PRESS IMAGE FROM DETROIT RADIO’S PAST: WXYZ, ’74!

WXYZ DICK PURTAN with TOM RYAN and Lou Schuck (Press Photo) 1974

A MCRFB NOTE (the caption back of photo reads): Dick Purtan, left, and Tom Ryan, right, claim Lou isn’t allowed in the studio with his cigar and that Lou always wear Banlon shirts. Here, the daunting Lou Schuck proves them wrong.” 🙂



 

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WXYZ RADIO: A 1968 DETROIT NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK








Sunday, December 15, 1968

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ: ‘Now for Another Chilling Episode of Manooga-Man’ 

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WXYZ DETROIT RADIO: ’71 NEWSPAPER AD FLASHBACK


Monday, April 12, 1971

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’What You Hear Is What You Get”

(Above WXYZ ad courtesy freep.com newspapers archive. Copyright 2017; Newspapers.com).


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THE ALL HIT LIST Z-95.5! WCZY-FM WEEK OF 01/04/1988

WCZY-FM January 04, 1988
WCZY-FM TOP 40 MUSIC GUIDE COMPILED THRU RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Michael Jackson * WCZY-FM (No. 01)

Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * George Harrison * WCZY-FM (No. 02)

Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Whitney Houston * WCZY-FM (No. 03)

Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Eric Carmen * WCZY-FM (No. 04)

Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Elton John * WCZY-FM (No. 05)

BONUS! Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Huey Lewis * WCZY-FM (No. 08)

BONUS! Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Whitesnake * WCZY-FM (No. 11)

BONUS! Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Expose * WCZY-FM (No. 20)

BONUS! Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Jody Watley * WCZY-FM (No. 22)

BONUS! Z-95 FM THE ALL HIT LIST * Stevie Wonder * WCZY-FM (No. 38)


DICK PURTAN WCZY-FM January 04, 1988

KIM CARSON WCZY-FM March 11, 1988

WCZY-FM TOP 40 MUSIC GUIDE COMPILED THRU RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

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A MCRFB VIEWING TIP

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The above TEN songs (WCZY 01/04/1988) as numbered on the survey was randomly selected by the author for your listening enjoyment, here.


Above WCZY music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

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A DETROIT ‘ABX 99.5 FM 1983 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK

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Friday, May 13, 1983

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WABX-AM ‘For Radio, April Was The Craziest Month’ 

(Above WABX related article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2016. Newspapers.com).

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A 1967 DETROIT WKNR RADIO NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK

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Sunday, September 14, 1967

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WKNR-AM ‘Waking Up Wacky With Dick Purtan’

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WOMC: THE MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION 04/25/1998

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MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 01
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MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 02
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MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 03
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MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 04

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New! Recalled today! Just added to the MCRFB.COM Aircheck Library!

(From the Jim Feliciano Collection)


Four-hours of The Motor City Radio Reunion broadcast as was aired on the Dick Purtan Show, WOMC 104.3, Saturday, April 25, 1998.



 

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A 1978 DETROIT WXYZ RADIO NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK

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Wednesday, June 28, 1978

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ 1270 ‘Purtan Jumping To CKLW?’

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WKNR-AM BACK ON THE RADIO WITH: DICK PURTAN!

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WKNR HEARD HERE 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

The MCRFB AIRCHECKS archive featuring: WKNR-AM (May 31, ’65) w/ DICK PURTAN

MCRFB Note: For more on Dick Purtan’s personal (and humorous) reflections on his early days, WKNR, May, 1965, check out his dickpurtan.com podcast No. 50 — GO HERE.

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