Posted by Jimmy on July 20, 2004 at 04:58:45:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joe McCoy: Another Opinion posted by Vic on July 19, 2004 at 20:07:52:
Just a couple of quick points...
"I think one reason CBS-FM had so many "vintage" NYC jocks was so many of them stayed in the area and were available, sometimes just for lucrative part-time work."
True, but it took smarts to use them instead of doing what some stations did and try to hire younger jocks to sound younger and hipper. This was a theory of oldies radio in the 80's - that you should hire 20 somethings to give the format energy. I'm glad Joe didn't go that route.
"WJMK/Chicago also had at various times Ron Brittain and Fred Winston from the AM era. Landecker was there quite a while and Biondi has been there even longer."
Yes, but mostly they weren't there at the same time. When Brittain left, Winston arrived....only to be replaced by Landecker....who got canned a few months ago right when they re-hired Wilson for PM drive....poiint being they seemed to replace each other rather than all work there at the same time (apart from Biondin whose been there forever).
"KRTH in LA had Steele and Robert W. Morgan, which was much more than a token few. The superstars of the Top 40 era in LA would have Morgan and Steele Nos. 1 and 2."
Two guys is a token few in my personal opinion even if they were one and two (and some would argue for some other names but be that as it may....).
"There were on-air reunion weekends in Chicago and Detroit before CBS-FM did the promotion. I think Buffalo may have had one, too."
I really don't think you are right about that, but this is something I could be wrong about. WLS might have done a reunion while it was still a Top-40 station, but I don't ever recall such a weekend on WJMK. Anyway, I don't think any station did it with the sizzle and size that CBS-FM did. I could be wrong.
"WTAE/Pittsburgh did an all-time listener-voted Top 300 countdown in 1973 and I'm sure they weren't the first. "
Was it an oldies countdown? If it was, my apologies, I stand corrected.