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WRSC In Late 60s

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4 Shure

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I can remember the lineup on WRSC in the late 60s was ...

Wendy Williams (with Bob Witten doing news)
Earl Pennington
John Gehron

An EXCELLENT airstaff for the day!

I know John went on to WCAU-FM, WCBS-FM, and WLS.
Earl went to Florida.
Bob went to KYW.
Whatever happened to Wendy Williams?
I recall he went to KQV and Harrisburg ... and then I lost track.
 
4 Shure said:
Whatever happened to Wendy Williams?
I recall he went to KQV and Harrisburg ... and then I lost track.
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Wendy is the operator of Prudential First Choice Realty in State College.
 
I have heard that their FM was the first station in the nation to play Simon and Garfunkel's first hit. Do you know anything about this Satelite Man?
 
I believe Fry is right again. The Sounds of Silence reportedly were first heard on the radio in the State College market. To add further to the intrigue and legend the DJ then reached back to 1957 for Simon & Garfunkel's minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl" which was recorded by the duo under their original name of Tom and Jerry. It's almost lunchtime, I think I'll head to Tom and Joe's.
 
Mr. Gallaher's egg nog helps make an excellent "Tom and Jerry". It seems to me that what is happening in the Centre County market is all connected in some way to the new talk host, Gallaher, on WBLF.
 
uh Satelite Man...enjoy your lunch at Tom & Joes but someday you have to drive their "Breakfast Mess"!
 
When did WRSC AM give up on a music format ?
Breakfast Mess with all meats...now that's good eatin'. I do however
 
hmm computer went blank...I do however miss the taste of a Eureka Burger.
 
allnitesatelite said:
When did WRSC AM give up on a music format ?
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Long time radio partner through the 70's and 80's, Kevin Nelson, has said it on the air over the years: "one day they came in and took the music away."
 
Thanks for bringing up Bob Witten's name. I haven't thought of him in years, but remember what a nice guy--and total professional--he was when I worked with him @ WFBG in the late '60's after I returned from Vietnam.
Don Fox
 
I worked with Wendy Williams in 1972 through approx.1975 at WLYC/WILQ in Williamsport. He was going to college at Williamsport Area Community College and was doing PM Drive on WLYC. For quite a period of time Wendy owned the afternoon market. Wendy at one time had also worked for KQV In Pittsburgh, as fact which caused my fomer boss Dave Castelbury (WMPT AM FM South Williamsport) to say, "why the hell would oanyone who worked at KQV want to work here?" Dave never interviewed him, something I am sure he came to regret after a period of time. Wendy was a highly talented air person and a nice guy besides.
 
Satelite Man freezes the stuff so that he can enjoy it in the summer. It warshes the fries down real swell.
 
My memories of WRSC and WMAJ date back to the mid-1970s, when WMAJ and WRSC could be considered the flipsides of each other. WMAJ was a traditional MOR/full-service station with NBC affiliation, while by this time WRSC was an ABC station and actually was a pretty good community outlet, with Channel 4's alphanumeric news on cable and its spin on things WMAJ would do. Remember, for instance, Penn State football was on WMAJ, then the PSU network post-game show on WRSC because WMAJ went back to the studio for its own scoreboard show? Their respective FMs also seemed to be a yin-yang combination, with WXLR's automated beautiful music taking on WQWK's sound so appropriate for a pitcher of beer and a Sicilian pizza in a place just down the street from ... WMAJ's studios. Toss in WGMR's country and the really backwater sounds of WBLF up the road in Bellefonte and WPHB over the hill in Philipsburg, and it was a pretty good mix.
 
I could spend a lot of time on eateries in the State College area circa 1975, from the pizzerias to the New College Diner to Munchies to the Dutch Pantry operated by Fred Honsberger's parents. I'm amazed with what all I can picture 35 years later. There was a place with pretty good waffles on College Avenue (though I don't remember the name) and then there was a McDonald's I frequented on weekends after I graduated from Penn State. I'd buy what now is called a Big Mac value meal with a hot apple pie and go camp out in a dormitory TV room and watch the New York stations overnight, until one of the security people got wise. I wouldn't mind going back for a visit (to the State College of the mid-70s, that is).
 
I was always a Train Station fan myself. Did someone say, EGGNOG? EGGNOG! Ritchey's seems to have beat the competition to the cooler. The Cove's creamy concoction is in the dairy case NOW!
Have yet to see Galliker's. is ole Lou Gallgher still kickin? He was starting to look like Frank Perdue the last he was on TV.
 
Vale Wood Farms up the mountain in Cresson probably has the BEST eggnog. It's yellow and it's thick, sort of like good old fashioned eggnog.
We have certainly added some color to this tired dead old site haven't we?
 
And speaking of great places to eat in State College...how about the cheeseburgers at Pappys" And don't forget the AutoDine.
 
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