PRESS: New York Daily News: Ingram Out at CBS-FM. One ongoing feature was a countdown of the top 500 songs of all time, as voted by the station's listeners. Follow more of your favorite music on Frankie Says Dance, New Wave Mix Tape, 80s Underground, Scott Lowe on the Go's Post Modern Music Box, 90s and Chill, 80s Guitar,Rock N Road, IndustriALT,Wake Up and Rock, ALT Roots, and The Roots of Rock stations on the free Audacy app. A bit of Bob Lewis and Steve Clark from WCBS-FM's "sort of progressive" days. This was pretty good radio: far more mature, interesting and diverse than Top-40 radio, but not as edgy and progressive as WNEW-FM or WABC-FM.One interesting thing about this aircheck is that it still works 40 years later. You mean they respected their listeners with specialty show? This stereo aircheck from the CBS-FM hybrid hit singles/AOL days (I call it "progressive light"), complete with formatics and jingles, features DJ Bobby "Wizard" Wayne. Bob was born April 3, 1937 putting him at the center of early top-40 radio. [17] This sequence is now repeated on-air every July 12. (In 1957, Freed's ABC-TV show was cancelled after Frankie Lyman danced with a white girl and ABC affiliates in the south objected.) Bob was a DJ on many NYC stations including WMGM, WINS, WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. We all remember "Bob-a-Loo". New York, New York, United States. The transmitter was moved to the Empire State Building in the early 1950s. Newly Released Study - Sound . In late June 2009, the HD2 channel was rebranded again as ToNY, meaning "to New York" but pronounced as "Tony". "In the Still of the Night" remained at #1 every year after that. [11] This survey would be repeated on Thanksgiving weekend in 2002. He was one of the few people in NYC radio who kept the spirit of doo-wop music alove through the decades. Radio Personality; On Air Hosting . CBS-FM's longtime music director Jeff Mazzei was retained as program director of the wcbsfm.com oldies stream. Audacy welcomes Andr Yancey as the new morning show producer for "Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele" on WCBS-FM 101.1 (WCBS-FM) in New York. Dick's father, Ray Heatherton, portrayed "The Merry Mailman" on NYC local television. 12 am - Levon Putney. 8 months ago. WBBM Newsradio 780 AM. Chuck is quite modest and claims he wasn't "great", but that other jocks he names were. Between June 3, 2005, and July 12, 2007, the station aired the automated adult hits format "Jack FM". When the station returned to a modified oldies and classic hits format in 2007, the station compiled a new listener-voted survey and played the results Labor Day weekend. The great Bob Shannon doing the Oldies thing. Joe McCoy took over as program director in 1981, and at that point WCBS-FM began to gradually shift its focus to the 19641969 era, but would also feature more pre-1964 oldies than most other such stations of that decade. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Reunion Weekend: Murray the K. Back when CBS-FM was more than just a "play the hit oldies" station, they had special weekends dedicated to the radio greats of the past. ", Patty Steele, Scott's longtime co-host at numerous stations throughout their careers, added tearfully, "I absolutely loved working here through all the challenges in my life like breast cancer, family addiction issues which have famously been explored in podcasting my kids' high school and college graduations you our amazing listeners have been my friends and my radio family, and I have not for one minute thought I could have gotten through it without any of you.". Gus opens with Ray Charles and plays a lot of 50's Doo-Wop, which is almost impossible to find on the radio anymore. In the late 90's, he did overnights. His progressive rock montages can be heard elsewhere on this site. This WAS radio. It's hard to believe that this aircheck is from 40 years ago. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Alan Freed Tribute [scoped-stereo]. The station even hit number one overall in the ratings on at least several occasions during the 1990s. This is from his last appearace on CBS-FM, during the station's 40th anniversary celebration. You can tell that he doesn't know a lot of the music and he relies upon his old shtick, but he's still very impressive. Charlie Schue: Rock & Roll Radio Heaven: David B. Simmons (News) Rock & Roll Radio Heaven: Pete Simpson . Just two years later, on July 6, 2007, WCBS-FM, under the aegis of new CBS Radio CEO Dan Mason, announced a return to the former CBS-FM with a start date of July 12th. ( Source : twitter) On the AM dial, there were a few oldies stations receivable at night, like Buffalo's WKBW at the time.