Harry with daughter, Patti, and son, Patrick
Photo from Harrison family by way of Bob Gibson
Harry Harrison audio through musicradio77.com
Dotty Mack
“Cue The Orchestra”
The Silurians Press Club
Why They Mattered
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The Jarvis/Block Summit
“Celebrating KFWB 90th Anniversary”
KFWB, was once a full-service music and news station owned by Warner Brothers, From 1968 to 2009, it was GroupW/CBS all-news, then switched to conservative talk, then to all sports in 2014, to South Asian programming in 2016, and now presents a Regional Mexican music format.
Apollo 11
Click on links below for the Apollo 11 production ,a profile of George Engle by Alan Walden, and a National Geographic feature on the Future of Space Flight.
Apollo 11 – WNEW- George Engle
Future of Space Flight: National Geographic
Second Time Around # 6
Art Ford and the Night Visitor
The watercolor (above) by Tom Saunders is based on the photo (below) published in Arnie Passman’s book, “The Deejays,”* But, the woman in the painting is not the woman in the photo. Explanation, below.
As WNEW’s first Station Manager, Bernice Judis often dropped in on shows at any time of the day or night. In the photo above, she is seen during an after-midnight visit to “The Milkman’s Matinee” when it was hosted by Art Ford. (1942-1954) In an e-mail to long-time friend, and ‘NEW alum, ABC’s Bill Diehl, Saunders explained: “I read that Bernice Judis was the manager who fired Art Ford for playing too much ‘jazz and international’ music, so I purposely eliminated her and put in a blond groupie instead.” Saunders identified correctly the cause of Ford’s firing, but not his executioner. Judis retired from WNEW in 1954 after 20 years with the station, and about four years before Ford got word while in Europe in April, 1958, that his services were no longer desired.
D-Day Anniversary
