We hear Issac Hayes, 3 Dog Night, Grand Funk Railroad and other hits of the era. . To save money, CBS-FM wanted to cut Ingram back to one day a week from two (with a commensurate cut in salary) and Ingram refused. [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. Bob Shannon (radio personality) Syracuse, New York. Dan Taylor hosts WCBS-FM's morning show from 6 to 10 a.m., with Irv 'Mr. This was still in the days when CBS-FM would play Little Richard and early Doo-Wop records. During that era, the jocks included Bobby Wayne, Bill Brown, Steve O'Shea, K.O. 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. #61. 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. They broke format to only play Soul and R&B? . AIRCHECK: First Radio Greats Weekend: Jack Spector - Harry Harrison - Joe O'Brien [stereo], Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud and recorded by Joe Persek. The following week, Dan Daniel took over on Saturday and Pat St. John "sat in" for Ingram on Sunday, but Ingram never returned. 5 am - Paul Murnane. While they failed, their efforts led to the invention of the playlist and the end of disc jockey freedom until free-form radio stations brought it back some 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. WNEW-FM had their classic lineup of Johnny Michaels, Jonathan Schwartz, Scott Muni, Rosko, Zacherely and Alison Steele. The very personable Bob Shannon (with Dennis O'Mara) on WCBS-FM back when it was still a real Oldies station. AIRCHECK: Bobby Wayne (Restored & Scoped). In the summer of 2002, Don K. Reed's long-running Sunday night Doo-Wop Shop program was cancelled. Don K. Reed was best known for his Doo-Wop Shop that aired on Sunday nights on WCBS-FM. Another syndicated show, Dick Clark Presents Rewind with Gary Bryan, airs on Sunday mornings from 12 to 4 a.m. WCBS-FM HD2 also began broadcasting in HD Radio on December 12, 2005 (before most of the other New York stations, which launched in early 2006). This was followed by greetings from former WCBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Cousin Brucie likened the format switch to "replacing Yankee Stadium with a fruit stand". WBEB, an adult contemporary station in Philadelphia, also broadcasts on 101.1 MHz. Huge thank you to John, [Senior VP of Programming] Jim Ryan, and [Market President] Chris Oliviero for this incredible opportunity.. By September of 1970, he was doing 5-9pm weekdays on CBS-FM when the station had an AOR format. 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. WCBS-FM New York, which switched to Jack FM on June 3, was a 33-year Oldies format icon. Fleet Week is over. 6 am to 10 am - Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele. He certainly kept alive this genre of music that was very popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 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. He is also the author of the book Behind The Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll. Dan Taylor hosts WCBS-FM's morning show from 6 to 10 a.m., with Irv 'Mr. G.' Gikofsky providing weather updates. Lots of oldies that we never hear anymore but weren't actually all that old back then. Bob was a highly creative air personality who could work any format. In 1969, WCBS-FM launched a freeform rock format, which was becoming increasingly popular, and all other CBS-owned FM stations followed suit. It's just music." 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. "[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 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. But it was also a format maverick--different for many years from the 250-song, heavily focused music machines that the Oldies format had become. Demonstrates once again why AM radio can't play music. I'm beginning to get that feeling, here's Fontella Bass." Of course, it was easy for WCBS-FM to play "more music" because in 1970, they still probably didn't have very many spots. In retrospect, they seem like completely different eras. 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. A recording of Wolfman Jack's final radio broadcast from 1995 was also featured on two occasions. The final Radio Greats show was hosted by WCBS-FM veteran Dick Heatherton. It didn't sound free-form, but it did sound low key. 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. 3,492 likes. May the legend rest in heaven. Bill Brown (radio Personality) CBS Radio; "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. 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. On the other hand, it looked sorta like something your friends doodled in high school. [26][27] As part of the agreement with CBS, Entercom was given the rights to use the brand and trademarks for WCBS-FM along with sister stations WCBS (AM), KCBS (AM) in San Francisco and KCBS-FM in Los Angeles for a 20 year period after which Entercom (or succeeding entity) will be required to relinquish using those call-letters.