February 1962

One in the same Your man Marv Albert heard on WOLF in 1962 while Attending Syracuse University from 1960 to 1963. He later graduated from New York University in 1965. Marv has served as the play-by-play voice for the New York Knicks on radio, as well as hosting the nightly wrap up show, SportsDesk, on Madison Square Garden Network (MSG). Albert worked for NBC Sports from 1977-1997, serving as primary play-by-play voice for NBA on NBC, along with play-by-play announcing for college basketball, boxing, NFL football, NHL all-star games, baseball studio and pre-game shows. Marv was rehired to MSG and Turner networks in 1998 and he re-signed with NBC in 1999. In 1997, he was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors given to sports journalists. Marv has also won six CableAce Awards (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) for Outstanding Play-By-Play Announcer, and was named New York State Sportscaster of the Year an unprecedented 20 times. He has won three New York Emmy awards in the Outstanding On-Camera Personality category and was part of the production team that won local New York Emmy's for Knicks basketball coverage. Brothers Al and Steve are each well-known sportscasters for boxing events. His son, Kenny, is one of MSG's voices for New York Rangers games on radio. Marv has three other children, Brian, Denise and Jackie. Marv resides in New York City. This aircheck is from February 15, 6 to 7pm and opens with Hank Greenwald and a report on the Syracuse Nationals (then an NBA team later to become the Philadelphia 76ers). _______________________________________________________________________________ 

The tail end of the Ron Roberts show into WOLF Impact News at 5:55 am. Hank Greenwald signs on as "Oh Henry, to make a short story long" as he says. Included in this clip is the 6:25 report, which includes the North East Radio Network Weather Roundup. In addition to Ted Jones who voices the intro, these reports from across the region feature an unnamed reporter from Jamestown, Ed Meath from Rochester (who had been with WHEC since 1947), Bill Pierce from Scranton, Dean Harris from Syracuse (later at WHEN) and John Stevenson from Schenectady.                             ______________________________________________________________________

Apparently there are several stories of how the name Rick Ryder came about. One according to Nolan Stephany's documentary "Rock and Roll Radio, The WNDR and WOLF Story!" was that the WNDR jocks were producing promos asking the WOLF jocks questions, but using similar names like Tim Whims (for Jim Sims) and Rick Ryder (for Dick Snyder).
The "REAL" Rick Ryder (Tim Huppman) who spent a number of years at WOLF tells another. He says "Dick Snyder suddenly left WOLF for a job at WNDR. At the time, I was breaking in for weekend PT work at WOLF. The WOLF managers asked me to fill in (temp) night-time and asked me to use the name Rick Ryder as kind of a 'dig' against Dick Snyder. Took NDR' a few days to figure out they were airing a promo for a real person. We were amazed they didn't pick up on it right away."
Here is the Real Rick Ryder from the summer of 1963.
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