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Giamatti's first high-profile role was in the film adaptation of Howard Stern's Private Parts ( 1997 ) as Kenny " Pig Vomit " Rushton, Stern's antagonistic program director at WNBC.
Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus ( then of WNBC ); Frankie Crocker ( then program director and DJ for WBLS ); Scott Shannon ( of Z100 ); Jon Bauman (" Bowzer " from Sha Na Na ); Bobby Rivers ; and Rita Coolidge.
Pittman had been the program director of WNBC a year or so earlier, but had left to start a new venture: a cable channel called MTV ( Music Television ).
WNBC assistant program director Buzz Brindle overheard Stein ’ s question and remembered the new venture.
When Lund returned as program director in late 1979, WNBC general manager Robert Sherman set the goal: " Beat WABC " which had be New York's # 1 station for decades.
Throughout his three years at WNBC, Stern had continuous battles with station management and other jocks at the station, specifically Don Imus and program director Kevin Metheny, whom Stern nicknamed " Pig Virus ".
Pon introduced Seibert to his WNBC Radio colleague Robert Pittman as Pittman was becoming an early cable television pioneer at the Warner Amex Satellite Company ( WASEC ), now named MTV Networks Siebert became the first creative director for the channel.

WNBC and who
The show is hosted by WEWS meteorologist Jason Nicholas, who took over in 2007 following anchor Danita Harris and former anchor Adam Shapiro, who went to New York City's WNBC.
The character first came to life from the creative mind of Bob Smith, who created Howdy Doody during his days as a radio announcer on WNBC ( AM ).
Martling assumed his role full-time in August 1986 when he replaced Al Rosenberg, a comedian and writer at WNBC who could no longer commute from Washington, D. C. Also hired was Gary Dell ' Abate of the station's traffic department, who started as the show's assistant in September 1984 and went on to become executive producer.
The last voice heard on WNBC was that of Alan Colmes, who said " I'm Alan Colmes.
" She is former field reporter for WNBC 4 New York who appeared daily on LX New York.
His replacement was Perri Peltz, who worked for WNBC in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Also in the 1980s, after WABC and later WNBC ( AM ) abandoned music in favor of talk, WCBS-FM began employing many disc jockeys who were widely known on other New York City stations ( and sometimes nationally ), most notably Musicradio WABC alumni Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bruce " Cousin Brucie " Morrow, Chuck Leonard and Harry Harrison, as well as Dan Daniels and Jack Spector.
Sue Simmons ( born May 27, 1942 ) is a former news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980-2012.
Peltz continued to report both for WNBC and for NBC Network on people who were making a difference.
Michael now not only was entering the nation's largest media market ; he also succeeded radio legend " Cousin Brucie " Morrow, who had jumped to competitor WNBC.
NBC then realized its UHF experiment was a lost cause and in June 1959 sold WNBC to Plains Television, a joint venture of Transcontinental Properties and H & E Balaban Corporation, who also owned fellow then-NBC affiliates WICS ( channel 20 ) in Springfield and WCHU ( channel 33, now WICD on channel 15 ) in Champaign in the state of Illinois.

WNBC and later
Before NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT & T's New York City station WEAF ( later WNBC, now CBS-owned WFAN ).
A year later he claimed the highest ratings at WNBC in four years with a 5. 7 % market share.
Contacts he made at DuMont paid off with a stage manager's job at NBC's New York City station, WRCA ( later WNBC ).
He returned to New York in 1970 on the weekend show NBC Monitor and as a fill-in morning dj, and then in 1972 moved to a regular evening weekend program on WNBC radio where Don Imus was broadcasting ; he was joined there by the legendary Wolfman Jack, a year later.
Its earlier incarnation, Cavalcade of Sports, likewise a boxing show, ran on NBC's New York City station WNBT ( now WNBC ) intermittently since 1943 and was picked up by the NBC network three years later.
Dell ' Abate has worked on The Howard Stern Show since September 4, 1984: originally on 66 WNBC, then syndicated through K-Rock in New York City, and later broadcast on Sirius XM Radio.
NBC itself purchased the WKNB stations in December 1956, and renamed channel 30 WNBC ( for New Britain, Connecticut ) a month later.
In 1972, Guida went to WNBC as a weekend co-anchor, later becoming Chief Political Reporter for the station.