[16]. His progressive rock montages can be heard elsewhere on this site. Gossert during the "light" progressive era of CBS-FM. Rob restored the aircheck using his production magic, but we had to scope it again so as not to violate copyright law and to make it easier to listen to. For many years, WCBS-FM simulcast its programming with its AM sister station. You can perceive this in their musical choices, which is exactly what I remember CBS-FM playing at this time. One of many format change announcements. [24][25] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. Alan Berman with Don at the Long Island Radio Day in 2010. In return, Sparknet Communications gave Infinity Broadcasting permission to bring the "Jack FM" format to some of Infinity's radio markets in the United States. Under Brown, WCBS-FM moved away from easy listening and began to play more 60's rock. The Doo-Wop Shop started on Sunday nights in May of 1975 and it aired through 2002. Several people announced the passing of Don K. Reed on Facebook. The channel continued to feature an adult hits format until December 21, 2012, when it was dropped and replaced with a simulcast of WCBS. In 1975, Brown also became Program Director of WCBS-FM. If you're using an older version of a browser . This was back when WCBS-FM was still a true Oldies station, at least for the Radio Greats Weekends. He certainly kept alive this genre of music that was very popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to merge CBS Radio with Entercom, currently the fourth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States; the sale was conducted using a Reverse Morris Trust so that it would be tax-free. Did they really work an eight hour on-air shift together or was it two four-hour shifts? 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Had Freed lived, I believe he could have resurrected his career, if not on the air, then producing and promoting shows, especially when appreciating doo-wop music became a fad again with the emergence of oldies shows and Sha-Na-Na in the late 1960s. It's not a big wonder that the format didn't last all that long, but if it did, we never would have wound up with an oldies station. WCBS (AM) - Wikipedia. The format then moved to the analog and HD1 channels. Remember . Prior to the last few years, CBS FM winning 18 to 34 never happened once. The station broadcast "Jack FM," an automated adult hits format, from June 3, 2005, to July 12, 2007. Retired, Mornings, WCBS-FM / NYC: Shauna? Jay worked at WWRL New York, where, during his 15 year tenure, he performed virtually every duty . WCBS (880 kHz), often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880", is a radio station in New York City. In 2010, the station was number one among all stations in the New York region, 25-54 and 12+ (Arbitron PPM report, May 2010). In an interview with the New York Daily News, Cousin Brucie likened the format switch to "replacing Yankee Stadium with a fruit stand". In early July 2007, various websites quoted sources as saying the station was ready to shift from its current "Jack FM" format and return to its previous format. WNEW-FM had their classic lineup of Johnny Michaels, Jonathan Schwartz, Scott Muni, Rosko, Zacherely and Alison Steele. The entire staff from the rock format remained at the station. 1 pm to 7 pm- Dave Stewart. As these types of radio shows either moved to television or were canceled outright, WCBS and WCBS-FM evolved toward a personality-oriented format featuring news and information, popular music, and sports. In this era, WABC-FM was largely automated, but also featured Dave Herman and Jimmy Rabbit. On Air Personality WCBS-FM Dec 1993 - Dec 1995 2 years 1 month. The first song aired was Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right". During that era, the jocks included Bobby Wayne, Bill Brown, Steve O'Shea, K.O. BDub Radio. Shannon, 75, joined WCBS-FM in February . 