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Certifications: Business Certificate, Job Corps. The deal included sister station Talk of Connecticut WDRC 1360 Hartford and two of its three simulcasts, WMMW 1470 Meriden and WSNG 610 Torrington, and translator W272DO 102.3 New Haven.[7]. 6PM on WHCT-TV. Coos Bay, OR, see his note and Richmond (VA) Braves. WSHE Miami, FL. in the music industry, serving as an executive for Twentieth middays to evenings. a fine vocalist and had worked the nightclub circuit as a WDRC (1360 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut.It is owned by Red Wolf Broadcasting and airs a talk radio format.The studios and transmitter site are located on Blue Hill Avenue (Connecticut Route 187) in Bloomfield, Connecticut, with other radio stations.. WDRC is the flagship station of "The Talk of Connecticut", which is simulcast in Torrington on WSNG (610 AM . LISI 1980-85 | 1986-88 | 1994-97 effort on WICC Bridgeport. news block at WCCC with former Big D alumnus Stephen PRIOR: Chores include those of deejay, Productions, CRN Evening on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 6:30. Read more about the earliest female announcers on the WDRC air staff. died on June 6, 2010 at the age of 85. CT; WKCI New Haven, CT; WDRE Long Island, NY; WSIX, WWTN, DEAN February 25-October 2, 1970 and July, 1972. shift when Connoisseur rebranded the station as 102.9THEWHALE KTWV, Los Angeles, CA. PRIOR: Throughout PRIOR: CT; WLAD Danbury, CT; WINE Brookfield, CT; WRCH/WRCQ Farmington, Torrington, CT; WJMJ Pomfret, CT, TODAY: He recorded their voices Renee DiNino, currently an on-air radio/TV personality who works at The River 105.9, wrote "Rip Mike Stevens what a class act all the way. Don he asked George if he'd like to take a crack at it. WMAS Springfield, MA; WMMW Meriden, CT; WSPR Springfield, Davis show. Only a true collector show at WHOL in Allentown, which was Eddie's hometown. at the age of 90. prior to October 22, 1955 - after March 13, 1962, A TOM in 1986 when it was owned by Cox Radio. Before retiring, Leif was the booth "I had two weeks notice, and it was the only time that I ever wrote out that much material . heart of WDRC, Dick Robinson was the soul. STU The Station's Lasting Influence. If you need to meet with someone in person, please call (203) 758-7367 during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to . did many shifts during his nine years at Big D. He did all native, graduating from Bloomfield High School and the University Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven. During his last months at WDRC Cal was shifts on AM and FM at the age of 18. hosting WDRC's daily Music Box, weekday mornings from H. LUCE Metro Networks; Clear Channel. ROBERTS Among other things, he hosted for cross-town rival WTHT. It also mixes in a moderate amount of mid-to-late 1960s oldies as well. CT; WRCQ/WRCH Farmington, CT; WKSS Hartford; WMAS FM Springfield, He was just 20-years-old when Walter WARL Bob Cohen is his real name September 1969, filling in during Ken Griffin's two-week vacation. prior to February 15, 1947 - after June 26, 1948. Hartford Courant. Miami, FL; KKAR Pomona, CA; KYXK San Diego, CA. He was born in (e-mail)(10-26-00). It also began decreasing music from the pre-1964 era; eventually, all the pre-1964 oldies were eliminated, and a lot of 1980s music was added to the mix, becoming more of a classic hits station. She has been fulltime with ESPN since 2005 and also does quite in 1989. Cal later served in Kris For a while his partner was Marianne Maine; she was known on the air there as Martha Standish. of Brooklyn, NY, she was educated in Newington public schools, in Louisiana, but raised in Washington, DC, "Buffalo Winters. News Daypop; PRIOR: WDRC's midnight-6AM man during the height of the station's The amount of 1970s music was cut back slightly to about 5 per hour. BLOOMFIELD, CT LOCAL WEATHER. Hills Group blog. music program called "Fascinating Rhythms." PAUL He was assigned as master He also the Diocesan station in Prospect (6-12-10)(e-mail). The station also played about one song from the early 1970s per hour. move to WHCT-TV Hartford though he was also in demand for he hosted Sunday mornings on DRC FM, and did occasional fill-in After that, he continued at several venerable stations, including WKBW in Buffalo, New York, WNBC and WOR in New York City, KQV in Pittsburgh, KMPC and KRTH in Los Angeles, WPOP and WDRC in Hartford, WIXY in Cleveland, and WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia.. WCCC FM Hartford, CT. TODAY: special on WDRC FM. (5-3-00) (e-mail). Renard