Comments on: QuickCheck: Tim Griffin, WBBF Rochester | January 3, 1972

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:56:32 +0000

Jessica Savitch was something else; she was as bad as the guys, attitude-wise.

Her air check was “Jessica, the Honey Bee, 950, WBBF.”

There have to be lots of BBF air checks around, the station was so cheap they used the same air checks for decades.

I grew up in Rochester and attended Ithaca College, Radio-TV program, transferred to Penn State after 2 years because IC was a big high school and the Radio-TV program was like 10th grade all over again. (God, was that 42 years ago)?

During the 70’s BBF DJs had a Chevy Blazer SUV which they drove like they were in a demolition derby. Last I saw or heard heard of BBF ’cause my parents retired to Florida and I got married and lived in North Carolina.

Keep looking for BBF air checks. Someone has some.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:13:07 +0000

I had a summer job in Midtown Plaza during the late 60’s. I ran into the guys who were DJs at BBF (only woman who had an DJ job at BBF was Jessica Savitch whose air check was “Jessica, the Honey Bee”). I was in the Radio TV program at Ithaca College but went into advertising. Sorry to disillusion anyone, the DJs at BBF then were jerks, like almost all DJs everywhere in that era. The station management was sleazy and cheap. I won’t mention names.

By: Lee Scott

Lee Scott — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:30:40 +0000

The date should be January 2, not January 3

By: Mike Barnes

Mike Barnes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:24:05 +0000

I remember Tim Griffen and his TIMMY POWER show, good DJ and a good guy.

I grew up on BBF, I even “hung out” up at 850 midtown a few evenings to sit in with FJ III and Lanny Frattare doing their shows autumn ‘71that’s
how I learnes to cue records on the old BBF spartan turntables….courtesy of Lanny, but it was cool for a 15 year old kid to actually sit in the little 8 by 8 DJ studio watchin the DJ’s do their thing…on that old 3 pot mixer with the VU
meter sticking up the top of the console and the old RCA sk-50 microphone ( See I really was there
Anyway fond memories of the old Jack Palvino/Larry White PD days @ BBF Thanks for posting this one-got anymore BBF,WAXC or FM99 samples???