August 1974 WNEW-AM Newsletter
Newsletter WNEW 1130 August 1974 (2)
From the Archives of Stuart Zuckerman
Promotion Manager WNEW-AM
All posts by Marianne Palmer
WCBS news farewell and Christopher Glenn Tribute
Ron Sedaille bids farewell to WCBS News Radio 880 and a Christopher Glenn tribute – August 24, 2024
https://youtu.be/Su3kcCNls5Y?si=XAiwW4VXWzufdw9a
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Heading For The Last Roundup
New York Daily News January 21,2006
One of the most recognizable voices on news radio will be leaving the air next month. Christopher Glenn, anchor of “CBS World News Roundup” since 1999, is retiring after the Feb. 24 broadcast. Before that, he had anchored, among other things, CBS’ “The World Tonight” and “CBS News Nightwatch.” From 1971-1984, he anchored more than 5,000 episodes of “In the News,” a TV program on current events for young viewers. He started his career with Armed Forces Broadcasting in Korea and New York in 1960, and his local work also included six years as a reporter, editor and documentary producer at WNEW-AM, 1964-1970.
Rockin’ Ron (Sedaille ) is the General Manager of Fun Tower Radio. He’s been in radio for nearly 40 years, including 30 years at the legendary WDRC-FM in Hartford, CT. Ron hosts oldies Friday night and all request Saturday night from 8-10 PM Eastern.
https://www.funtowerradio.com/
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National Radio Day
Happy National Radio Day to all of you wonderful radio men and women.
https://www.nationalradioday.com/
Remembering…Mike Prelee
Good morning, Arlene…
Thinking of you, Mike and other loved ones on this day!
Mike was a man who loved life and who derived satisfaction from telling the every-day stories of New York, the nation and the world via WHN, Mutual News, NBC Radio and WNEW, where he was the gregarious News Director for ten years until that one-of-a-kind station left the air in 1992.
Bob
Editors Note: Thank you, Bob Gibson, for your contribution.
The below announcement can be found in the WNEW
archives dated 23-Aug-2023.
WCBS 880
Flashback Fun
From the Archives of Stuart Zuckerman
Promotion Manager WNEW-AM
Les Davis Obituary
Apollo 50: Go for the Moon
In response to the July 20, 2024 post, MAN on the MOON, I felt this comment (and video) was better communicated as a post rather than a comment.
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Thank you, Marianne.
This is also wonderful.
2019 Apollo 50: Go for the Moon
Feel free to share this ( … ).
Thank you for keeping this going.
Mike Moss
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The National Air Space Museum shared this beautiful video of the entire “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” show that was projected onto the Washington Monument in July of 2019.
COURTESY: “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” was commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and produced by 59 Productions. The Museum’s Apollo 50 programs were made possible by the support of Boeing with additional support from Raytheon.
Editors note: Earlier this year, I received this lovely note from Mike Moss who is not only a fan of WNEW1130.com, but a radio colleague.
My name is Mike Moss. Your dad visited St. Anthony’s HS on a career day and from that moment I wanted to be a broadcast journalist. I had a great career and even had the pleasure of working with your dad at NBC. He was a great guy and I wanted you to know he holds a special place in my heart.
WNEW was the best. So was the great Edward Brown.
Mike
MAN on the MOON
Four simple words sum up this story: “MAN ON THE MOON!”
Depending upon where you lived in these United States 55 years ago late last night or early this morning earthlings by the name of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first known humans to set foot on the lunar surface. Yes, it was another case of virtually the whole world was watching and that includes Group W Aerospace.
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, 20-Jul-1969.
Correspondent Jim Slade who was aided and abetted by Beach Rogers of Westinghouse station, KFWB, Los Angeles. There were a multitude of places on the radio and TV dials to have followed this unforgettable story but Group W always figures in my accounts for two simple reasons: I was at the time, the morning news broadcaster at Westinghouse station KDKA, Pittsburgh, and Jim Slade’s work with words and explanations, impressed me to no end! That’s not to say that Mr. Rogers was an after-thought. Definitely not! What all started with JFK’s declaration on September 12, 1962 that “We choose to go to the moon,” included a promise to make this out-of-this-world journey before the end of the 1960s. So, less than 7 years later, President Kennedy’s vision became reality as Apollo 11 roared into the heavens carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into history. Four days after the blast-off from Cape Kennedy, Armstrong and Aldrin were prancing about on the moon’s surface looking and observing in total wonderment as they went about conducting various experiments.
To be sure, it was a trip for the ages and featured a message left on the lunar surface that “We came in peace,” and then that memorable quote from Armstrong, Wapakoneta’s pride and joy, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!” That may be in the history books just a collection of meaningful words, but for the many millions across the Earth who were listening to their radios and watching the dramatic events unfold on television, that phrase truly packed a wallop! More than 8 days after lift-off in Florida the trio of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins made a safe splashdown in the Pacific about 800 miles southwest of Hawaii and a dozen miles from the recovery ship, the U.S.S. Hornet.
In looking back, this was another giant page in the annals of NASA’s outstanding work and an event chock-full of memories and history for skyward-watching Earthlings!
-Bob Gibson-
Bob Gibson – https://www.wnew1130.com/news/staff/e-f-g-i/bob-gibson/
Below is a reprise of the July 15, 2019 post by Edward Brown.
Click on links below for the Apollo 11 production, a profile of George Engle by Alan Walden, Executive Producer Mike Stein; and a National Geographic feature on the Future of Space Flight.
Apollo 11 – WNEW- George Engle
Future of Space Flight: National Geographic
Independence Day USA
Independence Day
On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of Lee’s resolution for independence in a near-unanimous vote (the New York delegation abstained, but later voted affirmatively). On that day, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that July 2 “will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary
Carol M Highsmith, photographer
Festival” and that the celebration should include “Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”
On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence , which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.
Did you know? John Adams believed that July 2nd was the correct date on which to celebrate the birth of American independence, and would reportedly turn down invitations to appear at July 4th events in protest. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826—the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Happy Independence to one and all.
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