In this week’s issue… Erie radio/TV pioneer mourned – Mohawk Valley signal sells – Central PA loses veteran talents – New FM in Cottage Country
By SCOTT FYBUSH
*For the second week in a row, we lead off NERW with the obituary of a trailblazing broadcaster.
And if the name “Myron Jones” isn’t as familiar to you as Dan Ingram was last week, you’re probably not from northwest PENNSYLVANIA or eastern Ohio, where Jones was the man responsible for many decades of top-40 radio and quality TV as well.
Jones was still in his early twenties when he and partner Bill Fleckenstein secured a license for the third AM station to hit the airwaves in Erie, where their 250-watt daytimer WJET signed on in 1951 way up the dial at 1570.
Even with that anemic signal, Jones took WJET to the top of the ratings – then took it down the dial to a full-time slot at 1400 in a clever move that yielded up a new license on 1570 over in Youngstown, Ohio, where Fleckenstein oversaw the 1955 launch of WHOT.
“I thought the world of Myron,” recalled former Clear Channel CEO Randy Michaels, who consulted for Jones and praised his combination of programming and engineering skills. In Youngstown, that meant a challenging upgrade that moved WHOT from 1570 down the dial to 1330.
“Has anyone spent that much money on a two-site operation to get 500 watts day and a kilowatt at night?” Michaels asked. “That may have been the first station with higher night power, and it was certainly some of the most creative engineering ever done.”
In Erie, meanwhile, Jones made WJET a family operation at the height of its top-40 days.
“Myron’s wife did the music, so there was never anyone around to play a few stiffs as a favor for the record company. Myron’s special-needs brother ran the board for the all-night show at WJET. Dick Thompson from WHOT voice tracked the show as Big Al Knight. Yes, Myron was doing voice tracking in the 1960s,” said Michaels. “Myron spent the least possible money on studios and furnishings, but he paid people well, and engendered amazing loyalty. It’s difficult to be frugal, tough, creative, compassionate and generous all at the same time, but that describes Myron.”
Jones made a big leap into television in 1966 with the launch of WJET-TV (Channel 24), Erie’s third TV station and first full-time ABC affiliate. Jones acquired what was then a rural piece of land on Peach Street south of I-90 to build the new station’s tower and studios, which he wired himself – and in time, WJET-TV became a powerhouse in the market, too.
Jones did his upgrade magic to the south, too: as owner of WEEP/WEEP-FM in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, he upgraded the AM signal from a 1000-watt daytimer to 50 kW daytime on 1080, eventually selling the stations to an early incarnation of Entercom in 1977 for a million dollars.
Beyond Erie, Jones is notable as well for something else he did successfully in a way few other owners of the time could do: as the AM top-40 flame sputtered out in the 1980s, he moved WHOT’s top-40 format smoothly from AM to its FM sister. And in Erie, where owning an AM and a TV made him ineligible to add an FM, Jones persuaded the FCC to let him sell his AM facility to a minority owner, then move an outlying FM signal (WSEG 102.3 McKean) into Erie as the new WJET-FM.
“Most (bigger) owners couldn’t imagine giving up that franchise on the AM dial, so some FM station took them out. Myron moved WJET to FM and didn’t miss a beat. Can you think of another market where someone did that? WABC, WLS, KHJ and most of the others already had FMs but didn’t have the balls to do it,” Michaels noted.
After adding a second FM, WFGO (94.7), Jones began dismantling his empire in the late 1990s, selling WJET-TV in 1998 (it’s now part of Nexstar) and then WJET-FM and WFGO to NextMedia in 2000. (In a complicated series of later transactions, the former WJET-FM ended up as part of the crosstown Cumulus cluster, where it’s now WQHZ, while the WJET calls returned to their longtime home on AM 1400.)
Jones officially retired from his stations in 2001, but remained active locally, especially with Penn State Behrend, where he was instrumental in negotiating the donation of what became WPSE (1450) and where he and wife Marlene became major donors and supporters.
Jones was 92 when he died in Erie on Thursday. Calling hours will be observed from 3-7 p.m. today at Brugger Funeral Homes and Crematory, 1595 W. 38th St. in Erie. Services will be held at the funeral home at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday.
