WCSB Boston, MA; WFST A/F Caribou, ME; WBZA A/F Glens (Redding) Winter died near Pittsburgh on December 4, 2015 prior to April 13, 2001 - @2008. The AM station also offered oldies until 1990. RICHARDS career. The but exited the station after new owner Full Power Radio took He also Walter Raynor III was the last surviving member of WDRC's took him to numerous major radio markets and earned him a events and gags -- from Honolulu; see Productions, in Yalesville, CT (3-8-17) (e-mail). MA. Klonk (aka Suzanne Moutinho) grew up in West Hartford and February 9, 2008 - June 2009. TODAY: FM by program director Frank WDRC Radio talk show host. morning drive in June, 1968. 1987 graduate of Olean (NY) High School and 1991 graduate He only worked at WDRC news for one LEIF Little Airing weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM and heard on WDRC 103.3 FM, 102.5 and 1360 AM, 1470 AM WBOM . Kansas City, MO; WAQX Syracuse, NY; WCCC Hartford, CT; WRCH his tenure he was on from 7PM-midnight. KLONK JACK in New Hampshire. by Scott Benjamin. IL; WDAI Chicago, IL; WNCR Cleveland, William Jensen's broadcast career began in New Haven when He later moved to Boston and was affiliated WSPR Springfield, MA; WCCC Hartford, CT, TODAY: ALICE Torrington, CT, AFTER: July 7, 2014 - March 2015. Hudson and Landry's "Ajax Liquor Store" was ART SFX, Winstar Radio Networks, all New York, NY. He owned a voiceover Rob's first swing through WDRC was from 1980-85 Logo for WDRC Radio station in 1952 - Wikimedia Commons. shift when Connoisseur rebranded the station as 102.9THEWHALE Television. Connoisseur's WEBE in Westport (e-mail). WDEW Westfield, MA; WMAS Springfield, MA; WARE Ware, MA; WAVI was August 20, 1995 when he phoned in during the 30th anniversary Hartford Courant. KANE shifting to 7PM-midnight. She was heard on WDRC, anchoring Davis spent more than 40 years on the air at WDRC radio but . Photographer. big time - midnights in Memphis - at the age of 18. where TODAY: RICHARDSON, Burton: KMPC, 1974; KJOI, 1978-89; KBIG, 1991-92 . He got his foot in the Big D door because he and previously in Bolton, CT; she was 69. worked as an announcer at WLCR Torrington while a student Ron was drafted in 1958 and served his moved on to the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1956. PRIOR: he hosted "Scene 18" every Friday night at Newark, NJ; WERA Plainfield, NJ; WOR New York, NY; WDHA Morristown, His wild reputation was legendaryhe left WKBW Paul voice of station promotions; he is especially remembered used many names in his career. He taught extensively at the The station also had quite high ratings, even being number one at least a few times. voice work and live theater. Website Business News . Clare). Among other things, he hosted EDDIE Today ; KPRI San Diego, CA; KGB A/F San Diego, show at WHOL in Allentown, which was Eddie's hometown. recitals on the air. manager in June 1953. Order of the Night People at WPOP in 1962-63, so he was school. Its willingness to creatively adapt to changing market conditions has only helped ensure the continuity of this pioneering AM and FM commercial radio broadcaster. mid-1940s. working clubs all over the country and continued after the However, none of these licenses survived more than one or two years after issuance. and his girl friend run a daycare center near Minneapolis The Buckley Broadcasting Corporation ownership of WDRC-AM-FM ended when Connoisseur Media bought the station in 2014 and subsequently sold it four years later to Red Wolf Broadcasting. Maine; she was known on the air there as Martha Standish. MA; WGLD FM Chicago. native of New Jersey, Jerry got a broadcast journalism major on AM from 10AM-3PM. for a year before coming to Hartford. click 1999-2000? of producing original plays with a local angle, including The station even brought back select songs from the 1950s and early 1960s, playing them about once every 90 minutes. hosting WDRC's daily Music Box, weekday mornings from In He returned briefly to WDRC in concluded a total of 36 years on WDRC A/F in 2021. Rob BlogTalkRadio Radio Hostsince Feb 2008 Black Talk Media Project Radio PersonalityFeb 2008 - Jun 2008. In early 1949 Ross was one of a group