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WYSL jock photo, 1971

I can't identify any except the 2 on the right you mentioned. But, ah, where did those days go? The early 70s. We were absolutely exhilirated by radio. Joyous and full of optimism. All we wanted was to be on a great station, hear great jingles ringing in our 'phones, and smack those posts. There was nuthin' better!

Nick Seneca
 
Fourth from the right is Ernest Lee Poole who used the name Rufus Coyote. He came to WYSL from KTKT in Tucson where he was known as Johnny Rabbit. Sounded a lot like Wolfman Jack. He's now retired and living in Yuma.
 
That's Gerry Reo in dead center (apologies if misspelled).
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Are you sure. Looks a bit tall to be Jerry Reo :D
 
stalkthisboard said:
Aren't the two on the far left (just back from the land of Fa) (Bob) Taylor and (Harv) Moore?
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Survey Says: Not A Match. This pic looks to be late 60s. Harvey and The Colonel were still waking up DC at WPGC. Could be Jack Evans or Jack Sheridan. IIRC, Evans did mornings and Sheridan did early midday before leaving for KB.
 
From the left:

STANDING: ?, Roger, 'The Magic' Christian, ?, ?, Jim Bradley (Jerry Reo)

Kneeling: ?, Kevin O'Connell, ?, George Hamburger

Kal
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Is that none other than Mr. Bob Savage on the left and his news department and news cruiser?

Oops!! ;D Sorry for the slip up. ;D That's the 'other' WYSL.

Two people over from the left - is that the guy that played Johnny Gage on Emergency?
The guy in the middle isn't looking at the camera.

What's up with Kevin O'Connell? Is he flipping the bird or showing off
his wedding ring? George Hamburger looks like he's photo shopped in.

Is the car their mobile news cruiser?

In all seriousness, that does look like Jerry Reo in the middle but he does look a little too tall to be Jerry.

Where was the picture taken? It looks like the old 'KB TV studio on Main Street judging on how the window frames look. Of course, it could've been the house over on Franklin.

What's the connection with the antique car (mobile news cruiser)?
What....they play Oldies? Or they've been around a long time? Of course probably not any oldies stations in '71.

I'm surprised the license plate (the old yellow on blue plate with the registration sticker in the corner - although I don't believe antique cars required one) didn't say 1400.
 
The shot is definitely on Franklin Street, with the car parked in WYSL's driveway at 425, and the building in the background is next door, north of the studios.
 
SirRoxalot said:
The shot is definitely on Franklin Street, with the car parked in WYSL's driveway at 425, and the building in the background is next door, north of the studios.
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Didn't we move from Statler to Franklin the summer of 1970?
 
DTV-Chief said:
SirRoxalot said:
The shot is definitely on Franklin Street, with the car parked in WYSL's driveway at 425, and the building in the background is next door, north of the studios.
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Didn't we move from Statler to Franklin the summer of 1970?
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What was it like at Statler? You never hear of radio stations located in hotels anymore. Sounds like ti might be interesting!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
DTV-Chief said:
SirRoxalot said:
The shot is definitely on Franklin Street, with the car parked in WYSL's driveway at 425, and the building in the background is next door, north of the studios.
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Didn't we move from Statler to Franklin the summer of 1970?
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What was it like at Statler? You never hear of radio stations located in hotels anymore. Sounds like ti might be interesting!
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Station occupied north wing of 18th (top) floor. Only one elevator went to 18 and always seemed full of American Airlines employees so most WYSL staff took elevators to 17 and walked up a flight. On the right side first studio you reached was the FM with a plate glass door off the hallway. Then there was AM followed by news booth for John McLoughlin. The exterior windows could be opened but had no screens. Jim Moran and Bob Schuh had a small engineering shop. Virginia Quigley and GM offices were across the hallway and at west end. Ceilings seemed high. The move to Franklin made parking easier. I'll see what else I can remember.
 
I know it has been written about before but I am also fascinated by the WYSL tower on top of the Larkin Warehouse. You could see it for miles. Somewhere I read it had been the WEBR tower before they went to 970 I believe it was 1370 or something. Seems like the site has quite a bit of history.
 
It sure does, Mike! The Larkin Building tower was indeed built for WEBR, which was on 1310 before the 1941 frequency shifts, and then went to 1340 in 1941. Not sure how much time elapsed between WEBR's move to 970 in Hamburg and WBNY/WYSL's move to the Larkin Building. Savage should be able to fill in the blanks if he's lurking...

(Oh, and here's where the 1370 piece comes in: that was the frequency shared by WBNY and the Seneca Vocational School's WSVS before the 1941 frequency shifts took them to 1400. WSVS didn't last long after that.)
 
Mike Sheridan said:
I know it has been written about before but I am also fascinated by the WYSL tower on top of the Larkin Warehouse. You could see it for miles. Somewhere I read it had been the WEBR tower before they went to 970 I believe it was 1370 or something. Seems like the site has quite a bit of history.
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We always used to call a local sign company to come and fix bad neon tubes in the enormous W-Y-S-L letters. I remember when one of those letters started to come apart and chief engineer Dick Gideon climbed up there with a hack saw to cut off the flapping sheet metal before it took off flying. I stumbled over pix of the rooftop on this website:http://www.buffaloah.com/a/exch/726/roof/index.html. The FCC Tower Registration database seems to show this tower as "dismantled."
 
Wasn't the WYSL/WPHD studio complex at the Statler basically inherited from WBEN?

IIRC that 18th floor area was WBEN's home from the time the News bought the license and transmitter of the old WMAK in 1930, until they moved into what had been NBC's studio building at 2077 Elmwood 'till the Peacock shut down WBUF-TV and left town. Up until 1960 WBEN AM/FM and WBEN-TV were all up there, and the late Jack Ogilvie told me they had a lot of space to work with...what happened to the old TV studios which were at the Statler from 1948 to 1960? And did anyone else use the radio studios, or even contemplate using them, after WYSL & WPHD cleared out and went to Franklin St. a decade later?
 
I realize I'm jumping around a bit but sometimes long after a station has moved out if you look hard enough you can still find clues that it was a radio station. It can be fun to uncover! In the case of the Statler all traces are probably gone now.

Sometime in the mid '70's I tried for a tour of WKBW radio but got turned down. However I did get to see WGR and WYSL on Franklin Street. WYSL was interesting, basically a radio station in a house.

From what I've heard about the Main Street studios maybe KB should have moved over to the Statler!
 
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