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WCBS-FM (101.1 MHz) is a CBS-owned radio station in New York City. The station's studios are in the combined CBS Radio facility at 345 Hudson Street in Manhattan, and its transmitter is located on the Empire State Building.

WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972. Between June 3, 2005 and July 12, 2007, the station aired the automated adult hits format "Jack FM". The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to personality-driven classic hits and oldies format, which featured a broader playlist concentrating on music from 1964 to 1989, but unlike other classic hits stations, they also play selected hits from before 1964.

History[link]

Early years[link]

In 1940, during the early days of FM broadcasting, what is now WCBS-FM was allocated an FM frequency and callsign, W67NY, becoming CBS's first FM station. The allocated dial position changed several times before the station finally went on the air at 46.7 MHz on December 1, 1941.^[1] On November 1, 1943, the callsign was changed to WABC-FM^[2] for Atlantic Broadcasting Company, the former owner of CBS's AM station (no relation to the present-day WABC). With the reallocation of the FM band, WABC-FM's new frequency became 96.9 MHz. Finally, in September 1947 the station became WCBS-FM, and the frequency moved to the current 101.1 MHz.^[3] This allowed the station to reflect its corporate ownership by the Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS.

For many years, WCBS-FM simulcast its programming with its AM sister station. From the 1940s until the late 1950s, both stations aired a typical network-dominated general entertainment format with comedies, dramas, news and information, sports, talk shows and some music. As these types of radio shows either moved to television or were canceled outright, WCBS and WCBS-FM evolved toward a personality-oriented format featuring news and information, popular music, and sports. As rock and roll became popular, the stations played only softer songs of the genre.

Each of the stations began broadcasting its own programming in in 1966. The AM station retained its personality-oriented Middle of the road format until August 27, 1967. WCBS-FM initially programmed a younger-leaning easy listening format known as "The Young Sound", playing soft instrumental versions of current pop music songs. This automated format was syndicated to CBS stations across the country and to AFR (American Forces Radio).^[4] On August 27, 1967, the AM station had to launch its news format (which was not full-time until 1972) on WCBS-FM because a small airplane had crashed into the AM transmitter a few hours earlier.

In 1969, WCBS-FM launched a freeform rock format, which was becoming increasingly popular, and all other CBS-owned FM stations followed suit. For the first time, WCBS-FM would have an airstaff. Bill Brown began his long tenure with the station, and Don K. Reed began his late in 1971; both remained there until 2005. Radio personalities such as Bobby "Wizzard" Wayne, Tom Tyler, Ed Williams, Steve Clark, Roby Yonge, K.O. Bayley (Bob Elliott from WOR-FM), Les Turpin, Bob "Bob-A-Lew" Lewis also briefly joined the WCBS-FM "freeform" format. Besides Bill Brown and Don K. Reed, Wizzard Wayne and Ed Williams also stayed into the early part of the oldies format.

Original oldies years[link]

WCBS-FM was never successful with their rock format, competing with stations such as WPLJ (the other former WABC-FM) and WNEW-FM had most of the rock audience. As a result, WCBS-FM switched to oldies on July 7, 1972, becoming one of the first full-time stations in the country to use that format.^[5] The change coincided with rival WOR-FM's decision to drop pre-1964 oldies from its playlist a few months prior (as they became WXLO). Johnny Michaels, formerly of WMCA, played the first record,^[6] Dion's "Runaround Sue". The entire staff from the rock format remained at the station.

At first, the station focused on rock-and-roll hits from 1955 to 1964 and mixed in some softer hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as a few then-current songs. WCBS-FM also played a moderate amount of adult standards from the rock era. The station played two current hits per hour known as "future gold". By the late 1970s however, the station dropped most of the adult standards, with a few exceptions, and added rock hits from the late 1960s.

