Former WNEW PD, Dick Carr and former WNEW News Director, Alan Walden, have collaborated on a WNEW News retrospective now appearing on “Dick Carr’s Big Bands, Ballads and Blues,” website.  The second installment deals with coverage of the killing of Robert Kennedy. Click on link below.

Big Bands, Ballads and Blues-WNEW News Retrospective.com

 

 

Boris Karlof is seen here behind a WNEW microphone in 1950.  It’s a photo we had not seen when a story about Karlof’s series of children’s programs on WNEW was posted on this site.  (See below)  The photo source is a Wikipedia history about WBBR, the financial news broadcaster, owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P., the company that bought out WNEW in 1993.

 

 

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fOR mORE ABOUT  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY

FOR MORE ABOUT  MARLENE SANDERS

Tune in:  Click on the link below to hear a Metromedia Radio News promo produced in early 1969.  The MM correspondents, listed alphabetically, are: Dan Blackburn, Edward Brown, Pye Chamberlain, Mike Eisgrau, George Engle, Alan Walden (Narrator),  Al Wasser.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boris Karloff Tribute Site