Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
The Home Front – V-E Day (edited clip)
Edward Brown and William B. Williams
Victory in Europe
Victory in Europe Day
Sweet 16
A very special Happy Anniversary to WNEW1130.com.
Thank you, Ed Brown, for your vision in creating this site, and thank you for your writing. Thank you to that handful of WNEW-AM family of friends who continue to support this site.
WNEW1130.com post that April day read,
There’s Only One . . . WNEW
There was a time when most radio stations, no matter how big, were local and part of neighborhood life. WNEW-AM, where the forms of modern radio were invented and made personal, existed within a community of broadcasters and listeners who shared in life’s events and now, share memories. This blog, exists to collect as many as possible of the bits and pieces of that history. What do you remember? What part of the story can you tell?
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Happy Birthday, Alan Walden
Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah
Originally posted by Edward Brown, April 2018.
Remembering Nat Asch
Remembering Mistuh Nathaniel Aschkynazo
November 18, 1926 – April 6, 2022
…from the WNEW1130.com archives, with our thanks to Alan Walden.
Those ’70s Ad Campaigns
…following our early morning subway ride of advertising with WNEW, I hope you enjoy this mid-70’s advertising.
Klavan and Finch…and then there was…Klavan
From the archives of Stuart Zuckerman.
Promotion Manager WNEW-AM mid-’70’s
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We Make You Feel Brand New
Contributing Editor, Andy Fisher
New York Transit Museum. Photo Credit: Bernie Wagenblast
Your Metromedia Station in New York
Bernie Wagenblast, a veteran New York radio traffic and transit reporter, sent me this picture taken at the New York Transit Museum, located in the abandoned Court Street subway station in downtown Brooklyn. The museum displays many restored New York subway cars, complete with period advertisements. Bernie thoughtfully spotted this one and sent it to me.
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Postedit: In response to your comment, Mike Moss, here is a Julius La Rosa special, You make me Feel so Young
Remembering Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens, a New York Radio DJ Who Spun the British Invasion, Dies at 84
The following is an excerpt from an article in the WSJ. –MCP-
By Chris Kornelis
March 7, 2025 10:00 am ET
In May of 1967, Gary Stevens told his listeners that he’d gotten his hands on new music from the Beatles that none of them had heard yet. This is what his listeners tuned in for. Decades before the internet, social media, Napster, Spotify and MTV, radio was where you first heard new releases from the Rolling Stones, the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers.
Stevens was one of the WMCA “Good Guys,” the New York station’s roster of DJs at the height of the British Invasion and the halcyon days of Motown. The Beatles had already released “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” earlier in the year, but Stevens didn’t just have a new single. He had an entire album: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” He claimed that his sidekick—a bear named Wooly Burger—had smuggled it out of England.
“People were not just tuning in to hear music and call letters and news, they tuned in for a friend, a familiar voice that made you feel good,” said Bruce Morrow, aka “Cousin Brucie,” who competed directly against Stevens in the night slot at WABC, where he still hosts a show He added: “If you were successful, you knew the secret: how to talk right directly to an audience. Gary had that secret.”
Write to Chris Kornelis at chris.kornelis@wsj.com
Editor’s Note: Although Mr. Stevens was not a WNEW alumni, he worked with many at WMCA who later landed at WNEW, including, Edward Brown.
International Women’s Day
The year was 1857, the day-March 8, when women textile workers in New York City, marched in protest of unfair working conditions and unequal rights.
Fifty-one years later on March 8, 1908, women workers fought for their rights again, by marching through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions.
Imagine the delight and pride of those courageous women, when in 1935, Bernice Judis signed on as General Manager of WNEW. And, in 2022, she received a Legends induction into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Photo: NYC Radio-Arcadia
Or, in 1940, when top ranking woman tennis player, Alice Marble, signed a contract with WNEW for a series of weekend football forecasts.
Followed by a host of courageous and strong women, epitomized by Marlene Sanders who in 1962 joined WNEW Radio as Assistant News Director.
And, of course, Peggy Stockton, veteran radio reporter who spent 12 years with WNEW covering New York’s City Hall.
Honorable mention for some WNEW-FM women, who for a short time in 1966, held an all women DJ line up. Alison Steele, Nell Bassett, Arlene Kieta, Ann Clements, Margaret Draper, Peggy Cass, Rita Sands, Pam McKissick.
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Remembering Ross Simpson
Award-winning journalist, Ross Simpson, has died.
March 5, 2025. Ross was 82 years old.