The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

After WNEW-TV was sold to the News Corporation in 1986 ( and became WNYW ), and the AM station was sold to Bloomberg L. P. in 1992 ( and became WBBR ), 102. 7 FM retained the WNEW-FM callsign until it was changed in 2007.

In January 1958, WHFI was renamed WNEW-FM and DuMont completed its build-out, moving the license to New York City.

Channel 5 gained sister stations on radio during 1957 when DuMont purchased WNEW ( 1130 AM, now WBBR ) in April, and the construction permit for WHFI, which was renamed WNEW-FM ( 102. 7 FM, now WWFS ) when it began operations in August 1958.

The show, " Welcome To Fillmore East " was aired on WNDT channel 13 in NYC and simulcast on WNEW-FM radio on October 10, 1970 at 10: 00 PM in the NYC area.

The concert was simulcast live by New York City radio stations WPLJ and WNEW-FM, with between-set banter by many of New York's then-trend-setting disc jockeys – WPLJ's Dave Herman & Vin Scelsa and WNEW-FM's Scott Muni among them.

In October 2003, she joined WCBS-TV as a part-time correspondent, after their show was canceled at WNEW-FM.

Karmazin presided over New York's WNEW-AM ( now WBBR ) and WNEW ( now WNEW-FM ) for Metromedia when he was approached to run Infinity Broadcasting in 1981.

He was fired from WNEW-FM, along with hosts Opie & Anthony, after the ' Sex for Sam ' incident, in which a couple were encouraged to have sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, and the results broadcast on the Opie & Anthony Show.

WCBS-FM was never successful with their rock format, competing with stations such as WPLJ ( the other former WABC-FM ) and WNEW-FM had most of the rock audience.

By 1977, WPLJ tended to emphasize hard rock artists such as Led Zeppelin ( there was a nightly " Get the Led Out " segment ), Black Sabbath, Rush, Kansas, Boston, and Queen, who happened to get less airplay than on competing station WNEW-FM.

During 1968-69 he was heard as a late night DJ on WNEW-FM in New York reciting poetry, passages from the Bible, and assorted literary works.

Also, during the mid-1990s, other New York City radio stations were playing alternative rock music, as WXRK went from classic rock to alternative rock, and WNEW-FM was trying to go after a younger audience.

She was also the news director and morning news anchor of the famed rock radio station WNEW-FM.

He was also a regular disc jockey on Q104. 3 before joining WNEW-FM and was a VJ who hosted the weekend episodes of Metal Mania on the cable television channel VH1 Classic.

However, " HFS2 " was dropped again on December 30, 2011 for a simulcast of WNEW-FM.

The show was broadcast from New York on 102. 7 FM WNEW-FM from 2000-2003 until the station ended the talk format, and eventually moved to 106. 7 FM WJFK-FM near Washington D. C. where it aired live from 2003 – 2005, a station that had been simulcasting the WNEW-based show since 2000.

Muni was described by fellow WNEW-FM DJ Dennis Elsas as " the heart and soul of the place ".

Commissioned by New York radio station WNEW-FM, the solo piano performance was broadcast live, with no audience present, from the empty stage of the Capitol Theatre ( Passaic ).

In April 2003, WNEW-FM launched the " Blink " format by saying " The first FM station in New York to broadcast in high definition radio.

The simulcast ended on December 12, 2011, with the WLZL call letters moving to 107. 9, and WNEW-FM on 99. 1 stunting first with Christmas music, and then with The History of Rock and Roll, in anticipation for the launch of the new all-news format on January 22, 2012.

Eventually, announcements on radio stations as far away as WNEW-FM in Manhattan and descriptions of the traffic jams on television news programs discouraged people from setting off to the festival.

From 1986 to 1992, a series of transactions involving WNEW-FM and its sister radio and television stations, resulted in ownership of WNEW-FM passing from Metromedia to Westinghouse Broadcasting ( former sister stations WNEW-TV became WNYW under News Corporation, and WNEW ( AM ) became WBBR under Bloomberg ).

In 1957, DuMont Broadcasting purchased two New York area radio stations, WNEW ( now WBBR ) and WHFI ( later WNEW-FM and WWFS ), and later that year changed its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation to distance itself from its former parent company.

Many stations such as WNEW-FM in New York City began to play whole sides of record albums, as opposed to the " Top 40 " model of two decades earlier.

In the early 1970s, some adventurous FM stations ( such as KSAN-FM and WNEW-FM ) began experimenting with programming based upon album tracks, not only from established artists but from more obscure bands as well.

Other FM competitors like oldies station WCBS-FM, soul station WBLS, and album-oriented rock stations like WPLJ and WNEW-FM all did well in the ratings, but none rivalled WABC's success.

Over the next quarter-century, Westinghouse would purchase several other radio stations, including KFBK in Sacramento, California ; WMAQ in Chicago, WNEW-FM in New York, and WMMR-FM in Philadelphia.

, CBS Radio operates ten of the country's largest all-news radio stations: WCBS, KNX, WBBM, WINS, KCBS, KYW, and WWJ, KRLD and WNEW-FM, WBZ-AM

As of January 2012, CBS Radio operates eight of the largest all-news stations in the country — WINS, KYW, WCBS, WBBM, KNX, WNEW-FM in Washington, KCBS in San Francisco, and WWJ in Detroit.

In early 1983, the station added " Billie Jean " by Michael Jackson, playing it several times a day ( note that many AOR stations including WNEW-FM added that song and it did chart on the rock tracks chart ).

* 1978-1980: Punk / New Wave Rock — At a time when other rock stations in New York were sticking with traditional AOR formats ( WPLJ, WNEW-FM ), Adult Top 40 ( WXLO ) or oldies ( WCBS-FM ), WPIX staked out a groundbreaking format focused on new wave and punk but included older rock and roll as well, hence its advertising slogan: " From Elvis to Elvis.

The final moments of the old WNEW-FM came on September 12, 1999 ; sole remaining long-time jock Richard Neer signed off his Sunday morning show by playing Bruce Springsteen's elegiac dirge " Racing in the Street ", and identifying the station one last time, changing the slogan to " Where Rock Lived ".

The single " The Barnyard Song " received a smattering of airplay on WNEW-FM and the band had a national television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show.

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.

Later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM ( now WRXP ), a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R & B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1 ; and Alison Steele (" The Nightbird " of WNEW-FM ).

When long-time competitor WPLJ switched away from rock in 1983, WNEW-FM picked up some of its most popular DJs, such as Carol Miller and years later Pat St. John who would take over the morning show and programming duties.

In December 1997, sister station WFAN ( then flagship station of the MetroStars ) announced that WNEW-FM would be their FM flagship station after Infinity Broadcasting Corporation ( now CBS Radio ) reached an 6-year extension deal ( starting in the 1998 MLS season ) with the MSG Network and the MetroStars to simulcast their games until the 2004 season.

WPLJ's airstaff, which stayed on during the early transition months, would gradually change, as WNEW-FM picked up some of the station's best-known rock DJs, such as Carol Miller and Pat St. John.

( Of note, Viacom would not be out of the radio business for long, for when they bought CBS, they also bought their radio properties, which were owned by the radio subsidiary Infinity Broadcasting-which interestingly owned WLTW's future competitor, WNEW-FM.

* 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

The 99. 1 MHz frequency will adopt the WNEW-FM call sign.