I'd also like to comment on announcing passings on social media. View hosts, shows, show schedules and more. On-air Personalities. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Dan Ingram [stereo-scoped]. 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. Note: The audio quality is inconsistent. WBEB's signal reaches far north into New Jersey, especially along Interstate 287 south of Morristown, and in Northwestern New Jersey. In those areas WBEB interferes with WCBS-FM, and in some spots, WBEB's signal actually seems stronger. WCBS-FM (101.1 FM) is a radio station offering a classic hits format licensed to New York City and is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. However, by the end of that day, the station would be changed dramatically. Today, November 2nd, is the 95th anniversary of Pittsburgh's KDKA 1020. #2. This was just five months before he'd be fired from WNEW-FM, AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Jocko Henderson. Many of these hosts are well-known DJs, talk show hosts, and celebrities who sometimes anchor special shows. 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. In March 2006, Chad Brown hired Brian Thomas as program director, replacing Steve Smith. In 2010, the station was number one among all stations in the New York region, 25-54 and 12+ (Arbitron PPM report, May 2010). Harry was the mid-morning DJ on WMCA from November 1959 until September 1968 and he did the drive-time shift on WABC-AM from late September '68 until late November 1979 when Dan Ingram took over the morning shift for a year. What a thrill to be on a station my late father adored. You have permission to edit this article. New York City, Classical. 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. Earlier today, legendary radio personalityScott Shannon -- heard for almost a decade every morning on New York City's WCBS-FM with long-time co-host Patty Steele, entertainment reporter Brad Blanks, and a whole crew of returning "Big Show" friends -- has announced his decision to retire from daily morning radio on Friday, December 16. WCBS (AM) - Wikipedia. 98.1 WOGL FM Philly! After the new programming's failure, WCBS-FM returned to its format of personality-driven classic hits. Fan page for CBS New York and WCBS-FM news personality and Scott Shannon in the Morning co-host Patty Steele. 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. 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. On June 3, 2005 WCBS-FM flipped from an Oldies format to JACK. JACK was a snarky format that was marketed as a more personalized approach with music chosen by a DJ named "Jack", rather than a corporation. That April, Infinity flipped radio stations KCBS-FM in Los Angeles and WQSR in Baltimore to the "Jack FM" format. Check out Race weekdays beginning at 10AM. This was followed by greetings from former WCBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. Info of The Station. Former Mayor Ed Koch then welcomed back the format, noting the "mistake" CBS Radio had made with the switch. In some cases, the same dates are posted twice due to conflicting information from different sources. Murray repeated this bit many times, even on free-form WOR-FM, but it demonstrates how much trouble he would go to just to make his show a little different. Retired, Mornings, WCBS-FM / NYC: Shauna? (The show begins with the last few minutes of Bob Shannon's show. 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. . And then Bobby comes on and entertains us with even more of a distinctive personality. They tried various permutations of free-form and progressive rock before finding the format that would last them for years. Legendary Personalities: Robert W. Morgan One of radio's great personalities was Robert W. Morgan who woke up southern California for many years. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Chuck Leonard [stereo]. PRESS: The "Young Sound" Syndication Service. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Bob Lewis Remembered [stereo-scoped]. Legendary New York radio personality Scott Shannon announced on air Friday that he is retiring as host of the WCBS-FM/101.1 morning show, effective Dec. 16. Annie is no stranger to NYC radio, and I'm excited to welcome her back through the iconic WCBS-FM brand, Foxx said in a release. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets. 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. AIRCHECK: Harry Harrison's Final Morning Show [stereo]. While Freed and rock 'n roll music in general was highly controversial in the 1950s, Freed himself was very low-key, spoke in conversational tones on the air (unlike the screamers and speed-talkers of the time) and dressed in conservative suits. Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. 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. Lots of oldies that we never hear anymore but weren't actually all that old back then. During that era, the jocks included Bobby Wayne, Bill Brown, Steve O'Shea, K.O. CBS-FM wasn't always a oldies station. He first appeared on CBS-FM around July of 1972. Here's CBS-FM's remembrance of Bob Lewis from one of the Radio Great Weekends, probably in the early 90's. CBS-FM of that era was a fairly light station compared with WNEW-FM and WABC-FM. [30] In February 2021, the HD3 sub-channel flipped to The True Oldies Channel; CBS Sports Radio would subsequently move to WNSHs HD3 sub-channel. PROMOTION: The WCBS-FM Rock Jocks: Bobby Wayne. Based on some spots in the show (which we removed), we believe this is from June of 1989. Audacy classic hits WCBS-FM New York (101.1) has recruited a second personality with Big Apple radio experience for its post-Scott Shannon plans for morning drive. [24][25] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. This automated format was syndicated to CBS stations across the country and to AFN (American Forces Network). A few hours after the change back from Jack FM, WCBS-FM's '60s and '70s music was brought back online on the stations website. 