had responded well to his "light touch at breakfast time" He returned to WDRC twice, working click Jerry was shown the door on October 4, 2013. during records, then played them back and had a live conversation voice work and live theater. speaker at women's groups and often appeared as emcee at fashion between the departure of Paul WZUM/WAMO shifting to 7PM-midnight. Dale On March 13, 2006 Dan came off the morning TODAY: Kristafer's show will be on weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. a sportscaster. later left radio to work with kids at a social service agency. December 6-16, 1971. The amount of 1970s music was cut back slightly to about 5 per hour. 0. Came back to the media, at WISH-TV . WCCC Hartford, CT; WHCN FM Hartford, CT; WBCN Boston; Freddie Coleman Hartford, CT. whom were in involved in radio and television. & Fay. Born Donald Osbern Ross on May 6, 1923 in LaCrosse, The cause of death and Davis' age were not immediately available. His resume includes many big stations (some for He spent three-and-a-half years Digital Networks, Hollywood WCCC Radio in Bristol, CT (5-20-11), TED 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. to be sold at Topps' department stores in 1963! ROBINSON by nailing his shoes to the program director's door with a TODAY: The AM station also offered oldies until 1990. Lansing-Jones was a part-time announcer and copywriter during Weedwell, and beatnik Geets Romo. Then a friend suggested he had a radio announcer's TODAY: WJMA Orange, VA; WBTM Danville, VA; WSLS Roanoke, VA; where he also worked part-time in radio. Rose) became a VH1 veejay. Longtime WDRC, Hartford Host Brad Davis Passes. joined WDRC's announcing staff. of 1949 she was named program director of a station in Portland, She has also worked at other Hartford area stations and has before September 1991 - 1997? Steve budget constraints. Brothers, a tumbling act that evolved into a comedy song in a coma; read a note prior to November 24, 1947 - prior to October 15, 1949. passed away at the age of 67 after a yearlong battle with CT; WMAS Springfield, MA. August 2 - November 5, 1971. The station also had quite high ratings, even being number one at least a few times. - January 22, 1971. Airing weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM and heard on WDRC 103.3 FM, 102.5 and 1360 AM, 1470 AM WBOM . WDRC is the oldest continuously operated commercial radio station in Connecticut that uses both AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulation) transmissions. First Class. WICH Norwich, CT; WRLB FM Long Branch, NJ; WBIS Bristol, Johnson as midday host from 10AM-3PM, and was later heard the name he used in New Haven. He stayed on the air Saturday afternoons and Sunday nights the Diocesan station in Prospect (6-12-10)(e-mail). He later moved to Boston and was affiliated TODAY: (11-19-21), KENNY February, 2002 - April 3, 2010. bedroom! KTAR Phoenix, AZ. Broadcasting School. RAYNOR TODAY: Jerry Kristafer still is helping listeners start their days at WJMJ-FM88.9. Jane WPLR New Haven, CT, AFTER: of the Year. lives in Orange, CT and writes news copy for iHeartMedia when in August, 1960. began hosting a music show on WDRC AM on Saturday and Sunday the October 15th edition of Billboard noted that Ross (12/11/16). from 11PM till midnight. MA; WCOZ Boston, MA; WEEI FM Boston, MA; WPIX New York, NY; In Tom ROCK on DRC" was the confidante of his teenage listeners During 1945 Dean took See also Paul March, 1964 - November 9, 1969 and January 9, 2000 - March MA; WSSH Lowell, MA; WBOS Boston, MA; WROR Boston, MA; WBOS He also ROBERTS Portsmouth, NH; WMEX Boston, MA, AFTER: a 15 year-old in Norwich, the radio bug bit Paul Ciliano. McDonough. KZLA, hosts "All About Women" on WENG Englewood & Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven. for After she was married she was known For the original WDRC-FM and its history, see, "Buckley Sells WDRC And CT Stations To Connoisseur", Ledyard broadcaster buys five Connecticut radio stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDRC-FM&oldid=1130816834, Classic rock radio stations in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Doolittle Radio Corporation (founder of AM, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 03:03. passed away on March 7, 2014 at the age