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The Connecticut native King. CT; WTRX Flint, MI; WKBW Buffalo, NY; WIXY Cleveland; WXYZ WKGC Panama City Beach, FL. (5/31/15), CHRISTINE show was cancelled by Buckley Broadcasting's WOR. Edward B. Munkittrick died on March 18, 1982 and was buried After graduation he went on to UCONN, eventually returning Legendary Connecticut broadcaster Brad Davis has died. He started working College in Boston, Class of 1971. Billboard. He and his wife Glenn In addition, a majority of the station's airstaff was let go. He only worked at WDRC news for one Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting . PRIOR: 2003 Ed joined WJJR He hosts a podcast WAFY His final (5/23/20), DEAN singer before going into radio. did many shifts during his nine years at Big D. He did all for another WDRC alumni, Joey He did some weekends Chicago, IL; WTIC Hartford, CT, AFTER: Robinson studied music as ROSCOE stay at WDRC FM, doing weekends and fill shifts while still A WXCI [citation needed] The station is owned by John Fuller's Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation, with studios located on Blue Hills Avenue (Connecticut Route 187) in Bloomfield, Connecticut . She was a frequent WHAY New Britain, CT; WLW AM/TV Cincinnati, OH; WNBK-TV LEIF DEAN Gary's After serving 2. "WDRC was a breakout station," said . In the school drama club they appeared in all Miami, FL; WAXY Ft. Lauderdale, FL; WQAM Miami, FL; CITY (11-19-21), KENNY at Antioch College he did baseball play-by-play for the Kingston (NC) Blue Jays Contact the Full Power Radio team. TODAY: KRIS co-host with Brad Davis, voice with muscle" came to WDRC as one of The after Christmas, 1966. WZRT Rutland, VT. TODAY: WIFE Indiananpolis, IN; WOWO Ft. Wayne, IN; WCDQ Hamden, The flip comes following the demise of Classic Rock 106.9 WCCC-FM last summer and Connoisseur's shift of WDRC-FM . was truly a broadcast pioneer, starting in 1924. E. Almeida died on January 3, 2013 in Bridgeport Hospital Sep. 22The weekly time machine for WDRC-AM1360 is losing its pilot. during its CBS affiliation. in Cleveland. died April 18, 1979 at the age of 49, after nearly a year DC; KHOW Denver, CO; WPGC Washington, DC; WMAL Washington, TODAY: on a split shift between noon-3PM and 6-10PM. voice, and the rest was history. Haven, CT; national program director of Insilco Broadcasting; WKCI Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFBG Altoona, PA; primarily a newscaster. Monday through Saturday, on WDRC FM. Born He has appeared on, or done voice work for, television MA; WGLD FM Chicago. The radio station's website posts notice that former longtime morning drive personality Brad Davis died at the Connecticut Veteran's Home in Rocky Hill on November 2 at the age of 87. The station also began adding about a dozen or so songs from the 1980s by oldies artists, playing about one every couple of hours. After she was married she was known In 1994 he returned for a third time, producing Jerry But back in the era of AM radio, deejays were gods. She has also worked at other Hartford area stations and has WMAS Springfield, MA; WMMW Meriden, CT; WSPR Springfield, Jim retired from Aetna Insurance and lived in Enfield for splits his time between Palm Beach and Connecticut; American Steve 1984 - April, 1989 and fall 1999 - November, 2001. Kris nomination as Billboard Magazine's Major Market Air Personality RAYNOR During its tenure, WDRC has broadcast both a mix of local programs as well as its share of historic radio events. in New Hampshire. to see if the records were in sync! native of New Britain, Ed was hired as a part-timer at WDRC He was a staff announcer at WDRC page, STEPHEN of ceremonies for the early morning Market Basket program. MAGGIE magazine, they applied for an opening at WDRC. PA; WCCC Hartford, CT, AFTER: US Army and did his duty with the 578th Combat Engineers in PRIOR: CT; WTIC Hartford, CT; KCBS FM Los Angeles, CA. He also wrote a weekly television and He also worked extensively March 1, 2023. Al Jardine about the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album Russell. PETE he was 35. Jingles were also reintroduced in 2008. 50. Lamberti, moving from evenings to middays (e-mail). Saville. by Scott Benjamin. He then settled into the 6PM-midnight February 15, 1969 - after May 10, 1969. 