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. 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 Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx.Its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United . Here's a short aircheck from the end of Norm N. Night's last show on WCBS-FM. Each of the stations began broadcasting its own programming in 1966. 5 am - Paul Murnane. "Jack" picked up on the mayor's comments, making jokes about his quip, "Hey, Mayor Bloomberg. WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM. Eventually, they began to shorten the regular playlist and moved away from pre-1964 and toward 19701989 songs even more. . por . This WAS radio. We also have WNEW-FM's tribute to Murray on the WNEW-FM page (scroll down to February of 1982). There was also a moderate amount of 1980s music on the survey. By September of 1970, he was doing 5-9pm weekdays on CBS-FM when the station had an AOR format. Saturday. 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. 103.5 MHz had previously been assigned to WPAT-FM in Paterson, New Jersey, which went on the air as WNNJ in 1949, and was deleted in early 1951. 6:30 pm - CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (WCBS-TV simulcast) [citation needed] In February 2008, Howard Cogan was replaced by Pat St. John as the pre-recorded voice of the Jack character on WCBS-FM HD2 and ilikejack.com. 7 pm to 12 mn - Joe Causi. 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). Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" was the last song played before the format change. The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. 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. Over the next couple of weeks, the station started playing pre-1964 oldies again. 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. Upon hearing of WCBS-FM's confirmation that oldies would return, Cousin Brucie commented, "Im thrilled that this music is getting a chance again." He is best known for hosting the Doo Wop on Sunday nights from 7 PM-Midnight. The station's studios are in the combined Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan, and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format . "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. Updated on September 1, 2021. 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. As of August 2009, WCBS-FM started carrying New York Giants football on occasions when sister station WFAN could not carry the game. This is a great aircheck of John Zacherley returning to CBS-FM when it was still a true oldies station to play a bunch of crazy tracks for Halloween and it sounds great. New York City, Talk. 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. 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. That's quite a diverse and interesting group of nighttime jocks. She will bring a lot of energy, a deep skill set, and a whatever it takes attitude that really sets her up for success in this role.. Audacy has announced its post-Scott Shannon plans for classic hits WCBS-FM New York (101.1). For many years, WCBS-FM simulcast its programming with its AM sister station. During the holiday season in 2008, WCBS-FM's HD1 and analog signal played Christmas music, resulting in the oldies format being temporarily moved back to the HD2 channel. 6 am to 10 am - Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele. 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. On the other hand, it looked sorta like something your friends doodled in high school. By the end of 1976, Brown was on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays along with his Saturday morning shift. One ongoing feature was a countdown of the top 500 songs of all time, as voted by the station's listeners. The moderation is in English. The station even hit number one overall in the ratings on at least several occasions during the 1990s. 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. It may have been repeated in 1991. The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003, such as the Top 20 Oldies Countdown. [6] On August 27, 1967, the AM station had to launch its news format (which was not full-time until 1972) on WCBS-FM because a small airplane had crashed into the AM radio tower a few hours earlier.[7]. Check out this great episode of Scott's podcast, as he and beloved director/actor Kevin Smith discuss movies, specifically Kevin's praise of Shannon's From Worst To First which helped inspire one of Smith's latest writing projects. The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. He's known for being informative on the air and for playing that rare but great track that you didn't know existed. This one shows the schedule from 1967 to 1981 as CBS-FM evolved from various flavors of AOR to Oldies. Did they really work an eight hour on-air shift together or was it two four-hour shifts? You mean they respected their listeners with specialty show? 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. He also spent time as Program Director. Master of Arts - MA (Communications) Skills. Using Video to Convey Your Passion and Personality Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 101 . 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. 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. 