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*It was a sad week in the central part of the state, too, which lost two familiar voices. Rick Andree, who died Thursday, became “Chris Andree” when he started at WKBO in Harrisburg in the early 1970s (there was already a “Rick” on the air there!) Andree’s long radio career included stops at WSFM and WRBT and many years as the production voice of the Clear Channel/iHeart stations in town, where he’d also been doing middays on WRVV.
Outside of radio, Andree was the longtime stadium PA announcer for the Harrisburg Senators, where he worked for 20 summers, and also worked for the Hershey Bears hockey team.
And Lucy Holder was a second-generation radio person, daughter of Jack Holder, who was one of the founders of WIOO in Carlisle. His daughter became a fixture on central Pennsylvania radio in the 1970s and 1980s at stations such as WMSP, WFEC, WCMB and WHP in Harrisburg, WHYL in Carlisle and WQXA in York. Lucy Holder, whose married name was McConaghie, died June 22 in Carlisle, at 67.
*In Erie, Chuck Poet is the new VP/market manager at Cumulus, inbound from Results Radio in Parkersburg, WV, where he’d been sales manager. (Poet had also been market president for Clear Channel in Parkersburg and Wheeling.) In Erie, he replaces Jim Riley, who moved up I-90 to manage Cumulus in Buffalo.
*A veteran station owner in upstate NEW YORK has found a buyer for his AM and translator. Jack Scott has been owner-operator at WENT (1340) in Gloversville for more than 30 years, with his brother Jonathan Clark serving as a partner in licensee Whitney Radio Broadcasting.
Now they’re handing off WENT’s stellar local radio legacy to a new owner, Thnk Tank Media (no “i”!), which is paying $390,000 for WENT and translator W286CD (105.1). Thnk Tank is headed by Michael Schaus, who’s most recently been at Lamar Outdoor in Albany. Schaus’ radio career has included stops at Regional Radio Group in Glens Falls, Townsquare in Albany and a few years as VP/market manager at Clear Channel in Worcester a decade ago. (Before that, Schaus was a manager at several Albany-area stations, including the old WQBK-FM, WBKK and WXLE.)
Dick Kozacko of Kozacko Media Group brokered the deal for Whitney, which is not related to Bill O’Shaughnessy’s similarly named downstate radio group.
Up north, WVNV (Wild Country 96.5) in Malone will drop its local morning show next week, replacing it with the nationally syndicated Bobby Bones, reports “All Access.”
*In southeastern MASSACHUSETTS, the new WCTK (98.1 New Bedford) tower was the scene of an emergency response Friday night after neighbors noticed a man climbing up the self-supporting structure wearing only shorts and sneakers. Streets around the tower had to be closed off while emergency crews waited for the man to climb down, then climb back up again, then voluntarily climb back down, whereupon he was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
(And whereupon local media outlets proceeded to botch the story by depending on bad information from the police and fire departments, with one calling the 600-foot tower “1000 feet tall” and another confidently reporting the man was climbing a “750-foot cell tower.”)
*And in Quincy, Ed Perry beat the one-year silent deadline to get WMEX (1510) back on the air Saturday, simulcasting his WATD-FM (95.9 Marshfield) on a temporary 1000-watt daytime signal to keep the WMEX license alive. Perry is waiting for the FCC to approve his application to change WMEX’s city of license from Boston to Quincy, making it a 10 kW day/100-watt night non-directional signal from the WBIX (1260) site where it’s now operating under STA.
*As CANADA was celebrating its 151st anniversary, the CBC was making plans to bring better Radio One service to the good people of Belleville, on the Lake Ontario shoreline between Toronto (and Radio One outlet CBLA 99.1) and Kingston (CBCK 107.5). Neither signal is quite city-grade in Belleville, which is why the CBC wants to use 104.7 there for a 3.02 kW average/10 kW max DA/117 m signal, diplexed with ICI Radio-Canada’s CJBC-1-FM (94.3).
The new CBO-FM-1 would be licensed to rebroadcast CBO-FM (91.5 Ottawa), though we suspect that, like CBCK, it will actually carry the Toronto-based “Ontario Morning” instead of CBO’s morning show. (And we note that the CBC initially applied for Belleville as a repeater for CBLA in Toronto before switching the application to Ottawa.)
