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Frankie Crocker on 102 KUTE Los Angeles | 1979

 KUTE 102 Los Angeles – Frankie Crocker – 1979 From the Rob Frankel Collection. Frankie “Hollywood” Crocker was a legendary New York radio air personality & Programmer. Frankie began his career in Buffalo at the AM Soul powerhouse WUFO. In the mid 1960s, New York came calling, & Frankie landed at R&B formatted WWRL, and later Top-40 WMCA in 1969. He then transformed WLIB-FM…

Today is the final day of WWRL 1600 AM, which was on air for 86 years.  If you have not heard, the station will become Spanish-speaking with music and talk as of tomorrow.  WWRL was home to legendary disc jockeys like Frankie Crocker, Carlton King Coleman, Herb Hamlet and others.  In later years, Mark Riley, Ed Schultz and Reverend Al Sharpton lent their voices to the iconic station.   I am  happy to say I was a member of the WWRL 1600 AM family — over two years and 97 episodes.  Special thanks to radio veteran John Campanario for giving me my break in radio.  Also, big thanks to all of the co-hosts who graced the airwaves over the two years from Damion West to Mark Corece (pictured above) and especially J'Nara Corbin (pictured above), who was with the show from episode one on November 3, 2011.  It was a great run!  

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On September 22, WWRL 1600 AM's new hour-long program for New York's nonprofit community, Human Services News and Views, featured a segment on the Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Our Executive Director Michael Clark, along with our Associate Director for Special Programs Melkis Alvarez, joined host Michael Stoller for a lively discussion about the Nonprofit Excellence Awards and how they're reshaping nonprofit management across the greater New York area.

Among the subjects touched on during the interview: how the winners of the award are selected; the Eight Key Areas of Nonprofit Management on which the Awards program is founded and applicants are evaluated; how nonprofits can benefit from both the awards process and from NPCC membership; why the end of the "overhead myth" is a good thing for nonprofit management; and common misconceptions about how nonprofits work.