17k Followers, 1,256 Following, 2,031 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Anne Marie Leamy "Annie" (@annieonair) Original Comments: Matt Seinberg’s “Big Apple Airchecks” (//bigappleairchecks.com) Coming soon: WILD COUNTRY – Boston’s Biggest Variety of Country Music. Monk (Joe Pardavila), Annie (Anne Marie Leamy), and Johnny on the Street (John Mingione, formerly 'John Online' of WBLI on Long Island) were the other cast members of Todd & Jayde in the Morning. In addition to converting the 95.5 FM license to noncommercial educational status, EMF also acquired the WPLJ call letters from Cumulus. Copyright © 2020 Heritage Media Group. 806 talking about this. ", "Ambitious ABC planning initiated under new merged ownership. During the 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike, the station programmed news for 17 hours daily. Copyright ©2020 RadioInsight / RadioBB Networks. [41] By October 2011, Nielsen BDS moved rival WWFS (owned by CBS Radio) from the AC panel to the hot AC panel, although Mediabase moved WPLJ to the hot AC panel later that month.
Ayres continued to host the show until the transfer of control of WPLJ to Educational Media Foundation in May 2019. On February 7, 2014, Scott Shannon announced his retirement from WPLJ after 22 years. [47][48], Current and surviving former WPLJ air personalities and staffers gathered together for a farewell celebration, held at The Cutting Room on May 23.
(Allen returned again to WPLJ in late 2005.) In March 1983, WPLJ added Jackson's other hit "Beat It", which received very positive reaction. In January 1993, Rocky Allen returned to WPLJ, this time to do afternoon drive for several years, until moving to WABC for the morning drive slot in January 1999. [7] WABC's AM personalities, notably Dan Ingram, Chuck Leonard and Bob Lewis, hosted programs on the FM side which were the total opposites of the top 40-powered sound for which they were better known on AM. During these call-in segments, some callers suggested that the station sped up (or "pitched up") the music so that they could fit in more commercials while still being able to claim that they played a large number of songs per hour. Bryan also served as morning show host beginning that July, ousting 15-year WPLJ morning host veteran Jim Kerr, and creating an audience outcry. The following year, Lochridge brought his Detroit program director, Larry Berger to WPLJ, and adopted a new slogan: "New York's Best Rock". They noted that human resources … [36] However, modern AC had peaked in 1997-98, and the station transitioned back to a hot AC format, with its playlist consisting of songs from the 1980s, 1990s, and the present. Another Sunday night show begun in 1973, then-Father Bill Ayres' long-running show, at first called On This Rock and later (after Ayres left the priesthood in the 1980s) titled The Bill Ayres Show.
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Todd & Jayde, the whole morning show cast, and in fact, the entire on-air staff at WPLJ that got to stick it out until the end… my hat is off to you! It is with peace, love, and joy that we toast the white port lemon juice. Except Todd will have to go do mornings in market 100 for 1/10 the money, because he's not good. The last songs heard on WPLJ were "Imagine" by John Lennon–the final song played by WABC before their format switch from Top 40 to talk in May 1982–followed by a cover version of "W-P-L-J" by Hall & Oates, recorded live during a visit by the group to the station several years earlier. [14] Known on-air as Father Bill Ayres, the show mixed spirituality and social consciousness together with the music of Harry Chapin, Bob Seger and others. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Man. Some of the personalities on the station during this period included Jim Kerr, Pat St. John, Jimmy Fink, Carol Miller, Tony Pigg, John Zacherle, Alex Bennett, Bob Marrone, and Dave Charity. Todd & Jayde, the whole morning show cast, and in fact, the entire on-air staff at WPLJ that got to stick it out until the end… my hat is off to you! [23][24][25][26] After Shannon had a series of morning show co-hosts over the summer, Todd Pettengill joined as his permanent co-host on August 19, 1991, forming Scott & Todd in the Morning. A new logo was introduced that July. Shannon, who was responsible for WHTZ's early success and served as Z100's first morning zoo host, took over as WPLJ's program director and morning show host (replacing Rocky Allen) in April 1991. The station's Arbitron ratings shot up dramatically, and WPLJ became New York's most listened-to FM rock station for most of the 1970s. On February 14, 1971, the station's call letters changed to WPLJ,[12] chosen after Allen Shaw noticed the letter combination as the name of a song on the 1970 Mothers of Invention record, Burnt Weeny Sandwich. WPLJ's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building, and broadcasts four HD Radio digital subchannels in addition to its analog transmission.
WPLJ logo from October 30, 2014 to May 31, 2019. Later in the program, listen for Todd & Jayde’s “Blown Off” feature. It was the first event in what would be a week-long celebration of the station's 48-year run, which continued through the Memorial Day weekend with the station "clearing out the library" by playing songs from each year between 1971 and the present, along with vintage jingles and sweepers.
During its AOR phase, the station was noted for its promotional montages consisting of snippets of classic rock songs spliced together by St. John, emphasizing a subject or theme, such as gasoline (during the gas shortages of the 1970s). Berger discussed the changes on his call-in show in July 1983, to the disapproving reaction from the rock audience. If you enjoy these archives, which so many out there do indeed rely upon, could you spare a little bit of cash? This is truly where it’s at. EMF changed WKLV-FM's call letters to WARW and its format to secondary service Air1 on July 19, 2019. [13] On the air, the station hired John Zacherle, Alex Bennett, Vin Scelsa, Jimmy Fink, and Michael Cuscuna (from WMMR and WXPN in Philadelphia) as personalities. WPLJ's airstaff, which stayed on during the early transition months, gradually changed, as WNEW-FM picked up some of the station's best-known disc jockeys such as Carol Miller and Pat St. John.
[37] On February 16, 2009, WPLJ started airing the syndicated program The Billy Bush Show in the evenings. [10][11] The New York outlet was slated to be renamed WRIF, but a clerical error on the part of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) resulted in those calls being awarded to the former WXYZ-FM in Detroit — whose own request for WDAI ("Detroit Auto Industry") was itself given mistakenly to WLS-FM in Chicago — leaving WABC-FM to start from scratch for its own rebranding.
Berger repeatedly denied that this practice was in use at WPLJ. On "Todd & Jayde," one of the most popular segments was "Blown Off," in which listeners relived recent dates that they thought had gone well. – Before you go… I'm betting that at the end of their summer blast off, todd … [53] On July 4, 2014, WPLJ-HD2 flipped to an adult contemporary format known as "FAS" (referring to former sister station WFAS-FM, which flipped from AC to Urban AC), due to the discontinuation of The True Oldies Channel's distribution.
Though the station began playing artists like Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, Larry Berger stated that he did not make the decision to move to a CHR format until the last week of June; WPLJ adopted a rock-leaning CHR format on June 30, 1983. The two hosts clearly hate each other.