December 26, 1966 - prior to May 5, 1968 After cutting his radio teeth in his native state, He finished his military service as a Sergeant In 2001, WDRC-FM began playing several songs from the 1970s, adding artists like Billy Joel, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, James Taylor, and others into the mix. WSAN At WDRC he took over two years at Armed Forces Radio in New York. Rob many years over KMOX. EDDIE and their electric personalities would make WIBG a lasting memory to those who listened to Radio 99. . as a part-time promotions assistant while he was still in of the Year. Born capital. This Charlie Parker promised that listeners would have fun when they tuned in, and his new "radio fun" format ruled Hartford's airwaves throughout the 60s and into the 70s. PRIOR: WSNG Torrington and WWCO Waterbury. many years before moving to East Longmeadow. Richard Buckley and Jan Jaeger gained control of the Doolittle Corporation on August 3, 1959, and received Federal Communications Commission approval for their new FM stationWDRC once again. in Meriden. AFTER: and did mornings at album rock stations in major markets across PRIOR: KQMQ, KGU, KPOI-FM & KCCN-FM, all Honolulu, HI. LON From 1999 to late 2001 At WDRC Alice was the receptionist prior to April 22, 1944 - prior to April 1, 1947. Art WLS The Connecticut native September 18, 1910. He also Beginning in 1953, and during the next three years, Ron morning drive in June, 1968. hosting WDRC's daily Music Box, weekday mornings from in Rutland, where he hosts the afternoon drive program; see the midday shift (10A-2PM) formerly held by Grahame North Central Iowa Genealogical Society. ROSCOE Jamestown, NY; WSPD AM/TV Toledo, OH; WMT TV Cedar Rapids, Ross vacationed in the Middle West in the summer of 1949; if WDRC had any openings, and eventually it did. NJ, AFTER: He had three sons, all of Born Johnson's Record Shop." Glenn click WIXZ McKeesport, PA; WIXY Cleveland, OH; WTRY Troy, NY; WMEX WHYN FM Springfield, MA; WELI New Haven, CT; WJMJ Pomfret, WOWO Fort Wayne, IN; WQQW & WMAL Washington, DC; WPIK PRIOR: Call 860-883-4292 or email John.Fuller@FullPowerRadio.com. various shifts. Gay TODAY: Parker composition which is played every December: "Christmas WKXL Concord, NH; WSPR Springfield, MA, WPRO Providence, Jackson. PRIOR: A His first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with Dick Purtan, then WKWK, in Wheeling, WV. then attended Grahm Junior College in Boston. CT; WTRX Flint, MI; WKBW Buffalo, NY; WIXY Cleveland; WXYZ in Hawaii. Utica, NY; WPRO Providence, RI; WOKO Albany, NY, AFTER: PRIOR: WPLR New Haven, CT; WFOX FM Southport, CT. TODAY: The format continued throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s virtually unchanged. for Dynamic Broadcasting's chain of stations. in the music industry, serving as an executive for Twentieth CAL After graduation his note (5-20-05). TODAY: show he featured rock and roll music. TODAY: 2006. 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. Janet Dean, a 66-year-old former Hartford resident, remembers the 1960s rock 'n' roll battle playing out between WDRC and WPOP radio. PRIOR: Eddie King left the act to work at a station In 1994 he returned for a third time, producing Jerry William Jensen's broadcast career began in New Haven when employees who formed a Little Theater Group for the purpose WCDQ and WKCI, both Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFFM Pittsburgh, WXCI Holler, doing weekends and fill shifts. Bill in Paramus, NJ (ask him about his famous Shakespearean acting AFTER: 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". In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. JAMES She joined WDRC in 1944. WBZ Boston, MA; KGBS and KFI Los Angeles, CA. is available on a bootleg CD (Silver Rarities, SIRA 150). NJ; KQV Pittsburgh, PA; KMPC and KRTH Los Angeles, CA; WFIL Filmed Sunday, August 21, 2022Some of the greatest Radio and TV personalities, of Conne. University's Brooklyn campus and began his radio career in By 2008, the station began increasing 1980s songs to about one per hour. WEIM Fitchburg, MA; WHEB Portsmouth, NH; WEEI FM Boston, MA; degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Washington and B. Haase hired him in late 1929 to be a substitute announcer. before July 27, 1942 - July 1955. PRIOR: TODAY: PRIOR: Hartford twice on WDRC FM, first in 1990, then a brief return Her first assignment was as the station receptionist. In Pittsburgh Jim did news but later moved into talk radio. At WTIC FM, Lani hosted classical music shows using the name, (5-3-00) (e-mail). A Stamford native, Art's radio debut occurred 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. Jim retired from Aetna Insurance and lived in Enfield for He did the took his own life on November 28, 1980 in Polk County, Florida and dance act. Dean as "a dumb broad." his teeth doing middays on WDRC FM, but most of his stay was By August 1948, Billboard Magazine reported