NYC rewind
National News: Normally, PBRTV.com wouldn't care about format changes in Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk, but this one has a local connection. Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch reports that two years after a disastrous decision to convert its 101.1 MHz frequency to the variety hits "Jack FM" format, CBS Radio is restoring oldies to WCBS-FM, starting Thursday.The afternoon man will be none other than former WCBS-FM afternoon jock Bob Shannon, better remembered in Pittsburgh by his real name, Don Bombard. In the late '70s and early '80s, Bombard hosted one of the city's highest-rated radio shows, "The Sunday Night Oldies Party" on then-"13Q" WKTQ (1320).
Readers’ Forum
Just wanted to let you know that Bob Shannon has been doing the 11A.M.-3P.M. week-end shift at 107.1 FM. a NJ station that covers Monmouth and Ocean counties but can be heard in different parts of NJ for the past few months. The website is breezeradio.com where you might be able to e-mail Bob Shannon.
Hopefully when CBS-FM goes back to the oldies format they won’t ruin it like they did before it switched to JACK-FM. Towards the end of CBS-FM the DJ’s had a very very limited play list and listeners noticed. It was painful to listen to the station except for the DJ’s like Bob Shannon, Harry Harrison, Bill Brown, Cousin Brucie, Bobby Jay and Don K. Reed. If you listened to it,it was because of the DJ’s not the same repetitive oldies. The station needs to realize what made the station great originally which was playing 50’s and 60’s and a few 70’s tunes.
Robert Jones - July 09, 2007 at 3:51 pm