WNBC and created
In radio, he created American Focus, a weekly national interview program carried by over 200 radio stations in the U. S., including New York's WNBC.
News 4 New York ( concept, graphics, music and marketing ) was created by Peter Sang, Director of Advertising and Promotion at WNBC.

WNBC and successful
Following a successful run as an on-air personality in Cleveland, Don Imus was hired by WNBC to host Imus in the Morning in late 1971.
The show was intended to span the length of the NFL season, but proved so successful that WNBC extended the show to run year-round.

WNBC and MTV
By 1979, Pittman would leave WNBC ( he would soon become the founder of MTV ).
He left after a short time and went on to program WNBC, co-found MTV, operated America On Line and AOL-Time Warner and currently is Chief Executive Officer of Clear Channel, the owner of thousands of radio stations.

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Like its predecessor for much of its run, Good Morning New York failed to make a dent in the ratings against Donahue on WNBC, and was cancelled in early 1983, with The Morning Show as its replacement.
The series was plagued by low ratings and negative reviews from critics throughout its run ; the program also suffered from airing in undesirable timeslots in certain markets, including in the country's largest media market, New York City, where WCBS-TV and WNBC ( the latter of which acquired the series from WCBS five months into the program's run ) both placed the program in pre-dawn early morning slots.
Many of its former students are currently employed in some form of television production, including news at WNBC and Fox 5 WNYW.
Abel was behind one of the most talked-about incidents in The Phil Donahue Shows history-on January 21, 1985, soon after the show's well-publicized move of its operations from Chicago to WNBC New York.
Unlike its successor The Huckleberry Hound Show, Ruff and Reddy featured a live action host, Jimmy Blaine ( an announcer at WNBC Radio, New York ), and various theatrical cartoons from Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems library including The Fox and the Crow and Li ' l Abner filling up the rest of the half-hour.
WNBC is the sister station to Linden, New Jersey-based WNJU ( flagship of the co-owned Telemundo network ), and SportsNet New York, which NBCUniversal acquired a minority stake in as part of its purchase by Comcast.
What is now WNBC traces its history to experimental station W2XBS, founded by the Radio Corporation of America ( a co-founder of the National Broadcasting Company ), in 1928, just two years after NBC was founded as the first nationwide radio network.
Thus, WNBC inadvertently holds the distinction as the oldest continuously operating TV station in the United States, and also the only one ready to accept sponsors from its beginning.
Later in the decade WNBC shed its " Conversation Station " format and readopted a middle-of-the-road ( MOR ) music format, covering songs from the 1940s to the 1960s with non-rock and soft rock hits recorded after 1955.
By 1971, music from such acts as Sinatra and Cole would disappear, with a few exceptions, separating WNBC from its WNEW-like beginnings.
Although the FCC regards the 660 frequency as changing its calls from WNBC to WFAN on that day, WFAN does not claim WNBC's history.
When ratings crumbled in 1980, WNBC decided to pour resources into its 6 p. m. newscast, which would feature its best reporters, while the 5 p. m. newscast would be more of an interview and lifestyle show with news headlines at the top of the show.
For a while, WNBC moved its 5: 30 newscast back to 5 PM ( moving Extra to 5: 30 ), but did not return the Live at Five name to the newscast.
With alterations ( and a brief interruption in the early 1990s ), WNBC has used a form of the chimes on its newscasts ever since.
WNJU witnessed major overhauls, adopting similar opening graphics to those used at New York City's WNBC, and adopting a tweaked version of its opening music sequence.
On March 7, 2012, WNBC announced that it would not renew its contract with Simmons ; the contract expired in June.
The first New York City radio station to feature a phone-in talk format was WNBC in the late 1960s, ( with Long John Nebel in the early morning hours ) but the format began in earnest in New York in 1970, when WMCA radio dropped its " Good Guys " top-40 radio format in favor of the " Dial-Log Radio " slate of call-in shows.
WNBC signed off in October 1988, and WFAN decided to retain Imus, replacing its original morning drive-time show hosted by Greg Gumbel.
The NBC Studios in New York, New York is located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza ( on 49th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues ) in Manhattan, the historic GE Building houses the headquarters of the NBC television network, its parent General Electric, and NBC's flagship station WNBC ( Channel 4 ), as well as cable news channel MSNBC.
She returned to WNBC on February 15, 2010 as co-host, with Sara Gore, of its then 5 pm LX New York, as it was then known, newscast.

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