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WHTZ - Z100 | image | city Newark, New Jersey | area New York City area | branding Z100 | slogan "New York's Hit Music Station" | airdate July 13, 1961 (as WVNJ-FM)August 2, 1983 (as WHTZ) | frequency 100.3 MHz 100.3-2 FM New Top 40 music (HD Radio) | format Top 40 (CHR) | power | erp 6,000 watts | haat 415 meters | class B | facility_id 59953 | coordinates | callsign_meaning HiTZ | former_callsigns WMGM-FM (1940s-1955)WVNJ-FM (1961-1983) | affiliations | owner Clear Channel | sister_stations WAXQ, WKTU, WLTW, WWPR-FM | webcast Listen Live | website z100.com }}

WHTZ, better known as Z100, is a radio station that serves the New York City metropolitan area, broadcasting on the FM band at a frequency of 100.3 MHz. Licensed to Newark, New Jersey, the station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications. The station's transmitter is located on the Empire State Building.

The call letters are supposed to represent the word "hits"; indeed, an early advertising campaign for the station claimed that HTZ was "The New, Cool Way to Spell 'Hits' in New York." Z100's current slogan is "New York's Hit Music Station.", used in tandem on-air with "All The Hits". The long-running "#1" part of the slogan was removed in 2007. The former slogan was "Today's Best Music." Z100 is considered the 2nd largest CHR/Top 40 station in the world after BBC Radio 1, pulling in an audience of 5 million daily. Additionally, according to the radio industry website, RadioStats.Net, Z100's site is the most visited US CHR website in the world and, in fact, one of the most frequented radio websites overall. Z100 is also simulcast on XM channel 12.

History

Pre-Z100

100.3 began as WMGM-FM in the late 1940's, which played easy listening music which was co-owned with 1050 WMGM (now known as WEPN). That station shut down in February of 1955 and its owners turned the license over to the FCC. 100.3 FM was sold to local owner Herb Saltzman and known as Sabre Broadcasting. The station focused to serve northern New Jersey rather than the New York City Metropolitan area. They already owned AM 620 then known as WVNJ so 100.3 FM would have WVNJ-FM as its call letters. On Thursday July 13, 1961 at about 3 p.m. WVNJ-FM signed on. WVNJ-FM began with 20,000 watts at 330 ft. above average terrain from the AM site in Livingston, N.J. moving a few years according to Chatham, N.J. with 25,000 watts. A few years later the transmitter moved to West Orange, New Jersey and would only transmit at 5,000 watts.

The station had an instrumentally based "Easy Listening" music format (also known as Beautiful Music or, more commonly, "elevator music") consisted of instrumental versions of familiar songs with several soft vocal hits added per hour. The station was known as "WVNJoy".

Licensed to Newark, NJ, its FM transmitter was in West Orange, while its studios and AM transmitter were located on State Route 10 in Livingston, New Jersey. At the time, the station had an effective power of about 20,000 watts and an actual power of 5,000 watts. This lack of coverage due to lesser power inhibited the station's opportunity to show with competitive strength in ratings estimates in the NY Market. Thus the station's target market concentration was northern New Jersey. Radio listeners in the New York City metropolitan area could listen to WPAT-AM, WPAT-FM, WRFM, and WTFM for easy listening.

In 1980, when WRVR (now WLTW) changed from jazz to country music, WVNJ began playing jazz music after 8 PM. Its slogan was "VNJoy By Day, VNJazz By Night". In May 1983, plans were made for 100.3 FM to be purchased by Hollywood, California-based Paramount Communications. Paramount signed on the station from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey and moved the transmitter to the top of the Disney Channel Building. In addition, new management announced plans for a top 40 format. The sale became final on August 1, 1983, and WVNJ-FM ceased broadcasting on 100.3 that night.

Z100 as a Top 40/CHR format

The station, which now had the callsign WHTZ, went on the air at 6:08 AM on August 2, 1983 with program director/morning show host Scott Shannon. The first song ever played on the station was "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor followed by America by Neil Diamond. The station signed on from its new and still-incomplete studio in Secaucus, transmitting from the old FM tower site near Livingston, New Jersey, as their antenna was not moved to the top of the Disney Channel Building until later in August. The station did not begin calling itself "Z100" until a few days later. Moving the tower to midtown Manhattan greatly increased the coverage area of the station's signal.

Z100 was the second station that summer to attempt to bring the Top 40 format back to New York, with rock station WPLJ having begun the evolution to top 40 in June. WHTZ was programmed to remind listeners of one-time AM powerhouse WABC, which had gone from a tight Top 40 format to leaning Disco in early 1979 to leaning adult rock later in 1979 to leaning adult contemporary in 1980 to evolving to Adult Contemporary/Talk in 1981, before it finally flipped to an all-talk format on May 10, 1982.

