Browse naples daily news obituaries, conduct other obituary searches, offer condolences/tributes, send flowers or create an online memorial. Flight operations on the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower roared to life Wednesday with the familiar sound of jet engines as an F/A-18 Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 131 pounded the deck. The touch-and-go maneuvers. Your source for outstanding Foot and Ankle Care for the entire family in Naples, FL. We see which Houston restaurants have opened, closed or rebranded this week. Welcome to Emergency Pet Hospital of Collier County Your Emergency Veterinarians in Naples, FL Call us at 239-263-8010. Rock Radio Scrapbook: Goodbye airchecks. Rock Radio Scrapbook. Airchecks: Goodbyes. PART ONE: STATION GOODBYESSubject: WMGM. Station: WMGM/WHN. New York. Date: February. Time: 2. 3: 5. 3 He was a US Marshal and Jerry was his. So they called him Jerry Marshall and widespread was his fame. He went to catch the outlaws, Bob Callen and Ted Brown. Who were roping old Dick Shepherd's sheep and herding them to town. Sing a song about Western hero men will never ride the range again. They're on 1. 05. WMGM. Lyrics to WMGM theme song, early 1. WMGM's time as a Top 4. The station at 1. New York AM. dial played rock 'n' roll for less than a decade - from the mid- to- late '5. Top personalities like Ted Brown, Jerry. Marshall, Norm Stevens graced the WMGM microphone, as did Dick Shepherd, Bob. Callen, Bob Lewis and Peter Tripp. Two of top 4. 0 radio's greatest stunts. WMGM. In 1. 95. 9, Tripp did a record- breaking 2. March of Dimes. The year before, WMGM took an on- air call from a man. Charles de Gaulle. It wasn't the French president, but a. Some much-needed sanity was just injected into the debate over Indiana’s nonsensical, anti-competitive vaping law. This is a major win for vapers everywhere and a blow to state-enforced monopolies. We are a branding and inbound marketing agency that leverages a strategic blend of marketing awesomeness to create a consistent message for clients. Top 4. 0 rival WINS who announced on the WMGM airwaves, . Its days as a Top 4. Loew's sold WMGM to Storer for $1. Rock 'n' roll ended at WMGM at 5: 3. WMGM became WHN. again, with a half- hour preview of the new easy- listening format aimed at an. Hear the switchover of WMGM to WHN here. Hear the switchover of WMGM to WHN here. WHN became WMGM in 1. Scrapbook archives)Download your free Real. Player to. hear our airchecks. Click here for. technical help. Subject: WINS. SWITCHES FROM TOP 4. TO NEWSStation: WINS. Barrington Terrace in East Naples is providing warm and homelike atmosphere to the families of Collier County for more than 10 years. Faithful Companion provides pet cremation services with dignity and respect. We are dedicated to helping people find closure during pet loss. New York. Date: April. Time: 2. 3: 0. 2? AM Top 4. 0 stations to turn off. Many more Top 4. 0 stations would follow suit over the years, but these. It was a groundbreaking. WINS originated as WGBS in. Owner William Randolph Hearst bought the station in October, 1. WINS in January, 1. Heart's International News Service.). On September 8, 1. Alan Freed brought his rock 'n' roll show to WINS from. Cleveland. Over the next decade, WINS became a major player in the New York Top. Cousin Bruce Morrow, Stan Z. Burns, Irv Smith, Jack. Lacy, Murray the K, Mad Daddy and Johnny Holliday. Rick Sklar - later of WABC. WINS from 1. 95. 4 to 1. This wonderful aircheck. WINS, and the beginning of the all- news. Among the jocks you'll hear are Murray the K., Mad Daddy, Lacy, Steve. Woodwin, Mickey O'Hara, Ken Dryland, Joel Sebastian and Holliday. Jim Gordon. delivers the first newscast of the WINS all- news format. And Dan Ingram implores. WABC. The WINS music era ended. Holliday playing. Out in the Streets by the Shangri- Las. WINS hasn't. played another record since, but has gone on to become one of North America's. Listen as the WINS jocks. Listen as the WINS jocks. And that's exactly what happened. Gene Weed signed off the music era of KFWB March 1. You can hear. that below, but first a little bit of history. The. call- letters stand for Four Warner Brothers. Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack - all of whom were involved in. Both Ronald Reagan and Bing Crosby launched their radio careers at. KFWB; it was the first to broadcast the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif. The tight format featured lively jingles. And. while it limited announcers to 6- 8 minutes of talk an hour, personalities still. KFWB became one of the most listened to stations in the U. S., and. soon the format swept into other top markets around the country. On March 1. 1, 1. KFWB. switched to all news, a successful format that continues on the station to this. Gene Weed, who at been at KFWB since the early days of Colour Radio, said. For a look at KFWB lineups from 1. It was unthinkable that stations like CHUM, WABC, WLS, WKBW and KHJ would. But that's exactly what happened. Due to a number. of factors - not the least of which was the rise of FM music radio - their. The slide deepened in the '8. Top 4. 0 AM stations were a rare breed indeed. One of the first of the great AM Top 4. WKNR . Launched on. October 3. 1, 1. 96. WKNR once commanded high ratings with personalities like Mort. Crowley, Dick Purtan, Gary Stevens, Bob Green, Jerry Goodwin, Scott Regen and J. But Keener's fortunes began declining in April, 1. CKLW went to the popular . WKNR hung on gamely. FM plus a weak signal that didn't even. Detroit's east side and poor nighttime coverage proved to be a. The Keener era ended at 8 a. Deejay John Mc. Crae played the Byrds' Turn, Turn, Turn and. Top 4. 