As for the prospects of FM Talk @ 102. All you need is a location to host the antenna and access to electricity — unless you've got batteries, then just the location. Hosted by Clifford, the late-night show broke from the station's Top 40 format and featured an eclectic mix of blues, hard rock and more adventurous music. Celebration of the Mighty 1090 KAAY. Weekend on 06/28/2018. Director Richard Curtis' 2009 comedy-drama stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, a disc jockey for an unlicensed rock radio station that broadcast from a rusty, decrepit ship off the British coast in the mid-1960s, defying government authorities to spin the rock records that weren't allowed on the BBC at the time. The old WNEW-FM ''was a pioneering station, '' said Walter Sabo, an independent Manhattan-based broadcast programming consultant. An audio goldmine of 1960s-'70s news clips, commercials and disc jockeys cutting up at Little Rock radio station KAAY will be part of a tribute to the influential broadcast outlet on Friday at the Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater. I wish WNEW had tried harder to be a rock station instead of listening to focus groups. '' We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today. Last night, in a promotional event on the street near the station's Manhattan offices, Opie and Anthony presided over a stunt in which a fat lady actually sang and CD's and posters were given to a crowd of 100. I even have then-Gov.
It was a decision made with a great deal of anguish, notwith a happy heart. Sometimes it's thought-provoking and sometimes it's pure stupidity. FunTrivia Editor = Gold Member. "The KAAY public affairs program was Focus on the Newsmakers, " says McCorkindale, "Some are tedious, some are interesting. "Pirate Radio" is a period piece, set in a time when the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together" and the Who's "My Generation" were still scandalous and controversial rather than nostalgic anthems for today's aging baby boomers. Forgetabout old-fashioned AM and FM. There was a time, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, ''when WNEW-FM was indigenous to life in New York, and reflected the world around it culturally, musically and sexually, '' said Jonathan Schwartz, who was the second disk jockey hired to work on the station in 1967 and left in 1976. Blasts from past in store for tribute to Little Rock radio station KAAY. Public radio stations aren't included in the basic Arbitronratings, but KPBS-FM does get separate numbers. They included Sally Jesse Raphael, Peggy Cass and Alison Steele, who later became ''the nightbird'' on WNEW-FM. Best known for their high energy live show, the rock n' roll band from London, Ontario were influenced early on by Kings of Leon and The Black Keys. Our quizzes are printable and may be used as question sheets by k-12 teachers, parents, and home schoolers.
McCorkindale and McDonald finally went to the building in June 2003 to investigate and discovered there were more than just a few tapes. Before joining WNEW-FM last year, the team was dismissed from a Boston-area station for broadcasting a sketch -- complete with phony sound bites from a news reporter and a police officer -- about the supposed death in a traffic collision of Boston's Mayor, Thomas M. Menino. The station is currently owned by Cumulus, and its format is talk radio and contemporary Christian music. AM 540's sister station KKGO/1260 in L. A. will continue playingthe oldies format, but its signal doesn't reach North County. On radio, golden oldies are history. Because of the station's powerful signal, in 1962, the U. S. government used KAAY to broadcast Voice of America programming to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to the history and culture encyclopedia. Begun after the Federal Communications Commission insisted that FM radio stations had to generate different content than that of their parent stations, WNEW-FM started its career with its legendary ''all-female'' team of disk jockeys, who played 1960's pop including a fair amount of Frank Sinatra. This fm is known for playing rock crosswords eclipsecrossword. The new WNEW-FM ''sets up FM talk in its own new niche, '' he added. I found programs with [governors] Orval Faubus and Winthrop Rockefeller. Randy Dotinga is so ancient that he actually remembers vinylrecords.
WNEW-FM had declined to a 1. The station, which once proclaimed that it ''always rocked, always will, '' began its talk marathon at 3 P. M. and adopted a new slogan: ''FM talk @ 102. ''Our show is more fun than shocking, '' Opie responded. 95 a month, plusother fees to get set up.
So what's a fan of the Great American Songbook to do? Tom Wood will serve as moderator. "I feel very, very bad, " Levine said. AM 540 had been playing pop standards for about a year. Why make the change? 7 Free FM continued tostruggle. What radio station plays rock. Even so, the station dumped Sinatra, Streisand and Connick is replacing them with the likes of Cash and Twain. Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country.
There are a few hundred here. This lowered WNEW-FM to 23d place among the 48 regional radio stations rated by Arbitron. Los Angeles recently lost its only country station, and AM 540is essentially stepping in to fill the void. Its origins can be traced to KTHS, the state's first 50, 000-watt AM station, which went on the air in 1924 and moved from Hot Springs to Little Rock in 1953. North America's largest celebration of all things cannabis.