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Dagunner

I've lived in West Virginia all my life (58 years and 10 months), but lived for trips to NYC to hear WHN. How many of the jocks from when they were country are still living? I saw a post from 2011 describing Del Demontreux as "late." Did he die? Also, is Lee Arnold still living, and if so, how old is he? I'm just guessing (assuming he's alive) that he's in his late 80s to early 90s. I know he was alive in February 2013, because I saw a youtube video of him. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of NYC having a country music station. Also, WHN had a jock in the mid 70s named Bob "the Wizard" Wayne. He was from my hometown (Marion County, WV). I know we oughtn't to speak ill of the dead, but he had a drinking problem, and the guy who took his place told me WHN did everything they could to help him, but he refused. He died in 1990 at age 48. His real name was Robert Wayne Satterfield. In the early to mid '80s, he was at WHLI (Hempstead, Long Island). I would call him about once a month, and he seemed quite pleased to get calls from back home. WHN was my favorite station of all time, just on the strength of their format from 1973-87 (country). In fact, WHN was the reason I became a baseball fan. They were the Mets' flagship from 1983 to when they became WFAN (as well as from 1964-66 and 1972-74). They also did Yankee games from 1967-70. When the Mets had their awesome season in 1986, culminating in a World Series title, I was just about over the moon with joy. Never will we hear the likes of them again; that's for sure.
 
Ed Solomon was the PD later becoming national PD for Storer Broadcasting. He came down to Miami to work on Storer's WGBS but the AM music era in Miami by 1978 was over. Most of the action had moved to FM.
 
Dagunner said:
I've lived in West Virginia all my life (58 years and 10 months), but lived for trips to NYC to hear WHN. How many of the jocks from when they were country are still living? I saw a post from 2011 describing Del Demontreux as "late." Did he die? Also, is Lee Arnold still living, and if so, how old is he? I'm just guessing (assuming he's alive) that he's in his late 80s to early 90s. I know he was alive in February 2013, because I saw a youtube video of him. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of NYC having a country music station. Also, WHN had a jock in the mid 70s named Bob "the Wizard" Wayne. He was from my hometown (Marion County, WV). I know we oughtn't to speak ill of the dead, but he had a drinking problem, and the guy who took his place told me WHN did everything they could to help him, but he refused. He died in 1990 at age 48. His real name was Robert Wayne Satterfield. In the early to mid '80s, he was at WHLI (Hempstead, Long Island). I would call him about once a month, and he seemed quite pleased to get calls from back home. WHN was my favorite station of all time, just on the strength of their format from 1973-87 (country). In fact, WHN was the reason I became a baseball fan. They were the Mets' flagship from 1983 to when they became WFAN (as well as from 1964-66 and 1972-74). They also did Yankee games from 1967-70. When the Mets had their awesome season in 1986, culminating in a World Series title, I was just about over the moon with joy. Never will we hear the likes of them again; that's for sure.
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Dagunner said:
I've lived in West Virginia all my life (58 years and 10 months), but lived for trips to NYC to hear WHN. How many of the jocks from when they were country are still living? I saw a post from 2011 describing Del Demontreux as "late." Did he die? Also, is Lee Arnold still living, and if so, how old is he? I'm just guessing (assuming he's alive) that he's in his late 80s to early 90s. I know he was alive in February 2013, because I saw a youtube video of him. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of NYC having a country music station. Also, WHN had a jock in the mid 70s named Bob "the Wizard" Wayne. He was from my hometown (Marion County, WV). I know we oughtn't to speak ill of the dead, but he had a drinking problem, and the guy who took his place told me WHN did everything they could to help him, but he refused. He died in 1990 at age 48. His real name was Robert Wayne Satterfield. In the early to mid '80s, he was at WHLI (Hempstead, Long Island). I would call him about once a month, and he seemed quite pleased to get calls from back home. WHN was my favorite station of all time, just on the strength of their format from 1973-87 (country). In fact, WHN was the reason I became a baseball fan. They were the Mets' flagship from 1983 to when they became WFAN (as well as from 1964-66 and 1972-74). They also did Yankee games from 1967-70. When the Mets had their awesome season in 1986, culminating in a World Series title, I was just about over the moon with joy. Never will we hear the likes of them again; that's for sure.
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In 1973,Cousin Brucie spoke at my College,Baruch ,when I asked him about WHN's chances with Country.He replied that Country would never work in the NY market.By 1976, his station had to add Country crossovers.In 1972, WABC refused to play the number one Top 40 hit,The Happiest Girl in the USA by Donna Fargo but WNBC did.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Ed Solomon was the PD later becoming national PD for Storer Broadcasting. He came down to Miami to work on Storer's WGBS but the AM music era in Miami by 1978 was over. Most of the action had moved to FM.
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I always thought that how Ed adapted country to NYC was absolutely brilliant.

And his work with United Stations later was also stellar.
 
O/T somewhat but peculiar to Dadgunner's post .....

Maybe ten years after hearing Bobby Wayne doing overnights on Top 40 WITH Baltimore as a kid DXer, I worked with him on Long Island. I have to believe, first-hand and from what I've heard, that in order for him to accept you as a buddy, the main requirement was to get into a fight with the guy. Well, we did, and we did. He enjoyed hearing about us DXers from near JFK Airport hearing him on WITH., and would play old airchecks of himself from an Ohio station (either WCOL 1230 or WUBE 1230).

I often got flack from fellow DJs for suggesting the name as one of the most creative and mischievous DJs I ever met or heard.
Boozed or no, the same dismissals occur when I bring up the name Bob Dayton. When he wound up on Long Island radio he was a mentor to several DJs at how he got all the formatics and music finished and then had room for mischief and personality.
 
You picked up WITH near JFK? That's absolutely incredible. With only 250 watts at night, they weren't really listenable very far outside of the Baltimore City limits.
 
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