WCBS-FM's oldies format weathered many trends and corporate moves. By 1979, three FM stations owned by CBS had begun playing disco music. In 1981, all of CBS's FM stations, except for WCBS-FM, adopted a CHR format known as "Hot Hits". The oldies format on WCBS-FM continued to be a success.

One ongoing favorite feature was a countdown of the top 500 songs of all time, as voted by the station's listeners. The countdown always took place on Thanksgiving weekend (with a new survey taken every other year. On even years, up to 1990, the survey from the previous year was played. In the first Top 500, The Five Satins' doo wop classic "In the Still of the Night" was #1 and "Earth Angel" by The Penguins was #2. "In the Still of the Night" remained at #1 every year after that.^[7]

In 1992, CBS-FM ran a Top 500 Countdown based on all their surveys from 1973 to 1991. They repeated 1993's Top 500 in 1994, conducting their last listener surveys in 1995 and 1996. After compiling an all-time survey based on past surveys in 1997, the station abandoned listener surveys, repeating the 1997 all-time survey on subsequent Thanksgiving weekends.

For New Years weekend in 1999–2000, the station compiled and played a Top 1001 countdown based on original New York radio charts, with "Hey Jude" by The Beatles at number one. This survey would be repeated on Thanksgiving weekend in 2002. In 2003, the station played a Top 500 Countdown covering the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and some 1950s songs, and in 2004 played a Top 500 Countdown with mostly songs from 1964 to 1979 with some pre-1964 songs and 1980s songs.

When the station returned to a modified oldies and classic hits format in 2007, the station compiled a new listener-voted survey and played the results Labor Day weekend. This survey featured mostly songs from the 1960s and 1970s with a moderate selection of songs from the 1955–1963 time period. There was also a moderate amount of 1980s music on the survey.

Joe McCoy took over as program director in 1981, and at that point WCBS-FM began to gradually shift its focus to the 1964–1969 era, but would also feature a more pre-1964 oldies than most other such stations. The station continued to also feature hits of the 1970s and some hits of the 1980s while cutting future gold selections to one per hour. Also in the 1980s, after WABC and later WNBC (AM) abandoned music in favor of talk, WCBS-FM began employing many disc jockeys who were widely known on other New York City stations (and sometimes nationally), most notably Musicradio WABC alumni Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Chuck Leonard and Harry Harrison, as well as Dan Daniels and Jack Spector.

Bob Shannon, whose only previous New York City radio experience before coming to WCBS-FM was as a fill-in DJ at WYNY, became well-known himself through his 19-year run as the station's afternoon disk jockey. Bill Brown (who had started with the station in 1969, during their rock days) and Don K. Reed (who started at the station 6 months before the switch to oldies) remained with the station during their entire first period as an oldies station.

In 1989, WCBS-FM moved current music to late nights and overnights. While most oldies stations were playing songs from exclusively 1955 to 1973, WCBS-FM continued to play a moderate amount of songs from the late 1970s as well as about one 1980s hit per hour. Most of the 1980s music came from core oldies artists.

The station's ratings increased during the 1990s (and were sustained into the 2000s) and market research studies showed a small and growing audience in the 35-to-49-year-old demographic as a new generation's "songs they grew up with" moved into the oldies format. The station even hit number one overall in the ratings on at least several occasions during the 1990s.

During this period, the station's on-air jingles were made by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas, Texas. Such was the appeal of the packages of jingles that stations around the world wanted that WCBS-FM sound for their stations, including for example the UK's Victory FM.

By 2000, as demographics for 1950s and early 1960s oldies started to eclipse the target age groups that many advertisers covet,^[8] WCBS-FM began cutting pre-1964 songs while adding more music from the 1970s and 1980s. By early 2001, they had cut many specialty shows. Eventually, they began to shorten the regular playlist and moved away from pre-1964 and toward 1970–1989 songs even more. In the summer of 2002, Don K. Reed's long-running Sunday night Doo-Wop Shop program was cancelled. The station even began to de-emphasize the phrase 'oldies' in promotion of the station.^[9]

The station canceled more specialty shows in 2003 such as the "Top 20 Oldies Countdown". In the summer of 2003, to appease some fans, they did add a specialty 1955–1964 oldies show called "Heart & Soul of Rock & Roll" with Norm N. Nite (who had been with WCBS off and on since 1973). Also in that year, Harry Harrison and Dan Ingram both retired.

