Born in Philadelphia, Homer was an Army Air Force veteran of World War II, flying B-17 Flying Fortress planes out of Italy with the 15th Air Force. Jeff Hurvitzlives and writes in Abington Township. A collection of items and features for the first talk radio station in not only Philadelphia but America. On Monday, as I flipped on the station in anticipation of listening to the last remaining member of that star-studded lineup, Irv Homer, I was perplexed to hear a computerized, numerical countdown. May not be reproduced or copied. The format, known as the Point, has been successful in markets including Portland and Seattle, the Beasley Group statement said. A Lower Merion policeman told me someone called to report 'a crazed woman was holding the station hostage while she counted.' You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Some of the FM station's older personalities were moved to the AM station in an attempt to increase the FM's appeal in younger demographics without alienating older listeners. During his time at WWDB, Homer became a vocal and notable public presence in the resurgent anti-tax movement. at WWDB, mornings. In 96 Mercury Broadcasting bought it for [[ here the story is incomplete, I have to look the rest up in my files]] 48 mill and then Beasley bought it for nearly 65 mill in the late 97. His show was the top talk show for most of that time. And, finally, I'm sorry that your vice president called you one of our country's greatest presidents. Left WWDB in spring 2000. (updated summer 2001) Update Spring 2002. Each host spent several days in Philadelphia filling in on the morning show. Worked for a time in the Agriculture Dept. . Dom spent his whole life in radio, ran some stations, hosted the morning show at WWDB for some time and has been in semi-retirement for the last couple of years but did the morning shows on. Bill Thomas Former fill-in on WWDB. John Brown Website (offline) | Parody (archived on the old site) -- Metro Traffic John is remembered as the very popular traffic guy while Phil Valentine was on the air in 96-97. ), John DiPrimio Co-founder of Citizens for Common Sense. Tom Bigby Program Director of WIP 610-AM, previously pulled double duty at PD of WPHT. Liked to chat it up with Irv Homer in the afternoons. I stopped listening to Michael Smerconish a long time ago. Several lawsuits were filed against WWDB in 1985 concerning age and racial discrimination. I'm sorry that the people that had a legal obligation to investigate your behavior are the ones that seem to be smeared the most. Mickey Charles Hosted gambling/sports talk show on WCAU in the late 1970s, Ken Chiampou Part of the John (John Kobylt) and Ken team NJ101.5 afternoons 1990-92. Went to California to be a writer for the "Man Show." Winder, who operates Delilah's Southern Cuisine and the new and humming Bluezette (246 Market), is a 1995 graduate of GE Small Business College. Steve Ross Talk show host at both WWDB & WCAU pulled double duty each Saturday - working 6-10 a.m., then returning at midnight, for yet another go 'round. Elaine Keno News anchor/reporter at KYW NewsRadio from 1987-1990,(Elaine Ettorre), left for a stint as news director in Miami (WINZ all-news) for 5 years, and returned to KYW 1060 as an afternoon news anchor in 1995, using her married name: Elaine Keno. Covered the war in Vietnam for NBC News 69-70. Reggie Bryant WHAT 1340-AM. At the dawn of that very decade, I had been an energized seller of talk radio. Talk Radio 1210 WPHT. It began operating on the 860 frequency in the late 1950s. Currently on Channel 57. It's anyone's guess how strong the station would be today if those un-named corporate types had any vision. But yesterday's change was total. Franny Rizzo Son of the former Mayor. (7/06), Mike Missanelli WIP 610-AM - mikemissanelli.com. When WWDB launched its 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. news format last year, it stole KYW veterans Pat Farnack and Melanie Armstrong among others. WWDB AM 860 IS TALK RADIO FOR THE DELAWARE VALLEY! photo. Credited with the following quote - "A conservative is a liberal who was mugged the night before." Daryl has been hosting since May 2002 and is a senior writer for City Newspaper. And before that worked freelance on WPEN. In 1958 WHAT 96.5-FM became all jazz until early 1975. Author. