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Format Change: 1050 WHN New York becomes WFAN

Jeff Smulyan had an idea. What if you could recreate barroom discussion of sports on a 24 hour radio station. Lucky for Jeff, he happened to be the President of Emmis Broadcasting, which happened to have an AM outlet in New York that would be a perfect testing ground for the format. WHN had become a legend in the previous 15 years it had with the Country format, with many New York DJ’s that will go into any New York Radio Hall of Fame: Del Demontreaux, Lee Arnold, Dan Daniel, and Dan Taylor to name a few. Equipped with rights to the defending World Champion New York Mets, WFAN signed-on and without making much of a dent in the ratings it did make a name for itself locally and nationally.

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July 2nd, 2006 Format Changes • New York | 3 comments

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3 Responses to “Format Change: 1050 WHN New York becomes WFAN”

  1. Cris on July 3rd, 2006 7:58 pm

    Almost as sad as the end of the SECOND station this format killed, WNBC.

  2. Ellis Bromberg on July 6th, 2006 6:13 pm

    How interesting that Suzyn Waldman was the very first voice on WFAN — not what I would have expected — and she continues to make history as an announcer with the Yankees.

  3. gary kerns on June 28th, 2008 7:37 am

    I heard the above aircheck. Dan Taylor’s voice became very husky toward the end.

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