In the spring of 2004, WCBS-FM narrowed the playlist even more. The station's playlist consisted of music almost entirely from 1964 to 1979, dividing about equally between the 1960s and 1970s, playing only a handful of pre-1964 oldies and songs from the 1980s. Joe McCoy left the station shortly thereafter and was replaced by Dave Logan.

WCBS-FM's last morning show host of this period was ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz, who had appeal to this audience segment by virtue of 1970s The Monkees reruns and the mid-1980s Monkees revival. His broadcast on June 3, 2005, was a remote at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate his 100th day at the station. However, by the end of that day, the station would be changed dramatically.

101.1 JACK FM[link]

On Friday, June 3, 2005, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Fitzgerald, and Randy Davis all signed off their last on-air shifts expecting to be back the following Monday. But, Bill Brown signed off saying, "Have you ever got the urge to scream 'Rescue Me'?! I am getting that feeling; here's 'Fontella Bass'". Then the station played the usual station identification, and then a mix of oldies referring to change, including "Movin' Out", "Get a Job", "Glory Days", "Hit the Road Jack", among others. Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" was the last song played before the format change. At 4:30 p.m., the station played a montage of lines from various movies and other sources for 30 minutes.

Then, at 5:00 p.m. the station began its new "Jack FM" format, identifying itself by that name. A pre-recorded station identification was played followed by a short introduction of the new format by Howard Cogan (Jack FM's station imaging voice) and the announcement of the new station name: "Welcome to the NEW 101.1 Jack FM, playing what we want." The first song aired was Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right".^[10] The format featured nearly 2,000 unique songs in the playlist.

With this move, WCBS-FM had left the oldies format after 33 years. In an attempt to cater to fans of the old format, the station created an internet-only oldies station on its website. Initially, the internet-only station was DJ-less like Jack FM, whose "DJ" was a pre-recorded voice work done by Cogan. But in a letter on the WCBS-FM website posted on June 5, 2005, station VP Chad Brown announced the webstream might try to bring back most of the original shows and DJs and that eventually the station would also be able to be heard on HD radio.

The change left WBZO as the only FM station playing any type of oldies format in the market. The signal there is weak however because it is operates out of Long Island, and it operates an outright oldies format, unlike WCBS's old greatest hits format.

Many criticized the change of formats, among them Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, according to the New York Post, responded to the change by declaring he would "never listen to that f---ing CBS radio again." "Jack" picked up on the mayor's comments, making jokes about his quip,"Hey, Mayor Bloomberg. I heard you took a shot at us in the Post. What's with all the swearin' like a sailor? Fleet Week is over. It's just music." In an interview with the New York Daily News, Cousin Brucie likened the format switch to "replacing Yankee Stadium with a fruit stand". Cousin Brucie has since signed on with Sirius Satellite Radio to continue playing oldies.

Recognizing the controversy of the sudden change, on June 14, 2005, the station announced that it would be unique among those with the Jack format in that it would occasionally include '50s and early '60s songs in its rotation as well as songs by performers like Frank Sinatra that are normally not part of the Jack format, though a later Web update retracted this and songs from before the late '60s were no longer played.

In March 2006, Chad Brown hired Brian Thomas as program director, replacing Steve Smith. Brown was replaced by Les Hollander later that year after a big layoff of personnel at CBS Radio. In 2007, Jennifer Donohue (from WWFS) was named as Jack's new general manager. Later that year, Maire Mason replaced Donohue.