Within 74 days of signing on, WHTZ had climbed from last place to first in the New York Arbitron ratings book. Over the years, Z100 stayed with a top 40 format, with WPLJ behind them in the ratings. Scott Shannon left Z100 at the end of 1988 to begin "Pirate Radio" in Los Angeles, and Steve Kingston took over as operations manager and Frankie Blue would become assistant programming director. By 1991, however, the Top 40 format was in an identity crisis. A major sign of this crisis came when WPLJ moved to a hot adult contemporary format by 1992. Z100 responded to this by adding some older songs and introducing an evening talk show called "Love Phones". Ratings gradually dropped from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Z100 dropped the older songs and began mixing in alternative rock music which wasn't normally being played on Top 40 stations. By the end of 1994, the majority of the station's music consisted of alternative rock with only a few non-modern-rock-based songs per hour. The station still played the current big hits by artists such as Madonna, TLC, Mariah Carey, and others. Although, notably, Z100 snubbed several big pop hits at the time such as "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" by Bryan Adams, You Are Not Alone by Michael Jackson, and "I Could Fall In Love" by Selena. At this point Z100 was sold to Shamrock Broadcasting. Frankie Blue would leave in 1995 and Sam Milkman would move up to his position.

Ratings, though nowhere near the top anymore, remained steady at the station during much of the mid-1990s, but by March 1996, there was a steep drop after WKTU signed on 103.5 FM with a dance music format, and WXRK adapted a full alternative rock format. Both stations took listeners from Z100. Steve Kingston and his assistant Sam Milkman left Z100 for K-Rock, while music director Andy Shane left for WKTU, joining another former Z100 music director, Frankie Blue. Airstaff had also gradually begun leaving the station beginning that February. Z100 had even stopped using the name "Morning Zoo" the year before. Morning host John Lander left in November 1995. That January, Steve Cochrane arrived to do mornings but by May he was gone. Z100 was undergoing a crisis at this point. The station was sold in a corporate deal to Chancellor Media.

In April 1996, the station brought in Tom Poleman as its new programming director. Initially, at that point, Z100 dropped all non-modern rock titles and began playing strictly pop alternative. By May 1996, Z100 began gradually replacing its on-air staff, and the harder alternative songs were phased out. Though initially it seemed that Z100 was becoming a modern AC station, beginning that summer, the station gradually began to move back to a mainstream Top 40 format, as it added pop music from such formats as R&B;, rap, and adult contemporary. One of Poleman's biggest moves was to switch DJ Elvis Duran from afternoons to the "Z Morning Zoo" (which was known as "The Morning Show" for the previous several years), Z100's popular morning show. Despite having shared the post with other hosts (such as Elliot Segal, now at WWDC) through the years, Duran remains the "Head Zookeeper" to this day. By December 1996, Z100 was a full-time Top 40 station again. Chancellor merged with Evergreen in 1997, making WKTU a sister station of Z100. Still, both stations continued on the same courses, occasionally overlapping with music.

In a 1999 merger, Z100's parent company, Chancellor, acquired Capstar, forming AM/FM Inc. Shortly after the merger was finalized, AM/FM was bought by its current owners, Clear Channel Communications.

The station used to broadcast "mini-mixes" by DJ Spinbad, a well-known DJ who created a nightly mash-up mix of the day's top songs, playing them all together, mixing, for instance, the lyrics of one with the music of another. This often lasted 15–20 minutes, and was played at seven o'clock and ten o'clock Monday through Friday. Spinbad's mix was also a part of the weekly ''5 O'Clock Whistle'', a tradition started in 1986 to celebrate the end of the work week.

In early 2006, Z100 launched an HD Radio station that plays songs by bands who have not gone mainstream, or have very little exposure. Currently, it is the only New York City area HD2 station that features DJs.

In October 2007, after years of hovering near the top, Z100 once again became the highest-rated station in New York City, scoring a 5.1 rating in persons 12+ in the Summer book. This marks the first number-one finish for the station since the 1980s, according to Clear Channel New York programming guru Tom Poleman. It also scored a first-place among the 18-34 demographic in the book, as well as a second place in the 25-54 demo.

In 2008, world-famous remixer Jason Nevins joined Z100 for the "Remix at 6 with Jason Nevins", where 1 of Jason's remixes is played every night at 6pm. The programming follows the Z100 playlist and gives listeners a "you heard it here first" mix premiere of projects that come straight from Jason's studio.

Z100 Today

Z100 broadcasts a mainstream Top 40 format. A majority of the music played on Z100 tends to be pop, R&B;, alternative, and dance.

Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show

While it was not created at WHTZ, the popular morning zoo format became a widely-employed morning show concept based on its success at Z100 - even to the point of being implemented at Malrite's sister station in Cleveland, rock-formatted WMMS. Essentially, the Morning Zoo formula was grafted onto their already successful morning show, and lasted until 1994.

The Z Morning Zoo gained rapid popularity when first launched for its use of the character "Mr. Leonard", voiced by radio personality John Carrillo. The current Morning show includes Elvis Duran, Danielle Monaro, Carolina Bermudez, Greg T., Skeery Jones, David Brody, TJ the DJ, Garrett, Scotty B., Loren, and Carla Marie. The show also features Froggy, the Y100 Miami Executive Producer.