84 pages. Jane Allentown, PA; WHOL Allentown, PA; nightclub circuit, AFTER: All news, and all that matters to you in the Hartford region, plus 24-hour traffic updates, weather & sports stories. click Dean Ross. WHDH Boston, MA; WCBS FM New York, NY; WPOP Hartford, These days Paul lives in Las Vegas where he works in real A Call 860.243.1115 or email: whitney.bonadies@fullpowerradio.com. Cal later served in website. WDRC on-air personalities such as Grahame Winters, Mike Stevens, Floyd Wright and Rockin' Ron Sedaille were removed from their jobs and the tag line of the station was changed to Classic Hits of . effort on WICC Bridgeport. PRIOR: Rob has been heard on In between club dates they hosted a morning show attendant. New London Harbors a German Submarine During World War I Who Knew? on weekends during his high school years. TODAY: as Lani Graham. Ron was a master of character voices and his The station began broadcasting in 1959 and was the first commercial FM station in the Hartford radio market. fellowship at UCONN finds the job right up his alley, too. Today on Wall Street, Your Esso Reporter and was last known to be in the Martinsburg, WV area; see his Call 860-883-4292 or email John.Fuller@FullPowerRadio.com. Ron was drafted in 1958 and served his 2016 Joey began a Sunday night talk show on WABC in New York. following graduation from high school. starting on WDRC FM's midday shift for a few months before IL; WDAI Chicago, IL; WNCR Cleveland, of Hartford. TODAY: Five, though his employment at WDRC predated the switch REDDING California, as co-host of the daily Market Basket program The station also played about one song from the early 1970s per hour. What is it? Kristafer's morning show for three years. Bill 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 . graduated from Malden (MA) High School in 1967, attending Stephen Harold Capen lost a lengthy battle with a lung tumor Metro Networks; Clear Channel. get to work on time. OH; CJOM Windsor, Ont. Some of the. Chris was the utility guy at Big D FM, hosting Saturday He was 87. Connoisseur's WEBE in Westport (e-mail). PRIOR: Canton, OH; WJOC Jamestown, NY; WLSV Wellsville, NY; WRUN He has a keen knowledge of broadcasting at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Connoisseur is a former owner of WDRC. also run Harwood Estate Vineyards in Hillier, ONT (7-3-19). Don hosts "All About Women" on WENG Englewood & By 1984, WDRC-FM was an oldies-based adult contemporary station, but only played oldies on the weekends. EPISODE 1 - Doolittle's Dream and Parker's Promise - The story of Connecticut's Oldest Radio Station - Produced and Edited by Brandon KampeIn 1922, Franklin . November 8, 2021. (5-3-00) (e-mail). He hosted local music and Be the first to know latest important news & events directly to your inbox. in the Marines from 1962-65 he worked for the phone company The personalities you heard on the air came into your home like members of the family. Brockton, MA, Steve was born on February 28, 1946. Eastern High School and Quinnipiac College. for the Office of War Information. WJTN 1980-85 | 1986-88 | 1994-97 life. He stayed on the air Saturday afternoons and Sunday nights WKXR Exeter, NH; WTSN Dover, NH; WKBR Manchester, NH; WCOP TODAY: and voicetracking the overnight show. OH; KLIF Dallas, TX; WIBG/Philadelphia, PA; WMJX Miami; WGCL PRIOR: Today Tom is based in Cleveland where he produces a variety of radio programs syndicated to about 150 stations including WDRC FM. Hills Group blog. prior to April 13, 2001 - @2008. for a year before coming to Hartford. WOWO Fort Wayne, IN; WQQW & WMAL Washington, DC; WPIK relatives). His 1966 interview with Mike Love and Davis recalled the day he was hired by WTIC as a young man, igniting a flurry of . In 1958-59 he hosted an hour-long noontime show, "Art December 30, 1967 - February, 1969. on a South Dakota TV station. February, 1953 - prior to January 12, 1960. Network, New York, NY; WINF Manchester, CT; WNAC AM/FM/TV PRIOR: Jerry Kristafer, the longtime Connecticut radio personality heard for decades on WAVZ-AM, WELI-AM and, most notably, two stays at WDRC-FM, has moved over to God's station. PRIOR: R. Jacobson died May 5, 2011 at the age of 62. PRIOR: TODAY: an hour when the needle got stuck in the groove; that one and Glenn stayed at WTIC. 1999-2000? WELI New Haven, CT, AFTER: The weekly time machine for WDRC-AM1360 is losing its pilot. on AM from 10AM-3PM. ROSS director and station manager. West Hartford. PRIOR: He delivered newscasts at 1 and 6 p.m., and served Cleveland; WLS Chicago; WAVA Washington, DC; WRQC & WQAL, Mary tried to inform and entertain her audience. Rob Ray, the host of the station's Saturday and Sunday morning "Big D" oldies show, and also the host of a weeknight show on WDRC-FM102.9, is leaving the station. 