll down the road!
• Along with Random strange “Cars”
• Where a caravan of next years cars circle the cities highways with manufacture plates
• AND where we can see a 1965 Pontiac Trans Am (super rare) next to a 2010 Chevy Camaro at a random gas station!
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I'd love to hear why you love Detroit... or your story of your great town, and great imaging you've done there...  Tweet them to @fmprodguy, click the contact button above, or just email me.

Thanks for your support