The Z100 Morning Show features "Danielle's "Sleaze Report," Carolina's "Rage Page," "Phone Taps" (prank calls to an unsuspecting friend or relative of a listener), stunts performed by Greg T, Song Parodies, various contests, news and traffic reports.

The show was simulcast on Max 106.3 WHCY in New Jersey from early 2003 until Dec 23, 2008 and as of 10/10 is again carrying the show. The show began syndication on May 22, 2006, starting with WHYI Y100 in Miami, Florida, followed by WIOQ Q102 in Philadelphia on July 23, 2008, and Cleveland's Kiss FM on Aug 25th 2008.

Until May 2008 the show was known as "Elvis Duran and The (Y/Z) Morning Zoo". By July 2008, the "Zoo" references were later replaced with "Show". In March 2009, Clear Channel subsidiary Premiere Radio Networks added Elvis Duran and the Morning Show to its blue-ribbon lineup of nationally syndicated radio programs and is now heard coast to coast on about 40 stations.

On Monday, March 22, 2010, John Bell announced that he would be leaving the Morning Show.

Hosts

The Z Morning Show has had several lead hosts:

Gary Bryan

Steve Cochrane

Elvis Duran

John Lander

Jack Murphy

Elliot Segal

Scott Shannon

Brian Wilson

Members

Danielle Monaro

Carolina Bermudez

Greg T.

Skeery Jones

David Brody

TJ the DJ

Garrett

Froggy (Live From Y100 in Miami, Florida)

Scotty B.

Loren

Carla Marie

Coaster Boy Josh

Bits

Phone Taps

Danielle's Sleaze

Carolina's Rage Page

Song Parodies

Office Slut Wednesday

The Answer Is Meat

Elvis' Lists

Mr. Moviephone

Greg T - Man On The Street

Free Money Phone Tap

Top Of The Charts

Greg T's Jumping Naked In Your Pool

Greg T's Topic Train

Annual events

The station annually holds popular concerts featuring top-name acts: "Z100's Jingle Ball" at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan during the winter holiday season, and Z100's Zootopia in late Spring.

From 1983-1991 and from 1997–2004, Z100 aired the "24 Hours Of Christmas" from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. Sometimes it began at noon, and other years it would be as late as 2pm. It was one of the first major-market Top 40 stations to play wall-to-wall Christmas music at the time. The music consisted of Christmas songs by the station's core artists mixed with well-known Christmas music by oldies artists and some traditional easy listening type artists. The station played about 125 songs in total, which were repeated over this 24 hour period. When Scott Shannon arrived at WPLJ, he began the same tradition there in 1991. Z100 discontinued the tradition in 1992 and during the "alternative years". By 1997, more core artists began creating Christmas music. As a result, Z100 reinstated the 24 hours of Christmas that year. It continued until 2004, when it was discontinued due to the desire to counter-program other co-owned stations as well as competitors.

On Christmas Eve at noon, the station airs a (pre-recorded) countdown show of the top 100 songs for the year, based on the total number of song spins, listener requests, and weekly playlist success (peak position, weeks on). The show is then repeated an average of once a day over the following week, with a final broadcast airing in January. Until 2004, the countdown began at Noon on Christmas Day after the "24 Hours Of Christmas". Until 2005, the countdown was hosted by Elvis Duran and Paul "Cubby" Bryant. In June 2006, Cubby left Z100 to co-host the nationally-syndicated "Wake Up With Whoopi" Goldberg program, heard in NY on Z100's sister station WKTU. As of 2006, Z100's Top 100 countdown is hosted by Elvis Duran and new afternoon DJ JJ.

Songs that are released in the final quarter of the year can be problematic; if a song is very popular during the last three months of the year and is in high rotation, it will often peak higher than a song that had been in medium rotation for a number of months. However, if a popular song is only in low to medium rotation during the later part of the year, it will often chart very low or not at all on the year end countdown, only to appear very high on the countdown of the following year.

History of #1s

These songs hit #1 on Z100's Top 100 Songs from 1983 to 2010.

1983: The Police - "Every Breath You Take"

1984: Prince - "When Doves Cry"

1985: Wham! - "Careless Whisper"

1986: Patti LaBelle ft. Michael McDonald - "On My Own"

1987: Atlantic Starr - "Always"

1988: George Michael - "One More Try"

1989: Bon Jovi - "I'll Be There for You"

1990: Madonna - "Vogue"

1991: Bryan Adams - "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

1992: Boyz II Men - "End of the Road"

1993: Mariah Carey - "Dreamlover"

1994: Melissa Etheridge - "Come to My Window"

1995: Pearl Jam - "Better Man"

1996: Alanis Morissette - "Ironic"

1997: Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"

1998: Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"

1999: Sixpence None the Richer - "Kiss Me"

2000: Destiny's Child - "Jumpin', Jumpin'"

2001: Lifehouse - "Hanging by a Moment"

2002: Linkin Park - "In the End"

2003: Evanescence - "Bring Me to Life"

2004: Usher ft. Ludacris and Lil Jon - "Yeah!"