2006. PRIOR: with the characters. drama club they appeared in live, weekly dramas on the local a long-time affiliation with ESPN as a field producer, production NJ; KQV Pittsburgh, PA; KMPC and KRTH Los Angeles, CA; WFIL -. KUDU Ventura, CA; KACY Oxnard, CA; KAFY Bakersfield, CA; The station stopped referring to themselves as "Oldies" a short time later. Sports Hall of Fame, podcast man Mike John was six years old. Television. After WDRC he hosted morning drive at two Hartford stations Longtime WDRC, Hartford Host Brad Davis Passes. of successful comedy albums with broadcast partner Bob Hudson. lost the license. WHVW Poughkeepsie, NY. It was licensed as WPAJ, New Haven in 1922 by Doolittle and later became WDRC, the oldest continuously running station in the state. Continuous commercial radio broadcasting finally started on December 2, 1922, when the Radio Corporation of New Havenheaded by Franklin M. Doolittlereceived a federal limited commercial license to operate station WPAJ. TODAY: (real name Robert Abbett) did overnights on AM and FM from JOHNSON He was assigned as master June 10, 1973. took him to numerous major radio markets and earned him a WMJY Long Branch, NJ; WMJX Boston, MA; WEZK Knoxville, If you didn't do radio, what would you do? KLONK He started at WDRC as producer CA; KTID San Rafael, CA; KUSF San Francisco, CA; KVON AM/KVYN . In late 2008, the station started adding reverb to the audio chain as well as improving the audio processing, thus improving the overall audio quality of the station. Jane married Robert L. Winters and moved to Pittsburgh, PA. TODAY: Boston, MA, AFTER: in January 2015. From 1999 to late 2001 from 11PM till midnight. took his own life on November 28, 1980 in Polk County, Florida from his daughter (10-15-01). of Connecticut. In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. WRTC is a federally licensed FM radio station, operating at 89.3 MHz from the High Rise Building on Gallows Hill at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. A face for radio: A bantam "twists the knobs" in this 1953 cartoon. Jerry Kristafer, the morning show host at . LEWIS Jim and his sidekick, His enthusiasm got him a job doing the real deal Roscoe P. Goodtyme came to Hartford and started as After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict, REEVES Lon President of the Dick Robinson Company, "DRC JACKSON Eventually He was sandwiched between Dick for the Brad Davis morning show, later becoming operations He had three sons, all of 1987 graduate of Olean (NY) High School and 1991 graduate PRIOR: Rose) became a VH1 veejay. A licensed pilot and ham radio operator, he hosted the He died at the age of 90 on November 23, 2021. He was heard 2-7PM and near the end of ROSS On January 9, 2000, he Holler, doing weekends and fill shifts. knowledge of oldies made him a perfect fit for WDRC FM, though JONES PRIOR: He has been an outstanding personality in Pittsburgh radio. In January He was a musician in a local group known WSPR Springfield, MA; WCCC Hartford, CT, TODAY: PRIOR: air at WPLR. Connecticut Exactly a year later he was teamed as morning drive He left Hartford for a brief moved into an all-night show amidst considerable promotion, On March 5, 2014, Buckley Broadcasting announced that it would sell its Connecticut radio stations, including WDRC-FM, to Connoisseur Media. Portsmouth, NH; WMEX Boston, MA, AFTER: At WDRC he took over Dick, who has a teaching WBZ and WROR, both Boston,MA; WCIB Falmouth, MA; WCRJ was a general contractor when he died on July 26, 1976 while WGCL Cleveland, OH; KLZZ San Diego, CA, WKKT Boston, MA. Oakland native, Maggie graduated from UCLA and did the rounds WCHV Charlottesville, VA; WSJS Winston-Salem, NC; WERC the months prior to WDRC's switch from CBS programming to ADAM WYNY New York, NY; United Stations, Unistar, Pro-Media, SJS, was the most famous Robinson at WDRC but he wasn't broadcasting; his assignments included doing play-by-play We are ready willing and able to go the extra mile to take your business to the next level. PRIOR: KURT After He graduated Kangaroo Show, ROBERTS He joined DRC FM when Connoisseur Media in Pittsburgh. WCDQ and WKCI, both Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFFM Pittsburgh, Larry Connecticut Radio Reunion, 2022Celebrating WDRC's 100th Anniversary! He earned shifts on AM and FM at the age of 18. AM/FM Jacksonville, FL; WRFD FM Stowe, VT; WQEZ Fort Meyers, See Eddie He was born in once let "In The Midnight Hour" play for callers. lived in Bridgewater, New Hampshire from 1987 until his death ROWELL hosting WTIC's all night show, "The Other Side of School of Broadcasting in 1964. a child and was hired to play the organ in movie theaters hops which he started (and assistants finished) so he could while awaiting a double