Return to the classic hits format[link]

The "Jack" format experiment at WCBS-FM is widely regarded, inside and outside the industry, as one of the greatest failures in modern New York radio history, as the station fell to the very bottom of the ratings of full-market-coverage FM stations in the New York market. In early July 2007, various websites quoted sources as saying the station was ready to shift from its current "Jack FM" format and return to its previous format. CBS Radio, owner of the station, declined to comment on the rumors. Initial reports about the WCBS-FM format change initially surfaced on July 6, 2007, in the Radio Business Report online newsletter and at CrainsNewYorkBusiness.com.^{[citation needed]}

CBS Radio confirmed the rumors on July 9, 2007, that live announcers would indeed return to 101.1 and the HD1 channel on July 12. The returning format concentrates on music from 1964 to 1989, with more pre-1985 hits as well as selected older hits from 1955 through 1963. There would be a wider variety of hits, unlike the CBS-FM of 2005, which had a limited playlist from 1964 through 1979.

On July 12, the final song on Jack FM which was Don't Stop Believin' by Journey, ending in the same spot where the song abruptly ended during the series finale of The Sopranos'. Then, after a few seconds of dead air and a few seconds of a "Wayback Machine" audio special effect, the oldies format returned with the resumption of the last song played before the change to Jack FM, Frank Sinatra's Summer Wind (starting like a phonograph record played very slowly but quickly accelerated to normal speed). This was followed by greetings from former CBS-FM DJs Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy. Next were audio-clip montages of music, movies, television shows, and events for each year from 1964 through 1979 followed by a single montage, similar to the aforementioned, which paid homage to the entire decade of the 1980s, with WCBS-FM jingles interspersed between. Former Mayor Ed Koch then welcomed back the format, noting the "mistake" CBS Radio had made with the switch.^[11] Then at exactly 1:01pm the legally mandated station identification played, and WCBS-FM's classic hits format officially returned with Do It Again by the Beach Boys.^[11] This sequence is now repeated on-air every July 12. WOCL in Orlando did that thing the following year, dropping alternative rock for classic hits, and later WJMK in Chicago also used the same sequence (with a few modifications) on March 14, 2011 when they switched from Jack FM to a classic hits format.

Upon hearing of WCBS-FM's confirmation that oldies would return, Cousin Brucie commented, "I’m thrilled that this music is getting a chance again." He added, "This music has been treated terribly, and people in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s are still a very viable product in this society."^[12] Mayor Bloomberg, who had criticized the Jack FM format after its debut, also welcomed oldies back with open arms, proclaiming July 12, 2007, as "WCBS-FM Returns to New York City Day".^[13]

Arbitron's switch from diary to PPM facilitated a move back to oldies and classic hits as sister station WOGL in Philadelphia had demonstrated ratings success in the new methodology by reaching the top five. WCBS-FM's return to classic hits has also been a success, ranking it among the top five stations in every quarter of the new ratings for Arbitron, consistently either first or second in overall audience. The station was recently number one among all stations in the New York region, 25-54 and 12+ (Arbitron PPM report, May 2010).^[14][15]

As of August 2009, WCBS-FM started carrying New York Giants football on occasions when sister station WFAN could not carry the game. For the 2010 season, two Giants pre-season games and two regular season games were carried on WCBS-FM including the first game at the New Meadowlands Stadium against the New York Jets on August 16.

On-air personalities[link]

Dan Taylor hosts WCBS-FM's morning show from 6 to 10 a.m., with Irv 'Mr. G.' Gikofsky providing weather updates. The weekday lineup also features Bob Shannon (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), Broadway Bill Lee (3 to 7 p.m. plus Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Ron Parker (Monday through Thursday, 7 p.m. to midnight, plus Sundays 3 to 7 p.m.) and Joe Causi hosts the overnight shift. Weekend hosts include Sue O'Neal (6 to 10 a.m.), Pat St. John (Sundays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), and Causi (Fridays and Saturdays 7 p.m. to midnight), and assistant program director Lenny Bloch on weekend overnights. Both Causi's and Bloch's overnight shifts use voice-tracking. In addition, Fast Jimi Roberts, Big Jay Sorensen, Steve O'Brien, Famous Amos, Randy Davis, Dave Packer and Don Geronimo have done occasional fill-in work.

