A member and Hall of Famer at the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington DC, as well as the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Scott's remarkable career was recently chronicled in the documentary Worst to First: The True Story of Z-100. This aircheck also features some interesting jingles, news and spots. There would be a wider variety of hits, unlike the CBS-FM of 2005, which had a limited playlist from 1964 through 1979. The heartbreaking news was spread on social media but no official sources confirmed the news . It would take the Beatles to get them heard again. Dan Ingram on WCBS-FM January 1991. [19][20] Arbitron's switch from diary to PPM facilitated a move back to oldies and classic hits as sister station WOGL in Philadelphia had demonstrated ratings success in the new methodology by reaching the top five. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s, especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Had Freed lived, I believe he could have resurrected his career, if not on the air, then producing and promoting shows, especially when appreciating doo-wop music became a fad again with the emergence of oldies shows and Sha-Na-Na in the late 1960s. AIRCHECK: Bobby "the Wizard" Wayne [stereo-scoped]. Even Ingram calls 1960 the "year of the dog in music". Updated on September 1, 2021. At 3:00p.m. that day, Jack FM resumed streaming on their website. It also resulted in radio stations of the day largely abandoning the patriarchs of rock, like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and others. Johnny Michaels, formerly of WMCA, played the first record,[9] Dion's "Runaround Sue". AIRCHECK: Cousin Brucie (On and Off Mic) [stereo], This is something quite unique. AIRCHECK: Harry Harrison - Dan Ingram [stereo]. I could have watched two more hours of it, but it came in handy", Listen to Scott Shannon, weekday mornings on WCBS-FM. WCBS-FM also played a moderate number of adult standards from the rock era. Dan Ingram last appeared on CBS-FM on Sunday, June 8, 2003. These shows replaced Radio Greats and Top 20 Countdown, which aired from the station's relaunch in July 2007 until June 7, 2009. 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. If you hit a bad patch, wait it out - it gets better. The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003, such as the Top 20 Oldies Countdown. 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. Location. 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. Station website. (In 1957, Freed's ABC-TV show was cancelled after Frankie Lyman danced with a white girl and ABC affiliates in the south objected.) This aircheck has really terrific fidelity -- why doesn't broadcast radio sound this good anymore? Jack Spector doing the "Saturday Night Sock Hop". 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. Between June 3, 2005, and July 12, 2007, the station aired the automated adult hits format "Jack FM". 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: Radio Greats Weekend: Alan Freed Tribute [scoped-stereo]. It was geared for listeners who weren't into AM radio anymore, but weren't into the heavier sounds of the progressive stations either. 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. Fans will be happy to know that Scott has plenty of shows to do before December 16, and he will remain with Audacy as the host of his syndicated America's Greatest Hits show, which airs on CBS-FM each Sunday morning, plus his True Oldies Channel highlighting the best tracks from the 60s, 70s and 80s on WCBS-FM HD3. 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. An article describing the original "The Young Sound" service, which was 180 hours a month of instrumental versions of rock songs. The very personable Bob Shannon (with Dennis O'Mara) on WCBS-FM back when it was still a real Oldies station. 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. At CBS-FM, she is once again teamed up with Radio Hall of Famer, Scott Shannon. There's also a phone interview with his daughter Alana. He is best known for hosting the Doo Wop on Sunday nights from 7 PM-Midnight. Freed was brought down by the payola scandal. 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. 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. That's quite a diverse and interesting group of nighttime jocks. Saturday. 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. AIRCHECK: Pat St. John's Last Show WCBS-FM [scoped-stereo]. In late June 2009, the HD2 channel was rebranded again as ToNY, meaning "to New York" but pronounced as "Tony". The first song aired was Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right". Dan Ingram playing the hits of the 50's-80's on "all New York artists weekend". The final show will take . 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 . Demonstrates once again why AM radio can't play music. We send our deepest sympathies to his family, friends, and fans. Spitz was an on-air personality on WPHR-FM/107.9 (Power 108 . For more about Murray, check out the WINS, WOR-FM and General Radio History pages. I didn't even remember Rosko ever working for CBS-FM and Ed Williams had previously appeared on WLIB. Rob restored the aircheck using his production magic, but we had to scope it again so as not to violate copyright law and to make it easier to listen to. WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. 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 . By January of 1991, he had appeared at . 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. 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). 2 pm - Michael Wallace. 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. It's hard to believe that Freed was only 43 when he died from uremia (or a broken heart, depending upon what you believe). New York City, Classical. 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. By the end of 1976, Brown was on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays along with his Saturday morning shift. We all remember "Bob-a-Loo". ESPN-1050 made a strong move to acquire Yankees radio rights from incumbent WCBS-AM but was handicapped by its weak 1050 . Former Mayor Ed Koch then welcomed back the format, noting the "mistake" CBS Radio had made with the switch. 