Annie Leamy will join John Foxx as morning co-host when "Foxx & Annie In The Morning" debuts on Monday, Feb. 13. However, to focus on a new and changing demographic, they now use Reel World for their jingles. One of the tag lines for the format was "Playing What We Want". Dick's father, Ray Heatherton, portrayed "The Merry Mailman" on NYC local television. PRESS: New York Daily News: Ingram Out at CBS-FM. Station website. Here is audio from the WCBS Appreciation Site of Gordon's first Newsradio 88 broadcast in the 5:00 am hour with anchorman Steve Porter on August 28, 1967, the very first hour of the all-news operation, which was actually heard on WCBS-FM because a plane crash had destroyed the AM transmitter tower. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets. ESPN-1050 made a strong move to acquire Yankees radio rights from incumbent WCBS-AM but was handicapped by its weak 1050 . In 2007, Jennifer Donohue (from WWFS) was named as Jack's new general manager. They broke format to only play Soul and R&B? The HD2 station also simulcast the oldies format until 2:00p.m. that day, at which time Jack FM moved to HD2. Work. 6 am to 10 am - Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele. 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. This is an excerpt from the 1991 broadcast featuring some rarely heard airchecks of Murray from his WINS days as well as interviews with his son Peter and several performers, including Ronnie Spector, who talks about the attention to detail that Murray put into his live shows. WCBS (880 AM, "WCBS Newsradio 880") is a radio station licensed to New York, New York and is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. WCBS's studios are located in the combined . He was known as the 'Morning Mayor'. Freed was brought down by the payola scandal. Bob was a DJ on many NYC stations including WMGM, WINS, WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. We hear Bob Lewis closing his show and then Steve Clark followed by Gus Gossert playing a mix of old and new pop and rock. PRESS: The "Young Sound" Syndication Service. WCBS-FM broadcasts at 6,700 watts. Contributed by Gus Gossert to Rob Frankel and posted via Rob's RadioMaven77 postings on MixCloud. Joe McCoy left the station shortly thereafter and was replaced by Dave Logan. Location. In 2010, the station was number one among all stations in the New York region, 25-54 and 12+ (Arbitron PPM report, May 2010). His sister, Joey Heatherton, was featured on the Hullabaloo TV show and was famous for kissing Sammy Davis, Jr., which was quite controversial at the time. Initially, the internet-only station was DJ-less like Jack FM on the analog 101.1 and HD1 station; in between songs, the station played jingles plus pre-recorded voice overs done by their production director. While Jocko was probably out of his prime, he still exhibits more personality in 60 seconds than today's jocks are allowed to exhibit in entire shows. (The show begins with the last few minutes of Bob Shannon's show. Even Ingram calls 1960 the "year of the dog in music". G.' Gikofsky providing weather updates. It's hard to believe that Freed was only 43 when he died from uremia (or a broken heart, depending upon what you believe). 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. Don K. Reed is the leader of WCBS-FM. Joe McCoy On The Former Musicradio77 Air Personalities At WCBS-FM By Scott Benjamin . AIRCHECK: Bobby "the Wizard" Wayne [stereo-scoped]. 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. Dan Taylor hosts WCBS-FM's morning show from 6 to 10 a.m., with Irv 'Mr. They could be worth thousands, Celebrate the Women of Alternative all weekend on Audacy, Join us for an Audacy Check In with Depeche Mode, GO LIVE with JAX to talk about her new song, 'Cinderella Snapped', WATCH: Dwight Howard competes in three-point contest at Taiwanese All-Star Game. including 92.3 NOW in New York as a personality and producer for the Rollin' with Nick Cannon morning show. He's known for being informative on the air and for playing that rare but great track that you didn't know existed. #2. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear-channel & is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network. 3:30 pm - Michael Wallace and Steve Scott. Eventually, they began to shorten the regular playlist and moved away from pre-1964 and toward 19701989 songs even more. 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. Then at exactly 1:01p.m., the legally mandated station identification played, and WCBS-FM's classic hits format officially returned with Do It Again by the Beach Boys. Assistant program director Lenny Bloch hosts the overnight shift, which uses voice-tracking. Fri. Feb 24th, 2023 ; Home; Airchexx Social - Forums & Topics; Airchexx By Region . Dan claims he listened to Chuck on WWRL and recommended him to WABC management. 