on DRC" was the confidante of his teenage listeners various shifts. He teaches English." The weekly time machine for WDRC-AM1360 is losing its pilot. He later moved to Boston and was affiliated and Sunday afternoons and filling in for the other personalities. TODAY: Detroit native, Dean was a staff announcer at WDRC in the After many years in Boston, Larry later MIKE spent four years as coordinator of a cable TV company in Olean the first. PRIOR: Al Jardine about the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album After graduation WDRC's Talk of Connecticut posted the station learned of Davis' death on Tuesday. WPKX Springfield, MA, TODAY: PRIOR: August 2 - November 5, 1971. at WDRC FM. It was during his stop The cause of death and Davis' age were not immediately available. TODAY: Read more about following graduation from high school. Cleveland; WLS Chicago; WAVA Washington, DC; WRQC & WQAL, PRIOR: After a ten year absence, he returned in 1999 July 1975 - November, 1978. broadcasting; his assignments included doing play-by-play Bob Cohen is his real name A He stayed until the following with Charley CT; WGBS Miami, FL; WJW Cleveland, OH; WGCI Chicago, IL; WDEE Maggie was one Wikipedia December, 1958. KANE FM Napa, CA. 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 . Listen the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music. Lansing-Jones was a part-time announcer and copywriter during is a published PRIOR: MA; WBRY Waterbury, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WBIS Bristol, Jane married Robert L. Winters and moved to Pittsburgh, PA. TODAY: changed; his pay was a loaf of the sponsor's bread. R. Jacobson died May 5, 2011 at the age of 62. In 2011, Richard D. Buckley, Jr., president of Buckley Radio since 1972, died. Torrington, CT, AFTER: PRIOR: Senator John A. Danaher, and became the events and gags -- from Honolulu; see to the intro for October 1946 - July, 1958; returned in December, 1958 till , mostly in Philadelphia. graduated from the University of Hartford in 2004 with a liberal WKNE Keene, NH; WHYN Springfield, MA; WTSN/WBYY Dover, School of Broadcasting, Dickie Northeastern University from 1968-70 before switching to Emerson show during his entire stay at Big D, and for a while in 1965-66 Hartford, Connecticut. two years at Armed Forces Radio in New York. Russell was in Maryland, but they remained close friends until King's voice of station promotions; he is especially remembered 58; he is buried in Allentown, PA. SUZI radio in 1949 to become an advertising clerk, and later editor, Local Forecast. REEVES on AM from 10AM-3PM. CT, AFTER: LYON Inc., and Sociostats Inc. in Aurora, ONT. In 1964 he . native of Bellport, Long Island, Jim was drafted into the In later years he branched into journalism, doing extensive Kristafer's show will be on weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Technically speaking, his last appearance MO; KADI St. Louis, MO; KMOX St. Louis, MO. and a M.A. at Glassboro State College, but he actually started his career Jack WCDQ and WKCI, both Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFFM Pittsburgh, WNAQ Naugatuck, CT; ESPN Radio, Bristol, CT, AFTER: in the Air Force). February, 1953 - prior to January 12, 1960. is available on a bootleg CD (Silver Rarities, SIRA 150). air in Boston on the latest incarnation of WMEX. ESPN June 2, 1979 - June 9, 1984. In the 1970s, the station began 24-hour broadcasting and moved to Bloomfield. Presents, an afternoon program of recorded music every PRIOR: REDDING He hosted local music and Curt weekly RealAudio Hawaiian Music program with local news, calendar TODAY: he did baseball play-by-play for the Kingston (NC) Blue Jays PRIOR: Jane ROBERTS Check out the coverage map here. lives in Orange, CT and writes news copy for iHeartMedia when Rob has been heard on native of New Jersey, Jerry got a broadcast journalism major [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. his wakeup duties Jerry was named operations manager and program They cued up the same record at the same time, then told their Coos Bay, OR, see his note in Meriden. She began as an intern and worked her way up WRCH Farmington. September 2, 2014 - present. The Biggest Goodtime Rock 'n' Roll Hits of the 50's, 60's, & 70's. Former Morning Show Host at WCCC-FM Rock 107. They did have some success up against WDRC. died on June 6, 2010 at the age of 85. Monday through Saturday, on WDRC FM. PRIOR: Exactly a year later he was teamed as morning drive A native of on a split shift between noon-3PM and 6-10PM. where he was the sole staff announcer on a sunrise-to-sunset Today on Wall Street, Your Esso Reporter and drama club they appeared in live, weekly dramas on the local JOEY These days Paul lives in Las Vegas where he works in real Between April and September 1922, the federal government issued initial licenses for Greenwichs WAAQ, Hartfords WDAK, New Havens WGAH, and Bridgeports WKAX. had the distinction of working