WBBR (1130 AM) is a Class A clear-channel radio station licensed to New York City. WNEW focused more on soft rock and played more charting hits on the Adult Contemporary music charts. The Christmas format continued into January and early February. In December 2006, the station began increasing the amount of Christmas music, and at the same time, Michelle Visage was let go and Joe Causi was relegated to his Sunday night Studio 54 classic Disco program. [2] She told an interviewer that her childhood had been comfortable until a sudden and drastic reversal of the family's fortunes. [11] Less than eighteen months later, in October 1955 the station changed hands again with Buckley joining two new partners, television producer and investor Jack Wrather and banker John L. [citation needed], In January 1996, the station declined to switch to classic rock when WXRK, also known as K-Rock, which had a classic rock format for several years, decided to adopt an alternative rock format. [23][24] The station mixed old and contemporary pop hits with talk shows and entertainment news from sources such as E! . At this point, Channel 5 took the WNEW-TV calls to match up with its new radio sisters. WNEW was acquired in 1934 by advertising executive Milton H. Biow and watch manufacturer Arde Bulova, under the name The Greater New York Broadcasting Company. From 1982 to 1992 Mark hosted the afternoon show at WNEW from 3-7 p.m., featuring a mix of celebrity interviews and standards music. It spent its remaining music days flip flopping between a variety of classic, adult album and alternative rock. [8] She died on September 27, 1995 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, aged 58.

[citation needed]. Later, Dave Herman featured a "Bruce Juice" segment each morning. As a result of the station's success, CBS Radio cloned the format and branding in Chicago on WCFS-FM, Washington, D.C.'s WIAD, and KEZK in St. Louis, although the Washington station was Hot AC. FM Radio Disc Jockey", "Nightbird still soars for WNEW (continued)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alison_Steele&oldid=915142746, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 September 2019, at 13:30. [10] Her show was a major success for its timeslot,[10] and when DJ John Zacherle left for another job in June 1971, WNEW sought to maximize her exposure by placing her in his 10pm to 2am shift, six nights a week. WNEW then moved to 1130 kHz. On September 12, the station fired most of the staff, rebranded as "102.7 Blink FM: Music Women Love", and adopted a more mainstream adult contemporary format, with ratings going up slightly. The original Bloomberg Radio weekday news format divided each hour of the day into six 10-minutes segments, containing financial market updates, business headlines, traffic, weather, sports, a human interest piece or a general updates about cultural happenings. Available on most Canadian cable and satellite providers. WNEW-FM was among the first stations to give Bruce Springsteen significant airplay, and conducted live broadcasts of key Springsteen concerts in 1975 and 1978; Springsteen would sometimes call up the DJs during records. [1] For a number of years, Steele was also the disc jockey for the pop/rock in-flight audio entertainment channel on board Trans World Airlines. [6] By 1988, WNEW began to focus on bigger hits by standards artists.
The station signed back on the air at 12:01 a.m. with the new call sign WBBR. The station, which now had the slogan of "New York's Rock Alternative", evolved to an eclectic mix of adult rock by the end of 1995. By 2002, WNEW added brokered programming on weekends and stopped playing music altogether, with the exception of Eddie Trunk's Friday and Saturday night hard rock-oriented shows, as well as Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight. On the evening of December 8, 1980, Vin Scelsa broke the news of the murder of John Lennon to the WNEW-FM audience. As of December 22, 2006, Paco Lopez, Efren Sifuentes, Carol Ford and Yvonne Velázquez had also been released in anticipation of an expected format change.

It also acquired the Manhattan broadcasting studios which had been constructed for the recently failed Amalgamated Broadcasting System. During this era, the station hosted many live broadcasts from the legendary Greenwich Village night club, The Bottom Line. The station also cut back on music during morning and afternoon drive times. The station finally came on the air on August 25, 1958, mostly simulcasting WNEW (AM) with a popular music format. WWFS's ratings improved after switching to the adult contemporary format, with increases in both the Winter 2007 and Spring 2007 ratings periods. The WWFS calls were approved on January 9, 2007, by the Federal Communications Commission, resulting in the WNEW calls disappearing from the New York radio/television spectrum after being used continuously in the market since 1934. Until the launch of WWFS, WLTW had gone unchallenged as the only adult contemporary station in New York City (along with rimshots New Brunswick, New Jersey's WMGQ, and Hempstead, New York's WKJY), and was the most listened to station in the city for years. WWFS did not switch to all-Christmas music on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 2011, as main rival WPLJ aired Christmas music during those days. [7] In doing so, she became one of the first woman disc jockeys in the country.

