Anyone have a history of wilk dj's?

[warmland]

I took notice that the wvia presentation of the history of warmland seems to have stopped around 1968.That is when wilk flipped to pop 40.Coincidence?mabye.Anyway with all the posts about the mighty 590 does anyone have anything about the history of wilk and a list of all the jocks?Mark Michaels.Frank E Warren,Terri Stevens,Jimmy Coles and countless others are names that I grew up with.Thanks.

Ray Toro worked at WILK before going to WARM and them changing his last name to
Maguire (spelling). Ray said (quote) "I spent 2 years at that dump" (end quote) Also, another WILK jock was Michael Quinn who also ended up at WARM later.

 

[yonkstur]

Anyone remember newcaster Gayle Delano?

There was a Patricia Delano who worked at WBRE AM and FM all news in the mid 70s.

As far as that WBRE AM and FM lineup:

Morning Man/Might have been NBC monitor or feed.
10am to noon: Joe Gries.
noon to 1pm: 1/2 local news, then at 1230pm Garner Ted Armstrong's World Tomorrow.
1pm to 4pm: Guy Randall.
4pm to 6pm: Tommy Sommers who as an engineer helped put KRZ FM on the air and did a night or afternoon show there. He made the transition when BRE went to all news doing sports and newscasts.
6pm: 1/2 news block, then another edition of the World Tomorrow.
7pm to midnight: Bob Rexroad.
WBRE AM and FM ran a lot of high school sports with Joe Gries behind the mike with his son in law, an attorney I believe. WBRE AM and FM broadcast King's and Wilkes baseball and basketball too.

That's all I remember.

Yonkstur

 

[masterg]

That's all I remember.

Yonkstur

You're doing better than me. I have two names; Adrian Harrington, and John Beghin(rhymes with Reagan), but what shift/year they worked there, I don't know. And my spelling on the latter could be way off. Didn't Bobby Day work at WBRE-AM/FM for a while?

 

[yonkstur]

Adrian Harrington, and John Beghin(rhymes with Reagan), but what shift/year they worked there, I don't know. And my spelling on the latter could be way off. Didn't Bobby Day

I don't remember any of those people. Bobby Day might've worked sports there and I know he's an Assignment Editor at WBRE TV now, but I don't remember the ones you mentioned. One of the All News reporters wound up at WHP (a woman) but I can see her face but can't remember her name. WBRE All News circa 1976.
One guy I forgot to mention in the WBRE AM and FM and TV experience was Bill Graham. He did weekend news too at the station. White hair.
During the Carter campaign, the national press was waiting in the BRE lobby while Carter taped one of those Sunday Morning programs. It was Graham, Carter, John Bendick and Tom Bigler. Sam Donaldson who was covering Carter looked at the TV monitor where they were feeding it to the reporters and pointed at the white haired Graham and said, "Look, it's Ted Baxter".

Yonkstur

 

[masterg]

I don't remember any of those people.

Not surprising, since WBRE radio numbers were always dismal. The FM may have seen a bump up when they went all news, but did anyone even realize they had an AM? Here is an odd thought; WBRE AM-FM may have been the only union radio operation this market has ever known. Could that be right?

 

[ThomasCarten]

If it was AFTRA, how could you tell?

 

[masterg]

If it was AFTRA, how could you tell?

It was NABET. AFTRA would have been better...

 

[yonkstur]

It was union. I was there as an intern at King's and they wouldn't let you do or touch anything. All I did was read the papers everyday and flirt (successfully I might add) with the receptionist there at the time. I remember all of us extraneous people being merely tolerated.

Yonkstur