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. Brief HistoryThe call letters stood for William and Dolly Banks (calls were changed around 1968). We want your input! Weeknights 6p-1a since January 2010.1994-2010: Asst. I had 25 good years. Heard on WOR in New York until he retired. "I am drinking no champagne," Smerconish said. But it gradually turned into others huckstering various medicinal products and "miracle" cures on prime-time issue-oriented talk shows, such as Homer's. Before that, it had shared time on AM 1340 with WHAT. [2] It became WTEL in 1930. A listener remembers when John Lennon died everyone was calling in and tuned to his show on 'MMR. Works in the Delaware Valley in a radio-related company. I don't know how, but it seems to be working. . Mark Daniels (submitted 10/01) WFIL - Station's local talk/news/commentary show for over 5 years. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts mostly paid brokered programming. Lauren Pressley Formerly on NJ-101.5, then Press Broadcasting's G106.3 and WHTG AM out of Monmouth County, NJ. WWDB-Radio, Philadelphia has hosted 5 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1990 Broadcast. (1pm to 5pm). I'm sorry that you received oral sex from a 21-year-old subordinate in the Oval Office. Program Director/Production Manager at 1440 WNPV, Lansdale-Philadelphia. With its powerful 10,000 watt signal, WWDB AM 860 is heard loud and clear throughout the Delaware Valley, sunrise to sunset. late 60's at least. Susan Bray Formerly of WWDB. After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. Son ANDREW is looking for friends and co-workers of his dad to record and send in greetings for the former WWDB and WCAU-A/PHILADELPHIA talker and WKBS-TV movie host.Send greetings via MP3s to. I will miss the talkers and the community of listeners. Had a thing about Warren Zevon KLOS, 1980-81; KMPC/KEDG, 1988-90; KSCA, 1993-96; KMPC, 1993-96; KLSX/KRLA, 1997-2001. George Noory 8. The Associated Press drew a different conclusion in awarding the morning news program (and the outstanding news staff) its top air award for best newscast in Pennsylvania this past year. Previously on WMMR's Morning Zoo with DeBella; Kiss 100 with Mike and Sue; overnight news on the former WFLN FM and more. Thanks to an angry group of Talk Show Hosts who turn everything racial, Obama easily took Philadelphia and the suburbs,,,Don . ; and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," by Tears for Fears. (6/04 - thanks Ivan), Susan Monday WPHT 1210-AM - Previously on KWY 1060-AM. (04), Paul Barsky Y100 and 95.7 then WMMR 93.3-FM then WYSP 94.1-FM (5/06), Earle Bailey Former WWDB morning5-9 am news host with Pat Farnack while that station was doing NewsTalk in 2000. Little do they know that they are killing a 45-year-old Philadelphia tradition - a tradition that can never be replaced. He was also a television News Anchor and Investigative Reporter for WTAF TV, Channel 29 News Probe. Irv Homer Started at WXUR in the early 70s then WEEZ, WWDB 96.5-FM(1975-2000) then went to WPHT 1210-AM & WBCB 1490-AM / Audio (2 clips) on the Audio Vault Page, several rare pictures coming soon. -- picture with an unidentified woman at a WWDB event. Art Bell's bumper music Chase by Giorgio Moroder, Art Bell's bumper 'theme song' The Moody Blues, Ride My See-Saw, https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/7600864/susan-bray-delong-a-trailblazing-pioneer-for-women-in-radio-dies-aged-79/, https://www.inquirer.com/news/broadcasters-remember-frank-ford-20090416.html, Archived Audio of Jay on WNBC with pictures. I feel bad for my people. Had a liver transplant after leaving the station to work for the Philadelphia Gas Works. From 1984 to 1994, I woke up and went to bed daily with WWDB. Schedule. In each scenario, however, those talents will come under the watch of yet another corporate giant. This Sid Mark/Sinatra tradition also permeated my family as my daughters turned their friends on to Frank's music with Sid. All the station's well-known personalities - Irv Homer, Susan Bray, Gil Gross, Pat Farnack, Frank Rizzo and Sid Mark among them - were called to a 9 a.m. meeting at the station and