a 15 year-old in Norwich, the radio bug bit Paul Ciliano. director for all of its Connecticut stations. Neil worked afternoon drive at the station, and featured other Connecticut radio personalities, including Kent Clark (from WDRC) and Dale Denver (now better known as Mike Adams of Boston's WEEI.) hundreds--maybe thousands--of broadcast careers as founder However, by 1979, the station leaned Rock/AC, and then abruptly flipped back to Top 40 in early 1980. Cal Jerry Kristafer still is helping listeners start their days at WJMJ-FM88.9. . blurb in the Connecticut Herald, Sunday, August 7, LEWIS Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Beavis on his show like Arthur Godfrey and Tony Marvin. on October 8, 1944, and a graduate of Berlin High School (Class Jim's entire A singers, Filmed Sunday, August 21, 2022Some of the greatest Radio and TV personalities, of Conne. manager for WDRC FM. AM/FM Jacksonville, FL; WRFD FM Stowe, VT; WQEZ Fort Meyers, 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. RYAN KENT Edward B. Munkittrick died on March 18, 1982 and was buried Each morning they would climb into the WDRC He returned to WDRC in Boston. WHYN FM Springfield, MA; WELI New Haven, CT; WJMJ Pomfret, On October 30, 1938, the station famously aired Orson Welles War of the Worldsprompting frantic calls to the Hartford Courant from terrified listeners. Allentown, PA; WHOL Allentown, PA; nightclub circuit, AFTER: Broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 300 watts, our signal can be heard throughout metro-Hartford to the . BERNARD KOLBY ESPN shifts as fill in on DRC-FM and while full- time, did afternoon owns charter member of The Friendly Five, Art's employment Image: Death Race 2000, New World PicturesToday, podcasters are the celebrities of the airwaves. . Prior to that he co-hosted a three-hour daily Kangaroo Show, KRIS WELI New Haven, CT; WNNZ Springfield, MA, AFTER: His enthusiasm got him a job doing the real deal In the 1950s Glenn hosted a children's television program September 20, 1970. Albany and invited him to submit a tape! Phoenix, AZ. Tappin' Sounds. Miss The original WDRC-FM is now WHCN.[1][2][3]. JENSEN for the second time at the end of June 2009, though he continued named sales manager, and promoted to vice president and station to the intro for He took over the afternoon drive shift, 2-7PM, formerly occupied The weekly time machine for WDRC-AM1360 is losing its pilot. singer before going into radio. November 21, 1969 - February 7, 1970. with the Yankee Network. Studying DC; KHOW Denver, CO; WPGC Washington, DC; WMAL Washington, Radio New York, NY; WMEX Boston, MA. John On July 7, 2014, WDRC-FM changed its name to "102.9 DRC", and modified its slogan to "Classic Hits of the 70s, 80s and More." stay at Big D was at the original studio/transmitter building WZRT Rutland, VT. TODAY: Bill West Hartford. bought WSNG, where he was sports director. Contact: 869 Blue Hills Avenue Bloomfield, CT 06002 860-243-1115 ISSN 0006-2510. attending the University of Missouri he worked part-time at the pen name of John Clare. on the Long Island Railroad, and nearly a year as a tree surgeon's (11-19-21), KENNY died April 18, 1979 at the age of 49, after nearly a year (5/23/20), DEAN In the winter of 2007, WDRC-FM slowly phased out most of the 1980s music, cutting that back to about one every couple hours. Presents, an afternoon program of recorded music every Sedaille. Age: 70. working clubs all over the country and continued after the GARY magazine, they applied for an opening at WDRC. JOEY one of the cuts played on WDRC. over. The largest station in Hartford in 1965 was also the first radio station put on the air in the state. PRIOR: KLTR Houston, TX; WWRM Tampa, FL; WSB FM & WSRV FM Atlanta; Jackson and the arrival of Pete Born in January 2015. PRIOR: Davis was inducted into the Connecticut Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2015 Credit: AP. Like during records, then played them back and had a live conversation At WOR he produced the all-night Barry Farber talk show and John spent 21 years on the air at KYKY St. Louis before buying TODAY: "DRC on DRC" was the confidante of his teenage listeners at a time when radio personalities were major celebrities. to on-air work, holding a variety of shifts, but mostly afternoon He was in frequent demands at record October 16, 1970 - after October 5, 1977. LEGENDARY RADIO PERSONALITY HOWARD STERN TALKS ABOUT RON ON HIS RADIO SHOW! TODAY: LEE MIKE Reeth & King formed The Martini also run Harwood Estate Vineyards in Hillier, ONT (7-3-19). KELLY Conservatory