As I am recording the last show with my favorite pal, Scott Shannon from the Blythedale Children’s Hospital, I’m going to talk about why I am done with WCBS-FM along with my thoughts and memories about the station.
After 4 decades of listening to the station, CBS-FM is not going to be the same anymore, everything is different. Now they are playing all 80’s with less 70’s, and then the 90’s, and of course, some from the 2000’s which were not my cup of tea. I’m not a fan of artists that played on the station like OutKast where they played “Hey Ya”, the Black Eyed Peas called “I Got A Feeling” and of course, Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” where they played during Scott Shannon’s final week on the show.
I was a CBS-FM loyal listener for a very long time, and now, after Scott Shannon leaves the airwaves today, I’m moving on to another radio station. I will be removing WCBS-FM from my favorites on my Audacy app, and I will be listening to a different radio station instead of CBS-FM.
My parents used to listened to CBS-FM back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and we used to drive around when Bob Shannon was on at the time. That was my favorite memory for me.
I love the oldies, and I love the music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and I love doo-wop music a lot, and I’m going to listen to “Doo-Wop Drive” with Allan David Stein on WMTR later tonight where they’re playing doo-wop the way that Don K Reed used to played them on CBS-FM every Sunday where he hosted the “Doo-Wop Shop” for 27 years, and I was a fan of Don K Reed.
For decades, we listened to some legendary DJ’s like Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Bill Brown, Bob Shannon, Bobby Jay, Norm N Nite, Dan Daniel, Dan Ingram, Day Taylor, Mike Fitzgerald, Randy Davis, Max Kinkel, Marc Summers, Ed Baer and Cousin Brucie, and of course, Joe McCoy, the then program director for CBS-FM. Those were the good old days. And now, Scott Shannon will be on my list of past DJ’s.
CBS-FM was one heck of a rollercoaster for me after all these years. If you are a longtime CBS-FM loyal listener, there are a lot of stations where you can get your oldies fix. There’s phone apps and Alexa devices where you can listen to like WROW’s “Magic 590/100.5”. The link is down below.
There’s also WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies” if you want to check them out.
Oldies 98.9 Playing the Best of the 50's 60's and 70's
wgnyfm.com
There’s also WLNG if you want to hear them, go check them out.
East End's Best Music 92 One
wlng.com
And finally, there’s WMTR where you can listen to the oldies whatever you want, so go there.
Classic Oldies
wmtram.com
And of course, there’s TuneIn where you can get oldies stations from elsewhere outside of CBS-FM. There’s iHeartRadio where you can listen to 50’s music on iHeart 50’s, iHeart 60’s and iHeart 70’s, and then, there Pandora and Spotify as well.
Before I’m going to post Scott Shannon’s last show on WCBS-FM, let’s go back in time to 7/10/72 where CBS-FM kicked off it’s first week on the air as the “Golden 101” where they were playing 50’s and 60’s oldies. I wasn’t even born in 1972 when it first came on the air.
This is just my opinion, but feel free to leave it in the post below. I’m not going to offend by this, and I am recording Scott Shannon’s last show on CBS-FM right now. After his final show, I’m going to post his last show later today, and that would be it for me. I’m not going to listen to CBS-FM ever again.
