Re: Last gasps of WQEW (Was Re: [Fwd: WQEW make your move])

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 01:03 PM 12/24/98 -0400, you wrote:

>        This last one features a guy who apparently has had or has a show
>on the weekend on WQEW (I'm not familiar with him). He says that his
>weekend shows that you used to hear on WQEW now can be heard on WFUV. Is it
>possible the WFUV is not a paid ad, maybe, but the Times doing some little
>bit of penance?

Rich Conaty, who did Big Band Saturday Night and The Big Broadcast on
Sundays on WQEW for three years. Conaty began The Big Broadcast on WFUV
years before there was a WQEW and took the show back to WFUV after he
apparently had a falling out with WQEW PD Stan Martin. I don't know if
Conaty's newsgroup, alt.fan.rich-conaty is still alive, but if it is, you
can follow the exploits of Rich and his wife "Manhattan Mary" there, and
probably read a lot more postings decrying the demise of WQEW, as well as
some that say the Times asked for WQEW to fail when they canned Rich or let
him walk away.

As for the live personalities on WQEW, from what I was able to hear, they
were all gone at the end of the broadcast day on Monday the 21st, if not
earlier that day. From then on, except for news and the apparently brokered
Health Field tomorrow morning, it has been continuous (mostly Christmas) music.

Of the stations that have run spots on WQEW, the one that sounds the most
interesting is WBGO 88.3. Isn't WBGO licensed to Newark? How much of the New
York market does WBGO reach?

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