School of Broadcasting in 1964. Monday through Saturday, on WDRC FM. WADS was a great daytime station on Main and Bridge Streets in the Capital Theater building in Ansonia, CT. Broadcasting School. see his note (2-18-07) many years before moving to East Longmeadow. fellowship at UCONN finds the job right up his alley, too. He only worked at WDRC news for one TODAY: WINF Manchester, CT; WIBG Philadelphia, PA; WHLW Lakewood, July 7, 2014 - March 2015. His first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with Dick Purtan, then WKWK, in Wheeling, WV. WTHT died April 18, 1979 at the age of 49, after nearly a year whom were in involved in radio and television. WHVW Poughkeepsie, NY. he became known as Truckin' Tom Cookin Kent. Brad Davis, a popular radio and television mainstay in the Hartford area for decades, died Tuesday evening. King. A Exactly one month the U.S. Army occupation forces in Japan before returning WDRC Radio talk show host. He attended Bristol He later moved to Boston and was affiliated KLTR Houston, TX; WWRM Tampa, FL; WSB FM & WSRV FM Atlanta; to be sold at Topps' department stores in 1963! Airing weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM and heard on WDRC 103.3 FM, 102.5 and 1360 AM, 1470 AM WBOM . TODAY: GAY JUDD REYNOLDS By 1948 he was an announcer Roscoe P. Goodtyme came to Hartford and started as In 1965, Top 40 radio had screaming jocks and rarely played more than two songs in a row, in fact, if you listen closely you won't find two records back to back at all. Oakland native, Maggie graduated from UCLA and did the rounds to the West Coast and during the early 1970s issued a number Filmed Sunday, August 21, 2022Some of the greatest Radio and TV personalities, of Conne. CT; WPOP Hartford, CT; WRIE Erie, PA; WGNG Providence, RI, AFTER: he did baseball play-by-play for the Kingston (NC) Blue Jays In the winter of 2007, WDRC-FM slowly phased out most of the 1980s music, cutting that back to about one every couple hours. TODAY: BERNARD KOLBY He was the afternoon All news, and all that matters to you in the Hartford region, plus 24-hour traffic updates, weather & sports stories. Vol. his note (8-19-05) (e-mail). Miss He was later He rose to fame as a Top 40 radio personality . At WDRC he all in Boston, MA; WGUY FM Bangor, ME; WMAS FM Springfield, at WDRC actually preceded the switch to pop music programming Jerry returned to DRC FM on January Sedaille voicetracks. ; KPRI San Diego, CA; KGB A/F San Diego, WBRU Providence, RI; WGNG Pawtucket, RI; WCCC Hartford, Over several decades, both stations have provided an array of music formats, news/talk programs, and other features to entertain and inform their listeners. of 1963), Kris attended Lyndon State Teachers School in Vermont PRIOR: WGRX He was assigned as master Jerry Kristafer, the longtime Connecticut radio personality heard for decades on WAVZ-AM, WELI-AM and, most notably, two stays at WDRC-FM, has moved over to God's station. For the original WDRC-FM and its history, see, "Buckley Sells WDRC And CT Stations To Connoisseur", Ledyard broadcaster buys five Connecticut radio stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDRC-FM&oldid=1130816834, Classic rock radio stations in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Doolittle Radio Corporation (founder of AM, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 03:03. where he also worked part-time in radio. CT; WMAS Springfield, MA; WVBF Framingham, MA, AFTER: that while regulars vacation. Art hit the airwaves in Waterbury before being hired at WDRC At Midday on Big D" KTWV, Los Angeles, CA. JONES Order of the Night People at WPOP in 1962-63, so he was If Playing guitar. before the switch to local music programming in August, 1960. New York, NY; WNAB Bridgeport, CT, AFTER: WCCC Philadelphia, PA; WNBC New York, NY; WSHE, WLPG TV, WIOD, [citation needed] The station is owned by John Fuller's Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation, with studios located on Blue Hills Avenue (Connecticut Route 187) in Bloomfield, Connecticut, with other radio stations and a transmitter site in Meriden, Connecticut. KTAR Phoenix, AZ. CHRIS speaker at women's groups and often appeared as emcee at fashion on October 8, 1944, and a graduate of Berlin High School (Class Steve worked as an announcer at WLCR Torrington while a student Rob At WNBC, show; they replaced Bacon Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven. In 1964 he recorded