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Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger;  Yiddish : ‏מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of  NBC 's  Texaco Star Theatre  (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was know...

WMCA (570  AM ) is a  radio station   licensed  to  New York, New York . Owned by  Salem Media Group , the station programs a  Christian radio  format consisting of teaching and talk programs. The station's studios are in  lower Manhattan  and are shared with co-owned  WNYM  (970 AM). WMCA's transmitter is located along Belleville Turnpike in  Kearny, New Jersey . WMCA's programming is...

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of  The Tonight Show , which was the first late-night television talk show. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensi...

WLTW (106.7 FM ) is an adult contemporary radio station licensed to New York City and serving the New York metropolitan area . WLTW is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios in the former AT&T Building in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan ; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building . PICTURE:  By WLTW - WLTW, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

John Hamilton Davidson (born December 13, 1941) is an American actor, singer, and game-show host known for hosting That's Incredible! , Time Machine , and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991. PICTURE:  By Spacemountainmike - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86194257 LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE:  https://www.youtube...

WLIB (1190 AM ) is an urban contemporary gospel radio station licensed to New York, New York . WLIB is owned by Emmis Communications , along with sister stations WBLS (107.5 FM) and WQHT (97.1 FM). The three stations share studios in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan , and WLIB's transmitter is located in Lyndhurst, New Jersey . PICTURE:  Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/i...

From 1990 to 1998, WKCR broadcast The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show , hosted by DJ Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia . The show served as an alternative to commercial hip hop radio, airing mostly obscure, unsigned artists, a number of whom would later dominate the hip hop scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The show has been credited with introducing the world to Biggie Smalls , Emine...

Jon " Bowzer " Bauman (born September 14, 1947) is an American singer, best known as a member of the band Sha Na Na , and game show host . Bauman's Sha Na Na character, "Bowzer", was a greaser in a muscle shirt . PICTURE:  By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68417091 LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyAwZGTgAdonBKhTxUiC2...

WKCR-FM (89.9 FM ) is a radio station licensed to New York, New York , United States. The station is owned by Columbia University and serves the New York metropolitan area . Founded in 1941, the station traces its history back to 1908 with the first operations of the Columbia University Radio Club (CURC). In 1956, it became one of the first college radio stations to adopt FM broadcasting , which h...

Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles on stage, film, and television. Reilly performed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie , Hello, Dolly! , and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical . His televisio...

Estelle Harris ( née Nussbaum; April 22, 1928 – April 2, 2022) was an American actress and comedienne, known for her exaggerated shrill, grating voice. She was best known for her role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld . Her other roles included the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise , Muriel in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody , and Mama Gunda in Tarzan II . During her career, Har...

WFUV (90.7 FM ) is a non–commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York . The station is owned by Fordham University , with studios on its Bronx campus and its antenna atop nearby Montefiore Medical Center . WFUV first went on the air in 1947. It became a professional public radio station in 1990 and is one of three NPR member stations in New York City. Its on-air staff has included radio...

WFME (1560 kHz ) is a non-commercial educational , religious-formatted AM radio station licensed to New York, New York , broadcasting at 1,000 watts , under a special temporary authority (STA). [1] The station is owned and operated by Family Radio , a Christian radio ministry based in Nashville, Tennessee . On February 15, 2021, at 11:16 AM, WFME went temporarily silent following the sale of the s...

Michael John McKean ( /məˈkiːən/ ; born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician known for various roles in film and television such as Lenny Kosnowski in Laverne & Shirley , David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap , and Chuck McGill on Better Call Saul . McKean's breakout role was annoying neighbor Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne &am...

The first voice heard on WFAN was that of Suzyn Waldman with a sports update at 3:00 pm, [11] followed by the first show, which was hosted by Jim Lampley . Waldman would report for the station, covering the Yankees and Knicks, for 14 years. Other personalities that hosted shows besides Lampley in the 1050 kHz years included Bill Mazer , Pete Franklin , Greg Gumbel and Ed Coleman . WFAN also i...

WEPN (1050 kHz ) is an all-sports AM radio station licensed to New York, New York . The station is owned-and-operated by Good Karma Brands and its transmitter site is located in North Bergen, New Jersey . The 1050 AM facility in New York signed on in 1922 as WHN. For the majority of its existence under these call letters, as well as during its 14-year stint as WMGM, the station broadcast several d...

Carole Penny Marshall [1] (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) [1] was an American actress, director and producer. She is known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal. [2] Marshall made her directorial debut with...

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the " Piano Man " after his signature song of the same name, [5] [6] he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 pop and rock studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album of classical compositions in 2001. He is one of the best...

WBLS (107.5 MHz ) is an urban adult contemporary formatted FM radio station , licensed to New York City . It is currently owned by Mediaco Holding and operated by Emmis Communications under a shared services agreement, along with sister stations WLIB (1190 AM) and WQHT (97.1 FM). The three stations share studios in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan , and WBLS' transmitter is locate...

William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)[1] is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s for television roles as Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and as a cast member and frequent host of Saturday Night Live. Crystal then became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in Running Scared (1986), The Princess Bride (1987),...

WBBR (1130 AM ) is a Class A clear-channel radio station licensed to New York, New York . It serves as the flagship station of Bloomberg Radio , Bloomberg L.P. 's radio service. The station offers general and financial news reports 24-hours a day, along with local information and interviews with corporate executives, economists, and industry analysts. [1] WBBR broadcasts at 50,000 watts, the maxim...

WBAI (99.5 FM ) is a non-commercial , listener-supported radio station licensed to New York, New York . Its programming is a mixture of political news, talk and opinion from a left-leaning , liberal or progressive viewpoint, and eclectic music . The station is owned by the Pacifica Foundation with studios located in Brooklyn and transmitter located at 4 Times Square . PICTURE:  By Traced from...

Henry Franklin Winkler , OBE (born October 30, 1945), is an American actor, comedian, author, executive producer, and director. After rising to fame as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the American television series Happy Days , Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles such as Arthur Himbry in Scream , Coach Klein in The Waterboy , Barry Zuckerkorn in Arrested Development , Ed...

Brady left WABC in July 1980 and soon became general manager of WYNY , which by then had a similar format to its sister station WNBC, as well as WABC. That fall, Jay Clark took over as program director at WABC, and Jeff Mazzei arrived as assistant program director from WNEW (which was moving from adult contemporary to big bands and standards). Under Clark, the station played current music leaning...

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) [2] was an American filmmaker and actor. He started his career in the 1960s writing for The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show before he developed Neil Simon 's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television in 1970. He gained fame for creating Happy Days (1974–1984), Laverne and Shirley (1976–1983), and Mork and Mindy (1978–1982). He is also know...