*Up in the Muskokas, holiday vacationers found a new signal on their FM dials: CJMU (102.3 Gravenhurst-Muskoka) began testing on Wednesday (June 27), the latest signal from Owen Sound-based Bayshore Broadcasting. Regular broadcasts from “Country 102” are expected to start in a few weeks.
And in Montreal, veteran CFCF-TV (Channel 12) anchor Mutsumi Takahashi has been awarded Canada’s highest civilian honor, being named to the Order of Canada. Takahashi has been part of what’s now CTV Montreal since 1982, when she started as a reporter; she’s anchored the news there since 1986.
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From the NERW ArchivesYup, we’ve been doing this a long time now, and so we’re digging back into the vaults for a look at what NERW was covering one, five, ten, fifteen and twenty years ago this week, or thereabouts. Note that the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest years as “New England Radio Watch,” and didn’t go to a regular weekly schedule until 1997. One Year Ago: July 3, 2017 *Do you believe in jinxed frequencies? No, we’re not talking about Boston’s 1510 (that’s later in the column), but rather about 106.1 in eastern PENNSYLVANIA, where iHeart made another format flip Thursday morning with almost no notice.
As “Mix 106.1,” WISX spent the last few years trying to stake out hot AC territory somewhere between the dominant WBEB and iHeart’s top-40 WIOQ (Q102), including a morning show featuring former Q102 personality Chio, followed by the syndicated Ryan Seacrest and Mario Lopez later in the day. On Thursday, Chio did his usual Mix morning show, then stayed on the air at 10 AM without the hot AC format or any station nickname, instead playing an hour of everything from Fleetwood Mac to Metallica while taking listener requests.
Within the iHeart cluster, “Real” now occupies a space between Q102’s mainstream CHR and urban “Power 99” WUSL (98.9), flanking R&B WDAS-FM (105.3) as part of a lineup that’s also aimed at Urban One’s cluster. Over there, of course, there was an earlier attempt at classic hip-hop in the form of “Boom 107.9” WPHI; that migrated to a more mainstream urban contemporary format when a format shuffle moved “Boom” and the WPHI calls to 103.9 last year. Urban One also competes against WDAS-FM with its “Old School” WRNB (100.3) – it’s all part of a crowded market in which “Real” becomes the fifth urban-targeted FM signal, and the sixth if you also count Urban One’s black gospel WPPZ (Praise 107.9). *The surprising thing about the sign-off of WMEX (1510 Boston) Friday evening at 6 wasn’t so much that it happened, but that it took as long as it did.
Ever since, 1510’s long sequence of owners have been burdened with the cost of that site lease, recently reported to be $300,000 annually. How do you make a profit from an AM station at the top of the dial with operating costs that are that high? (And it’s not just the lease on the Waltham site, it’s the power bill for the aging transmitter, studio rent in Quincy, and everything else that goes along with trying to play in a major market.) For owner after owner, the answer has turned out to be, “you can’t make a profit under those circumstances,” which may explain why there have been so many owners and operators – and why so many of them lately have come in with no prior radio operating experience. The latest, Daly XXL, bought the station in 2015 for just $175,000, and while they tried some interesting experiments that included a heavy reliance on weekend oldies, the tower lease renewal at the end of June was apparently still too much to overcome. *The sale of WUMD (89.3 North Dartmouth) from UMass Dartmouth to RHODE ISLAND Public Radio took another big step forward last week as the students and community members who run WUMD signed their FM signal off the air. After 42 years of broadcasting (originally as WSMU on 91.1), the UMass studio is now webcast-only as wumd.rocks; 89.3, meanwhile, will return to the airwaves soon as a simulcast of RIPR’s WELH (88.1 Providence) while construction gets under way on the new Newport-licensed 89.3 signal that will broadcast a stronger Ocean State signal from the old WLNE (Channel 6) analog tower in Tiverton, R.I. Five Years Ago: July 1, 2013 *What North American nation has the most consolidated mass media? There’s now a very good case to be made for CANADA, where regulators on Thursday approved Bell’s second attempt to swallow Astral Media, creating a media mammoth that includes the nation’s largest satellite TV provider, the nation’s largest English-language commercial TV network, one of the biggest radio groups in the nation, as well as a large roster of cable networks. (And, oh yeah, a phone company, too.)