2005: Kelly Clarkson - "Behind These Hazel Eyes"

2006: Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - "Hips Don't Lie"

2007: Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson - "The Way I Are"

2008: Chris Brown - "Forever"

2009: The Black Eyed Peas - "I Gotta Feeling"

2010: B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams - "Airplanes"

Kelly Clarkson was the first artist to hold the top two positions on the annual list, with "Behind These Hazel Eyes" and "Since U Been Gone" in 2005. This achievement was equaled in 2007 when Timbaland held these spots with "The Way I Are" and "Give It To Me" at number one and two respectively.

Shakira was the first Latina singer to top the countdown.

Third Eye Blind, Lifehouse, and Evanescence are the only artists to have their debut single top the countdown.

Only five songs that topped the countdown were collaborations. In 1986 with Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald; in 2004 with Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon; in 2006 with Shakira and Wyclef Jean; in 2007 with Timbaland, Keri Hilson, and D.O.E; and in 2010 with B.o.B and Hayley Williams.

No artist as listed has ever topped the chart twice, though, technically George Michael has topped it twice (once with Wham! in 1985, and as a solo artist in 1988).

On Air Line Up

Monday Through Thursday

5AM To 6AM: Pre Morning Show With Greg T.

6AM To 10AM: Elvis Duran and the Morning Show

10AM To 2PM: On Air with Ryan Seacrest (radio)

2PM To 6PM: JJ

6PM To 10PM: Mo' Bounce

10PM To 2AM: Trey Morgan

2AM To 5AM: Shelley Wade

Friday On Air Line Up

5AM To 6AM: Pre Morning Show With Greg T.

6AM To 10AM: Elvis Duran and the Morning Show

10AM To 2PM: On Air with Ryan Seacrest (radio)

2PM To 6PM: JJ

6PM To 10PM: Mo' Bounce

10PM To 4AM: Phill Kross

Saturday On Air Line Up

4AM To 6AM: Backtrax USA '90s With Kid Kelly

6AM To 10AM: The Best Of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show with Scotty B.

10AM To 2PM: You're Listening to New York's Hit Music Station (All Day Everyday!)

2PM To 6PM: JJ

6PM To 10PM: Mo' Bounce

10PM To 7AM: Phill Kross

Sunday On Air Line Up

8AM To 12PM: American Top 40 With Ryan Seacrest

12PM To 6PM: You're Listening to New York's Hit Music Station (All Day Everyday!)

6PM To 10PM: Trey Morgan

10PM To 1AM: You're Listening to New York's Hit Music Station (All Day Everyday!)

1AM To 5AM: Shelley Wade

On Air Weekends

Mike Klein

Nick Parker

Erica Hayden

DJ Riddler (Listen every Friday afternoon for The Riddler's 5 O'Clock Whistle Mix)

Jason Nevins (Listen to songs remixed by Jason Nevins Monday Through Friday at 6PM)

Sharon Stevens (Keep it tuned to Z to hear more from me!)

Past Air Talent from Z100

John Bell

Romeo On The Radio Afternoon (Drive time DJ/Program Director at WIOQ Q102 in Philadelphia)

Joe Rosati (Currently afternoon drive host at 106-7 The Beat Of Detroit in Detroit)

Niko (Currently working GOOM Radio Just Hits)

DJ Spinbad (Disc Jockey)

Ryan Hall

Billy The Kidd (Back to sister station doing nights at KHKS 106.1 KISS FM)

Dawson McAllister (Currently syndicated on other Upstate New York radio stations, closest to New York City, WPKF 96.1 KISS FM)

Kid Kelly (Currently working for Sirius Satellite Radio on its "Sirius Hits 1" Channel; doing syndicated "Backtrax USA", WHTZ airs the 90's edition of Backtrax USA on early Saturday mornings from 4AM To 6AM). He worked with a couple of sidekicks over the years: first, Telephone Tony (AKA Tone E Fly currently host of The Tone E Fly Morning Show at KTTB in Minneapolis-St. Paul) then Cousin Butchie Cassidy.

Jagger (Currently working at sister station 103.5 WKTU in New York and also serving as Z100's Music Director)

Paul "Cubby" Bryant (Currently working as a morning host at sister station 103.5 WKTU in New York)

Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton (Currently the host of the widely popular syndicated show The Weekend Top 30 and The Remix Top 40 Countdown's as well as the afternoon host at sister station WKTU in New York.)