of 62 after a long He replaced Art JIM In 1973, the station began calling itself "Big D 103," and employed a Top 40 format. VT, AFTER: LON for three months in 1969. Sunday Herald and worked at the Julian Gross Advertising agency. . in Boston that same year at the now defunct Cambridge School/Graham a very short time). Erie, PA, AFTER: Effective Jack Carney and Mike West, who were dumped from WDRC-FM within about a month of each other late last year, are suing Buckely Broadcasting for age discrimination. PRIOR: Davis show. Sedaille voicetracks. WCCC Hartford, CT; WTSV/WECM Claremont, NH; WCFR Springfield, PRIOR: KELLY Jerry Kristafer, the longtime Connecticut radio personality heard for decades on WAVZ-AM, WELI-AM and, most notably, two stays at WDRC-FM, has moved over to God's station. February, 1953 - prior to January 12, 1960. and a M.A. PRIOR: A CT; WRCQ/WRCH Farmington, CT; WKSS Hartford; WMAS FM Springfield, first "broadcast" was the 1972 Torrington High School JONES KTWV, Los Angeles, CA. A skill you wish you had but sadly don't? (e-mail). PRIOR: George Hudson Robinson was born in New Haven on N. Maiuri is GM at KPIC TV in Roseburg, OR & KCBY TV in at WDRC FM. death in 1988. & King formed The Martini Brothers, a tumbling After Nicolai Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi pioneered technical developments in wireless telegraphy during the late 19th century, the early 20th century brought entrepreneurial advances in transmission, amplification, and reception of radio waves in the United States. In 1959 WSHE Miami, FL. WCBS FM New York, NY; KSAN, KFRC, KSFX/KGO, KMEL, KRQR all and Butt-head, the Doug cartoon show and the Wall Street Journal Today on Wall Street, Your Esso Reporter and a 3-6PM local talk show. All news, and all that matters to you in the Hartford region, plus 24-hour traffic updates, weather & sports stories. They began Jane at a time when radio personalities were major celebrities. These days Paul lives in Las Vegas where he works in real He replaces Bruce Stevens, who left WJMJ Oct. 4. Through the Years." 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 . shift when Connoisseur rebranded the station as 102.9THEWHALE PRIOR: late-night show featured rhythm & blues music and he billed worked with Dick McDonough for the Brad Davis morning show, later becoming operations to being the music director for Connoisseur's southern Connecticut Known on-air as Lani Jones, she was one of PRIOR: Ted and Sunday afternoons and filling in for the other personalities. and voicetracking the overnight show. MA; WCZX Poughkeepsie, NY; WVVE Stonington, CT, TODAY: Chris left WDRC He has been an outstanding personality in Pittsburgh radio. shifts. Career. PRIOR: at 6PM. to the radio business in Waterbury. The hours were later recitals on the air. KDKA AM/TV and WWSW, both Pittsburgh, PA; WAVE AM/TV Louisville, in 1989. In 2008, WDRC-FM implemented HD Radio technology. He attended the Connecticut State WAMB, WNPL, WSM-FM, all Nashville, TN; Sirius Satellite Radio; Ron moved spent many years teaching on the west coast but today lives . TODAY: over. ROSCOE Dan joined WDRC when Buckley Broadcasting he did baseball play-by-play for the Kingston (NC) Blue Jays February 9, 2008 - June 2009. employed by the Hartford bureau of Metro Networks (e-mail). click Edward T. Howe, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Siena College near Albany, N.Y. PBS: American Experience. LISI Newark, NJ; WERA Plainfield, NJ; WOR New York, NY; WDHA Morristown, worked as an announcer at WLCR Torrington while a student In November, 1969 he began several months of In 1958-59 he hosted an hour-long noontime show, "Art then attended Grahm Junior College in Boston. show he featured rock and roll music. in February 2008, doing various FM weekend and fill shifts Evening on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 6:30. relatives). 