On the broadcast side, little has changed in the second version of the deal: Bell will still spin off ten radio stations, including CHBM (97.3 Boom FM) and CFXJ (93.5 Flow FM) in Toronto and CJOT (99.7 Boom FM) and CKQB (106.9 the Bear) in Ottawa. But the merged entity will still bring together a solid Toronto cluster with Astral’s clusters in surrounding southern Ontario markets including Hamilton and St. Catharines, and it will bring Bell into the Maritime provinces in a bigger way. Perhaps most significantly, the CRTC decided to allow Bell to keep CKGM (690 Montreal) alongside the three English-language stations (CJAD 800, CJFM 95.9 and CHOM 97.7) and two French-language stations (CKMF 94.3 and CITE 107.3) it’s acquiring from Astral. Canadian market caps would have limited Bell to only three stations in a market the size of the Montreal Anglophone market, but Bell persuaded the CRTC that owning a fourth station would allow it to keep CKGM’s specialty sports talk format alive. As a consequence, Bell must retain the current “TSN Radio 690” format on CKGM for the next seven years. (The only other independently owned English commercial station in Montreal for now is Cogeco’s CKBE 92.5, though it’s expected to be joined by a new talk station on 600 owned by the TTP group later this year.) *A central NEW JERSEY FM station has once again changed frequencies. What’s now WPDI (103.9 Hazlet) started out as noncommercial class D WVRM at 89.3, eventually becoming WCNJ and then Indian “Dhoom FM” WDDM before being displaced from 89.3 by newcomer WFJS in Freehold. That’s when the station became WPDI and moved to 104.7, but that frequency conflicted with an Edison-based translator that also serves the South Asian community in the area. On Thursday, WPDI was granted a construction permit to slide down the dial to 103.9, still with 10 watts; interestingly, listeners in the area had already heard WPDI testing on that frequency several weeks earlier. (We’ve also heard reports of full-fledged commercials running on what should be a noncommercial facility.) Ten Years Ago: June 30 & July 7, 2008 *The last time PENNSYLVANIA DJ Bruce Bond found himself in court, it was 2002. Bond, an institution at Cumulus’ WNNK (104.1 Harrisburg), had been cut loose from that station during a late-2001 format change, and when he returned to the airwaves the following spring on then-WRKZ (102.3 Carlisle), Bond was promptly sued by Cumulus for breaching his noncompete agreement.
Prosecutors say Bond was part of a scheme in which he sent bogus corporate checks to people who had responded to “work-at-home” ads on Craigslist. The scheme apparently started early in 2007, and involved conspirators in Nigeria and Europe who received most of the money after the fraud victims cashed the phony checks. (Once the checks had been cashed and the money sent abroad, the victims found out the checks were bad, leaving them on the hook to their banks.) Those overseas accomplices allegedly paid Bond $1,500 a week for his role, which prosecutors say involved printing the checks in his Manhattan apartment and mailing them. When Bond was arrested in May, investigators said they found check paper and printers in the apartment. Bond’s lawyers say he was just “a cog” in a much larger operation, but he’s in deep legal trouble nonetheless. At his arraignment on Friday, Bond pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $250,000 bond. He’ll be back in court July 23. In Shamokin, it’s the end of the line for WISL (1480): after several years of silence, the station’s license has finally been deleted from FCC records. *In VERMONT, there’s some stunting going on at Northeast Broadcasting’s WUSX (93.7 Addison), which has dropped its “US 93-7” country format and is playing nothing but Phish songs for the moment. Whatever’s happening at WUSX, it will happen Tuesday at noon – and given that Northeast’s “Point” network, which blankets much of Vermont over WNCS (104.7 Montpelier) and its simulcast stations, has always been heavy on Phish…could 93.7 end up as the latest addition to the “Point” simulcasts?