Diane Pryor (Currently working at sister station 103.5 WKTU in New York)

Ron Parker (Host on WCBS-FM 101.1 in New York)

Chris Marino (Currently afternoon host and program director at 96.1 KISS-FM/WPKF in the Hudson Valley of New York)

Christine Nagy (Currently working as a morning host at sister station 106.7 WLTW in New York)

Patty Steele (Was working with 'Scott & Todd In The Morning' on WPLJ in New York)

Scott Shannon (Currently at rival station WPLJ)

Chio The Hit Man (Currently hosting the morning show at WRDW in Philadelphia)

Freddy Vedder (AKA Logan currently working at WISX in Philadelphia)

Ross Brittain (Currently at WOGL in Philadelphia)

Elliot Segal (Currently at WWDC/DC101 in Washington, DC)

Steve Grunwald (Currently working mornings on 99.5 WYCD in Detroit)

Murphy (Currently "Stick On The Radio" afternoons on WXXL in Orlando)

Chris Jagger (Currently morning host at 105.3 The Fan in Dallas)

Jack "Da Wack" Tally (Currently at country/KKBQ Houston as Cactus Jack)

Adam Curry (Until September 2008 morning host at Arrow Classic Rock in The Netherlands)

Brian Douglas (Currently afternoons on Dial Global's Hot Country national format)

Human Numan (Currently middays on Sirius Hits 1)

JoJo Morales (Currently nights on Sirius XM 90's on 9)

The Jammer (AKA Spyder Harrison, host of the Sirius Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and Nights on Sirius Channel 7 "Totally 70s" as J.J. Walker)

Priestly (Currently on Sirius XM 90's on 9 from 6AM-12PM and Format Manager(PD) of 90's on 9, Pop 2K and 20 on 20)

Booker

Claire Stevens

Jack Murphy

Janet Dean

Jeremy

John Connor

Lisa Taylor

Lucas

Reno

Rich Davis (Currently Sirius Hits 1 as well as Maxim Radio on Sirus 108)

Travis

Clarke Ingram

Gary Bryan

Jimmy Howes

Jo Maeder

Magic Matt Alan

Robby Bridges

Shadoe Stevens

Billy Hammond

Cat Simon

Clarence Barnes

Dr. Barry Stevens

Dr. George Brothers

John Barry

JR Nelson

Skinny Bobby

Spanky MacFarlane

Susan Leigh Taylor

External links

Official Website

The Morning Show's MySpace Page

DJ Spinbad's Homepage (Includes a Store and Bio.)

The Morning Show's Homepage

American Top 40

Z100 Top 100 Countdown History, 1983-2009

Kid Kelly's Nationally Syndicated "BackTrax USA" Show.

Madison Square Garden's official Z100 Jingle Ball page with exclusive content from Jingle Ball '08

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Michael Scott Shannon (born in St. Louis, Missouri) is a radio disc jockey, current co-host of the "Scott and Todd in the Morning" show on WPLJ, host of The True Oldies Channel, and the official voice of ''The Sean Hannity Show''.

Early Radio Career

Born in St. Louis, Scott Shannon grew up an Army brat, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Scott started his radio career during his own Army stint at WFBS 1450 AM in Spring Lake, North Carolina (now WFBX). From there he moved to WCLS 1580 AM in Columbus, Georgia. After leaving the army, Shannon worked full-time in radio at WABB, where he acquired the name "Super Shan". After a short time at WMPS in Memphis, Scott moved to Nashville as the evening disc jockey at WMAK 1300 AM. Shannon later became program director of WMAK. Under his direction, the station became the market's top-rated station.

Record Promotion Career

Shannon left Nashville to take a job as a record promoter with Casablanca Records and while there in 1977, recorded an album with Jack (Stack-A-Track) Grochmal. Calling themselves "Wildfire", they had a #49 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 remaking a Jerry Keller song from 1959 called "Here Comes Summer". Scott returned to radio in Washington, D.C. as program director of WPGC-FM, taking that station to the #1 spot in the Arbitron ratings. From there to WQXI in Atlanta. Then, in Tampa, Florida, Scott, along with partner Cleveland Wheeler, developed the morning zoo radio format while at WRBQ, known as Q105. Again, he shined in the ratings, this time making his station one of the most listened to in the United States. He was also primarily responsible for the renaissance of the musical career of vocalist Charlene, whose song "I've Never Been to Me" he revived by his programming of the long-dormant track.

Scott also had hosted a "where are they now?" radio program in 1989, where the subject of the day was the one hit wonder, Benny Mardones, who had the 1980 hit "Into The Night". Scott began putting the record in rotation in 1989, and soon after, many other DJs around the nation re-added the song to their playlists. The song re-entered the top 20 singles chart, prompting a resurgence in Benny Mardones's career including a new re-recording of the song, touring schedule, and new record.

The Z Morning Zoo

Scott is perhaps most famous within the radio business for his work on Z100 in New York City in the mid to late 80's. Shannon, along with former disc jockey Ross Brittain of WABC's popular "Ross & Wilson Show", founded the "Z Morning Zoo." He was the driving force in helping Z100 become the top-rated FM station in New York City in just 74 days after signing on the air. Z100 capitalized on using a Top 40 radio format. During this period, Shannon also served as one of the original VJs on VH1.

