Buffalo Lost-Radio

[HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu]

Two great lost Buffalo radio stations:
WZIR ("Wizard Radio") at 92 on the dial and WUWU ("Woo-Woo")
at 107.7. Both great alternative stations. (Anybody
remember Gary Storm's "Oil of Dog"?) Both doomed to the
Led Zeppelin, Bad Company mentality of "popular" Buffalo
radio. (Plug CFNY 102.1 out of Toronto into your radio
and don't bother with the rest ;-)

Remember WKBW's slogan, "WKBW Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic!"
and "Chicken Man - He's everywhere, he's everywhere!"

Tom Widzinski
HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

[Anthony Anello]

My favorite "Buffalo Lost" radio station was 93 FM, WBUF or 93 'BUF.
It was an amazingly deep progressive rock station that played anything
and everything from the progressive genre. Bob Allen hosted as Ben
Franklin on "Franklin's Furnace" (Sat. late night) as he tapped the
lysergic sea. You did not need any psychedelics to go on that trip.
BTW- they used to play a song in the morning called "Miles and
Miles of Texas". Can anyone point me to an artist? (I know this is
digging pretty deep). Thanks in advance.

Tony Anello,
Bartlett, Il

Hutch Tech class of '78

[Ka...@mayo.edu]

In article I...@acsu.buffalo.edu, HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu () writes:
>
>Two great lost Buffalo radio stations:
>WZIR ("Wizard Radio") at 92 on the dial and WUWU ("Woo-Woo")
>at 107.7. Both great alternative stations. (Anybody
>remember Gary Storm's "Oil of Dog"?)

How about when WZIR hit the air and played Psycho Chicken
forwards and backwards for a whole day!!

BTW, What about WBUF? This predated WZIR for alternative
music and a lot of the people moved on to WZIR.

Both doomed to the
>Led Zeppelin, Bad Company mentality of "popular" Buffalo
>radio. (Plug CFNY 102.1 out of Toronto into your radio
>and don't bother with the rest ;-)

Yea CFNY. It used to be available on satellite so people
outside of the Toronto-Buffalo area could receive it. Now
all that's up there is CLIQ (CILQ?)

>
>Remember WKBW's slogan, "WKBW Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic!"
>and "Chicken Man - He's everywhere, he's everywhere!"
>
>Tom Widzinski
>HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

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[Paul Havemann]

In article <C65oG...@acsu.buffalo.edu>, HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>

> Remember WKBW's slogan, "WKBW Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic!"
> and "Chicken Man - He's everywhere, he's everywhere!"

I used to looove KB -- down here in north NJ, it was easy to pick 'em up at
night!

KB was one of the first stations to play "They're Coming to Take Me Away",
and they played it *end*lessly. And who remembers the way KB used to insert
its call letters in the openings of many tunes? To the opening of
Badfinger's 'Day After Day', for example, they added "I am glad that I am
listening to... KB!"

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[Rob Limbert]

In article <1993Apr29....@hsh.com>, pa...@hsh.com (Paul Havemann) writes:
|> I used to looove KB -- down here in north NJ, it was easy to pick 'em up at
|> night!
|>
|> KB was one of the first stations to play "They're Coming to Take Me Away",
|> and they played it *end*lessly. And who remembers the way KB used to insert
|> its call letters in the openings of many tunes? To the opening of
|> Badfinger's 'Day After Day', for example, they added "I am glad that I am
|> listening to... KB!"

I used to like WKBW, too, partly because I thought it was really nifty to
listen to a station that was several hundred miles away (at night, they came in
better than some of the local stations). I think my favorite feature was 'Stump
the Audience', a sort of prizeless trivia contest they held on weeknights. The DJ
who did it (Jim Quinn, I think) was hysterical (and, as I recall, pretty raunchy
by 1970's AM radio standards).

Rob

[Michael S warner]

Tell me, is the North Country still subjected to PAC93 out of
Ogdensburg playing a pre-recorded blend of your favorite hits and once-an-
hour real person weather reports? Since I lived in Canton, I haven't
heard any radio stations that have recorded DJ's announcing the songs,
granted that I've only lived in southern urban areas since.

But some days with all the DJ jabber here in Hampton, I'd appreciate a
station that only told me the names of the songs, and then just shut up.
But it is funny that the same voice is on all of my tapes I made off the
radio back then. If you didn't know better, you'd think that guy was
overworked!

Mike
Canton resident 1974-83

[Jeremy D Hall]

In article <1rpf3i...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> mi...@scbked.larc.nasa.gov (Michael S warner) writes:
>Tell me, is the North Country still subjected to PAC93 out of
>Ogdensburg playing a pre-recorded blend of your favorite hits and once-an-
>hour real person weather reports? Since I lived in Canton, I haven't
>heard any radio stations that have recorded DJ's announcing the songs,
>granted that I've only lived in southern urban areas since.

