The Birth of WFAN July 1, 1987

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All Sports WFAN Radio was launched on July 1, 1987, taking over the 1050 khz frequency from country music WHN. This clip, taken from WCBS-TV, Channel 2 in New York explains the changes of both WHN to WFAN and also the conversion of WYNY 97.1 FM from an adult-contemporary format to country. Major changes happened to both stations the following year after Emmis Communications bought WNBC 660 and migrated WFAN there and also as part of the same deal moving WYNY from 97.1 to 103.5. This clip was recorded off air from Hazlet, NJ (Monmouth County).

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@Every-picture-tells-a-story Год назад

I wish they were still around.. country 97 Fm

@marchoffman6878 3 года назад

I LISTENED TO THIS STATION WHEN IT WAS ON THE AIR.

@TheBrooklynbodine 7 лет назад

Thanks so much for this post. I never saw Lee Arnold "in action". As I've said before (and undoubtedly will again and again), I've lived in West Virginia all my life, but lived for trips to NYC to hear WHN. Happy 30th, WFAN, and GO YANKEES!!

@marchoffman6878 3 года назад

WHN WAS REPLACED WITH WFAN AT 1050 ON AM ON JULY 1ST IN 1987.

@TheBrooklynbodine 3 года назад

Posting 6-22-21. Today's Lee Arnold's birthday if he's still living. If he is, here's wishing him a happy one. I used to call him on his birthday when he was at WHN, and even sent him a card one year.

@q95oldies57 Год назад

AND don't forget WMGM.

@fhowland Год назад

NYC had a country station?!

@TheBrooklynbodine 6 лет назад

WYNY is now Hot 97 and playing hip-hop. That's about as far from country as you can get. It also used to be WNBC-FM, and I think maybe it simulcast the AM at one time. Like Ian Brown, I wonder who's the reporter? She's certainly an eyeful, isn't she?

@radiodude1976 Год назад

Well...technically WYNY is now WKTU. Back in 1988, WYNY and WQHT (on the then-inferior signal of 103.5) swapped frequencies. So their lineage actually goes with WKTU and not WQHT. However, country music and retro pop/dance music are still very far apart as music styles go.

@TheBrooklynbodine Год назад

@@radiodude1976 Yeah, I'd say so. About like Barbra Streisand trying to cover "Coal Miner's Daughter," to name just one.

@TheBrooklynbodine Год назад

Yes, I believe it did simulcast WNBC-AM, but that was decades ago, if it did. I'd say the early '70s would've been the latest it occurred.

@ericgrove7755 2 года назад

Stan Martin was on WFAN.

@antmc84 5 лет назад

Jill Rappaport is the Reporter.. 😉😉😉

@TheBrooklynbodine 5 лет назад

OK, thanks. I was wondering. I'll bet she's still fine-looking, even after 30-plus years.

@TheBrooklynbodine 5 лет назад

Then we're about the same age. I turned 56 last June 10, and if she's 54 now, she was only 22 then. I say "only" because to have a gig at WCBS-TV as a reporter at that young age was (and is) quite a coup. However, Dan Taylor was 20 or 21 (forget which now) when he came to WHN. I asked him how he landed the job and he said "right place, right time."

@TheBrooklynbodine 5 лет назад

No, I'm sure they didn't.

@joshdznyc Год назад

@@TheBrooklynbodinethen Dan went to the next station taken over by the Fan, WNBC for one year

@TheBrooklynbodine Год назад

@@joshdznyc Yes, he did. It may not have been immediately, but he wasted very little, if any time going there. In fact, I think it was less than a week.