Ken Gilbert has had a long career in radio, all of it in the New England region. Ken is best known for doing middays at WAQY Springfield in it's top 40 incarnation as "Wacky 102" and at WDRC AM-FM Hartford in its top 40 and Oldies iterations.
"Saturday Night Live At The Oldies" was arguably the most popular show on the old WROR on 98.5 and ran from 1977 when the station first started playing some contemporary music until 1991, when WROR became WBMX "Mix 98.5"
Another radio great has left the planet, and with him, many sad friends. As reported by his daughter, Alton Irwin, better known as Gnarly Charly and Smokin' Willie Bee Goode…
What follows is probably the most depressing, eye opening piece of audio which goes far towards explaining part of the reason why WABC needed to change formats to talk little…
JB105 is a HOT rocking station at this point. The first thing you'll notice is that most of the music is uptempo. The second thing is the station's processing was juiced so that it was loud.