The 1st Annual WYSL-FM "Teen Disk Jockey" on-line Reunion

[MediaBoy4Radio]

Paul,
I remember that American Airlines had offices on the 18th floor also. So many stewardesses visited that office and so many of them received special escorted tours of the WYSL studios.

Ken

 

[heydaybegone]

So many stewardesses visited that office

We MUST insist on political correctness on these boards! Proper term is FLIGHT ATTENDANTS!! Now...you musta been lucky sons of b's!! ;D ;D

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

Paul,
I remember that American Airlines had offices on the 18th floor also. So many stewardesses visited that office and so many of them received special escorted tours of the WYSL studios.

Ken

Aw you radio guys, ever the gentlemen! Didn't some of you boys have a direct line-of-sight "window perch" complete with binoculars to check out the, ahem, activity in lower floors diagonally opposite your suite. Tsk, tsk. Of course, it's probably just an unfounded rumor... unless it was reported elsewhere in thsi thread. I hadn't checked. This thing is getting to be like the "Stiffs" thread. It just won't die. Probably because so many guys were Teen DJs or wanted to be.

 

[paulpallo]

Ken,
All of those things are true the aaahh Attendants and Buf State co-eds. We should have gotten American Airlines milage for that.
We always ended up at Sinatra's across the street for night caps and B.S. They used to have our pictures on the wall like
we were stars or something. Mindy, Kelly and I had a big house over on Elmwood Ave where it was an on-going party 7 days a week and not that far from the studio. Tim was a damn good singer and would take out his guitar sing for the girls and we would always have a great time. We kind of looked out for each other too so we would cover screw ups at the station and such. The rest you will have to
get me off line.......

Paul

 

[MediaBoy4Radio]

dear pc people.....in 1966 it was stewardess.......................

 

[paulpallo]

dear pc people.....in 1966 it was stewardess.......................

You gota love it when a man tells it like it was. (I owe you some DVDs and things promised. Is it still the bseonline email?)

If anyone has tape from old old WYSL or PHD, I am helping to assemble some history for the archives. News paper items
and anything. Buffalo was a key city breaking hit records, live acts and such and a lot of recording artists owe a debt
to that little tiny signal and the "big dog" KB with guys like Danny, Joey, Jeff K and Tom Shannon. All due respect to
Cleveland, but Buffalo was the town then to break records during that era.

best
Paul [email protected]

 

[WYSL alumni]

Hi MediaBoy Trying to reach out to former WYSL DJ's and employees. My Dad is Bob Luther, he was the General Manager for WYSL AM & FM from the mid 60's to early 70's. Still doing great and living in Florida. I would love to see if anyone is still out there that remembers him. We are celebrating a big birthday with him next week and I'm hoping to perhaps have some fun messages sent to him.
Thanks! Debbie

 

[WYSL alumni]

Looking for former employees of WYSL in the 60's & 70's. My Dad is Bob Luther General manager for WYSL AM & FM. Would love to surprise him for his upcoming birthday next week with some of your responses if you remember him. Thanks! Debbie Luther Hensleigh

 

[Mike Sheridan]

This is such a fun thread to read, I keep wondering what would have happened if my family had stayed in Buffalo instead of migrating to Miami. Everyone told me I was a lucky dog to be leaving but I missed my friends and didn't care of living in the Miami heat without air conditioning. I found my way into radio, it took some work to get my foot in the door. I wonder if I could have been a WYSL-FM Teen DJ? in 1966 I would have only been 14 with no pipes, and very little snappy patter.

A PD I worked for early in my career had been at KLIF. He was a great motivator, the best PD I ever worked for...said he learned it all a KLIF.

Worked for Tom Birch for awhile at WQAM Miami doing some fill in work in 1978 when AM top 40 started fading away. At the time I didn't know about his WNY connection.

Thanks to Bob Savage for keeping the WYSL call letters alive. I always liked the look and the sound of them (only a radio geek would say something like that).

These days they should give the teens a few AM stations. They'd probably rather just stick to their video games.

 

[Bronx]

Yep, even as just a listener it was fun to read. As a kid in Buffalo in the 70s of course KB was top dog (at least with my neighborhood friends), but we'd often turn the dial and listen to WYSL, WNIA, CHUM, and at night CKLW and WABC. Our 7 transistor radios didn't have FM so we were AM only. We stayed away from WBEN and WEBR, the "Old folks' stations" and would occasionally check out WGR, but it was all the way to the left side of the dial. Too lazy to turn all that way I guess.

Bronx

 

[WYSL alumni]

Seaching for WYSL alumni

As I was reading all the posts on this board ,as I need to do daily. My mind went back to 1966 and the
all of the fun and hi jinks on the eighteenth floor of the Statler. It was at that time and place that Jack Danahy got a certain Bob Allen ( now on the air in heaven) and a certain Ken Kiedrowski ( now hiding somewhere near Baltimore) to be the co-program directors of Buffalo's first FM rocker. How improbable was that and to make things more interesting the directive from Dallas and Gordon Mc Lendon himself was that the 103.3 frequency would be the home of teen djs......what was he thinking.

The brave experiment did not last that long.....but quite a few young guys and gals got in front of that mike in the FM studio and received their first dose of the broadcasting bug.

Now I can think of Jim Pastrick, Roger Christian and Kevin O'Connell who are still in the business in Buffalo who are genuine alunmi of WYSL-FM,,,,,,,,but are there more out there.........please make comments in this thread.........identify yourself.......what have you been up to .......do you have any interesting stories from 103.3 that I haven't heard or maybe forgotten about.

Do you remember Linda Lee West.......Arliss Barss.....Roger Baker......Warren Micheal Kelly....Fred Gage......
who worked in sales or in the offices...........

This could be fun.......

Thanks,

Ken K.

PS also Tim Kelly who went on to start the Primier Radio Network

Hi Ken,
Looking for former employees of WYSL in the 60's & 70's. My Dad is Bob Luther General manager for WYSL AM & FM. Would love to surprise him for his upcoming birthday next week with some of your responses if you remember him. My sisters also worked for short time one summer at the station. One of my sisters dated Tim Kelly and Kevin O'Connell. Fun times! Sure miss the old days!

Thanks! Debbie Luther Hensleigh

 

[Ed Mellnik]

WOW, exciting to find this forum thread. Most might not remember me... I was a Teen DJ... then was hired when WYSL FM went Rock Album Underground.
I remember Ken K and Paul P and Larry Vance etc. Cal Brady and I used to make promos for each other. Later join him and Paul at their little film company called Triad Media for a short time. Was sorry to see that Cal had passed and worse still that he was right here in Oregon and I did not know it.
For the past 30 plus years I have been here in Portland Oregon doing corporate video work. Also been volunteering at KBOO doing a couple of folk music shows a month for the past 5 years. Reading this thread about the days on the 18th floor of the Hilton was a kick. Glad to see some of you are still alive.
I wonder if Santella is still around somewhere. Have not been back to Buffalo in over 30 years.

 

[Ed Mellnik]

Ken, remember me?

Dear God in Heaven.......this thread is still alive..........?????

It's like I never left the 18th floor of the Statler.......

Ken Kiedrowski

I sure enjoyed doing the teen DJ thing. Then was hired to do a soft musac format but it turned into our 100,000 watt underground radio format.
With Cal Brady etc.

Ed Mellnik been doing video production for years and years... and a folk show on community radio KBOO in Portland.
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