Pirate Radio KQLZ

In 1989, Shannon left Z100 in what was an emotional farewell to head to Los Angeles to start up Pirate Radio, KQLZ. Pirate Radio employed a similar Top 40 concept. As the 1990s started, Top 40 radio began to struggle and eventually Pirate Radio struggled as well, leading to Shannon's departure. He was known as "El Diablo" in Los Angeles because of a billboard image that made him look like the devil.

Back to New York

In 1991 he returned to New York and resurfaced on Z100's biggest rival, WPLJ. WPLJ had also been struggling since its glory days of the mid 1980s, and Shannon became program director and morning drive co-host. At the outset, the station was aimed right at Z100 and used the slogan "Mojo Radio," downplaying the WPLJ call letters, but this approach was eventually changed. Shannon created a Top 40 format that was geared more toward the adult contemporary audience, brought in co-host Todd Pettengill to form "The Big Show," and the WPLJ call letters were re-emphasized. The "new" WPLJ has not generally equalled the ratings of Z100, but it has found a niche in the New York radio market.

True Oldies Channel

In addition to his New York morning show, Scott can be heard across the country on The True Oldies Channel radio network.

Industry Recognition

Scott is one of several disc jockeys honored in an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 2000, ''FMBQ'', a radio trade magazine, named Shannon "Program Director of the Century."

In 2003, he was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C., and in 2006 he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Illinois.

Scott has also been a successful radio consultant in the 1990s for WPLY Philadelphia and WKCI-FM New Haven.

In September of 2010, Scott was named Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Awards.

Personal information

Shannon lives in Westchester County, New York

References

External links

Scott Shannon biography

Where Are They Now?

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Name	Harry Harrison
Birth date	March 12, 1925
Birth place	Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Birth name	Henry Maxwell Dempsey
Occupation	Fiction writer - short stories, novellas, novels, et cetera
Nationality	American
Genre	Science fiction
Spouse	Joan Merkler Harrison (1930–2002) - end with her death
Children	Moira Harrison, Todd Harrison
website	http://www.harryharrison.com/ }}

Harry Harrison (born March 12, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel ''Make Room! Make Room!'' (1966), the basis for the film ''Soylent Green'' (1973). He is also (with Brian Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Career

Before becoming an editor, Harrison started in the science fiction field as an illustrator, notably with EC Comics' two science fiction comic books, ''Weird Fantasy'' and ''Weird Science''. He has used house names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit magazines, and has published other fictions under the names Felix Boyd, Leslie Charteris, and Hank Dempsey (but see Personal Life below). Harrison also wrote for syndicated comic strips, creating the Rick Random character. Harrison is now much better known for his writing, particularly his humorous and satirical science fiction, such as the ''Stainless Steel Rat'' series and the novel ''Bill, the Galactic Hero'' (which satirises Robert A. Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers'').

During the 1950s and '60s, he was the main writer of the ''Flash Gordon'' newspaper strip. One of his ''Flash Gordon'' scripts was serialized in ''Comics Revue'' magazine. Harrison drew sketches to help the artist be more scientifically accurate, which the artist largely ignored.

Not all of Harrison's writing is comic, though. He has written many stories on serious themes, of which by far the best known is the novel about overpopulation and consumption of the world's resources ''Make Room! Make Room!'' which was used as a basis for the science fiction film ''Soylent Green'' (though the film changed the plot and theme).

Harrison for a time was closely identified with Brian Aldiss. The pair collaborated on a series of anthology projects. Harrison and Aldiss did much in the 1970s to raise the standards of criticism in the field.

In 1990 Harrison was professional Guest of Honour at ConFiction, the 48th World SF Convention, in The Hague, Netherlands, together with Joe Haldeman and Wolfgang Jeschke.

Harrison is a writer of fairly liberal worldview. Harrison's work often hinges around the contrast between the thinking man and the man of force, although the "Thinking Man" often needs ultimately to employ force himself.

Harrison was selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as the 2009 recipient of their Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

Personal life

Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey (although he did not know this until he was 30, at which point he legally changed his name to Harry Max Harrison). He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, but has lived in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Ireland, Denmark and Italy. He is an advocate of Esperanto (the language often appears in his novels, particularly in his ''Stainless Steel Rat'' and ''Deathworld'' series) and was formerly the honorary president of the Esperanto Association of Ireland, as well as holding memberships in other Esperanto organizations such as Esperanto-USA (formerly the Esperanto League for North America), of which he is an honorary member, and the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association), of whose Honorary Patrons' Committee he is a member. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a gunsight mechanic and gunnery instructor. He lives in the Republic of Ireland and maintains a flat in Brighton for visits to England.

Harrison married Joan (''nee'' Merkler) in 1954 in New York, a marriage that lasted until her death of cancer in 2002. They had two children, Todd (b. 1955) and Moira (b. 1959), to whom he dedicated the book ''Make Room! Make Room!''.

