The station shared the WNEW call letters between 1958 and 1986 with former sister AM station WNEW ( 1130 kHz ) and television station WNEW-TV ( channel 5 ), with all being owned by Metromedia.

CBS Radio has since reused the WNEW call sign ; the present-day WNEW ( AM ) and WNEW-FM in the Washington, D. C., area are connected to this station only through their common ownership.

WNEW first logo as " Blink 102. 7 " Sounders during that period teased listeners about how " a new station " would soon be coming to the 102. 7 frequency, and it arrived in April, when WNEW became " 102. 7 Blink " ( keeping the WNEW call letters ) and adopted an unusual " Entertainment AC " format.

However, the " Mix 102. 7 " moniker and the WNEW call letters remained.

Upon its sale, WMGM reverted to its original WHN call letters and switched to a MOR music format playing easy listening and, unlike WNEW which played limited amounts of soft rock and roll, absolutely no rock and roll except maybe Ray Charles or Bobby Darin.

Thus, CBS moved the WHFS call signs first to a co-owned FM station in West Palm Beach ( and as noted earlier, said station-which was and still is known as " B-106. 3 "-also previously housed the " WNEW " callsign for identical purposes ).

* WBBR, a radio station ( 1130 AM ) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WNEW from February 1934 through December 1992

* WGH ( AM ), a radio station ( 1310 AM ) licensed to Newport News, Virginia, United States, which used the call sign WNEW from when it signed on in October 1928 until November 1928

* WUUB, a radio station ( 106. 3 FM ) licensed to Jupiter, Florida, United States, which used the call sign WNEW from January 2007 through December 2011

* WNYW, a television station ( channel 5 analog / 44 digital ) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call signs WNEW and WNEW-TV until March 1986

* WWFS, a radio station ( 102. 7 FM ) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call signs WNEW and WNEW-FM until January 2007

In 1966, the station was purchased by Metromedia Broadcasting, which changed the call letters to KNEW ( purchased from a Spokane station for $ 75, 000 ) to match its New York station WNEW.

The station was acquired in 1934 by businessmen Milton Biow and Arde Bulova, who changed the call letters to WNEW, for " the NEWest thing in radio ".

After years of declining ratings and management changes in the 1980s, WNEW was purchased by Bloomberg L. P. in 1992 and changed call letters to WBBR.

The WHFS call letters have since relocated first to a talk station on 1580 AM ( now WNEW ), and then to a sister station in West Palm Beach, Florida.

On December 1, 2011, WHFS changed their call letters to WNEW as a placeholder move in preparation for those call letters to be installed on the FM dial in a lateral swap.

They were confronted by WNEW peer Carol Miller a few times on the air, until they were forbidden by management to make eye contact.

The WWFS calls were approved on January 9, 2007, by the Federal Communications Commission, resulting in the WNEW calls disappearing from the New York radio / television spectrum after being used continuously in the market since 1934.

In early 2011, abandoned trademarks were registered with the US Department of Commerce by a midwestern businessman, combined with a large collection of the WNEW 1130 AM archive library: old shows, concerts and jingle packs, a new " Metromedia Radio " is now broadcasting on internet radio Live365. com.

The 50, 000-watt AM radio stations WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, WJR in Detroit, Michigan, WNEW in New York City, New York, WCCO in Minneapolis, Minnesota, KMPC in Los Angeles, California, and Canadian stations CFRB in Toronto, Ontario and CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia, were known as " full-service MOR " stations with scheduled programming other than the MOR music.

The regular hosts of the telecasts were Bob Dorian and later, Nick Clooney, as well as New York radio personality Gene Klavan from WNEW ( 1130 AM, now WBBR ).

Besides the aforementioned Marty Wilson, other NY jazz deejays contemporaneous with or following after the trail Sid blazed were: Al " Jazzbo " Collins ( WNEW ), Mort Fega ( WEVD ), Ed Beech ( WRVR ), Chris Borgen ( WNCN ), George Crater ( WNCN ) and Phil Schaap ( WKCR ).

The WHFS calls were then moved to an FM station in West Palm Beach, Florida, otherwise branded as " B-106. 3 " ( and which previously housed the WNEW calls for several years prior ).

Like many MOR stations at the time, WCBS did mix in softer songs by rock-and-roll artists, as its ratings at the time were ordinary compared to the higher ratings at WOR and WNEW, both of which also had MOR formats and more distinct identities.

Since home games were blacked out on television, as much as 60 % of the New York radio audience relied on WNEW for play-by-play game coverage.

Research indicated that if WNEW were to revert to an all-classic rock format, listeners would not return there due to the distrust for that station.

In 1935, while listeners to New York's WNEW in New York ( now information outlet WBBR ) were awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block built his audience by playing records between the Lindbergh news bulletins.

He was then fired from WNEW for supporting Opie and Anthony when they were pulled from the airwaves for their " Sex for Sam 3 " bit.

* William B. Williams ( DJ ) ( 1923 – 1986 ), disk jockey on New York City radio station WNEW

The station finally came on the air on August 25, 1958, partially simulcasting WNEW ( AM ) with a separate popular music format.

WNEW last logo as " Blink 102. 7 " In January 2003, the station dropped this blend of talk and infomercials and stunted for the next couple of months with Contemporary hit radio music, using a limited playlist of approximately 50 songs from artists like Pink, Eminem, Bowling for Soup, and Avril Lavigne, as well as nightly simulcasts of CBS's Late Show with David Letterman.

In 1973, Bob and Ray created an historic television program that was broadcast on two channels: one half of the studio was broadcast on the New York PBS affiliate WNET, and the other half of the studio was broadcast on independent station WNEW.

Brooks was developing a reputation as a hard-driving, difficult and perpetually angry man as early as his tenure with radio station WNEW in the late 1930 ’ s.

It also formerly shared the WPGC calls with sister station WPGC-AM, which once played urban gospel music ( the AM station is now talk as WNEW ).

New York Radio station WNEW refused to play the song " Glad to See You Go " due to its off-the-cuff reference to Charles Manson.

Wrather-Alvarez went on to purchase the San Diego television and radio stations KFMB-TV and KFMB in 1953 and New York radio station WNEW in 1955.

Hosts during this transition back to music included Wilson, Jack Spector ( formerly of WMCA ), Jack Hayes, Charlie Brown and later Ted Brown, hired away from then-dominant MOR station WNEW.

Unfortunately, while the mix may have been good, ( and the station got decent ratings and made money ), WNBC was still perceived as everyone's second favorite station behind WABC, 99X, or to a lesser extent, WNEW.

The WHFS callsign temporarily reside on a West Palm Beach, Florida sister station which previously held the WNEW calls after CBS moved them there in 2007 after the former New York FM station of the same name changed formats and calls.

In 1945, a busy Block was doing the Supper Club announcing for the first broadcast, going to WNEW for his own Make Believe Ballroom, working on a CBS radio show called Johnnie Johnston three days a week via telephone from WNEW, then returning to Chesterfield Supper Club for the later broadcast for the West Coast.

Vin Scelsa of WNEW picked up their initial recording of " I Wanna Be A Lifeguard " and it soon became the theme song of the Jones Beach Lifeguards.