There’s a new signal on the air on Cape Breton Island: CKCH (103.5 Sydney NS) signed on last week as “The Eagle,” playing country and competing with MBS Radio’s CJCB (1270 Sydney), the city’s last remaining commercial AM outlet. Fifteen Years Ago: June 30, 2003 *It’s been quite a few years in the making, but NEW YORK‘s newest radio station finally made it to the air last week. WWHL (92.9 Southampton) signed on June 26, with a signal that blankets the East End of Long Island and is already getting good reports across Long Island Sound from the coasts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The format should sound very familiar to many of those listeners: AAA Entertainment is simulcasting the AAA format of WEHM (96.7 East Hampton) on 92.9, and will soon move WEHM’s calls down there as well. 96.7, in turn, will soon switch to Bloomberg’s business news network under new calls. *In New York City, the big buzz this week concerned the new hire at “Blink,” WNEW (102.7): Lizzie Grubman, the publicist-turned-hit-and-run-driver-slash-celebrity-of-the-second, will be providing gossip reports from the Hamptons beginning next weekend. Down on the AM dial, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has followed former morning co-host Peter Noel out the door of WWRL (1600), ending what had been one of the more interesting (or at least unpredictable) morning shows in recent memory. And WLXE (1380) is dropping the regional Mexican programming that Mega had been running there; as Arthur Liu’s Multicultural takes over, so does the usual leased-time ethnic fare that Liu ran on 1380 (as WKDM) the last time he owned the station. *In NEW JERSEY, the FCC gave Ed Seeger’s group the go-ahead to move WSNJ-FM (107.7 Bridgeton) into the Philadelphia market under the guise of providing “first local service” to Pennsauken. WSNJ’s allocations move, which will transform its class B signal on 107.7 into a class A on 107.9, spells trouble for two high school stations. WWPH (107.9 Princeton Junction NJ) and WHHS (107.9 Havertown PA) aren’t expected to be able to find new spots on the dial, and as unprotected class D stations, that means they’ll likely have to go dark once WSNJ moves. In WHHS’ case, that means the end of fifty years of student broadcasting, something the FCC noted in its rulemaking reallocating the Bridgeton facility – but rules are rules and WSNJ takes priority in the Commission’s eyes. Ever wonder how much one one of these move-ins is worth? Consider this: Seeger and his group paid Ed Bold and his family $20 million for WSNJ AM/FM, and we’ve heard from a couple of sources in Philly is that the asking price for the FM once it’s moved will be in the $50 million range. *In VERMONT, the FCC paid a call on Tuesday to “Radio Free Brattleboro,” the unlicensed community station that had been operating very openly in town for nearly five years, initially on 88.1 and more recently on 88.9 (to avoid interfering with the new 88.1 Norwich signal that Vermont Public Radio will soon be signing on) with a few watts that covered the town quite well. One of the station’s DJs gave the Brattleboro Reformer a video of the visit, in which an FCC field agent ordered the jock on duty to turn off the mixing board and transmitter and threatened penalties if broadcasts were resumed. The shutdown was apparently prompted by two interference complaints, one from WFCR (88.5 Amherst MA) and the other from a local resident; it doesn’t appear that any of the station’s equipment was seized, though the station’s website has been down ever since. *RHODE ISLAND now has DTV on the air, becoming the very last of the 50 states to get an operating digital outlet when WPRI-DT (Channel 13) came on the air last week, with WNAC-DT (Channel 54) soon to follow. (A technicality here: WPRI’s transmitter is in Rehoboth, Mass., so a nitpicker could argue that there’s still no DTV in Rhode Island itself – but then, neither of the operating DTVs licensed to Delaware operate from within its state limits, either.) Twenty Years Ago: June 30, 1998 *Rumors are flying at Boston’s WBZ-TV (Channel 4), after a visit last week from Joel Cheatwood, the news impresario who turned things around at WHDH-TV (Channel 7) a few years back before leaving for a controversial tenure at WMAQ-TV (Channel 5) in Chicago. ‘BZ honcho Ed Goldman tells the newspapers that he was just picking Cheatwood’s brain while Cheatwood was in town taking his son to an