[loujosephs]

CBS radio recently bought 107.9 the family radio religious station and swapped the format of 99.1 which was All Spanish El Zol and with new jam jingles put the station on that frequency. On Jan 1 CBS will go all news on WNEW FM..(those of you who lived in New York will note this station was an AOR pioneer. It had MetroMedia news and was owned by Metromedia for years…WNEW AM is now on 1580 the old WPGC frequency and is running talk with changes to come on this 10 kw day/lower power nightime station as well. Going to be interesting as WTOP retains CBS network news until 2013. Currently the FM is all Xmas music…what happens on the 26th…will be interesting…EL Zol is streamed WNEW FM is not as yet

[IainJohnstonMember]

Just to help clarify Lou’s post – this refers to a sequence of shuffle of licenses in Washington DC, USA, and its part of a (sometimes rocky) series of attempts to bring news-based formats to FM in major US cities, even when (in the case of DC) there’s an existing very-highly rated & successsful FM news station – WTOP; rather than AM “blowtorch-signal” news/talk stations which in some cities are still top-3 or even number 1 in their markets.
More discussion on this can be found on the New York Radio Message Board.

Lou – any audio perhaps of the “new JAM jingles” you’ve mentioned above?

[bobgreenradioMember]

yet one more reason why lifting the ownership limit was a very very bad thing.

and lets be complete here; its VIACOM that has gobbled up these outlets. think back please. remember the days when there were successful radio stations, i mean outlets that had a tight grasp on their market, stations that were clear winners. who owned them? not the group owners! wpgc was a killer and owned by max richmond. VIACOM is good at 1 thing. milking every red cent out of the facility they can and returning nothing to the listners.

what a shame.

[mjb1124Member]

I listened to El Zol 107.9 for a bit yesterday and heard no jingles (JAM or otherwise). Nothing on ASCAP about a JAM jingle package for them either.

[loujosephs]

They have them, the promo they were using when they switched to 107.9 had them.
A 1:30 endless loop…that ran on 99.1 for three days.

[WAVAMember]

They have them, the promo they were using when they switched to 107.9 had them.
A 1:30 endless loop…that ran on 99.1 for three days.

I was in the area yesterday and didn’t hear any either.

[TaterStud]

I’ve been listening… and heard “El Zol” jingles, but I couldn’t discern them as JAM… that’s for sure.

[Barras]

I posted this WNEW video a few years back on Jinglemad but it deserves a re-visit. Gives a great insight into the people at WNEW including Danno, Meg and Scott Muni, pity about the lack of jingles…

http://www.4shared.com/video/-iVAMEvA/Video_WNEW.html

[loujosephs]

WNEW FM had jingles, I don’t remember who did them but the logo line was A new grove in Stereo…they never aired…

[theniceguy]

Found this nice video on youtube

[Barras]

Ha ! a cigarette in one hand and a news script and carts in the other hand…

[TaterStud]

Ha ! a cigarette in one hand and a news script and carts in the other hand…

The way radio was done when I started! I vividly remember the orange ash tray that was screwed into the console!

[jinglejoeMember]

But early on, about 1968-69, NEW-FM did have jingles that sang the calls, the frequency and the line “Metromedia Stereo, NY”. At that time Zacherly was a jock on the “new groove”. And who could forget Rosko jumping on board after OR-FM, joining Alison Steele.
jj

[loujosephs]

Thursday Jan 19th will be the start of WNEW FM all news 99.1…should be interesting and it will be streamed via cbs radios portal..that means proxy servers for those of you in Europe.

[bobgreenradioMember]

ah yes, remember those drake jingles on “the big town sound; w.o.r. fm…newwww york”. with a wide mix of non top 40 tunes?
and the new groove….’scottso’ sandpaper voice rasping away. the nightbird, no question. the nyc winners were wabc and wnew both am & fm. metromedia ran a good ship. unlike viacom today.
the time vampires have managed to grab every cent with frequency monopolies (thanks to the government) at the expense of listener loss.

[jinglejoeMember]

I hadn’t heard about all news 99.1; is that a direct compete to the new News FM 101.9?
jj

[jinglejoeMember]

I meant to add that I can’t get used to the 101.9 news format. Seems like it is still a music station just happens to be in a news fill until its time to play more music.
My favorite FM news station was NY’s WNWS of the latter 1970’s. Even the sounders sounded better.
jj

[loujosephs]

NBC NIS…great sounders..the work of one Jim Frawley who runs WTOP in DC

[jinglejoeMember]

Thanx for that update; never knew their origins.
On the subject of WNWS, when it became “movin’ easy Y97”, do you know who did those jingles? I believe there were 3 or 4 of them.
Thanks
jj

[loujosephs]

This is one strange way to stunt..running the history of rock and roll and you know who the voice/over talent is…you want to say open the box, as it’s the late bill drake.
The station is going to run ABC News until they can snare cbs back from WTOP in 2013. TOP has added AP/CNN to it’s air…interesting battle about to start.

[TServo2049]

I read somewhere that Heller did the first jingles for WYNY. Would those have been the “Movin’ Easy Y97” ones? I’ve heard one on a recording of one of those electronic text things local cable systems used to run (the American equivalent of teletext), from 1978 when ‘YNY had that all-Beatles format.

I didn’t really hear the Hicklin singers in the jingle, but it did have that slightly melancholy feel of a lot of Heller’s post-Dick Hamilton stuff, so maybe it was Heller…

[jinglejoeMember]

No, TS, the Heller stuff came way later, practically at the end before they turned country.
jj

[TServo2049]

Sorry about that. All these years, I mistakenly thought your story was referring to WYNY’s first jingles.

[jinglejoeMember]

Sorry for the confusion. Actually The “Movin Easy, Y97” jingles, their first after the
switch from WNWS, are still a mystery to me. Never heard them, EVER, in the clear nor have I come across anyone who knows who did ’em. (Peter Kanz, where are you?)
joe

[jinglejoeMember]

I found I do, in fact, have the Heller “Point One of Y” custom package for YNY.
I’ll get to MP3ing them.
jj

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