told their jobs had ended. Stations in Houston, Dayton and Jacksonville have flipped to the Point format in the last month. Publicity photo from WCAU 89-90 (Picture courtesy of Mike Rossi) Frank Rizzo and Harry Gross at WWDB circa 1990 Links: Northeast Times retrospective. Instead of the slaughter of the 18-month-old news department, they walked into a massacre of the entire station. Before that he hosted at WSB in Atlanta from 1976 to 1978 WRNG in Atlanta from 1978 to 1981 On WCAU he hosted The Wally Kennedy Show from 1981 to 1984. Plus, they would run the 20 minutes of the regular direct account commercials AND because the talent was older (and was happy to have a gig) THEY didn't ask for talent fee's or a cut of the action. Jimmy Kimmel, co-host, was Kent's producer at one time. I felt bad when Terry Francona was fired, but that is the past. Radio aircheck. Homer was best known as a radio host but he also made numerous TV appearances and even ran as the . The transmitter is off Foundry Road in East Norriton Township. Formerly on WWDB, early am shift and weekends (1998). I knew going into radio 20 years ago that this kind of thing happens. Commercial voice-over business. in D.C. and also wrote speeches. I was shocked to see that the station has changed formats so drastically and so suddenly (Inquirer, Nov. 7). I stressed to the attorney general and his deputy, Larry Barth, that this was not about an audit or the integrity of management of the financial affairs at the Barnes Foundation during my tenure as president, but was about settling a feud through the use of an audit that would reflect the views of those who demanded it. New Time, Tuesday Mornings at 8! Uplifting conversation, Thursday mornings at 7! LOW OVERHEAD, LOW AD RATES, BUT since it's MOM & POPeverybody's happy!!! 2. liverpool v nottingham forest 1989 team line ups; best crews to join in gta 5. jay chaudhry house; bimbo bakeries buying back routes; pauline taylor seeley cause of death From the liberal sector were Frank Ford and Bernie Herman. Diane Raymond Program Director also hosted mid-days (12:25-2 pm) on 'DB in the late 80s after Mary Mason left. I was one of those summarily told not to show up for work anymore. He's also been helping others recover from addition for nearly 4 decades. "Part of me is pleased. (Added/Updated 11/2003 by P.M.S). Let Bloomers help you get ready for every season! Bill Corsair Popular overnight host on WCAU 1210 AM. "It may sound odd. Beasley chief operating officer Bruce Beasley told me Beasley had approached Film House, which declined the job because it would conflict with another Philly client. Perhaps it is a tribute to Sinatra that his voice wasn't silenced until two years after his death. Moved to WIBG 1020-AM on July 31st, 2006. NOW (sorry if I am boring you) The 10 million was the absolute threshold!!!! I am disgusted by the actions of WWDB with respect to the Friday with Frank and Sunday with Sinatra shows. NewsRadio 790 WAEB. Devoted WWDB listeners will have to switch stations or hum along. It will be hard this Friday not to want to "put the world on hold," sit back and listen to five hours of great Sinatra music with the most affable radio host Philadelphia has ever had, Sid Mark. Updated 11/2003 by P.M.S) Now operating a consultancy for talk radio guests, based in Tucson. If you tuned in to WWDB before 5 p.m. yesterday, what you heard was an electronic voice counting backward from 6,000. )They found nothing but an endless pit of spending money. (6-01) - Also does an Oldies show with music and interviews of artists from the '50s, '60s and 70's from Philly and South Jersey, OOT'S Two Street Radio Show on: WWZK FM - OLDIES 94.3 FM on Sundays at 6 pm and also on 1490 WBCB on SUNDAYS at 6 pm. Now (as of Spring 2001) is at the Internet arm of the Village Voice. I also feel deep sympathy toward all the hosts and other station personnel who are now out of work - except general manager Dennis Begley. Maybe you, like me, see the ads as a stylistic imitation (homage, perhaps?) The 50 Most Influential and Most Listened-To Streaming Talk Show Hosts. I didn't get there until 9:30 and by that time the meeting was over. Grace Blazer Started at WPHT 1210-AM in 1996. Replaced by Paul W. Smith then hired away