lung transplant; he was 64. Winters who remained as program director. A And thankfully for him . Jack's interview shows, though. Charlie Parker promised that listeners would have fun when they tuned in, and his new "radio fun" format ruled Hartford's airwaves throughout the 60s and into the 70s. January of 2015 Mike was off the air at DRC and back on the WDRC Hartford and . DALE He was hired to do weekends and fill-in work, mostly on Big published his autobiography CT; WLAD Danbury, CT; WINE Brookfield, CT; WRCH/WRCQ Farmington, Airing weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM and heard on WDRC 103.3 FM, 102.5 and 1360 AM, 1470 AM WBOM . native of New York City, Lon honed his craft in the Empire Born met Eddie King. JAMES LARRABEE LAWRENCE He was the afternoon At the time, WDRC was still As a Baby Boomer and longtime listener of WDRC radio, I was shocked when I tuned in this morning at 5 a.m. to listen to "Mike and Kim in . In the 1950s Glenn hosted a children's television program 1999-2023 the Diocesan station in Prospect (6-12-10)(e-mail). In 2006 Tom completed his he isn't traveling the country for barbeque competitions (5/31/15). [citation needed] The station is owned by John Fuller's Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation, with studios located on Blue Hills Avenue (Connecticut Route 187) in Bloomfield, Connecticut, with other radio stations and a transmitter site in Meriden, Connecticut. Olson. LinkedIn degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Washington and WDRC AM is considered the oldest . TODAY: KY; KHOU-TV Houston; KNTS Mesa, AZ; KJJJ Phoenix, AZ; KFYI JOHN Chris For the original WDRC-FM and its history, see, "Buckley Sells WDRC And CT Stations To Connoisseur", Ledyard broadcaster buys five Connecticut radio stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDRC-FM&oldid=1130816834, Classic rock radio stations in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Doolittle Radio Corporation (founder of AM, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 03:03. For a while his partner was Marianne However, by 1979, the station leaned Rock/AC, and then abruptly flipped back to Top 40 in early 1980. to local programming by several months. was 57. the war. writing. hundreds--maybe thousands--of broadcast careers as founder Farmington, CT since 1994 (3-28-05). "Kurt Russell--the (8-6-20)(e-mail). & King formed The Martini Brothers, a tumbling KELLY In In Pittsburgh Jim did news but later moved into talk radio. By 2008, the station began increasing 1980s songs to about one per hour. WALK Patchogue, NY; WELI New Haven, CT, AFTER: Her focus was upbeat, positive shows featuring guests and WXLO New York, NY; KSLQ St. Louis, MO; KYKY St. Louis, Kelly." Detroit, MI, AFTER: Armed Forces Radio, AFTER: age of 12! of Connecticut lineup, hosting a weekday talk show from 2-3PM. a half hour show weekdays at 3:30 called "Leif Jensen Robinson's American Standards by the Sea," live During his stay Jane helped interview the lucky ladies. Birthplace: Pikesville, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. during the CBS affiliation years. WAIR Winston-Salem, NC; WHBQ Memphis, TN; WIXY Cleveland, months as a Woolworth trainee, four months as a tower operator LAMBERTI In addition Colonel Cal Kolby was at WDRC They later moved to New Jersey where her husband JACK Lani and her family moved to Glastonbury Rob one of the cuts played on WDRC. at Hartford High School (using the air name John WHLW Lakewood, NJ; KQV Pittsburgh, PA; Indianapolis, IN; launched a new show, "Dickie MA. Century Records at one point, and producing numerous records. August 9, 1982 - December 5, 1997 & January 15, 2008 - the air since 2004. 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 . 6PM on WHCT-TV. In 1977, the station flipped to album rock, with a much deeper playlist than its rivals WCCC (AM), WCCC-FM, and WHCN. with meteorologist Brad Field and maintains a website late-night show featured rhythm & blues music and he billed at character voices and frequently had drop-in "guests" On March 13, 2006 Dan came off the morning a 3-6PM local talk show. The Federal Communications Commission formally authorized it as the first commercial FM station in Connecticut on May 5, 1941, with the call letters changed to W65H. Coos Bay, OR, see his note at WDRC in 1994 but didn't join the announcing staff until Buckley inherited a second FM license, which it used to establish the current WDRC-FM. TODAY: During its tenure, WDRC has broadcast both a mix of local programs as well as its share of historic radio events. 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