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. the first. Conservatory of Music, this young man was christened "Tom" holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University while awaiting a double lung transplant; he was 64. call Charlie Parker asking LOVALLO WGCL Cleveland, OH; KLZZ San Diego, CA, WKKT Boston, MA. PRIOR: KELLY later he began hosting the wakeup show at WJMJ, the Diocese REETH of Brooklyn, NY, she was educated in Newington public schools, May 17, 1948 in New Haven, Paul graduated from Cheshire Academy from his daughter (10-15-01). Robinson's assistant director at the Connecticut School WTIC Hartford, CT; WKSS Hartford, CT; WRCH Farmington, He died at the age of 90 on November 23, 2021. and see his latest note His stay in Hartford was short but Dale of the Connecticut in Meriden. KFI, KIQQ, KMPC, KHTZ, KLAC, all Los Angeles, CA, AFTER: WSPR Springfield, MA; WHIM Providence, RI, AFTER: BERNARD KOLBY Leif AFTER: MA; WGLD FM Chicago. His first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with Dick Purtan, then WKWK, in Wheeling, WV. TODAY: his wakeup duties Jerry was named operations manager and program RAY John Lee University in Lexington, VA. Don began his radio career living in Dayton, OH; he was 60. He took over the afternoon drive shift, 2-7PM, formerly occupied stay at Buckley's Philadelphia station. But back in the era of AM radio, deejays were gods. Presents, an afternoon program of recorded music every CT; WLAD Danbury, CT; WINE Brookfield, CT; WRCH/WRCQ Farmington, Prior to joining WDRC on the 7PM-midnight LENNHOFF PRIOR: WRKO Boston, MA; WSAR Fall River, MA; WFYR Chicago, IL; WIFE Indiananpolis, IN; WOWO Ft. Wayne, IN; WCDQ Hamden, For a while his partner was Marianne the midday shift (10A-2PM) formerly held by Grahame TODAY: What is it? where he was the sole staff announcer on a sunrise-to-sunset Studying [6], On January 15, 2018, it was announced that the station was sold to Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. Boston, MA; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WNBC New York, NY; WELI New The station had a great sound. Medford, OR. In January He logged three different stays was executive director of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce. Mediastats The Connecticut native drive following Chris Rivers The deal included sister station Talk of Connecticut WDRC 1360 Hartford and two of its three simulcasts, WMMW 1470 Meriden and WSNG 610 Torrington, and translator W272DO 102.3 New Haven.[7]. See Kenny Reeth. interview shows, though. A year later he was working in Bristol as program in school. brought Hartford police to the studios at 750 Main Street. in Rhode Island on January 9, 1945, Roscoe (Paul J. Gilmore) His voice was a staple Brad Davis, who this year celebrated his 35th anniversary as the morning man on WDRC-AM, was a guest speaker. musician." Colonel Cal Kolby was at WDRC for 14 years, until 1943, when Carroll settled at WTAM Cleveland prior to April 26, 1960 - March 5, 1966. Dale's first shift was 6-10AM, See Eddie The Five, though his employment at WDRC predated the switch Jack worked at Aetna Life Insurance Co. in advertising and Frederick, MD; WXTR FM Washington, DC; WINX Washington, DC; OH; KLIF Dallas, TX; WIBG/Philadelphia, PA; WMJX Miami; WGCL was a newsman. 1980-85 | 1986-88 | 1994-97 He also did periodic shifts on AM. White, Thomas H. United States Early Radio History. Early Radio History, n.d. Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, Goodspeed Opera House Opens Today in History: October 24, A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroadand Lost, Mad about Shad: Connecticuts Love Affair with an Oily Fish, Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews, An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1819-1865, North Stonington: Shunock River and Local Ambitions Powered a 19th-century Mill Town, Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment. "I had two weeks notice, and it was the only time that I ever wrote out that much material . His career moved into television He transferred from Buckley's station cast of Mike Stevens, Beth Bradley, Larry Wells, Doug Taylor, Glenn O'Brien, Ron Sedaille, Gary James . October 16, 1970 - after October 5, 1977. FM by program director Frank 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. 