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WHO IS THE TOP NYC PD 1978 to 2008? THE WINNER?

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We are still working on this project...we have to rule out SCOTT SHANNON becuase of his WPLJ work...JIM RYAN is not #1 because WLTW was a winner before he got in the PD chair...Z-100's TOM POLEMAN has a great chance to be #1 because Z-100 was in the dumps when he took the gig...MARK MASON could pull it off...JOEL SALKOWITZ? Just a little too short...STEVE KINGSTON ain't #1 because of the BLINK 102.7 failure...PHIL BOYCE? Nope. 77 WABC not #1...BARRY MAYO has an excellent chance....DENISE OLIVER (former WYNY PD & lady that put HOWARD STERN & ROBIN QUIVERS together in DC) has no chance.

More details are coming up (we have to billboard this...we learned at WBLI to always billboard, LOL)! The TOP 25 NYC PDs 1978 to 2008 is comin' up!
 
Hands down I am saying JOEL SALKOWITZ.

How he was able to incorporate current dance (house, freestyle, club) along with Top 40 & R&B, with songs that were mainly "street" and not necessarily "safe" bets....just plain gut instinct, incorporate them all under one umbrella and get a huge crowd to listen is an incredible feat! Do not rule him out.
 
Tony Santiago said:
Hands down I am saying JOEL SALKOWITZ.

How he was able to incorporate current dance (house, freestyle, club) along with Top 40 & R&B, with songs that were mainly "street" and not necessarily "safe" bets....just plain gut instinct, incorporate them all under one umbrella and get a huge crowd to listen is an incredible feat! Do not rule him out.
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Joel got the royal shaft at Jamin' 105. I thought he did a great job at Jamin' 105 & Hot 97. One knock on Joel...couldn't deliver a winning AM DRIVE show.
 
Mark Mason would be a wise choice. WINS & WFAN both big wins for him.
You can't ever rule out Shannon.../he changed the landscape.

Ed Salamon at WHN, Bob Dunphy at WNSR, Kevin Metheny at WNNNBC and Larry Berger at WPLJ
all deserve honorable mentions.

For consistancy, (no losses) Joe McCoy has to be the one!!
 
htowler said:
Don't have a Best Yet But I do have one for worst

Tracy Cloherty Hot97 and K-Rock
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I actually would have given it to Tracy because of Hot 97, but revoke it because of K-Rock.

I would echo the sentiment for Joe Mac, though.
 
Mason was great, and he was an innovator. My vote, however, goes to John Mainelli, who put together a legendary WABC lineup and changed the course of talk radio history with hsi penchant for trying something different and using controversy tastefully to garner attention without making his hosts look like publicity hounds. He discovered some great talent as well in those days. The Disney-fication of WABC sort of genericized the lineup, but if not for the house that Mainelli built WABC may not be as hto as it was afterward either; it may have been just another talk radio station.

While Hot Talk on 92.3 didn't go so well, one can not say Mainelli was at fault. He tried to strengthen the lineup, but the entire project was probably doomed more because of the upper CBS management.

Large companies and radio suits, for the most part, have reduced the industry to what it is today: no-growth and little foresight. Mainelli had the present and future of WABC in mind when setting up his team.
 
Call me biased or whatever...GOTTA go with Brian Thomas, the PD at the reincarnated (and VERY MUCH ALIVE) CBSFM 101.1! What Brian has and is successfully doing is taking the station in a SLIGHTLY different direction while NOT losing the focus or the roots or what the station is ALL about -- Bravo, Brian!!

(honorable mention: Joe McCoy--1992 to 2004 -- McCoy was a GREAT PD, but he was ALREADY working with an ESTABLISHED product; Dave Logan -- 2004-2005 -- CLASS ACT all the way, but he was basically under the control of consultants/upper-level echelon management/whatever....) Brian has MORE than successfully taken on EVERY challenge in front of him since the station came back on July 12, 2007 -- AND THE RATINGS PROVE IT!!

andrea
(WCBSFM 1: August 21, 1984-June 3, 2005;
WCBSFM 2: July 12, 2007-Present!)
 
andreajesus said:
Call me biased or whatever...GOTTA go with Brian Thomas, the PD at the reincarnated (and VERY MUCH ALIVE) CBSFM 101.1! What Brian has and is successfully doing is taking the station in a SLIGHTLY different direction while NOT losing the focus or the roots or what the station is ALL about -- Bravo, Brian!!

(honorable mention: Joe McCoy--1992 to 2004 -- McCoy was a GREAT PD, but he was ALREADY working with an ESTABLISHED product; Dave Logan -- 2004-2005 -- CLASS ACT all the way, but he was basically under the control of consultants/upper-level echelon management/whatever....) Brian has MORE than successfully taken on EVERY challenge in front of him since the station came back on July 12, 2007 -- AND THE RATINGS PROVE IT!!

andrea
(WCBSFM 1: August 21, 1984-June 3, 2005;
WCBSFM 2: July 12, 2007-Present!)
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Joe was CBS-FM PD well before 1992.
Brian, although a good man, hasn't nearly reached the same level of success yet.
 
Yeah, but like I indicated before, McCoy already had a GREAT station which just needed to be made EVEN GREATER -- Thomas started out basically from scratch...AND THE RATINGS PROVE IT!!
 
andreajesus said:
Yeah, but like I indicated before, McCoy already had a GREAT station which just needed to be made EVEN GREATER -- Thomas started out basically from scratch...AND THE RATINGS PROVE IT!!
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Way too soon.
By the way, Brian also programmed JACK, which would knock him from contention in many folks' minds.
Also, from scratch?? Really? Most of the music, imaging, jingles and even some jocks I hear all
predate anything Brian brought in. Again...he's a talented guy.....but he's really following
the McCoy road map. And McCoy drastically changed that radio station from the 70's/early 80's.

And if we are judging a station based on the first few months after sign on.
Shannon would be the all-time clear winner for WHTZ. IMHO.
 
Joe McCoy actually started at WCBS-FM in 1981. The station's glory years occured during his tenure as program director. Brian Thomas has been a PD with several formats including the dreaded Jack. I especially like his idea of playing Hall of Fame features throughout the day.

Bruce
 
On second thought....Jim Ryan could get top slot. Yes the station was a winner before he got the corner office, but he kept it #1 for many books....Tony Gray? Possible...I enjoyed the WNBC line-up Don Imus, request show with Capt. Frank and the drive home with Howard Stern. What NBC put that together? Was it Kevin Metheny?...Bob Pittman can't be #1. Not enough time at WNBC...Dale Parsons? Not good enough for #1....Gary Nolan at WLTW? No...How about the "real dentist" Dr. Chuck Crane at WYNY? No way. Mark Chernoff (WFAN, WNEW & WXRK)? Possible.
 
I second the Mark Mason and Tom Poleman nods... Interesting, different, and very respectable programmers to study.
I'm still too young to remember or know, 27, but was WINS an institution before Mason took over?
If so, I'd give the win to Tom.
The success story Z100 has become, over 20+ years, is nothing short of remarkable.

Juicy thread! I love this!!

- Matt

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