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Remember WNEW-FM ? |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 5 19:32:23 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. Yes. I too am a survivor of a day when my mind was young...and blown!! |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 5 19:45:21 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. Only towards the end, when Scott Muni was still there.I remember when WNEW the TV station became WNYW too. |
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Posted by bingbong on Sun Apr 5 19:47:40 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 5 19:45:21 2020. I remember it when Selkirk was there. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Apr 5 19:49:09 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 5 19:45:21 2020. I think WNEW-TV had at least one “We are experiencing technical difficulties - Please Stand By” moment a day. |
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Posted by Charles G on Sun Apr 5 19:51:21 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. Home of the Dreaded Midnight Oldie with Dave Herman. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 5 21:56:23 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 5 19:45:21 2020. I remember both too. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 5 21:56:56 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Apr 5 19:49:09 2020. Most certainly! |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 5 21:57:18 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. I remember the tv commercials the most. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 5 21:58:58 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. There goes Scottso Muni. He engaged those Day Day Afternoon bank robbers on the air, correct? |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Apr 5 22:13:59 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 5 21:56:56 2020. WPIX Channel 11 had them too but WNEW Channel 5 had it down to a science. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Apr 5 22:22:02 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. Hard to believe it's over 20 yrs scince it's gone. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. I've never listened to WNEW-FM. However here are some trivia questions regarding WNEW(AM), and WNEW-TV.1. What does the EW in WNEW stand for? 2. What radio network was WNEW part of? 3. What were the original call letters of channel 5, the present WNEW-TV. 4. What did those call letters stand for? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:29:30 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. 1. NEW stood for Newark. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:30:36 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. 2. ?3. WABD 4. Allen B. DuMont |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:34:49 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:29:30 2020. 1. NO |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:35:27 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:30:36 2020. 3. Correct.4. Correct. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Apr 5 22:36:14 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. 2 is the only one I can take a stab at...was it the Metromedia Radio Network? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:43:51 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:34:49 2020. I disagree, unless Wikipedia (where I’m certain that I read this) is wrong, which it certainly could be. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:48:58 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Apr 5 22:36:14 2020. 2. NO |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Apr 5 22:50:56 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:48:58 2020. ok |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 23:03:17 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 5 22:43:51 2020. It's call letters when in Newark were WODA. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 23:05:03 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. 2. I'm going to withdraw this question. I should have verified it before posting. I thought it was the flagship station for the Amalgamated Broadcasting System.WNEW-AM was an independent station. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 00:53:09 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Apr 5 22:13:59 2020. Yeah but channel 5 like you said had it down to a science. I can hear the announcer’s voice repeating that line about the tech difficulties stand by line it was yesterday |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 00:55:58 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. And WNYW is supposed to stand for What New Yorkers Watch correct? |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 00:56:29 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Apr 5 22:36:14 2020. Not a bad guess |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 00:57:22 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. 40 Years of Fine Tuning Channel 5 |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Apr 6 08:20:22 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 5 19:45:21 2020. I think they changed the call letters after I left in 1976. I think they were the home of the cartoons I watched as a kid, especially my all-time favorite The Flinstones |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 08:43:38 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Apr 6 08:20:22 2020. Apparently it was changed in 1987 |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 08:48:41 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 08:43:38 2020. It was changed when the Fox Network was launched. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 08:50:40 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 00:55:58 2020. It doesn’t stand for anything. They swapped one letter from WNEW. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 08:59:12 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 08:48:41 2020. I know |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 6 09:00:02 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 08:50:40 2020. I made a new slogan for them then. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Apr 6 11:36:59 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. They were short-lived stations but they were pretty good. |
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Posted by Dan on Tue Apr 7 13:41:12 2020, in response to Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Apr 5 19:23:13 2020. 'Things from England' was aired on Friday afternoons. That's where I first heard groups like The Move (precursor of E.L.O.), Blue Mink, John Kongos and others. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Apr 7 14:06:07 2020, in response to Re: Remember WXLO-FM and WAPP-FM?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Apr 6 11:36:59 2020. Not familiar with WAPP. I first heard WXLO (former WOR-FM) in the summer of 73. It wasn't bad. I was living in Illinois, but spent the summer with my grandmother in Brooklyn. When I returned for good in June 1974, WXLO had started branding themselves as 99X. They were still OK then, but by the time I left for L. A. in the late summer of 1976, they were (IMO) a shitshow. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Apr 7 14:07:31 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 5 22:25:38 2020. Well, when are you going to post the answer so that I can point out that it’s a myth? |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Apr 7 18:52:30 2020, in response to Re: Remember WNEW-FM ?, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Apr 7 14:07:31 2020. The NEWest thing in radio. |
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