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Jocks who made it to major markets from WB/Scranton?

Re: Jocks only?

what is harry west ( the harry west show) doing.....is he retired ????

he was a treat to listen to when he was the morning guy at 14/KQV.....



> > When Patrick "Kid Kelly" made his stop at Hot97 he took
> > Billy Hammond under his wing and back to NYC with him when
>
> > he left.
> >
>
> Brian Todd, who did nights on KRZ for a year or so, a few
> years back, is doing nights @ KRBE in Houston. JJ (who
> replaced Brian Todd) is @ KDWB in Minneapolis.
>
 
Re: Jocks only?

> what is harry west ( the harry west show) doing.....is he
> retired ????

He could very well be. I ran into him about a year ago, he was doing mornings at WICK. Doug Lane was just going to trial and the future of the properties was up in the air. The way he was talking, he was going to be on the air just as long as he was drawing breath. Don't know what happened to him...is he still on WICK??????
 
Re: Jocks only?

> > what is harry west ( the harry west show) doing.....is he
> > retired ????
>
> He could very well be. I ran into him about a year ago, he
> was doing mornings at WICK. Doug Lane was just going to
> trial and the future of the properties was up in the air.
> The way he was talking, he was going to be on the air just
> as long as he was drawing breath. Don't know what happened
> to him...is he still on WICK??????
>
Harry is still with WICK. Doing mornings Mon-Sat.
 
Re: Jocks only?

> Pat Finn WILK/WEJL/WBRE-TV Became A TV Game Show Host
>
> (Joker's Wild & Shop Till You Drop)
>
Banana Joe Montione-WFIL Philly
Ben Smith-some satellite channel
Don Tandler-Oldies Satellite channel
Jack Myers-Part Time WMMR
Sausage-part time WMMR
 
Re: Jocks only?

> >
> Jack Myers-Part Time WMMR
> Sausage-part time WMMR
>

Well, since we're going THAT route---
The Late Great Matt Dylan Purwinis also did part-time at 'MMR
 
Re: Jocks only?

> > >
> > Jack Myers-Part Time WMMR
> > Sausage-part time WMMR
> >
>
> Well, since we're going THAT route---
> The Late Great Matt Dylan Purwinis also did part-time at
> 'MMR
>

Rumor also has it that Frank Blair of NBC fame worked at WEJL years ago. The management told him he didn't have what it took and should get out of the business, so he ended up at the NBC network.
 
Billy Hammond went to Q in Philly before he went to Z in New York.
Danny Ocean went to San Fran then back to Hartford.

There was a guy named TJ who did late nights on Hot, heard he's in Philly. I think he's doing imaging for Sunny down there. Not sure.
 
> Great board, first post, happy to be here. Wasn't the> spelling Czarzinski? Here, he was Andy Panda, or at times,> Andrew J. Panda, which I believe is what he used at WNBC. > WARM's George Gilbert spent some time at WIBG, and another> WARMie, utility/swing guy Ric Herrold, wound up at WGAR for> a time.> Micheal Sarzinski did indeed work at 66WNBC in NYC under his real name.He has passed on.<P ID="signature">______________
[email protected], [email protected],[email protected]</P>
 
Re: Jocks only?

> > > >
> > > Jack Myers-Part Time WMMR
> > > Sausage-part time WMMR
> > >
> >
> > Well, since we're going THAT route---
> > The Late Great Matt Dylan Purwinis also did part-time at
> > 'MMR
> >
>
> Rumor also has it that Frank Blair of NBC fame worked at
> WEJL years ago. The management told him he didn't have what
> it took and should get out of the business, so he ended up
> at the NBC network.
>
Frank Blair came to Scranton and worked as GM of WSCR. But he thought the place was a dump so he went to WQAN. He was there when The Times opened their fifth floor auditorium with a live broadcast in April 1950. He sold the first commercilas ever on WQAN-AM. Sampters, I think. Until April 1950 WQAN carried no commercials.

He left to go to NYC. This came from Blair in a 1982 interview.

WEJL calls were assigned to the OLD FM and were transfered to the AM when rhe Lynetts gave up their license. In the 60s they got a new WEJL-FM license that is now WEZX.
 
Re: Jocks only?

> > Pat Finn WILK/WEJL/WBRE-TV Became A TV Game Show Host
> >
> > (Joker's Wild & Shop Till You Drop)
> >
> Banana Joe Montione-WFIL Philly
> Ben Smith-some satellite channel
> Don Tandler-Oldies Satellite channel
> Jack Myers-Part Time WMMR
> Sausage-part time WMMR
>
Don't Forgetformer WEJL/WGBI's Gene Free now with METRO Traffic in NYC and was with Sirius 60s channel as morning man
WEJL's Frank Andrews was on WCAU-AM parttime
 
Re: Jocks only?

> Frank Blair came to Scranton and worked as GM of WSCR. But
> he thought the place was a dump so he went to WQAN.

Great update on Blair, thanks. In his later years, towards the end of his network career, the rumor was that he lived at Lake Wallenpaupack, and was either flown(chopper)into NYC or limo-ed every day, the weather was the variable. I knew some pilots who lived in the Hawley area who claimed it was true, and that it was a deal the net traded out for him instead of hard cash, and that he was quite happy with it. Admittedly, it could be pure BS, as we all know!



>
 
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I've read through a bunch of theses and hadn't read the name Todd Zarnitz, who was known as "Karson" on KRZ until he went to 'FLZ in Tampa.
 
Re: Jocks only?

> I've read through a bunch of theses and hadn't read the name
> Todd Zarnitz, who was known as "Karson" on KRZ until he went
> to 'FLZ in Tampa.
>
Tampa isn't a MAJOR market
 
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> >> >
> Tampa isn't a MAJOR market
>
Try telling that to the Tampians!
Yonkstur
 
Re: Jocks only?

> > >> >
> > Tampa isn't a MAJOR market
> >
> Try telling that to the Tampians!
> Yonkstur
>


I Thought That Was Tampons.
 
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> > > >> >
> > > Tampa isn't a MAJOR market
> > >
> > Try telling that to the Tampians!
> > Yonkstur
> >
>
>
> I Thought That Was Tampons.
>

How about Orlando????
That's where Ted Rose ended up for a while.
 
Two others that I know of:

-- Frosty O'Brien/Dawn Early: Started at WKXP in Bloomsburg (I was her first PD), went to Froggy 101, and is now at WXTU in Philly as Andie Summers - one half of the "Evans and Andie" morning show. They are also on a syndicated weekend countdown show across the country.

-- Me: Travelled around NEPA for a while (WILK, WKRZ, WHLM, WDLS, WMGS, WARM, WBHT), landed at WKXP in Bloomsburg from 93-96, ended up in the Washington, DC market between 1996 and 2000.
 
There was a guy named TJ who did late nights on Hot, heard he's in Philly. I think he's doing imaging for Sunny down there. Not sure.
Click to expand...

You are correct, known to his friends as Joe Iyoob. He did shifts on WARM, & Hot then went into production. Married the lovely Carol Dean (she did news on WARM). He is the imaging director at Sunny in Phila and doing great. A very talented guy.
 
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