RJ's Incredible Radio And Television Website

[towernews]

Radio and television comes alive with rjforever.com, plus rjdiscousa.com for the last sixty years with excerpts from his tv and radio talk shows, his top 40 disco and music shows, plus interviews with some of the most interesting radio and televison people such as Tony Mammarella, original producer of American Bandstand on ABC, Philadelphia Legend Sally Starr, Cozy Morley, an unforgettable comedian, plus musical video vignettes from coast-to-coast. [[url]http://www.rjforever.com/goodthings1.html/url]

 

[DToTheJ]

Is the video listed under this thread on there, as well?
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=168849.0

 

[towernews]

RJ? Never heard of this person. Ktel, I feel sorry for you. Maybe you have not watched tv or listened to radio in the last 50 years. Possible you've been under a rock. Come out and smell the roses. Thanks for watching RJ's videos.

 

[MarcB]

Funny. I'm up in Connecticut, but from my connections online I know a lot of people from Philly and they never heard of him either. The only reason I know of RJ is from looking at the WVLT website. (I like Oldies Music). I saw a show called DISCO USA listed on their schedule, so I had to check that out because Disco Music is Cool.

 

[DToTheJ]

... I know a lot of people from Philly and they never heard of him either...

Okay, show of hands - who do our resident posters recognize more, RJ or Cozy Morley?

 

[wprt949]

i miss saturday afternoons from 3pm-4pm

 

[simonbarrsinister]

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Okay, show of hands - who do our resident posters recognize more, RJ or Cozy Morley?
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Cozy..Cozy..Cozy! Woo Hoo... Tell me, does R.J. Have a bronze statue in front of a North Wildwood bar?

Cozy rocks..R.J. eh, Not so much...

 

[Bill_W]

I've lived in the Philly area for the last 32 years and have never heard of this RJ either, and I don't live under a rock.

 

[DToTheJ]

32 years? I believe he's been on as many stations during his career in Philadelphia radio...

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=37252

RJ, Ron Joseph has been on the most stations in the Philadelphia area. In 1962 WEEZ, 1965 WHAT, 1967 WIFI, 1968 WNAR ,1970 WXUR AM & FM, 1971 WSNJ AM & FM, 1972 WCAM, 1973 WEEZ, 1976 WQIQ, 1998 WNJC, & 2000 To present day WVLT. Also, I forgot to add two addional stations I've been on. They are in 1986 WPWT, and 1990 WPEB.

 

[simonbarrsinister]

You forgot the '93-94 (?) R.J. video extravaganza. That summer he brodacast shore happenings, via U.H.F., to motel rooms in the Wildwoods. He ran a tape loop from a closet in the Wcmc-Wzxl building on Pine and New jersey ave. He would call the on-air studio and ask whoeever was on, "please go in and hit the top of the machine, the tape stopped rolling." Pretty funny stuff, because it always seemed to stop on him making a really funny expression

 

[Bill_W]

32 years? I believe he's been on as many stations during his career in Philadelphia radio...

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=37252

RJ, Ron Joseph has been on the most stations in the Philadelphia area. In 1962 WEEZ, 1965 WHAT, 1967 WIFI, 1968 WNAR ,1970 WXUR AM & FM, 1971 WSNJ AM & FM, 1972 WCAM, 1973 WEEZ, 1976 WQIQ, 1998 WNJC, & 2000 To present day WVLT. Also, I forgot to add two addional stations I've been on. They are in 1986 WPWT, and 1990 WPEB.

So, he's never been on a station that I would have actually listened to in the last 32 years. I've really never heard of over 1/2 of these stations. I guess too busy listening to stations that actually show up in the ratings.

 

[meatman]

One more tired hack buying his time on brokered stations thinking he is or was ever relevant. Paying to be on the radio does not make you a radio personality. Something everyone I've ever met who buys their time has failed to realize. Boring.

