WHTZ Z100 New York - FIRST DAY ON AIR

WHTZ Z100 New York - FIRST DAY ON AIR - Scott Shannon -

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WHTZ Z100 New York - FIRST Afternoon ON AIR - Scott Shannon - 5:45-7:25PM August 2 1983
Courtesy: Charles Menut.
August 2 1983 - Z100 signed on with Scott Shannon, and the brand new Top Forty format! -The first time NewYork had a true Top 40 on FM in Years. This audio features Shannon in afternoon drive!
Transmitting from West Orange NJ. - The first WHTZ site was on First Mountain in West Orange. It is also the home of WSOU and WFME.
Scott Shannon Always referred to that transmitter as the PeaShooter
The station was on that tower in Jersey for the first few days
Aug 4, finally broadcasting from the Empire State Building. Scott Shannon Always referred to that transmitter as the Flamethrower! They could be heard clearly across all or Metro New York.
The rest was history, Shannon & his crew on Z100 went from “Worst, to first” in only 74 days!
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@donnadeckelman9803 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Ellis for these great video pieces on You Tube! This brings back great memories!

@bertelevision4118 4 жыл бұрын

In the mid-to-late '80s, Z100 had a pre-produced legal ID that I loved: "Z100, WHTZ Newark, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and a little itty-bitty piece of Pennsylvania!" Shuttling between Hartford and D.C. during that time, catching that would be the highlight of my drive! Thank you, Ellis, for preserving radio history from this era. ---First time commenter, long-time subscriber, Doug Bertel

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Bertelevision Thanks Doug! I enjoy you TV & radio preservation also!

@DJ_G-Rod 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Shannon was a brave man playing Stars on 45 in 1983 when most stations were not even playing it as a recurrent. That's what made him so innovative...and successful.

@darinorna 4 жыл бұрын

Loved the Z...Thanks again Ellis.✌️👍

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@robmoore7378 2 ай бұрын

I remember the summer I spent in NYC , 1986. I remember the station ID was THE STATION THAT SHAKES THE LAKE'S & RULES THE POOLS....Z100 NEW YORK

@RonMotta1972 2 жыл бұрын

This brings back so many memories. This is why I did radio in high school and college.

@themightyx5652 Жыл бұрын

Z100 NYC 1983 WORST TO FIRST

@Itsgaryjerry 4 жыл бұрын

Serving the Universe from the top of the Empire State Building - Z100 - New York!

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

It this point, they are serving NJ & half of metro NY from the Oranges.

@Itsgaryjerry 4 жыл бұрын

Ellis Feaster doesn’t have quite the same ring to it does it?

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

LOL! Not at all!

@bkrbyex4339 4 жыл бұрын

This was long before Livestreaming and the internet.

@TralfazConstruction 4 жыл бұрын

Ellis, your enthusiasm is contagious!

@stephenmendola2684 2 жыл бұрын

What a blast from the past!!! I grew up in BKLYN and remember Scott, and in the evening was Jack Da Wack, and who can forget Mr. Lenard from the Morning Zoo:)

@alfonsogreen2722 4 жыл бұрын

I started listening 2 Z100 around 1984 85 etc.....

@mrmjb1960 4 жыл бұрын

There is also a WHTZ radio station here in Florida in Hudson! It was first named WJQB.

@daytonlights-peterwine468 21 күн бұрын

I am nowhere near as well known as Scott, but Z-93, a station I worked for starting in April of 1984 was, I think, based on Z-100. I have a tape or two from the first summer, but I wish I had some from our 10,093 in a row days.

@gerardcarriera7052 4 жыл бұрын

Z morning zoo. I remember it well!

@raymondmartin6737 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember WVNJ, known as WV, Enjoy, in New Jersey, with the Beautiful Music format that stations like WTFM, and WHUD, used to follow in those and earlier days, before it disappeared.

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

93 WPAT would fit into that group also!

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster Their was also WRFM which was a BM/EZ station and was direct competitor to 93WPAT. WRFM was programmed by Marlin Taylor

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Don McCullen That’s right! I knew something was missing!