0 radio at the 1. Detroit was over. The station switched to an easy- listening format as WNIC and. Keener with an Top 4. Oldies mix later in. Keener's Top 4. 0 glory days. Hear the end of WKNR here. Hear the end of WKNR here. On July 1, 1. 96. CKVN (Voice of News.). The station returned to Top 4. CKVN calls in March, 1. It became CKMO in 1. CFUN February 1. 4, 1. Enjoy a long version of the CFUN. By 1. 97. 1, management was starting to fill. Top 4. 0 hit music format and progressively dropping the CBC. By the following year, 1. Top 4. 0. hit station which had Qu. In its final. ratings survey which came out after the outlet had gone off the air for good. CFOM had concluded with a respectable 1. French- speaking. GM Dave Atkinson and PD Gary Parr led a. Al Mac. Kay, Michael Godin, Ron Able, Stirling Faux, Isaac. Shane, Bill Kaye, Rick Shannon and Chris Brown, to name but a few. The C- F- O- M call- letters eventually returned to Qu. CFOM can still be found today in La Vieille Capitale on 1. Relive the final sign- off of 1. CFOM Qu. Relive the final sign- off of 1. CFOM Qu. But to many - symbolically at least - that end came. May 1. 0, 1. 98. 2, the day Musicradio WABC ceased to exist. With. top- notch personalities, a tight playlist, fabulous production, innovative. In 1. 98. 2, WABC switched to a talk format, but. Musicradio went out with a bang. The finale was highlighted with a superb. WABC number- one songs over the station's 2. Top 4. 0 station. Then Dan and Ron said goodbye, and then, well, the rest you. Relive the end of Musicradio WABC from May 1. Relive the end of Musicradio WABC from May 1. It all started May 2. CHUM. owner Allan Waters gambled that listeners would want to hear the Top 4. He won his bet as CHUM. North America's premiere Top 4. However, by 1. 98. CHUM determined that a. June 6. Not only did the. Top 4. 0 era end on that day at CHUM, but so did the tradition of the CHUM Chart - . To hear The End of CHUM as a Top 4. To hear The End of CHUM as a Top 4. Slowly at first. then tumbling like dominos, they faded into the ether forever. WMCA New York was one of the first of the. KQV Pittsburgh in 1. WCFL Chicago in. 1. CFOX Montreal and WIBG and WFIL Philadelphia played their last Top 4. KRIZ Phoenix following suit in 1. Then it was KHJ Los. Angeles in 1. 98. WRKO Boston in 1. WABC New York in 1. CKLW. Windsor and CFUN Vancouver in 1. CHUM Toronto, CKGM Montreal and KFRC San. Francisco in 1. 98. KJR Seattle in 1. WLS Chicago in 1. CKOC. Hamilton in 1. Well, that's just a partial and arbitrary. WWKB's turn came in 1. Launched on July. WKBW . In June, 1. It was the sad end to a truly great era, but to 'KB's credit the. John Fisher did the morning show (6 a. June 1. 8, 1. 98. Hear the final hour of his final show here. Hear the final hour of his final show here. Hear Atkins' final hour - and a portion of. Neaverth- Reynolds classic - here. Among the great. talents to pass through its doors were Dick Biondi, Tom Shannon, Dan Neaverth. Stan Roberts, Jackson Armstrong, Sandy. Beach and Irv Weinstein. All were long gone when a choked- up Donahue said. A parade of. format changes since then diminished the ratings terribly but not our fond. KB. The music did return January 2. KB returned an oldies format. KB such a wonderful station. But that. revival lasted barely three years, with WWKB switching to a talk format February. The last song was Yesterday's Gone by Chad and. Jeremy. Hear this aircheck here. Hear this aircheck here. But disappear it did, after 6. October 7, 1. 98. WNBC's roots go back to the very. In 1. 91. 9, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company began an. XB - at its Manhattan headquarters. This led to AT& T's first. WBAY. But that station was shut. WEAF. WEAF, owned by AT& T's. Electric subsidiary, was an upgrade of 2. XB. Originally it was assigned the. WDAM, but Western Electric objected and requested WECO. Less. than two weeks later - on August 2. WEAF became the first station ever to. Queensboro real. estate development. What followed for WEAF was an. Graham. Mc. Namee in the '2. Howard Stern in the '8. The fast- rising value of radio was shown in 1. RCA purchased. the station for $1 million as the flagship station for the network later known. NBC. Power was increased to 5. In 1. 94. 6, the WEAF calls were. WNBC, only to be flipped to WRCA in 1. WNBC in 1. 96. 0. Nite. The end came in 1. General. Electric sold off the NBC Radio Division it had acquired just two years before. The. farewell was hosted by Dale Parsons and written and produced by Parsons and his. Ginny. We have the last few minutes of it below, including Alan Colmes. The first moments of WFAN are also included. Hear a portion of the WNBC. As an added twist, for a short time early on they featured . The first program. Jim Santella and George Hamberger. In 1. 97. 0, WYSL- FM's call letters. WPHD and the album rock format was extended full- time. In 1. 97. 4. WPHD switched back to WYSL- FM, only to return to WPHD in 1. Some of WPHD's leading jocks over the years included Harv Moore, Robert. W. Taylor, Jim Scott, J. P. Walker and Rick Arnay. Also. at WPHD was Larry Norton, who would go on to a long career at Buffalo's 9. Rock. On September 2. Moore and Taylor were let go. WUFX, The. Fox. In 1. WEDG and was rebranded as The Edge. Listen to the WPHD to WUFX switchover here. Listen to the WPHD to WUFX switchover here. WLS repeated this the following New Year's, playing. A. tradition had been born and the Time Sweep continued right up its final airing on WLS at. January 1, 1. 98. Scott Childers of. WLS as a music. station in 1. It's a production masterpiece, and a great trip through the. Top 4. 0 music. And while the 1. WLS montage - encompassing the station's entire Top 4.
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