Well, as late as May 1991, when I graduated from Clarkson, they were
still playing...but they had LIVE morning DJs! Oooh, wow...their music
selection was still basically crap, though.

WPAC: We Play Annoying Crap :^)

>
>Mike
>Canton resident 1974-83

Jeremy Hall
Clarkson '91
Native of Liverpool, NY
j...@math.psu.edu

[David Gurzynski]

HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu wrote:
:
: Two great lost Buffalo radio stations:

: WZIR ("Wizard Radio") at 92 on the dial and WUWU ("Woo-Woo")
: at 107.7. Both great alternative stations. (Anybody
: remember Gary Storm's "Oil of Dog"?) Both doomed to the
: Led Zeppelin, Bad Company mentality of "popular" Buffalo
: radio. (Plug CFNY 102.1 out of Toronto into your radio
: and don't bother with the rest ;-)

My brother Dan worked with Gary Storm before Wizard when he had Oil of Dog on
WBFO, the NPR station from UB. I remember when he ran "The Ring of the
Niebelung" for Punks, with commentary from BFO's opera buff and himself. I
enjoyed it, but I'm not sure how many others did. ;-)

: Remember WKBW's slogan, "WKBW Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic!"
: and "Chicken Man - He's everywhere, he's everywhere!"
:
: Tom Widzinski
: HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

I remember for several years when KB put on a DYNAMITE Holloween show! They
had radio drama for about 4 or 5 hours. Danny Nevereth and Jeff Kaye both
doing a lot of the work and Irv Weinstein doing a lot of the work on their
version of War of the Worlds!
--
"...wisdom is like a bug hitting your windshield; ||David Gurzynski
he didn't expect it, you didn't expect it, ||Da...@dorsai.dorsai.org
its not pretty, but you can't ignore it!" ||Prodigy: KGHM08A

[Steven Stadnicki]

From article <C6BHL...@cs.psu.edu>, by j...@math.psu.edu (Jeremy D Hall):

> still playing...but they had LIVE morning DJs! Oooh, wow...their music
> selection was still basically crap, though.
>

Yeah, but to say this you have to *admit* to having your clock radio set to
PAC every morning. Of course, aside from the Clarkson U station there wasn't
too much else that could be picked up, but... :( At least WSLU was available,
so I could catch NPR and some APR stuff.

>
Yeah, yeah, yeah... so when's the last ACGKHM coming out, huh??

> Jeremy Hall
> Clarkson '91
> Native of Liverpool, NY
> j...@math.psu.edu

Steve Stadnicki
scr...@netcom.com
ex-Clarksonite who got a *real* (non-engineering) job, and used to room with
that guy up there. :)

[Dan O'Brien]

In the late fifties and early sixties, KB blanketed the eastern seabord
of the US by three means:

1) They consistently exceeded the FCC's 50KW limit;

2) Their rhombic antenna array in North Tonowanda (Kenmore for you
purists) was aimed at NYC, Philly, and DC;
3) Dick Biondi was as popular in NYC and DC as he was in Buffalo.

Dan O'Brien
Remember watching the submarine races?

[Don Baldwin]

In article <C65oG...@acsu.buffalo.edu> HSL...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Remember WKBW's slogan, "WKBW Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic!"
>and "Chicken Man - He's everywhere, he's everywhere!"

"Chicken Man" was a nationwide thing. I've heard it on the radio out
here in Northern California, as well as in Buffalo and while visiting
Vegas in the mid 70s.

don
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[joe....@gmail.com]

Wuwu with Bob Allen and The Geek.. I have audio tapes.. thinking about creating a YouTube channel

[james...@gmail.com]

WPHD 101.7 on your FM dial. Johnny FM McGann (the late). Loved his broadcasts and actually met him at a Eagles concert at then Rich Stadium.

Then moved on to WBUF 93.3 FM and F
Franklin's furnace which was outstanding!

Feel free to respond or contact me.

All the best!

[poorbe...@gmail.com]

On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 9:29:35 AM UTC-4, joe....@gmail.com wrote:
> Wuwu with Bob Allen and The Geek.. I have audio tapes.. thinking about creating a YouTube channel

I BELIEVE I heard Bob Allen died many many years ago

[dave sturm]

On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 6:29:35 AM UTC-7, joe....@gmail.com wrote:
> Wuwu with Bob Allen and The Geek.. I have audio tapes.. thinking about creating a YouTube channel

Please post yr tapes Joe !!! and send the link to the Youtube channel ...I loved WZIR, even if it only lasted less than 18 months for me, it caught me as a junior & senior in HS...I left WNY in June of 81'...when I came back that December WZIR had already changed formats to AOR/MOR...blahhhhhhh !!! I was so disappointed...
Gary Storm is amazingly still doin' it on KSFR in Santa Fe, you can hear him tonight !!! He still opens his oil of dog show w/ Kim Fowley....
https://www.ksfr.org/schedule/ksfr