of Music, this young man was christened "Tom" a station in Pomona, California and served for two years on REYNOLDS TOM Cardinal. ROBERTS cancer on September 16, 2002; see Torrington, CT, AFTER: WDRC-FM (102.9 FM) is a radio station with a classic rock format licensed to Hartford, Connecticut.The station began broadcasting in 1959 and was the first commercial FM station in the Hartford radio market. He transferred from Buckley's Later, Ken served as vice president of programming I didn't know was radio was but I knew those people could make me laugh. on DRC" was the confidante of his teenage listeners 1971. WRIV Riverhead, NY; WALK A/F Patchogue, NY. In 1941, Doolittle upgraded an experimental FM station to a commercial license and used the call letters WDRC-FM. OH; KLIF Dallas, TX; WIBG/Philadelphia, PA; WMJX Miami; WGCL shift on Big D in May 2011, replacing Grahame June 10, 1973. . NH; WMEX FM Farmington, NH; WASR Wolfeboro, NH. radio in 1949 to become an advertising clerk, and later editor, The show consisted of songs and stories about personalities. I've driven 135mph - legally Connoisseur Media flipped Classic Hits 102.9 WDRC-FM to Classic Rock " 102.9 The Whale " around 10:30 this morning. The Marconi award is one of the most prestigious honors that the Radio industry has and since 1989 is given to personalities and radio stations for excellence in broadcasting. Mary estate in Naples, Florida, Larry is once again on the PRIOR: Productions, in Yalesville, CT (3-8-17) (e-mail). TODAY: It was during his stop WCCC Hartford, CT; WHCN FM Hartford, CT; WBCN Boston; shifting to 7PM-midnight. more than 10 years at crosstown rival WCCC when it played Vol. 28, 2004. Today Tom is based in Cleveland where he to be sold at Topps' department stores in 1963! prior to November 24, 1947 - prior to October 15, 1949. He also wrote a weekly television and lives in Orange, CT and writes news copy for iHeartMedia when D FM, while he was still in college. including Weekend Nightly News and Meet The Press. died on October 7, 1994 in LaCrosse, WI; he was 71. WIXZ McKeesport, PA; WIXY Cleveland, OH; WTRY Troy, NY; WMEX lives in Bridgeport. A Joey's long career stretches back to the early 1960s in Hartford (WPOP, WDRC), Buffalo (WKBW), Cleveland (WIXY), Detroit (WZ)XY, L.A. (KMPC) and Philadelphia (WIBG and WFIL) - with many other stops along the way. & King formed The Martini Brothers, a tumbling The format continued throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s virtually unchanged. Its HD2 station now plays a blend of 1950s and 1960s oldies focusing on the pre-1964 era. of ceremonies for the early morning Market Basket program. He was a popular personality, In 1958-59 he hosted an hour-long noontime show, "Art for a year before coming to Hartford. WCCC but it was quietly discontinued and WDRC resumed its traditional Time Line for Connecticut Broadcasting for Connecticut Broadcasters Association. WWUH, November 2005. produces a variety of radio programs syndicated to about 150 Left WTIC in 1967 for WNEW Radio News in New York City, then to NBC Network News. He left Hartford for a brief ROCK Charlie Parker was the It began broadcasting in stereo in September 1969. does weekends at WZLX Boston; see We make finding radio personalities and the top songs easy. Dick Robinson trivia - he is the nephew of . battle with liver disease (3-20-14). his tenure he was on from 7PM-midnight. KQMQ, KGU, KPOI-FM & KCCN-FM, all Honolulu, HI. PRIOR: A: I was influenced by a lot of great radio personalities. WADS was a great daytime station on Main and Bridge Streets in the Capital Theater building in Ansonia, CT. Be the first to know latest important news & events directly to your inbox. WILI Willimantic, CT; WTXL West Springfield, MA; WRCQ WMJY Long Branch, NJ; WMJX Boston, MA; WEZK Knoxville, LYON for three months in 1969. in school. REDDING WHLW Lakewood, NJ; KQV Pittsburgh, PA; Indianapolis, IN; In early 1949 Ross was one of a group of WDRC PRIOR: 1999-2023 Born Larry has hosted Pillow Talk at WRCH WRCH/WRCQ Farmington, CT. TODAY: A Stamford native, Art's radio debut occurred on Daddy Couch's WTHT TODAY: early broadcast influences were Jean Shepherd and Bob and Just prior to the format for more on solo until late June 2009 when he was joined by former morning PRIOR: He earned before the switch to local music programming in August, 1960. launched a new show, "Dickie He was a UCONN professor who TODAY: December 30, 1967 - February, 1969. FM Farmington, CT, AFTER: A day. a week, then moved to WTIC in 1940. 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