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Month: December 2020
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Gary Bridges, 66 WNBC (Stereo) New York | November, 1985
Gary Bridges was one of a large staff of known personalities, some of whom listeners had grown up with. Personalities such as Don Pardo (the voice of many of WNBC radio and television’s promotions), Soupy Sales, who had been around in the 1950s and on television, Imus, who by this time was already an institution…
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Claprood & Whitley, Talk Radio 680 WRKO Boston | October, 1993
Besides Claprood & Whitley, there are two full newscasts anchored by Pat Carrol (now at WCBS 880 New York), Traffic by longtime reporter Malcom Alter and weather by well known New England radio Meteorologist Joe Zona.
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Captain Whammo, WMET Chicago | April 1978
DESCRIPTION WCFL on 1000 AM was a 50,000 watt radio station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. WCFL aired a Top 40 format from 1962 to 1976, when the station changed formats to Beautiful Music. BM was a format featuring mainly instrumental background music and it was mainly a format heard on FM stations.…
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Marvelous Mark Counts Down the Top 100 of 1977 on 610 KFRC San Francisco | January 2, 1978
BACKGROUND 610 KFRC was a Top 40 radio station serving the San Francisco area with only 5,000 watts. While the power was rather low for such a legendary station, the signal really got out because of two factors. First, the station was situated along the Pacific coast and the salt water conducts RF energy very…
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Human Newman, Z100 WHTZ New York | November 1993
Radio Station: Z100 WHTZ New York (Newark) Frequency: 100.3 MHZ format: Top 40 Since 1983, WHTZ has spent most of it’s time on the air as New York’s CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) leader. But there was an era when Z100 struggled to find an audience. In the early to mid 1990s, CHR radio fell out…
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Dan Ingram, 77 WABC New York – May 1969
Radio Station: WABC New York Frequency: 770 kHz format: Top 40 It’s 1969. The last 12 months have been very turbulant. We went through the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., & Robert Kennedy. We had just finished with the presidential election of 1968. Vietnam was raging, & Big Dan and WABC offered us a diversion from all…