Dick Bartley's syndicated Classic Countdown airs on Sunday nights from 7 to 11 p.m., followed by the Classic Dance Showcase hosted by Joe Causi from 11 p.m. to midnight. These shows replaced Radio Greats and Top 20 Countdown, which aired from the station's relaunch in July 2007 until June 7, 2009. Another syndicated show, Dick Clark Presents Rewind with Gary Bryan, airs on Sunday mornings from 12 to 4 a.m.

The Radio Greats program showcased veteran on-air personalities, with music tailored to their era of success. Don K. Reed, Norm N. Nite, Ed Baer, Steve O'Brien, Randy Davis, Big Jay Sorensen, and Famous Amos were regularly featured on the program. Other guests included Ross Brittain, Max Kinkel, Big Ron O'Brien, Bobby Jay, Dan Ingram, Gary Bryan, Harry Nelson, Al Bandiero, Al Bernstein, former CBS-FM program director Joe McCoy, Rick Hunter, Howard Hoffman, Dick Bartley, and ex-morning man and Monkee Micky Dolenz, who finally got to do his long postponed 101st show on CBS-FM. A recording of Wolfman Jack's final radio broadcast from 1995 was also featured on two occasions. The final Radio Greats show was hosted by WCBS-FM veteran Dick Heatherton.

Signal strength[link]

WCBS-FM broadcasts at 6,700 watts. WBEB, an Adult Contemporary station in Philadelphia, also broadcasts at 101.1 FM. WBEB's signal reaches far north into New Jersey, especially along Interstate 287 south of Morristown, and in Northwestern New Jersey. In those areas WBEB interferes with WCBS-FM which also broadcasts on 101.1, and in some spots, WBEB's signal actually seems stronger. This is because WBEB broadcasts at 14,000 watts, although from a lower antenna height.

WCBS is simulcast on 105.7 FM (call sign W289BE) in the Hudson Valley region of NY; however, in many areas the broadcast signal from the city is relatively clear.

WCBS-FM's subcarrier also airs Spanish language Catholic programming for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Radio Maria Hispana, a local unit of Radio Maria USA.

HD Radio operations[link]

A few hours after the change back from Jack FM, WCBS-FM's '60s and '70s music was brought back online at wcbsfm.com. CBS FM's longtime music director Jeff Mazzei was retained as program director of the wcbsfm.com oldies stream. Over the next couple of weeks, the station started playing pre-1964 oldies again. Additionally, the '60s and '70s oldies became broader and '80s and early '90s oldies were also mixed in, and the format got much deeper. However, it was commercial-free and had no airstaff. WCBS-FM HD 2 also began broadcasting in HD radio on December 12, 2005 (before most of the other NY stations, which launched in early 2006).

Air personalities did on-air auditions on the WCBS-FM HD2 oldies station on July 11, 2007, as a preview of the next day's changeover. The format then moved to the analog and HD1 channels. The HD2 station also simulcast the oldies format until 2:00 p.m. that day, at which time Jack FM moved to HD2. At 3:00 p.m. that day, Jack FM resumed streaming on their website ilikejack.com. In February 2008, Howard Cogan was replaced by Pat St. John as the pre-recorded voice of the Jack character on WCBS-FM-HD2 and ilikejack.com. On May 7, 2008, the Jack branding was dropped from WCBS-FM HD2 and was just called 101.1 HD2 or WCBS-FM HD2 due to the end of a licensing agreement with the owner of the Jack name and slogan, Sparknet Communications.^[16] In late June 2009, the HD2 channel was rebranded again as "ToNY", meaning "to New York" but pronounced as "Tony".^[17] The channel continues to feature an adult hits format.