6 am to 10 am - Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele. FishbowlNY has explored how some of your favorite TV and radio personalities are coping with the 9/ . Info of The Station. But it's also instructive: when the signal is bright and clean, it has far more impact and it's a far better listen. The format was largely a jukebox or iPod playlist interspersed with snarky tag lines voiced by Howard Cogan. "It was like an hour. What??!!!! 10 am to 3 pm - Race Taylor. In a letter on the WCBS-FM website posted on June 5, 2005, station VP Chad Brown announced the webstream would try to bring back most of the original shows and DJs, and that eventually the station would also be able to be heard on HD Radio. Dan sits in with Ron Lundy and they have some fun together, including making fun of Bruce Morrow. Television Host @ WCBS-TV. He has also frequently appeared on CBS-FM from at least 2003 and is heard on several different shows on Sirius/XM. In January 2001, they stopped playing currents and 90's hits on the overnight, dropping them altogether. Next were audio-clip montages of music, movies, television shows, and events for each year from 1964 through 1979 followed by a single montage, similar to the aforementioned, which paid homage to the entire decade of the 1980s, with WCBS-FM jingles interspersed between. Formats were changing quickly, but by October of 1967, he was doing a one-hour show on Saturday nights called, "Some Trust In Chariots" with music producer Tom Wilson doing a show before him and Chuck Leonard and Dan Ingram each doing one hour shows after him. Initial reports about the WCBS-FM format change initially surfaced on July 6, 2007, in the Radio Business Report online newsletter and at CrainsNewYorkBusiness.com. Today we, unfortunately, learned that the former WCBS-FM Radio Personality Don K Reed sadly passed away on July 16, 2022, at the age of 57. WCBS-FM At 50 And 15. At first, the station focused on rock-and-roll hits from 1955 to 1964 and mixed in some softer hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as a few then-current songs. It's a pretty good montage of CBS-FM over the years along with a lot of formatics and jingles. Yours truly with Don K. Reed at the Long Island Radio Day in 2010. Spitz was an on-air personality on WPHR-FM/107.9 (Power 108 . This was just five months before he'd be fired from WNEW-FM, AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Jocko Henderson. An article describing the original "The Young Sound" service, which was 180 hours a month of instrumental versions of rock songs. Herb Oscar Anderson and Dan Ingram sneaks in just after "Brown Eyed Girl". 2 pm - Michael Wallace. They voted, and the stations lost because at the end of the day, the personalities are bigger than the station, not the other way around." Shannon was working across the street at WCBS-FM . WBEB, an adult contemporary station in Philadelphia, also broadcasts on 101.1 MHz. His last broadcast on June 3, 2005, was a remote at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate his 100th day at the station. Here's a short aircheck from the end of Norm N. Night's last show on WCBS-FM. In addition to her six years at WPLJ and her recent stint at Q92, Leamy served as co-host of Woodman in the Morning on Pamal Broadcasting CHR K104.7 WSPK, and as morning co-host of CJs Playhouse with Annie on iHeartMedia CHR 96.1 Kiss FM WPFK, both in Poughkeepsie. There's also a bit where Murray does a pulp fiction comic book intro to Ernie K Doe's "Mother In Law". It didn't sound free-form, but it did sound low key. By September of 1970, he was doing 5-9pm weekdays on CBS-FM when the station had an AOR format. In 2003, the station played a Top 500 Countdown covering the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and some 1950s songs, and in 2004 played a Top 500 Countdown with mostly songs from 1964 to 1979 with some pre-1964 songs and 1980s songs. Leamy, who has been hosting mornings at iHeartMedia AC Q92 WRNQ Poughkeepsie since January 2020, previously served as a member of Todd & Jayde in the Morning at the former WPLJ New York. In retrospect, they seem like completely different eras. Since several people made this announcement, I must sadly believe it is true. Pages are dedicated to WOR-FM, WNEW-FM, WCBS-FM, WABC-FM, WPLJ, WABC, WMCA, WINS, WPIX-FM, WQIV and such personalities as Murray the K, Rosko, Johnny Michaels. Albany/Troy NY Most recently, Bob had been doing low-key progressive rock radio, but here he exhbits the full enthusiasm for top-40 style radio (albeit Oldies, but these are REAL oldies). WNYC 93.9 FM. Such was the appeal of the packages of jingles that stations around the world wanted that WCBS-FM sound for their stations, including for example the UK's Radio Victory. On November 19, 2016, the "Saturday Night Block Party" was discontinued after four years in favor of regular programming. If CBS-FM was as creative as this every day, it would be a much better radio station. Don K. Reed was best known for his Doo-Wop Shop that aired on Sunday nights on WCBS-FM. The AM station retained its personality-oriented middle of the road format until August 27, 1967. Former Mayor Ed Koch then welcomed back the format, noting the "mistake" CBS Radio had made with the switch. AIRCHECK: Steve Clarke, Gus Gossert [stereo]. While CBS shareholders retained a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, separating WCBS radio (both 101.1 FM and 880 AM) from WCBS-TV. Eventually, they began to shorten the regular playlist and moved away from pre-1964 and toward 19701989 songs even more. "[18] Mayor Bloomberg, who had criticized the Jack FM format after its debut, also welcomed oldies back with open arms, proclaiming July 12, 2007, as "WCBS-FM Returns to New York City Day". Gossert's show was generally broadcast on Sunday evenings, a perfect time for this nostalgia. It may have been repeated in 1991. Harry stayed with WCBS-FM until March of 2003, so he had a 44-year run on these three major NYC pop music stations. It's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan & the transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx, New York (the antenna is shared with WFAN). Jack Spector doing the "Saturday Night Sock Hop". On May 7, 2008, the Jack branding was dropped from WCBS-FM HD2 and was just called 101.1 HD2 or WCBS-FM HD2 due to the end of a licensing agreement with the owner of the Jack name and slogan, Sparknet Communications. WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM. Dick Bartley's syndicated Classic Countdown airs on Sunday nights from 7 to 11 p.m., followed by the Classic Dance Showcase hosted by Joe Causi from 11 p.m. to midnight. The following week, Dan Daniel took over on Saturday and Pat St. John "sat in" for Ingram on Sunday, but Ingram never returned. History WGLI-FM-WTFM (1958-1982) In 1958, 103.5 MHz was assigned to Babylon, New York for WGLI-FM, simulcasting sister station WGLI 1290AM.William Reuman, the founder and owner of WWRL in New York City, was the owner of WGLI. Originally from Detroit, Pat joined WPLJ in 1973, held a regular shift from 1974 and stayed until about 1987. The popular Jay is heard Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Wednesday . In fact, there aren't too many spots aside from Coke. Whether you think Ingram's jokes were lame or very funny, there is no doubt that he adds a tremendous amount of personality and fun to the show. The very personable Bob Shannon (with Dennis O'Mara) on WCBS-FM back when it was still a real Oldies station. Terms related to wcbs-fm: Related Phrases. He first appeared on CBS-FM around July of 1972. "My alarm has gone off at 3:15 for eight and a half years . Bailey, Roby Yonge, Tom Clay, Bob Lewis, Steve Clark, Dick Burch, Les Turpin and Johnny Michaels, many of whom are heard on this aircheck. It's just music." Don passed way in July of 2022. From mid-1968 to early 1969, he did a weekday show called "Radio Free New York". CBS Radio, owner of the station, declined to comment on the rumors. [2] The allocated frequency changed several times before the station finally went on the air at 46.7MHz on December 1, 1941. I didn't even remember Rosko ever working for CBS-FM and Ed Williams had previously appeared on WLIB. Top Stations. I don't want to discuss the Jack fiasco, but WCBS-FM has used a strategy to attract younger listeners by playing . CBS-FM of that era was a fairly light station compared with WNEW-FM and WABC-FM. Dan would leave CBS-FM 18 months later. The playlist was wider than most typical radio stations, but it was also far more current. 101.1 WCBS FM New York! 6:30 pm - CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (WCBS-TV simulcast) However, by the end of that day, the station would be changed dramatically. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. Feb 16, 2023. Songs you know, breaking news, pop culture - we'll cover it all while you work. The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003, such as the Top 20 Oldies Countdown. We even hear some Doo-Wop. Morning Mayor Harry Harrison a Comforting Presence at WCBS-FM in Days Following 9/11 Tragedy . Bob Shannon (radio personality) Syracuse, New York. WCBS-FM New Yorks Foxx & Annie In The Morning To Debut Feb. 13. Entercom New York officials have been working for several months to get former long-time WPLJ-FM midday host Race Taylor over to WCBS-FM. Even Ingram calls 1960 the "year of the dog in music". Bob was a highly creative air personality who could work any format. Advertisement: Latest Radio Stories. The New York Radio Archive (NYRadioArchive.com) is a site dedicated to remembering New York Radio, primarily from the 1960s and 1970s and emphasizing free-form and progressive rock radio. Cumulus Q4 Net Revenues Down 0.4% to $252 . Fri. Feb 24th, 2023 ; Home; Airchexx Social - Forums & Topics; Airchexx By Region . Description: On-air personality Bobby Jay has a full plate at WCBS-FM. 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