Heard that John Kluge the founder of Metromedia died recently at 95. His passing deserves a mention on this board. He ran great TV stations including Channel 5 in DC. In addition to his TV sucess, John Kluge was responsible for some really good radio.
People talk about his prescience at putting AOR on his FMs in big markets like New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Those were some great FM stations. Interesting that rather than do AOR in Washington he put an "AM" style MOR format on 97.1 in 1969 and created WASH-FM, which enjoyed many years of great success. That despite the fact that this was pre DC-101 and there really wasn't an established AOR other than Jake Einstein's WHFS with its puny signal. Surely he would have succeded with AOR
Then there was WNEW-AM. They were the template for WASH. That station was just amazing.
In fact all his AMs were great as well.
John Kluge deserves a star on the radio Walk of Fame.
People talk about his prescience at putting AOR on his FMs in big markets like New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Those were some great FM stations. Interesting that rather than do AOR in Washington he put an "AM" style MOR format on 97.1 in 1969 and created WASH-FM, which enjoyed many years of great success. That despite the fact that this was pre DC-101 and there really wasn't an established AOR other than Jake Einstein's WHFS with its puny signal. Surely he would have succeded with AOR
Then there was WNEW-AM. They were the template for WASH. That station was just amazing.
In fact all his AMs were great as well.
John Kluge deserves a star on the radio Walk of Fame.