On October 2, 2008 around 3 a.m., WCBS-FM HD3 was launched as a simulcast of WCBS News Radio 880.^[18]

See also[link]

• WCBS (AM), aka "WCBS Newsradio" (880 kHz)
• WCBS-TV (channel 2)

References[link]

1. ^ "WCBS-FM entry on the New York Radio Guide". http://www.nyradioguide.com/cgi-bin/info.cgi/WCBS-FM. 
2. ^ Miller, Jeff. "FM Broadcasting Chronology". History of American Broadcasting. http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chronofm.html. 
3. ^ Kennedy, Jr, T.R. (September 19, 1943). "New FM Calls Coming". The New York Times. http://members.aol.com/jeff560/fm5.html. 
4. ^ "NYC FM Radio History". http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/nycfmhistory2.html. 
5. ^ "History of WCBS-FM". WCBS-FM. http://www.wcbsfm.com/pages/83414.php. 
6. ^ Toby Eddings, "ACC football on one less station," The Sun News, Apr. 18, 1999.
7. ^ Hinckley, David (November 26, 1997). "At 25, WCBS Culls Top-500s Top-500". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1997/11/26/1997-11-26_at_25__wcbs_culls_top-500s_t.html. 
8. ^ Hinckley, David (July 13, 2007). "Lost in the '50s". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/07/17/2007-07-13_1011_reasons_to_rejoice-1.html. 
9. ^ Ross, Sean (June 8, 2005). "WCBS-FM: A Final Appreciation". Edison Media Research. http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2005/06/wcbsfm_a_final.php. 
10. ^ "Are oldies the new Jack on NYC radio?". Associated Press. July 7, 2007. http://new.music.yahoo.com/beastie-boys/news/are-oldies-the-new-jack-on-nyc-radio--45019874. Retrieved March 4, 2010. 
11. ^ ^{a b} Hinckley, David (July 13, 2007). "101.1 reasons to rejoice". Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/07/13/2007-07-13_1011_reasons_to_rejoice-1.html. 
12. ^ Sisario, Ben (July 8, 2007). "WCBS-FM Switch Seen as a Victory for Older Listeners". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/nyregion/08brucie.html. 
13. ^ Proclamation from Mayor Michael Bloomberg on "WCBS-FM Returns to New York City Day"
14. ^ Arbitron PPM Report, May 2010
15. ^ Plambeck, Joseph (June 16, 2010). "WCBS-FM Regains Top Spot in New York". New York Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/wcbs-fm-regains-top-spot-in-new-york. Retrieved December 27, 2010. 
16. ^ "CBS drops licensing deal with SparkNet in NYC". http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/338587.html. 
17. ^ [1]
18. ^ http://www.wcbs880.com/WCBS-AM-Now-Available-on-FM-Band/3071718

External links[link]

• 101.1 WCBS-FM
• 101.1 WCBS-FM HD2
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WCBS
• Radio-Locator information on WCBS
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WCBS
• Aerial view of WCBS-FM studios from Google Local
• History of WCBS-FM
• The WCBS-FM Top 1001 of All Time
• New York Daily News: Oldies suddenly a thing of past in WCBS shift (June 4, 2005)
• Interview with Cousin Brucie in The Villager
• WCBS-FM tribute site
• WCBS-FM Station Information
• Newsday stories from July 7, 2007 and July 12, 2007 on the return of oldies to WCBS-FM.
• CBS drops licensing deal with SparkNet in NYC

Coordinates: 40°44′53″N 73°59′10″W / 40.748°N 73.986°W / 40.748; -73.986

Daniel Trombley "Dan" Ingram (born September 7, 1934 in Oceanside, New York) is an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a forty-year career on radio stations such as WABC and WCBS-FM in New York. "Big Dan" started broadcasting at WHCH Hofstra College, Hempstead, New York, WNRC, New Rochelle, New York, and WALK-FM, Patchogue, New York.

