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WUFO turns Fifty!

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Been a while for me on the boards, but saw this article about community radio (WUFO) and amazed that it's been 50 years

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article417657.ece
WUFO 1080-AM was around decades before other local stations played hip-hop or old-school jams and well before Tom Joyner had his syndicated morning show.

This year, WUFO—the broadcast voice of black Buffalo—is turning 50
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't another previous owner of WUFO John Kluge, who used it to put his toe in the broadcasting waters before ultimately deciding to jump in to build the Metromedia television and radio empire around New York's WNEW-AM/FM/TV, Washington's WTTG-TV and LA's KTTV? (Of course Kluge, who IIRC just passed this winter, sold out for a ten figure sum 25 years ago to Rupert Murdoch, who used Metromedia as the nucleus of the Fox TV Network...so you might say WUFO was the seed from which Fox TV eventually grew...)
 
I have caught Ted Kirkland's show (forget what day it is on) from time to time and it's a decent dialogue with really interesting guests. I don't know much about him but I think he may play music at other times during the week or on the weekend.
 
"Be fearless, fear less, if you are not afraid to dance to the beat of the drum, one day, you will lead the entire band" I remember always hearing this poem just before sign off on WUFO in the early 1980's. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WUFO!
 
Rev. Darius Pridgen has a show on WUFO on Fridays. Good opportunity for members of the black community of Buffalo to discuss issues of importance. The man knows how to command an audience!
 
Congrats to Sheila Brown and the team at WUFO. Big party planned tomorrow at Pettibone's @ Coca-Cola Field in downtown Buffalo to honor the radio station's 50th anniversary.

Anyone have a favorite DJ or talk show on WUFO? I tend to lean towards KIRKLAND'S CORNER on Tuesday afternoons if I'm in the city and can pick up the signal. I also like Rev. Pridgen's show on Friday afternoons because he is such an incredible performer.
 
As a kid, I loved WUFO and WBLK in the late 60s and early 70s. Jerry B, Gary Byrd, Chuckie T, Guy Cameron, these guys were all excellent jocks. Gary Byrd went onto NYC and big time Black radio. WUFO always had a somewhat muddy signal and way down in Angola, it wasn't all that strong. They also pioneered underground rock in Buffalo with Brother Love, who was on from about 7 pm 'til sign off. Of course that varied and at times, sign-off was before his show started. Great stuff and congrats to them on the big 5-0!
 
Oh, one more thing---wasn't WUFO one of the early career stops for the great Frankie Crocker, who later achieved fame in NYC as one of the WMCA Good Guys and then as founding PD/personality at WBLS-FM?
 
Sheila Brown is doing some great work at WUFO. Really good efforts from their on-air personalities and their sales team. I'm impressed and I'm proud of what they have accomplished, particularly in the last few years of such an uncertain economy.
 
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