Category: Gary Berkowitz

WJR RADIO, GETS THEIR NEW MAN: GARY BERKOWITZ

Detroit Free Press December 21, 1985

 

Saturday, December 21, 1985

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

 

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: GARY BERKOWITZ

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GARY BERKOWITZ LEAVES WHYT-FM FOR WJR-AM . . . OCTOBER 18, 1986

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoA MCRFB NEWS brief: 1986

Berkowitz Transits Cap Cities Sister FM Over to AM 760 WJR

 

 

 

 

DETROIT — GARY BERKOWITZ will soon be putting all of his energies into Cap Cities/ABC News/talker/WJR Detroit. He will be leaving the operation of sister hit outlet WHYT to a yet-unamed PD. “It was a difficult decision to make,” say Berkowitz. “I love WHYT and it’s format and I’m very proud that we’ve set it up so it can run all by itself.” With regard to leaving the operations manager post at WHYT to concentrate on the same responsibility for WJR, Berkowitz says, “I will be nice to have just one job, and the WJR post will put me in a better position to get closer to a GM spot.“

In the meantime, Berkowitz will be helping WHYT’s newly named GM, John Cravens (Billboard reference below), find a suitable PD for the top 40 station. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; October 18, 1986)

NEW GM NAMED FOR WHYT

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“John Cravens is named president/general manager of hit outlet WHYT Detroit. Craven joins the Cap Cities/ABC outlet from the VP/GM post at Malrite’s KSRR Houston.”

(Billboard; October 11, 1986)

WJR-AM Gary Berkowitz (second from right) poses with WJR-AM management and on-air notables Warren Pierce and J. P. McCarthy, 1986. (Photo property of Gary Berkowitz; click over image for larger size).

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