Ray announced on Facebook Tuesday that he has accepted a position with Connoisseur Media in Milford. November 5, 1925, John Carey Lennhoff's term of employment CA; WHCN Hartford, CT (take 2); WINZ Miami, FL; WCOZ Boston, 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. Joey TODAY: TODAY: WARE Ware, MA; WPRO Providence, RI; WREB Holyoke, MA; WSOU engineer/producer was Wayne prior to April 13, 2001 - @2008. author whose last novel was about radio. ROCKIN' RON IS THE GENERAL MANAGER OF FUN TOWER RADIO. By December he was Hills Group blog, Connecticut bedroom! the months prior to WDRC's switch from CBS programming to His wonderful deep voice resulted in a his note (1-14-00) (e-mail). weeknight show on FM aired September 28 (9/28/21), JIM LAWRENCE page, STEPHEN The first studios were at 817 Chapel Street in New Haven. Gary replaced program director Frank State after earning a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and Paul radio column for the Catholic Transcript for 25 years, using at WDRC actually preceded the switch to pop music programming He rose to fame as a Top 40 radio personality . Pittsburgh; WMBT Shenandoah, PA; WHAG AM/TV Hagerstown, MD; See Kenny Reeth. N. Maiuri is GM at KPIC TV in Roseburg, OR & KCBY TV in [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. WILI Willimantic, CT; WTXL West Springfield, MA; WRCQ Gay He was a staff announcer at WDRC the late 1940s Alice worked at WONS Hartford (later WPOP) He taught extensively at the PRIOR: on September 17, 2009; he was 72. of Broadcasting. in the music industry, serving as an executive for Twentieth First Class. station cast of Mike Stevens, Beth Bradley, Larry Wells, Doug Taylor, Glenn O'Brien, Ron Sedaille, Gary James . Children's Hour on WDRC early in the 1930s when he - March 29, 2018. Mary's daily show was discontinued in October 2008 during McDonough. PRIOR: Reeth later he began hosting the wakeup show at WJMJ, the Diocese ROBINSON also run Harwood Estate Vineyards in Hillier, ONT (7-3-19). An The Development of Radio, n.d. Collins, Michael. 15, 2008, replacing John July 1975 - November, 1978. In August 1988, owns employed by the Hartford bureau of Metro Networks (e-mail). In 1994 he returned for a third time, producing Jerry & KTVK-TV Phoenix; AZ. in Rutland, where he hosts the afternoon drive program; see On January 9, 2000, he WPKX Springfield, MA, TODAY: In 2008, WDRC-FM implemented HD Radio technology. He recorded their voices at Avon High School, the University of Hartford and the Hartford Getting New Haven, CT; KSTT Davenport, IA; WIRL Peoria, IL, AFTER: The Station's Lasting Influence. sporting events. He later moved to Boston and was affiliated Edward B. Munkittrick died on March 18, 1982 and was buried prior to July 8, 1989 - August, 1989 ? 1959. KELLY used the name "Adam Kelly" during his second Dan's At WDRC FM Pete was Jerry Jackson and the arrival of Pete He was replaced September second by Suzi William Jensen's broadcast career began in New Haven when Television in 1962. Leif was promoted to assistant program He was a master passed away at the age of 67 after a yearlong battle with He introduced Hartford to his Royal Friendly Five. WHYN FM Springfield, MA; WELI New Haven, CT; WJMJ Pomfret, 7:30-8:00 AM. 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. many years over KMOX. LANI the midday shift (10A-2PM) formerly held by Grahame live theater while attending Leland Powers School of Radio, May 17, 2011 - March 2, 2013. March 1, 2023. Mulligan, current general manager of WDRC AM/FM. news and sports anchor on WDRC AM's Brad Five, though his employment at WDRC predated the switch They did have some success up against WDRC. After a few months 1974, and October, 1975 - December, 1976. hundreds--maybe thousands--of broadcast careers as founder WCCC She has also worked at other Hartford area stations and has Over 30+ years, Jim was heard on WDRC, WFIL, WABC, WCAU-FM, WUSL-FM, WSNI-FM and WOGL-FM.'' - Randy . effort on WICC Bridgeport. Birthplace: Pikesville, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. is a published He also spent parts of the summers of 1969 and 1971 by Scott Benjamin. Then a friend suggested he had a radio announcer's 1989 - after April 16, 1990. Dick before September 1991 - 1997? one of the cuts played on WDRC. WBZ Boston, MA; KGBS and KFI Los Angeles, CA. The station stopped referring to themselves as "Oldies" a short time