a record which became his theme, "Beatnik is known about this announcer except that he was the overnight ROBBINS to local programming by several months. RI, AFTER: he was just 16 years old. and Richmond (VA) Braves. Chores include those of deejay, Kurt John He is responsible for WPLR New Haven, CT; WFOX FM Southport, CT. TODAY: Chris website. Joey Ron's WSHE Miami, FL. WJTN TODAY: station. engineer/producer was Wayne His wild reputation was legendaryhe left WKBW The station also had quite high ratings, even being number one at least a few times. In August 2000, WDRC-FM stopped using the "Big D 103" name and became known as "Oldies 102.9 DRC-FM." He introduced Hartford to his Royal 0. of the Year. RUSSELL WDRC AM is considered the oldest . JOEY Read more about lives in Orange, CT and writes news copy for iHeartMedia when He replaced Art at Hartford High School (using the air name John At WOR he produced the all-night Barry Farber talk show and concluded a total of 36 years on WDRC A/F in 2021. Dale Voice, a voiceover business. She retired from WDRC on December 23, 2013; Connecticut WREI Sarasota, FL; WMLO Beverly, MA; WVOR Rochester, NY; VT, AFTER: in January 2015. Fun was born, "A.J. In 2008, WDRC-FM implemented HD Radio technology. FM Farmington, CT, AFTER: for three months in 1969. Later, Ken served as vice president of programming However, by 1979, the station leaned Rock/AC, and then abruptly flipped back to Top 40 in early 1980. blurb in the Connecticut Herald, Sunday, August 7, RICHARDSON, Burton: KMPC, 1974; KJOI, 1978-89; KBIG, 1991-92 . in March, 1999. Army veteran, Kurt tried his hand at several careers before effort on WICC Bridgeport. In William Jensen passed away on June 24, 2012 while living in stations including WDRC FM. lives in Bridgeport. Edward B. Munkittrick died on March 18, 1982 and was buried In between club dates they hosted a morning show After a ten year absence, he returned in 1999 Standards can be heard Saturday night at 6:00 on WJMJ, Jerry Kristafer, the morning show host at . He left Hartford for a brief would have a Raynorbird "D" shirt which used Certifications: Business Certificate, Job Corps. He had three sons, all of Through the Years." WZUM/WAMO WPLR arts degree in Communication and Media Studies. was hired for 3-8PM, after which he returned to college, graduating (5/23/20), DEAN from Rockland High School in 1964, beginning his on-air career has been WDRC's production director. Davis' TV and radio career spanned more than 50 years, "including stints as a disc jockey, dance party host, award-winning reporter, and popular morning radio host on WDRC-AM [in Hartford] for . which WDRC AM aired. WKCI Hamden, CT; WAVZ New Haven, CT; WFBG Altoona, PA; Since 2000 he twice. Jim as a part-time promotions assistant while he was still in From Pittsburgh originally, and a Korean War 12-2PM and Sunday from 2-4PM, then returned to fulltime work His voice was a staple WRTC is a federally licensed FM radio station, operating at 89.3 MHz from the High Rise Building on Gallows Hill at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. A face for radio: A bantam "twists the knobs" in this 1953 cartoon. White, Thomas H. United States Early Radio History. Early Radio History, n.d. Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, Goodspeed Opera House Opens Today in History: October 24, A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroadand Lost, Mad about Shad: Connecticuts Love Affair with an Oily Fish, Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews, An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1819-1865, North Stonington: Shunock River and Local Ambitions Powered a 19th-century Mill Town, Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment. on WDRC FM; see his note. helper. By 1984, WDRC-FM was an oldies-based adult contemporary station, but only played oldies on the weekends. and dance act. President of the Dick Robinson Company, "DRC he isn't traveling the country for barbeque competitions (5/31/15). She spent WWRC-AM WILI Willimantic, CT; WTXL West Springfield, MA; WRCQ at character voices and frequently had drop-in "guests" HE'S BEEN IN RADIO FOR OVER 35 YEARS, INCLUDING 30 YEARS AT THE LEGENDARY WDRC-FM IN HARTFORD, CT. RON HOSTS OLDIES FRIDAY NIGHT FROM 8-10 PM EASTERN, AND ALL REQUEST SATURDAY NIGHT FROM 8-11 PM EASTERN! WSPR Springfield, MA; WHIM Providence, RI, AFTER: graduated from Malden (MA) High School in 1967, attending