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WYNY-FM

To answer the original question, yes I miss the WYNY from the late 70's through the early 80's. They had a very good jock line-up, some legends like Steve O'Brien, Dan Daniel, Dick Summer, other solid jocks like Margaret Jones, Al Bernstein, Larry Kenney, Bruce Bradley, Herb Barry. Music was good too, a mix of new and old. Think of Gloria by Laura Branigan, a lot of Barry Manilow. Also they played stuff like Dancin' Shoes by Nigel Olson. Then WLTW, WPLJ, WHTZ came from all sides and WYNY went to country.
 
BobSmolarek said:
To answer the original question, yes I miss the WYNY from the late 70's through the early 80's. They had a very good jock line-up, some legends like Steve O'Brien, Dan Daniel, Dick Summer, other solid jocks like Margaret Jones, Al Bernstein, Larry Kenney, Bruce Bradley, Herb Barry. Music was good too, a mix of new and old. Think of Gloria by Laura Branigan, a lot of Barry Manilow. Also they played stuff like Dancin' Shoes by Nigel Olson. Then WLTW, WPLJ, WHTZ came from all sides and WYNY went to country.
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Also, Joe McCoy took over at CBS-FM in 1981 when the station was experimenting with an oldies/AC format. Remember when CBS-FM ran Dick Clark's National Music Survey at 4 PM Sunday afternoons? They'd go from Norm N Nite playing 50s oldies, to three hours of 80s hits like "Bette Davis Eyes" then to Don K Reid's Doo Wop Shop. By the end of the summer of '81, CBS-FM's ratings had fallen to the 1's. McCoy revamped it into the 60s based oldies powerhouse we loved for the next 20+ years. He loaded it up with the personalities from WMCA and WABC.

WYNY could no longer say "Playing the best oldies". CBS-FM took that distinction back and ran with it. Just another factor in 'YNY's flip to country in 1987. :)
 
I do have airchecks of WYNY when they were country somewhere boxed downstairs or the spare room The station was great at the time when WHN signed off.
 
@icycool: There is an "Aircheck Collectors" subforum on R-I listed under the "Specialty" section. Perhaps you should try there.
 
I too miss the WYNY of the Dick Summer era. The memories come flooding back when the Binder & Binder commercial comes on. I don't know of anyone else who did hypnosis on the air. I think they had Dr. Demento on the weekend as well.
 
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