Re: the demise of WEVD

[Norm Rosen <inorm99@earthlink.net>]

Hi, all

the original calls for 1050AM in NY were WHN.

Around 1953, WHN became WMGM. They were the first station in NY to play rock
and roll.

They were home to Peter Tripp, " the curly headed Kid in the third row"
Something like that :)

WEVD used to actually be the calls for 97.9 which is now WSKQ.

WMGM became WHN again in 1962, with mayor Robert Wagner performing the switch
at a ceremony, with the format becoming what is akin to today's

nostalgia format.

WHN becamse country in the 70's, then,  they took on the calls of WFAN in the
mid eighties.

During NY's great format and frequency swap of 1988, which included several
other stations,

WNBC died, and WFAN moved to it's present location

Norm


Larry Weil wrote:

> At 07:36 PM 9/2/01 -0400, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>
> >Not like WEVD was exactly a heritage station.  I don't know what the calls
> >were originally, but wasn't this frequency the home of WHN for many years?
> >And wasn't WFAN here too before moving to 660?  It's one thing mourning a
> >legitimate heritage station, but this was just a rather low-rated talk
> >station on a frequency that's had any number of formats.
>
> The original WEVD was on a different frequency, I believe 1330.  The format
> for many years was Yiddish and Jewish oriented programming aimed at people
> from "the old country".
>
> I also seem to remember from my childhood in the NY area that for a while
> the 1050 frequency was known as WMGM.
>
> Can anyone confirm or dispute my memories?
> ---
> Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH