Freed was brought down by the payola scandal. And the playlist was a strange mix of just about every genre of rock music. Bob was a DJ on many NYC stations including WMGM, WINS, WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. During that era, the jocks included Bobby Wayne, Bill Brown, Steve O'Shea, K.O. I had forgotten about this one. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. Today, November 2nd, is the 95th anniversary of Pittsburgh's KDKA 1020. Many of these hosts are well-known DJs, talk show hosts, and celebrities who sometimes anchor special shows. And later in 1970, he was doing weekends on WNEW-FM. Here's another example of one of their earliest promotions, which you'll have to admit is a bit freaky, but who exactly were they trying to appeal to? Since several people made this announcement, I must sadly believe it is true. Following Scott Shannon announcing his retirement from WCBS-FM, co-host Patty Steele moves on from the 101.1 FM New York City morning show to consider all current and future options. [21][22] The station went to number one again in the July 2014 & August 2017 ratings periods.[23]. By January of 1991, he had appeared at . There would be a wider variety of hits, unlike the CBS-FM of 2005, which had a limited playlist from 1964 through 1979. This was followed by greetings from former WCBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. May the legend rest in heaven. We hear Cousin Brucie doing his show along with chatter from the studio from Rob Frankel and Lee Speigel, who had just interviewed Murrow. Harry passed in January of 2020 at 89 years old.Listening to this 40 year old show today, it's amazingly listenable. 6 am - Wayne Cabot and Paul Murnane (with CBS World News Roundup at 8-8:08 am) 10 am - Lynda Lopez. 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. In addition, the station broadened their format to include select hits from the 1990s, up to about 1999. It wasn't that good music wasn't released in 1960, but it didn't make the top of the pop charts. A little over two years later WCBS-FM would become an Oldies station. This survey featured mostly songs from the 1960s and 1970s with a moderate selection of songs from the 19551963 time period. At about 21:45 minutes of Part 2, Pat plays the long music montage he created at WPLJ.So as to preserve everyone's sanity, we cut out the long stop sets on this one. I am interested in rock and roll radio. He is best known for hosting the Doo Wop on Sunday nights from 7 PM-Midnight. [5] This allowed the station to reflect its corporate ownership by the Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS. A bit of Harry and then a news broadcast about the Gulf War and then Dan Ingram sitting in for Ron Lundy playing the usual oldies. including 92.3 NOW in New York as a personality and producer for the Rollin' with Nick Cannon morning show. "It was like an hour. 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 . End price 46.00 USD Start price 9.99 USD. If you wanted listeners to believe that CBS-FM was not part of a large corporation, this ad worked quite well. 1 pm to 7 pm- Dave Stewart. From the 1940s until the late 1950s, both stations aired a typical network-dominated general entertainment format with comedies, dramas, news and information, sports, talk shows and some music. ", 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.". Many historians believe that he became the scapegoat for the scandal largely because he promoted R&B music more than other DJs of the time, even though politicians of the era hated rock music in general and tried to stop it. Transit Reporter WCBS, 880 AM, NY (WCBS Transit Center) . In the 80s & 90s, he spent 10 years at New York's K-Rock (WXRK-FM), and wrote and produced several internationally . 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. This one shows the schedule from 1967 to 1981 as CBS-FM evolved from various flavors of AOR to Oldies. It's hard to believe that Freed was only 43 when he died from uremia (or a broken heart, depending upon what you believe). Note also how he doesn't accept the role of a guest who's supposed to be quiet most of the time - he really takes over the show. The moderation is in English. He also spent time as Program Director. The station even began to de-emphasize the phrase 'oldies' in promotion of the station.[13]. Even Mayor Bloomberg decried the format change. At 4:30p.m., the station stunted with a 30-minute montage of lines from various movies and other sources. The countdown always took place on Thanksgiving weekend (with a new survey taken every other year). (In 1957, Freed's ABC-TV show was cancelled after Frankie Lyman danced with a white girl and ABC affiliates in the south objected.) Because CBS-FM was such a heritage station, the format didn't go over well in NYC. The station continued to also feature hits of the 1970s and some hits of the 1980s while cutting future gold selections to one per hour. There's also a bit where Murray does a pulp fiction comic book intro to Ernie K Doe's "Mother In Law". She and Foxx, who was also named Brand Manager of the station, assume the daypart held since 2014 by Scott Shannon and Patty Steele. WCBS-FM also played a moderate number of adult standards from the rock era. "[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". AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Alan Freed Tribute [scoped-stereo]. [8] The change coincided with rival WOR-FM's decision to drop pre-1964 oldies from its playlist a few months prior (as they became WXLO). [citation needed], By 2000, as demographics for 1950s and early 1960s oldies started to eclipse the target age groups that many advertisers covet,[12] WCBS-FM began cutting pre-1964 songs while adding more music from the 1970s and 1980s. One of the great things about these broadcasts is that they included jocks who had never appeared on CBS-FM and sometimes even included air personalities who competed with them. . [2] The allocated frequency changed several times before the station finally went on the air at 46.7MHz on December 1, 1941. The nine hundred and fifty-fifth position on our top list is currently occupied by WCBS-FM. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Jocko Henderson [stereo], Jocko Henderson rides his rocketship and continues the greatness on the Radio Greats Weekend, AIRCHECK: Dan Ingram - Bobby Jay [stereo]. Albany/Troy NY One of many format change announcements. Here's a great aircheck of Jocko Henderson from the sixth Radio Greats Reunion Weekend of June 1998. In this era, WABC-FM was largely automated, but also featured Dave Herman and Jimmy Rabbit. Listen to WCBS-FM, WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM and Many Other Stations from Around the World with the radio.net . KZPT (99.7 FM) is a hot adult contemporary radio station licensed to and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area.It first began broadcasting in 1962 under the call sign KMBC-FM. 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. Patty Steele. This was back when WCBS-FM was still a true Oldies station, at least for the Radio Greats Weekends. That's quite a diverse and interesting group of nighttime jocks. News Reporter WNNJ FM, NJ . Fan page for CBS New York and WCBS-FM news personality and Scott Shannon in the Morning co-host Patty Steele. We also have WNEW-FM's tribute to Murray on the WNEW-FM page (scroll down to February of 1982). Since the end of the Vietnam War, the nation has continued to build itself into an . As of August 2009, WCBS-FM started carrying New York Giants football on occasions when sister station WFAN could not carry the game. . John is someone I respect tremendously and is the biggest reason I took this leap. This is a great scoped aircheck of John Zacherley sitting in on Halloween at CBS-FM in 2007. There was also a moderate amount of 1980s music on the survey. The AM station retained its personality-oriented middle of the road format until August 27, 1967. Unfortunately, Lewis passed away just a few months after this show was broadcast. New Orleans, Talk. After compiling an all-time survey based on past surveys in 1997, the station abandoned listener surveys, repeating the 1997 all-time survey on subsequent Thanksgiving weekends. The weekday lineup also features Ron Parker (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), Broadway Bill Lee (3 to 7 p.m. plus Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Joe Causi (Monday through Friday, 7 p.m. to midnight, as well as "Saturday Night 70's" on Saturdays from 7 p.m. to midnight). "My alarm has gone off at 3:15 for eight and a half years . AIRCHECK: Harry Harrison's Final Morning Show [stereo]. It may have been repeated in 1991. The station also had cut specialty shows such as Bobby Jay's Soul Of The City on Wednesdays, Thursday Night 60's, Friday night's Heart & Soul of Rock & Roll, Monday Night 70's, and Bobby Jay's late night Saturday show Jukebox Saturday Night. Stephen A Smith will be among the personalities on ESPN's new FM home. This is a really terrific sounding aircheck. With this move, WCBS-FM had left the oldies format after 33 years. If you're using an older version of a browser . Lewis and Clark didn't do the show together - Bob generally did 5-9pm and Steve did 9pm-1am, but Lewis mentions in this edition that Steve will be in about 9:30pm and they gave the 8 hour timespan one title. Additionally, the '60s and '70s oldies became broader and '80s and early '90s oldies were also mixed in, and the format got much deeper. The channel continued to feature an adult hits format until December 21, 2012, when it was dropped and replaced with a simulcast of WCBS. Dick Clark, who had ownership of far more recording and music publishing companies than Freed, who was small-time in comparison, was smart enough to dump his holdings before testifying before Congress. Here's CBS-FM's remembrance of Bob Lewis from one of the Radio Great Weekends, probably in the early 90's. Bob was a DJ on many NYC stations including WMGM, WINS, WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. 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. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. A recording of Wolfman Jack's final radio broadcast from 1995 was also featured on two occasions. The change left WBZO as the only FM station playing any type of oldies format in the market. Eventually, they began to shorten the regular playlist and moved away from pre-1964 and toward 19701989 songs even more. There are excerpts from his WINS and WABC-AM shows as well as from a few recordings that he made, including a novelty record that anticipates what Dickie Goodman would do just a few years later. What??!!!! A great photo of the CBS-FM jocks from contributor Kimbal Brandner. John Foxx, who was an afternoon host in the market at the former WPLJ, will take over the 6-10am morning show helmed by Shannon since 2014, starting in February. 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. 12 am to 7 am - Music automation (no DJs) 7 am to 1 pm - Matt Sneed. On the AM dial, there were a few oldies stations receivable at night, like Buffalo's WKBW at the time.[16]. Among them: New York's Z100; WPLJ, WOR, and currently at CBS-FM and WCBS Newsradio 880. WCBS (880 kHz), often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880", is a radio station in New York City. Radio Personality; On Air Hosting . Sirius Satellite Radio offers an ever-growing list of hosts across its various channels, especially since its 2008 merger with XM. WCBS-FM 101.1 / WCBS-FM: 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY, 10014: 212-242-6190: WFAN 101.9 FM/660 AM / WFAN-FM/WFAN-AM: 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY . The popular Jay is heard Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Wednesday . Jay joined WCBS-FM as the host of the popular Hall of Fame and Top Twenty Countdown shows. Also in the 1980s, after WABC and later WNBC abandoned music in favor of talk, WCBS-FM began employing many disc jockeys who were widely known on other New York City stations (and sometimes nationally), most notably Musicradio 77 WABC alumni Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, and Harry Harrison, as well as former WMCA "Good Guys" Dan Daniel and Jack Spector. WCBS-FM's subcarrier also airs Spanish language Catholic programming for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Radio Maria Hispana, a local unit of Radio Maria USA. In 1940, during the early days of FM broadcasting, what is now WCBS-FM was allocated an FM frequency and call sign, W67NY, becoming CBS's first FM station. While most oldies stations were playing songs from exclusively 1955 to 1973, WCBS-FM continued to play a moderate number of songs from the late 1970s as well as about one 1980s hit per hour. 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