Ingram is regarded by many as the best Top 40 DJ of all time. He's noted for his quick wit and ability to convey a humorous or satiric idea with quick pacing and an economy of words--a skill which has made him uniquely suited to, and successful within, modern personality-driven music radio. He is among the most frequently emulated radio personalities, cited as an influence or inspiration by numerous current broadcasters. One of Ingram's unique skills was his ability to "talk up" to the lyrics of a record, meaning speaking over the musical introduction and finishing exactly at the point when the lyrics started.

Dan was well known for playing doctored versions of popular songs. The Paul McCartney & Wings song My Love Does it Good became My Glove Does it Good. The stuttering title refrain of Bennie and the Jets went from three or four repetitions to countless. In the same vein, the distinctive refrain added to Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede, Ooga-ooga-ooga-chucka would start repeating and listeners would never know when it would end. (Other examples include Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and "rearranging" the spelling of "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y" on the Bay City Rollers' Saturday Night.)

Dan's longtime closing theme song was "Tri-Fi Drums" by Billy May. An edited version of the song was used for broadcast.

Dan is not related to Clarke Ingram, another top 40 radio personality in New York City who worked at Z-100 during the early 1990s. Clarke has said that he was reluctant to use "Ingram" (his real name) because of Dan's prominence, but that Z-100 encouraged him to do so because at the time Dan was not on the air at any station. About six months later, Dan returned to the air, doing weekends at WCBS-FM, and the two occasionally competed in the same time slots. Some listeners mistakenly assumed that Clarke was Dan's son, or another relative. (A photo of Dan and Clarke meeting each other for the first time appeared in the radio trade publication FMQB in 1997.) However, Dan's son, Chris, is currently a DJ at WVOS-FM in Monticello, NY.

Dan commented occasionally about the pronunciation of his name: jingles often are heard pronouncing his last name as "Ing-ram," but Dan has said it is correctly pronounced "In-gram." As a tribute to Dan in later years, ESPN's Chris Berman would do the same when saying the name of New York Giants wide receiver Mark Ingram, pronouncing it "Marrrrrk In-gram".

Dan was interviewed about his career by Mark Simone on WABC Post-Rewound show on May 29, 2006. While discussing a lawsuit filed against him by another person who used his name, he said "shit". While the dump button managed to erase that profanity from the air, his second profanity ("fuck") accidentally went on the air due to a delay problem.^[1]

History[link]

• 1958 — WICC, Bridgeport, Connecticut (under the name Rae Tayler)
• 1958 — WNHC, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1959 — KBOX, Dallas
• 1960 — WIL, St. Louis
• July 3, 1961 — May 10, 1982 WABC, New York City. He and Ron Lundy were on-air as the station switched to TalkRadio.
• April 1984 — December 1986 Hosted CBS Radio's "Top 40 Satellite Survey"
• 1984–June 1985 — WKTU-FM, New York City
• October 1991–June 2003, September 16, 2007 (New York Radio Greats) — WCBS-FM, New York City
• June 1998 - KRTH-FM, Los Angeles. One week as "guest DJ," ostensibly a tryout for the morning drive spot recently vacated by the retiring Robert W. Morgan. The job went to Charlie Van Dyke.
• February 8, 2004 (Fab-40th Weekend) — WAXQ, New York

Quotes[link]