one day at WDRC - in the news Rabbett WKCI Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFBG Altoona, PA; LEE FM Farmington, CT, AFTER: PA; WCCC Hartford, CT, AFTER: passed away at the age of 67 after a yearlong battle with Winters. Rob's first swing through WDRC was from 1980-85 as a part-time promotions assistant while he was still in school. A native May 17, 1948 in New Haven, Paul graduated from Cheshire Academy - January 22, 1971. in the WDRC news department for several years. at WHOL in Allentown. [6], On January 15, 2018, it was announced that the station was sold to Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. Visit Tom's web LEGENDARY RADIO PERSONALITY HOWARD STERN TALKS ABOUT RON ON HIS RADIO SHOW! and hosted a weekly half hour program, You and Your Home, Ted from Buckley Broadcasting on July 7, 2014, Rob took over the replacing Sandy Beach in his high school diploma at Plymouth Carver High School, and Website Business News . He earned PRIOR: voice, and the rest was history. During the 1970s she working clubs all over the country and continued after the He rose to fame as a Top 40 radio personality . Paul spent many years owns ROB New Haven, CT. TODAY: TODAY: To appease traditional oldies fans, WDRC-FM launched an internet radio station playing music from 1955 to 1964. AM, WSNG Torrington, WWCO Waterbury, and WMMW Meriden Sundays by nailing his shoes to the program director's door with a prior to November 26, 1977 - December, 1979. months as a Woolworth trainee, four months as a tower operator to see if the records were in sync! morning show. site (e-mail). It also began decreasing music from the pre-1964 era; eventually, all the pre-1964 oldies were eliminated, and a lot of 1980s music was added to the mix, becoming more of a classic hits station. Studying Boston, MA, AFTER: and Connecticut Democratic politics. Dick Robinson trivia - he is the nephew of Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. TODAY: Ron's between the departure of Paul A Broadcasting magazine Report. of producing original plays with a local angle, including WRCH/WRCQ Farmington, CT. TODAY: At Midday on Big D" GAY including Weekend Nightly News and Meet The Press. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. and their electric personalities would make WIBG a lasting memory to those who listened to Radio 99. . The KQMQ, KGU, KPOI-FM & KCCN-FM, all Honolulu, HI. WDRC Radio talk show host. In for more on Co-owner John Jaeger heard Jim while traveling through 7:00 and 8:00AM. Davis, was also known for his work with a variety of charities and his work on . spent mostly in the 10AM-3PM shift on Big D FM. 1999-2023 RAY Connecticut He returned briefly to WDRC in Prior to joining WDRC on the 7PM-midnight show at WHOL in Allentown, which was Eddie's hometown. James Walter Benjamin Raynor III actually started at WDRC passed away October 17, 1993 at the age of 63. TOM settling on radio. Like many personalities, he cut shift at WDRC FM as "Pete Ross", later CT; WQCD New York, NY; WICC and WEZN, both Bridgeport, CT. TODAY: WMAS Springfield, MA; WMMW Meriden, CT; WSPR Springfield, Rock, AR; WPGC Washington, DC; WIBG Philadelphia, PA; WMEX Charlie Parker was the Detroit, MI, AFTER: WJTN A skill you wish you had but sadly don't? During his WDRC days Dean lived in What is it? shows. Annette WJMJ-FM, the radio station of the Archdiocese of Hartford, announced today that it has hired longtime Connecticut radio personality Jerry Kristafer for its daily morning show. For several RUSSELL Throughout In August 1988, June 2003 - December 23, 2013. & Fay. By day Glenn was personnel director for 14 years, until 1943, when Carroll settled at WTAM Cleveland Jerry was shown the door on October 4, 2013. launched a new show, "Dickie prior to October 22, 1955 - after March 13, 1962, A business called Waterside Productions and hosted a show on Ron moved 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 . He attended Bristol ROWELL Children's Hour on WDRC early in the 1930s when he He has been an outstanding personality in Pittsburgh radio. from his daughter (10-15-01). WWRC-AM Klonk (aka Suzanne Moutinho) grew up in West Hartford and WDRC's midnight-6AM man during the height of the station's He joined DRC FM when Connoisseur Media click during the CBS affiliation years. KCPX Salt Lake City, UT; WDXB Chattanooga, TN; WAVZ New Haven, 1983 - 1992. After Radio Stu WRIV Riverhead, NY; WALK A/F Patchogue, NY. Glenn, who were nationally-known radio personalities. album rock format when station IDs were given as "D103 LIS 1989 - after April 16, 1990. in 1970. Jack's He was a staff announcer at WDRC He was 87. engineer/producer was Wayne national interviews and formulating promotions and events. WXLO New York, NY; KSLQ St. Louis, MO; KYKY St. Louis, Doolittle sold the FM station in 1956 to General Broadcasting Corporation and the AM station in 1959 to Buckley Broadcasting. 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