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster Taylor has a great book about his radio career which you can by via his website. He was the biggest advocate for the BM/EZ format. marlintaylor.com/

@VBaskin2010 4 жыл бұрын

TM Male Jingle Singers: New York's hit music! SCOTT SHANNON!! Z100!!!

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

No jingles yet! That came along later.

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster But the Airpower package came on soon enough. Lots of people don't know this. Just their long term relationship with the Holy Grail of jingles...JAM Creative Productions.

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Don McCullen Back in the day, I had wondered why they chose AirPower. I thought they wold have gone with one of the Jam packages, but I wonder if they were trying to go from a different sound than the style we were hearing in WPLJ & what WABC was running in it’s final years. By 1984, they were shifting over to Jam. I did get a kick out of hearing some classic PAMS sounds on Z100 in those early days.

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster My guess would be that the station just signed on, and JAM Creative did not have something that they wanted. Music Now (created for BBC Radio 1) proved to be something over the heads of American CHR stations. WHTZ's sister station in Milwaukee at the time also used Airpower. If TM knew about Music Now, what they did is take the all male group and make the jingles more Drake friendly. Music Now was not exactly friendly to the rules of Bill Drake. The Z100 packages were louder than the WLS-FM/KIISFM packages but not too loud. The AC station in my market used Hot KIIS.

@STEVE33437 4 жыл бұрын

Those were great times. Scott really knew radio. Amazing that he couldn't pull the same results in L.A.with Pirate radio. But he came back and is still on top @ CBS fm!

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Pirate radio was not really about Scott failing. It was the wrong format at the wrong time. The Rock 40 format came & went pretty quickly.

@STEVE33437 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster I usually agree with you Ellis but Top 40 was alive well into the late '90's with many syndicated count 'em down shows getting plenty of airtime eg Casey Casem and Leeza Gibbons were only 2 names. When I left NY in 1989 WPLJ & Z100 still had that format ig I remember correctly.

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster I agree that Rock 40 came and went. However it was Pirate Radio that started the Rock 40 fad, and not WMMS or WAAF. I had a Rock 40 station that adopted the 4 in a row with no talk were I grew up. The Crossover Rhythmic format was making waves and taking CHR in a permanent Rhythmic direction...not even Disco did that. Even with KIIS leaning Rhythmic, it was a KPWR that took it further.

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

Steve W Top 40 kind of died around 1979-ish to about 1982-ish. It has been going fairly strong, with highs & lows ever since. I don’t think I ever said or wrote otherwise, unless it was a typo. I spent most of that time in top 40 programming. I DID say Rock 40 died pretty quickly.

@donmccullen1973 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster Top 40 was in a state of flux during the early 1980's. At the moment the adult sound was popular again especially the west coast sound later nicked named yacht rock. With MTV started, yacht rock lost its appeal and with the birth of Z100 and some help from rival WPLJ coupled with KIIS-FM in LA being the top of the CHR class in that respected market Top 40/CHR remade itself...just like it did in the 2000's and 2010's.

@mrmjb1960 4 жыл бұрын

He later called it The True Oldies Channel with other stations also simulcasting it.

@johnpinckney4979 3 ай бұрын

How about "memorials" of KHTR in L.A., Ted Carson or "Uncle Johnny" on WRQX Washington? WRC and WPGC Washington? (OK, WPGC was licensed to Morningside, MD...), The chicken coop that was "Radio California" (KACY, Port Hueneme (Oxnard)), WQAM, and KFRC? And, north of the border, CKLM, Montreal and CJRC, Ottawa? Great Top-40 radio in French!

@jarrellmason9080 4 жыл бұрын

Great aircheck. Was surprised to hear intro of New Edition's Is This The End cause I assumed that their pop airplay didn't start til their 84 self titled album. Although I have heard on a few Top 40 air checks from this time period that Candy Girl had a few spins.

@EllisFeaster 4 жыл бұрын

They got Pop AirPlay was those 2, as well as Popcorn Love. In 1983, when this was all new, I kept confusing New Edition with Musical Youth.

@jarrellmason9080 4 жыл бұрын

@@EllisFeaster Musical Youth was signed to MCA as well but their records were Reggae heavy since their folks migrated to the U.K. from The Carribean. I could see how the two acts could be confusing for some since there were no kid acts out at the time besides those two getting pop airplay.