Talk:WIP-FM

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To the IP address that keeps deleting the WMMR information, please leave it be. WYSP and it's broadcast of the Eagles are mentioned on the WMMR page, and it should be vice versa. Rockafeller 20:01, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Howard Stern
I just wanted to say that i find it amazing this page does not further emphasize the impact of Howard Stern for WYSP. WYSP was always behind MMR, then Howard took YSP to its height by the early 90's until he left last year. Howard came to WYSP in 1986, the first syndicated city from K-ROCK in NYC and then took YSP to the promised land. God bless Howard Stern.

I think the article should emphasize the fact that the signal overlaps with NYC's Z100 in the Northern Burlington/Trenton area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cablesmike53649 (talk • contribs) 07:03, 16 September 2008 (UTC) Comment:

While my memory may not be accurate, I believe we replaced our morning show (such as it was) with Howard Stern in 1984. Over a year later, the guy who was in charge when the Stern simulcast began (former MMR morning jock, PD Michael Picozzi) moved to Connecticut. In fact, about 15 years of 'YSP history is missing from these pages. Let me fill you in.

Michael came over from MMR in late 1981 when 93.3 copied the "morning zoo" concept from Z100, as literally dozens of other stations around the nation were doing. For a while there, it was an entire country of "morning zoos." As Michael continued the Burkhart-Abrams clock-and-box format, YSP found its legs again for the first time since the Fox and Leonard morning show. Michael added another MMR jock, Steve "Steveski" Sutton during middays, who was later replaced by "Anita" Gevinson. Debbie Calton was added later, and she is still going strong at WMGK today. YSP experienced a brief flirtation with harder-edged, metal influenced music as its main format, but a return to more mainstream rock brought one of the stations best rating books ever, edging out WMMR for the first time in years. We had stickers that read "94 WYSP Rocks Charlie Kendall," who was the WMMR program director at that time.

Michael eventually took himself off the air to focus on his duties as program director, and YSP hired a Canadian jock named "Scruff," who was rough around the edges to counter the morning zoo, and he did not fare well with an American rock audience. So, when Howard began his simulcasting, "Scruff Connors" was moved to afternoons. Scruff's departure made room for Ed Sciacky from 2-6 pm, and things really started to come together for us. Like many YSP and MMR jocks, Ed Sciaky also found his way over to MGK.

Gary Bridges, the voice of so many Philly commercials, was in place for 6-10 pm, and Leslie Patten was on until 2 am, when Jerry Hebert (pronounced "A-Bear," and half of the radio team "McKay and The Bear") came in for the overnight shift. Weekends were handled by Art Houston, Rick Allen, and Steve Trevelise, who moved to news when Bill Fantini left the station. I think that Rick Allen has remained at YSP, but since my own "overnight" days are over, I can't say with certainty where Rick is today. Art Houston became a flight instructor and flew jet aircraft for a while, and he does voiceover and industrial acting work. Michael Picozzi does afternoons at WCCC 106.9 Hartford.

During the mid '80s, the YSP simulcasting format, like many, became more "homogenized," with a strict preprinted music format for the remaining dayparts that allowed for no DJ input. Jocks arrived at the station to find four sheets of paper for four hours of radio specifying the order and names of every song to be played. Every song must be played, and no other songs could be played. You WILL comply, and resistance IS futile!

When Michael left for Connecticut in 1985, Andy Bloom arrived as the new PD, and survey-based radio began. Andy set up a calling center in the station, and hired a half dozen young women to call phone book listings and ask about their radio listening habits and music tastes. It seemed strange then, but Andy was way ahead of the radio power curve. He changed the face of the station staff, with jocks like "Killer Craig Kilpatrick," "Tim, The Animal," and "Mike Wolf." The preplanned music format had taken both the fun and the spirit out of radio. I was let go (your mystery writer of this article) when Andy was out of town on business two years later, and after me, several others fell to the pen, having enjoyed wage increases for several years that made us more expensive than Uncle Mel (Karmazin) wanted to pay.

At the end of these fabled days, days when Ed Sciaky, Gene Shay, and Michael Tearson played everything from Insect Trust and Jesse Winchester to Yes and an unknown kid named Springsteen, radio had slowly become less relevant as a cultural monument, and music was less an expression of that culture than the soundtrack for a replacement lifestyle for the uncomfortable. We had awoken from our FM sleep to find that drugs were not good, and celebrity rehabs were "in." Apathy was bad, strength was good, and people want to come here and kill us because of our freedom. While much of the music we played was really good, the supposed rock and roll lifestyle that was the undercurrent of the music and our lives had proven itself to be wholly untenable. Talk about a wake-up call. Ouch.

And now you know, "the resssssst of the story."

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Actually, it still is Rock/Talk
I'd like to revert the change that DodgerOfZion made for the format...they still have two talk shows on the air, which qualifies as Rock/Talk. Please let me know if there is any problem with this. If not, I'll make the change.

JohnSka7 t/c 14:10, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * There's a lot of rock stations that have all-talk morning and/or afternoon shows. I don't really see the need for changing it. WYSP is now a rock station.--Fightingirish 15:19, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid I have to agree with you now...after hearing the Kidd_Show broadcast today, it is more of a music format than anything else. JohnSka7  t/c 02:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, what it is, is not very good
One of the first pioneers of the 'Stuffed-Shirt Free Radio' movement that WYSP created is now dead, however there is the beginging of an underground movement using the vehicle of online protest arising out of the ashes of WYSPspecifyinglistings's change in format. This can be founstrengthd at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/WYSPTalks

This blend is/was/and going to be a bad move, they have taken one of their most popular talk show hosts (Kidd Chris aka Chris Foley) and downgraded him to a DJ, I have gone from being an advid Kidd Chris (and WYSP)fan to one that does not listen at all for the SOLE REASON that I do not want to play a guessing game when this former talk show host is going to talk rather then just sit there spinning records. that is why I am urging anyone out there that wants interesting talk that is funny and entertaining to go to http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/WYSPTalks. Please Save WYSP from WYSP, Radio should be about the listeners and not about station owners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.63.173 (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Updated WYSP Webcast
WYSP's updated webcast is http://player.play.it/player/player.html?id=111&onestat=wysp2  Replace WYSP's current webcast link with this one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.195.185 (talk) 01:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Format flip to Classic Rock
On August 25, 2008 WYSP flipped from active rock to classic rock with the slogan "The Rock You Grew Up With".

Facility ID Number
WYSP's Facility ID number is 28628.

WIP-FM call change official
In case there is any doubt, WYSP did change call letters to WIP-FM today. That link goes to the call sign history in the FCC's CDBS system. (Please note that the FM Query tends to lag behind CDBS, and is thus susceptible to being slightly out-of-date.) Hopefully this will minimize any issues that could otherwise arise. -- WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  21:04, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

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