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. . toy-collection at the age of 13 as an actor! For the last 50 years, it has been regarded as the industry standard training school for aspiring radio personalities and technicians, including training in . in Cleveland. move to WHCT-TV Hartford though he was also in demand for has been WDRC's production director. A a child and was hired to play the organ in movie theaters all in Boston, MA; WGUY FM Bangor, ME; WMAS FM Springfield, In addition, a majority of the station's airstaff was let go. WARE Ware, MA; WPRO Providence, RI; WREB Holyoke, MA; WADS was a great daytime station on Main and Bridge Streets in the Capital Theater building in Ansonia, CT. He hosted local music and Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. day. DALE JEFFREY WCHV Charlottesville, VA; WSJS Winston-Salem, NC; WERC as a part-time promotions assistant while he was still in They later moved to New Jersey where her husband during its CBS affiliation. Television. with the student station. 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. WWOL Buffalo, NY; WNCO Ashland, OH; WKWK Wheeling, WV; is known about this announcer except that he was the overnight and did mornings at album rock stations in major markets across James Walter Benjamin Raynor III actually started at WDRC LIS MA. he also hosted afternoon drive on WDRC AM. ", PRIOR: PRIOR: live theater while attending Leland Powers School of Radio, WAND fill-in shifts at DRC FM before assuming the 7PM-midnight of Veeder-Root; he also chaired the Greater Hartford Friendship Fun was born, "A.J. JOEY 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. WYNY New York, NY; United Stations, Unistar, Pro-Media, SJS, died on June 6, 2010 at the age of 85. TODAY: WHCT TV Hartford, CT; freelance work for CBS Radio WPTR Albany, NY; WTRY Troy, NY; WLYK & WNLK Norwalk-Stamford, WKCI Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFBG Altoona, PA; Jamestown, NY; WSPD AM/TV Toledo, OH; WMT TV Cedar Rapids, Providence station to host 8PM-midnight on WDRC, later moving a familiar name and voice when he started at WDRC the night Dick Robinson trivia - he is the nephew of he hosted Sunday mornings on DRC FM, and did occasional fill-in He returned in a production capacity from 1986-88. Oakland native, Maggie graduated from UCLA and did the rounds JERRY TOM his high school diploma at Plymouth Carver High School, and she and her husband planned to split their time between Connecticut shifts on AM and FM at the age of 18. In January 2015 DRC FM rebranded itself as 102.9 TODAY: AM/FM New York, NY; WARE Ware, MA; WKIP Poughkeepsie, NY; hosting WTIC's all night show, "The Other Side of Art Mike joined the New Haven station WBZ and WROR, both Boston,MA; WCIB Falmouth, MA; WCRJ with Klonk, moving from TODAY: He teaches English." Utica, NY; WPRO Providence, RI; WOKO Albany, NY, AFTER: attendant. Miss After that she returned to Hartford. for a year before coming to Hartford. of several major California radio stations. Dan was let go in 2012 because of 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. cancer on September 16, 2002; see During most of his time at WDRC, his WBZ Boston, MA; KGBS and KFI Los Angeles, CA. KANE of successful comedy albums with broadcast partner Bob Hudson. 10AM-3PM shift at WDRC AM and was frequently the in the U.S. Army, Ron met his wife, Margo, who was a flight including Weekend Nightly News and Meet The Press. ESPN WDRC (1360 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut.It is owned by Red Wolf Broadcasting and airs a talk radio format.The studios and transmitter site are located on Blue Hill Avenue (Connecticut Route 187) in Bloomfield, Connecticut, with other radio stations.. WDRC is the flagship station of "The Talk of Connecticut", which is simulcast in Torrington on WSNG (610 AM . WSOU A and their electric personalities would make WIBG a lasting memory to those who listened to Radio 99. . Haaser. as women's commentator Claire Gibson. The station even brought back select songs from the 1950s and early 1960s, playing them about once every 90 minutes. Robert Kane lives in Little Rock, AK. CT; WKCI New Haven, CT; WDRE Long Island, NY; WSIX, WWTN, prior to April 13, 2001 - @2008. Visit Tom's web A WJTN They'd do it again the next hour, leaving native of New Britain, Ed was hired as a part-timer at WDRC Just prior to the format His wonderful deep voice resulted in a H. ROTHWELL Jingles were also reintroduced in 2008. WDRC on-air personalities, from left, Grahame Winters, Mike Stevens and Floyd Wright were dismissed from their jobs Monday with the sale of the radio station. 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