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. University of Central Missouri. 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. 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. Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce Morrow WCBS-FM 1991 . 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. One of many format change announcements. Later that year, Maire Mason replaced Donohue. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. Its transmitter is located in east Kansas City, and studios are located in Mission, Kansas. por . 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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. 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. Citing a family remember or a publication would be appropriate. Work. On the AM dial, there were a few oldies stations receivable at night, like Buffalo's WKBW at the time.[16]. Check out Race weekdays beginning at 10AM. In some cases, the same dates are posted twice due to conflicting information from different sources. By September of 1970, he was doing 5-9pm weekdays on CBS-FM when the station had an AOR format. Bob interviews Rick Sklar who was the program director at both WINS and WABC-AM. News Reporter WNNJ FM, NJ . Here's a short aircheck from the end of Norm N. Night's last show on WCBS-FM. 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. WBBM Newsradio 105.9 FM. New York, New York, United States. It's amazing how different Lewis sounded on FM (aside from the fact that he had a bad throat during this show). 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. In those areas WBEB interferes with WCBS-FM, and in some spots, WBEB's signal actually seems stronger. He left WCBS-FM when it flipped to the dreaded Jack format in 2005. Each of the stations began broadcasting its own programming in 1966. 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. By 1979, three FM stations owned by CBS had begun playing disco music. In 2010, the station was number one among all stations in the New York region, 25-54 and 12+ (Arbitron PPM report, May 2010). Vinyl: VAN MORRISON Veedon Pleece Rare PROMO LABEL LP near mint Them From collection of legendary DJ SCOTT SHANNON WCBS Z100 No ratings . What a bunch of amateurs trying to do something interesting. Education. It's a pretty good montage of CBS-FM over the years along with a lot of formatics and jingles. PRESS: New York Daily News: Ingram Out at CBS-FM. Cousin Brucie moved over to Sirius Satellite Radio's '60s on 6 channel to continue playing oldies. 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. Don K. Reed is the leader of WCBS-FM. Description: On-air personality Bobby Jay has a full plate at WCBS-FM. Our hosts cover all that matters to you. They broke format to only play Soul and R&B? BDub Radio. The final Radio Greats show was hosted by WCBS-FM veteran Dick Heatherton. 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. After 22 years cohosting the morning show on WPLJ FM 95.5 and six previous years . Another syndicated show, Dick Clark Presents Rewind with Gary Bryan, airs on Sunday mornings from 12 to 4 a.m. 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. Besides Bill Brown and Don K. Reed, Wayne and Williams also stayed into the early part of the oldies format. . I'm beginning to get that feeling, here's Fontella Bass." 6:30 pm - CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (WCBS-TV simulcast) 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). It was quite lame, but typical of FM at the time with the exception of WOR-FM. WNUR-FM. CBS-FM wasn't always a oldies station. She and Foxx, who was also named Brand Manager of the station, assume the daypart held since 2014 by Scott Shannon and Patty Steele. Zach was 90 when this was recorded and it's amazing how strong, vibrant and ageless he sounds. We even hear Ernie Maresca. Gossert's show was generally broadcast on Sunday evenings, a perfect time for this nostalgia. 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. 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. 5 The Beach Big 107. m. . 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. 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. Pat is still a big fan of rock and roll and has terrific insights into the artists and music. Harry Harrison was a dynamite morning DJ in New York radio where he went from WMCA to WABC . Friday. Air Personalities Morning Shows News Guys Money Girls Program Directors General Managers Sales Types Engineers Other Alumni The Good Guys Today . Alan Berman with Don at the Long Island Radio Day in 2010. 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. 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. History WGLI-FM-WTFM (1958-1982) In 1958, 103.5 MHz was assigned to Babylon, New York for WGLI-FM, simulcasting sister station WGLI 1290AM.William Reuman, the founder and owner of WWRL in New York City, was the owner of WGLI. I'd also like to comment on announcing passings on social media. Listen to WCBS-FM, WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM and Many Other Stations from Around the World with the radio.net . Access the free radio live stream and discover more radio stations at one glance. If CBS-FM always sounded like this, it would be a spectacular station. 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 . Listen HERE. 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. If you're using an older version of a browser . 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. The station segued to "Use Me" by Bill Withers. On May 7, 2008, the Jack branding was dropped from WCBS-FM HD2 and was just called 101.1 HD2 or WCBS-FM HD2 due to the end of a licensing agreement with the owner of the Jack name and slogan, Sparknet Communications. Albany/Troy NY The original transmitter site was located at 500 Fifth Avenue. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts. FOX News Talk. At 5:00p.m., a pre-recorded station identification was played followed by a short introduction of the new adult hits format by new station voiceover Howard Cogan, and the announcement of the new station name: "Welcome to the NEW "101.1 Jack FM", Playing What We Want." However, to focus on a new and changing demographic, they now use Reel World for their jingles. 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