[28]. You have permission to edit this article. In the fall of 2014, the station dropped the pre-1964 oldies altogether and also dropped many of the songs from the 1960s, cutting the number down to one to two per hour. This is because WBEB broadcasts at 14,000 watts, although from a lower antenna height. Here are segments from Dan Ingram's show from the Radio Greats Reunion Weekend of June, 1991. 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. 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. It's amazing how different Lewis sounded on FM (aside from the fact that he had a bad throat during this show). Gus opens with Ray Charles and plays a lot of 50's Doo-Wop, which is almost impossible to find on the radio anymore. There would be a wider variety of hits, unlike the CBS-FM of 2005, which had a limited playlist from 1964 through 1979. Advertisement: Latest Radio Stories. 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 . Location. knx 1070 radio personalities. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. Another psychedelic ad approach. In an attempt to cater to fans of the old format, the station created an internet-only oldies station on its website, and soon after, simulcasted the format on 101.1-HD2. 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. Freed was brought down by the payola scandal. Elvis Duran of WHTZ (100.3 FM) and Scott Shannon of WCBS-FM (101.1) are the winning personalities, with all-news WCBS-AM (880) and WINS (1010 AM) also clustered at the top. His last broadcast on June 3, 2005, was a remote at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate his 100th day at the station. It was produced by the Berstein & Bernstein agency. WCBS-FM broadcasts at 6,700 watts. A nice article featuring the CBS-FM jocks. This WAS radio. 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. When WCBS-FM was relaunched in July 2007 Don came back to host the radio greats show on the last Sunday of every month. 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. One other surprise for me was the promotion for the DJs appearing later that night: Ed Williams and Rosko (Bill Mercer). 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. Here's a great aircheck of Jocko Henderson from the sixth Radio Greats Reunion Weekend of June 1998. Albany/Troy NY In addition, Fast Jimi Roberts, Big Jay Sorensen, Steve O'Brien, Famous Amos, Randy Davis, Dave Packer and Don Geronimo have done occasional fill-in work. 2023 Audacy, Inc. All rights reserved. I wrote an article titled Spotlight on Don K. Reed i n this journal in February 2009. If you hit a bad patch, wait it out - it gets better. New York City, Classical. 98.7 KLUV FM Dallas! [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]. One of many format change announcements. On-air Personalities. During this period, the station's on-air jingles were made by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas. He also spent time as Program Director. 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. 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Upon hearing of WCBS-FM's confirmation that oldies would return, Cousin Brucie commented, "Im thrilled that this music is getting a chance again." I didn't even remember Rosko ever working for CBS-FM and Ed Williams had previously appeared on WLIB. In fact, there aren't too many spots aside from Coke. On a decent station, aside from the specific news articles, it could have aired today. Seller Id 2ps9mB3juE9M. Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce Morrow WCBS-FM 1991 . There's also a phone interview with his daughter Alana. AIRCHECK: Back from JACK Format Flip [scoped]. "My only complaint about the movie, too short," says Smith. [2] The allocated frequency changed several times before the station finally went on the air at 46.7MHz on December 1, 1941. He's known for being informative on the air and for playing that rare but great track that you didn't know existed. What a bunch of amateurs trying to do something interesting. (And scroll down to find where Zach does it again 20 years later and still sounds as great.). The 80s hits, along with the collection of enduring 70s, have an undeniable appeal to a younger audience . In the 80s & 90s, he spent 10 years at New York's K-Rock (WXRK-FM), and wrote and produced several internationally . WCBS-FM (101.1 FM) is a CBS-owned radio station in New York City, offering a Classic Hits format. After the new programming's failure, WCBS-FM returned to its format of personality-driven classic hits. End date 20 Oct 2017. Bayley (Bob Elliott from WOR-FM), Les Turpin, Bob "Bob-A-Lew" Lewis also briefly joined the WCBS-FM "freeform" format. Unfortunately, Lewis passed away just a few months after this show was broadcast. Work. Harry Harrison, inducted . CBS-FM's longtime music director Jeff Mazzei was retained as program director of the wcbsfm.com oldies stream. Based on some spots in the show (which we removed), we believe this is from June of 1989. If CBS-FM always sounded like this, it would be a spectacular station. And when it happened, two of the top three radio markets would simultaneously wonder what had happened. Each episode includes guests from the Radio industry including, but not limited to, Air Personalities, Program Directors, General Managers, and Owners. We first hear Brucie closing out his show and what's remarkable is that in those 60-odd seconds, Bruce displays more personality than today's DJ's are allowed to exhibit in a month. End price 46.00 USD Start price 9.99 USD. Gossert during the "light" progressive era of CBS-FM. The final Shannon in the Morning show aired on Dec. 16. The popular Jay is heard Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Wednesday . 