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Rick
Gary
May 1975
Rick's return from WMEX in Boston to WOLF. This is May
3rd, a Saturday getting his feet wet before the official
start of his morning show the following Monday. Rick continued doing
mornings, formerly on NewsChannel 9's morning show "Daybreak",
and "Bridge Street", a midday
talk show. From the Lee Goodman
collection.
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Rick
Gary
May 1975
Rick Gary's first morning
May 5th, 1975 returning from WMEX, Boston. Without
question Syracuse's most popular morning team EVER! If you were to
ask anyone in their thirties or forties if they remember W-O-L-F,
they would say "oh sure…Rick and Ron".
And here is the show's
first hour in its infancy.
Rick Gary did 4 tours of duty at WOLF,
first in 1968 in the news department, then replacing Howie Castle
mid-days in December of 1969. He remained until March of 1971 being
replaced by Don Ryan. Then Rick returned again shortly in 1972 only
to move on to WMPS in Memphis and eventually WMEX in Boston. There
is also a classic Ron Bee newscast with a very amusing Tidy Dydee
diaper story. The two were so successful together it eventually
became Rick and Ron until the station’s unfortunate sale and format
change in late 1981. Well, for "gosh sakes" give it a listen!
Another gem from the Lee Goodman collection.
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Howie
Castle
December 1975
Howie came to the Big 15
from Radio Caroline off the coast of the UK.
(http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsb.htm) This link has a very nice
story of Howie (who used Bud Ballou on Caroline) as well as an
aircheck from 1967. What the story dosen't mention is Howie was
program director of the very successful 94 Rock (WSYR-FM) until he
left Syracuse in 1981. He is currently the weekend news anchor on
KOGO San Diego, California.
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WOLF Sales
Presentation
1975
A portion of the station
presentation for WOLF sales from the Rockin' Richie Norris
collection. You'll hear the line up; Charlie Brown, John Gabriel,
Brother Vic and Paul
Kelly.
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John Gabriel
January
1976
John replaced Howie Castle
afternoon drive 3-7pm. Howie became an "off the air" progran
director just doing some fill in work. Big John came from the Albany
area where he spent some years at WTRY and returned there after his
stay at WOLF. He is currently at WTRY 98.3. There are some airchecks
of John at Reel Radio.com on WTRY in the early 70s. This aircheck
has a "classic" Jim Sims contest promo near the end!
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Charles
February
1976
Rick started (as many
did) part time on The Big 15, and eventually moving to evenings as
"Your Nighttime Companion." Rick stayed with WOLF through 1981 when
he joined the sales staff at WHEN radio, and is now a prominent
manager at the Clear Channel Group in Syracuse. Here is a Sunday
afternoon in February of '76
on WOLF.
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Brother Vic
June 1976
Vic joined The Big 15 in
1974 coming from WTLB (72-74) in Utica where we were both working
part time (Vic/Bob Mitchell). He was a great addition replacing Jeff
Laurence 6-10pm. He eventually moved on to bigger things including
WTRY in Albany and Program Director at WCHS in Charlston as well as
Deputy Sheriff, Kanawha Co. from 1989-94. But radio is in the blood
and Vic moved back to the Central New York Area At KISS 102 in Utica
(97-99) and on to KLUV and KVIL in Dallas (99-01). He is currently
with ABC Radio Services in Dallas. _______________________________________________________________________________
Bob Elliot
& Gary Martin
1976 & 1978
Weekend
announcers _______________________________________________________________________________
Mike Frazer-Big John Gabriel
March 1978
Mike sounding
great working weekends on the Big 15. He later moved to Hot Hits
WFBL full time. Mike was off air for a while as an Account Executive
at WRRB-FM....then it was off to Baltimore at WMAR-FM "Hot Hits 105"
with Joseph again (afternoons, then mornings from 83 to 85)...then
to Philly at WCAU-FM "Hot Hits". Mornings and Swing at WEGX-FM
"Eagle 106" then to Pittsburgh (with Rick Sklar) WNRJ-FM..."Energy
105"...afternoons. WWSW-FM "3-W-S" Afternoons and also briefly
WJJJ-FM "The Beat" from April 2000...till September 2001. Mike is
currently on afternoons at 3WS in Pittsburgh. www.3wsradio.com
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Dave
Drummond
May
1978
Dave Drummond a.k.a. Bruce Breslau filling in
for Charlie Brown in May of '78. Bruce was in sales at WOLF and
later moved on as a rep with TM Productions. Dave later moved to
Agency's Jim Long, then Frank Gary in New York City. He later moved
to Los Angeles where he became creative director on many top
television advertising campaigns and helped to launch and promote
many networks and cable networks world-wide. Dave/Bruce says "I
launched The Cosby Show/Roseanne in syndication. Was at the
beginning of Nick-At-Nite, et al. Currently, I'm VP/Sales and
Marketing at 5 Guys Named Moe, inc. a North Hollywood-based
production, post-production and creative services house -- we create
promos for TV, do a lot of post work for HBO (mostly their original
series) and do audio production and mixing for television and motion
pictures."
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