[15] The format featured nearly 2,000 unique songs in the playlist. When FM radio split from AM radio simulcasting in 1966, Bob saw the potential of working in a freer creative environment and started doing the only weekday live show on WABC-FM in April of 1967. Start date 13 Oct 2017. ", "It's time to take a break, so on Friday, December the 16th, I will retire from CBS-FM right after we finish up the year the way it should be, with our live broadcast for the kids at Blythedale Children's Hospital. Joe McCoy On The Former Musicradio77 Air Personalities At WCBS-FM By Scott Benjamin . Using Video to Convey Your Passion and Personality Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 101 . The only radio personality to have worked at former Top 40 WMCA-AM 570 in New York, rival Top 40 WABC-AM 770 in N.Y., and Oldies WCBS-FM 101.1 in the Big Apple has died. Friday. LISTEN NOW: Scott Shannon and Patty Steele discuss WCBS-FM retirement announcement and love for listeners. When WOR-FM promoted that it was going rock in June of 1966, I thought it was also going to be a soft rock instrumentals station because at the time, it was difficult to imagine real rock on a commercial FM station. This is an aircheck from radio pro and historian, Rob Frankel. When WCBS-FM was relaunched in July 2007 Don came back to host the radio greats show on the last Sunday of every month. Here are segments from Dan Ingram's show from the Radio Greats Reunion Weekend of June, 1991. This was just five months before he'd be fired from WNEW-FM, AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Jocko Henderson. 5 am - Paul Murnane. From 1988 to 1993, he did 10am-2pm at WNEW-FM after Dave Herman moved to drive-time and he held other shifts on the station through 1998. Of course, it was easy for WCBS-FM to play "more music" because in 1970, they still probably didn't have very many spots. We even hear some Doo-Wop. Jack Spector doing the "Saturday Night Sock Hop". Dick's father, Ray Heatherton, portrayed "The Merry Mailman" on NYC local television. . 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. 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. In some cases, they may oversee programming on individual streams or channels. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. Remember . On the banks of the Red River, Hanoi is one of the world's most ancient cities. The channel continued to feature an adult hits format until December 21, 2012, when it was dropped and replaced with a simulcast of WCBS. 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. G.' Gikofsky providing weather updates. 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. Zacherley, doing his annual Halloween guest spot on WCBS-FM back when radio was still an awful lot of fun. Annie Leamy will join John Foxx as morning co-host when "Foxx & Annie In The Morning" debuts on Monday, Feb. 13. 1 pm to 7 pm- Dave Stewart. Previous Format: Oldies "101.1 CBS-FM" New Format: Variety Hits "101.1 Jack-FM" Date & Time Of Change: June 3, 2005 at 5:00pm More Info: Wikipedia Related Change: 101.1 WCBS-FM Returns It was the day many never thought would happen. This aircheck is from about six months after CBS-FM moved from a quasi-progressive rock format to an oldies format. 12 am to 7 am - Music automation (no DJs) 7 am to 1 pm - Matt Sneed. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Scott Muni [stereo-scoped]. [29] On January 2, 2013, WCBS-FM HD3 flipped to CBS Sports Radio. 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]. Between June 3, 2005, and July 12, 2007, the station aired the automated adult hits format "Jack FM". We even hear Ernie Maresca. No wonder we don't listen the same way. As a result, WCBS-FM switched to oldies on July 7, 1972, becoming one of the first full-time stations in the country to use that format. por . 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. 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 . We all remember "Bob-a-Loo". Transit Reporter WCBS, 880 AM, NY (WCBS Transit Center) . Leamy, who has been hosting mornings at iHeartMedia AC "Q92 . Each episode includes guests from the Radio industry including, but not limited to, Air Personalities, Program Directors, General Managers, and Owners. ", 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.". 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 amazing how different Lewis sounded on FM (aside from the fact that he had a bad throat during this show). Each of the stations began broadcasting its own programming in 1966. Our hosts cover all that matters to you. 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. 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. Radio personalities such as Bobby "Wizzard" Wayne, Tom Tyler, Ed Williams, Steve Clark, Roby Yonge, K.O. [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. Weekend hosts include Sue O'Neal (6 to 10 a.m.) and Pat St. John (Sundays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.). 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. By January of 1991, he had appeared at . I heard you took a shot at us in the Post. 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 . I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. CBS-FM wasn't always a oldies station. "[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". 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. WCBS-FM 101 New York - Don K Reed - March 3 1981 - Radio Aircheck On July 4 1972, WCBS-FM dropped the Rock format it had had for a few years, and flipped to . The 80s hits, along with the collection of enduring 70s, have an undeniable appeal to a younger audience . 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. 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. At CBS-FM, she is once again teamed up with Radio Hall of Famer, Scott Shannon. The very personable Bob Shannon (with Dennis O'Mara) on WCBS-FM back when it was still a real Oldies station. 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. 6 am to 10 am - Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele. 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, Alison Steele, Scott Muni, Jonathan Schwartz . 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. I wrote an article titled Spotlight on Don K. Reed i n this journal in February 2009. It also resulted in radio stations of the day largely abandoning the patriarchs of rock, like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and others. 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 the summer of 2002, Don K. Reed's long-running Sunday night Doo-Wop Shop program was cancelled. