Who we lost in 2018..Philadelphia Radio

[cyber]

This probably belongs in the In Memorium board but I thought I'd post it here because it's strictly Philadelphia oriented as opposed to universal.

I can only recall two people..Frank X.Feller and Barbara Sommers.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entert...-host-frank-x-feller-dies-at-91-20180308.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/obitua...dios-barbara-sommers-dies-at-64-20180403.html

 

[ixnay]

*What* we lost in 2018 Philadelphia radio: the KYW we grew up with.

ixnay

 

[ATSFGuy]

2018 was the last year WOGL ran it's traditional "2000 Song Countdown" on Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekend.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

*What* we lost in 2018 Philadelphia radio: the KYW we grew up with.

ixnay

Still there, still doing all news. Traffic at 10 minute intervals.

 

[ixnay]

Still there, still doing all news. Traffic at 10 minute intervals.

Still not the KY' we grew up with.

ixnay

 

[thunderbirdmike]

Still not the KY' we grew up with.

ixnay

Bill Wine and his Movie Reviews!

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Still not the KY' we grew up with.

ixnay

Not sure about the KY you grew up with, but the KYW I grew up with is pretty much doing the same thing it long has been, with a little freshening here and there. There was not a seismic shift, and nor should they sound exactly as they did years--or decades--ago. The world changes, tastes change, needs change. Evolve or die.

 

[ixnay]

I agree. It's what's infested Sears. Even Henry Ford stopped making tin lizzies and evolved.

If I were Silverman I no doubt would've made the same changes, make it fresher. I'm looking at this from a listener's perspective. I do like the repositioning of sports on the wheel. Next month I won't have to wade through half of the half hour for Phillies ST news.

ixnay

 

[eriedj]

No sure how long he was at WIBG in the early 1960s, but Jim Luce know as Jack Starr at WIBG and in a number of other radio markets passed away in late 2018.