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"Remember When?"

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MediaBoy4Radio

Remember the days before Entercom, CBS, Citidel and others when Buffalo radio was in the hands of individuals or companies with just a few
radio/tv holdings in the market?

I'll start a list of stations and the owners that I remember. Perhaps you can add to the list or correct me if my memory is faulty.

WYSL.....McLendon Corporation
WWOL.... Rust Craft
WADV.... Dan and Nacy Lesniak
WHLD.... Earl Hull
WMMJ---WUTV.... Stan Jasinski
WBNY-FM (now WJYE) Tom Talbot....who also owned WJJL in the Falls
WKBW AM &TV Capital Cities
WBUF TV..(now WNED-TV) NBC
WBEN AM-FM-TV Buffalo Evening News
WEBR (now WNED AM) Courier Express)
WGR AM -FM-TV....Transcontent

It's your turn now....help me out.
 
WNYR-WEZO-Malrite

WHAM- Bill Rust (Rust Communications)

WHEC Radio- Gannett

WVOR- The Lincoln Group (Jack Palvino and Bud Wortheimer)
 
WBEN AM-FM, 1978-93; Larry Levite's Algonquin Broadcasting Co. (Larry may have been the last truly locally based principal owner of a major local commercial outlet in Buffalo.)

Let's not forget Andrew Langston and his son Andre Marcel Langston, who've owned WDKX (Rochester's current #2-ranking station) since its beginnings in 1974. They are truly the last of the breed, except for the noncommercial organizations that run the local pubcasters.
 
Re: "Remember When?"update

Remember the days before Entercom, CBS, Citidel and others when Buffalo radio was in the hands of individuals or companies with just a few
radio/tv holdings in the market?

I'll start a list of stations and the owners that I remember. Perhaps you can add to the list or correct me if my memory is faulty.
WBNY AM...became WYSL
WYSL.....McLendon Corporation
WWOL.... Rust Craft
WADV.... Dan and Nacy Lesniak
WHLD.... Earl Hull
WMMJ---.. Stan Jasinski -which became WXRL...Ramblin Lou Schriver
WBNY-FM (now WJYE) Tom Talbot....who also owned WJJL in the Falls
WKBW AM &TV Capital Cities
WBUF TV..(now WNED-TV) NBC
WBEN AM-FM- Buffalo Evening News..then 1978-1993 Larry Levite-Algonquin Broadcasting
WEBR (now WNED AM) Courier Express)
WGR AM -FM-TV....Transcontent
WNIA (now WECK) Gordon Brown

Thank you for sending additions.
Please send your info if you can.........
 
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WHLD FM became WKSE Price Communications
 
Remember when: one could slice an arm off trying to rewind an old Irish tape on one of those Magacorders (Maggie)?
 
Bob1370 said:
Let's not forget Andrew Langston and his son Andre Marcel Langston, who've owned WDKX (Rochester's current #2-ranking station) since its beginnings in 1974. They are truly the last of the breed, except for the noncommercial organizations that run the local pubcasters.
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Don't overlook Lee Rust and WJZR.
 
Remember when...

Jocks got a little respect for being an air personality because they did something no GM, SM, sales pigeon or most other people could do...

Everything in the radio station didn't revolve around the whimsy of the sales manager and sales people...

Station licenses were issued for three years...

Transmitter readings were required every thirty minutes... later every hour...

Legal ID's couldn't bne tucked away inside a commercial cluster and were required on the half hour, top and bottom, with a cushion of only two minutes...

There were news people at music stations who knew how to write a good news story and coherently READ it on the air...

An FCC Third Class Radiotelephone Operator's License with Broadcast Endorsement was required before one could even TRY to get a radio job...

20-20 News...

A time before the carpetbaggers took over the business and the combined egos of Stern, Imus and Dan Ingram were still smaller than Mel's...

Not every thing was better back in the day... nice to see nostalgia has a place
on this board every now and then.

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Not every thing was better back in the day

The only things I can think of that are better now days in the world of mega media operators....
1. You don't have to race your fellow employees to the bank to cash your paycheck on payday.
2. The bathrooms are kept clean and there is tiolet paper.
 

Not every thing was better back in the day

The only things I can think of that are better now days in the world of mega media operators....
1. You don't have to race your fellow employees to the bank to cash your paycheck on payday.
2. The bathrooms are kept clean and there is tiolet paper.

Hence the adage, "They're all toilets, they just flush differently."
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