For example, KTRV in Boise, Idaho aired the show at first on Tuesday, then Saturday nights at 6: 30 PM, while WNBC in New York City aired it first on Sundays at 1: 00 PM then moved it back to 9: 00 AM.

In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D. C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985.

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.

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.

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.

Al Brady left WABC in July and soon became General Manager of crosstown WYNY, which by then had a similar format their then-fraternal twin sister station WNBC, as well as WABC.

" In 1992, Stern believed that Thornton Bradshaw, at the time chairman of RCA which then owned WNBC, was driving in his limousine having heard his " Bestiality Dial-a-Date " segment and ordered his firing.

WEAF's call letters were changed to WNBC in 1946, then to WRCA in 1954, and back to WNBC in 1960.

That summer, with radiocasts of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, WNBC added Sports Night on weekday evenings, initially hosted by Jack Spector and then Dave Sims.

Emmis ended up moving their Dance / R & B " Hot " format and call letters WQHT over to the 97. 1 frequency ( while selling the 103. 5 facility and WYNY's intellectual property over to Westwood One ), and then moved WFAN's format and call letters from 1050 to 660 on October 7, 1988 at 5: 30 pm, replacing " 66 WNBC " which signed off forever.

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.

his first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with Dick Purtan then WKWK, Wheeling, WV after that he continued at several venerable stations, including WKBW in Buffalo, New York, WHTZ and WNBC in New York City, KQV in Pittsburgh, KMPC and KRTH in Los Angeles, WDRC in Hartford, WIXY in Cleveland, and WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia.

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.

Later in 1928, General Electric started a second facility, this one in New York City, which had the call letters W2XBS, and which today is known as WNBC.

Before NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT & T's New York City station WEAF ( later WNBC, now CBS-owned WFAN ).

These telecasts were seen only in New York City and the immediate vicinity, since NBC television had only one station at the time, W2XBS Channel 1, now WNBC Channel 4.

Sporadic network transmission of stereo audio began on NBC on July 26, 1984, with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, although at the time only the network's New York City flagship station, WNBC, had stereo broadcast capability ; regular stereo transmission of NBC programs began during early 1985.

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 ).

He had signed a contract with WNBC in March, and began to berate management and other deejays on the air.

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.

As New York's # 2 station ( behind WABC ), " WNBC had to be twice as good to be # 1 ".

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 ".

WNBC had a turnover of programming in early 1987.

His show had newer WNBC jingles, no echo sound effects, and slightly softer songs.

Sporadic network transmission of stereo audio began on NBC on July 26, 1984, with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — although at the time, only the network's New York City flagship station, WNBC, had stereo broadcast capability.

( Competitors WNBC had been a defacto Top 40 AM station while WYNY had been the de-facto FM hits station throughout the early 1980s, playing many current songs as part of their hot adult-contemporary format ).

NBC had problems with sister station WNBC as well.

Imus has had a long-standing rivalry with Howard Stern, dating back to their days at WNBC.

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.

Viewers had to buy an expensive converter to watch WNBC, and even with one the picture was barely viewable.

For its first year on the air, Channel 3 was an independent station, as ABC was affiliated with the state's other VHF outlet, WNHC-TV ( channel 8, now WTNH ) in New Haven ; while CBS and NBC had owned-and-operated stations on the UHF band in the market, WHCT-TV ( channel 18 ) in Hartford and WNBC ( channel 30, now WVIT ) in New Britain, respectively.

In 1977, WNBC tried sounding younger and moved their format musically closer to WABC.

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 1975, WNBC was playing an Adult Top 40 format and while trying to compete with WABC they were also competing with a musically closer station, WXLO.

WNBC followed suit with the music ( but did not add evening talk ), moving to a similar AC format to sister station WYNY.

Then, in 1983 with ABC-owned WPLJ evolving to a Contemporary Hit Radio ( CHR ) format, as well as WHTZ's debut with the same format, WNBC began to lose some listeners.

Therefore, WNBC modified their format, keeping Imus in the morning playing a few AC cuts and a couple oldies an hour with his usual talk.

On August 27, 1967, a small private airplane crashed into the radio tower, destroying the antenna and taking WCBS and WNBC off the air, the day before WCBS's all news format launched.

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.

* With the possible exception of WNBC, one of the most popular instances of the Live at Five format was shown on the CTV Atlantic network in Atlantic Canada.

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.

Later, in 1978, the newscast title was changed to NewsCenter 4 and KRON's news logo was changed to feature the word NewsCenter in Helvetica font next to the " 4 " logo ( similar to the NewsCenter 4 branding pioneered by NBC's owned-and-operated stations such as WNBC and KNBC ).

In the 1970s and 1980s, he hosted a nationally-syndicated program on health originating from WNBC, called Health Field, and anchored a similar health news program on WLNY for the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, called Medical Update.