Bibliography

Novels

{|class="sortable wikitable" |+ The following table can be sorted to show Harrison's novels in chronological order,or arranged alphabetically by title, or by author credit, or by series. ! Year !! Title !! Author Credit !! Series !! Notes |- |1960 |''Deathworld'' |Harry Harrison |Deathworld | |- |1961 |''The Stainless Steel Rat'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1962 |''Planet of the Damned'' |Harry Harrison |Brion Brandd |Variant title: ''Sense of Obligation'' (1967); serialized under this variant title in 1961. |- |1964 |''Vendetta for the Saint'' |Leslie Charteris | |Ghostwritten by Harrison, credited to Leslie Charteris, and based upon Charteris's mystery series The Saint. |- |1964 |''Deathworld 2'' |Harry Harrison |Deathworld |Originally serialised as ''The Ethical Engineer'' |- |1965 |''Plague from Space'' |Harry Harrison | |Expanded and reissued as ''The Jupiter Plague'' (1982) |- |1965 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero'' |Harry Harrison |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1966 |''Make Room! Make Room!'' |Harry Harrison | |Basis for the 1973 science fiction movie ''Soylent Green'' starring Charlton Heston |- |1967 |''The Technicolor Time Machine'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1968 |''Deathworld 3'' |Harry Harrison |Deathworld |Originally serialised in 1968 as ''The Horse Barbarians'' |- |1969 |''Captive Universe'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1970 |''The Daleth Effect'' |Harry Harrison | |Variant title: ''In Our Hands, the Stars'', 1970. Serialised 1969-70 under this variant title. |- |1970 |''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1970 |''Spaceship Medic'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1972 |''Tunnel Through the Deeps'' |Harry Harrison | |Variant title: ''A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!'' |- |1972 |''Montezuma's Revenge'' |Harry Harrison |Tony Hawkin | |- |1972 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1972 |''Stonehenge'' |Harry Harrison and Leon Stover | |This version was heavily cut from the manuscript; 1983 edition, titled ''Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died'', restores the full original text. |- |1973 |''Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1974 |''Queen Victoria's Revenge '' |Harry Harrison |Tony Hawkin | |- |1975 |''The California Iceberg'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1976 |''Skyfall'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1977 |''The Lifeship'' |Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson | |Variant title: ''Lifeboat'' |- |1978 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1980 |''Homeworld'' |Harry Harrison |To the Stars | |- |1981 |''Wheelworld'' |Harry Harrison |To the Stars | |- |1981 |''Starworld'' |Harry Harrison |To the Stars | |- |1981 |''Planet of No Return'' |Harry Harrison |Brion Brandd | |- |1982 |''Invasion: Earth'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1982 |''The Stainless Steel Rat for President'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1982 | ''The QEII is Missing'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1983 |''A Rebel In Time'' |Harry Harrison | | |- |1984 |''West of Eden'' |Harry Harrison |Eden | |- |1985 |''A Stainless Steel Rat is Born'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1986 |''Winter in Eden'' |Harry Harrison |Eden | |- |1987 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1988 |''Return to Eden'' |Harry Harrison |Eden | |- |1989 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves'' |Harry Harrison |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1990 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains'' |Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1991 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure'' |Harry Harrison and David Bischoff |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1991 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires'' |Harry Harrison and Jack C. Haldeman II |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1991 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars'' |Harry Harrison and David Bischoff |Bill, the Galactic Hero |Variant title: ''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Hippies from Hell'' |- |1991 |''Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure'' |Harry Harrison and David Harris |Bill, the Galactic Hero | |- |1992 |''The Turing Option'' |Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky | | |- |1993 |''The Hammer and the Cross'' |Harry Harrison and John Holm |The Hammer and the Cross | "John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |- |1994 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1994 |''One King's Way'' |Harry Harrison and John Holm |The Hammer and the Cross |"John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |- |1996 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |1997 |''King and Emperor'' |Harry Harrison and John Holm |The Hammer and the Cross |"John Holm" is a pseudonym of Tom Shippey. |- |1998 |''Stars and Stripes Forever'' |Harry Harrison |Stars and Stripes | |- |1998 |''Return to Deathworld'' |Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis |Deathworld |Only published in Russian and Lithuanian. |- |1998 | ''Deathworld vs. Filibusters'' |Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis |Deathworld |Only published in Russian and Lithuanian. |- |1999 |''The Creatures from Hell'' |Harry Harrison and Ant Skalandis |Deathworld |Only published in Russian and Lithuanian. |- |1999 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |- |2000 |''Stars and Stripes in Peril'' |Harry Harrison |Stars and Stripes | |- |2001 |''Deathworld 7 '' |Harry Harrison and Mikhail Ahmanov |Deathworld |Only published in Russian and Lithuanian. |- |2002 |''Stars and Stripes Triumphant'' |Harry Harrison |Stars and Stripes | |- |2010 |''The Stainless Steel Rat Returns'' |Harry Harrison |The Stainless Steel Rat | |}

Novellas

''The Man from P.I.G.'' and ''The Man from R.O.B.O.T.'' (1974) These two linked novellas, featuring interstellar intelligence agents, were comedy-drama take-offs on ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E''. The first tells of an agent of the ''Porcine Interstellar Guard'', who performs his missions with the help of several pigs. The second tells of Henry Venn, an agent for "Robot Obtrusion Battalion — Omega Three", who poses as an interplanetary robot salesman while searching for a missing Galactic Census official on a planet populated by paranoid colonists. The latter was originally published as a short story in ''Analog'', July 1969.