 

[oasisrulz]

He cannot be any worst than those annoying, ancient soul jocks, who think that was the only music ever made, they have no idea what BI, Surf, Country, Folk or Singers music was all about...talking about King Arthur, Pantano and the most sickening of them all, the pest, Blavat who never goes away...they should all take a page out of the Bob Charger broadcasting book, now this dude knows every brand of music that was ever made and if he had his way, would play it all....kudos to Bob, its a shame every jock is not like him...

 

[meatman]

Wow. Just read some of the other threads about this guy. Can't believe it but I like him even less now. Sounds like someone needs to hang up the toupee and fade away. Strike that, fading would imply having been known to begin with.

 

[bigtom101]

He cannot be any worst than those annoying, ancient soul jocks, who think that was the only music ever made...talking about King Arthur, Pantano and the most sickening of them all, the pest, Blavat who never goes away...

Hey, they manage to eek out a living, and have been doing it for decades - so they must be doing SOMETHING right. And Blavat has managed to be his own boss...a deal that many of us would love to have in this business.

And yeah...I dig the soul/R&B/dance tunes that Blavat spins on his shows. Doesn't mean I dislike BI/surf/folk/etc, but the tunes that he spins aren't abound on the dial.

 

[DToTheJ]

Blavat: his own studio space on Market Street in Philadelphia
RJ: an adult bookstore that regularly advertises on his brokered shows

Blavat: apples
RJ: lemons

 

[Bill_W]

Blavat: his own studio space on Market Street in Philadelphia
RJ: an adult bookstore that regularly advertises on his brokered shows

Blavat: apples
RJ: lemons

Blavat, I've heard of, even though he was before my time. Still don't know who RJ is.

 

[MarcB]

Blavat, I've heard of, even though he was before my time. Still don't know who RJ is.

I did a little research and it seems RJ owned a LPTV station in Philly on Channel 7. One question - How the devil did Philly have an LPTV Station on Channel 7 when there was a Full Power Station on Channel 6? Also it said programming on Channel 7 at one time consisted of a 2 Hour Video carried on a loop of this RJ guy's wedding. - Really compelling Programming. With great programming like that one wonders why Comcast didn't carry the station. :

 

[towernews]

Channel 7, the greatest little station in Philadelphia, that ran 24 hours a day 7 days a week. For your information, channel 7 was the only local station in Philadelphia to run a live talk show at 5pm daily for two hours. Top notch videos from "Much More Music" from Canada that gave MTV a run for their popularity. It enabled people to watch videos free over the air, if they did not have cable. Channel 7 was a threat to the cable companies local origination stations. Channel 7 is missed by the Philadelphians even today. Just check out some of the videos on www.rjforever.com. You will see what a variety of not only 200 dance shows, plus talk shows of every informative nature, plus some of the great retro national shows from the Channel America Network, such as Dragnet, Hazel, The Flying Nun, Charlie Chan, Gidget, My Little Margie, The Life of Riley, The Soupy Sales Show, Todays FBI, Family, and Big Band Days. Channel 7 was also an all night Juke Box, with Hit Video USA. Yes, it was the dream that became reality for producer Ron Joseph to come back from Hollywood to Philadelphia and give his hometown the best local station with family programming 24hours a day, and it still will never be forgotten.

RJ was not just a disco dance host. He believed in fullfulling the original reason for the FCC to put on local stations to serve the people and the community in their broadcast area.

Channel 7 that's where all the good shows have gone.

 

[deepstblu]

Blavat, I've heard of, even though he was before my time. Still don't know who RJ is.

I did a little research and it seems RJ owned a LPTV station in Philly on Channel 7. One question - How the devil did Philly have an LPTV Station on Channel 7 when there was a Full Power Station on Channel 6?

Channels 6 and 7 are not on adjacent frequencies--6 occupies 82-88 MHz and I think 7 is up in the 170s. The whole FM broadcast, aircraft, and VHF public service bands fall between those two channels on the spectrum. Denver had full power analog stations on both 6 and 7.