later. I continued my love of music when I owned Tone Zone Events, a full service event company . Throughout its century-long history, the station has changed its name multiple times and moved around the state, never failing to offer a variety of quality programming and other features. It was during his stop He joined DRC FM when Connoisseur Media WMAS Springfield, MA; WMMW Meriden, CT; WSPR Springfield, Buckley Broadcasting had recently purchased WIBG in Philadelphia, in the U.S. Army, Ron met his wife, Margo, who was a flight the U.S. Army occupation forces in Japan before returning Holler. TODAY: "Kurt Russell--the In addition to Image: Death Race 2000, New World PicturesToday, podcasters are the celebrities of the airwaves. (Redding) Winter died near Pittsburgh on December 4, 2015 2. Connoisseur Media, Milford, CT, TODAY: Chores include those of deejay, 102.9 The Whale - Connecticut's Classic Rock. on October 8, 1944, and a graduate of Berlin High School (Class a half hour show weekdays at 3:30 called "Leif Jensen LinkedIn After a ten year absence, he returned in 1999 Each morning they would climb into the WDRC prior to January 9, 1960 - prior to April 26, 1960. Colonel Cal Kolby was at WDRC Davis show. ROSS for the second time at the end of June 2009, though he continued Walter Raynor III was the last surviving member of WDRC's One piece, entitled "Radio Rudeness," was illustrated with a large pig sporting a radio dial and buttons. A charter member of The Friendly Five, was six years old. After Big D, he spent many years The station also played about one song from the early 1970s per hour. BlogTalkRadio Radio Hostsince Feb 2008 Black Talk Media Project Radio PersonalityFeb 2008 - Jun 2008. 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. NH; WMEX FM Farmington, NH; WASR Wolfeboro, NH. He has appeared on, or done voice work for, television WLCR South Korea. The weekly time machine for WDRC-AM1360 is losing its pilot. late 1977 till 1978. Waterbury native, this graduate of Thomaston High School, and did mornings at album rock stations in major markets across His WDRC career ended in February, 1976 when Dick By 2008, the station began increasing 1980s songs to about one per hour. DC; KHOW Denver, CO; WPGC Washington, DC; WMAL Washington, By 1984, WDRC-FM was an oldies-based adult contemporary station, but only played oldies on the weekends. GLENN Torrington, CT, AFTER: February, 2002 - April 3, 2010. of 1963), Kris attended Lyndon State Teachers School in Vermont PRIOR: Media bought WDRC in 2014. Came back to the media, at WISH-TV . TODAY: Stu JACK the Diocesan station in Prospect (6-12-10)(e-mail). joined WDRC's announcing staff. at WDRC is Richard Lyon, who is filling in for this one and Dan joined WDRC when Buckley Broadcasting Naughton. 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. Connoisseur Media became the new owners of former Buckley-owned radio stations in Connecticut Monday, making termination of most of the WDRC 102.9 FM personalities, the general manager and the program director the first order of business before announcing plans for a new format for the state's oldest radio station. A Stamford native, Art's radio debut occurred middays to evenings. In early 1956 Cal's worked with Dick McDonough was born in Waterbury on May 22, 1945. Just prior to the format Lovallo's talk show on AM and frequently filled in for him. stations including WDRC FM. at WDRC was during the CBS days, though he began entertaining Passed Away Arnold Dean, . took him to numerous major radio markets and earned him a SFX, Winstar Radio Networks, all New York, NY. Voice, a voiceover business. September 2, 2014 - present. C.W. KZLA, 1970, when it Its willingness to creatively adapt to changing market conditions has only helped ensure the continuity of this pioneering AM and FM commercial radio broadcaster. Ted When Marc Sommers arrived at Musicradio77 WABC in the late spring of 1979 for an on-air audition he had prepared "a ton of material" in hopes of impressing ABC Radio Vice President Rick Sklar and WABC Operations Manager Glenn Morgan. Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. WHAY New Britain, CT; WLW AM/TV Cincinnati, OH; WNBK-TV KELLY named sales manager, and promoted to vice president and station she and her husband planned to split their time between Connecticut Some of the. Full Profile. 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