''Planet Story'' (1978), published as a large format book with colour illustrations by Jim Burns

Short story collections

''See List of Harry Harrison Short Stories''

''Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows'' (1965)

''War with the Robots'' (1967)

''Prime Number'' (1970)

''One Step from Earth'' (1970)

''The Best of Harry Harrison'' (1976)

''Stainless Steel Visions'' (1992)

''Galactic Dreams'' (1994)

''50 In 50'' (2001)

''The Men From P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T.''

Omnibus volumes

''The Deathworld Trilogy'' (1974): Omnibus of ''Deathworld'', ''Deathworld 2'' & ''Deathworld 3'') (vt. ''The Deathworld Omnibus'', 1999) (the BenBella [2005] edition adds the short story `The Mothballed Spaceship' from ''Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology'' (1973))

''The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat'' (1978) - omnibus collection of ''The Stainless Steel Rat'', ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge'' and ''The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World''

''To the Stars'' (1991) - omnibus collection of the three "To The Stars" novels

''Warriors of the Way'' (1995), with "John Holm", a pseudonym of Tom Shippey: Omnibus of ''The Hammer and the Cross'' and ''One King's Way''

''A Stainless Steel Trio'' (2002) - omnibus collection of ''A Stainless Steel Rat is Born'', ''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' and ''The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues''

Comics

''Rick Random'' with artist Ron Turner (trade paperback: October 2008, ISBN 1853756733)

''Flash Gordon'' (1958–1964)

''The Stainless Steel Rat'' (1979–1985) was adapted into a comic strip in the magazine ''2000 AD'' by Kelvin Gosnell, with artist Carlos Ezquerra (trade paperback: July 2010, ISBN 1906735514)

''Harry Harrison's Bill, The Galactic Hero Comics''; 3 issues

Miscellanea

''You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat: An Interactive Game Book'' 1988 - choose your own adventure style

Non-fiction books

''Great Balls of Fire: A History of Sex in Science Fiction Illustration'' (1977)

''Mechanismo'' (1977)

''Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction'' (1979)

Anthologies (as editor)

''John W. Campbell: Collected Editorials from Analog'' (1966)

''Nebula Award Stories No. 2'' (1967) (with Brian Aldiss) (vt, ''Nebula Award Stories 1967'')

''Apeman, Spaceman'' (1968) (with Leon Stover)

''Best SF: 1967'' (1968) (vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Farewell Fantastic Venus'' (1968) (abr as vt, ''All About Venus'', 1968)

''SF: Author's Choice'' (1968) (vt, ''A Backdrop of Stars'')

''Best SF: 1968'' (1969) (rev vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Blast Off: SF for Boys'' (1969)

''Four for the Future'' (1969)

''Worlds of Wonder'' (1969)

''Best SF: 1969'' (1970) (vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Nova 1'' (1970) (rev edition 1976, UK hc)

''SF: Author's Choice 2'' (1970)

''The Year 2000'' (1970)

''Best SF: 1970'' (1971) (vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 4'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''The Light Fantastic'' (1971)

''SF: Author's Choice 3'' (1971)

''The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume One'' (1972) (with Brian Aldiss) (later split into two paperbacks: ''The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 1'' & ''The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 2'')

''Ahead of Time'' (1972)

''Best SF: 1971'' (1972) (vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 5'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Nova 2'' (1972)

''The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume Two'' (1973) (with Brian Aldiss) (only one edition; NOT the same book as ''The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 2'' above)

''Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology'' (1973) (vt, ''The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology'')

''Best SF: 1972'' (1973) (vt, ''The Year's Best S.F. 1972'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Nova 3'' (1973) (vt, ''The Outdated Man'')

''A Science Fiction Reader'' (1973) (with Carol Pugner)

''Best SF: 1973'' (1974) (abr vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Nova 4'' (1974)

''SF: Author's Choice 4'' (1974)

''Best SF: 1974'' (1975) (abr vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Decade: The 1940s'' (1975) (with Brian Aldiss)

''Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers'' (1975) (with Brian Aldiss) (memoirs by SF writers)

''Science Fiction Novellas'' (1975) (with Willis E. McNelly)

''Best SF: 1975, The Ninth Annual'' (1976) (vt, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 9'') (with Brian Aldiss)

''Decade: The 1950s'' (1976) (with Brian Aldiss)

''Decade: The 1960s'' (1977) (with Brian Aldiss)

''There Won't Be War'' (1991) (with Bruce McAllister)

References

External links

Official website

Official Harry Harrison News Blog

Harry Harrison Manuscripts Collection, University of South Florida-Tampa

"Worlds Beside Worlds" (Harry Harrison describes how "Tunnel through the Deeps" was written)

Interview with Harry Harrison 6 July 1997, Dublin, Ireland

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