When WCBS-FM bluntly became JACK
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When WCBS-FM bluntly became JACK
Sorry for the lack of images. I thought it might be interesting to let you hear that moment when WCBS-FM became JACK. Radio switches can be very blunt. In a shocking and controversial move, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, June 3, 2005, WCBS-FM 101.1 flipped formats from Oldies to the new "Jack FM", and was self-identifying under that term. Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" ended the 1st era of Oldies on the analog channel. No DJ knew at all what was going to happen, as you'll hear, except the very last one, Bill Brown. (I wonder what made him suddenly guess ?...) This montage contains the final sign-offs of many of the WCBS-FM DJs. Since they never had the opportunity to sign-off for themselves, the people from wcbsfm.org thought it would be interesting to chronologically string together as many final sign-offs as could be found into one aircheck. The result is the following 9:41 montage. This is what you will hear: 1. Harry Harrison - Saturday May 28th 10am - Beatles #1s 2. Mike McCann - Sunday May 29th 9pm - Elvis #1s 3. Norm N Nite - Sunday May 29th 1am - Heart of Rock and Roll 4. Bruce Morrow - Wednesday June 1st 10pm - Soul Patrol in the Yearbook 5. Don K Reed - Friday June 3rd 6am - He would later appear with Mickey Dolenz at BB Kings as a guest 6. Mickey Dolenz & Mike Fitzgerald - Friday June 3rd 10am - From BB Kings 7. Randy Davis - Friday June 3rd 1pm 8. Bill Brown - Friday June 3rd 4pm - Last words before flip 9. End of Summer Wind - Friday June 3rd 4:30pm So as you'll hear, clearly, the DJs did not know that this would be their final WCBS-FM show with the exception of Bill Brown. The recordings were contributed by CBS-FM longtime listener Linda Cohen and edited together by John Troll. Enjoy and feel free to comment. (Source: wcbsfm.org)
YouTube | November 27, 2008