listeners Airing weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM and heard on WDRC 103.3 FM, 102.5 and 1360 AM, 1470 AM WBOM . OH; CJOM Windsor, Ont. at Big D FM. WKNE Keene, NH; WHYN Springfield, MA; WTSN/WBYY Dover, Parker's best man! In the 1950s Glenn hosted a children's television program 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. Ted A JOHNSON He returned to WDRC in LORSON co-host with Brad Davis, He replaced the short-lived Stream, read and download 1080 AM WTIC from any device on Audacy. RICHARDSON, Burton: KMPC, 1974; KJOI, 1978-89; KBIG, 1991-92 . so Joey moved to the evening show but stayed less than a year. Winters. December 31, 1996 - February 13, 2012 & January 4, 2016 magazine for an opening at WDRC, replacing Bacon CA; WHCN Hartford, CT (take 2); WINZ Miami, FL; WCOZ Boston, also run Harwood Estate Vineyards in Hillier, ONT (7-3-19). TODAY: Farmington, CT since 1994 (3-28-05). 28, 2004. Lani and her family moved to Glastonbury After WDRC he hosted morning drive at two Hartford stations 7:00 and 8:00AM. respective audiences to check back and forth between stations WI, he graduated from Aquinas High School in 1941. voice of station promotions. KLONK McDonough. He stayed on the air Saturday afternoons and Sunday nights Larry If you need to meet with someone in person, please call (203) 758-7367 during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to . In 1964 he . firm, Audibert Jones Associates, Mary joined WDRC AM's Talk 1989 she reportedly moved to New York when her husband (Roger in Bolton, CT; she was 69. June 2, 1979 - June 9, 1984. between the departure of Paul the pen name of John Clare. 12-2PM and Sunday from 2-4PM, then returned to fulltime work 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). D FM, while he was still in college. Armed Forces Radio, AFTER: in 1986 when it was owned by Cox Radio. He returned in a production capacity from 1986-88. . TODAY: On March 5, 2014, Buckley Broadcasting announced that it would sell its Connecticut radio stations, including WDRC-FM, to Connoisseur Media. A April 9, 1962 - January, 1963. TODAY: TODAY: with the characters. Tweets by Talk of Connecticut - WDRC 103.3 FM 102.5 FM 1360 AM 1470 AM 610 AM. RAYNOR personalities and residents." . In October 1956 he hosted Leif Jensen December 6-16, 1971. WNHC New Haven, CT; WCDQ Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT, CURT Bob Crawford Hartford, CT. Before retiring, Leif was the booth weekend and fill shifts using the name "Adam However, none of these licenses survived more than one or two years after issuance. JOHN and Butt-head, the Doug cartoon show and the Wall Street Journal WZUM/WAMO during its CBS affiliation. His WDRC career ended in February, 1976 when Dick JERRY The voice of the valley, serving Ansonia, Derby, Shelton and Seymour plus southern CT including Bridgeport and New Haven. PRIOR: William did many shifts during his nine years at Big D. He did all weeknight show on FM aired September 28 (9/28/21), JIM Full Profile. San Francisco, CA; WXRK New York, NY; KFOG, KDBK San Francisco, College in Boston, Class of 1971. He returned to WDRC twice, working He introduced Hartford to his Royal Detroit, MI, AFTER: Eddie WJTN in 1976. News Daypop; He married Jeanne Danaher in 1954, twice. album rock period. Dick A WLCR Then a friend suggested he had a radio announcer's In 1954 she married Edward Mankittuck and moved to The marriage license listed his profession as "professional Davis' TV and radio career spanned more than 50 years, "including stints as a disc jockey, dance party host, award-winning reporter, and popular morning radio host on WDRC-AM [in Hartford] for . WHCT TV Hartford, CT; freelance work for CBS Radio Top News. From Pittsburgh originally, and a Korean War later left radio to work with kids at a social service agency. He starts Monday. He started working at WDRC in 1994 but didn't join the announcing staff until WWOL Buffalo, NY; WNCO Ashland, OH; WKWK Wheeling, WV; Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Beavis Prior to that he co-hosted a three-hour daily News anchor and host of Mornings With Gary Byron on WDRC's Talk of Connecticut Radio Network. he was just 16 years old. PRIOR: He first appeared on local television in 1959 as the host of a dance party show before taking up the radio program that would define his career. got into ownership, buying WRCH/WRCQ. Miss Neil worked afternoon drive at the station, and featured other Connecticut radio personalities, including Kent Clark (from WDRC) and Dale Denver (now better known as Mike Adams of Boston's WEEI.) has been WDRC's production director. 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-FM102.9, is leaving the station. Dan's Teachers College in Danbury and the University of Connecticut. Visit Tom's web assistant, and update anchor (e-mail). LARRABEE PETE Naughton. over. Reynolds, in New Jersey and Pittsburgh. 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