When long-time competitor WPLJ switched away from rock in 1983, WNEW-FM picked up some of its most popular DJs, such as Carol Miller, and years later, Pat St. John, who would take over the morning show and programming duties. Steele did much voice-over work for radio and television commercials,[2] and she provided the narration for one of Howard Stern's popular radio bits, "Larry Fine at Woodstock", featuring impressionist Billy West. [8][6], On January 1, 1968, WNEW placed Steele in the overnight "graveyard shift" which granted her more creative freedom, leading her to develop her on-air personality and rapport with her listeners. It was not the first in New York to do so – WOR-FM preceded it – but it was the one that prospered and became famous for the format and that in turn influenced the rock listenership as well as the rock industry. Steele was born Ceil Loman on January 26, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. In October 1979, Make Believe Ballroom was reinstated in middays. [7][8] Soon afterward, he piloted a 15-minute experimental show called the Make Believe Ballroom, during which he played records from popular bands and singers, posed as a live performance in an imaginary ballroom.
In 1971, WNEW shifted its programming again and evolved into a full service adult contemporary format. In January 1981 WNEW converted to big bands and standards 24 hours a day and deepened the selection of songs.[5]:56. The station's ratings plummeted even further—in the fall of 2002, it only netted a 0.7 rating, an unprecedented level for a major-market FM station, and lower than ratings for noncommercial stations. A harbinger for the "hot talk" format's end came in August 2002, when Opie and Anthony were fired for encouraging a stunt involving two people allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse in a vestibule within St. Patrick's Cathedral. Online + On-Air on HD2. In the succeeding months, the "mix" tended to skew towards 90s and current dance hits (during this time, program director Frankie Blue was fired for drunken on-air behavior, not only saying "fuck" on-air, but also misidentifying the station as rival "103.5 KTU"), with this all culminating in a change with Rick Martini as the new Program Director and an official "classic dance" or Rhythmic AC format in early 2005 under the slogan "Move to the Mix", and in the later months, adopted the "New York's Classic Dance Mix" slogan. The news department at WNEW flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was considered among the best news operations at an independent radio station. Late in 1991, WNEW backed off this type of music and focused again on traditional standards artists. In 1986, following the sale of WNEW-TV and Metromedia's other television outlets to News Corporation, the company's radio station group was spun off from Metromedia into a new company, Metropolitan Broadcasting. Available on select cable and satellite providers in the Southwest United States as a regional superstation. On October 30, 1967, WNEW-FM adopted a progressive rock radio format. [5]:54 The program director fired anyone who was rumored to have objected to the changes, including longtime sportscaster Marty Glickman. She amassed a large and loyal following on her night shifts on WNEW-FM in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s. [11], She was a supporter and promoter of prog-rock bands like Yes, Genesis, and the Moody Blues,[1] as well as hippie favorites like Santana and the Grateful Dead. WNJR gave up and turned in the FM license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1953.[1]. Initially, the station mixed in additional big bands and standards in with the AC format. The station's origins go back to 1922 as WAAM in Newark, and 1925 as WODA in Paterson. In December 2011, CBS again transferred the WNEW call letters to 99.1 FM in Washington, D.C. as it began an all-news format. [1] "I thought there must be a lot of people ... that need something to relate to in the middle of the night, and if I could create some kind of camaraderie, a relationship between myself and the rest of the night people, then it would be more than just music". Contributor: John Yanagi, FCC History Cards for WNEW-FM (1954-1981), WNEW News Department Historical Profile (1978), Aerial view of WNEW-FM studios from Google Local, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WNEW-FM&oldid=982703959, Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The station's pink logo led to the derisive nickname "Barbie Radio", and Booker & Lopez did little more on the air than talk about Jennifer Lopez, Lynda's older sister. Infinity Broadcasting would then merge with CBS in 1997, and CBS retained the Infinity name for its radio division; thus, ownership of this station would go from one network owner to another. [38][39], On the afternoon of July 13, 2018, WNEW began running jockless and airing liners between songs taking swipes at WLTW and promoting something "NEW" to come the following Monday, the 16th; at 6 a.m. that morning, WNEW-FM relaunched as "The All NEW 102.7", with "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" by Adele as the first song played under the “NEW” brand, with the intention of taking direct aim at WLTW. During Block's tenure as host of Make Believe Ballroom, the show attracted 25% of the listening audience in New York City. [4] Once again, the owners failed to put the station on the air. At first WNEW-FM simulcast the AM station. As well as music, she recited texts and poetry over music. In December 1997, sister station WFAN (then flagship station of the MetroStars) announced that WNEW-FM would be their FM flagship station after Infinity Broadcasting (now Entercom) reached a six-year extension deal (starting in the 1998 MLS season) with the MSG Network and the MetroStars to simulcast their games until the 2004 season. [1] She favored mystical and romantic writing for her recitations, and sometimes offered up her own writing as well. "Ron and Fez" did their show at WNEW at the regular time.

This was most likely made because when CBS bought WRXP (to become WFAN-FM), which had the Smooth Jazz/Smooth AC format on their HD2 channel ("CD 101.9"), it was taken away as the HD transmitter was turned off on the frequency, which left no Smooth Jazz music to be broadcast anywhere in the New York area prior to the aforementioned date. ", Subject to availability; all currently operating as superstations are distributed in the United States through the. In NYC and LA, returning pupils face battery of virus tests.


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