orthodontist appointment…but nobody’s failed to notice that Cheatwood is currently an NBC consultant, while WBZ is a CBS O&O. Could Cheatwood be returning to Boston to try to boost ‘BZ’s plummeting ratings? We’ll see… *We mourn the passing of John Burgomaster, better known as John Masters, the voice of WRKO news for 28 years until his retirement in 1994. Masters’ booming voice defined RKO’s “20/20 News” during its top-40 years, and he remained with the station for most of its years in the talk format as well. Burgomaster succumbed to cancer last week. *NEW HAMPSHIRE is about to get a new nightly newscast. Derry’s WNDS (Channel 50) has hired longtime WMUR news director Jack Heath to put together a nightly half hour to debut in September. WNDS is one of several New Hampshire stations that used to have a daily newscast, along with WNHT (now WNBU, Channel 21) in Concord and WGOT (now WPXB, Channel 60) in Merrimack. *Congratulations to Lisa Garvey, who’s leaving Manchester rocker WGIR-FM (101.1) for a big move up in market size — all the way to number one, with a night shift at WNEW-FM (102.7) in New York. NERW hears longtime ‘GIR personality Fil Robert Kaye has left the airwaves as well, to become a salesman for the Capstar station. *In MAINE, it seems NERW missed a call-letter change by just days. We visited the area on Friday the 19th — and on Monday the 22nd, Scarborough-based WPKM (106.3) finally became WBQW, simulcasting classical WBQQ (99.3) from Kennebunk as “W-Bach.” Oh well, now we have an excuse to go back… *A call letter change in upstate NEW YORK became official while we were away; Rochester’s AM 950 is now WEZO, and 98.9 FM has changed from WKLX to pick up the WBBF calls from the AM side. The WBBF calls had been on the AM side since 1953; AM 950 is now the fourth area home for the WEZO calls, whose heritage use was on 101.3 FM (now WRMM) from 1971 until 1987. The calls also appeared on AM 990, now WDCZ, for a few years in the late eighties, and then on Avon’s 93.3 FM, now WQRV, for a few years after that. *Another PBS station is going commercial. Schenectady’s WMHQ (Channel 45) is being sold to Sinclair Broadcasting, which will turn it into either a UPN or WB affiliate. WMHQ was the second service for public TV WMHT (Channel 17), which says it needs the money for digital TV development. Albany-area viewers with long memories will recall that channel 45 began as a commercial independent, WUSV-TV, before being bought by WMHT and operated first as WMHX-TV and then as WMHQ. Meantime, Buffalo’s WNED is awaiting word on whether the FCC will let it sell noncomm-licensed WNEQ (Channel 23), or whether it will end up keeping WNEQ and selling what’s now its primary outlet, commercial-licensed WNED-TV (Channel 17). WNED says it has “at least six” interested buyers for whichever station is put up for sale. *In the Buffalo area, the powerful tourist information station in Niagara Falls, Ontario is relocating. CFLZ had been on 91.9 but will be displaced by the new 92.1 allocation in Amherst and by the pending move of CHOW Welland from 1470 to 91.7. Its new home? 105.1 MHz. |
In this week’s issue… WBUR backs off local talk - EMF's expansion in NY, nationally - Rochester broadcasters honored - Russell finds new PA radio home - Remembering Bruce Stevens - The new calendar's here!
In this week’s issue… Remembering WNY's Palvino, Harris - Will King sell Bangor stations? - Kay moves earlier - New signal on LI - Cumulus cuts hit PA, New England - Frizzell sells in NH
In this week’s issue… Saluting a small-town radio vet - Bell moves CP24 - Scott heads west - Burlington gets Air 1, "Experimental Radio" - Family Life heads down I-86
In this week’s issue… NY TV anchor, radio historian both retiring - XPN PD to retire - More Cumulus cuts - Rogers sells FMs as Corus makes big talent cuts By SCOTT FYBUSH Jump to: ME - NH - VT - MA...
Bond’s new job on WRKZ ended in January 2004, and in the years since then he’d faded into obscurity – until last Thursday, anyway. That’s when Bond was indicted in New York City, charged with 65 counts of forgery, attempted grand larceny and identity theft.
Tuesday is Canada Day, and it’s also the official launch day for Corus’ new “Greatest Hits” format on CINW (940 Montreal). We’re hearing that the new morning man on “AM 940” will be none other than Montreal radio veteran Marc “Mais Oui” Denis, who’s already in the Corus Montreal family as a weekender on CFQR (Q92.5).