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]. 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. In those areas WBEB interferes with WCBS-FM, and in some spots, WBEB's signal actually seems stronger. In the spring of 2005, Infinity Broadcasting, which was CBS' radio division during that time, contracted with Sparknet Communications, which owns the licensing of an Adult Hits format branded as "Jack FM", a format that has seen on-air success in Canadian areas since the early 2000s. 2023 Audacy, Inc. All rights reserved. By the end of 1976, Brown was on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays along with his Saturday morning shift. "My alarm has gone off at 3:15 for eight and a half years . Stephen A Smith will be among the personalities on ESPN's new FM home. 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There's nothing about it, including the jingles, that sounds outdated or corny, But because it had that competition from WNEW-FM and WABC-FM as well as competition from WOR-FM, it couldn't last and by July of 1972, WCBS-FM switched to an Oldies format. "[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". On Friday, June 3, 2005, Micky Dolenz, Mike Fitzgerald, and Randy Davis all signed off their shows expecting to be back the following Monday. Dan Ingram and Bobby Jay on a Fabulous Fifties very cold weekend. For the first time, WCBS-FM would have an airstaff. Morning Mayor Harry Harrison a Comforting Presence at WCBS-FM in Days Following 9/11 Tragedy . The great Bob Shannon doing the Oldies thing. Corrections welcomed. 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. LISTEN NOW: Scott Shannon and Patty Steele discuss WCBS-FM retirement announcement and love for listeners. The first song aired was Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right". If CBS-FM was as creative as this every day, it would be a much better radio station. On a decent station, aside from the specific news articles, it could have aired today. [17] This sequence is now repeated on-air every July 12. Originally from Detroit, Pat joined WPLJ in 1973, held a regular shift from 1974 and stayed until about 1987. Retired, Mornings, WCBS-FM / NYC: Shauna? Harry Harrison was a dynamite morning DJ in New York radio where he went from WMCA to WABC . He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. The oldies format on WCBS-FM continued to be a success. Of course, it was easy for WCBS-FM to play "more music" because in 1970, they still probably didn't have very many spots. 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. [24][25] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. AIRCHECK: Steve Clarke, Gus Gossert [stereo]. Top Stations. Chuck is quite modest and claims he wasn't "great", but that other jocks he names were. Upon hearing of WCBS-FM's confirmation that oldies would return, Cousin Brucie commented, "Im thrilled that this music is getting a chance again." Prior to 2016, WCBS-FM used JAM Creative Productions, Inc. for their jingles. 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. When was the last time you heard music DJs who sounded like they were having fun? In 1975, Brown also became Program Director of WCBS-FM. Patty Steele says her last show with Audacy's New York City oldies station WCBS-FM (101.1 FM) will coincide with co-host Scott Shannon's retirement in mid-December. In addition, the station broadened their format to include select hits from the 1990s, up to about 1999. Fan page for CBS New York and WCBS-FM news personality and Scott Shannon in the Morning co-host Patty Steele. [15] The format featured nearly 2,000 unique songs in the playlist. On June 3, 2005 WCBS-FM flipped from an Oldies format to JACK. The change left WBZO as the only FM station playing any type of oldies format in the market. 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. This survey featured mostly songs from the 1960s and 1970s with a moderate selection of songs from the 19551963 time period. 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). They repeated 1993's Top 500 in 1994, conducting their last listener surveys in 1995 and 1996. Songs you know, breaking news, pop culture - we'll cover it all while you work. knx 1070 radio personalities. Read more about this topic: WCBS-FM. After an incredible broadcasting career that has spanned over four decades, much of that time spent in New York City, radio legend Scott Shannon has decided to retire from his Big Show morning show on Audacy's WCBS-FM. But in our opinion he was great and was unfortunately underused in his WABC years. RACE TAYLOR. Each of the stations began broadcasting its own programming in 1966. During this period, the station's on-air jingles were made by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas. The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003, such as the Top 20 Oldies Countdown. In fact, there aren't too many spots aside from Coke. Air personalities did on-air auditions on the WCBS-FM HD2 oldies station on July 11, 2007, as a preview of the next day's changeover. On even years, up to 1990, the survey from the previous year was played. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Chuck Leonard [stereo]. Herb Oscar Anderson and Dan Ingram sneaks in just after "Brown Eyed Girl". In 1989, WCBS-FM limited current music to late nights and overnights. The final Radio Greats show was hosted by WCBS-FM veteran Dick Heatherton. 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. In this era, WABC-FM was largely automated, but also featured Dave Herman and Jimmy Rabbit. We also have WNEW-FM's tribute to Murray on the WNEW-FM page (scroll down to February of 1982). This was when CBS-FM was a true Oldies station and we hear such tracks as Blue Moon by the Marcels and Where or When by Dion and the Belmonts. His progressive rock montages can be heard elsewhere on this site. Here's a great aircheck of a portion of Scott Muni's shift from the Radio Greats Reunion Weekend of June 1998. He first appeared on CBS-FM around July of 1972. 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? Then, at 4:00p.m., the station played the usual station identification, and then a mix of Oldies and Greatest Hits referring to change, including "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "Get a Job", "Glory Days" and "Hit the Road Jack" (the last song of which had the word "Jack" edited out, giving an advance hint to the new format),[14] among others. A recording of Wolfman Jack's final radio broadcast from 1995 was also featured on two occasions. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. If you wanted listeners to believe that CBS-FM was not part of a large corporation, this ad worked quite well. It was produced by the Berstein & Bernstein agency. The station played two current hits per hour known as "future gold". Pat St. John, who's been on New York radio since the 1970s, has announced that he's leaving CBS-FM, where he's been holding down the Sunday 11-3pm airshift, in order to spend more time with his west-coast based family. Harry's first day at WCBS-FM. He is also the author of the book Behind The Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll. 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. This is from his last appearace on CBS-FM, during the station's 40th anniversary celebration. Bob Lewis died on January 23, 1987 at the young age of 49. He pretty much ignores the playlist and he breaks formats and that makes it a fantastic show. 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. His last broadcast on June 3, 2005, was a remote at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate his 100th day at the station. Description: On-air personality Bobby Jay has a full plate at WCBS-FM. Using Video to Convey Your Passion and Personality Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 101 . 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. Also in that year, Harry Harrison and Dan Ingram both retired. Since you don't like John Foxx and Annie Leamy's new morning show on WCBS-FM, let's go back in time and listen to the "Morning Mayor" himself, Harry Harrison. Bill Brown (who had started with the station in 1969, during their rock days) and Don K. Reed (who started at the station 6 months before the switch to oldies) remained with the station during their entire first period as an oldies station. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Scott Muni [stereo-scoped]. In the summer of 2002, Don K. Reed's long-running Sunday night Doo-Wop Shop program was cancelled. It didn't sound free-form, but it did sound low key. During that era, the jocks included Bobby Wayne, Bill Brown, Steve O'Shea, K.O. Radio personalities such as Bobby "Wizzard" Wayne, Tom Tyler, Ed Williams, Steve Clark, Roby Yonge, K.O. . #61. The station's playlist consisted of music almost entirely from 1964 to 1979, dividing about equally between the 1960s and 1970s, playing only a handful of pre-1964 oldies and songs from the 1980s. After the new programming's failure, WCBS-FM returned to its format of personality-driven classic hits. We hear Cousin Brucie doing his show along with chatter from the studio from Rob Frankel and Lee Speigel, who had just interviewed Murrow. "It's a difficult decision for me because I actually love CBS-FM, it was a dream of mine to work here, and I did get to work here. A terrific sounding aircheck when radio was still willing to be creative, great and not afraid to examine its own history and when the DJ was still important. At around 3:50pm WCBS-FM midday jock Bill Brown . The AM station retained its personality-oriented middle of the road format until August 27, 1967. The channel continued to feature an adult hits format until December 21, 2012, when it was dropped and replaced with a simulcast of WCBS. Dan Ingram on WCBS-FM January 1991. One ongoing feature was a countdown of the top 500 songs of all time, as voted by the station's listeners. We send our deepest sympathies to his family, friends, and fans. A large portion of the aircheck is dedicated to the "hit" songs of 1960 and most are quite awful. 