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets. This aircheck is of the flip back from JACK to Greatest Hits CBS-FM. 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. Bayley (Bob Elliott from WOR-FM), Les Turpin, Bob "Bob-A-Lew" Lewis also briefly joined the WCBS-FM "freeform" format. 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. WBBM Newsradio 780 AM. 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). I could have watched two more hours of it, but it came in handy", Listen to Scott Shannon, weekday mornings on WCBS-FM. Because CBS-FM was such a heritage station, the format didn't go over well in NYC. 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. 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). 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. [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]. 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. 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. The oldies format on WCBS-FM continued to be a success. 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. Announcing the passing should state the source of information. Many of these hosts are well-known DJs, talk show hosts, and celebrities who sometimes anchor special shows. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. Here's CBS-FM's remembrance of Bob Lewis from one of the Radio Great Weekends, probably in the early 90's. Another psychedelic ad approach. Freed was brought down by the payola scandal. 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. It was produced by the Berstein & Bernstein agency. 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? WCBS-FM was never successful with their rock format, where it competed with stations such as WPLJ and WNEW-FM; these two stations had most of the rock audience. [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). John is someone I respect tremendously and is the biggest reason I took this leap. The AM station retained its personality-oriented middle of the road format until August 27, 1967. 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 . 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. I don't want to discuss the Jack fiasco, but WCBS-FM has used a strategy to attract younger listeners by playing . What??!!!! 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. 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. In the summer of 2003, to appease some fans, they did add a specialty 19551964 oldies show called Heart & Soul of Rock & Roll with Norm N. Nite (who had been with WCBS off and on since 1973). Morgan died of lung cancer in 1998. . 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). Gossert during the "light" progressive era of CBS-FM. AIRCHECK: Radio Greats Weekend: Alan Freed Tribute [scoped-stereo]. 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). He first appeared on CBS-FM around July of 1972. 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 "Jack" format experiment at WCBS-FM is widely regarded, inside and outside the industry, as one of the greatest failures in modern New York radio history, as the station fell to the very bottom of the ratings of full-market-coverage FM stations in the New York market. Updated on September 1, 2021. 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. Now with a population of over 4.8 million people, it has grown beyond being the nation's capital to become a fascinating city in its own right. The morning mayor doing his final show from the Museum of TV & Radio. Part of Audacy. Read more about this topic: WCBS-FM. It's a pretty good montage of CBS-FM over the years along with a lot of formatics and jingles. Master of Arts - MA (Communications) Skills. In fact, there aren't too many spots aside from Coke. Bids 7 bids. I'm beginning to get that feeling, here's Fontella Bass." Alan Berman with Don at the Long Island Radio Day in 2010. WCBS-FM's return to classic hits has also been a success, ranking it among the top five stations in every quarter of the new ratings for Arbitron, consistently either first or second in overall audience. He was one of the few people in NYC radio who kept the spirit of doo-wop music alove through the decades. Dan claims he listened to Chuck on WWRL and recommended him to WABC management. Thanks to Rob Frankel's postings on Mixcloud, this is a restored aircheck of the supposed first edition of the Lewis & Clark expedition with Bob Lewis (and Steve Clark). Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce Morrow WCBS-FM 1991 . Dan would leave CBS-FM 18 months later. In spring 2004, WCBS-FM narrowed the playlist even more. If you're using an older version of a browser . That April, Infinity flipped radio stations KCBS-FM in Los Angeles and WQSR in Baltimore to the "Jack FM" format. Contributed by Gus Gossert to Rob Frankel and posted via Rob's RadioMaven77 postings on MixCloud. By September of 1970, he was doing 5-9pm weekdays on CBS-FM when the station had an AOR format. 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. 7 pm to 12 mn - Joe Causi. AIRCHECK is a podcast about radio's personality from radio personalities. It may have been repeated in 1991. Note the diversity of the music which combined music that you might hear on AM along with select album tracks, not completely unlike what you might hear on CBS-FM today, but with more non-single album tracks: Bob Dylan, The Carpenters, Al Kooper, the Grateful Dead, Carol King, James Taylor, the Rolling Stones, Donovan, Carly Simon, the Beatles, Joe Cocker, the Doors, etc. #61. On-air Personalities. DOB said: It's funny that in most large markets now, chr does best in 25 to54, while classic hits does the opposite, WCBS FM was recently #1 18-34. AIRCHECK: WCBS-FM AOR/Top-40 Hybrid Format Compilation [restored - stereo). [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. WCBS (880 kHz), often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880", is a radio station in New York City. Taylor will join WCBS-FM as midday host as of July 22. Joe McCoy hosts a tribute to Alan Freed. And we even hear news. 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. 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. A great photo of the CBS-FM jocks from contributor Kimbal Brandner. 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. He's known for being informative on the air and for playing that rare but great track that you didn't know existed. Even Ingram calls 1960 the "year of the dog in music". But in our opinion he was great and was unfortunately underused in his WABC years. Prior to the last few years, CBS FM winning 18 to 34 never happened once. And to Shannon, who rehired his long-time WPLJ sidekick Patty Steele and has clearly reconnected with a lot of folks who grew up hearing him on Z-100. AIRCHECK: Bobby Wayne (Restored & Scoped). Under Brown, WCBS-FM moved away from easy listening and began to play more 60's rock. Top Stations. 