? about weekly programs on WNIB from '84 and '98-'01

[Ultimajock]

...when I moved to the far northwestern suburbs in 1998, Saturdays in my house and car were devoted to listening to WNIB/WNIZ. Starting with Chuck Schaden's Those Were the Days OTR cavalcade at 1:00; the show tunes, motion picture scores and light classical material on Zephyr at 5:00; Weekend Radio from WCLV Cleveland at 7:00; through to Schickele Mix with Peter Schickele from Public Radio International. Between Weekend Radio and Schickele Mix, there was a weekly hour that was pretty much a nostalgic essay, usually connected to showbiz antiquity, every week. The audio quality sounded some weeks as if the show had actually been recorded years earlier. For the life of me, I just can't recall what that 8:00 Saturday night show was called or who did it. Anyone recall who and what show this was?...

...as well, when I lived in Kenosha in '84, there was a cooperative deal of some sort between WYCC-TV/20 and WNIB, in which WYCC would run a "public domain" classic film (six titles I recall seeing on the series were It's a Wonderful Life, His Girl Friday, Diabolique and the Orson Welles pictures The Stranger, The Third Man and Mr. Arkadin). After the end of the film, viewers were invited to tune to WNIB and participate in a phone-in discussion of that night's film. Who hosted those WNIB discussions of the movies? I vaguely recall some connection with one of the community colleges, hence the involvement of WYCC...

 

[Ultimajock]

...bumping these questions back up; still seeking the answers...

 

[dialredial]

Can't help you with the 1984 question but I do remember the 1990's Saturday evening block programming on WNIB. (And by the way, I really miss WNIB and their great programs...WFMT just doesn't cut it as a replacement).

I recall that particular show you mentioned. It was kind of a nostalgia essay done by one guy, and sounded like it was played from well-worn reel-to-reel tape because the sound wavered in and out. But I recall it was fairly entertaining.

Unfortunately I can't tell you who did the show. Why not contact Bruce Duffie, he worked at WNIB during that time. His website is bruceduffie.com.

If you get an answer, please post it here.

 

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

Would anybody know when did WNIB start broadcasting 24 hours? And did the overnight jazz and blues show start then too?

Thanks

T.J.

 

[uncamark]

Can't help you with the 1984 question but I do remember the 1990's Saturday evening block programming on WNIB. (And by the way, I really miss WNIB and their great programs...WFMT just doesn't cut it as a replacement).

I recall that particular show you mentioned. It was kind of a nostalgia essay done by one guy, and sounded like it was played from well-worn reel-to-reel tape because the sound wavered in and out. But I recall it was fairly entertaining.

Unfortunately I can't tell you who did the show.

It was called the "Dick Lawrence Revue." The programs had aired for years on WNIB, and did repeat long past Mr. Lawrence's death.

As for King Daevid's post, wasn't "Schickele Mix" on WFMT? The guy who had helped get the show off the ground at PRI became an exec at FMT and it would seem to me that he wouldn't let the show go to the competition.

 

[Ultimajock]

I recall that particular show you mentioned. It was kind of a nostalgia essay done by one guy, and sounded like it was played from well-worn reel-to-reel tape because the sound wavered in and out. But I recall it was fairly entertaining.

Unfortunately I can't tell you who did the show.

It was called the "Dick Lawrence Revue." The programs had aired for years on WNIB, and did repeat long past Mr. Lawrence's death.

As for King Daevid's post, wasn't "Schickele Mix" on WFMT? The guy who had helped get the show off the ground at PRI became an exec at FMT and it would seem to me that he wouldn't let the show go to the competition.

...no, up to WNIB's demise in 2001 I only heard Schickele Mix on WNIB/WNIZ, although they were all repeats at the time I started noticing them, as it appears Mr. Schickele ended the weekly production of the show in 1999. Perhaps WNIB had an extra-long contract for the show (kinda like WTTW running Dave Allen at Large for years after everyone else in the U.S. had canceled that show?) and WFMT acquired it after WNIB/WNIZ were sold?...

...and I see where archive.org has a Dick Lawrence Sound of the '20s program from WXFM; I assume this was part of the series that WNIB eventually ran...