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66 WNNNBC

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dansteely

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It was 23 years ago today 66 WNNNNBC left the airwaves, one of the few times I cried. WBLQ remembers WNBC with permission from Dale Parsons, the final program director of the station. Hear "WNBC, The First 66 Years" tomorrow in Eastern Long Island, Southern Rhode Island, and Eastern Connecticut on AM 1230 and on line at www.wblq.net
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i worked there in the early 80's with Don Imus, and a pre-80's hair Howard along with Oogie, Frank Reed, Johnny Dark, and more! I was all of 23. Fun!
 
I remember jumping into my office several times that day to change cassettes while recording the last day. I recorded the last 10 minutes of WNBC and the first 7 minutes of WFAN on cart in the newsroom of the now defunct WMMM-AM with a group of us huddled around the newsroom audio system.

Dansteely, are you airing it off a copy of the master or an off-air aircheck? I'd love to get a copy of the stereo master since I didn't have an AM Stereo radio handy to aircheck that day.

This was another milestone of the fun being sucked out of commercial radio.
 
I will be happy to send airchecks off air to anyone who wants one. By the way, I forgot to mention the time of airing in my post. It will be on at 1pm today Saturday.
 
Wasn't 97.1 FM switched to HOT 97 around this same time? I know WQHT-FM was more of a dance type station before going the hip-hop route.
 
KML-224 said:
Wasn't 97.1 FM switched to HOT 97 around this same time? I know WQHT-FM was more of a dance type station before going the hip-hop route.
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That switch actually happened earlier, right at the time of the closing - September 22, 1988.
 
Sorry i missed hearing this..i listened most of that fateful afternoon..and still have tape of the last hour or so...Alan Colmes and Judy Deangelis signing WNBC off the air...While Alan has gone on to other things..im sure nothing in his career could match that..It was a sad day and a sign of what was going to happen to legacy radio
 
I'll never forget that final hour... The final caller, whose name was Carolyn, I believe, won a pair of tickets to "Cats" - itself now perished after a long run of its own.
 
DToTheJ said:
I'll never forget that final hour... The final caller, whose name was Carolyn, I believe, won a pair of tickets to "Cats" - itself now perished after a long run of its own.
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Oops, I think your memory's fading a bit, D! ;D

Her name was actually Caroline. Here's the the audio of the last caller from that fateful day:

WNBC's last caller (mp3)
 
Come on, Bill, give me credit, I was close. ::)

Still get goosebumps hearing this some 25 years later...
 
man..i remember that so clearly...in the car..on the way..no lie..to a michael jackson concert at the civic center..(wifes idea..not mine)...
 
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