Al “Jazzbo” Collins started broadcasting at WNEW in 1950. Just as Martin Block created the illusion that he was speaking from the “Make Believe Ballroom”, Collins claimed to be broadcasting from a cloud high above the city of New York, the show “Collins-on-the-Cloud”...
The son of composer Arthur Schwartz, Jonathan Schwartz worked at New York’s WNEW FM and AM from 1967 to 1986. A true scholar of the Great American Songbook, Jonathan entertained listeners with unsurpassed knowledge of composer’s song writers, singers and jazz...
In 1952 Gene Rayburn left WNEW to pursue a career in Television. WNEW needed a new partner and interviewed over 300 people for the coveted position. Aspiring reporter Gene Klavan applied for the position thinking it was a temporary career decision; a detour from his...
Pete Myers joined WNEW-AM in the early 1960’s. He had made a big name for himself in Cleveland radio during the height of the Rock and Roll craze. Ultimately the immensely talented Mr. Meyers moved to New York to become a radio talent at WNEW. Myers owned the...