• Does that sound particularly slow to you?....Everything sounds like it's running in slow motion....The lights are dimming in the city; you wouldn't believe what's going on in this studio, folks!....The electricity is slowing down; I didn't know that could happen! — Ingram on the air, minutes before the great Northeast Blackout of 1965, as decreasing electrical frequency caused the music he was playing to run slow
• I just got some terrible news. I read the ratings, and WABC is only the 13th ranked station…in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! — On WABC in 1971
• "WABC, the station that loves you, because your ears are a saleable commodity!"
• "Hi Kemosabe"
• "Roll your bod"
• "The word of the day is…"
• "You're in the honored group of the day"
• "The boys in blue are looking for you, with radar."
• About Cass Elliot: "I love the chunky Mama."
• "The Teeny Weeny Brass" — for the Tijuana Brass
• "on the Ingram Mess"*
• "on the Ingram Flingram"*
• "on the Ingram Travesty" (occasionally "the Ingram Catharsis")
• " zay gezunt" — a Yiddish expression, meaning "be well." Upon hearing this, many listeners believed him to be Jewish. (He is actually Presbyterian, of English and French-Canadian heritage.)
• "Jeg elsker dig" — a Danish expression, meaning, "I love you." Used nearly always as a sign off, he would pronounce it "Yay hoolska day."
• Sometimes preceding a weather forecast: "Peter the Meter Reader and his Weather Machine aided by his lovely wife, Fats Pontoon, her mustache, beard and orchestra" or "Peter the Meter Reader and his Weather Machine aided by his lovely wife Fats Pontoon and her weather balloon" or "... her pearly green skin and her orchestra."
• Sometimes during a weather forecast: "Chance of brief showers… watch out for those briefs…"
• Introducing Howard Cosell's Speaking of Sports segment: "And now it's time to broach the coach."
• "Big Dan here, laughin' and scratchin'"
• "[...the Dan Ingram show] might start off slow, but you can be guaranteed it'll slump off from there."
• Following a pre-recorded commercial which he had voiced, "Thank you, me!"
• He frequently "doubled" the voiceover of a pre-recorded commercial or station promo, voicing it live on air while the recorded version was playing, perfectly matching the pacing and inflection of the recorded version, to sound as if there were two of him speaking.

Quotes from last WABC shows before the 1982 format change[link]

• "So basically I'm taking seven weeks off. With pay heh heh." — at the end of Dan Ingram's final Friday afternoon on the air. Ingram was expecting to move to an upcoming satellite oldies service named Superradio (however, the service did not sign up enough affiliates to launch).
• "But the honor group of the day, my friend, is you. Because if you hadn't listened, I would've never have been here. Thank you." — Dan Ingram at the end of his final afternoon show Friday before the format change
• "There is one thing that I want to say that will be probably the last time that I will ever be able to say this, on WABC, and the last thing I am going to say is…This is WABC, New York. I can't say that anymore, can I?" — Near the end of the final broadcast on May 10, 1982
• "We would like to play a couple of things to nail it down. Let's have that." (Three chimes ring, from John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over," then Lennon's "Imagine" plays. After the song, the familiar WABC "chime" jingle is heard, then a moment of silence before the first Talkradio jingle. This marked the end of WABC's 22 years as a Top-40 station.)

Awards[link]

• Edward R. Murrow Award for an anti-smoking campaign
• Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for public service announcements
• National Radio Hall of Fame nominee in 2004 (although not inducted)
• National Radio Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• New York Achievement In Radio (A.I.R.) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005
• Hofstra University Estabrook Alumni Award given to less than 1% of honored graduates

References[link]

1. ^ Fybush, Scott (2006-06-05). "NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush" (HTML). FybuishMedia.com. http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/060605/nerw.html. Retrieved 2006-07-09. 

External links[link]

• Musicradio77.com
• Musicradio 77 tribute page featuring pictures of Ingram and Lundy broadcasting their last radio show before the music died.

Harry Harrison
At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005
Born	Henry Maxwell Dempsey (1925-03-12) March 12, 1925 (age 87) Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Occupation	Fiction writer - short stories, novellas, novels, et cetera
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction
Spouse(s)	Joan Merkler Harrison (1930–2002) - end with her death
Children	Moira Harrison, Todd Harrison
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[link]

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 1960s, 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.^{[citation needed]} In particular, the two edited nine volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthology series^[1] as well as three volumes of the Decade series, collecting science fiction of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s respectively.^[2]

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.^[3]

Personal life[link]