What was perhaps the world’s best known Oldies station disappeared forever from the radio landscape, as then Infinity Broadcasting (Now CBS, Inc.) changed formats to Variety Hits as 101.1 Jack-FM “Playing What We Want”.
The day started out on a very positive note, with CBS-FM Morning personality, Former Monkee Micky Dolenz was celebrating his 100th show on 101.1 with a special live broadcast from B.B. King’s Blues Club. From the morning show, it seemed as if all was looking good at the Golden 101.
Listeners may have figured something was up when afternoon drive started and there was no DJ. No Bob Shannon… Brucie, not anyone. Just wall to wall music and jingles. Then, it happened. At 5:00 PM, there was a short pause, and….
You’ll just have to listen for yourself. A very sad moment in the history of New York radio. And unlike WABC’s departure from Musicradio 23 years earlier, there was no aura of dignity here.
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Great job with the tribute so far!
Nice Tribute. I just stumbled upon your website. Great tribute. I was born and raised in NYC but relocated several years ago. I was happy to learn that cbs was on the internet and then several months later I mourned it’s loss. At least 77 WABC along with Mark Simone came up to the plate with a rebirth of Music Radio 77 W A Beatle C
This is an interesting clip (when one considers the background info behind it); I am only wondering why this segment has been posted here, but not on the New York page of formatchange.com.
We’ll have a much longer, detailed aircheck of WCBS-FM becoming Jack on the FCA shortly.
michael castellon from st louis.
I LISTEN TO WCBS-FM ON AT WCBSFM.COM BECAUSE I LISTENED TO WCBS-FM WHEN I GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY ON FRIDAY JUNE 3,2005 AT 5:00PM JACK-FM KILLED WCBS-FM OLDIES STATION COUSIN BRUCIE HARRY HARRISON DAN TAYLOR BILL ROCK HOLLY LEVIS BOBBY JAY ALSO THE FORMER MONKEE DJ IN THE MORNING MICKEE DOLENZ MR G KAREN STEWART AND MIKE FITZGERALD AND MICKEE DOLENZ STARTED HIS NEW MORNING SHOW ON MONDAY JANUARY 10,2005 AND ON FRIDAY JUNE 3,2005 MICKEE DOLENZ BROADCASTED LIVE AT BB KINGS FROM 6AM TO 10AM AND THEN AT 10AM RANDY DAVIS CAME IN ON WCBS-FM THEN AT 1PM BILL BROWN CAME IN AND THE 4PM NO DJS AT 4:30PM THERE WAS MOVIE CLIPS AND THEN AT 5PM WCBS-FM CHANGED TO THAT STUPID JACK-FM FORMAT THAT I DID NOT LIKE IT THAT STILL UPSETS ME BECAUSE OF
JUNE 3,2005 WHEN WCBS-FM CHANGED TO THAT BORING AND STUPIDEST JACK-FM STATION AFTER MICKEE DOLENZ
BROADCASTED LIVE AT BB KINGS IN MANHATTAN AND I ALWAYS LIKED MICKEE DOLENZ IN THE MORNING WITH KAREN STEWART MIKE FITZGERALD AND MR G AND I ALWAYS LIKED THEIR LAUGHS AND JOKES ON WCBS-FM IN THE MORNING UNTIL THAT JACK-FM KILLED MICKEE DOLENZ IN THE MORNING DAN TAYLOR BILL ROCK HARRY HARRISON MR G KAREN STEWART COUSIN BRUCIE NORN N NITE RANDY DAVIS HOLLY LEVIS DON K REED BOB SHANNON AND ALL THOSE DJS ON WCBS-FM OLDIES STATION.
GOOD-BYE TO THAT BORING AND STUPIDEST JACK-FM STATION AND WELCOME BACK TO WCBS-FM AND ALL THE DJS.
i,m a new yorker these songs kept my feet planted firmly on terra firma lets not fold now keep these great songs of our playing.
well, this WCBS-FM crank-yanking Oldie station just bugs…I am too young for this kind of trash…better save the money for these “on-air personalities” and their limited minds…JACK is the only way, cause the getting older audience dies with the years…