By 1987, WNBC had figured out that the audience actually increased when the station started playing a regular diet of Oldies. What had started as an experiment earlier in 1987…
This includes just about every element that listeners loved about the Time Machine. The great music of the 60s, a GREAT jock (actually, THE jock who invented the Time Machine format), lots of interaction with listeners - phone bits are everywhere, and Big Jay's "Record Pig" segment. You just have to listen to understand it.
Walter DeVenne (January 16, 1948 – January 16, 2021), better known on the radio as "Little Walter" was a fixture of Sunday nights on the old OLDIES 103.3 in Boston.
Lots of 1987 commercials, reverb and PAMS jingles, resung for WNBC, to give this station an unmistakeable WABC sound - all WNBC needed was the WABC jocks to make it complete.