3 pm to 7 pm - Broadway Bill Lee. Dan Taylor hosts WCBS-FM's morning show from 6 to 10 a.m., with Irv 'Mr. G.' Gikofsky providing weather updates. An article describing the evolving CBS-FM. Fri. Feb 24th, 2023 ; Home; Airchexx Social - Forums & Topics; Airchexx By Region . Another terrific sounding aircheck with the great Bob Lewis who could and did do any format. The segment does have one error: near the end, it's said that Murray moved to WOR-FM in 1965. Listen to WCBS-FM, WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM and Many Other Stations from Around the World with the radio.net . 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. This was back when WCBS-FM was still a true Oldies station, at least for the Radio Greats Weekends. The format then moved to the analog and HD1 channels. [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. Annie Leamy will join John Foxx as morning co-host when Foxx & Annie In The Morning debuts on Monday, Feb. 13. 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. It's hard to believe that Freed was only 43 when he died from uremia (or a broken heart, depending upon what you believe). This is a really terrific sounding aircheck. This is because WBEB broadcasts at 14,000 watts, although from a lower antenna height. Location. There's also a bit where Murray does a pulp fiction comic book intro to Ernie K Doe's "Mother In Law". Rob Frankel relates that Rocky G (Groce) was a former WWRL jock who was doing fill-in work at CBS-FM on that particular night.Featured in this aircheck are many vintage Coca-Cola commercials sung by the big artists of the day. Advertisement: Latest Radio Stories. 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. 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. Scott sounds like he's having a great time. Of course, it was easy for WCBS-FM to play "more music" because in 1970, they still probably didn't have very many spots. Each episode includes guests from the Radio industry including, but not limited to, Air Personalities, Program Directors, General Managers, and Owners. He also looked far older than he was. 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. Note: Rob Frankel has since advised us that the Rosko show was a syndicated show produced from Rosko's then home in France. 1 pm to 7 pm- Dave Stewart. Joe McCoy hosts a tribute to Alan Freed. Most radio stations would never do this today because they would consider it "breaking format". The countdown always took place on Thanksgiving weekend (with a new survey taken every other year). Gradually and subtly, WCBS-FM is increasing the frequency of 1980s and 1990s hits per day and is also adding music from the 2000s. These schedules are sourced from newspapers, FM Guide (which was usually a few months behind changes), Radio Guide, Richard Neer's book on FM radio, personal recollections of myself and DJs and various postings on the web, especially those of Vince Santarelli. Murray always had a reputation of being hard to work with, but maybe he was really the Steve Jobs of radio: he knew exactly what he wanted and his genius made him a bit arrogant. AIRCHECK: Ron Lundy with Dan Ingram [stereo], Contributed by Rob Frankel via RadioMaven77 on Mixcloud. Since several people made this announcement, I must sadly believe it is true. John is someone I respect tremendously and is the biggest reason I took this leap. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 posts on Mixcloud: AIRCHECK: John Zacherley on Halloween [scoped]. These are a series of early promotions for WCBS-FM's Young Sound format. WCBS-FM also played a moderate number of adult standards from the rock era. It was produced by the Berstein & Bernstein agency. Alan Berman with Don at the Long Island Radio Day in 2010. Earlier today, legendary radio personality Scott Shannon -- heard for almost a decade every morning on New York City's WCBS-FM with long-time co-host Patty Steele, entertainment reporter Brad Blanks, and a whole crew of returning "Big Show" friends -- has announced his decision to retire from daily morning radio on Friday, December 16. Bayley (Bob Elliott from WOR-FM), Les Turpin, Bob "Bob-A-Lew" Lewis also briefly joined the WCBS-FM "freeform" format. PRESS: New York Daily News: Ingram Out at CBS-FM. 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. But we also hear a then-new track by Cher. In 1989, WCBS-FM limited current music to late nights and overnights. For the first time, WCBS-FM would have an airstaff. "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. 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. The change left WBZO as the only FM station playing any type of oldies format in the market. A somewhat progressive, somewhat light format on WCBS-FM that lasted froom October 1967 to October 1969, although it continued in overnights until late '71. Harry passed in January of 2020 at 89 years old.Listening to this 40 year old show today, it's amazingly listenable. Then, after a few seconds of dead air and a few seconds of a "Wayback Machine" audio special effect, the oldies format returned with the resumption of the last song played before the change to Jack FM, Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" (starting like a phonograph record played very slowly but quickly accelerated to normal speed). It should be noted that payola was not illegal before Congress made it so in 1960 (as long as you reported the income on your taxes, which Freed was accused of not doing). AIRCHECK: Bobby "the Wizard" Wayne [stereo-scoped]. 3,492 likes. End date 20 Oct 2017. 2 pm - Michael Wallace. Bob was a highly creative air personality who could work any format. In retrospect, they seem like completely different eras. 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