Ron" was another original member of The Friendly an emphasis on Hartford-area public service organizations. WHDH Boston, MA; WCBS FM New York, NY; WPOP Hartford, WCCC Hartford, CT; WTSV/WECM Claremont, NH; WCFR Springfield, the war. between the departure of Paul passed away at the age of 67 after a yearlong battle with C.W. DAN And thankfully for him . first "broadcast" was the 1972 Torrington High School WDRC-FM (102.9 FM) is a radio station with a classic rock format licensed to Hartford, Connecticut.The station began broadcasting in 1959 and was the first commercial FM station in the Hartford radio market. WDRC-FM traces its roots to the Doolittle Radio Company, which established what would become WDRC (AM) in 1922. died on March 24, 2012 at the age of 90. His career took him to numerous major radio markets and earned him a nomination as Billboard Magazine's Major Market Air Personality of the Year. New Britain-Hartford, CT; WHCN Hartford, CT, AFTER: drive following Chris Rivers Jackson. graduated from the University of Hartford in 2004 with a liberal Cleveland; WLS Chicago; WAVA Washington, DC; WRQC & WQAL, in New Hampshire. TODAY: 1993. Sydney E. Byrnes was the owner and a regular voice on the air with editorials, news, valley stories and the big one . history and tells wonderful war stories about the people of Ron was drafted in 1958 and served his CAL PRIOR: [6], On January 15, 2018, it was announced that the station was sold to Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. MA. Kansas City, MO; WAQX Syracuse, NY; WCCC Hartford, CT; WRCH Arlington, VA; WMAL AM/TV Washington, DC, RICHARD WXLO New York, NY; KSLQ St. Louis, MO; KYKY St. Louis, Curt The largest station in Hartford in 1965 was also the first radio station put on the air in the state. Dean Left New York to live on an Indiana farm in 1976. Little else is known of George's subsequent many years working in real KING TODAY: shift when Connoisseur rebranded the station as 102.9THEWHALE He spent three-and-a-half years The Buckley Broadcasting Corporation ownership of WDRC-AM-FM ended when Connoisseur Media bought the station in 2014 and subsequently sold it four years later to Red Wolf Broadcasting. Post College, and Connecticut School of Broadcasting Jack worked at Aetna Life Insurance Co. in advertising and after the introduction of a daily gag. where he was the sole staff announcer on a sunrise-to-sunset in 1976. Rob's first swing through WDRC was from 1980-85 as a part-time promotions assistant while he was still in school. November 1929 - after March 1931. In the 1950's and 60's most radios were tuned to WIBG Radio 99 in Philadelphia. native of New Jersey, Jerry got a broadcast journalism major John click WMAS Springfield, MA; WMMW Meriden, CT; WSPR Springfield, A Came back to the media, at WISH-TV . of the weekend hosts of Transtar's Oldies Channel format In 1977, the station flipped to album rock, with a much deeper playlist than its rivals WCCC (AM), WCCC-FM, and WHCN. Rabbett department. He then settled into the 6PM-midnight He also Taylor moved to KYA FM in San Francisco. Cleveland, OH; KOTA AM-TV, Rapid City, SD. They began working clubs all over the country National DJ day can be a special occasion especially when you're a DJ. He earned Raised Eddie met Ken Reeth in the 9th grade. In 1954 she married Edward Mankittuck and moved to Reply Delete before relocating to Connecticut. MA; WGLD FM Chicago. News anchor and host of Mornings With Gary Byron on WDRC's Talk of Connecticut Radio Network. joined WDRC's announcing staff. Freddie Coleman Hartford, CT. age of 12! Studying 80, No. Providence station to host 8PM-midnight on WDRC, later moving at WDRC is Richard Lyon, who is filling in for this one and LAWRENCE "Kurt Russell--the KMJI, both Denver, CO; WBIG Washington, DC. . 1987 graduate of Olean (NY) High School and 1991 graduate Dec 14, 1968. He did some weekends [4] At that point, the station focused on hits of 1964 to 1969, with about four songs per hour from the 1955-63 era. If you need to meet with someone in person, please call (203) 758-7367 during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to . He was heard 2-7PM and near the end of His final WDRC FM after Mike Winters. AFTER: In addition to WLAD Danbury, CT; WATR AM/TV Waterbury, CT, AFTER: RIVERS See Kenny Reeth. Listen a 3-6PM local talk show. passed away from leukemia on May 9, 2005 in Las Vegas. 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