After the ill-fated “Jack-FM” format crashed and burned, CBS brass woke up to the fact that blowing up the personality-heavy Oldies format on 101.1 FM probably wasn’t the wisest thing.
Listen now as All News WCBS 880 interviews Cousin Bruce Morrow and Bob Shannon about the return of CBS-FM! Narrated by your webmaster, this includes a great WCBS-FM jingle montage at the end you won’t want to miss!
Thanks to contributor Gary Podoto for providing the WCBS 880 aircheck!
New Contributor Rick Hunter's self-submitted skimmer makes us all yearn for the old 101 WCBS-FM, complete with REAL Oldies music and a roster of the Who's Who of New York radio broadcasters. Rick Hunter was less known in the 80s but as this QuickCheck shows, he was a natural talent…
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Bill Brown began his tenure at the Golden 101 in 1969 and stayed with CBS-FM for 36 years! He was displaced in 2005, when the station ditched Oldies for the failed "Jack-FM" Variety Hits format which lasted just under two years. Brown only goes by his first name, Bill. His…
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Dan Taylor says he got his start in radio right there at WCBS-FM, just two years out of high school in 1978. That's a wow moment for me, having discovered Taylor on 1050 WHN in the 80s. And of course, he was a major part of the old WNBC "Time…
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Steve West is a 41 year veteran of broadcasting. His air work as a Jock and News Anchor includes six radio markets and over two-dozen radio stations. Steve is the founder of Airchexx.com and Hitoldies.net - All the BIG Hits!
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WELCOME BACK!!!!! We Have Missed You!!! Our lives will be filled sunshine again:)
thank-you, thank-you and thankyou! now I can listen to the radio again!
All I can say “IT’S ABOUT TIME.” Missed you. By the way, what happened to my all time favorite Harry Harrison?
Nice to have you back again. It is great listening again. Enjoying it! The Auto button in the car is set to 101.1! Welcome Back!
to leave out the 50s where rock n roll started is like leaving out george washington and the revolutionary war. reminisce playes in front of and estimated 40 thousand fans a year here in nj we were the last group on the doo wop shop before cbsfm went to the new format,we find our fans disappointed in what cbs calls the oldies , they are leaving out a large group listeners who have the time and money to spend,again another bad business decision on their part,
Thank God 101.1 is back
really missed it—now it is on all the time at home and in the car
It’s been almost a year that CBS-FM is back. Grew up on this station, and now listening on the webstream from London where I now live. The station I love is back – hopefully for good this time. I wish Brucie would reconsider…
It would be nice to hear a few more pre-1964 songs than they play…maybe they’ll listen even further. Welcome back CBS-FM – there is a God!
And forgot to say that exactly three years ago today that CBS Radio “blew it” – as Mayor Kcoh put it! Glad JACK-FM hit the road.
i love the celebrating the wcbs fm 101.1fm radio
These Days WCBS-FM Is Now A Classic Hits Station By Playing The Greatist Hits Of The ’60’s, The ’70’s, & The ’80’s, Alongside With Z100 Alum & Program Director/Morning Jock Himself, Mr. Michael Scott Shannon Leading The Pack!
I’m a frequent guest at airchexx.com. Though I live in west Virginia, I’m glad CBS-FM went back to playing oldies, classic hits, heritage music; whatever one wishes to call it. To paraphrase Billy Joel, “It’s still oldies to me.” It’s so much better than contemporary music. Wonder if at some point in the future CBS-FM will play Britney Spears, Beyoncé, etc? I also felt it appropriate that they went back to oldies at 1:01 pm. Steve West did make one mistake. At 9:51, he said 7-13-07 was Thursday; in reality it was Wednesday. In closing, I really dug the jingles that closed out the last 2:42 of this ‘check.