Merv Griffin radio affiliates?

[Ultimajock]

...the death of Merv Griffin this morning reminded me that, in the last years of his Metromedia-syndicated daytime/primetime talk show (1972-86), he also marketed a radio version that contained an hour-long audio track lifted from the 90-minute TV original. WHBY Green Bay/Appleton was one affiliate (as I recall, aside from his CBS show appearing on KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac shortly before both the show and the station had the plugs pulled on them, the TV version never appeared in the Green Bay market). What other radio affiliates does anyone recall picking up the show?...

 

[gr8oldies]

WIFE, Indianapolis.

 

[hammondo]

WRIN, Rensselaer and WVTL, Monticello (IN).

 

[amfmsw]

Merv also owned a group, including monster Top 40 rockers WPOP Hartford and "The Jersey Giant" 1340 WMID Atlantic City, where I worked. Its' sister station at 99.3 went on in 1974. The call letters? You guessed it: WGRF

He lost the group to his wife in a divorce settlement and were sold off in 1983, with the rumor in the building, "just to piss him off".

I met him many times afterwards when he came back to AC to buy Resorts Hotel/Casino, and was genuinely a likeable fellow. He loved radio.

 

[Ultimajock]

I met him many times afterwards when he came back to AC to buy Resorts Hotel/Casino, and was genuinely a likeable fellow. He loved radio.

...ALL the chat old-timers loved (loves, in Dick Cavett's still-living case) radio. Johnny Carson was doing specials for NBC Radio as late as 1982, and both Tom Snyder and David Letterman twisted a lot of CBS Brass arms to get "The Late Late Show" simulcast when it first cranked up (unfortunately, CBS Radio had no idea how to handle the thing). Of the current late-night TV batch Craig Ferguson (having grown up amongst the BBC services) and Jimmy Kimmel (with extensive radio work on his resume) have affection and respect for radio, but none of the NBC bunch seems to (even considering Carson Daly's San Diego radio work)...

 

[actioncentral]

I recall WVNJ/620 in Newark, NJ cleared the Griffin show in the NYC area.
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[amfmsw]

Ultra....you're right. There's one more name to add. Someone who said he loved interviewing, but the camera was always a distraction...Tom Snyder.

 

[Ultimajock]

Ultra....you're right. There's one more name to add. Someone who said he loved interviewing, but the camera was always a distraction...Tom Snyder.

...I did mention Tom. He and I once chewed some bratwurst on one of his last visits to Wisconsin while he went into detail about how he hated having to do the "Tomorrow" show in front of a studio audience, too...