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. This was followed by greetings from former WCBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. WCBS-FM New Yorks Foxx & Annie In The Morning To Debut Feb. 13. Based on some spots in the show (which we removed), we believe this is from June of 1989. [10] In 1992, WCBS-FM ran a Top 500 Countdown based on all their surveys from 1973 to 1991. The format change to live jocks actually took place October 20th. Listen HERE. Dan Ingram and Bobby Jay on a Fabulous Fifties very cold weekend. On November 19, 2016, the "Saturday Night Block Party" was discontinued after four years in favor of regular programming. That's quite a diverse and interesting group of nighttime jocks. Additionally, the '60s and '70s oldies became broader and '80s and early '90s oldies were also mixed in, and the format got much deeper. m3u: Radio 567 - XRN Australia. The station broadcast "Jack FM," an automated adult hits format, from June 3, 2005, to July 12, 2007. Recognizing the controversy of the sudden change, on June 14, 2005, the station announced that it would be unique among those with the Jack format in that it would occasionally include '50s and early '60s songs in its rotation as well as songs by performers like Frank Sinatra that are normally not part of the Jack format, though a later Web update retracted this, and songs from before the late '60s were no longer played. The station is continually ranked one of the highest-rated stations in the New York market, as well as one of the highest-rated classic hits stations in the United States.[1]. The first song aired was Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right". In late June 2009, the HD2 channel was rebranded again as ToNY, meaning "to New York" but pronounced as "Tony". AIRCHECK: Cousin Brucie (On and Off Mic) [stereo], This is something quite unique. A little over two years later WCBS-FM would become an Oldies station. By 1979, three FM stations owned by CBS had begun playing disco music. So he plays a bit of Philly Soul and the next record is Joe Cocker. The format was largely a jukebox or iPod playlist interspersed with snarky tag lines voiced by Howard Cogan. 8 months ago. . Bob Shannon, whose only previous New York City radio experience before coming to WCBS-FM was as a fill-in DJ at WYNY, became well-known himself through his 19-year run as the station's afternoon disk jockey. CBS-FM liked horn bands, so they played a lot of Gary Puckett, Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears, similar to WOR-FM. 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. 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. FishbowlNY has explored how some of your favorite TV and radio personalities are coping with the 9/ . 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. A recording of Wolfman Jack's final radio broadcast from 1995 was also featured on two occasions. A Digital Nomad Guide to Hanoi. cooper's hawk copycat recipes Uncategorized. 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. . The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003, such as the Top 20 Oldies Countdown. AIRCHECK: Pat St. John announces his retirement from WCBS-FM. WCBS-FM At 50 And 15. WNUR-FM. The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to a personality-driven classic hits format. WCBS-FM broadcasts at 6,700 watts. 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. Audacy has announced its post-Scott Shannon plans for classic hits WCBS-FM New York (101.1). It's also hard to believe that it was a year into Beatlemania and only 18 months after his death that WOR-FM joined the airwaves. 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. 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. Zach was 90 when this was recorded and it's amazing how strong, vibrant and ageless he sounds. Besides Bill Brown and Don K. Reed, Wayne and Williams also stayed into the early part of the oldies format. The great Bob Shannon doing the Oldies thing. WBBM Newsradio 105.9 FM. And when it happened, two of the top three radio markets would simultaneously wonder what had happened. 3:30 pm - Michael Wallace and Steve Scott. 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. An article detailing how Bob Cole has been promoted to VP of CBS' FM radio group and is mandated to make the stations profitable. PRESS: New York Daily News: Ingram Out at CBS-FM. Scott sounds like he's having a great time. 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. This is a great scoped aircheck of John Zacherley sitting in on Halloween at CBS-FM in 2007. End price 46.00 USD Start price 9.99 USD. And it was Tom Clay, not Tom Cloy. They repeated 1993's Top 500 in 1994, conducting their last listener surveys in 1995 and 1996. I had forgotten about this one. However, by the end of that day, the station would be changed dramatically. Harry passed in January of 2020 at 89 years old.Listening to this 40 year old show today, it's amazingly listenable. 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. University of Central Missouri. WNEW-FM had their classic lineup of Johnny Michaels, Jonathan Schwartz, Scott Muni, Rosko, Zacherely and Alison Steele. 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. . 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. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear-channel & is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network. . The change left WBZO as the only FM station playing any type of oldies format in the market. [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]. "Jack" picked up on the mayor's comments, making jokes about his quip, "Hey, Mayor Bloomberg. Bob interviews Rick Sklar who was the program director at both WINS and WABC-AM. 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. 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. "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. 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. 98.1 WOGL FM Philly! This was the way it sounded as it was heard on WCBS-FM from 8/5/92. Bob Lewis died on January 23, 1987 at the young age of 49. "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. Citing a family remember or a publication would be appropriate. 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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