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Our Fan Favorite

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We’ve Got Quite a Few Friends

WNEW AM had…has long standing relationships with their listeners, many spanning generations.

WNEW1130.com celebrates the memory of our fan favorite,

Dr. Leo S. Halpern
North Arlington, New Jersey

Growing up in Northern New Jersey in the 1960s my late father, Leo, was a Dentist. WNEW radio was playing in the waiting room for patients. That’s where I got my first exposure to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the entire entourage…naturally MCd by William B. Williams. Great time in music. All the best, Ted Halpern. <Dr. Halpern’s son>

I would like to recognize that Dr. Halpern was a freelance photographer for The Star Ledger and Morristown Daily Record. He won national awards and his work was exhibited at several museums…He also volunteered as a dentist for the St. Edmonds Home for Crippled Children in Philadelphia and the Unwed Mothers Florence Crittenden Home in Newark. He was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, having served with the rank of lieutenant commander as ship dentist aboard the USS Randall.
New Jersey Jewish News
11-March 1999

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National Moment of Remembrance

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The National Moment of Remembrance encourages all Americans to pause wherever they are at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day for a minute of silence to remember and honor those who have died in service to the nation.

Arlington is written from the point of view of a soldier who was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and based on the real story of Marine Corps Corporal Patrick Nixon.

Arlington was inspired by Nixon’s death in 2003, written by the songwriter Scott Turnbull after he met Nixon’s father. Adkins later recorded the song, but he did not have a personal connection with the soldier.

US Dept of Veterans Affairs

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Sweet 16

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A very special Happy Anniversary to WNEW1130.com.

Thank you, Ed Brown, for your vision in creating this site, and thank you for your writing.  Thank you to that handful of WNEW-AM family of friends who continue to support this site.

WNEW1130.com post that April day read,

There’s Only One . . . WNEW

There was a time when most radio stations, no matter how big, were local and part of neighborhood life.  WNEW-AM, where the forms of modern radio were invented and made personal, existed within a community of broadcasters and listeners who shared in life’s events and now, share memories. This blog, exists to collect as many as possible of the bits and pieces of that history. What do you remember? What part of the story can you tell?

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We Make You Feel Brand New

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Contributing Editor, Andy Fisher

New York Transit Museum. Photo Credit: Bernie Wagenblast

Your Metromedia Station in New York

Bernie Wagenblast, a veteran New York radio traffic and transit reporter, sent me this picture taken at the New York Transit Museum, located in the abandoned Court Street subway station in downtown Brooklyn. The museum displays many restored New York subway cars, complete with period advertisements. Bernie thoughtfully spotted this one and sent it to me. 

NY Transit Museum

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Postedit: In response to your comment, Mike Moss, here is a Julius La Rosa special, You make me Feel so Young

Obituary

Remembering Gary Stevens

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Gary Stevens, a New York Radio DJ Who Spun the British Invasion, Dies at 84

The following is an excerpt from an article in the WSJ. –MCP-

By Chris Kornelis
March 7, 2025 10:00 am ET

New York City. Photo: Stevens family

In May of 1967, Gary Stevens told his listeners that he’d gotten his hands on new music from the Beatles that none of them had heard yet. This is what his listeners tuned in for. Decades before the internet, social media, Napster, Spotify and MTV, radio was where you first heard new releases from the Rolling Stones, the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers.

Stevens was one of the WMCA “Good Guys,” the New York station’s roster of DJs at the height of the British Invasion and the halcyon days of Motown. The Beatles had already released “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” earlier in the year, but Stevens didn’t just have a new single. He had an entire album: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” He claimed that his sidekick—a bear named Wooly Burger—had smuggled it out of England.

“People were not just tuning in to hear music and call letters and news, they tuned in for a friend, a familiar voice that made you feel good,” said Bruce Morrow, aka “Cousin Brucie,” who competed directly against Stevens in the night slot at WABC, where he still hosts a show He added: “If you were successful, you knew the secret: how to talk right directly to an audience. Gary had that secret.”

Write to Chris Kornelis at chris.kornelis@wsj.com

Editor’s Note: Although Mr. Stevens was not a WNEW alumni, he worked with many at WMCA who later landed at WNEW, including, Edward Brown.

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