by 'CAU. Former WWDB and WCAU-A/PHILADELPHIA, WHO-A/DES MOINES, and WRC-A/WASHINGTON talk show host SUSAN BRAY has passed away at 79 in MUDGEE, NSW, AUSTRALIA, reports the DES MOINES REGISTER, citing a FACEBOOK post by her husband, ED DELONG. I was born in 1975 and listened to WWDB while I was growing up in the Philadelphia area. Frank Ford started the station in the 80s. .Philadelphia's Soul Food Queen Delilah Winder is sitting pretty. I have a soft spot for Art. One of the most important hours of your week, Gary Hendler hosts an insightful and informative hour every Friday afternoon at 3:00. to create interest in what's coming next. Franny Rizzo - Sunday nights at9Jason Meyer - fill in hostJohn Stolnis - Producer - fill in hostRuss Miller - Real Estate, Saturdays.Austin CulmerDavid ColemanFrank and Mary Jelineck - Dinning Around - Saturdays at noon.The Car Show - Saturdays from 2 to 4 pm - Frank and Mike Daulario, Past Favorites, fill-in hosts, etc.Noted fill-in hosts, some that got their own shows or helped run the station - Chuck Darrow, Bill Thomas, LaDonna Monet, John Ziegler, Dick Pomerantz, Mark Williams, Mike Seigal, Gil Gross.Past Favs - Smokey Gifford // Rollye James // Dom Giordano // Bernie McCainWay Way Back - Dominic Quinn // Wynn Moore // Stan Major // Richard Hayes // Bernie Herman // Ken James // Rod Luck // former PD, Jack Ellery. Gary Hendler hosts an insightful and informative hour every Friday afternoon at 3:00 Now on WWDB! I'm sorry for all the women in this country that are now fairer game to their superiors for what you've done. After WCAU, the old 1210 AM, abandoned talk in 1975, owners William and Dolly Banks replaced the market's jazz station, WHAT-FM, with talk. (Earl replaced Gil Gross who moved to 9-12) Previously news anchor and weekend classic rock DJ on WMMR. While conservative talk still owns the radio airwaves, the hosts of the Breakfast . Because the show was taped, he did not take calls. (10/01) WPEN 950-AM in Philadelphia. Former sports reporter at WWDB 96.5-FM from spring 2000 until November 2000 when DB stopped Talk. WWDB (860 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its studios and offices in the "555 Building" on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts mostly paid brokered programming.Shows on health, money, gardening, home repair, real estate, religion and politics are found on the schedule. The other two studios, one brand new, were left empty. Harry Gross Long time financial show, also had a column in the Daily News. Past Programs. The staff of the award-winning morning news show launched in March 1999 didn't work directly for WWDB, but rather for a news and traffic service called Metro Networks. An open mind and a sense of humor are prerequisites for having a good time. Mark Levin 5. For those in "mixed marriages," WABC's morning program has a liberal and a conservative together, certain to spark some lively discussions at home. If you get them all wrong, then your radio listening license is hearby revoked. Nowadays Dye has his own show, "Dave's World," an hour-long program of Dye's favorite tracks that begins at 11 a.m. on Sundays on WXPN. - Host on WCAU 1210 in the early 70s - also wrote James Bond parodies (oy oy seven) and wrote for Mad Magazine in the 60s (11/02), Derek Williams Formerly WWDB news reporter. Irving Homer (May 29, 1924 - June 24, 2009) was an American radio talk show host and television personality, primarily in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market. John DeBella - www.jdbshow.com - Archived Audio Clips (Sweepers 1998) Previously on WPHT 1210-AM, afternoons. It was one of an endangered species - a radio station owned by a local company. Ellery, now living in Huntingdon Valley, worked for WOR in NY, WFLA, in Tampa and a host of other stations across America. Jay Sorenson See "Jay and Hilarie" above - Archived Audio Page with pictures, Allen David Stein Picture - Came on NJ101.5 as overnight host Sunday through Thursday nights starting at 11 pm until 4 am. . Former QVC host. Last rites were just administered this week. The Banks, who also owned the African American music-and-talk formatted WHAT-AM (1340), were local residents who brought a hands-on approach to their finished product.