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 new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. 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. On even years, up to 1990, the survey from the previous year was played. By the late 1970s however, the station dropped most of the adult standards, with a few exceptions, and added rock hits from the late 1960s. For the first time, WCBS-FM would have an airstaff. One of the tag lines for the format was "Playing What We Want". Listen HERE. Our hosts cover all that matters to you. Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I have a son Lee who is now 34 years old. PRESS: Bob Cole tries to turn-around CBS-FM Group, In turn he delegates considerable authority to his station people; believes the guy on the scene, who knows the market, should make decisions, particularly programming ones.. Since then, WCBS-FM has consolidated its position as a market powerhouse - a tribute to Program Director Jim Ryan and veteran city DJs like Dan Taylor, Broadway Bill Lee and Joe Causi. Also in that year, Harry Harrison and Dan Ingram both retired. By January of 1991, he had appeared at . WCBS (AM) - Wikipedia. "It was like an hour. This is a great scoped aircheck of John Zacherley sitting in on Halloween at CBS-FM in 2007. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. On June 3, 2005 WCBS-FM flipped from an Oldies format to JACK. . The station even hit number one overall in the ratings on at least several occasions during the 1990s. It's hard to believe that this aircheck is from 40 years ago. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud. As of August 2009, WCBS-FM started carrying New York Giants football on occasions when sister station WFAN could not carry the game. Harry's first day at WCBS-FM. A composite of WCBS-FM from their hybird singles/AOR rock days. 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. 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. The format was largely a jukebox or iPod playlist interspersed with snarky tag lines voiced by Howard Cogan. 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. 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. 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. Radio personalities such as Bobby "Wizzard" Wayne, Tom Tyler, Ed Williams, Steve Clark, Roby Yonge, K.O. Thanks for listening to WCBS-FM 101.1! Fri. Feb 24th, 2023 ; Home; Airchexx Social - Forums & Topics; Airchexx By Region . Start date 13 Oct 2017. 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. Bob interviews Rick Sklar who was the program director at both WINS and WABC-AM. 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 a short aircheck from the end of Norm N. Night's last show on WCBS-FM. 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). John is someone I respect tremendously and is the biggest reason I took this leap. WCBS-FM New Yorks Foxx & Annie In The Morning To Debut Feb. 13. CBS Radio, owner of the station, declined to comment on the rumors. And then Bobby comes on and entertains us with even more of a distinctive personality. CBS-FM wasn't always a oldies station. The countdown always took place on Thanksgiving weekend (with a new survey taken every other year). I am interested in rock and roll radio. 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. 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. 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. PROMOTION: The WCBS-FM Rock Jocks: Bobby Wayne. 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. Jay joined WCBS-FM as the host of the popular Hall of Fame and Top Twenty Countdown shows. [15] The format featured nearly 2,000 unique songs in the playlist. The nine hundred and fifty-fifth position on our top list is currently occupied by WCBS-FM. In the course of 1981, all of CBS's FM stations, except for WCBS-FM and their FM station in San Francisco, adopted a CHR format known as "Hot Hits". WOR-FM was still being programmed by Bill Drake and featured Jimmy King, Sebastian Stone, Tommy Edwards, Sean Casey, Al Brady, Bob Evans and Johnny Donovan. I'd also like to comment on announcing passings on social media. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. 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. A native New Yorker, Foxx also worked at PLJ as Program Director and afternoon drive host of and was Brand Manager of New Yorks former country station, WNSH-FM. He is best known for hosting the Doo Wop on Sunday nights from 7 PM-Midnight. Bill Brown began his long tenure with the station, and Don K. 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