5 The Beach Big 107. m. . 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. Huge thank you to John, [Senior VP of Programming] Jim Ryan, and [Market President] Chris Oliviero for this incredible opportunity.. He also spent time as Program Director. Bob interviews Rick Sklar who was the program director at both WINS and WABC-AM. I love the station, I love the people I work with and work for, and of course, I'll be honest with you, I think these are the best listeners we ever had. Jack Spector doing the "Saturday Night Sock Hop". This is a great aircheck of Pat St. John's last show on WCBS-FM. Today, November 2nd, is the 95th anniversary of Pittsburgh's KDKA 1020. (In 1957, Freed's ABC-TV show was cancelled after Frankie Lyman danced with a white girl and ABC affiliates in the south objected.) We even hear Ernie Maresca. It takes less than 60 seconds for Lewis to demonstrate more personality than one hears on radio today in a week. There's also a bit where Murray does a pulp fiction comic book intro to Ernie K Doe's "Mother In Law". Memories of WCBS-FM This is a video collection of ALL of the footage shot at WCBS-FM between 1987 and 1997America's most famous oldies station. I don't want to discuss the Jack fiasco, but WCBS-FM has used a strategy to attract younger listeners by playing . 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. But CBS-FM was having problems finding a niche and competing against WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and WOR-FM and they changed DJ lineups often. This was followed by greetings from former WCBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. In a testament to Patty's versatility and ability, she also does a weekly podcast with WCBS-AM Newsradio 880 morning show anchor, Wayne Cabot called "News On The Rocks". You have permission to edit this article. Fleet Week is over. 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. As of August 2009, WCBS-FM started carrying New York Giants football on occasions when sister station WFAN could not carry the game. The 80s hits, along with the collection of enduring 70s, have an undeniable appeal to a younger audience . LISTEN on the Audacy AppSign Up and Follow AudacyFacebook | Twitter | Instagram, Shannon In The Morning Big Show Daily Podcast, Kevin Smith checks in with the Big Show about his new movie theater, Smodcastle Cinemas. For at least 25 years I was an avid listener to WCBS-FM as they were America's premier oldies station with fantastic personalities including Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Bill Brown, Bobby Jay, Bob Shannon, and Max Kinkel among others. 1 pm to 7 pm- Dave Stewart. "It was like an hour. "My alarm has gone off at 3:15 for eight and a half years now, and I believe it's time to take a break from morning radio and just kind of chill for a while before I decide what I want to do next in my life and my career," Shannon told listeners Friday morning, October 28. The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. New York City, Talk. While CBS-FM now achieves pretty good overall ratings, its audience is primarily elderly and it's just a matter of time before the format is going to have to change again. But we also hear a then-new track by Cher. Annie Leamy will join John Foxx as morning co-host when Foxx & Annie In The Morning debuts on Monday, Feb. 13. Sourced from the Gus Gossert archive to Matt Seinberg and Rob Frankel and posted via Rob's RadioMaven77 postings on MixCloud. Albany/Troy NY It works for those who thought WNEW-FM and WPLJ were "too heavy". Part of Audacy. . Its signal in the Metropolitan area was weak, however, because it operated out of Long Island, and aired an outright oldies format, unlike WCBS-FM's old "Greatest Hits" format. He was lured to New York and became a star on WCBS, but still flew back to Cleveland in his own plane to host his Cleveland shows. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Dan Ingram [stereo-scoped]. New York, New York, United States. In some cases, the same dates are posted twice due to conflicting information from different sources. As of 2018, WCBS-FM no longer uses any JAM Jingles, and the station also no longer plays any music from the 1960s, while also starting to cut back on the amount of early 1970s music played. For New Years weekend in 19992000, the station compiled and played a Top 1001 countdown based on original New York radio charts, with "Mack The Knife" by Bobby Darin at number one. On-air Personalities. The transmitter was moved to the Empire State Building in the early 1950s. 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