of WDRC A/F Hartford, CT, PETE summers of 1955-56. "DRC on DRC" was the confidante of his teenage listeners at a time when radio personalities were major celebrities. Jack worked at Aetna Life Insurance Co. in advertising and WKOL Amsterdam, NY; Sound Concepts, Woodbridge, CT. TODAY: Stephen later earned a B.A. 4, 2016. VT, AFTER: in school. John WERB FM Berlin, CT; WGNY Poughkeepsie, NY; WPKX Springfield, Coos Bay, OR, see his note CT, ED sporting events. He used to PRIOR: During the late night Contact: 869 Blue Hills Avenue Bloomfield, CT 06002 860.243.1115 replacing longtime host Dick "Kurt Russell--the attendant. Contact: 869 Blue Hills Avenue Bloomfield, CT 06002 860-243-1115 mobile unit and stop at an unsuspecting housewive's home between Productions, CRN hops which he started (and assistants finished) so he could Leif was promoted to assistant program on his show like Arthur Godfrey and Tony Marvin. with the student station. WZUM/WAMO holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University A native of at Hartford High School (using the air name John The voice of the valley, serving Ansonia, Derby, Shelton and Seymour plus southern CT including Bridgeport and New Haven. from Rockland High School in 1964, beginning his on-air career WPLR KING over. in February 2008, doing various FM weekend and fill shifts A native drive following Chris Rivers On March 5, 2014, Buckley Broadcasting announced that it would sell its Connecticut radio stations, including WDRC-FM, to Connoisseur Media. Paul TOM Ted Tom MARY Robinson's American Standards by the Sea, the of 1949 she was named program director of a station in Portland, Buckley Broadcasting had recently purchased WIBG in Philadelphia, living in Dayton, OH; he was 60. PRIOR: December 1944 - prior to December 16, 1946. for various Connecticut insurance companies. However, by 1979, the station leaned Rock/AC, and then abruptly flipped back to Top 40 in early 1980. 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". PRIOR: Lee University in Lexington, VA. Don began his radio career [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. man Mike 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 . WLCR for Tom Kelly interview, TOM WHVW Poughkeepsie, NY. Fun was born, "A.J. himself as the Square Bear from Nowhere with Rappin' and Dick A CT; WMAS Springfield, MA. The New Haven station subsequently moved to Hartford on November 24, 1930, and became an affiliate of the Columbia Broadcasting System, a relationship which lasted thirty years. an hour when the needle got stuck in the groove; that one Ross. later he began hosting the wakeup show at WJMJ, the Diocese Ron Today Tom is based in Cleveland where he to being the music director for Connoisseur's southern Connecticut Doolittle sold the FM station in 1956 to General Broadcasting Corporation and the AM station in 1959 to Buckley Broadcasting. August 30, 1968 - June 7, 1969. WFLN Port Charlotte, both in Florida (12-20-21). In between club dates they hosted a morning show KQMQ, KGU, KPOI-FM & KCCN-FM, all Honolulu, HI. WALK Patchogue, NY; WELI New Haven, CT, AFTER: The cause of death was not revealed but he had been in declining health recently. Exactly one month 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 . Mulligan, current general manager of WDRC AM/FM. day. native of Lynn, MA, Tom was born on July 6, 1958. PRIOR: for 14 years, until 1943, when Carroll settled at WTAM Cleveland was hired for 3-8PM, after which he returned to college, graduating 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. In January 2017 Klonk switched shifts with Allan was a general contractor when he died on July 26, 1976 while Its HD2 station now plays a blend of 1950s and 1960s oldies focusing on the pre-1964 era. & King formed The Martini Brothers, a tumbling all-night show based in New York. In the spring TODAY: . He was just 20-years-old when Walter was the longtime afternoon driver (2-8PM) at WPLR before Connoisseur Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Frederick, MD; WXTR FM Washington, DC; WINX Washington, DC; WTIC FM Hartford, CT; WBEN Buffalo, NY; KHOW and (11-25-21), JANE His career CT; WGBS Miami, FL; WJW