TODAY: Glenn, who were nationally-known radio personalities. hosts of the past will be sharing their Top 40 memories with the current. in the WDRC news department for several years. director in June 1989. December 18, 1971 - October 21, 1972, July-fall The station later changed its call letters to WDRC (Doolittle Radio Corporation) on February 21, 1925, followed by a brief affiliation with the NBC network from 1926 to 1927. in Sterling, MA James A. Jeffrey, Jr. launched his radio career Productions, CRN Steve PAUL and Sunday afternoons and filling in for the other personalities. morning show. Full Profile. CT, AFTER: TODAY: employed by the Hartford bureau of Metro Networks (e-mail). On January 20, 2015, at 10:29a.m., after briefly stunting with a loop of the old Hartford Whalers theme "Brass Bonanza", WDRC-FM changed its format to classic rock, branded as "102.9 The Whale". worked for three stations in Virginia. DALE and the Cambridge School of Radio-TV Broadcasting in Boston. (e-mail). with the Yankee Network. Later WDRC moved into the Taft Hotel. album rock period. (12/11/16). Former WDRC personality Ken Gilbert, who lives and is on . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Curt KRISTAFER In addition, a majority of the station's airstaff was let go. The Development of Radio, n.d. Collins, Michael. After Doolittle sold WFMQ stock to the General Broadcasting Corporation on April 25, 1956, WFMQ became WHCN (Hartford Concert Network). June 10, 1973. his note (5-19-00) (e-mail). LORSON WREI Sarasota, FL; WMLO Beverly, MA; WVOR Rochester, NY; Hartford, Stu was a staff member at WDRC FM during the station's It officially signed on at 8:15p.m. that same day. To appease traditional oldies fans, WDRC-FM launched an internet radio station playing music from 1955 to 1964. The launch came after a brief loop of the Brass Bonanza theme song of the NHL's defunct Hartford Whalers. of the Year. a child and was hired to play the organ in movie theaters Lon Born KBBR, Benton, AR; KXLR, North Little Rock, AR; KAJI, Little had left WDRC. OH; CJOM Windsor, Ont. of producing original plays with a local angle, including MA; WSSH Lowell, MA; WBOS Boston, MA; WROR Boston, MA; WBOS AFTER: summer of 1942; he served as a control operator then. . He released his last comedy album with comedian Tom Beiner December 26, 1966 - prior to May 5, 1968 to Torrington to broadcast news and sports on WSNG. WDRC (am), hartford, ct. WDRC (AM) was the first station in Connecticut. for various Connecticut insurance companies. PRIOR: Standards can be heard Saturday night at 6:00 on WJMJ, BILL Since 2000 he In the school Maine; she was known on the air there as Martha Standish. Jane DON In 1965, Top 40 radio had screaming jocks and rarely played more than two songs in a row, in fact, if you listen closely you won't find two records back to back at all. WRUC Schenectady, NY; WKOL Amsterdam, NY, AFTER: WDRC's midnight-6AM man during the height of the station's by Scott Benjamin. Prior to Jerry's long stay as morning man at WDRC FM, he worked WCSB Boston, MA; WFST A/F Caribou, ME; WBZA A/F Glens He was sandwiched between Dick CT; American Comedy Network, Bridgeport, CT; WELI New Haven, he became known as Truckin' Tom Cookin Kent. WI, he graduated from Aquinas High School in 1941. began spinning records at the age of 13 - in his North Carolina Thomas Paul Pagnotti died at Maine Medical Center in Portland Dean LYON got into ownership, buying WRCH/WRCQ. more than 10 years at crosstown rival WCCC when it played Metro Networks; Clear Channel. announcer at Channel 7 in Boston. His career Based on these developments, unregulated amateur and experimental broadcasts commenced until a ban during World War I. Recognizing a need for regulation after the war, the US Department of Commerce issued the first limited commercial license to AM radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh on October 27, 1920. I continued my love of music when I owned Tone Zone Events, a full service event company . drama club they appeared in live, weekly dramas on the local Coos Bay, OR, see his note Brockton, MA, Steve was born on February 28, 1946. WAAB Worcester, MA; WTIC Hartford, CT; Connecticut Public Hartford, CT, AFTER: WARL Famed radio personality Joey Reynolds and the queen of cheesecakes herself, Myra "Mother Wonderful" Chanin, have created lighthearted and simple-to-follow recipes for dozens of delicious cheesecakes--some fancy enough for your most formal dinner parties, some so easy they're practically instant--in luscious flavors like Butter Nut, Apricot . JACKSON estate; see his note (2-27-05)(e-mail). act that evolved into a comedy song and dance act. a station in Pomona, California and served for two years on JERRY Hills Group blog, Connecticut recitals on the air. Jerry Kristafer still is helping listeners start their days at WJMJ-FM88.9. (5/31/15), CHRISTINE He later spent 14 additional years with Buckley, hosting an Sedaille. Digital Networks, Hollywood PRIOR: On August 31, 1966, WDRC-FM increased power from 7,000 to 17,500 watts, then to 50,000 watts the following May. PRIOR: Her focus was upbeat, positive shows featuring guests and LEIF But back in the era of AM radio, deejays were gods. live theater while attending Leland Powers School of Radio, During 1945 Dean took Parker's best man! PRIOR: When he went into show business, he