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all news in Miami?
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Nice to see Dave Ryder mentioned here. A smart man and a very good guy to work for!
Here is the way I remember it:
During the entire tenure of NIS, NBC's O&O station in NYC, WNWS(FM) carried the network because they chose not to blow up their powerhouse AM station on 660, and the Miami affiliate was "WINZ News Radio". Stations with the same base call letters had to have overlapping coverage areas and be co-owned.
When the network folded, WINZ remained news for a while, but went increasingly talk.
Alan Courtney, Allen Burke, Larry Kent are three names that ring bells.
Dick Caspar, who might have been involved with the original NIS concept, acquired the legal right to use the sounders on Miami's WNWS, but only after the network had gone dark. WGBS (now WAQI) had also been involved.
BTW...In researching this reply, I learned that Alan Courtney had been a NYC DJ and had co-written Les Brown's 1941 pop hit song, "Joltin Joe DiMaggio.
During the entire tenure of NIS, NBC's O&O station in NYC, WNWS(FM) carried the network because they chose not to blow up their powerhouse AM station on 660, and the Miami affiliate was "WINZ News Radio". Stations with the same base call letters had to have overlapping coverage areas and be co-owned.
When the network folded, WINZ remained news for a while, but went increasingly talk.
Alan Courtney, Allen Burke, Larry Kent are three names that ring bells.
Dick Caspar, who might have been involved with the original NIS concept, acquired the legal right to use the sounders on Miami's WNWS, but only after the network had gone dark. WGBS (now WAQI) had also been involved.
BTW...In researching this reply, I learned that Alan Courtney had been a NYC DJ and had co-written Les Brown's 1941 pop hit song, "Joltin Joe DiMaggio.
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ai4i's post just got me thinking---
@WRKO: WNWS, as 97.1 FM in NYC, of course was an NIS station; just not as AM 790 Miami!
Maybe therein was the rub!
Can anyone tell me who the Scott guy was? Maybe it wasn't Scott....but I'm sure he came on right before Neil, at WNWS 790's start.
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@WRKO: WNWS, as 97.1 FM in NYC, of course was an NIS station; just not as AM 790 Miami!
Maybe therein was the rub!Can anyone tell me who the Scott guy was? Maybe it wasn't Scott....but I'm sure he came on right before Neil, at WNWS 790's start.
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Apology regarding WNWS
I had been insisting the old WNWS/790 was NIS, which was of course an NBC product. A couple of nice people corrected me, but I was stubborn. But I contacted Jeff Lemlich (htp://LimestoneRecords.cpm - a great site for S. Floridians past and present), who said, "I'm pretty sure we weren't an NBC affiliate. The jingles and sounders were already there when I started in August 1978. I'm not really sure how they came to use that particular package."
And so, I apologize... but it was a very friendly argument and it's a good thing to keep the brains exercised! Thanks for your having tolerated me, folks.
I had been insisting the old WNWS/790 was NIS, which was of course an NBC product. A couple of nice people corrected me, but I was stubborn. But I contacted Jeff Lemlich (htp://LimestoneRecords.cpm - a great site for S. Floridians past and present), who said, "I'm pretty sure we weren't an NBC affiliate. The jingles and sounders were already there when I started in August 1978. I'm not really sure how they came to use that particular package."
And so, I apologize... but it was a very friendly argument and it's a good thing to keep the brains exercised! Thanks for your having tolerated me, folks.
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