Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! The album projects featured exclusively local artists performing original songs. Frank: We thought wed throw a birthday party, really to thank the listeners. He came down for two weeks, and helped with anchoring tarps to deal with the wind up there. It was just funny. Joe Morgan is a color analyst for ESPN baseball. On the first floor are displays from the "Uncle Al Show," "Skipper Ryle Show," Nick Clooney, Bob Braun, Ruth Lyons, Rod Serling, Hasker Nelson, Al Schottelkotte, Paul Dixon, Bonnie Lou, "Midwestern Hayride" and "WKRP in Cincinnati.". Both Frank Woods used fake names on the air because they wanted to make it seem like WEBN had an actual staff. Its early years provided an electronic gathering place for a new and growing segment of Cincinnati: the baby boomers who formed a culture apart from their parents in regard to aspirations, politics, and especially music. "I started out as 'Chris Huneke' on an Indiana station," said Huneke, from Greensburg, Ind. I wonder if someone would come.. Branded "102.3 The Beat", WEBN-HD3 initially aired a classic hip-hop format promoted as "throwback hip hop and R&B". WEBN radio personalities such as Shroom, Rachel Elliot, and "The KiddChris Show" will host the annual end of the summer event with a 30-minute firework celebration. Besides a standard analog transmission, WEBN broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. Some hated our raucous music, mega-sized personalities, and relentless bad boy antics. Gilbert started at WEBN-FM in 1974, and did afternoons from 1980 to 2012. By Lindsay English. The person ruining it was also named Frank Wood, also starting his own career in law, but smitten by the new trends in rock. Youve got lots of company, Frank. Seems to be knowledgeable about the Bengals and the NFL; I just have a problem with a guy with a Boston accent covering the Bengals. The push buttons on old radios are merely the grandparents of todays swipe left. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) The entire Morning Bull radio staff at 97 Rock has been fired following a racist incident that took place on the show back in March. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Photo credit: npr.org. The stunt, he told SBJ, was the brainchild of WEBN Program Director Tom Owens, who had gotten the idea from KRFX, The Fox, a Denver (then) sister station that had a DJ do the same thing until the Broncos won a game in 1990.. The night programming was managed by a bank of 10-inch Scully reel to reel tape machines in an early instance of station automation. Audacys Website and Digital Terms of Use. The morning was the last to develop. It was a strange thing because there were no women on the radio then. Excited rock fans were thrilled, just as classical/jazz fans started to feel the repulsion and betrayal. "Wild Man" Walker (On-air personality102.7 WEBN/Cincinnati Cyclones PA announcer) One of the best voices around; incredible delivery,. [1] WEBN-HD2 simulcasts over local translators W264BW Norwood (100.7FM) and W292CO Middletown (106.3FM), while WEBN-HD3 simulcasts over W272BY Cincinnati (102.3FM).[2][3][4][5][6][7]. [9] Bo Matthews (Alex Gutierrez), formerly the program director at WMMS and a regular contributor to The Maxwell Show, took over as the WEBN program director on January 7, 2014. On display in the third-floor Cincinnati Room are WEBN-FM shirts and posters; Q102 jackets and billboards; photos of WLW-AM's Burbank, Jim Scott and Bill Cunningham; Dusty Rhodes' WGRR-FM jacket; a Lucky Strike/Pall Mall cigarette ad with WKRC-AM's Jerry Thomas, Stan Matlock and Ted McKay; and items from WNKU-FM, WGUC-FM, WCIN-AM and other stations. Eddie Fingers is a veteran On-Air personality currently working in Cincinnati, where he hosts the 3-6 talk show, which airs on 700 WLW-FM. In the 1980s, Denis Burke used five different names every hour doing "Traffic Watch" updates for a variety of stations. Or put a huge secret prize box on the top of Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena). Dennis (Wild Man) Walker was named for Dennis James, one of the early personalities in the history of television. Want to know more about Rachel Elliot? Live sports coverage is its main feature. Frank the Elder himself abhorred rock music, but couldnt deny the growth potential. In its early days, WEBN broadcast from a bright blue old house in Cincinnati's west-side Price Hill neighborhood at 1050 Considine Ave. referred to on-air as "Price's Mountain". The event has been broadcast live on local TV stations since 1984 when WXIX-TV aired the fireworks. A new afternoon show and the full-time return of John Landecker highlight a slew of changes at WGN Chicago. Back in the day, legendary radio personality David Haines used to scream this every Friday morning on the Donnie Simpson show on 95.5 WPGC in Washington DC. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Many of 1967s greatest hits are wedged into June, July, and August: Sgt. Recently I have been changing to another radio station during an extra-long period of time of nothing but commercials on WLW-700 radio. Laura died Friday morning in Canton, Ohio at the age of 46. John Kiesewetter joined the WVXU news team as a TV/Media blogger on July 1 2015, after nearly 30 years covering local and national broadcasting for The Cincinnati Enquirer. John Calhoun still has his WEBN shirt with a hot air balloon on the back. Creates a great broadcast for radio; a good voice and great inflection; many of his calls have made it on SportsCenter highlight reels. WEBN (102.7 FM) - branded 102.7 WEBN - is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, serving Greater Cincinnati. Bob "The Producer" Berry says he's attending the "Remembering Radios Rock Rivalries" program Sunday along with Eddie Fingers, Jay Gilbert, Mike McConnell, Pat Barry and Kevin "Doc" Wolfe. Cincinnati carries its own good and bad memories from 1967, though they havent been reheated so repeatedly: New Convention Center. And the Sports Rocker lumped them all together in his recently released Wild Man: The Book co-written with Gerry Schultz. Lids cant be blown off unless theyre first tightly wedged in place. Chris Welsh (Reds Color Analyst/FSN Ohio). Brad Johansen (Bengals play-by-play/700 WLW, 92.5 WOFX). It was 14-10 Browns at the half the third quarter was even, each team scoring a touchdown to make it 21-20, Cleveland. A local arcade company brought up a pinball machine. Its time was shifted to 6-10 a.m. and the show was eventually dropped in the late 1980s. A crossover between these spots in fantasy and reality occurred in 1972 when Hudepohl Beer allowed some of its product for the Cincinnati area to be wrapped in faux labels for "WEBN's Tree Frog Beer, The Sleezy People's Beer", Tree B. Frog and his best friend Tyrone Z. Dragonfly soon became household mascots for the station. Cincinnati, OH Weather Mon Lo 39 Hi 63 Tue Lo 42 Hi 56 Wed Lo 45 Hi 73 Thu On August 16, 2012 W264BW began simulcasting WEBN-HD2. The library publicity for the event promises "a few surprise guests," and I expect a program like this to attract many other radio staffers from the 1970s and '80s. Chizek was among the most opinionated (and durable) radio personalities in local history. He convinced his dad to let him host Jelly Pudding on Saturday nights for Cincinnatis budding counterculture. Anchored first Sportscenter broadcast; a former college player has a decent understanding of the game; does not overstate his knowledge, as he does well to deflect intricate baseball questions to partner Chris Welsh. But WEBN, in its prime, meant more to our town than that. Steve Bertrand will host "Chicago's Afternoon . Fingers jumped to the competition, WEBN-FM's "Dawn Patrol," before Robin Wood started maternity leave. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! The morning was the last to develop. WEBN is Cincinnati's rock station, the place to know everything about your favorite rock music, and bands. FM listening developed first at night because in the early days, the only FM in the house was a stereo in the living room. Lo and behold, the Phillies were coming to Cincinnati for a series in July of 83. WEBN was always passionate about promoting local artists. He's also written columns for many newspapers for decades. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! I chose Farmers Night, which I knew would be a good crowd, he said. The seventeen-year agreement with Toyota came to an end in 2007. Six-Day War. Original post 10:46 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24:This sounds like lots of fun: Eddie Fingers, Jay Gilbert, Mike McConnell, Pat Barry and Kevin "Doc" Wolfe talk about the 1970s and '80s radio wars Sunday Jan. 28 at the downtown public library. But no shower. The ratings got huge in 1975, which coincided, by the way, with Rob taking over the Morning Show. Thanks for everything, and happy birthday. Cincinnati's ROCK Station & Home of the KiddChris Show! What Your Cereal Choice Says About Dating You. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Yawn. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. The "Remembering Radios Rock Rivalries" discussion was organized to promote the nostalgic "Living on the Air" display of Cincinnati radio and TV memorabilia at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County downtown, 800 Vine St., through Jan. 31. Now we know what he was doing on a rooftop for 61 days. ", "It Must Be WEBN! It was on one side of the continental divide in Cincinnati. Personality Test; Personality Types. As of January 2014, W292DT identifies as W238BJ and broadcasts at 95.5FM; WEBN-HD2 itself continues to simulcast over 106.3FM, now via translator W292CO Middletown. Having used the radio name Jim Scott for 54 years, WLW-AM's popular morning host bristles at the term "fake. We decided to do a big show, and then to try and synchronize it with music. Only a fraction of homes had FM radios, cars even fewer, and WEBNs first music format was classical and jazz. But we were lucky and blessed for a long time: a homegrown, home-managed, hometown team, hitting home runs out of our own sonic stadium. (Having been relatively modest about our own milestones, we do plan to pop several corks in our next issue.) The tag line for Brute Force Cybernetics was "The company that creates a need and then fills it." Proceeds from sales were donated to charity. Find Rachel Elliot of WEBN-FM (Cincinnati, OH) and WKQQ-FM (Lexington, KY)'s articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more Robin: But our father [Frank Wood Sr.], I think, did have some foresight to see that happening and when he bought the frequency, it was the last vacancy on the FM dial. In 1999 Jacor was purchased by Clear Channel. Kiesewtter has been covering radio since 1975 and he enlisted the help of four radio veterans with a combined 120 years of experience: Rich Walburg (WKRQ-FM, WLW-AM), Tom Sandman (WEBN-FM, WRRM-FM, WMKV-FM), Fred Slezak (WSAI-AM, WWNK-FM) and Mike Martini (WVXU-FM, WMKV-FM). We made Mapplethorpe a household name. B96 - WBBM 96.3 FM. There was a major change in lifestyles and consumption patterns and we sort of landed right in the front of it. Frank Wood: In the early in the days of EBN we had a lot of phony commercials for a fictitious company called Brute Force Cybernetics, which invented lots of strange products: The three-dimensional television, which was a TV mounted on a rail that went back and forth really fast. Walker went up on the downtown Cincinnati billboard August 24, 1991 and the deal: he wouldnt come down until the Bengals won a game. After my non-compete elapsed, I was happy to get back on the air somewhere else. Robin: Music sounded so much better on FM and he knew it because he was a big music fan. Cincinnati media writer John Kiesewtter has come up with his list of Cincy's All Time Top 40 Radio Personalities. Fake names are older than Mark Twain. Tune in for all the snorts, sports, fun, and where really anything goes! Walker claims he was discovered while standing at the rail in Cincinnatis old Riverfront Stadium in August, 1981. A local furniture store in town brought me up a black Barcalounger. Owned by iHeartMedia, WEBN serves as the FM flagship for the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network; and the home of radio personality Christopher "Kidd Chris" Foley. Local media is still his beat and hes bringing his interest, curiosity, contacts and unique style to Cincinnati Public Radio and 91.7 WVXU. Inside the station, morning co-hosts Bob Goen and Marianne Curan call him Chris Huneke, his real name. Thom Brennaman (Reds play-by-play-700 WLW/FSN Ohio). A look back at WEBNs Golden Age, by its longest-employed employee. News director John Edwards was really John Hingsbergen, who later used his real name at WVXU-FM and WMUB-FM. UFC Prez, Dana White Gets Into Altercation With His Wife On NYE. Listen To The Most Popular Podcasts On iHeartRadio! The truth was much smaller: Frank the Elder was the principal on-air personality, the owner, general manager, music director, and program director, but "officially" he was a DJ named George Gregory, with a program director by the name of Miles Duffy. Like a humidifier, its sound is so constant that people can easily stop hearing it. The Project 100.7 / 106.3. The album projects focused primarily on rock performances, but featured a wide range of different styles, including folk, jazz, and novelty songs. And they would bring chairs and stuff to drink, and they would cheer the parade, even though they were just listening to it on the radio: There was nothing there. Robin: Jerry Springer used to be a guest three times a week on the Morning Show. Tom Jackson also covers the NFL and resides in Cincinnati. 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