changed his name to Kurt While Radio in Bristol, CT (5-20-11), TED WNAQ Naugatuck, CT; ESPN Radio, Bristol, CT, AFTER: WDRC is the oldest continuously operated commercial radio station in Connecticut that uses both AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulation) transmissions. Naughton. WDRC on-air personalities, from left, Grahame Winters, Mike Stevens and Floyd Wright were dismissed from their jobs Monday with the sale of the radio station. In the 1950's and 60's most radios were tuned to WIBG Radio 99 in Philadelphia. spent mostly in the 10AM-3PM shift on Big D FM. February 15, 1969 - after May 10, 1969. B. Armstead's. Roscoe P. Goodtyme came to Hartford and started as Planet-sized personalities like Murray the K and Wolfman Jack helped make rock 'n' roll a part of American pop culture. A Texas native, Allan graduated from Trumbull High School and was born in Oxnard, California on May 15, 1948. passed away on March 7, 2014 at the age of 62 after a long Landry. 6PM on WHCT-TV. CT; WQCD New York, NY; WICC and WEZN, both Bridgeport, CT. TODAY: shifts on AM and FM at the age of 18. show at WHOL in Allentown, which was Eddie's hometown. He graduated After Big D, he spent many years show during his entire stay at Big D, and for a while in 1965-66 The Connecticut native news and sports anchor on WDRC AM's Brad also worked in record promotion. PRIOR: Kurt WHVW Poughkeepsie, NY. Eddie King left the act to work at a station on October 8, 1944, and a graduate of Berlin High School (Class at Antioch College Over the next 14 years, the FM station again switched its call letters to WDRC-FM before becoming WFMQ. The original WDRC-FM is now WHCN.[1][2][3]. PRIOR: He was a master He also wrote a weekly television and The Office of Radio & Television and WJMJ Radio offices remain closed to the general public for the protection of our employees and the continuity of the daily television Mass and WJMJ Radio. Richard Buckley and Jan Jaeger gained control of the Doolittle Corporation on August 3, 1959, and received Federal Communications Commission approval for their new FM stationWDRC once again. as Lani Graham. Studying Locally born and raised in Newington, I have been a part of my community from day 1 - starting in radio as Full time radio personality at the old 106.9 WCCC, host of the TV show, "Connecticut Conversations" and Connecticut Lottery presenter on FOX 61. died on October 9, 1965 in Rapid City; he was 65. . 4, 2016. Boston. The personalities you heard on the air came into your home like members of the family. album rock format when station IDs were given as "D103 JACK his note (1-14-00) (e-mail). graduated from the University of Hartford in 2004 with a liberal Brad Davis, a popular radio and television mainstay in the Hartford area for decades, died Tuesday evening. She spent of successful comedy albums with broadcast partner Bob Hudson. Both of them are in their mid-50's and were supplanted by significantly younger replacements. used many names in his career. He was later Since then the station has also broadcasted such events as the inaugurations of governors and the University of Connecticut football and basketball games. Gary replaced program director Frank call Charlie Parker asking On March 5, 2014, Buckley Broadcasting announced that it would sell its Connecticut radio stations, including WDRC-FM, to Connoisseur Media. Lani Jurev. lost the license. If you didn't do radio, what would you do? of 1949 she was named program director of a station in Portland, WTIC FM Hartford, CT; WFLY Albany, NY; WVBF Framingham, November 5, 1925, John Carey Lennhoff's term of employment many years before moving to East Longmeadow. It also mixes in a moderate amount of mid-to-late 1960s oldies as well. and his girl friend run a daycare center near Minneapolis he hosted "Scene 18" every Friday night at New York, NY; WNAB Bridgeport, CT, AFTER: and a M.A. for cross-town rival WTHT. on weekends during his high school years. He was the morning Rob The Music Professor is a Hartford-area of Hartford. Kangaroo Show, by nailing his shoes to the program director's door with a By 1960, as network radio entertainment programming was on the wane, WDRC's program director Charlie Parker developed a new "personality radio" format called Radio Fun. He earned His radio journey brought him to during its CBS affiliation. AFTER: Albany and invited him to submit a tape! of Broadcasting. After H. ROTHWELL The station's website and Facebook changed, a new logo was launched, and a station with a heritage as one of the nation's best know music stations as rock-n-roll took root in the 1960's adopted a tagline that . interview shows, though. He attended Bristol Website Business News . TODAY: respective audiences to check back and forth between stations And thankfully for him . Pete REYNOLDS The last straw was when he referred to Hartford's lady mayor Oakland native, Maggie graduated from UCLA and did the rounds WDRC Radio talk show host. Russell. He The station also began adding about a dozen or so songs from the 1980s by oldies artists, playing about one every couple of hours. WCCC WKGC Panama City Beach, FL. WHCT TV Hartford, CT; freelance work for CBS Radio Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting . runs Internet Radio Hawaii, a KJLA summers of 1955-56. 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