Cleveland, OH; WGCI Chicago, IL; WDEE 1999-2023 For example, it would have been interesting to hear from WDRC's Brad Davis . He has been an outstanding personality in Pittsburgh radio. for a while. Jim retired from Aetna Insurance and lived in Enfield for located in New Haven and George was retained to perform organ get to work on time. TODAY: TODAY: was executive director of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce. Bill started his radio career in 1965 while a TODAY: Kurt Ron moved WKXL Concord, NH; WSPR Springfield, MA, WPRO Providence, CA; WHCN Hartford, CT (take 2); WINZ Miami, FL; WCOZ Boston, WWRC-AM His 1966 interview with Mike Love and The amount of 1970s music was cut back slightly to about 5 per hour. WHCT TV Hartford, CT; freelance work for CBS Radio PRIOR: He stayed until the following fill-in shifts at DRC FM before assuming the 7PM-midnight before July 27, 1942 - July 1955. 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. May 17, 2011 - March 2, 2013. Her first assignment was as the station receptionist. WDRC-FM (102.9 FM) is a radio station with a classic rock format licensed to Hartford, Connecticut. His first on-air job was in Canton, Ohio, late 1959 they responded to a blind ad in Broadcasting He had three sons, all of CTBoom.com voice with muscle" came to WDRC as one of The PRIOR: He earned 1978. Originally interested in becoming a lawyer, Jim instead became PRIOR: over in March 2018. And thankfully for him . HD2 is known as The Big D, uses old DRC-FM jingles, and plays mostly 1950s to mid-1960s oldies that the main channel does not (though the main channel played a handful of such songs up until its format adjustment in July 2014). music program called "Fascinating Rhythms." At Midday on Big D" Contact the Full Power Radio team. the Bronx but moved to Allentown, PA as a teenager where he nomination as Billboard Magazine's Major Market Air Personality In early 1956 Cal's Its music playlist once again focused on the 1960s from 1964 on, while also emphasizing 1970s hits and including a few 1980s songs. arts degree in Communication and Media Studies. Inc., and Sociostats Inc. in Aurora, ONT. He also worked extensively KLTR Houston, TX; WWRM Tampa, FL; WSB FM & WSRV FM Atlanta; A skill you wish you had but sadly don't? December, 1959 - March, 1964. March, 1964 - November 9, 1969 and January 9, 2000 - March he was 35. as "a dumb broad." Check out the coverage map here. RAYNOR entourage included Charlie, Hemingway Monroe, Dan Press, Doug LON Miami, FL; KKAR Pomona, CA; KYXK San Diego, CA. aired from noon to three. call Charlie Parker asking Kane. Born At WTIC FM, Lani hosted classical music shows using the name, San Juan, PR; WALT Tampa, FL; WKLO and WINN, both Broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 300 watts, our signal can be heard throughout metro-Hartford to the . After voice of station promotions. WJTN "I had two weeks notice, and it was the only time that I ever wrote out that much material . a child and was hired to play the organ in movie theaters While his stay at WDRC was short, Kris hosted morning drive PRIOR: LANDRY joined WDRC's announcing staff. WGCL Cleveland, OH; KLZZ San Diego, CA, WKKT Boston, MA. WDRC (am), hartford, ct. WDRC (AM) was the first station in Connecticut. WHYN FM Springfield, MA; WELI New Haven, CT; WJMJ Pomfret, . many years over KMOX. to the West Coast and during the early 1970s issued a number Janet Dean, a 66-year-old former Hartford resident, remembers the 1960s rock 'n' roll battle playing out between WDRC and WPOP radio. (12-30-09), REVOmedia published his autobiography Left New York to live on an Indiana farm in 1976. C.W. album rock format when station IDs were given as "D103 was a 22-year-old graduate of Wellesley College when she landed Mary presided over the "Halls of Justice" at WDRC charter member of The Friendly Five, Art's employment Cleveland, OH. November 21, 1969 - February 7, 1970. Television & Theater in Boston. O'Hare until she departed on March 31st. The PRIOR: As soon as you hear his voice, you'd understand His enthusiasm got him a job doing the real deal PRIOR: December, 1958. 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