WPGC
had long been thee dominant Top 40 station in the
market. I first began working there in the Summer of 1979
when I talked Scott Shannon into hiring me as the station's
first intern so that I could could finish my degree at the
University of Maryland.
Within
three years I returned as a part time jock in February 1982.
By year's end I had been hired full time for overnights
and oversaw the call out Research Department. The following
year I moved up to 10p-2a and added Music Director stripes.
For a while I worked 6-10p on the air and was the Promotions
Director too!
While
at WPGC I began doing freelance air work in New York at
66 WNBC, which was at the time
the most listened to station in the nation.
Station
management made the tragic decision to drop WPGC's CHR format
in favor of Gold based AC in the Fall of 1982. After 30
years as a musical blowtorch in the sky, listeners were
hardly willing to accept the station in such an emasculated
form.
With
the arrival of Program Director, Al Casey, the station was
repositioned as a Hot AC, closer to it's former, hipper
self. This tape was taken from that period in November of
1983 when the station was identifying itself as 'The
New 95 PGC'.
I
left WPGC for Q107 late in
the Summer of 1984 along with most of the rest of the airstaff
just prior to the embarassing launch of Soft AC, 'Classy
95'.
For
more on the history of WPGC's glory years, please visit
the WPGC
Tribute Site.
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