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Z100 Third DAY ON AIR. Scott Shannon. WHTZ New York | August 4 1983

Radio Station: Z100 WHTZ New York (Newark) Frequency: 100.3 MHZ Format: CHR Courtesy: Charles Menut. On the morning of August 2 1983, Z100 signed on with Scott Shannon, & JR Nelson and the brand new Top Forty format!  This was the first time New York had a true Top 40 station on FM in years. Transmitting from First Mountain in West Orange, the tower was also the home of WSOU and WFME. Scott…

Z100 Second DAY ON AIR. Barry Stevens & Sign Off. WHTZ New York | 6:00 PM August 3 1983

Radio Station: Z100 WHTZ New York (Newark) Frequency: 100.3 MHZ Format: CHR Courtesy: Charles Menut. On the morning of August 2 1983, Z100 signed on with Scott Shannon, & JR Nelson and the brand new Top Forty format!  This was the first time New York had a true Top 40 station on FM in years. Transmitting from First Mountain in West Orange, the tower was also the home of WSOU and WFME. Scott…

KSWD 100.3 The Sound, Flips To KKLQ K-Love Los Angeles | November 16 2017

  November 16, 2017, was a sad day for music lovers in Los Angeles. It was the day Adult Album Rock formatted station KSWD “The Sound” 100.3 FM went off the air. The station had a wide music playlist, by today’s standards, and featured legendary air personalities, like Uncle Joe Benson, Cynthia Fox and Rita Wilde. Entercom was forced to sell the station because it was above the station cap fopr…

Z100’s Sign On with Scott Shannon, WHTZ New York | Aug 2, 1983

  “The new WHTZ! So new it’s still under construction as I speak!”

August 2 1983 is a day that will go down in New York radio History! When 1983 started, there were no Contemporary Hit Music stations on FM in New York. By Summer 1983, both WPLJ & WAPP were moving away from Rock, and moving towards Top 40. During that summer, Malrite Communications bought Easy Listening/Jazz WVNJ 100.3 in Newark,…